I was expelled from school at the beginning, but luckily I am the king of endurance.

Ya angrily threw the handcuffs that were locked on her wrists to the ground. The handcuffs made of unknown metal made a "clang" sound, but even though the warehouse floor was dented, there were no marks left on the handcuffs. Instead, it made Ya's wrists hurt.

"Don't waste your energy. These handcuffs are specially made. I've worn them on people before." Kanna's voice came from the right. It seemed that this was the first time she took the initiative to speak to Mei.

Lio, sitting in the front passenger seat, observed the conditions of the four people behind her through the rearview mirror. Seeing that they were just a little weak but not seriously injured, she felt relieved.

The convoy sped along, and buried buildings began to appear in the surrounding yellow sand. Lio knew that they had reached the edge of the desert.

This was a good time to carry out her plan. Lio suddenly jumped up and smashed the driving robot's head with one punch.

The out-of-control truck shook a few times and crashed into an abandoned building on the side that was half covered by yellow sand. The front of the truck was violently deformed by the impact, and the sound of metal friction irritated the eardrums of several people in the car.

"Chichi... Commander Rio! What's going on there?"

The communicator hanging on Li Xu's chest received inquiries from the escort personnel in the following car, but Li Xu ignored them. She moved from the back door to the cargo hold in advance and pressed a button.

"boom!"

A familiar explosion sounded, and the first car in the convoy was blown into the sky by the explosives placed by Lixu in advance. The wreckage of the robot flew everywhere, and the entire convoy immediately began to brake suddenly.

The four people in the warehouse looked at Li Xu in confusion as she tore off their blindfolds and untied them one by one.

[No, why?]

The four of them took the weapons that Lio stuffed into their hands in a daze, and this question popped up in their minds at the same time.

"Hurry up and leave!" While saying this, Li Xu kicked the four people out of the warehouse one by one. After confirming that the four people had left the explosion range, she detonated the explosives in the car.

From the perspective of the robots that had gotten out of the other vehicles and were on guard, all they saw was that Mei and the other three had somehow managed to break free from their restraints and escape from the truck, then detonated the bomb. This was based on information about a student mercenary named Takeda Eri who was fond of explosives and heavy weapons...

The scene before us is undoubtedly the suspect who destroyed the group's property and is absconding from the crime!

The robots who witnessed all this almost instantly came to this conclusion in their processors, and a few of the quick-reacting ones subconsciously raised their guns and aimed at the four people.

Lix, who held the highest authority on the field, had just blasted herself unconscious when a robot leader took over command. It immediately ordered, "All units, open fire without restraint! We must prevent the suspect from escaping!"

Although she didn't understand why Rio let them go, it didn't stop Mei from seizing the opportunity to escape. After a few days of training, the four girls had already formed the prototype of a team.

Ya quickly looked around and soon discovered a weak link in the robot soldiers' temporary encirclement.

"Futaba, Kanna, you guys fire suppressing fire at the rear. Eri, you and I will charge toward the 9 o'clock direction. Maintain a diamond formation with me as the reference!"

Recalling the content of the theoretical class a few days ago, Ya gave the order without hesitation. After the initial surprise, the three girls quickly formed a formation.

Mei raised her beloved gun and assumed a standard marching and firing posture. With the supplementary shooting from Eri on the right rear, she quickly tore a hole in the hastily formed encirclement. The enemies chasing behind were forced to hide behind the cover under Futaba's series of rapid short shots. The few who dared to stick their heads out to fight back were also taken care of by Kanna, leaving them no chance to fill the gap.

"Captain Xiaoya, what should we do next?" After walking around a few intersections and looking back, Eri asked Ya with a short shot that knocked down the pursuing robot.

Although he didn't know why his title naturally became "Captain Xiaoya", Ya didn't dwell on this issue.

Now they have entered the ruins area buried in yellow sand. Recalling the geography of Kivotos that she had studied in Gehenna, the girl guessed that they should be in the self-governing area of ​​Abydos, which should be the city area of ​​Abydos that was swallowed by a sandstorm a few years ago.

After thinking for a while, Ya said, "The four of us will run separately at the intersection ahead."

"How do we contact each other after that?" This was Futaba's question. Although they had only been together for eight days, she had a good impression of this girl who could scold Caesar with her.

"See you again if fate allows."

