"Wen! Watch out!" Paige shouted to Wen Zheng. Upon hearing this, they instinctively rushed forward, and the slab beneath their feet suddenly snapped.
Still shaken, I turned my head, watching the broken tectonic plate drift further and further away. Beneath the visible cracks lay a chaotic blackness.
"It's too dangerous..." Chen Xiaochen, carrying a cable, rushed towards Wen Zheng with a pale face: "Is anyone injured?"
Wang Weina grinned: "It's nothing, my hand is just on fire."
Chen Xiaochen was young, but he had a good grasp of the theoretical knowledge, so the team assigned him to handle weapon malfunctions and recharging issues, and he also served as a part-time medical nurse. He bit his lip as he treated Wang Weina's large and horrific burns with swift movements.
Just as they caught their breath, Peiqi and Baishuang quickly holstered their guns and moved back.
"Over there!" Bai Shuang jumped into a vehicle and shouted, "Everyone move over there, towards the red zone!"
This time it wasn't a tremor, but rather the imminent formation of increasingly frequent spacetime turbulence. Alarms were constantly sounding on Bai Shuang's side; they didn't know the scale, so they could only desperately flee to a relatively safe area.
Chen Xiaochen ran closely behind Wen Zheng, not daring to look back. His lungs ached from running, and he knew he couldn't relax for a moment, giving it his all to avoid falling too far behind his teammate.
However, the turbulent currents, which seemed to have no pattern, suddenly caught up with them, as silent as death itself, yet there was nowhere to hide.
Wen Zheng felt a strange sensation behind him and instinctively stopped. He grabbed Chen Xiaochen and leaped to the right. The turbulent current behind him grazed past his body, but in front of him, another turbulent current was rushing straight towards him!
The alarm suddenly sounded. Wen Zheng closed his eyes and waited for the pain, but was pulled in mid-air and spun around with Chen Xiaochen, rolling onto a patch of ice crystals.
"Bai Shuang!" Wen Zheng rolled to his feet and rushed to Bai Shuang in two seconds, reflexively pulling out the pill and injecting it into Bai Shuang's upper arm: "You son of a bitch..."
He couldn't curse, staring at Bai Shuang's hand, which was almost split in two, feeling choked up, as if he had swallowed a handful of rough sand.
"It's okay, just bandage it up and start running!" Bai Shuang urged him, staggered a bit and stood up. Chen Xiaochen didn't have time to cry and ran after them again.
Ice crystals, salt lakes, sand and gravel, unusual metals, and irregular inorganic matter.
The strange and magnificent subspace, if it weren't for the dangers, would surely be a beautiful scene beyond human imagination.
Page and his team found a newly formed, smooth open space, set up their makeshift base, and rushed over, shouting for the wounded to go in and receive emergency treatment.
As Bai Shuang was stuffed inside, Wen Zheng turned around and saw that the huge black and white light orb was riddled with holes and connected to the chaos of heaven and earth.
“Smell it.” Paige stared at it seriously. “Maybe soon.”
Wen Zheng nodded.
Maybe it really will happen soon.
The ball of light suddenly stopped moving, like a heart on the verge of death.
***
Outside the space, Bei Sining sensed something and suddenly opened her eyes.
A ring of silver light erupted from his body, which slowly dimmed after a long while, and the mark on his left palm was slightly warm.
Found it.
The cat demon Siming transformed himself, the cumbersome protective suit falling to the ground, and he changed back into his most frequently worn wide-sleeved black robe. The robe was embroidered with array runes, capable of stabilizing spiritual energy.
He leaped into the air and landed steadily. He then raised his hand and summoned a giant, radiant brush. Using the outer membrane of space as paper, he began to draw the array.
Lines of runes, like a bird, enveloped the subspace, their light effects growing stronger and more dazzling as the runes became more complete.
Everyone in the command post gaped, like geese with their throats being choked.
"My God?" The Xiong Kingdom leader rushed to the outside of the command post tent, waving his hands and trying to take out his phone to take pictures. The Allied Kingdom leader was also eager to follow suit, but the voice on his communication device stopped him in his tracks.
"What happened over there?" the joint command asked.
Old Liu replied, "The expert we invited has started to take action. The scene looks like special effects, haha."
Just as the atmosphere was beginning to ease, the monitoring team suddenly shouted, holding up a graph: "This is terrible! The fluctuations are skyrocketing! It's reached the critical point now, more than 18,000 times!"
The command center fell into dead silence.
The Allied leader hissed: "So, in other words, it might explode in the next second?"
“It could explode any second.” The head of the monitoring team rushed over, distributed the latest graphs, and said with a wry smile, “I don’t know if that deity will make it in time. If he doesn’t, he’ll be in danger when it explodes… Oh well, the whole world is in danger anyway.”
On the other side of the equipment, the joint command center also fell silent.
The end of the world is imminent. Leaders from various countries have gathered together, and in the center of the huge conference table sits a device connected to the Arctic.
The higher-ups have more to consider than the Arctic Command, such as making the decision to keep matters in subspace secret from the public, and now they are considering whether to make them public.
“In college, I participated in a debate,” a dignified voice came from the device. “The topic was: If the Earth were to be destroyed in one minute, should we tell everyone?”
"My view is, don't talk about it. It's all going to end eventually, so instead of crying and venting your despair and anger, it's better to leave with dignity, just like any other day."
"But one thing the opposing side said at the time touched me."
