Chapter 253 Shooting Down
Beep beep beep beep!
The communicator kept ringing, and everyone received calls or text messages from unknown sources.
The vast majority of people who received the call chose not to answer it, while those who chose to answer it immediately left the crowd and disappeared within seconds.
All the text messages had the same theme - doomsday.
Erupting volcanoes, snow and ice everywhere, floods, falling meteors... from time to time, fine-tuning is done to target everyone's deepest fears.
Those who worry about their loved ones will see the bodies of their relatives, and those who have close relationships with their lovers and friends will see themselves dying alone with their eyes open.
Even those who don't care about anything will receive a mocking expression or even a pure black "MMS".
Despair, despair, despair quickly.
Humanity, you are so weak, and the end is approaching. What can you do except despair?
That is... [Believe in Me]
After a brief silence, the communicator was bombarded with the second wave of text messages.
【Believe in me, you will have eternal life after death】
What He said was very cruel, but it gave people the illusion that it was real enough.
Look, the earth has become like this. How can people live happily there?
Embrace the strongest abyssal creature and you'll ascend to immortality. That kind of eternal life must be incredibly peaceful, free from worry and fear.
The golden thread struggled with the blood-red threads, and the light was temporarily unable to control their behavior. Many people, under the influence of emotion, could not help but check their text messages.
Every word in these messages carries a magical charm, making their spirits and souls willing to believe that this is a choice made by intuition and instinct.
However, in such a situation, there are still many people who completely ignore the noise coming from the communicator.
Some of them are the elite of the Church of Light. They have received cruel training since childhood and have enough resistance to this level of despair, or are numb enough.
Chen Xiao'er didn't even read the text message. She was so mad at Xiaotong that she almost threw her phone at the hot air balloon.
"Xiaotong, get down here!" She was jumping up and down on the lawn. What acting, what queen? Her sister was about to fly out of the campus and travel around the world in a hot air balloon!
Chen Xiao'er still remembers the kite she flew when she was a child. As soon as the string broke, the kite floated down slowly onto a branch outside the wall, and then seven or eight big holes were scratched on it by the branches.
Xiaotong is laughing and having fun now, but what if she freezes to death in the troposphere when the balloon flies higher?
Even if it doesn't fly that high, if the balloon deflates halfway and the basket falls from a height of several thousand meters, the body fragments collected at the crematorium won't yield even a few grams of ashes!
She couldn't hear what Xiaotong was saying, so she had to look up with the telescope.
The child in the camera was waving his hands desperately at her, shaking his body and making faces, obviously not wanting to come back obediently.
Seriously! Chen Xiao’e picked up her phone and desperately tried to hang up the harassing call on the screen.
Some psychopath kept calling her from different numbers. She was busy trying to call the school's emergency number, but just as she was about to call, she was called back by a harassing number.
She was so flustered that she dropped her phone, but the people around her gradually calmed down amid her agitated emotions.
When Chen Xiao'er felt angry, that anger turned into a strong wave, allowing the people around her and the abnormalities to continuously escape from the mood of despair.
They were also very angry. Whether they were abnormal or human, they all had an instinctive rejection of those who wielded the power of despair.
Chen Xiao'er finally got through on the phone. She quickly held the phone and stammered, "Teacher, something happened here. My sister Xiaotong is flying in a hot air balloon..."
Zero's figure flashed across her vision, and her voice was stuck as if her neck was strangled.
The balloon was still floating up, but Zero was still climbing up the flagpole, grabbing the rope. What was the point? The flagpole wasn't high enough.
Chen Xiao'er didn't react for a moment, but she immediately noticed that Ling was carrying a gun he had taken from the air gun stall.
Chixing doesn't ban guns. Looking at the strange shape of the gun, it's probably a favorite collection of the owner of the air gun shop.
Why did she climb the flagpole with a gun? Could it be... a very absurd answer jumped out of her mind.
No way?!
Chen Xiao'er's mind went blank. She quickly took a step forward and rushed out, falling heavily on the playground. She didn't care about the scratches on her arms, but supported herself on the concrete and shouted loudly: "No—"
Bang!
A strange flame lit up from the gun barrel in Zero's hand, and the bullet shot out, hitting the hot air balloon at an incredible angle.
A wound quickly appeared on the surface of the balloon, and it tilted sharply to the left.
At this time, Chen Xiaotong refused to curl up in the corner. Instead, she jumped and danced in the hanging basket, shouting in frustration.
Chen Xiao'er bit her lip with her teeth, and she ran towards the hot air balloon regardless of anything, and did not stop even if she lost one of her shoes.
"Xiaotong - don't be afraid! Sister will - catch you!" She opened her arms towards the sky.
Wow?
Chen Xiaotong broke out in a cold sweat and anxiously clung to the hanging basket, shouting, "Sister, don't come over here—"
I'm still busy trying to capture all the members of the Chaos God Sect—
Unfortunately, Xiao'e's wish was not fulfilled. The hot air balloon fell extremely slowly and flew towards Xiao'e's arm.
