Chapter 458: Another piece?

In the darkness, everything became quiet.

Yu Sheng tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

He thought about many things, including the Dark Angel, the group of people he knew, and the future development plan of the valley. He also thought about his hometown, the place where the bloody sunshine flowed - he found that he had not missed home for a long time, and even... the scene had faded a little in his memory.

He turned over again and saw the picture frames of Ominous Youxing and Irene lying quietly on the bedside table. The night sky coming in from the window was tinged with silver light. Three full moons hung high in the sky of the alien planet. The orbital mobile palace "Changmi Palace" was like a silver star, flying slowly across the night sky between "Taiyou" and "Chang'an".

Yu Sheng discovered something - although he complained all day about Irene's restless sleep, rolling around and grinding her teeth and talking in her sleep, but today there was no doll crawling all over the bed next to him... he still couldn't fall asleep.

There was a slight clicking sound in the darkness, and one of the boxes in the corner was opened. A pair of scarlet eyes peered out furtively from under the lid.

The pair of eyes was facing Yu Sheng, who was lying on his side on the bed with his eyes wide open.

"--ha!"

There was a sound of breathing coming from the box.

Yu Sheng sighed and moved aside.

A small shadow suddenly jumped out of the box and began to roll around on the bed, squirming sideways, spinning on the spot, and using its head to push the sheets like a bulldozer...

Yu Sheng thought for a moment, looking at the little doll rolling around: "Is the box still a little uncomfortable?"

"No, it's so comfortable in there, I feel like I'm at home!" Irene raised her head, grabbed Yu Sheng's quilt and wrapped a corner of it around herself, "I'm just not used to it, so I decided that I still have to keep one body sleeping in the bed, otherwise you'll be too arrogant..."

Yu Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and he didn't know why the other party put the word "arrogant" on him. But before he could ask, he found that the little doll was already snoring.

After a few minutes, Irene suddenly kicked the quilt away, then turned her whole body sideways and kicked over.

Yu Sheng felt at ease all of a sudden. He skillfully used a quilt to build a "wall" between himself and the little doll, then turned over and went to sleep.

In a daze, he didn't know how long he had slept. He just felt that he was tossed up and down in several discontinuous and strange dreams. Occasionally he said hello to Irene in his dreams, but more often he was just floating in the calm and warm darkness.

His consciousness floated far away in this relaxed state for a long time, and then suddenly sank down -

He did not wake up during the sinking, but he felt as if he was "connected" to something all of a sudden. After a while, the connection began to "expand" rapidly, and a lot of information poured into his mind. In the vast darkness, he began to "see" some things - rain curtains, earth, cities, crystals...

His "sense of touch" gradually recovered, Yu Sheng moved his "body" slightly, then he woke up with a start and dared not move again.

Silence.

...This thing is still connected! ?

Yu Sheng lay quietly in the darkness, and it was a long time before he dared to spread his perception again. He carefully confirmed the connection between himself and the distant planet, bit by bit, just like when he first took over the "Valley".

Even more careful than that.

…

The drizzle kept falling, the sky was dim, and the lights in the distance were reflected in the hazy rain and fog.

But compared with the previous storm, this continuous drizzle is already quite mild and good weather.

Mo Ran was wearing a black dress and walking among the ruins near the outskirts of the city.

The rain falling from the sky was blocked by the protective spiritual energy a few meters away from her and retreated to the sides on its own.

She raised her head and looked at the huge ruins in front of her that looked like a broken mountain.

That was the former Sixth Refining Tower - this giant tower that once reached the sky was destroyed by the terrifying power from deep within the planet, broken into three parts and fell to the ground. Most of its structure now lies quietly in the hills outside the city, surrounded by a dead crystal jungle, and the broken tower base is still crookedly left on the edge of the city, connected to the ruins here.

In the rain, those ancient and huge pipes and supporting structures stood like jagged bones, bending in a disorderly manner towards the direction where the giant tower would finally collapse and break. A huge crack that could only be seen from an aerial view ran through the base of the tower. Crystals grew around the crack, and underneath the crack was a vertical shaft that could directly reach the earth's veins.

The shaft was originally part of a mining platform, but now the mineral veins underground have been exhausted, replaced by endless gray-white crystals. At the deepest part of the crystals, one can see the dim red light emitted by the underground magma, and there are also faint streams of light from the earth's veins passing through the crystal walls and disappearing in the magma.

A little further away from the collapse site, many busy figures can be seen - the staff of the City Repair Bureau and nearby residents are working together to clean up the gray-white crystals on the streets. Some of those crystals were left behind when the minions of the derivative star body attacked the city, but more of them are the result of gradual erosion and accumulation over the past few hundred years.

