Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Three: Underwater Refugees?
“Ahhhhhhh—”
“Doomsday… the doomsday mentioned in the scriptures is coming!”
“Great Ino God, take us away from this painful world…”
In the middle of the gradually tilting Tokyo Tower, inside the large observation deck, due to the earthquake, thunder, tilting tower body, and various loud noises, the inside of the observation deck became a scene of chaos.
Screams of terror, cries of fear, and fanatical prayers filled the entire observation deck, as if the observation deck had become a springboard to hell.
Most of the people here were ordinary believers. They could climb to this large observation deck with faith and relatively well-nourished bodies, but after staying for a few days, they had no strength to climb down.
The shadow of death seemed to have enveloped everyone.
The tilted ground made them all fall towards the glass on the same side, and they were squeezed together like sardines in a can inside the observation tower.
It wouldn’t be long before, without waiting for the tower to collapse directly, the people at the bottom would have their internal organs ruptured and suffocate to death.
No matter how they cried, screamed, or prayed, the cold tower would not respond to them, ruthlessly carrying a “can” of flesh and blood towards the “ebbing” ground.
“Boom—”
“Clang—”
When the tower tilted to 45°, the glass at the top was suddenly smashed, and the broken glass mixed with rainwater fell into the crowd, cutting bloody wounds on their faces and bodies.
The Awakened had already taken action. They broke the reinforced glass above and rushed out, exposing themselves to the wind and rain, and felt the terrifying noise from the outside world more closely.
“Pitter-patter—”
The volcanic ash tens of kilometers high in the distance had spread with the shock wave, and the eruption was still continuing.
The rainwater in Tokyo had been dyed gray. If it weren’t for the purification of the rainwater, Tokyo should be completely covered by volcanic ash now.
The first to rush out of the “steaming pot”, a muscle-type Awakened wearing ceremonial clothing, hugged the huge red steel pillar and stared blankly at the mountain that symbolized Japan. At this time, it seemed to want to devour everyone, revealing a ferocious red face.
At this moment, he lost all thoughts of escape, let go of the hands tightly hugging the steel red pillar, and let despair completely envelop him.
Such terrifying disasters came one after another, not only bringing huge casualties and disasters, but also constantly eroding everyone’s will to survive.
And inside the observation deck, Igarashi, who was pressed at the bottom, her whole body completely pressed against the glass, did not struggle or move.
The direction of Mount Fuji’s eruption… was the direction of the Tokyo joint organization’s retreat…
Japan was finished.
This thought made Igarashi’s whole body go limp. Even as an Awakened, she didn’t have any motivation to struggle.
The organizations in Tokyo were considered the elite of all Japan. If they were defeated here, it meant that Japan no longer had any organization that could effectively unite everyone to fight against the enemies in the sea.
Igarashi’s face was pressed tightly against the glass. Now she could only see the dim ground and the accumulated water on the ground.
The constantly shaking tower made her breathless, but she had almost no strength to resist now.
Let it be destroyed, it should have been destroyed long ago.
She just listened to the harsh sound of steel bending, and watched as she got closer and closer to the ground.
Just as she slowly closed her eyes, the entire tower suddenly shook violently.
“Boom—”
After this loud noise and vibration, the giant tower, which had been shaking and collapsing, actually stopped bending and became fixed.
What happened?
Igarashi opened her eyes and stared blankly at the scene outside the glass of the large observation deck.
Three of the four corner piers of Tokyo Tower’s foundation had been broken, and coupled with the cracks caused by some organizations fighting for control of the radio tower during the apocalypse, the entire Tokyo Tower was torn apart from the waist and fell.
But now, Tokyo Tower was almost tilted at an angle of 100°, but it did not completely fall, as if it was supported by something.
And from Igarashi’s perspective, she could not see more information.
What happened?
Did Chida Rei do it?
No… impossible, Chida Rei’s ability was only suitable for destruction, it was impossible for her to stop the tilting tower.
At this moment, the Awakened who had climbed out through the window on the other side suddenly shouted excitedly.
“Ino God! It’s Ino God! He came to save us!”
It was a pity that the sound of the storm, volcano, and earthquake was too loud, and not many people heard the shouts outside.
Igarashi could only feel that the tower was slowly approaching the ground again.
But this time, it didn’t collapse faster and faster like before, but it felt like it was being gently put down.