The big balloon was hanging on the top of a tall tree, and the hanging basket was turned over and hung down. Chen Xiaotong rolled out of it. Just as she was about to crawl away, she fell into her sister's warm arms.
"Woo." Now she was completely sealed. Chen Xiaotong patted her bulging belly, revealing a sad expression.
"Xiaotong, are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" Chen Xiao'er asked while anxiously lifting her clothes to look for scratches.
Chen Xiaotong touched her arm speechlessly: If my sister finds this small wound, my butt will be in trouble.
However, she used her special ability to scan her skin and soon found that she was unharmed and there was no need to be afraid!
So she quickly put on a smug expression, and was about to show off, "We're fine, extremely fine~" when her throat suddenly felt sweet.
"Puff!" A mouthful of blood-red liquid rushed to the throat, and without holding it back, it sprayed out in a spiral—
The eyes of the newly born snake suddenly became sharp: You cunning snake, you actually dare to poison your prey!
No, it might not just be Xu Snake's doing. Could it be that Dudu is still alive, or is there another monster with similar attributes?
Chen Xiaotong was halfway through her thoughts when her shoulders suddenly trembled. Her eyes widened: Strange, it's so cold around here, is the enemy using the power of severe cold against me?
The pressure on her shoulders grew greater and greater, and she subconsciously raised her face to see a pair of sharper eyes.
"Oh no! Xiaotong is vomiting blood!" Chen Xiao'er's high-pitched voice soared through the sky. At this moment, even the intercom that was buzzing one after another was forcibly silenced.
"Mmmmm." Chen Xiaotong sipped the sweet, fishy liquid, wanting to say it wasn't blood, just some residual toxins being expelled. But seeing her sister's tears dripping down her cheeks, her giant beast's superb intuition allowed her to learn the human child's superpower: a secret technique, the art of playing dead to avoid debt!
"Mmm~" She closed her eyes in her sister's arms, rolled to the most comfortable position, and sweetly "fainted". At the same time, she sent the instruction to the hairs on her body: "Wait until my sister calms down before calling me."
"Xiaotong! Xiaotong——"
Chen Xiao'er hugged her sister and burst into tears. The moment she shed tears, all her surging emotions were covered by sadness.
Crack, crack, crack, all the activated strange objects in the field were shattered.
The storage balls cracked one after another, releasing the humans stored inside, and the hunting net constructed by Chen Xiaotong and the anomaly suddenly broke, and the prey wrapped inside fell to the ground one by one, fleeing for their death.
The ceremony venue fell into dead silence, and the display screen at the monitoring center was left with only a vast expanse of white.
The area of zero expanded to every corner within sight, and even despair had to temporarily retract its tentacles and pretend nothing had happened.
She was crying, and they were listening.
......
Chen Xiaotong was rushed to a nearby makeshift infirmary. Looking at her sister's pale face, Chen Xiao'er wiped her tears with the back of her hand: "Wow, nothing's wrong, is it? What if there are serious internal injuries?"
She didn't dare disturb the doctor and nurse's examination, so she had to walk out and close the door, walking back and forth in the corridor outside the clock tower.
"Xiao'e." The student union president came from the other side. She was wearing a silver-white dress that was very similar to Ling's, even the pattern was similar.
Lin Yi walked up to her and said softly, "I'll leave the third act to you."
"No, sorry. No way." Chen Xiao'e flatly refused. She didn't want to leave a bad impression on the president, and she didn't want to cause trouble for everyone, but right now her sister's safety was the most important thing.
She looked at Lin Yi's face and said seriously, "I have to stay here with Xiaotong. I may need to trouble my classmates for help with the acting."
And since President Lin Yi has a Cupid costume similar to Zero's, I'm afraid the role of the Queen may not be without a stand-in.
The facts seemed to be as she thought. Lin Yi did not insist. She nodded calmly: "I understand. If Chen Xiaotong's physical examination report is good, please go to the performance venue as soon as possible." After that, she turned around and left without stopping for a moment.
"Okay." Chen Xiao'er responded without thinking, not taking it seriously at all: How could her sister be in good condition after vomiting blood?
She circled the flower bed twice, then hurried out of the clock tower.
The senior student should have been explaining the situation to the student union or discussing what to do next.
Chen Xiao'er walked over to Ling and leaned over, like a little bird snuggling up to its companion.
"Xiao'er." Ling put his arms around her. She was wearing a cold silk dress, but a warmth still slowly passed through her arms.
"Yeah." Xiao'er responded in a tearful voice.
Was Zero here to apologize? Her thoughts were a bit confused: shooting a hot air balloon in mid-air was certainly a dangerous act, and could directly kill the people in the basket.
But from another perspective, if the hot air balloon takes Xiaotong to a high altitude, the situation may be more dangerous.
Maybe Ling is just impatient and she is too worried about Xiaotong...
Chen Xiao'er buried her head in Ling's warm embrace, listening to her slightly accelerated heartbeat, waiting for her lover's consolation or apology.
After a few seconds, a gentle voice sounded from above.
"Let's leave Chen Xiaotong here and leave the school quickly."
"Let's leave the Newborn Snake here and quickly escape the ritual site."
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