Bronya felt she couldn't argue with him and fell silent. When Zhao Bai took her hand, the first emotion that hit her was immense helplessness. As he closed his eyes, that tension climbed to its peak.
This feels... so exciting.
Only after the two talented members of Schicksal had left the scene did the robots Gray Serpent had sent finally arrive. They had temporarily added a layer of heat-resistant armor and, at the risk of being melted by the residual heat, slowly began approaching the burning core.
As Gray Serpent watched the footage transmitted by the cameras, he seemed to return to several decades ago.
In this era, the first atomic bomb was test-detonated in the Alamogordo Desert of New Mexico in July 1954. Gray Serpent had witnessed it firsthand: the high temperatures and shockwave melted half a kilometer of desert into one solid sheet of glass, much like this scene.
He had sent the robots to recover the bodies without holding much hope to begin with. He just hadn't expected things to turn out like this.
Gray Serpent had recovered absolutely nothing.
Sky City was World Serpent's territory. On the surface, it was the base of a multinational pharmaceutical company called Shencheng Medicine, which maintained a good and deep cooperative relationship with Schicksal. This time, they would presumably have to help Schicksal cover up this mess and write the accident report.
What should he write?
A gas explosion, then.
PS: I get it now—a hilarious, absurdly overpowered wish-fulfillment novel.
Theresa Was Thinking About Lewd Things (2/3)
The gas in Sky City had exploded.
Highly concentrated compressed liquid gas, packaged in metal canisters. Every canister was as powerful as a bomb of equivalent yield. Seven hundred gas canisters exploding together had created the current situation.
Even Gray Serpent felt