Chapter 871

Alice thought about it, couldn't find the answer, and gave up.

At this time, Christina walked up: "Miss Alice, why does your machine keep flashing?"

"Keep flashing?"

"Not keep, but it flashes often. Is there a new message?"

"Yes, but I suspect they are not new messages."

Alice put away the terminal and looked up at the sky a few more times. Very good, the blue is very light, the gray is very thick, and there is no rich black.

—It won't snow in the short term.

Her hanging heart fell, and she continued to explain:

"They are mostly some data and suggested actions, but I am sure these data are not real-time."

"Once I spent the night in a city called Embankment, and it had been destroyed for a long time."

"But that night, I received a message that this city was still listed on the confirmed survival list."

Alice smiled indifferently.

But Christina hadn't fully understood the impact of 'Time Radiation' on the world, and this story sounded more like a ghost story.

The sweet and delicious girl was alone, spending the night in the ruins of a city that had been dead for a long time.

At that time, the sky was pitch black, even the starlight was blocked by dark clouds, thunder and lightning were intertwined, and the heavy rain didn't stop.

Just then, the girl's personal terminal suddenly lit up, and the information transmitted clearly stated that the city where she was camping hadn't been destroyed, and everything was normal.

Thinking of this, Christina shivered.

Alice shook her head helplessly. After a while, she carried her backpack and waved to her companion who hadn't started yet:

"Let's go, there is still a distance to the place where we can camp."

…

"Interesting, this kind of time dislocation seems to be able to bring a lot of dramatic effects."

"After all, many plots of horror movies are based on the cognitive bias brought about by time dislocation, which is a somewhat difficult but very classic setting."

"It's not just horror movies, right? There are also many stories of people in two space-times communicating with the help of some connection in the space-time structure, and finally successfully saving the world, or successfully saving each other."

"Is there anything in the sky?"

"There is an honest person here, hurry up and bully him!"

"The Foundation issuing such a notice naturally has its deep meaning."

"There is nothing in the sky, the Foundation assistant reminds you: look at the screen for a long time, don't forget to move your shoulders and neck."

…

Seen the aurora of the ice sheet, seen the rime, seen the whole mountain sealed by snow.

The road still extended under the feet of Alice and Christina, and the two had never stayed in one place for a long time.

And now, it was time to stop and rest temporarily.

The outline of the city loomed in the snow curtain connecting the sky and the earth.

And the high tower that should have pierced through the clouds and entered the sky was missing a large piece, like a giant with a broken waist.

This was the first city Christina had seen since leaving New New York.

"This is…?" Christina asked.

"Laliwia."

Alice felt a little emotional.

"Their tower was destroyed in the fifth year of the Era of Heavy Rain, and eventually perished rapidly due to the loss of control of anomalies in the jurisdiction."

Among the many sites and cities that the Foundation managed to preserve, Laliwia was the first batch to be destroyed.

The reason for the destruction was also too simple—containment breach.

In peaceful times, Foundation sites always had a headache about how to clean up.

But in the Era of Heavy Rain, there was no such trouble.

After all, once a containment breach occurs, there is basically only one ending: total annihilation.

"'Anomaly'?" Christina hadn't heard of it.

"Generally speaking, they are some monsters, terrifying things that exceed human logic and understanding…"

"Generally speaking."

Alice emphasized.

"The Great Fading, rain, and cold waves… these things that shouldn't exist compared to the old era are all defined as 'anomalies'."

"Speaking of which, the whole world is already in a huge 'anomaly'."

Alice put one hand on her waist, resting slightly to relieve the fatigue of her legs.

An 'anomalous' world… and an 'anomalous' self…

Of course, she hadn't confessed the facts corresponding to the second half of the sentence.

The other party was observing her, and she was also observing the other party.

"In that case, 'anomaly' is really not a good thing." Christina said.

To this, Alice just shrugged and didn't comment.

…

"Sigh, Alice is one of the 'anomalies' she mentioned."

"Hey, it's no big deal, who hasn't been accidentally injured by a map cannon in their life—the sentence pattern of 'those who play/watch/do so-and-so are all so-and-so' is not uncommon."

"Relax, the era Alice lived in, the excitement and abstraction of the Earth's network were no less than the present, those who bought the big game must find a chance to see it."

"The Foundation wouldn't have moved the entire Internet of humanity's past in, would they."

"Not the whole thing, they seem to have filtered out a lot of content involving personal privacy."

…

Walking along the snow-covered national highway, Alice and Christina stepped onto the remains of this city.

The cold wind passed through the empty space, carrying dust and echoes of the past, making the silence of this dead city even heavier.

The surrounding buildings, which might have been shops, offices, or residences, now only had skeletons and some vulnerable outer walls left.

Piles of ash, weapons, and blood pools could be seen everywhere on the street, but no corpses were observed.

On both sides of the street, abandoned vehicles were discarded on the side of the road, some half-buried in the mountain of ash.

"This is really…" Christina raised her foot, kicking the car that had been burned to only the frame, looking around.

Alice looked around vigilantly, her gaze moving bit by bit, sweeping over walls, looking at rooms that were wide open.

Suddenly, her eyes narrowed.

The word "Judgment Day" was written on the wall not far away, and crosses were messily drawn all around.

And in front of that wall, large piles of mist drifted with the wind, their shapes uncertain, sometimes human, sometimes just smoke and clouds.

Something was whispering in the cold wind, seemingly calling to travelers who didn't know where the road ahead was.

"What is that?" Christina rubbed her eyes.

Tang Mi seemed to be waving at her.

"Don't go over there." Alice warned.

But Christina's gaze became more and more sluggish, and her eyes even stared straight.

Words lost their effect, so it was time to speak plainly.

Alice swung her arm and gave Christina a sobriety spell.

The effect was excellent.

Christina felt dizzy and cast a puzzled look, as if asking:

What happened?

Alice didn't answer, but pulled the latter out of a distance, and after the other party was a little clearer, she spoke slowly:

…Seeking flowers… 0

"Those are 'Dead Souls'."

As she spoke, Alice looked at the half-tower in the distance.

"After the anchor tower collapsed, the people here lost the ability to fight the heavy rain."

"People who die in the rain will become that kind of thing, it will become an illusion you cannot resist, attracting you to walk into the rain and become its kind."

"But if you really get close, you will only hear chaotic screams."

So dangerous… ===== CHAPTER 873 =====