Chapter 68 East City

"Here!"

When the building collapsed, Ellie grabbed Eden, and the pink crystal quickly wrapped the bodies of the two, and then fell to the ground from a height of hundreds of meters.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang..." Hundreds of crystal-wrapped bodies fell together, which was the limit of what Ellie could do.

But soon, even this insignificant effort was gone in an instant - hundreds of high-rise buildings around collapsed, countless debris piled up and fell, burying the living, dead, complete or incomplete bodies under the ruins.

"Boom!"

Ellie smashed the steel, concrete, ruins and stones nearly three meters above her head with a punch. She jumped onto the ruins in a few steps, then lay down and pulled Eden out.

"Ahem! This... what is going on!" Eden knelt on the ruins, and the dust choked her and made her cough continuously. She stroked her chest and raised her head, looking at everything in front of her in disbelief.

Just a few seconds ago, she and Ai Li were sitting in a delicate box, looking down through the large French windows at the river rolling eastward, which was rippled by the drizzle, and looking forward to the neon lights that would soon light up to give the flying raindrops color, allowing them to interweave brilliant colors in the air.

But now, as the purple lightning flashed, everything around was annihilated in the dust. The steel forest that humans were proud of was uprooted by the violent lightning and storm, leaving nothing behind.

"Aili... Ai Li!"

Coming back to her senses, Eden saw Ai Li lying among the ruins like crazy, digging the ruins with her white hands.

"It must be okay! It must be okay!"

She heard Ai Li muttering.

Eden then belatedly recalled the solid pink crystal. If it weren't for its protection, she would not have been safe and sound after falling hundreds of meters freely.

So she soon joined the excavation team.

They soon found the first victim... no, one victim, and more... debris whose bodies they couldn't tell.

Ironically, the body of the victim was preserved only because Ellie wrapped his body with crystal before falling. But this kind of protection was done in a hurry, unlike the crystal that wrapped her and Eden, which would soften the impact of falling through layers of shattering.

But now, this pink crystal has no other use except to be the coffin of the victims.

Ellie stood silently aside with her back to Eden.

Is she... no, is she crying? Eden was a little uncertain.

"Tick..."

The drizzle wet Ellie's fluffy hair, and the blood-soaked rain fell from Ellie's trembling fingertips and merged into the red ocean gurgling in the ruins.

Eden exclaimed and quickly rolled up his gorgeous shirt sleeves to bandage her.

But just as she held Ai Li's hand, she saw the girl shook her head violently, and the sad look was swept away, as if it had never existed, replaced by an unprecedented solemnity.

"Thank you, Ai Li." Eden whispered softly, even if the black hand called fear still tightly grasped her heart, her voice was still as elegant and moving as a musical instrument, but the last tremolo rendered it all like the sound of nature that was about to dissipate.

She should thank her, if she hadn't been with her at the time, Eden felt that her ending would not be better than the... person... they had just dug out.

And, besides that, she didn't know what else she could say to Ai Li except thank you.

Comfort? Maybe.

But she didn't think she was qualified to comfort Ai Li.

"Eden..." Her voice was as soft as usual, but with a kind of tenacity, "We seem to be in big trouble. Next, you have to follow me closely. I already... I won't let you run away from me again, okay?"

Eden didn't say too much, just followed her closely.

"By the way, do I need to explain everything that happened here? About the Fire Moth, about the collapse?" Ellie asked softly. She had discussed this topic with Mikael more than once, and she thought... at least she thought that both Mikael and she were opposed to the concealment of the Fire Moth.

"There is no difference in the results between dying awake and dying in a daze, but people have the right to know the truth so that they can decide: if tomorrow is the last day of life, what should they do now? What can they do? Fight bravely? Or accept the ending calmly? This should not be decided by a small group of people for everyone." Ellie clearly remembered Mikael's original words.

But Eden shook his head, "Ordinary people may know nothing about Honkai, but I... Actually, I don't know much either, but I believe in you, Ellie. After all, if it weren't for you, I would have... Let's talk about the rest after it's over, and then we'll include the part we didn't finish talking about in the building before."

"Well~Okay!" Ellie took the opportunity to glance at Eden's wrist, and saw that it was as white as usual, without any purple lines, so she smiled slightly.

The drizzle made the flying dust sticky and lingering for a while. The dark clouds obscured the moonlight again. In the endless ruins, it was impossible to tell the east, south, west and north.

Ellie looked at the communication and mobile phone, and the signal had been messed up. She couldn't contact Mikael at all, let alone find out the specific situation.

But one thing is that Honkai has already broken out, and no one needs to tell her.

"I must send Eden to a safe place first. Then I will meet up with Mikael." Ellie knew very well that she could not protect Eden all the time. If she only encountered an ordinary Honkai beast, it would be fine. But if a Herrscher appeared...

The rain gradually stopped, and the night sea breeze blew, and the dust covering the ruins slowly dissipated.

"What's wrong, Ellie?"

"Back off!"

Ellie pushed Eden away, and at the same time, the broken walls on her left collapsed in an instant, and a huge chariot jumped over her head.

Ellie groaned, and her slender arms were raised high, facing the mountain-like body of the chariot. Eden saw only a flash of pink light in panic, and a crystal flower gradually bloomed in her palm.

"Boom!"

The chariot hit the crystal flower, and the ground under Ellie's feet instantly sank. Her petite body suddenly exerted force and threw the chariot out.

The chariot landed on its back, plowing a wide gully in the ruins. Its back legs were too short and its front legs were too thick and inflexible, so it couldn't turn over for a while, and it fiddled with its limbs desperately like a beetle.

"Haha! It's really embarrassing, but it's a pity that Mikael can't see it..."

If it were in the past, Ellie felt that she would take a photo or record a video with a smile, and when she took it out and watched it a long time later, she would bend over with laughter.

But now she grinned, not in the mood to play much.

The Flying Flower Bow was not around, after all, she came out for dinner. But it didn't matter. The pink crystal condensed into a bow arm, a bowstring, and finally a crystal arrow in her hand - in fact, there was no need to be so troublesome, but unless it was a special emergency, she would rather fight with a bow, only in this way could she guarantee cuteness.

"Then... goodbye! Oh, I didn't have time to take a photo to show Mikael, it's really a bit regrettable!"

The arrow was slender and shot into the body of the chariot, and it seemed that it didn't cause any damage at first.

But soon, the chariot's limbs gradually stiffened, and the joints made a "crackling" sound of hardening. In the end, its body exploded with a "bang" and turned into pink crystal dust all over the sky.

Ellie lifted her hair in a somewhat unrestrained manner, silently summing up her shortcomings.

Seeing that the danger was lifted, Eden hurriedly approached Ellie, but only heard her muttering to herself:

"Hey! No, no! This action needs to be improved. It's too inelegant... Um... When throwing it out, can you lift one foot? I feel that this will be much cuter..."

Eden couldn't help but smile. Ellie, who had left the battle, instantly turned back into the cute girl who liked to chatter.

"It's a bit strange..." Ellie suddenly jumped onto a broken wall. Although it was not the highest point, she could already see most of the scenery of East City.

Upon closer inspection, her two thin eyebrows slowly frowned.

"From the perspective of Honkai, the Honkai beasts and the dead soldiers that appeared are a little too few. The tank-class Honkai beast that was less than 20 meters long just now is probably the largest one..."

She thought of the worst possibility.

"Let's go!"

Aili took Eden's hand and ran.

If she guessed correctly-the Herrscher was near her.

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