Kanna casually said what Mei was thinking. Separating them might indeed lead to someone being captured alone, but now it was indeed the only way to allow as many people as possible to escape.

Ya replaced the last magazine. Their ammunition supply was almost depleted. They had to implement the plan as soon as possible. If they delayed any longer, none of them would be able to escape. So she spoke in a firm tone: "I am the captain. Follow my orders and move!"

Ya was the first to turn left at the intersection and looked at the pursuers getting closer and closer. The remaining three looked at each other and waved their hands before running in different directions.

"Damn it, report to our superiors immediately and ask for support! You and I will chase the shortest one, she must be the mastermind!" The robot leader who followed looked at the four people's scattered backs. It gritted its teeth and led the remaining robot soldiers to chase in the direction of Ya's escape.

On the other side, Ya dragged her tired body and kept moving among the abandoned buildings. Under the stimulation of intense exercise, the consequences of a week of high-intensity training and poor sleep quality finally broke out in her.

[Hold on, just run to where there are people...]

Ya thought breathlessly that at worst he would be sent to a federal correctional facility, but who knew what would happen if he was caught by Caesar.

The sand around her was getting less and less, and Ya could already see some roads emerging from under the yellow sand. This meant that she was getting closer and closer to the unabandoned area. After discovering this, her confidence increased greatly, and her weak legs seemed to have power again.

She dodged into an alley, and there was only one robot behind her that could see her. Mei seized the opportunity to turn around and use her last two bullets to knock down the pursuer. Then the girl took two steps at a time and climbed over a wall at the end of the alley.

When the main force of pursuers arrived, all they could see was a maze of alleys and the wreckage of a robot.

The robot leader angrily slammed the wall. Finally, it gave the order: "Separate and check the alley!"

After hearing the footsteps behind the wall getting smaller and smaller, her tense nerves finally relaxed.

"Finally..." As the effect of adrenaline wore off, Ya felt a tearing pain in her ankle, and several places on her body that were accidentally hit were also very painful. However, due to the extreme fatigue, her eyes went dark and she fell to the ground and fell asleep.

At an intersection not far from her, the teacher was walking on the road with a large bag on his back. As he walked, he smiled kindly and said, "Alona, ​​didn't you say that Abydos School is nearby?"

Alona's panicked explanation came from the tablet hanging on the teacher's waist: "Ah, maybe? After all, I haven't been out for several years."

The teacher almost threw the tablet away in a hurry, recalling what Alona said confidently before leaving: "Haha, how could someone get lost in the neighborhood?" No, he hardened his fist.

"She's still a child, she's still a child, she's still a child..." After repeating it three times, the teacher suppressed his almost violent emotions. Soon he saw Ya lying dead against the wall on the side of the road. "Huh? Why is there a person lying there?"

When he ran over, he saw that the halo on Ya's head had gone out. The frightened teacher quickly sniffed her breath. After feeling the girl's breathing, he felt relieved.

But what should he do with Ya? After all his attempts to wake the girl up failed, the teacher thought for a moment and finally decided to take her with him.

The teacher bent down and picked up Ya. She was holding the handle of the MP7 tightly in her hand. There were many bullet holes in her camouflage uniform and several scars on her body. The teacher frowned when he saw her.

"What on earth has this child been through?"

Ya is only 1.47 meters tall, which makes her petite compared to her teacher who is 1.8 meters tall. It is not too difficult for the teacher to carry her around.

But at this time, the teacher had been lost for two days under the navigation of the advanced AI Alona. Lacking supplies, the teacher continued to move forward with Ya for two hours before being defeated under the scorching sun of Abydos.

"No, Alona, ​​I swear you can't drink strawberry milk for this week..." The teacher said gritting her teeth after finally finding a cool place in an abandoned building with Ya in her arms.

The clever, high-performance AI, Alona, ​​chose to play dead.

There is no point in saying this. The teacher has completely lost his way now. If he cannot find the right way, he will have to give up the plan to go to Abydos High School and return the same way.

"Lingling~"

The sound of a bicycle bell rang in his ears, and the teacher looked up with joy. A girl with wolf ears appeared on a bicycle. The teacher immediately stood up and waved to the girl, who stopped the bicycle.

"Ah, what's going on? Did you run into bandits? Or was there an accident?" The wolf-eared girl, carrying a white assault rifle, asked a series of questions, looking at the teacher waving and Mei lying on the ground. After explaining her situation to the girl, she happily agreed to the teacher's request to lead the way.

