Chapter 2749 Escape Under the Night

As night fell, the patter of raindrops became denser and denser.

Perhaps it was because the gunpowder smoke that had just been born a few days ago was still lingering in the sky for a long time, and the raindrops were eroded and turned into thick black like ink, splashing on the ground, covering all directions in a more blurred and chaotic way.

The city is like a rotting corpse.

The crumbling high-rise buildings are its canine-toothed bones.

Among the ruins, children are like hungry hyenas running wildly between raindrops and lightning.

Everyone's gestures were somewhat anxious, wishing they could catch the two defectors with their own hands instead of others.

But it was a bit hasty. I don't know if the defection of some people will affect them and make the Purifiers have a bad impression on the whole group of "Children of the Holy Light".

The raindrops were like waterfalls, gradually blocking the field of vision ten meters away.

The sound of "swooshing" rain also blocked most of the sounds, including the siren of the portable crystal brain.

The torrential rain gave the children a false sense of security, making them think they could stretch their will without anyone noticing.

And their route has long deviated from the "safe area" set by the mentors, and entered the deepest unknown area of ​​the city.

Some children lost their way, stumbled and fell into the depths of the ruined walls, and broke away from the main force.

There were also some children who occasionally found each other in the black raindrops, and faced each other quietly until the lightning illuminated their pale faces, only to realize that the other party was not the target of hunting, and they all left disappointed.

Some suspicious gossip spread like a virus during the short contact with the children.

Some people said that the two students who escaped were a boy and a girl. They violated extremely serious rules during the mission and had to be expelled from the examination room and sent to the temple for purification. They were the same as the kid who stole the model of the Giant God Soldier yesterday, so , They took the risk and fled brazenly.

Some people say that the entire Star Blackcastle has been occupied twice by the Empire and the Holy League in just a few decades, and most of the area has been turned into a piece of scorched earth, and the Holy League's troops are seriously insufficient. 1% of the planet's surface is colonized towns, star ports, and mining bases, while the remaining 99% is a vast and uninhabited land.

As long as he can escape to the no-man's land, he has won. It is impossible for the Holy League to deploy a large number of manpower and material resources to enter the no-man's land to catch two unknown soldiers.

Others say that there are still countless secret passages, arsenals, and dungeons of the Imperial Army in the underground of Blackcastle, and hundreds of guerrillas from the Empire are still resisting. "Surrender", on the one hand, it can bring them the latest information, on the other hand, it can also demonstrate the "efficacy" of the demon's erosion, so it will give the members of the Holy League very generous treatment. It is estimated that these two escaped teenagers and girls just want to Escape from the city, go deep underground, and find the Imperial Partisans.

As long as they stay underground with the imperial guerrillas and persist for a year or so, if the imperial army can make a comeback and occupy Blackcastle again, then they will achieve the goal of "from the Holy League to the empire", maybe it will still be possible. He will become the target of the empire's propaganda and be touted as a hero who "runs to freedom".

These rumors are like dark will-o'-the-wisps, burning faintly in the dark night, no matter how raging the torrential rain is, they cannot be wiped out.

As for who said "someone said", the children were in a daze, but no one could tell.

After searching all night, Thangka found no sign of the two defectors, and even lost sight of his classmates after staggering and falling into a mud pit.

There were raindrops flying sideways in all directions, and the mud splashed by the heavy rain covered his gas mask. When he took off the mask, they flew into his eyes and mouth again, making him unable to open his eyes no matter what.

Even the portable crystal computer "squeaked", and the three-dimensional images displayed were chaotic and distorted. The spiritual network was severely disturbed by violent storms, lightning and thunder, and it was impossible to communicate with the students, and could not receive messages from the tutor and the dean. instruction.

"Squad leader!"

"where are you!"

Thangka stumbled, feeling as if he was a small ant, and the tall and majestic silhouettes around him were all black tombstones. After walking for more than ten minutes, he became more and more unable to distinguish the direction and area. I saw the existence of half of my classmates.

In Thangka's heart, a strange idea suddenly came up.

In the whole town, it seemed that he was the only one left.

And all the classmates, instructors, and soldiers of the purification unit were searching for the two fleeing classmates, perhaps running farther and farther in the opposite direction.

If I also take advantage of this time to escape, wouldn't it be very possible to escape from this abandoned city, go deep into the no-man's land, and even find an underground stronghold of the imperial guerrillas?

It's not "someone said", the imperial people welcome such holy alliance members who took the initiative to defect to the past, will they become "heroes" in the empire's propaganda caliber?

Then he can completely get rid of the current life.

This idea flashed through his mind like a sharp lightning, which made Thangka shudder deeply, and he couldn't believe it was his own idea.

