Chapter 1199: Lifesaving Straw

Lifesaving Straw

Sun Bumian was the incarnation of an Auspicious Omen. What he pursued was Deafening Celebration, fiery trees and silver flowers, not being protected in an enclosed underground like a rare animal.

Sun Bumian turned around and walked outside the secret passage.

Not having an elevator might be able to trap other people, but it couldn't trap him, Sun Bumian. He could transform into the Awakened Lion to easily shuttle through the underground and leave this underground project.

Seeing this, Sun Zhongliang did not stop him, but quietly watched his departing back figure...

Following the slight shaking of the Awakened Lion pendant on Sun Bumian's wrist, seven-colored flames shrouded his figure. Just as he transformed into the Awakened Lion and was about to pass through the wall, a burst of cold aura seemingly from the netherworld forcefully bounced him back!

Sun Bumian's face was full of astonishment. Subsequently he saw a touch of nether-colored faint light flash above the wall. At the same time, there was also an extremely familiar aura drilling into his nasal cavity.

Sun Bumian, who was bounced back to the stone corridor, seemed to have realized something, violently turning his head to look at Sun Zhongliang.

"How could there be something from the Ancient Vault of the Ghost Path here??"

"In the early years when excavating the 7012 Underground Project, a secret treasure named [Transcendence of Sorrow] was discovered from the underground around Wushan. Its shape is like a tea cup. After inverting it, it will seal off an area, and cannot be easily opened from the inside... Even if you are Seventh Order, you also can't force your way out relying on brute force.

Mr. Sun, it's better not to be willful. Staying here is what's safest."

Sun Bumian's complexion instantly became somewhat gloomy. Like a gust of wind, he swept through the secret passage, once again grabbing Sun Zhongliang's collar.

"Sun Zhongliang, I don't want to use force... don't force me."

"Mr. Sun, I am just an Ordinary Person. Even if you kill me, [Transcendence of Sorrow] will not open... My responsibility is to let you come here and satisfy your living needs. I can't do anything else." Facing the threat from a Seventh Order, Sun Zhongliang's voice was very calm.

The clamoring sounds coming from the next-door conference room grew louder and louder.

Sun Bumian stared fixedly at him, the blue veins on the back of his hand bulging one by one...

...

Om om om——

The nuclear weapons falling among the mountains made the entire Wushan Town tremble slightly.

The lights overhead continuously flickered. Occasionally fine dust fell from the ceiling, accompanied by the sounds of a large number of windows shattering, as well as the continuous car alarms outside.

Inside the civil air defense project's Shelter, the crowded masses were crying out in panic and terror. They hugged everything or everyone beside them that could give them a sense of security, their hearts having already jumped to their throats...

"W-What happened outside?"

"Did a nuclear bomb explode? Did we survive?!"

"Help, I'm so scared... I want to go home, I want to go home!!"

"..."

Amidst the crying sounds of babies, the fear in the masses' hearts continuously spread. In the Shelter, they basically didn't know what had happened outside, nor did they know if there would be a second or third nuclear bomb coming afterwards.

Perhaps in the next second, the earth overhead would collapse. They would be buried alive, or blown to death alive... If they didn't die in the next second, then it might be the second after next, or a second later...

The shadow of death followed like a shadow. What was more terrifying than nuclear weapons, was the unknown future.

Chu Changqing stared fixedly at the ceiling overhead where dust was falling, unable to resist asking:

"Can this place really resist a nuclear strike?"

"Our country divides civil air defense projects into four grades: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding. Among them, Jia-grade projects possess complete nuclear strike protection capabilities, while projects below Yi-grade can only resist the indirect effects brought by a nuclear explosion, which is the explosion's shockwave... But strictly speaking, no matter what grade of Shelter, if directly hit, they will all be destroyed."

Lu Xun was relatively the most composed one. He recalled the knowledge in his mind and calmly answered.

"If directly hit, everyone will die..." Su Zhiwei sighed. "It seems we truly have to resign ourselves to fate."

"The Shelter we are in, what grade is it?" Yang Xiao asked.

"Yi-grade." Lu Xun glanced at the vent.

"Shelters below Yi-grade cannot isolate the threat of Nuclear Radiation, nor can they filter the air mixed with harmful fallout after a nuclear explosion. Even if we can dodge the frontal impact of the nuclear explosion, after inhaling the harmful fallout, it won't be long before we still die..."

As soon as this sentence came out, the crowd's complexions instantly became somewhat ugly.

They originally thought that after hiding into the underground project, they would be able to survive the nuclear strike. But looking at it now, the situation was much more severe than they anticipated.

"If I had known earlier, I would have directly gone to a Jia-grade Shelter." Chu Changqing's brows furrowed tightly.

"For a general third-tier city, the population a Jia-grade Shelter can accommodate is 10% of the city's total population. Wushan Town has about a million population. There are altogether less than twenty Jia-grade Shelters, and officials and engineering maintenance personnel will enter with priority... Our location is also too far from the Jia-grade Shelters. Being able to have a Yi-grade is already not bad." Lu Xun looked at him with complexity,

"Now you know, why they didn't inform the ordinary masses in advance before the global nuclear war arrived?"

"The chaos brought by Human Nature's Loss of Control is even more terrifying than the nuclear strike itself."

The few of them simultaneously fell into silence.

Lu Xun was just about to say something more when suddenly, he violently raised his head to look at the nothingness above!!

"What's wrong?"

"Something is approaching... right above us!"

As soon as Lu Xun's sentence came out, the crowd's complexions instantly became incredibly ugly. One must know, what could make Lu Xun suddenly alert was absolutely not ordinary things. Moreover, right now was exactly the nuclear strike process. Thus, the "thing" in Lu Xun's mouth was already vividly portrayed.

"Right above??" Chu Changqing's brows furrowed tightly. "Doesn't that mean..."

Yang Xiao on the side closed his eyes, as if striving to perceive something... He was different from Lu Xun. Lu Xun's perception was through the radiance of the stars, while Yang Xiao was through feeling the surrounding magnetic field fluctuations.

Although still somewhat reluctant, he could perceive that in the sky above Wushan Town, there was an extremely special metal component rapidly falling!

And judging from the trajectory, its landing point happened to be exactly in this block!

"No... absolutely cannot let it land here!!" Lu Xun knew the severity of the matter. If this thing really frontally bombarded the Shelter, all of them would undoubtedly die.

His brain operated rapidly. Violently grabbing Yang Xiao's shoulders, like holding the final Lifesaving Straw,

"Yang Xiao!! Right now only you can influence it!! The lives of everyone here can only rely on you... Even if it only deviates a tiny bit, absolutely cannot let it land here!"