Similar "cleaning" scenes can be seen everywhere, in the streets and alleys of Mo City, and in every corner, anyone who has the energy to spare is consciously cleaning up the strange crystals that can be seen everywhere - and those who have even more energy to spare are busy in various machinery camps, weapon refining workshops, or repairing city walls and city defense formations.

People are doing their best to restore the city to the peaceful state they remember - although to everyone, even the city in their memories is fake.

No one knows how much of the city can be recovered in the end, but Mo Ran knows very well that given the current situation in Mo City, it is absolutely impossible to repair the collapsed refining towers - it will be a miracle if the cracks on the edge of the mining platform can be filled within ten years.

But Mexico City is still the best city on the planet, if not the best.

Mo Ran exhaled lightly, then straightened his body and walked across the street in a calm and reliable manner.

No one knows what the future of the city will be like, but if she can walk through it calmly, at least people will have more hope.

"City Lord," a personal guard emerged from the rain and quietly came to Mo Ran's side, "Three cargo ships from Yaomen Star just landed at the Xianzhou Platform on the outskirts of the city, bringing a large number of elixirs, food, and the black crystals and spiritual essences that are urgently needed to repair the spiritual vein network."

"Okay," Mo Ran finally relaxed a little and nodded gently, "Leave one shipload of goods, and for the rest... notify Tan Yuan and Bai Cheng and let them come to pick them up. We don't have any extra manpower to deliver them."

"yes."

The guard hesitated to speak.

Mo Ran stopped and looked at the other party: "What else?"

"This morning, quite a few people gathered at the Xianzhou Terrace again," the guard said with a bad look on his face, his voice only audible to the two people who were talking, "a few wealthy families wanted to go to the Ten Courts to 'visit relatives', and we searched their Xianzhou and found things from the treasury..."

"Kill him."

"Kill...kill directly?"

"Handle the execution in public, hang the body on the city wall, list the crimes clearly, and announce it with the body for ten days - although it is a law from the pioneering period, it is still in use now. Is there anything else?"

"there is none left."

"Well, back off."

The figure of the personal guard took two steps back and disappeared silently in the rain.

Mo Ran breathed a sigh of relief, his expression unchanged, and continued walking forward in the rain.

Some people are thinking about rebuilding, some are thinking about escaping the disaster, some are helping their neighbors, some are taking advantage of the fire to rob, some are still afraid to wake up, and some will become possessed the moment they wake up.

What should be will be there, what should come will come, and what should pass will pass - as the master of this city, you can't avoid dealing with these many troubles.

This is what my father taught me.

...But this "trouble" at the moment is really unbearable.

Mo Ran had a tense face and sighed in his heart.

The city is in ruins and the entire planet has been severely polluted by the Dark Angels. Order is barely maintained, but it is teetering on the brink of collapse every day. The underground minerals have long been exhausted and there is no supply for reconstruction. The planet itself has little value left. After suffering a severe blow, it is visibly going to decline further, and this will be a rapid and complete decline.

Of course, Taixu Lingshu will definitely not give up this planet - but it is hard to say how far this "not giving up" can go, after all, this is just a remote border planet with depleted resources.

And it has also been contaminated by the Dark Angel.

Mo Ran sighed in his heart again, his eyes unconsciously sweeping across the ruins nearby.

Everywhere there were those strange, disturbing grey-white crystals, and the now-inactive crystalline tentacles that spread out from the ground.

These lifeless "corpses" are all that are left to the Shuji people after the star-derived bodies devoured the resources of the entire planet.

A cluster of crystals growing from a crack in the ground flashed in the rain.

Mo Ran was stunned. The fatigue from the past few days made her reaction slow, so much so that she didn't realize what was happening at first.

Then the cluster of crystals flickered again.

The guards around him reacted.

"Protect the city lord!"

A personal guard shouted in haste to remind him, and then several figures stood in front of Mo Ran. Two of them had already drawn their swords, and were about to pounce on the "corpse" that had suddenly "come to life" in the next second.

But Mo Ran suddenly saw some "traces" on the crystal cluster. After a moment of shock, she immediately stopped her subordinates: "Stop!"

The guards didn't understand, but they obeyed the order subconsciously. Mo Ran calmed herself down and after a brief hesitation, she bravely walked towards the pile of crystals.

There was a slight luster floating on the surface of the crystal cluster, and a pattern emerged in the phantom light.

First there was a triangle logo with unknown meaning, then a smiley face, and then a sentence:

"If you have any difficulties, please find a hotel. Contact number: XXXXXXXXX..."

A tentacle slowly emerged from the crack in the ground next to the crystal cluster and swayed in front of everyone.

Mo Ran almost screamed again.

(End of this chapter)