"Well, you are a lord from the Federal Council, going to Abydos on business? Are you a teacher?"

The teacher picked up the unconscious Mei and nodded in response to the question of the girl leading the way. The girl became visibly excited after receiving the affirmative answer.

"That's great, teacher. Oh, by the way, my name is Sand Wolf Baizi, and I'm a second-grade student at Abydos. Please give me your guidance." The wolf ears on the head of the girl named Baizi trembled, showing her good mood.

In this way, the teacher who was deceived by Alona opened the chapter of Abydos with the buds he picked up on the road.

PS: Here, the prologue ends.

The Story of Abydos: Chapter 1: Nightmares, Teachers, and Abydos

"Captain Xiaoya, why did you abandon us?"

Eri in front of him had disheveled hair and her whole body was stained with scarlet blood. Her originally soft light yellow hair was stuck into clumps by the solidified blood plasma. Only her lifeless eyes were staring at Mei.

Mei fell to the ground in horror. As Eri approached, the girl kept saying "I'm sorry" and crawled backwards, but soon the touch on her back made her turn her head.

It was Futaba. She didn't look any better. Her eyes were wide open, blood was dripping from her hair, there were two holes on her head, and white brain matter could be vaguely seen inside. Her two horns were missing, which made Ya feel a phantom pain in her head.

What was even more shocking was that she opened her mouth to reveal a mouthful of broken teeth and called the girl in a gentle tone: "Xiaoya..."

But this is not the end. Ya saw a puddle of water in her peripheral vision, and Kanna, who was soaking wet, crawled out of it. In the girl's horrified eyes, Kanna made a strange "ho ho" laugh and left a puddle of water on the ground.

"sorry!"

Mei screamed and sat up, feeling a tingling sensation in her head, but Eri, Futaba and Kanna did not appear in front of her. She was so frightened that she gasped for breath, and it took her a long time to recover.

[It turned out to be a dream]

After calming down, Ya realized that she seemed to be no longer in the original place.

White ceiling, blue fence, white bed and...hospital gown?

Ya looked down at her blue and white striped shirt, her expression a little dazed for a moment, but the pain in her body and the smell of mercurochrome told her that she was not dreaming.

Just as she was lost in thought, the fence was suddenly torn open and a girl with pointed ears and red-framed glasses ran in.

"Are you okay, classmate?"

The girl asked Ya while checking Yilin's injuries. She stopped only after she found that she was not seriously injured.

Ya turned her head and found her submachine gun hanging on a rack on the side. She was completely relieved at this moment.

"What's your name?" Ya, who had relaxed, spoke in a soothing tone. Although she didn't know the other party's purpose in saving her, she knew that she had to repay a favor; this was her bottom line.

"My name is Ayane Osora, and this is the infirmary of Abydos. Where are you, classmate?" Ayane drew a few times on the noteboard with one hand, then turned around and explained the situation to Mei with a smile.

[It is Abydos after all...]

Mei pondered, and it seemed her idea was correct. Although Abydos was weak, it was once one of the top three powerful schools. As long as she attracted Abydos's attention, even Caesar would not dare to act rashly. So she began to express her gratitude, "Thank you, Ayane-san. My name is Suzuki Mei. By the way, have you seen the three people wearing the same clothes as me?"

"Ahaha, Mei, it was the teacher who discovered you." Seeing that Mei seemed to have misunderstood something, Ayane explained to her the whole story of how the teacher discovered her. As for Mei's question, Ayane simply replied that she had never seen her.

[teacher?]

Thinking back to the adult who had commanded the students to slaughter everyone in the streets, a strange feeling welled up in Mei's heart. However, now was not the time to lament the coincidence. The important thing was to find the other three and confirm their safety.

Ya turned over and got out of bed, but as soon as her feet touched the ground, the piercing pain made the girl lose her balance. If she had not been quick enough to grab the edge of the bed, she would have fallen to the ground.

Ayane, who was tidying the medicine shelf, heard the noise and hurried back to support her. After seeing that she was not seriously injured, she put on a serious expression and said in a preaching tone, "Miya, you need to rest now. Don't move around."

