Chapter 1 Swimming Ashore

Under the cover of darkness, Li Ang and Miss Chai swam all the way to a stretch of coastline in Yin City.

Miss Chai left the Azure Moth Armor and entered the Soul-Guiding Coil,

While Li Ang stowed the Azure Moth Armor in his bag, changed his clothes in a dark corner of the rocky coast, disguised his appearance again, and, looking like an ordinary resident, walked onto the coastal highway.

The city was brightly lit, and the streets were packed with vehicles and pedestrians.

Every few intersections, you could see official agents and armored vehicles maintaining order on the roadside.

The official agents, armed with weapons and wearing walkie-talkies and earphones, some standing on vehicles, directed the crowd with loudspeakers.

"Everyone go right! Right! Pass Qifu Road, then Xishi Road, and over the cross-sea bridge!"

"Don't crowd! Evacuate in an orderly manner, and the cars in front, move faster!"

"Citizens without cars, line up here to wait for the bus! Preferably with ID cards or other documents! It's okay without documents!"

"Citizens with problems or difficulties, please come here for help!"

The armored vehicles parked quietly on the side of the road were painted with clear official symbols.

The machine guns and weapons loaded inside and outside the carriages made people feel uneasy, but also brought a sense of security.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and many shops on both sides of the road still had banners hanging.

Now, these banners had been removed.

Replaced by official signs and banners with various information—maps of residential evacuation routes, and various slogans telling residents to travel light and not bring large belongings.

In addition, many colorful screens covering the surfaces of tall buildings projected images guiding residents' routes—it was estimated that these buildings had been requisitioned by the Special Affairs Bureau.

The measures taken by the authorities were basically in accordance with the "Guidance Manual for Emergency Management of Extraordinary Disasters" previously jointly formulated by the Special Affairs Bureau and other departments.

All organizational command systems, work processes, operating mechanisms, and work principles had been discussed countless times in meetings, so the response did not appear flustered.

Moreover, thanks to the deterrence of armed helicopters and armored vehicles, no one tried to take advantage of the chaos and loot property.

Daring to create chaos in the face of bright searchlights and dark gun muzzles was like holding a lantern in the outhouse—courting death.

Li Ang mingled among the residents who were still evacuating to the outskirts of Yin City, listening to the crowd's noisy, chaotic, and uneasy discussions about the mirage dragon they had just seen, and the black spot that had appeared on the moon.

If your eyesight was good, you could vaguely see the black spot with the naked eye.

With binoculars, you could see it more clearly.

If you used a more professional astronomical telescope, you could even see clearly that the lower left of the moon's surface seemed to have the outline of a vast ancient architectural complex.

'Those two seem to be planning to settle on the surface of the moon?'

Li Ang thought silently in his heart, with the same panicked expression as everyone else. 'That's too arrogant. The video of the mirage dragon ascending, and the black spot on the moon,

It can be said that after tonight, the conjecture of 'global mutation' will become a foregone conclusion, and there will be no way to cover it up.'

The announcement of the global mutation would inevitably have a profound and significant impact on the social structure of human civilization.

But Li Ang didn't have the honor of being the one who unveiled the curtain, nor did he think about the future world. He took out his phone, looked at the string of missed calls on the screen, and sighed.

Li Ang dialed the phone, lowered his head, and said in his own voice, "Hello?"

"Hello," Wang Congshan breathed a sigh of relief on the other end of the phone, "Where are you? Are you okay? Why didn't you answer the phone just now?"

"The Dihao Hotel in the east of the city."

Li Ang smiled wryly, "I ran into some trouble just now, but it's been resolved. Where are you?"

"My mom and I have arrived at the reception center in the southern suburbs,"

The background noise on Wang Congshan's phone was a bit noisy. "It seems my cousin made a phone call and got us into the reception center first. What about you? Are you coming over? The tent allocated to my family can accommodate one more person..."

"No, no."

Li Ang praised Wei Linglan in his heart and refused, "You guys stay there now, I'm rushing to the outside of the city. There shouldn't be any major disasters this time."

The agents responsible for directing the evacuation of citizens were not too flustered, there were no sounds of weapons in the city, and no fires or smoke rose from Qianhua Road.

This was enough to prove that the situation on Qianhua Road was not too critical.

Li Ang continued to talk to Wang Congshan, and also sent safe text messages to his current class teacher Tang Hanyi and Shi Qingsong—the school sent inquiry text messages to every student and student's parents, and the class teachers also called the students' families one by one according to the list.

After sending the text messages, Li Ang chatted with Wang Congshan for nearly half an hour before hanging up on the grounds that his phone was running out of power.

Afterward, Li Ang, as an ordinary citizen, lined up to board a vehicle to the outskirts of Yin City and, under the arrangement of official personnel, moved into a tent in the suburban reception center.

Like everyone else, Li Ang registered his resident information, received emergency supplies, and coped with the night in the tent.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

It could be guessed that on this difficult Mid-Autumn Festival night, all countries were moved by the ascending dragon and the black spot on the moon.

Aircraft carrier fleets sailed out of ports, intercontinental missiles were on standby, intelligence agencies tried their best to collect intelligence, scientific research departments gave experimental analysis reports, all kinds of meetings in the conference room were held in darkness, and the secret lines in the private office almost never stopped dialing.

The fate of mankind was walking on the edge of destruction. The danger did not come from the Prisoner Demon Cave, but from other countries—a strangely shaped building in Arlington County, Virginia, USA, almost immediately regarded the mirage dragon as some kind of secret transcendent weapon made by Orientals.

The black spot on the moon was some kind of space-based weapon that could destroy the North American continental plate at once.

Fortunately, after communication, the major powers of Blue Star stopped the launch of the automated nuclear counterattack system, exchanged relevant information,

And quickly focused the issue on how to announce the message that "global mutation has occurred" to the world.

The final result of the discussion was to disclose a part of the contents of the Slaying Game to the global people through the United Nations Organization and announce that the world had entered a state of emergency.

Taking this Mid-Autumn Festival night, which should have been uneventful, as a turning point, the fate of the earth's humans quietly changed.