As night falls, the drizzle of rain becomes denser and denser.

Perhaps the smoke that had just been born a few days ago was still accumulated in the sky for a long time, and the raindrops were eroded and turned into thick black as thick as ink, splashing on the ground, covering everything, making it more blurred and chaotic.

The city is like a rotten corpse.

The tilted skyscrapers are its intertwined bones.

In the ruins, the children were like hungry hyenas, running between raindrops and lightning.

Everyone's posture was a bit anxious, and they wanted to catch two defectors by themselves instead of others.

But there was a bit of panic. I wonder if someone’s defection would affect them, which made the purifier leave a bad impression on the entire group of “Sons of the Holy Light”.

The raindrops were like waterfalls, gradually blocking the view ten meters away.

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

The heavy rain brought the children an illusory sense of security, making them think they could stretch their will and not be discovered by anyone.

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

Some children lost their way, fell into the depths of the ruins, and left the large army.

Some children occasionally find each other in the black raindrops and stand quietly until lightning illuminates their pale faces, and find that the other is not the target of hunting, and they all leave in disappointment.

There are even some suspicious rumors spreading like a virus during the children's brief contact.

Some people say that the two students who escaped were a man and a woman. They violated extremely serious rules when performing their missions and had to be expelled from the examination room and sent to the temple for purification. They were the same as the child who stole the model of the giant god weapon yesterday. Therefore, they took the risk and fled wildly.

Some people say that the entire Black Fort star was occupied twice by the Empire and the Holy Alliance in just a few decades. Most of the areas have turned into scorched earth. The Holy Alliance's troops are seriously insufficient. At present, they only control the colonial towns, star ports and mining bases that occupy 1% of the planet's surface, while the remaining 99% of the area is a vast and uninhabited area.

As long as you can escape to the unmanned land, you will win. The Holy Alliance will not be able to draw a large amount of manpower and material resources to enter the unmanned land to catch two unknown soldiers.

Some people also say that under the Black Fort Star, there are still countless secret passages of the Imperial Army, arsenals and dungeons, and hundreds of imperial guerrillas insisting on resisting. These people welcome the "rejection" of the Holy League boys. On the one hand, they can bring them the latest information, and on the other hand, they can also demonstrate the "effects" of the erosion of the demons, so they will give the Saint League very generous treatment. It is estimated that these two fled boys and girls want to escape from the city, go deep into the ground, and find the Imperial guerrillas.

As long as they stay underground with the Imperial Guerrillas, they can't hide and persist for a year or two. If the Imperial Army can make a comeback and occupy the Black Fort Star again, they will achieve the goal of "from the Holy Alliance to the Empire". Maybe they will become the target of propaganda for the Empire and be touted as heroes of "returning to freedom".

These rumors are like dark ghost fires, burning quietly in the darkness. No matter how heavy rainstorms rage, they cannot be wiped out.

As for whom the children were dizzy, no one could tell them clearly.

After searching in the middle of the night, Thangka did not find the shadow of the two defectors. He even staggered and fell into the mud pit and was separated from his classmates.

There were raindrops flying across the road, and the mud from the heavy rain splashed over his gas mask. He took off his mask and flew into his eyes and mouth again, making him unable to open his eyes.

Even the crystal brain in the body is squeaking, and the three-dimensional three-dimensional image presented is chaotic and distorted. The spirit net is severely disturbed by storm and thunder, and cannot contact the students, nor can it receive instructions from the tutor and the dean.

"Squad leader!"

"Where are you?"

Thangka stumbled, feeling like 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 was increasingly unable to distinguish the direction and area, and he did not see half of his classmates.

A strange thought suddenly arose in Thangka's mind.

It seems that the whole town is the only one left.

All the students, mentors and soldiers from the purification unit were searching for the two escaped students, perhaps running farther and farther away in the opposite direction.

If I took advantage of this time, wouldn’t it be possible to escape from this abandoned city, go deep into the unmanned land, or even find an underground stronghold of the Imperial Guerrillas?

It’s not that “some people say” that the imperial people welcomed the Holy Alliance who took the initiative to defect to the past. Will they become “heroes” in the propaganda caliber of the empire?

Then he can completely get rid of his current life.

This thought flashed through his mind like sharp lightning, causing Thangka to shivered deeply, and he couldn't believe that this was his own idea.

"Yao Lao"

Thangka asked in a shaking voice, “Did you lead me to think so?”

"No, I'm not that mean, this is your own idea."

Li Yao was silent for a while and continued, "Maybe someone was guiding you to think so, but it was not me."

"What, what does it mean?"

Thangka is getting more and more confused.

The world around him was like the bloody mouth of a black ferocious beast, swallowing him and his belt.

Although the space on the planet is billions of times wider than that on the starship, he feels suffocated.

After calming down, 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?

No! Of course not! How could he escape? He has infinite faith in the gods and 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 most serious sin!

"Crash!"

At this moment, a dragon-like lightning flashed through the sky and illuminated the streets within a radius of 100 meters.

Thangka saw a classmate bent over and staggering forward.

"Hello!"

Thangka shouted and chased after him, "I'm here, what class do you belong to? Wait for me!"

Perhaps it was because the rain was too loud, and the classmate did not hear his voice, and he still limped forward, and his speed increased a little.

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

"Shao Jie?"

Thangka turned on the lighting mode of the portable crystal brain, and shook his face on the other person, and found that it was actually a classmate in his class. He excitedly said, "Why are you here? Where are the other students? What about the class monitor? Have you seen the class monitor? Or have you gotten separated from everyone?"

"I……"

The boy named Shao Jie stuttered, "I'm separated from them, and I'm looking for them. Why don't we look for them separately?"

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

Thangka blinked, and the light moved from Shao Jie's face to his body. He found that Shao Jie was carrying a huge mountaineering bag, carrying two small bags in his hand, which were full of food not the synthetic food distributed to them by the academy, but the imperial food picked up from the city, or high-energy nutritional agents mainly made of compressed biscuits and energy bars.

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

"You want to run away, too?"

Thangka took two steps back and murmured, "How can you betray Master Xishan and the gods like this!"

"I don't!"

Shao Jie's face seemed to be hit hard by an invisible fist again, screaming, "I don't want to escape, no!"

His screams were instantly torn apart by the heavy rain, and he felt like he was drowned in the heavy rain.

"Then why did you pick up such a big backpack? It's filled with high-energy food that we will never allow!"

Thangka was righteous and completely forgot that he was eating scattered in the supermarket during the day. "We carry emergency supplements with us, which is enough to support a temporary task for a night. If it weren't for a long journey, why would you do these things secretly?"

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

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

Shao Jie cried and said pitifully, "You know, I just fought with Liao Meng. He is the deputy squad leader and has the power to discipline his classmates, but I have no right to fight with him. I, I have fallen, I have violated the best way, and I will definitely be sent to the temple to purify it. I don't want to be like that, and I don't want to become a confused lower-level miner or warrior.

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

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

"I didn't mean it, I swear it wasn't intentional, but those voices ran out of my nose for no reason!"

Shao Jie shouted, "There was nothing at all. Liao Meng insisted on holding me and insisting on letting go. He couldn't control his emotions. He said, "I, I have no way out. Thangka, let me go, no one will know!"

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

His psychological defense was retreating and collapsing 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 "demon", would say such words, "Don't you want him to 'retrace to freedom'?"

"He can't escape, so do you."

Li Yao said coldly, "Someone is staring at you. This is part of the 'ultimate test'. The heavy rain is just an illusion. Your every move is in the spotlight and is closely monitored."
Chapter completed!