The unable to move, Ya was half-forced by Ayane to return to the hospital bed. Unable to refuse other people's kindness, she had to sigh and lie on the bed to empty her mind. The long-lost relaxation made her tired body relax immediately, and the strong sleepiness soon made Ya fall into sleep.

The sun outside the window went through two cycles without any nightmares. Ya slept for two full days. When she opened her eyes again, she found the teacher standing in front of the window with his back to her.

The tingling in his head had subsided and the wounds on his body had healed. Ya felt that apart from being very hungry, his body had never felt so relaxed.

The teacher who had been standing there heard the noise made by Ya. He turned around and saw the red halo above Ya's head light up, and then he felt relieved. After learning Ya's name from Ayane, the teacher realized that he had completed Xiaokong's commission by such a coincidence.

"Xiaoya, are you feeling better? I want to say hello to you on behalf of Xiaokong." The teacher turned around and smiled, then pointed to a large bowl on the shelf. "This is the nutritious porridge that Ayane prepared for you."

"It turns out to be Xiaokong... Anyway, thank you, teacher." She picked up the spoon and put a mouthful of porridge into her mouth. The sweet and soft taste bloomed in the girl's mouth. It can be seen that Ayane put a lot of effort here, and chose ingredients that can quickly replenish energy without hurting the stomach.

Ya almost shed tears. The last time she had a normal meal was the boxed lunch in the black market bank. As for the military rations in the military camp...it's better not to mention it.

"So, Mei-san, can you tell me what happened?"

The teacher's words interrupted Ya's meal. Objectively speaking, the teacher had indeed saved Ya. If Ya had been left alone on the deserted street, who knew if Caesar's men would have caught her? But subjectively speaking...

The girl recalled the experience of being shot in the head by Renjian in front of the Xialai Building and then taking the flash bomb from Suzumi. It turned out that she still had some prejudice against the teacher.

After much thought, Ya had no choice but to ask, "Teacher, why do you want to help me? What benefits can you gain from helping me?"

"Because you are my student, and helping students is a teacher's duty."

Seeing the girl's alert expression, the teacher subconsciously reached out to touch her head, but Ya turned her head away. The teacher's hand froze awkwardly in mid-air, but he quickly withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened.

Ya shook her head. This reason was obviously not enough to convince her, but looking at the teacher's sincere expression and eyes, Ya decided to use him first.

"Look, teacher, I have three lost companions. If you can help me find them, I will tell you what happened to me." The girl made a "3" gesture with her right hand. She thought the teacher would hesitate for a moment, but unexpectedly the adult in front of her nodded and agreed immediately, making her seem like a bad person. A little stunned, Ya had to tell the teacher all the characteristics she knew.

After telling Ya to have a good rest, the teacher left the infirmary with the dishes to be washed. But in fact, Ya had recovered long ago, but she was just too hungry to get up.

After getting out of bed and stretching her muscles, Ya immediately picked up the MP7 submachine gun hanging on the side. A familiar touch spread to her hands. Although there was no ammunition, holding her beloved gun in her hands did give her a sense of security.

Following the direction the teacher left, a girl in a hospital gown slung a submachine gun over her shoulder and left the ward. When she reached the gate, a playground with a corner covered by a little yellow sand appeared in front of her.

"Oh no, teacher! Serika...Serika is missing!"

A burst of sobbing cries reached Ya's ears. This voice belonged to Ayane from Abydos. It looked like one of their members had met with an accident. Abydos had helped her so much, and it was only right that she should repay them.

Having made up her mind, Ya followed the sound and walked into the main building. What surprised her was that such a big school was so empty. There was not a single student on the playground or in the corridor.

With these distracting thoughts in mind, Mei went up to the second floor and came to a door with a sign that read "School Closure Countermeasures Committee". The voice from inside clearly reached her ears.

"Have you called yet?"

"Woo woo...105 yo penguin long 'tong...it's been several hours."

"The ramen shop said she left work on time yesterday. Does that mean Serika might not have returned home since then?"

"It can't be those guys from the Helmet Regiment!"

Besides Ayane's crying voice, there were two voices that Mei didn't recognize. She took a deep breath and pushed open the door. Regardless of the surprised expressions of the people inside, she said, "Let me help you."

"Eh?"

PS: It seems like everyone is a night owl. The collection increases more at night than during the day. Then I will try to change the update time of the second chapter to 9pm. Maybe it can increase the exposure.