Someone really came to save them.
Who was it?
Was it a B-rank lone wolf who had never been exposed before?
“Crack—”
Igarashi’s facing direction was slowly lowered to the ground. Because of the weight of the tower itself and the pressure of gravity, the glass in front of her and around her shattered, the fragments hit her face, and the accumulated water poured in through the burst holes.
It reached the ground!
Although it was unbelievable, it did reach the ground safely.
Igarashi used all her strength, supported herself with the broken glass, squeezed through the piled up crowd, and climbed out from the broken observation window.
“Huff… huff…”
Igarashi, whose face was covered in blood, turned her head and looked at the huge observation deck, filled with people, which had been placed horizontally and stabilized.
And on the other side of the horizontally lying tower, the purple-skinned giant slowly stood up.
Ino God?
Did it really wake up? Did the manipulator behind it come back?
Igarashi quickly scanned the surroundings. Under the heavy rain, she couldn’t see much, let alone find its manipulator.
That’s right, she couldn’t find the manipulator on the mountaintop before, and it was even more impossible to find it in this situation.
Just as she stepped on the knee-deep water and was about to walk towards the “Ino God” to ask about its intentions, the huge purple-skinned zombie actually turned around and ran in one direction.
It didn’t intend to talk to her at all.
And beside the purple-skinned giant, there was also a red streamer closely following. Igarashi was quite familiar with this light, it was Chida Rei’s.
Igarashi quickly glanced at the other believers who were struggling to climb out, and the Awakened believers who had already rushed towards the Ino God, gritted her teeth, and also started running, stepping on the water and rushing towards the Ino God.
The people who were saved, and the people who watched her save them, all had different thoughts.
But all of this was not within the “Ino God’s” consideration.
At this time, Lin Jiayao, looking at the direction of the Extraction Point, was adjusting her pace to avoid the ruins, and running towards the Extraction Point at full speed.
She wasted time saving these hundreds of people just now, not because she was kind.
The previous No. 5 was just a huge B-rank fat man. It was the female leader of this cult who helped her evolve, allowing her to log into B-rank zombies and obtain the crucial [Crystal Vibration Pressure], which laid the groundwork for defeating Wu Hejun later.
This time, it was just to clear the debt of the Blood Crystals needed for evolution.
On the way to the Extraction Point, Lin Jiayao also began to feel that something was wrong.
Why did Japan, or Tokyo, have so many natural disasters when she logged in?
Were these really natural disasters, or disasters deliberately created by blood crystals?
Could it be that these continuous earthquakes and tsunamis were caused by the continuous eruption of volcanoes in the sea?
If so, why did those volcanoes erupt? What happened on the seabed?
Not only did such terrifying natural disasters occur in Japan, but they also occurred in China, such as the huge rift valley that Lin Jiayao had seen…
Suddenly, a possibility flashed through Lin Jiayao’s mind.
Was it possible… that the creatures on the seabed did not want to take the initiative to come ashore, but were driven ashore by a terrifying existence on the seabed?
But this was just Lin Jiayao’s guess. So far, she had not encountered any seabed existence that could communicate.
The only one that seemed to be able to communicate… should be the terrifying giant eye that did not attack her immediately.
At the same time, Lin Jiayao also noticed that there seemed to be a B-rank aura following her, and she couldn’t get rid of it no matter how fast she ran.
When she ran to the open area, Lin Jiayao looked back, and sure enough, it was the familiar red streamer, keeping a certain distance and following behind her.
After seeing her turn around, the figure wrapped in the red streamer quickly stopped in the air, bowed deeply to her, and said something.
Was it the person from that cult? Why was she still following her?
Did they still regard her as some kind of god?
She was already B-rank, couldn’t she feel that she was also a blood crystal like her now?
Although Lin Jiayao had briefly logged into a Japanese woman in the form of mycelium when she first logged into Donghai City, she didn’t learn much of the language. They were all fragmented memories, and she left before completely devouring.
It was like knowing a few characters in Chinese, but not knowing what they meant when put together.
Looking at the girl’s pious appearance, Lin Jiayao did not stop her from continuing to follow her.
Just treat it as having a B-rank “elf” following her, the kind that could help her block bullets at critical moments.
For these one hundred kilometers, Lin Jiayao had been running along the shortest straight line. Maybe it was because she had practiced handstand running, Lin Jiayao found that when she used No. 5 to run on all fours, her speed would be much faster.
