Openly wielding weapons (1)
The night wind blew the man's cloak, making it flutter and revealing his body wrapped in black tight-fitting clothes. The collar was slightly open, revealing his delicate collarbone.
A raging inferno followed him from the distance, sweeping in from the night sky.
The flames illuminated half of his body, almost blending him into his flamboyant red hair.
As the man sped past her, he suddenly turned his head.
In that instant, Shu Ningmiao realized that she and he had made eye contact.
This person is like a tangible flame, with long, dark red hair falling across his face, and long, upturned eyes that are almost effeminate. However, the hideous black tattoos on his skin add a touch of ferocity and savagery.
She noticed the pendant that was faintly visible under the man's cloak as he swayed; it was a familiar round-handled T-shaped cross, and the grayish-white pendant stood out conspicuously against the black clothes.
Is this pendant, which is exactly the same as Su Ni's superpower item, a wholesale purchase?
In that brief moment of eye contact, the man suddenly opened his hand, and the white bird on his fingertips flew out of his hand and into the car window, landing on her and turning into a budding rose.
He winked at her.
Shu Ningmiao no longer had the energy to care about the frivolous actions of the man on the motorcycle, and stared in horror at the terrifying heat following closely behind him.
What came into view was a raging fire and a road that collapsed with a deafening roar. Sparks flew through the air, making a terrifying crackling sound.
She unusually lost her composure, pounded on the car door, and shouted at the driver in front, "Get out of the car!"
The driver, still gripping the steering wheel in a daze, hadn't even reacted when she simply rammed the car door open and jumped out.
She had just jumped out of the car and regained her footing when a loud bang exploded. The heat wave behind her threw her off balance, and the shattered frame of the car, engulfed in flames, flew to the ground a short distance away.
Like a terrible chain reaction, many cars around began to explode one after another. People inside screamed and scrambled to escape, and figures in the chaos darted about in the flames.
Pandora is not only a vehicle energy source but also a high-quality fuel. Even a tiny amount of Pandora energy leaking from the vehicle can release a huge amount of heat.
No one would have expected that a perfectly good overpass would suddenly collapse and explode. As the most powerful country in the world, the residents of Pines, the capital, were almost immune to "disasters." Faced with this situation, they were too panicked to even carry out basic emergency self-rescue.
In an instant, everything collapsed to the point of despair.
The blast wave carried fragments of some unknown parts that pierced her shoulder. Shu Ningmiao clutched her shoulder and quickly ran towards the emergency lane. She didn't know which car next to her would explode at any moment, and the fewer cars there were, the safer it would be.
The surrounding area was completely engulfed in flames and was still collapsing.
How could the overpass suddenly explode? Was it deliberate—and related to those people from earlier?
She could feel the piers of the viaduct beneath her feet collapsing continuously. Because they were so massive, the movement was not as noticeable as the explosion in front of her, but sooner or later they would all break apart.
None of her current superpowers are useful; this is the central section of the overpass, and she simply cannot run away on her own before it completely collapses.
Is she going to die here?
According to the game, her death ending shouldn't have happened here.
However… Shu Ningmiao tightly covered the wound on her shoulder, a bad premonition spreading in her heart.
Without this game, she wouldn't have discovered Su Ni's tricks against her, and she wouldn't have chosen to go home today.
She had changed her possible fate, and now she couldn't be sure she wouldn't die here.
The dark sky was stained blood red, and loud noises continued to come, but the distance was no longer discernible amidst the chaotic ruins.
She passed under the burning vehicle, where charred limbs lay buried.
The air was filled with a burnt, bitter smell, mixed with a faint, pungent odor, like an inexplicable nightmare.
But her shoulder was aching faintly, it couldn't be more real, and blood seeped through her clothes, sticking to her hands, making them wet and sticky.
Shu Ningmiao looked up at the increasingly intense flames behind her. The aftershocks of the explosion, which shot straight into the sky, completely blocked out the world, but she saw a shadow in mid-air.
She wasn't seeing things; in the thick dust, there really was a figure that flew over the deformed, warped road, several stories high, and caught up with the motorcycle that had already gone some distance.
The black figure descended from the sky, drew the giant sword from behind it in mid-air, and landed silently on the last motorcycle.
The cold, sharp sword light arrived instantly, and the person on the motorcycle was cleaved in two along with the vehicle by the giant sword.
Red and white blood splattered from the severed limbs. The motorcycle lost control and was thrown off due to its high-speed inertia. The figure who made the move jumped off the motorcycle and used the momentum to fly onto the motorcycle in front of it.
The motorcycles were forced to slow down.
"So strong..." Even though Shu Ningmiao was confused and lost, she couldn't help but sigh.
The figure, wielding a massive sword that looked at least as heavy as a person, weaved through the speeding motorcycle as if walking on flat ground, easily dispatching a person as if cutting melons and vegetables.
The red-haired man who had just thrown flowers into her car window turned his head, took his hands off the handlebars, pointed in the direction of the man with the sword, and a huge fireball flew rapidly from his hand.
She had seen similar abilities in physical training classes, but their power was incomparable.
The fireball roared as it flew toward the figure wielding the greatsword. The shockwave from the fireball alone caused a huge impact all around. When it reached the person, it exploded with a loud bang.
