They drove smoothly all the way to Tianxi City. No police appeared to stop them, and no one asked them why they were going against the flow. Qiushui drove smoothly to Tianxi City.
This former transportation hub is now eerily quiet.
Standing at the starting point of the city, Qiu Shui saw that the passing vehicles were gone, and the once bustling and complex city was now only left with single and eye-catching buildings.
Not far away, rows of white skyscrapers stood tall, with chimneys, streets, and streetlights all present, but it was very quiet inside, like a mirage quietly falling in front of her.
Beautiful but not real.
Qiu Shui opened the car door and got out.
Today she was wearing a trench coat and tightly woven black pants, a combination that minimized drag while running.
Qiu Shui didn't know why she had specially changed into this outfit today, nor did she know why she could now calmly cross the police cordon and enter Tian Xi.
Walking on the black asphalt road, she stepped into the city, her butler floating beside her, following her and protecting her.
Walking on the main street of Tianxi City, there was no one around, nor any corpses.
The black smoke from before was like a child's trick; it was impossible to find.
After walking freely through the city for ten minutes, Qiu Shui stared blankly at the empty trash can in the corner.
It's so clean here, it doesn't feel like a bustling city, but more like a layout diagram on an engineer's computer, so neat and orderly that she couldn't find a single mistake.
Walking here, she couldn't sense any living presence.
Following her instincts, she turned into a side street, and something suddenly fell, hitting her shoulder before hitting the ground with a crisp plastic sound.
Qiu Shui looked down and a round ball landed at her feet. The ball had many tiny holes on it.
She picked up the ball, her fingers feeling its uneven texture.
The instant she picked up the ball, she suddenly realized that it was not a ball, but a round object made of sand grains.
"There is no binding agent between the sand grains, so the force acting on the sand grains has not yet dissipated!"
As she discovered it, the e-butler alerted her.
Upon hearing the sound, Qiu Shui released her fingers, and the palm-sized ball scattered into a cloud of mud and sand. A dark shadow rushed quickly toward her location.
A dark sorcerer specializing in agility-based attacks?
Qiu Shui dodged the dagger in the attacker's hand, held her palm in front of her heart, and caught the incoming bullet.
"You're a robot!"
The masked man in front of her looked at her slightly twisted hand bones in surprise and said.
Qiu Shui stretched out her fingers, and with a tearing sound, her hand plunged into his chest, passing through his shoulder blades and ribs. In an instant, all the blood in his body froze into small crystals.
Wiping the small crystals off her hands, the body in front of her collapsed with a crash. Qiu Shui glanced at him and continued walking deeper into the city.
She walked along the alley for a long time, and a small red dot landed on her forehead. Qiu Shui also placed her hand on her forehead.
"careful!"
A short, sharp voice suddenly came from behind her.
Qiu Shui was stunned. Before she could react, she was pulled into a dark corner by the person behind her.
But that wasn't what stunned her; what truly bewildered her was the sudden appearance of the voice.
"Are you alright? There's a cordon outside, how dare you run in?"
The familiar tone of concern was different, but the person in front of him was wearing a police uniform, holding a gun in a white glove, and wearing a stiff black police cap.
"Please show me your identification. I'm a police officer. This place is under... Shh! Don't move, someone's coming, back up!"
Standing in the darkness, Qiu Shui saw the policeman in front of her turn around and look out through the gap, the gun in her hand slowly extending out...
"Activate the defensive particle wall!"
The butler's voice rang in her ears, and in Qiu Shui's sight, a red human figure was walking towards her.
With a flick of her fingers, moisture condensed into ice at her fingertips, striking the opponent's forehead faster than a bullet from a gun.
At the same time—
Boom!
An unusual noise came from above, and the concrete covering that was shielding them collapsed with a crash, the entire building was collapsing!
"careful!"
Her body was pushed forward by a hand, and Qiu Shui was quickly pushed out of the covering. At the same time, the butler used his particle arm to grab the person who pushed her and then flung him away.
"ah……"
The figure rolled a few times on the ground, then took the opportunity to crawl into a corner to hide, still tightly gripping the pistol in her hand.
Qiu Shui glanced at her, then quickly leaped from the ground onto a street lamp and disappeared before she could react.
The policewoman on the ground rubbed her sore shoulders, looked up and glanced to the side, only to find that there was no one there.
"...Where is the person from just now?"
...
After leaving the policewoman, Qiu Shui followed the route in her memory to the central city where Luo Ya had once lived. Everything there was as before, and all the scenes in her memory were still perfectly preserved.
"After testing, no signs of human survival were found within a one-kilometer radius."
The butler's electronic voice sounded.
Upon hearing this, Qiu Shui landed in front of the central city and looked at the building in front of her that had sunk more than ten meters.
"What about underground?"
"In progress... No signs of life underground," the butler replied quickly.
Looking quietly at the building in front of her, Qiu Shui closed her eyes, and a map of the city center provided by the butler appeared before her.
When she opened her eyes again, she jumped down from in front of the building.
Her body plummeted rapidly, and she threw out a shard of ice, shattering the glass on the seventeenth floor, and broke through the window.
Stepping over the broken glass shards, Qiu Shui walked along the wall to the door and heard some unusual noises.
The camera system in the living room was integrated with her vision, but the living room was empty. Through the temperature sensor, she saw a figure.
The man opened the safe and computer in the living room. After deciphering the password, he clicked to open the layout map of Luoyi Central City.
Separated by a wall, Qiu Shui silently watched his movements. After a few soft metallic scraping sounds, a fully assembled mechanical gun appeared in her hand.
The gun barrel slowly moved upwards, landing on the chest of the person in the living room.
"Beep beep—Bang!"
The metal bullet pierced the wall and landed precisely on the person in the living room, but...
The 1.8-meter-tall figure in her line of sight suddenly became 1.5 meters tall, and the person hidden in the living room quickly appeared in front of her.
"Who goes there?!"
A short boy landed in front of her, looking at her coldly. His hand reached for his waist, where there was a high-voltage stun gun.
Qiu Shui took a few steps back and noticed a few broken hairs on his head; his shot had been wasted.
Crackling sounds!
The boy took out a stun gun and gave her a creepy smile. "Big sister, you'll soon be just like them."
His gaze fell on a few clumps of black ash in the corner of the wall. Qiu Shui glanced at them and looked at him warily.
From this distance, she could snatch the stun gun from his hand and subdue him.
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