The shining Shoko Toyokawa

because--

"God, there is no God..."

Xiangzi...saw hell.

"Hey, Xia Ya-san, is there a child still alive?"

Xia Ya came back to her senses from her trance and looked at the screen, but at this time, Zaku had walked up the ramp for a distance, and the main camera of Zaku was already higher than the top of the church.

Due to her limited perspective, she saw nothing.

Aine bent down while controlling the Zaku. Perhaps she was blocked by an obstacle, or perhaps it was just an illusion. This time, she did not see any little girl.

"!!!"

"Open the hatch, Aine!"

"But..." Aiyin wanted to say something, but now she also wanted to go down and see if she had just hallucinated.

"There are bodies here, so it should be closed, but it's open now. If there were terrorists trying to hide inside, they would definitely close the door as well."

Xia Ya analyzed while checking the magazine of the P90 submachine gun and the bulletproof vest, "So, most likely they are survivors. After realizing that the terrorists left the town, they returned to look for their relatives..."

"No..." The blonde girl was silent for a while. "It's just that I want to think so. I know the chances of someone surviving are slim, but I still hope someone can survive, so I made this not entirely objective guess."

"so…"

"Xia Ya-san, you think I'm a troublesome woman, right?" Ai Yin interrupted Xia Ya softly, "Although I am troublesome and willful, but at a time like this, saying coquettish words is really too willful...

So, go ahead!

Aine maneuvered the Zaku close to the church door, knelt on one knee, blocked the door with the palm of the Zaku, placed the other hand on her chest, and opened the cockpit.

Xia Ya decisively jumped from the cockpit onto her palm, then swiftly flipped her palm down.

As Zaku moved his hand away, she raised her submachine gun and rushed in without hesitation!

In this world where gods do not exist, perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope.

Chapter 99: Hope

In this world where gods do not exist, there may be a glimmer of hope!

Under Aiyin's protection, Xia entered the hellish church.

The morning sun shone through the broken dome and windows, casting a bunch of Tyndall clouds, which made Xiangzi squint his eyes slightly.

However, even the strong light could not cover up the nauseating smell of blood.

As she crossed the threshold, her feet felt like they were stepping into a muddy shoal.

It was the blood of innocent people. The surface had dried and solidified, but the bottom was still sticky. People who stepped on it felt like living things, and it was like a living monster in hell, wanting to swallow people into the ground to eat their blood and devour their souls.

For a moment, Xia Ya's ears were buzzing, as if she heard the painful cries of the townspeople before they died.

The cross in the church was overturned to the ground, and its original color could no longer be distinguished, replaced by a mottled dark red.

The naked corpses were mostly of standard Slavic appearance. Xia Ya did not dare to look closely at their miserable state.

Instead, he shifted his gaze to the half-dried church floor, where broken glass scattered across the 'blood pool', reflecting a strange dark red.

A trail of small footprints stretched from the threshold to the pile of corpses at the back of the church.

The owner of the footprints should have come to the church after the lamp defeated Zaku.

The broken glass fragments caused by the explosion were also stepped on by the footprints.

Xia Ya did not follow the footprints, but walked around to the side of the pile of corpses between the overturned tables and chairs on the other side.

She used the pile of debris as cover, picked up a piece of glass stained with dark red blood and used it as a spyglass. She adjusted the angle to reflect the scene behind the pile of corpses.

Because the stained glass has other colors, the reflected scene is not real.

But Xiangzi did see a blurry figure.

He (she) sat behind the pile of corpses, with his head held high like a puppet, staring intently in the direction of Xia Ya.

Xia Ya's breathing stagnated, her heart almost stopped beating, and she even had the urge to run away.

"Are you ok?"

She asked tentatively in Croatian, but after waiting for several seconds, all she heard was the whistling sound of the wind.

Xia Ya simply gritted her teeth and slowly stood up.

Looking past the obstacles and corpses, the little girl who was slumped beside the pile of corpses was staring at Xia Ya who had suddenly broken into hell with her sapphire-like eyes.

The little girl was about 10 years old. Her dress was stained with dirty water, dust and blood, and the original color could no longer be seen.

The same is true for the hair. You have to look closely to barely make out that it was originally golden.

Seeing that there was no weapon in her hands, Xia Ya lowered the gun and walked over quickly.

"Hey, are you still alive?"

Facing Xia Ya, the girl still said nothing, only her lifeless eyes, as if made of inorganic matter, slowly turned, her gaze following Xia Ya's face.

now,

Rather than saying that the girl was a human being who looked like a doll, it would be better to say that she was more like an inorganic doll that was possessed by a "weird" and gained the ability to move its eyes.

Horrible,

Cold,

It’s heartbreaking again…

"It's okay, it's okay..."

Xia Ya spoke in an unfamiliar language, gently and carefully picked up the little girl, covered her eyes, and walked quickly towards the door.

