Chapter 154 Rescue in Progress
The situation in Devil City is far worse than imagined. Many people have encountered large numbers of vagrants attacking on their way to work. They have no choice but to hide in sewers and trash cans, but they obviously cannot hold out for long and can only go online to call for help.
As the only adventure streamer who hunts the Wanderer on the entire network, Lu Yan has naturally become the person who has been @ed the most times today. Almost every streamer's comment section has people frantically tagging him. Although there is a sense of meme, it is not difficult to see that netizens are desperate and are trying everything they can to cure their illness.
[Help, help! Those vagrants keep hitting the trash cans. I can’t stand it any longer. When will the superpower team come?]
[(Doghead) The superpower team is unreliable. Please ask Xiaolu to broadcast the live action as soon as possible. If I remember correctly, he also lives in Devil City. This is my only connection on the entire Internet, brother.]
[Which anchor knows @驅魔人, please ask him to go live soon! 】
Not to mention, there are actually quite a few anchors in the circle who are asking each other who knows Lu Yan, but the anchor is the one who knows nothing about anything, and after asking around, it turns out that no one knows him privately.
Just as netizens were frantically refreshing the live broadcast account of the Sky City official TV station, anxiously waiting for the arrival of the superpower team, they heard a "ding" sound, and a message suddenly popped up on their mobile phone pages:
[Ding! The blogger you follow @驅魔人 has opened a live broadcast room. You can go in and add some popularity to him~]
That’s right, Lu Yan is online and broadcasting.
When netizens saw the message, they were so excited that they almost cried. Damn, this guy is finally online! ! They all rushed into the live broadcast room, and saw a young man in the camera. He was wearing a standard black hooded sweatshirt and a mask. Who else could it be but Lu Yan? !
The live broadcast room was immediately flooded with comments. To be frank, even netizens weren't this excited when they saw his own father.
[(burst into tears) Brother Lu, you are finally online!!!]
[Today the streets are full of wanderers, it's scary! ]
[Brother, I'm scared, help me~]
Lu Yan sat in front of the live camera, quickly packing up the things he needed to go out, and raised his hand to make an OK gesture to netizens: [Wait, I'm leaving now. If anyone needs rescue, please send me the address in a private message, and I will rush over in order of distance. ]
In this world, the rich are always a minority, and the poor are the majority. When crisis strikes, it is a process in which lives are constantly screened and eliminated.
Those who are close to the clouds live, and those who are close to hell die, that's all.
Netizen @陸延 originally wanted to make fun of the situation. After all, the streets are full of vagrants. No matter how powerful the opponent is, there is still a risk of death. Who would joke with their own life? But unexpectedly, Lu Yan actually went online to broadcast. He fixed the camera on his hat, carried a shoulder bag and went out directly. The slightly shaking camera passed through a blurry darkness, the background sound was a little noisy, and finally the light came on, and in front of him was a street full of demons.
No one could imagine what the scene was like.
The blood-red sun hung high in the sky, surrounded by dark clouds. The entire city was shrouded in a scarlet eerie mist. Crying and screaming came from all directions, almost drowning people. For a moment, I didn't know where to go.
Just as Lu Yan opened his phone to filter the numerous private messages from the backend, the system suddenly made a “ding” sound and popped up:
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for triggering the side quest - Red Sun Rescue Plan! ]
[Please go out to rescue distressed citizens during the Red Days. Each rescued person will be rewarded with 30 points, which can be accumulated unlimited times. The settlement will be made after 7 days. There will be no punishment for mission failure. Currently, there are 13 citizens waiting to be rescued within a radius of three kilometers. Do you accept the mission? ]
As soon as the system finished speaking, a virtual map suddenly popped up in the air. In the circle centered on Lu Yan, there were a dozen red dots flashing continuously, showing the coordinates of the besieged residents. This undoubtedly greatly reduced his rescue pressure.
Lu Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately took on the task. He found that the nearest red dot was just two blocks away, and immediately rushed to his destination. The wanderers floating in the sky found that there was a living person on the street, and they turned around and rushed towards him in groups, roaring continuously, which made netizens' hearts beat fast:
Oh my god! There are too many wanderers, right?! Can the anchor defeat them all?!
