The shining Shoko Toyokawa

This time, the electric car was driven for quite a long time.

The president's 'bunker' office was much simpler than Su Shi had expected.

There are two sofas on either side of a coffee table, and the president's desk is opposite the coffee table.

There were no famous paintings on the wall behind the president, but there were a few rifles and pistols. The rifles were probably derivatives of the AK family, and the pistols were all big ones like M500, which were suitable for this iron tower-like man to use.

At this moment, there was no one in the office. Just when Su Shi thought he was waiting for the president,

The bodyguard in black fiddled with something on the wall where the gun was hanging, and the wall moved inwards.

Within two seconds, a bright passage appeared, which reminded Su Shi of the plot of the movie Resident Evil. He wondered if a laser would suddenly appear and cut people into pieces.

"Please," another bodyguard motioned Su Shi to follow her into the passage.

After passing through a passage of several dozen meters, there is a space about the same size as the school's indoor gymnasium.

The bright rails divided the space into two parts. An old locomotive was quietly parked on the track. The dim light seemed to cover it with a layer of yellow gauze.

The tall and long-legged girl, Aisha, was waving to the flaxen-haired girl from the door of the first carriage.

It turns out that this train, which can almost be described as ancient, is the "safe house" of the president and his daughter.

Su Shi got on the train and it started moving.

"Greetings, Mr. President, Miss Aisha."

"Thank you for your hard work, Ms. Nagasaki. I made sure they didn't blindfold you. How do you feel about this journey?"

The President got straight to the point so quickly that it caught us off guard.

"It's like watching a secret base in a movie. Such a massive underground project must have been built a long time ago. 25 years ago, right?"

"It started before that," said the president, who was sitting across from Su Shi. His towering figure alone made people feel overwhelmed. "These facilities were already being built when the rivalry between the two superpowers began in the last century."

"Almost all countries with some capability have such projects. As the yield of hydrogen bombs increases, underground bunkers become deeper, and the range of missiles becomes longer, their areas are also becoming wider and wider."

"If that day comes, thousands of suns will appear on Earth, and more than half of humanity will die within 72 minutes."

The train clanged along the track, and the view outside the window was an unchanging dark tunnel, as if no new scene would appear until the end of the world.

This made Su Shi's imagination begin to diverge.

Imagine if there was a silent nuclear submarine that could push away the thinning ice in the Arctic during summer and unleash all the intercontinental missiles in a few minutes.

At the same time, the nuclear powers also detected the incoming intercontinental missiles.

Next, let’s investigate who did it and then strike hard at that bastard together?

No, there is no such convenient final boss in the real world.

In the upcoming nuclear strike, the nuclear powers, which will suffer heavy losses, will launch the sun equally against all industrial countries!

This ensures that, during the industrial restart process, we are not left behind by the enemy.

People in the last century lived in a world that could be "destroyed" at any time.

"But the Cold War is over, and such unreasonable things will not happen again—"

Su Shi wanted to say this, but would such a thing really never happen?

Can humans really remain sane forever?

she does not know,

However, there is one thing that Su Shi has already figured out, and that is how naive, childish, and overestimating his own abilities he is.

She is not a magical girl, and she cannot use the "Representative of the Moon, Destroy You" and "Full Moon Light Wave" to make everyone become brothers under the shining starlight.

When people are hurt and invaded, or when they think they might be hurt and invaded, they will arm themselves fully and attack without hesitation.

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth!

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The dim spiral staircase echoed with hurried footsteps.

"Ta-ta"

"Ta-ta"

This staircase seems to have turned into an endless spiral, which will never end until the end of the world.

But this is just an illusion. The moment the basement door appears,

Aine, who was already panting, immediately had sweat on her forehead.

She suddenly pushed the half-open door open, passed the bewildered Lenai, and what came into her sight was a blonde girl covered in blood.

She held a blood-stained saber in her hand, and her delicate face, like a doll, showed neither panic nor fear, nor guilt.

Some are just empty and dull,

In front of her, behind the steel fence, was a man who was no longer in human form.

The smell of blood mixed with an unknown vomit-like smell. There was so much blood on the ground between the iron fences that it made people wonder if a person had been completely drained of blood.

He was wearing handcuffs and leg irons, and I knew it without even having to see his face.

Those were the prisoners they captured during the first battle.

After he retired, he was kept here.

Until today, killed by the girl who survived the hellish town...

'No, that's not right! It shouldn't be like this!'

Aiyin took a half step back with a pale face.

The little girl who held her hand, bathed with her, and coaxed her to sleep, the girl who, simply by existing, made Xia Ya feel redeemed and that this world was not hopeless—

Killing people!

This is an irrefutable fact...