Just then, the hum of a propeller finally came from overhead. Shu Ningmiao leaned against the railing beside the emergency lane, watching helplessly as the helicopter ignored all the struggling wounded on the road and landed in front of the motorcycles, blocking their path with a hail of bullets.
A beam of sword light cleaved through the fireball, and the sword-wielding figure inside charged towards them unharmed.
Upon seeing this, the red-haired man in the lead suddenly accelerated, skillfully turning the car 180 degrees and speeding back the way it came.
They came toward her again.
Shu Ningmiao froze, realizing what they were up to. The road ahead was blocked by official helicopters, and people were chasing after them. There was only one way to get off the overpass.
That means going back the way we came and jumping directly off the bombed-off road.
If they started fighting next to her, a single fireball could easily blow everything in the area to smithereens.
The helicopter hovered overhead, but made no attempt to provide any rescue. It seemed they intended to abandon all the survivors along this stretch of road in order to capture these few people first.
In just a few breaths, the leader had already closed in, but the figure behind him wielding a giant sword had already used other vehicles as springboards to leap to his front.
The red-haired man I'd seen before abandoned his vehicle to avoid the giant sword's attack, rolling to the ground where the flames, like docile pets, instantly lifted him up.
He knelt on one knee in the flames, smiled slightly, and snapped his fingers: "Making the Envoy die with me is really a good deal."
Immediately afterwards, the ground exploded, and flames shot into the sky from beneath the man.
The figure holding the sword was engulfed in flames along with him.
The entire viaduct collapsed completely, and the ground beneath Shu Ningmiao's feet crumbled instantly.
The roar echoed across the sky.
Large sections of the road collapsed and fell, and everyone fell from the sky along with the steel bars and stones.
We're doomed.
Shu Ningmiao fell backward, like a leaf caught in the ruins, falling silently. The sound of the explosion faded into the distance, and everything around her was so quiet, as if separated by an invisible barrier.
The feeling of weightlessness gripped her scalp and pulled her downwards. She could only try her best to hold her head tightly to avoid being hit by the falling rocks.
She couldn't believe she would die in this way. She didn't even know who these people were or what they had done, yet she was implicated in this undeserved disaster.
So this is how easy and unreasonable death can be.
Shu Ningmiao tried to calm herself down, but couldn't think of any way to save herself from hundreds of meters in the air.
The sharp wind howled past her body, and something fell off her body and flew to her in front of her with the falling air.
It is a white rose.
Damn it, it was the red-haired man who threw the roses at her through the car window. Given the situation just now, she didn't care about flowers at all. How did these roses end up on her again?
No... there's another possibility.
Based on what we just saw, the man's superpower is very likely related to "fire," yet he can instantly turn the bird in his hand into a flower. If it's not magic, there's only one explanation—
He turned the bird into a rose, not by using superpowers, but by creating superpowered items.
This is very likely a superpowered item!
Shu Ningmiao suddenly opened her eyes wide and used all her strength to grab the rose. Just as her fingers tightened their grip, she heard a clear bird song in her ear.
Her back tingled slightly, and her joints made a soft creaking sound. A pair of soft, white wings emerged from her back and gently enveloped her.
The rose gradually turned to ashes, then transformed back into a white bird, gently breaking free from her grasp.
The principle behind superpower items is to compress and store superpowers within the item. Once used, the item loses its effect and is mostly disposable.
Shu Ningmiao was lifted up by the wings behind her and slowly landed on the ground. A moment later, the wings disappeared silently, as if they had never existed.
Only the deafening roar in the air reminded her that this was not a dream.
The broken viaduct crashed to the ground, sending rubble tumbling down and echoing throughout Pigne.
The massive blast wave nearly deafened Shu Ningmiao; she could no longer hear the cries of the fleeing residents around her, nor could she hear her own voice.
She ran to an open space away from the overpass, turned on her phone, and dialed Shu Changyan's number. There was complete silence on the other end of the line, and no one answered for a long time. She ended the call and sent him a text message.
Shu Ningmiao was not familiar with the surrounding environment. Her shoulder was pierced by shrapnel from the explosion, and the bleeding had not yet completely stopped. It was best for her to stay in an open area and wait for rescue.
Across a section, Shi Yu stood on the balcony outside her bedroom, gazing at the sudden light in the distance, slightly lost in thought. Her platinum blonde hair, like silk in the moonlight, made the moonlight seem a bit dimmer.
The dull thud didn't come for a long time. His fingers paused slightly, and the terminal screen remained on Shu Ningmiao's number.
Shu Ningmiao tore off her coat and made a makeshift bandage on her shoulder. She waited for rescue on the spot. The terminal signal was intermittent, making it impossible to open news websites. She could only open a game to distract herself.
Suddenly, a flood of notifications appeared in the game, appearing all at once as soon as I opened it—
"Timeline detected as correct"
Players can now start the game.
The words in the pop-up window struck her like a thunderbolt, and Shu Ningmiao quickly scrolled to the bottom of the notification in disbelief.
Unlock Chapter: Prologue
Unlocked Feature: Save and Load Game
It turns out that the story didn't actually begin on the first day of school.
The real game begins here.
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