Chapter 3857: A beautiful cage
Morning had come. A night had passed... and an hour had elapsed since the nuclear explosion.
The Two Elements Realm opened once more inside the Divine Prefecture Embassy, and the people inside emerged one after another. They had not spent long sheltering there—even those who had stayed the longest had only been inside for a little over an hour.
Yet when they stepped outside again, it felt as though they were leaving an apocalyptic shelter and entering a new world.
They exchanged looks with the refugees who had not made it into the Two Elements Realm in time and were still crowded outside the embassy walls. No one spoke... there was only silence.
"Mom!!"
A little girl hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd emerging from the Two Elements Realm and ran toward the wall. At the same time, a middle-aged woman outside urgently pushed through the crowd and rushed toward the approaching child.
Mother and daughter embraced tightly amid those silent, confronting gazes.
Toward the very end, people had scrambled to send their young children into the Two Elements Realm.
"Whatever happened... at least we survived."
And so, a little warmth began to seep into those cold gazes.
After the first mother and daughter embraced, another father and son naturally followed, then grandparents and grandchildren, wives and daughters... families.
People continued streaming out of the Two Elements Realm. At the checkpoint near the exit, Zi Ling's Mother stood on tiptoe, her eyes rapidly scanning every person who emerged.
She still had not seen Luo Qiu or You Ye anywhere. With every new person who emerged, the composure she had struggled to maintain grew more fragile... like spun sugar glass.
"Hey... it's all right. There are just too many people. Plenty of them haven't come out