Although it looked a bit scary, No. 5 was originally a zombie, and being scary and weird was returning to its true nature.
Under Lin Jiayao’s running state, which was similar to a titan, she was getting closer and closer to the Extraction Point, and after leaving Tokyo, the originally gloomy weather gradually cleared up.
Looking back at this time, she could see the huge city covered by rain behind her, and the billowing smoke still erupting from the huge volcano.
Such a violent volcanic eruption would affect not only Japan, but also China and even the whole world, which were close to Japan.
The most direct impact was that the volcanic ash sprayed into the sky would cause the global temperature to drop… If such a volcanic eruption occurred a few more times in other parts of the earth…
Perhaps Lin Jiayao could really see what June snow looked like.
Finally, after spending more than two hours, Lin Jiayao finally ran to the Extraction Point a hundred kilometers away.
The situation in Japan was much more complicated than Lin Jiayao imagined, and Chiba Prefecture, where she could still see tall buildings before, was now completely submerged.
The tsunami hitting the coast was also getting higher and higher… Maybe when Lin Jiayao came next time, Japan would no longer exist.
Lin Jiayao did not linger, but directly stood in the Extraction Point, preparing to extract on the spot.
She had a premonition that No. 5 would definitely not live long in this small place of Japan. She had to try not to make dangerous moves, and while ensuring that No. 5 was alive, she had to get more abilities from No. 5.
After all, if No. 5 was killed by seabed creatures while still at the Extraction Point, Lin Jiayao could at least get a system compensation.
[Extracting: 7.8]
While waiting for extraction, Lin Jiayao did not see the B-rank Awakened behind her.
Maybe it was because her ability could not fly for a long time, so she lost track of her halfway.
But Lin Jiayao couldn’t stop and wait for her. Saving No. 5’s life and getting system rewards was the most important thing.
Because she didn’t carry anything, and didn’t even kill a single zombie on the road, the system directly skipped the settlement interface for Lin Jiayao, and directly let Lin Jiayao’s consciousness return to her body.
After her consciousness returned to her body, Lin Jiayao habitually held her breath.
But the expected headache and dizziness did not come.
The [Vigor Lv.3] she chose after logging out of Goldie last time, plus the golden passive evolution [Hunting Rhythm Lv.1], and the accelerated recovery of the Hideout [Library Lv.1].
Under the multiple blessings of these recently acquired enhancements, Lin Jiayao, who had logged out of B-rank, only felt a little weak and tired, and it did not have a particularly obvious impact on her actions.
Lin Jiayao could even directly log into the next B-rank zombie, and could log into B-rank zombies twice a day without squeezing her mental power.
Very good… her speed of becoming stronger was even faster, she didn’t choose [Vigor Lv.3] wrongly.
After feeling the changes in her body, Lin Jiayao did not choose to look at the retain evolution interface first, but reached out and touched around while opening her eyes.
She didn’t feel any hands reaching into her waist or back, had her sister already gotten up to train?
But as soon as Lin Jiayao opened her eyes, the hand she stretched out to the side stopped.
Because she saw that, very close to her, her sister was supporting herself above her in a plank position, with both hands on either side of her head.
Seeing her wake up, she supported her body with her left hand, brushed her long hair to one side with her right hand, and said with a smile: “Yao, you finally woke up~ Come on, didn’t you say you wanted to use those monsters to train me? I can’t wake them up by myself, help me…”
It seemed that her sister was already impatient. Last night’s conversation not only didn’t make her sister depressed, but made her full of fighting spirit, vowing to quickly be promoted to A-rank and then smash all the zombies with one punch.
“Then what are you… doing now?” Lin Jiayao looked at her sister who was supporting herself above her and blinked.
“Plank, warming up my hands.” Lin Xiwan said with a smile, “Although sometimes it ‘accidentally’ becomes a push-up.”
“Do you have to do it on me?”
“Can’t I~”
“…Yes.”
Lin Xiwan looked at her sister’s appearance with a smile, slightly bent her arms, and her body, which was originally in a plank position, slowly lowered, her body pressed tightly against her sister, her lips gently pecked her cheek, and then counted.
“491.”
Looking at her sister’s flushed cheeks, Lin Xiwan smiled even more happily.