dtnovels Chapter 184 Nothing Left
Chapter 184 Nothing Left
The aftershocks of the city collapse lingered above the civil defense works for a full half hour.
Xu Si could clearly feel that the gaze had disappeared.
When the last piece of concrete stopped rolling.
The air-raid shelter was eerily silent.
No one in the convoy spoke.
Yao Yao covered her mouth tightly, her big eyes filled with tears, but she dared not cry out.
Wang Hu gently patted his daughter's back with his rough hands, his eyes fixed on the entrance.
The civil defense works held up until the very last moment without collapsing.
Xu Si maintained his ice crystal shield, his face somewhat pale.
The eerie pressure emanating from that high position caused Jiang Li, Ta Shan, and Xu Si a great deal of suffering.
But he had no time to rest. Star trails pierced the darkness, confirming that the external "gaze" had completely disappeared.
The giant eye, composed of shadows and starlight, was gone.
The heavy oppressive atmosphere that had enveloped the city dissipated.
The seemingly endless rain that had enveloped the salt city had now stopped.
The salt market itself also disappeared along with it.
In the eerie silence, Fu Xiaojian was the first to break it, his voice dry and hoarse: "How... is it outside?"
Xu Si slowly withdrew his star veins, rubbed his throbbing temples, and said in a deep voice, "Gone, everything is gone!"
"The rain has stopped!" Chen Pei suddenly looked up, and for the first time, a strong emotional fluctuation appeared in his overly clear eyes.
His body surface shimmered violently with water, as if he wanted to immediately turn into rain and go out to investigate, but he forcibly restrained himself and then looked at Xu Si.
He was born in the rain and grew up in the rain.
Rain is his domain, his barrier, and his prison.
Now, the rain has stopped...
The rain has stopped, so what's the situation outside?
"Brother Dao, has that guy left?" The little girl's face was still marked with the ligature marks, and she was full of worry.
"They must have left!" Xu Si didn't know what had happened.
The big guy seemed to have left immediately.
"What just happened?" Xu Si asked Chen Pei, who was standing to the side. The commotion was definitely not the kind of energy his Starburst could unleash.
"I blew up Salt Lake!" Chen Pei said.
So that guy chased after the water source?
Is this reasonable?
This doesn't make sense!
"All the buildings in the city are gone! Everything is gone!" Chen Pei found it hard to express his current feelings.
The city he lived in was gone, and so was his home!
Although in fact they have long since disappeared.
But at this moment, a deep sadness still overwhelmed him.
"Want to go out and take a look?" Su Su suggested.
"Let's wait a bit longer! What if that guy comes back?" Xu Si knew the situation outside better than Chen Pei.
When Chen Pei said "gone," he meant "gone" in a physical sense.
The current state of Yanshi can hardly be considered ruins; it's more like roads that have been forcibly demolished by demolition machines.
The remains of the auxiliary buildings on the ground almost all became part of that behemoth, a moving urban ruin.
So all he could do was tell everyone to prepare themselves mentally, otherwise they would be so disappointed.
The convoy waited in utter silence for a long hour.
Jiao Jiao bit her lip, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of her clothes; Xiao Luo gripped a flashlight tightly, afraid to turn it on, her eyes beneath her silver hair shining brightly in the darkness; Li Miao sat in the driver's seat, shrouded in mist, her breathing deliberately light.
Even Yao Yao seemed to understand the gravity of the situation, and obediently nestled in Wang Hu's arms, only blinking occasionally.
Everyone watched as the sunlight at the entrance slowly faded away.
Until nightfall.
That big guy seems to have really left.
The suffocating oppressive atmosphere that enveloped the city had indeed disappeared, and the "eye" that had been hanging above the ruins had also vanished.
After the wind and rain subsided, they were still like ants hiding in the cracks, only able to glimpse the world occasionally.
Outside air seeped in through the collapsed cracks, carrying an indescribable smell, but it was no longer damp or cold.
"Let's go out and take a look! This place is not safe to stay any longer!" Fu Xiaojian said, even under the cover of night, he didn't want to stay here any longer.
Everything he had just experienced made him feel as if they were about to be laid to rest underground forever.
The feeling of being swallowed by darkness and torn apart by oppressive force was more devastating than ever before.
Xu Si was the first to remove the ice crystal shield, and Ta Shan slowly retracted the rock dome. The light from the rock texture on his body dimmed, revealing his pale face underneath due to overexertion.
Jiang Li's barrier had already dissipated due to the exhaustion of its power during the middle of the city's collapse.
Her barrier withstood the vast majority of the pressure from the higher-ranking beings; without it, Tashan and Xu Si would not have been able to withstand it at all.
The convoy slowly drove out of the air-raid shelter, its headlights piercing the darkness at the entrance and illuminating the outside world.
Everyone who saw the beam of light was stunned.
Gone are the towering, polished buildings, the crisscrossing streets, and even the massive architectural ruins that we can still see today.
Before me lay a vast, flat, and empty "ground".
The ground was composed of countless fine, seemingly ground concrete, brick, and metal fragments, evenly mixed together, stretching to the horizon where it met the hazy sky.
It was eerily flat and terrifyingly empty.
Salt City, a city that once housed millions of people, was completely "flattened" in just half an hour.
At the same time, the air-raid shelter where the convoy had just taken refuge collapsed amidst gasps of astonishment.
"this……"
Jiao Jiao followed Su Su out of the pickup truck. Looking at the scene before her, she opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a complete sound.
In her imagination, even if a city is destroyed and reduced to ruins, it should still have some outline and some traces.
But there was nothing there.
There was only a desolate wasteland, as if it had been thoroughly plowed by the most violent force.
Standing at the dilapidated entrance of the air-raid shelter, Chen Pei gazed at this utterly unfamiliar "homeland," and his mind went blank for a moment.
Those eyes, which were always clear and calm, were now completely empty.
There was no sadness, no anger, not even confusion, just a complete emptiness, as if everything had been emptied out.
Tang Jinxiu silently walked to his side and gently took his cold, damp hand in hers.
The natural allure brought by the succubus sequence has completely dissipated, leaving only a pale, pitiful state.
"No..." Chen Pei's lips moved slightly, uttering a single word very softly, before he pressed them tightly together.
"That's all." Tang Jinxiu finished his sentence, her voice so low it was almost inaudible.
Fu Xiaojian silently scanned his surroundings with his flashlight. The beam moved across the flat "ground," and apart from the uniform debris, it was difficult to find even slightly larger protrusions.
Xu Si's face fell.
His "Conqueror" was parked in a slightly more distant neighborhood, and at this moment it was completely nowhere to be seen.
If it's really as he thinks, it would be worse than death for him, considering the amount of purification points he invested in the Conquerors.
If that guy really destroys it, he'll probably only be able to steal one of the artifact vehicles.
However, he could still barely sense the Conqueror's location at this point.