Facts proved that their worries were completely unnecessary. Lu Yan threw out a bolt of lightning with his backhand, and with a muffled "boom", those wanderers were beaten to ashes before they could even scream. They turned into ashes against the backdrop of the scarlet sky.
The lightning element is the most destructive of all superpowers, and it becomes even more terrifying after reaching the fifth level!
At this moment, all the netizens who were watching the live broadcast were in a daze. Although they knew that Lu Yan had superpowers, they didn't expect that his superpowers were so strong. The official account of Sky City was also broadcasting live. Their superpower team needed seven people to form a formation to have such power. Lu Yan actually did it by himself? !
Damn, why would such a master stay in a crappy place like Devil City? !
Lu Yan was unaware of the netizens' inner surprise. He followed the map and finally arrived at the first rescue point, which was an abandoned factory building. The rusty iron gate barely locked the entrance, but the wanderer was still lingering above and refused to leave, having already dented the shoddy roof.
Lu Yan walked around the factory and found that the gaps were tightly blocked. He couldn't see the situation inside at all. He could only knock on the door: "Is anyone there?!"
The iron gate made a buzzing sound due to the vibration, but everything around was quiet and no one responded.
Lu Yan knocked on the door again and asked patiently, "Is there anyone inside?"
Behind the door stood a dozen researchers in white coats. They huddled together in panic, their bodies covered in blood. It was obvious that they had just been through a life-or-death struggle. When they heard a knock on the door, they looked at each other, but no one dared to speak.
An old professor who was protected in the middle spoke hesitantly: "Is there someone outside asking for help? Why don't we let him in to hide?"
A young man wearing black-framed glasses held him down nervously, "No, Professor! What if it's a wanderer knocking on the door? We'll all be doomed if we open the door!"
The senior brother next to him pushed him hard and said, "Feng Xiangming, you have gone crazy from studying the Wanderer. How can a Wanderer have such a high IQ and trick us into opening the door!"
Feng Xiangming adjusted his crooked black-framed glasses and explained awkwardly, "I... I saw it in the live broadcast. Some wanderers do pretend to be humans to trick us into opening the door..."
The senior brother almost laughed out of anger: "Live broadcast? Can you believe such nonsense? If what they say is useful, what do we need the monitoring institute for? I think you have been seriously poisoned by the marketing account!"
"Alright! Stop arguing!"
The professor interrupted their argument and frowned, saying to his senior brother, "Xichuan, go to the skylight and check the situation. If it is a human, let him in."
“Yes, teacher.”
Meng Xichuan reluctantly responded after hearing this. He found a ladder and climbed up the skylight. He looked out through the gap and turned to the professor and said, "Teacher, it's a young man."
He stopped talking and shouted outside: "Hey! Come here!"
Lu Yan looked up subconsciously when he heard the sound, and saw a stone being thrown out from the gap in the factory ceiling. He couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but could only vaguely make out the voice of a young man: "Go around to the back, there is a small door at the back!"
Lu Yan had never thought that there was actually someone hiding in this dilapidated factory building. He put his hands to his mouth in a trumpet shape and shouted, "Just come out, I'm here to save you!"
As soon as he said this, the researchers who had been hiding far away gathered around him, unable to hide their excitement, and discussed at once:
"What, he's here to save us?!"
"Is the search and rescue team coming?!"
"Very good!"
Even Meng Xichuan showed a look of joy: "Are you the rescue team sent by Sky City?! How many people are there in total?!"
Lu Yan was stunned for a moment when asked: "How many people? Just me!"
Meng Xichuan slipped when he heard that and almost fell off the ladder. He asked in shock, "You alone?!"
Is this guy an idiot?!
Lu Yan waved at him and said, "I'm the only one here. You guys should hurry out. The roof of the factory will soon be knocked down by the vagrants. Then we'll all be crushed to death inside!"
Meng Xichuan hadn't eaten for a day and a night, and now he felt dizzy and almost fainted from anger. He held back his anger and shouted, "Come in through the back door first!"
Lu Yan: "Just open the door and come out!"
