Chapter 294 The Accelerating World
Meteors hang high in the sky, and shadows, like crows, fall, fall, and fall...
The city born today opens its "gentle" embrace to humanity, and the active energy is transformed into a stable substance in a few breaths.
It could be a utility pole without wires, a mailbox with half a postman, or a convenience store downstairs that's open 25 hours a day...
The rules are flowing, and a magnificent and bizarre painting actively unfolds its skin to the gods.
Paint, paint—sprinkle the paint all over the scroll and draw the first blueprint of the new world.
This is the new city.
New towns are large cities with hundreds of thousands of residents.
Big cities naturally have dense residential areas, including single-family villas with courtyards, tall tube-shaped buildings, and small townhouses that are put together like Lego.
The occupancy rate of townhouses is not very good.
If you stand outside and take a quick look, you will find that six or seven out of the ten windows are plunged into darkness.
Among the lit windows, one was open to the outside, and a girl with short, fluffy hair was sitting in front of the window.
......
The dim light shines into the bottomless cup of coffee.
The girl whose name, or code name, was "Fox" was sticking out her tongue with a bitter face.
She took a sip of the coffee in the cup, and her whole face suddenly wrinkled. She had to cover her mouth with her hands, making a hissing sound.
"Hahaha, you're still young, don't drink such strong coffee." "Dad" sat on the sofa in the living room with his legs crossed. He was wearing long pajamas, and the suit he had just changed out of stood straight next to the hanger without a hook on it.
Meanwhile, "Mom" was still eating leisurely at the table, her eyeless face "staring" at the fox. After Dad finished teasing her, she turned her face away with a "puff", and the inexplicable pressure instantly dissipated as her gaze shifted.
The hands of the indoor clock kept hovering between 7 and 9 o'clock in the evening.
But no matter what time it is, this time period is "after get off work and after dinner", so both parents in the family are in pajamas.
There is another "brother" at home. After dinner, he went upstairs to take a shower and is not in the living room for the time being.
In the whole family, only the fox who is the "sister" is drawn differently from her family members.
Not only does she have two eyes, a nose and a mouth, she also has four hands and feet in total. She also wears a camouflage suit that allows her to run away from home at any time.
In fact, she wants to run away from home now.
This was evidenced by the travel bag she had quietly thrown out of the window half an hour ago, the dagger hanging around her waist, and her butt that had half moved off the sofa.
The fox peeked at the locked door and said tentatively, "I left something at a friend's house. Can I go get it now? I'll be back in a minute. She lives nearby, so it'll be quick. I promise!"
The mother picked up the dishes and poured them into the sink. While they were washing themselves, she turned around and tapped her "daughter" on the forehead: "Don't go out so late. Go tomorrow morning."
Dad folded the newspaper, stretched his long arms toward his suit, and said very kindly, "How about I go out for a while? Where is your friend's house?"
"No, it's okay!" The fox waved his hands quickly and ran towards the stairs. "I'm a little tired today. I'm going to bed first. See you tomorrow, Mom and Dad!"
"Hey, you haven't taken a shower yet."
"Brother is still using the bathtub, I'll take a bath later~"
Wash the wool!
The fox scurried into his own bedroom.
Fortunately, this bedroom belongs exclusively to the "sister" and the "brother's" bedroom is next door, otherwise she would have to deal with one more person... or be dealt with by herself.
As soon as the fox jumped into the bedroom, what hit him in the face was not the stinging sensation of radioactive dust or the foul smell of the bunk bed, but the smell of a wool blanket dried in the sun, which was very pleasant.
The smell was unfamiliar to her, but she could see how exquisite the furniture here was: a small bed, bedside tables, a desk, matching chairs... How could these things appear in a mere child's bedroom? It was really weird.
Before jumping out of the window, the fox looked back at the small bookshelf nailed to the wall. The alienated fox ears trembled, and finally it flipped out lightly, leaving a wet brown paw print on the wall.
The girl's figure flashed in the dark night. The communicator she carried was broken, but her strong sense of direction trained by her still allowed her to quickly find the right direction in the mutated city.
"Here, here." A familiar voice greeted in the darkness.
"Secret code!" the fox growled at the shadow.
The shadow muttered, "Fireflies."
This was the code updated two days ago. At that time, all the adults leading the team had not yet rushed to the Glorious Church.
Hearing the familiar code, the fox finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Everything is for humanity."
She clapped her hands with the child in the darkness and whispered softly, "All for humanity and souls."
After saying these two sentences, she and the child opposite her were obviously much calmer.
Although they are in the elite reserve force, they are still in the reserve force, not the elite. With the adults almost gone, they are suddenly faced with the incident of "a city appearing out of nowhere", and their simple worldview is inevitably greatly impacted.
