Daytime only lasted for a short while before nightfall silently arrived. The last rays of the sun lingered in the dark, murky sky as if unwilling to depart. Finally, reaching a consensus, the sky turned dark, deep blue, such that the clouds appeared blue. The wind swept gently through the silent cities devoid of human life. The sound of the breeze ironically accentuated the silence all around.
The group stood on the rooftop of the bank building and looked at the dots of yellow light in the distance. Those lights seemed the only sign of anything living within the lifeless darkness. Though Kisaragi Station was a recently formed world, the sides of the bank building were already overrun with ivy.
"Duoluozhongs probably switch on those lights to attract survivors," Hannie suddenly said, as though she had noticed Lin Sanjiu looking toward the lights. Lin Sanjiu was startled by the woman's keen observation.
Even though their agreement was for Reno and Rena to guard the place, Derik's group probably didn't trust them enough. Consequently, Derik sent Hannie to patrol the place with Lin Sanjiu.
After they ate dinner, Hannie's lips were once again a bright red. She had done some touch-ups when nobody noticed. Whenever she walked, her high-heeled leather boots made loud, clacky sounds that could be heard from afar. However, it didn't seem like a concern for Hannie. She wore her boots proudly without showing signs of changing her footwear soon.
Her acute sense of observation mismatched her straightforward personality.
After observing that the western streets were quiet for some time, the two women turned and headed toward another side of the building.
"Your ability is quite strange," Hannie couldn't help commenting after a long silence between them. "Is it for scaring others?"
Lin Sanjiu shot a glance at Hannie and shook her head. As she moved, the neck muscles pulsed and contracted. It was a gruesome sight, so Hannie quickly looked away. Lin Sanjiu did not communicate by writing in front of Derik and the others just to keep a hidden ace with her.
From Hannie's perspective, it was better to patrol the place with a mute than a hideous, incomplete anatomy figure. Hannie scoffed and ignored Lin Sanjiu, walking away noisily. Lin Sanjiu couldn't fathom how that woman could survive in an apocalyptic world.
'Perhaps this was an affordance only residents of Twelve Worlds Centrum have?' Lin Sanjiu thought. Even though Hannie was constantly on standby, her makeup was perfect, and her soft, wavy hair was always kempt. She wore a high-collared, wine-colored sleeveless blouse and skintight shorts. Her outfit accentuated her beautiful figure, but imagining she could fight in it was hard.
"Maybe she can activate her ability from afar?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help guessing.
Their surroundings were so quiet that it was almost peaceful. Lin Sanjiu and Hannie's patrol was the second shift. When Reno and Derik patrolled earlier, they also didn't notice anything out of place.
Being vigilant, Lin Sanjiu kept the scanning area of her Higher Consciousness within a radius of 600 meters. After a few hours, she didn't discover any threats but instead used up much of her Higher Consciousness. Her left calf muscles shrunk quite a bit. After a quick consideration, Lin Sanjiu reduced her scanning radius to 200 meters.
"I can't believe this. I still have to patrol this place with it for another two hours," Hannie mumbled softly some distance away from Lin Sanjiu.
Lin Sanjiu was not bothered by such complaints, and instead, she stretched her neck and looked around her. Even though her current body was made of Higher Consciousness, Lin Sanjiu valued the regained sensation from stretching the muscles she had lost for some time. When she had the chance, she would move her neck.
When Lin Sanjiu turned back to look at Hannie again, a sudden wind blew Hannie's wavy hair in the opposite direction.
"A breeze?" Just as Lin Sanjiu had that thought, and before she could react properly, she suddenly sensed that something was wrong. Moving solely on her intuition, Lin Sanjiu floated backward. A gust of wind brushed the tip of her nasal bone.
It had become windy, but the wind was created by a ball-like thing flying toward them in mid-air. That ball-like thing looked similar to a cannonball. It appeared to have been shot from the rooftop of another high-rise building. It whistled in the air as it whizzed toward Lin Sanjiu and Hannie. It accelerated at such a high speed that it stirred up a piercing wind.
"It's an enemy attack!" Hannie immediately shouted into her communicator while she climbed up from the ground in a slightly embarrassing manner. At the same time, the ball-like thing had already reached the edge of the rooftop they were standing on. It suddenly unfolded, exposing a person smiling with their tongue stuck out. The person gripped the rooftop's edge, did a flip, and landed on the rooftop. That "cannonball" had transformed into a shirtless man with dark-colored skin.
Lin Sanjiu was slightly startled. She did not know where the other six members were hiding. She only knew that the man in front of them wouldn't be easy to deal with. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to get out of this situation by stating that she was just on guard duty. In a quick, decisive manner, she lowered her body and launched herself toward the man.
"Ah, what is this?" the dark-skinned man was stunned for a split second before he avoided Lin Sanjiu's attack. He stuck out his long tongue and licked his cheek. Looking sweepingly at Lin Sanjiu's lower back, his expression instantly changed. With a few somersaults, he evaded Lin Sanjjiu and blocked Hannie's path.
"I don't want to fight with you!" the man shouted to Lin Sanjiu. Lin Sanjiu stopped. Then, he turned to Hannie and chuckled, "You're my target!"
"You're overestimating yourself!" Hannie yelled. A ball of white light appeared in her hand as she briskly aimed at the man's face. Much to Lin Sanjiu's surprise, Hannie had a melee close-combat style. Lin Sanjiu decidedly restrained herself from helping.
This was a rare opportunity for Lin Sanjiu to observe Hannie and her real capabilities. After watching her for a while, Lin Sanjiu realized that Hannie had some combat skills. After exchanging a few blows, Hannie had the upper hand and forced the man toward the rooftop access door. Meanwhile, the sound of footsteps came from the stairs. Derik and the others came to help, and they now had the dark-skinned man trapped.
The dark-skinned man uttered an indiscernible curse, nimbly crouched, and rolled away from Hannie's attack. Following this, he rushed to the rooftop's edge without even taking a gasp of air. When Zhu Mingchuan violently pushed open the rooftop access door, the man had already jumped off the building with no qualms.
Zhu Minghchuan and Hannie immediately rushed to the edge of the rooftop. However, without any ability to jump off a high-rise building unscathed, the two could only look down from above and mutter vulgarities. The man had escaped by air.
"How are you? Are you hurt?" Reno and Rena, behind Derik, asked worriedly as they ran toward Lin Sanjiu. They were late and missed that brief battle. Rena looked away hurriedly and asked, "What just happened?"
Lin Sanjiu did not reply.
Derik and the others were standing nearby, so Lin Sanjiu didn't want to write a reply.
When the dark-skinned man jumped off the building, Lin Sanjiu saw a "7" on his back.
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Kisaragi Station || Apocalypse Paradise #3
HorrorHer skin was warm and moist when she was alive, always with a honey-colored tan. It had only been an hour, but her body had stiffened, and her skin was pale white. At first glance, one could even imagine how cold her skin would feel. Her eyes were w...