He said that not everyone chooses to cry and despair; some people choose to kiss their loved ones.
"I support making the news public, to give love dignity."
...
The official statement came swiftly and directly.
People who initially saw the news and social media posts thought it was a prank, but they had no choice but to believe it when presented with evidence and video footage.
Social order quickly descended into chaos, with all sorts of negative comments flooding the internet, cursing the country, the government, heaven and earth, and denouncing human rights.
The only good thing was that it was nighttime, and many people had already gone home. Also, because of the extreme weather during the day, schools and workplaces were closed, so the streets wouldn't immediately descend into chaos.
Many people were rushing to see their relatives, and those who couldn't see them immediately connected online and video-chatted.
The authorities are continuously releasing information about the disaster.
The secret unit that began to be established two hundred years ago, the tireless efforts made, the researchers who dedicated their lives, and the countless soldiers who sacrificed their lives—those names, line after line, hung on the screen, a truly shocking sight.
In the video footage, viewers can see that this top-secret unit is getting younger with each generation.
They did their best.
This idea popped into the minds of countless people.
...
Luya and Makoto are at Little Yuan's house.
The hailstorm during the day terrified their families, who all said they would just spend the night at the cat shelter. Who would have thought they'd receive this news so late at night?
They were only surrounded by a group of cats, which didn't feel real at all. They cried for a while with tears in their eyes, and then each of them called home.
"Lua... my mom told me not to be afraid, sob..." Zhenzhen couldn't take it anymore. She hugged the carefree Xiaoyuan tightly, buried her face in the fluffy fur, and sobbed, "...even though she's scared herself..."
Luya had just hung up the phone and forced a smile: "It's okay, what if the result is good? We'll go back when it's light."
The cats, who were originally carefree, seemed to sense that something was wrong with Zhenzhen and Luya's mood, and they began to surround them one by one, meowing tentatively.
Zhenzhen burst into tears: "What are we going to do... It would be one thing if we died, but what about all these little babies..."
Luya was almost moved to tears by her crying: "And pandas, and dolphins, and groundhogs..."
The two imagined a future where all the world's cute animals had died, then hugged each other and cried for a while, feeling much better afterward. Although the news said this apocalypse might come at any moment, they could clearly hold on a little longer.
Zhenzhen wiped her tear-filled eyes and continued scrolling through the messages she had just received. As she tapped the list of soldiers, she suddenly froze.
“Luya…” she trembled as she tugged at Luya’s sleeve: “Look, these two characters, is it… Wen Zheng?”
Luya trembled as she carefully checked the details two or three more times.
“It’s true,” she murmured.
If they could, those who criticized Wen Zheng back then would definitely not want to hear this news at this time.
Some of them, like Hao Qiang, simply vent their dissatisfaction online; others tend to assume the worst and make sarcastic remarks; still others, driven by the belief that no one is perfect, always think that those who are more popular are more likely to do bad things.
In short, the majority are still ordinary people.
Hao Qiang sat in his living room, anxiously scrolling through his phone.
His wife was counting the instant noodles and water in the cupboard, convinced that if he didn't die today, the world would be in chaos tomorrow, and that he needed to stockpile water and dry food.
When she turned her head and caught sight of her husband, she immediately became furious.
"You're still sitting there!" she hysterically threw an ashtray at Hao Qiang's head. "You're about to die and you're still scrolling on your phone! Scrolling on your phone! What else can you do all day but scroll on your phone!?"
With her hair disheveled, she rushed up and snatched Hao Qiang's phone, but what she accidentally glanced at the screen made her freeze in shock.
That was her husband's private message page, filled with all sorts of vicious curses and insults, wishing him a terrible death, that he would definitely go to hell, and that his whole family would be torn apart by five horses.
"W-what's going on?" She opened her eyes wide, ignoring her husband's attempts to snatch the page, and returned to the homepage. It was full of sarcastic remarks, all using the word "z" and "you z," and it took several scrolls before the name "Wen Zheng" was mentioned.
The name looked familiar; she suddenly remembered where she had seen it before.
Her lips trembled uncontrollably. She looked up at her husband, her eyes wide open, as if she were looking at a demon.
You insulted that young soldier?
His wife pointed a trembling finger at him and repeated, "Why...why did you curse at her?"
Hao Qiang yanked his hair hard and roared, "How was I supposed to know he was some kind of warrior?! I just randomly grabbed someone online and started cursing at them, so what?! Did I eat their rice? Isn't he so famous online because of what I said?!"
The wife screamed, her mind a jumble of chaotic thoughts that ultimately coalesced into two words—retribution.
She rushed into the kitchen, grabbed a frying pan, and smashed it down on Hao Qiang, sending him scurrying for cover. As she hit him, her wife thought desperately, "If the end of the world is coming soon, our family will be the first to die..."
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[Subject] Is Wen Zheng mentioned in official news a case of the same name or the same person?
1l: I want to know
2l: The same person has a 99% chance of being the same person, right?
3l: I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry, so sorry
4L: I cried so hard I almost passed out. I really can't imagine how he felt seeing so many people online criticizing him for self-promotion while he was on the front lines. Why did he have to go through this? What did he do wrong?
5L: I cursed at him, I'm really sorry. I don't know what else I can do besides saying sorry. I don't know.
6l: ls, go to hell!
7l: They risked their lives to save us, and you're telling them to die?
8l: Stop arguing, it's making me uncomfortable...
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