"What happened to you after we separated?" The fox naturally acted like a big kid, after all, she was the team leader.
The black shadow is a plump girl with many bear-like features.
She shook her head. "Me? I'm fine. Those abnormal people and things didn't catch me."
Bear-type alienation will significantly slow down the thinking speed.
The little bear thought for a moment before he slowly said, "The peacock was almost eaten, and Biscuit was injured when he escaped. They are all waiting for you in the park."
It turns out I wasn't the first one to escape.
The fox was a little shocked, but he quickly cheered up: "I'm already fast!" The change happened during the day, and I ran out after dinner.
The main thing was that there were three people in that family, and it was really difficult to deal with them... although she didn't have any conflicts with her "family".
The fox felt a little sad when he thought of the scene where his "mother" pulled him at the "school" gate and said very kindly, "We have stewed beef with potatoes at home today. Don't eat at street stalls."
Her real mother disappeared in a mission a long time ago and never came back.
When the incident happened today, she really thought she would die at the hands of the abnormality that suddenly appeared. Fortunately, there was the "mother" who passed by.
The fox recalled in his mind the abnormal creature pushing the food cart with stitches all over its body.
After the "city" anomaly occurred, the anomalies were clearly divided into several different camps, and the anomalies pushing the food carts were clearly malicious towards humans.
There are lots of sauces and scones on its food truck, and it will ask everyone it meets if they want to buy scones.
The fox witnessed a mercenary being eaten alive by it, and then turned into a bright red sauce and spit out into a bucket.
The food truck anomaly is not picky about food. It eats both humans and humans transformed from anomalies. There must be many anomalies like it.
The fox quietly organized the information and prepared to share it with everyone.
Now that the team leaders have not returned yet, their team must manage itself well and cannot easily reduce the number of members.
......
They walked through the darkness, deliberately ignoring the stars in the sky that twinkled like eyes, and soon came to a small park covered with weeds.
The location of this park is where the team was originally stationed.
There were some simple sports equipment in the park. The injured Biscuit was sitting on the swing, and Peacock with a gloomy face was standing next to her.
Fox straightened up and walked towards her companions. She jumped onto the balance beam nimbly, looked at them and said, "Has anyone received any communication from the leader or other cadres?"
Peacock and Biscuit shook their heads, and the little bear walking at the end also shook his head vigorously.
Fox sighed inwardly, her expression still full of confidence. She raised her voice slightly and said, "According to the plan, the people above may be delayed in the church for a day or two. It's best for us to stay in this city, otherwise we won't be able to find anyone when they return."
No one objected.
It’s not a question of whether they have children or not. Their team is too small and there are too few strongholds on the human soul front. It is almost impossible to return to the previous stronghold with such limited strength.
Moreover, they had lost contact with the team leader, and no one knew the extent of this mutation. Don't go out and see that there are new "humans" everywhere, and the abnormality is actually me.
Seeing that no one objected, the fox felt a little relieved.
Her teammates are all mutants and people with super powers, and the resources left by the organization have not been used up. As long as they don't encounter any serious anomalies, it won't be a big problem to survive the first week.
She raised her finger and began to assign tasks: "It's definitely dangerous at night, but we can't be in the same room with the anomaly. It's best to find a relatively empty, safe and secluded hiding place."
Fox raised a second finger. "We must take turns keeping watch. During the day, we will go out together to search for resources and intelligence. Prioritize restoring communication within the organization and retrieving any lost members."
After saying this, Biscuit asked coldly, "What if everyone doesn't come back in three days? What should we do?"
The people she was talking about were naturally the elite members who went to the church on a mission, and many of them were relatives of these children.
The fox pouted: for an orphan like her, this kind of thing was "not so bad." Once they determined that the adults wouldn't come back, many of their new companions went crazy.
Will they seek refuge with more anthropomorphic anomalies? This question is not difficult to answer.
Will they... betray us? It's...hard to say.
The fox thought of the warm room, the roast chicken brought back by "Dad", and the egg drop soup cooked by "Mom", and felt very depressed.
Those guys are neither human nor have souls. I don't want to end up living in a monster's home, and I don't want to fight with comrades who don't share my ideals.
She pinched the short knife at her waist. This knife should only be used to kill abnormalities.
Biscuit was still looking at her. Fox forced himself to speak, "If they're still out of contact after three days, we still need to follow our previous plan."
That is, to venture toward the church's stronghold.
Biscuit frowned, as if he wanted to argue with her, but the next second his eyebrows raised and his pupils contracted violently.
The fox's reaction was very sharp. She had activated her superpowers before Cookie could exclaim.
Whoosh, whoosh.
This extremely rare time-related ability, although it can only work on herself briefly - she accelerated her own time without hesitation, appearing several meters away like a flash, with a crossbow in her hand and ready to shoot.
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