"Yao Lao"

Thangka asked tremblingly, "Did you lead me to think this way?"

"No, I'm not that mean, it's your own idea."

Li Yao was silent for a while, then continued, "Maybe someone led you to think this way, but it's not me."

"What do you mean?"

Thangka became more and more confused.

The world around him was like the bloody maw of a black monster, swallowing him down from the skin to the bones.

Although the space on the planet was billions of times larger than that on the starship, he felt suffocated.

Gathering his mind, Thangka quickly shattered this ridiculous idea.

The most important thing is that the squad leader is not around, even if he really wants to escape, he still has to be with the squad leader, right?

wrong! Of course not! How could he escape? He has infinite belief in the gods, and he is extremely loyal to the Supreme Master. How could he have such absurd and evil thoughts? This is blasphemy, this is shame, this is the deepest and heaviest sin!

"Wow!"

At this moment, a flash of lightning that looked like a flood dragon pierced the sky, illuminating the streets with a radius of 100 meters.

Thangka saw a student bending over and staggering forward in front.

"Hello!"

Thangka yelled and chased after him, "I'm here, what class are you in, wait for me!"

Perhaps it was because the rain was too loud, but the student didn't hear his voice, and still limped forward, speeding up a bit.

However, his leg injury was very serious, and he was soon overtaken by Thangka.

"Shao Jie?"

Thangka turned on the lighting mode of the portable crystal computer, flicked on the other party's face, and found that it turned out to be a classmate in his own class, and said excitedly, "Why are you here, where are the other students, the class monitor, have you seen the class monitor?" , or did you also get separated from everyone?"

"I……"

The boy named Shao Jie stammered, "I also got separated from them, and I'm looking for them, why don't we look for them separately?"

He was beaten up by Liao Meng, the deputy squad leader, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, his facial features were distorted and deformed, showing a somewhat ferocious and pitiful expression.

Thangka blinked, and the light moved from Shao Jie's face to his body, and found that Shao Jie was carrying a huge mountaineering bag, and he was carrying two small bags in his hands, which were full of food, not what the academy distributed for them Synthetic food, but the imperial food picked up from the city, or high-energy nutrients mainly composed of compressed biscuits and energy bars.

Seeing Shao Jie's flickering eyes again, Thangka understood everything.

"You want to escape too?"

Thangka took two steps back and murmured, "How could you do this, betraying the Supreme Master and the gods!"

"I don't!"

Shao Jie's face seemed to be punched hard by an invisible fist again, and he screamed, "I don't want to run away, no!"

His cry was instantly torn apart by the rainstorm, and his whole body seemed to be drowning in the rainstorm.

"Then why did you pick up such a big backpack, and it's full of high-energy food that we are never allowed to eat!"

Thangka spoke sternly, and completely forgot that he was still eating hazelnuts in the supermarket during the day, "We carry emergency supplements with us, which are enough to last a night's temporary mission. If you don't have to travel long distances, you can take these secretly What are you doing!"

Like Thangka, Shao Jie was just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, and when his lies were exposed, he immediately turned into a deflated ball.

"Let me go, Thangka, I can't go back!"

Shao Jie cried pitifully, and said pitifully, "You know, I just had a fight with Liao Meng. He is the deputy class monitor and has the right to discipline his classmates, but I have absolutely no right to fight with him. I, I have fallen, I violated The way of perfection, I will definitely be sent to the temple to be purified, I don't want that, I don't want to become a low-level miner or a warrior.

"You, just pretend you haven't seen me, okay, Thangka, please!"

Thangka was silent, his mind was in a mess, and he murmured: "You, you really shouldn't be humming the melody of the empire."

"I didn't do it on purpose, I swear I didn't do it on purpose, it's just that those voices somehow came out of my nasal cavity!"

Shao Jie shouted, "There was nothing wrong with it, but Liao Meng insisted on grabbing me. He couldn't control his emotions, so he still blamed me? Me, I have nowhere to go, Thangka, let me go, no People will know!"

Thangka had never seen such a weak and pitiful look in Shao Jie's eyes, or in other words, he had never seen such a weak and pitiful look in the eyes of any of his classmates.

His psychological defense line retreated and collapsed step by step, and his legs trembled.

"You can't let him go."

Li Yao sighed, "Go up and stop him."

"What?"

Thangka was stunned, not understanding why Li Yao, who is a "Heavenly Demon", would say something like this, "You don't want him to 'go to freedom'?"

"He can't escape, and neither can you."

Li Yao said coldly, "Someone is watching you. This is part of the 'Ultimate Test'. The torrential rain is just an illusion. Your every move is under the spotlight and closely monitored."