Chapter 176 The Cyclic World 4
Lin Xia watched the planes fighting in the sky and ignored them. She helped the girl who was about to fall up and heard explosions coming from many places. She looked at the empty supermarket behind her and the empty clothing store next to her.
After thinking for a moment, I moved into the clothing store. Once inside, I lowered my head, hunched my shoulders, and hid in the fitting room. I looked around and saw that there were no security cameras.
Lin Xia breathed a sigh of relief after locking the door from the inside.
Thinking of the feeling of helplessness when she died for the first time, Lin Xia pursed her lips. Her strength was still too low.
Anyway, the scapegoat is always there, so let's try again.
Lin Xia started digging again, but this time not to find a hiding place, but to dig an underground passage that she could pass through on her own.
As she collected the soil into her spatial storage, she tossed it behind her. Having experience digging holes before, Lin Xia was very fast. This time, she didn't even need to compact the soil, making her work even more efficient.
Gradually, earth-elemental energy surrounded Lin Xia, making her faster and faster. She didn't need to store the earth in her space; she could simply control it to separate and pass through quickly on its own.
The hard earth seemed to turn into tofu in front of Lin Xia. It looked as if Lin Xia was moving through the soil at an extremely fast speed, almost as fast as space travel, but much less strenuous.
Lin Xia emptied her mental energy and carefully felt the solidity, weight, and inclusiveness of the earth element energy. This reminded her of the time she used the [Transformation Card] and transformed into a small grass, taking root in the soil.
Back then, she felt more of a supportive force and vitality, which was completely different from her current feelings. Lin Xia recalled that the energies of other systems were also multifaceted, and some even possessed repulsive energies.
Lin Xia calculated the distance she had traveled and realized that she should have already left S City, and it should have taken even less time than when she sped up last time.
Just as Lin Xia was about to stop and dig a larger space, the roaring sound exploded in her ears again...
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Lin Xia returned to that street, dodging the people who were rushing towards her. Her eyes were somewhat dazed; being blown up felt awful.
Even though she thought of hiding in the spatial rift, firstly, the time she could hide was too short, and secondly, she was afraid that the power of the nuclear explosion would be too great. If it erased the mental anchor she left in this world, wouldn't she be lost in those layers of space?
Lin Xia was certain that she hadn't shown any abnormalities that could be detected by ordinary equipment. There was only one explanation: the spaceship could detect the energy fluctuations of supernatural abilities, which was why she was precisely targeted.
But if she didn't use her ability, she might not even be able to escape the city of S. Helping the girl who was about to fall up, Lin Xia entered the supermarket and looked at the street behind it. Only then did she realize that the people on that street were running in the opposite direction.
She grabbed one of them and asked, "Why are you running this way instead of up the mountain?"
The young man struggled after being grabbed, cursing and swearing for a bit before realizing he couldn't move at all. His expression changed, and he quickly and honestly said, "Those mountains are endless. If they drop a nuclear bomb into them, there's no way to escape. Everyone says there's a base there, but who knows where it is?"
After saying that, Lin Xia let go of his hand. He breathed a sigh of relief and immediately darted out. Lin Xia climbed out of the window and ran with the flow of people. When he passed through the villages and towns, he even picked up a few shovels.
She was fast, but not fast enough to attract attention. When she encountered someone trying to steal her things, she didn't say much, just knocked them down with one punch, without stopping for a moment.
When a roar came from behind, Lin Xia gritted her teeth and fell to the ground without making any further movements. A wave of heat swept over her, and sand and stones flew everywhere.
Lin Xia remained lying still until someone made a sound, at which point she opened her eyes and sat up. By then, more than four hours had passed.
If there hadn't been a constant stream of drone warnings, she definitely wouldn't have been able to stay still; she would have taken out her clothes to cover her mouth and nose.
Lin Xia stood up and walked forward until she reached the forest. She threw her things on the ground and started digging.
Although it was indeed slower without using superpowers, Lin Xia dug for a long time without any problems. When people passed by, a few stayed behind, picked up the remaining shovels on the ground, and dug together.
Later, as people dug the soil out, almost everyone lost clumps of hair, coughed up blood, and some even stopped working altogether.
At first, some people cried, but gradually, even the crying stopped. They figured they might as well dig deeper.
Many people come here, see someone, and plop down next to them, staring in the direction of S City, occasionally taking a bite or a sip of water, just sitting there blankly... until they die...
Although Lin Xia didn't use her superpowers, she was strong and dug the fastest, already very deep. Apart from coughs and groans, there were no other sounds in her ears.
Fortunately, the area was never bombed again, allowing them to dig very, very deep until they reached a depth of ten meters. When they could dig no further, they began to expand the area, with others moving trees, filling in soil, and pressing down the earth.
People around Lin Xia die every day. The weather is hot and the air is getting more and more foul. Before the roof is even covered, she can see the blinding flames coming from the horizon.
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This time, Lin Xia traveled to the outskirts of the city, ignoring the mushroom cloud behind her. She continued on her way, bypassing all the cities and avoiding all the areas where nuclear explosions were predicted.
Until she reached the top of a mountain, where all she could see were ruins, the people still alive on the mountaintop found her and took her to an underground shelter.
There, no one was unharmed; almost everyone suffered from radiation sickness. Even though this place was called humanity's last bastion, Lin Xia still felt the aura of death and despair every day.
They kept digging deeper into the ground, as if they felt safer only the further they got from the surface.
Lin Xia didn't express any opinion. She followed the others. This was the longest she had ever lived. It was the eighth day in the game world.
On the tenth day of the game, Lin Xia sat in the dark. She had a premonition that the game would not end like this.
Sure enough, after safely passing the tenth day, Lin Xia opened her eyes again and returned to that familiar street.
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Standing on the street, Lin Xia was extremely depressed, feeling her life slipping away, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
Moreover, she could sense that each cycle wasn't truly without loss; normal people don't face death in silence.
But the people of this world are too silent. The faint groans in pain, the silent death, the lack of cries and despair—this is not normal.
Lin Xia sensed their spirits were waning, growing lower with each passing day. She looked at the people on the street; their expressions were becoming increasingly indifferent, a stark contrast to when she first arrived, when their faces displayed normal fear and anxiety...
They are still on the move, but the expressions on their faces have become much more subdued, and their pace has slowed down.
Leaping onto the roof, Lin Xia sat cross-legged, propping her chin up, watching the flow of people and gazing towards the mountains. She understood that the opportunity to end everything lay there.
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