'No, that's not right!'

Aine took a deep breath to steady herself, then pulled at her hair and thought desperately.

"Where's the gatekeeper? It's been at least three hours since Lenai called me. Where's he? And where did Maria get the knife? And how did she get the key?!"

Aine is going crazy!

Just at this moment, footsteps were heard on the spiral staircase.

Chapter 113: Nuclear Bomb

The footsteps were neither fast nor slow, as if they were unaware of what was happening underground.

Aine placed her hand on the gun at her waist and gently pushed the safety lever, adjusting the pistol to ready mode.

Lenai wanted to say something, but when she heard the footsteps, she immediately looked at the door vigilantly, and the pistol she was carrying was half pulled out.

"Hey? Why are you here?"

Under the dim light, a guard walked down the stairs. He was one of the people in charge of guarding the prisoners.

He was probably under 30 years old, of medium height, with a scar of neither deep nor shallow on his right cheek.

Aiyin didn't say anything. She moved her feet so that the guard could see the scene behind the iron fence clearly.

According to the plots in the detective comics that Aine had read, at this moment, if the other party was the murderer who framed Maria, he would definitely pretend to be very surprised, or even turn the tables and accuse them of being the murderer.

But none of this happened. The man looked at the captives who died in a horrible state, neither surprised nor frightened.

That calm look frightened Aine and Lenna, as if that corpse, that dead person, was not a human but an animal.

"Well done, Maria,"

This compliment completely made Aine explode. She pulled out her gun and pointed it at the man, demanding loudly, "Are you the one who forced Maria to kill someone?! You bastard! If you want to kill someone, just do it yourself! Letting a little kid do it for you? How can that be considered a crime?!"

"This is what she wanted to do," the man looked at Maria calmly, ignoring the gun pointed at him by Aine. He walked to the half-open steel door and gently pushed it open as if he was afraid of disturbing some ferocious beast.

"Maria, this person..." The man paused, turned to look at Aine and said, "You should ask it first."

Aiyin winked at Lena, who understood and pointed the gun at the man.

Seeing her so 'sensible', Aiyin felt a pang in her heart. This girl with heterochromatic eyes was not really a 'mature adult'.

But Aine had something she had to clarify, so she immediately ran to the iron fence and asked, "Maria, tell me, did you kill this man?"

Although she tried her best to make her voice sound gentle, everyone could hear the anxiety in her voice.

After Aine finished speaking, several seconds passed, but Maria remained silent.

The pink-haired girl cursed herself for being an idiot. She was speaking English, so it was strange that Maria, a little Sai girl, could understand her.

Just as she was about to open her phone and use the offline translation module she had downloaded in advance to translate,

The little girl spoke up.

"And it is"

She pointed the knife in her hand at the corpse, then pointed at herself and repeated: "yes"

Aiyin was struck by lightning. If she hadn't held onto the iron fence, she would have lost the strength to stand.

Maria is not deaf-mute, but she is unwilling to speak because of the great shock she has suffered.

Before this, Aine had only heard her say the word 'Maria'. It might be her name, or it might not be.

It is also the name of the mother of the Son Jesus.

They took it as her name.

And now, the second word Maria uttered was an admission that she had killed the defenseless captive...

She may not understand English very well, but she definitely understands what Aine is asking at this moment.

And, chose to admit it.

Perhaps, this young child has not yet learned to lie.

Or maybe she felt that this was not something that required lying, that killing someone, killing the enemy was an ordinary and natural thing.

This child was caught in a Möbius loop of hatred...

Aiyin wanted to turn around and run away, but she couldn't.

If she ran away, what would happen to the child?

"So, that's why Xia Ya-san insisted on taking this child away from the peninsula..."

It is difficult for people who have returned from hell to adapt to the human world.

If this child is left on the turbulent peninsula, one day she will return to hell, or even create her own.

"Hey, Maria, you must be hungry. I'll take you to eat something delicious."

Aiyin tried her best to show a gentle smile and waved to the little girl whose face was covered in blood.

But she remained unmoved and just shook her head gently at Aine.

"Hey, Maria, your kitten must be hungry. Let's go feed it, okay?"

The blonde girl's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

She curled up in a dark corner like a wounded little animal.

At this moment, in the basement, the fence is the dividing line.

It's bloody and sad inside.

There is a way out of the basement and into the light.

Aiyin wanted to look for the child's cat, but was told that Maria had asked someone to give the cat to someone else a few days ago.

Later she checked the surveillance footage and found that it was indeed Maria who killed the captive.

Taking advantage of the prisoner's defenselessness against a little girl, he killed him with one blow after another.

That day, no matter how Aine called out, the child was unable to get out of the steel fence...

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