Aine quickly took the two back to the cockpit, and her brows, which had been furrowed, relaxed slightly.

'Someone is still alive!

That's great!'

After handing the little girl over to Aine, Xia took out the camera from under the Zaku's seat and returned to the church, hastily recording the hellish scene.

As soon as she returned to the cockpit, she heard Su Shi and the others say that they would send the captured people over.

Xia Ya's mind was in a mess, and she subconsciously said through the communication: "Don't come over yet."

Only after she finished speaking did she realize that doing so was like trying to cover up something.

But Xia no longer had the energy to care about these trivial matters. She turned off the communication, leaned weakly against Aine, and gasped for breath.

"Xia..."

Aine looked at the blonde girl worriedly, wanting to say something comforting, but her usually clever mouth felt so heavy she didn't know how to comfort her.

"...It's really too cruel... Why would you do such a thing?"

I finally opened my mouth, but it turned into confused words.

As she got closer, Aine saw it more clearly. That hellish scene...

The pink-haired girl found it hard to realize that such a cruel thing was happening right in front of her, and even felt like she was having a nightmare.

The cockpit fell into silence, with only the faint sound of machinery working.

Just when Aine was getting more and more confused and at a loss, a dirty little hand touched her face.

She looked at the little girl intently, and she still had no expression on her face.

She didn't say a single word, but perhaps because of psychological reasons, Aiyin always felt that a little light seemed to gradually appear in her empty eyes.

"Let's go, Aine, and meet up with Riki and the others."

"Ok!"

Aine glanced at the little girl beside her, then stood up and ran towards her friends.

'As long as the child is alive, there is hope for this town!'

…………

……

“Death is not something to be sad about, it is our body that dies…”

Xia Ya's voice was low in the communication channel.

"Please don't be sad for them, please be happy for them, because they are only temporarily separated from us. One day, when we reach heaven, we will meet them again..."

The team temporarily known as the Valkyrie did not have a chaplain.

This funeral of hundreds of innocent people was extremely hasty and completely unprepared.

Everyone simply placed the Zaku with its limbs cut off next to the church. With just a few aimed and fired shells, the sun-like power would burst out and send the dead on their final journey.

"Xia Ya-san..."

Aine, with a complicated expression, framed the solemn and dignified Xia in the camera.

…………

Not long ago——

"Perhaps there are still people outside this town. Even if we don't care, there will be people to contain them."

Lixi's opinions are always the most practical.

People, whether dead or alive, are quite troublesome. Sometimes the dead are more useful than the living. In the current complicated situation, if they deal with the corpses with good intentions, they may end up doing "bad things".

"In this border town, most of the adults who leave the country go to Serbia to work. As you know, the border is now blocked and the Serbs and the Albanians are at odds with each other.

This chaotic situation will likely last for a long time, during which no one will be able to collect the remains of the dead."

"but……"

Li Xi wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Xia Ya, "I will take the responsibility."

…………

Time returns to the present, Xia Ya finished her last prayer,

He controlled the Zaku and aimed at the Zaku that was placed next to the church, with only its torso remaining. "Please forgive me..."

The next moment, accompanied by the tremors of the aircraft, several shells flew out, and a mushroom cloud rose on the hillside where the church was located.

At that time, Aine didn't understand why Xia insisted on cremating the victim.

She saw fire, a blazing flame reflected in the little girl's eyes, as if it was going to set the whole world on fire!

The drivers all stood up at the same time, bowed to the flames rising into the sky, and then turned around and left along the way they came.

When they walked into the valley, another huge explosion was heard, but this time no one looked back, because it was Su Shi who detonated the two Zakus damaged from a long distance.

The four Zaku merged and gradually moved away. In this mountain pass, only the shallow footprints on the ground proved that they had been there.

…………

……

"really?!"

Who is the next Gundam pilot shooting scene,

Arikana watched in disbelief as the white-blonde girl walked down the stairs steadily without any help from anyone.

Unlike the last time she flew around twice, this time the pilot Jian Kashiwagi flew more and more aggressively, performing almost every move that the T2 trainer aircraft could do.

"Is she really a genius?"

Arima Kana couldn't help but doubt her life, but when she thought of that guy's condescending expression, Kana suddenly had an epiphany -

"She must have gotten inside information, so she trained in private, just like she did with the bungee jumping. That's right! That's for sure!"

Kana put her hands on her hips again with a little pride, as if she had discovered some great secret.

Kurokawa Akane, who was standing by, couldn't bear to look directly at it and quickly lowered his head, fearing that he would be seen standing next to this guy.

After a while, the white-blonde girl who had changed out of her driving suit walked up to the two of them.

Chi Yin subconsciously looked at her and found that she did not seem to be feeling unwell at all.

"That's amazing, Mutsuko. You're flying like that, and you don't feel anything at all?"