Meng Xichuan roared: "Are you coming in or not? If you don't come in, we will close the door!"
Lu Yan: “…”Okay.
Lu Yan could only go around to the back of the factory to look for the small door he mentioned, but he found no trace of it after a round. Suddenly, there was a rustling sound under the corner of the wall, and someone whispered to him through the gap: "Come here, here!"
Lu Yan heard the sound and walked over. He then discovered that there was a small iron door half a person's height on the wall, but it was sealed and could not be seen. Meng Xichuan opened the door halfway and waved to Lu Yan: "Come in quickly, if you are any slower, the wanderer will get in!"
Lu Yan could only half-bend his body to get in. When he turned around and saw Meng Xichuan taking a small lock to bolt the door, he suddenly realized something, his face changed, and he asked in shock: "...Isn't this a dog hole?!"
Meng Xichuan said irritably: "Oh, my life is almost gone, and you won't lose a piece of flesh if you dig a dog hole!"
Veins popped out of Lu Yan's forehead: "I came here with good intentions to save you, and you asked me to crawl through a dog hole?!"
Meng Xichuan got angry when he heard this: "You are alone, saving a yo-yo. If we hadn't kindly let you in for refuge, you would have been eaten by the wanderers!"
Lu Yan: "When did I ask you to save me?!"
Meng Xichuan pointed to the door: "Then go, get out again!"
Lu Yan: “???!!”
At this moment, the audience in the live broadcast room was almost laughing, and the comments were filled with bullets:
[Help me! Do you really want me to laugh until I pee in bed on such a serious day?! ]
【Hahahahaha, go back in! Brother Lu is so miserable! 】
[(Constipated face) It’s really hard for me to hide in the sewer and not be able to laugh out loud]
[Save the kids! I laughed so hard that the trash can is shaking.]
Just when Lu Yan and Meng Xichuan were about to fight, the old professor finally came out to mediate. He signaled the other students to separate the two of them and said in a low voice: "Okay, it's already this late and you're still arguing about this! Xichuan, control your temper!"
Although Meng Xichuan was a little unconvinced, he finally calmed down.
The old professor looked at Lu Yan and saw that he was completely covered with only his eyes exposed. He couldn't help but be alert: "Young man, you said you came to save us?"
Lu Yan raised the brim of his hat and said, "Where do you want to go? I can escort you home."
Meng Xichuan was disdainful, feeling that he was a liar: "Just relying on you?"
Lu Yan pointed to the roof that was about to collapse and said, "You can stay here if you want. You will either be crushed to death by the collapsed roof or be eaten by wanderers. It's your choice."
Of course, this group of people would not believe Lu Yan. Meng Xichuan held the professor and persuaded him, "Teacher, let's not believe him. There are vagrants everywhere outside. We must not go out. Let's wait for the Sky City's superpower team to come and take us back."
Lu Yan then realized that they were all wearing white coats: "Do you live in Sky City?"
Another girl choked up and explained: "We are members of the Seventh Branch of the Monitoring Institute. We were originally conducting an investigation in the contaminated area, but we were trapped here when we came back because of the red sun. The whole team was dispersed, and colleagues died or scattered. Only a few of us are left."
The old professor sighed and said, "Thank you for your kindness, young man, but it's too dangerous outside. You should stay here with us and wait for the superpower team to rescue you."
Lu Yan asked consciously, "Will the superpower team come?"
As soon as he said this, everyone fell silent. Although the Monitoring Headquarters was the highest leadership body in Sky City, it had thirty-six branches under it. The Seventh Branch was not taken seriously, otherwise it would not be their turn to do such a thankless job as investigating the contaminated area. Now that the outside world was in such chaos, it was hard to guarantee whether the Superpower Team would come to rescue them.
The old professor adjusted his glasses, looking somewhat helpless: "We have already sent a distress message to the headquarters, the superpower team should be here soon."
Lu Yan thought that this was not a matter of whether or not it would happen, but if they continued to stay in the factory, they would soon be crushed to death by the falling roof. Just when the atmosphere in the air was becoming a little depressing, a weak voice suddenly rang out from the crowd:
"Are you...are you the anchor Xiao Lu from Hunter the Wanderer?"
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