Chapter 202 A Different Story

Ying Baiyi helped Diana up, picked up the Ruger revolver that had fallen on the ground, and handed it back to Diana.

The commotion just now must have made the survivors very panicked. He suggested that they check whether the windows on each floor were closed and comfort the frightened people.

Diana nodded and put the gun back into the holster. The pain in her left shoulder had not yet disappeared, and it was a dull pain, reminding her that the Ying Baiyi in front of her was not emotionally stable.

Along the way, Ying Baiyi revealed to Diana what happened to this world and him.

The people around him turned into red ashes one day, and the ashes gathered together to form towering black pillars. They were towering into the sky and slowly gathered towards a certain place.

"You mean, the two pillars that walked across each other..." Diana recalled the video that Chen Ke had shown her and asked.

"That's it, but there are more than those two. There are many in the world. It is conservatively estimated that there are millions more." Ying Baiyi said.

Diana took a breath of cold air. With the height and number of that thing, if the earth is an egg, then this thing is like a needle, millions of black needles are piercing the earth...

"You said they are gathering somewhere? Did the Administration send someone to investigate?" Diana asked.

Ying Boyi smiled a little, looked at Diana seriously, and then shook his head.

"In less than a second, almost half of the 7 billion people in the world turned into ashes. When we figured out the situation, we found that even the director had turned into ashes..." Ying Boyi said.

"In other words... the entire human society was paralyzed during that time?" Diana was surprised.

"That's right, turning into ashes is not divided by class and species. In addition to humans, fish, birds, beasts, insects... these are all the same. At first we thought we were attacked by psychic weapons, but the same thing happened in other countries..." Ying Boyi said.

The two went up to the fourth floor. The survivor holding the M14 was patrolling in the corridor. When he saw them, he greeted them.

"What was that sound just now?" The survivor asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, it'll be fine." Ying Baiyi comforted him and patted his shoulder.

They knocked on the door of room 402. A little boy opened the door a crack and peeked out. After seeing Diana, a smile appeared on his face and he opened the door completely.

The light was on in the room, and six survivors, young and old, were crowded inside. A little girl was lying on the bed with Diana's arm bag hanging on her left arm.

Diana walked up and knelt on one knee beside the bed, gently touched the little girl's forehead, and checked her left arm injury, which looked swollen and a little purple.

The little girl frowned and wanted to resist the pain in her left arm by sleeping, but she couldn't sleep.

"How is she?" Diana looked back at the other survivors.

"We want to find some ice to help her apply, but there is not even a refrigerator here. It looks like a very cheap hotel. There is no way to treat the wound without medicine. For the time being, she can only lie here." The old man next to him said, his forehead also had bruises from the impact.

"Some people have already set out to find medicine, and they will be back soon." Diana comforted.

"I hope so. We just heard some strange noises outside. If the people looking for medicine haven't come back yet, you'd better warn them..." another uncle suggested.

"We will, everyone will be fine, I promise." Diana said.

"Turn off the lights, and remember not to open the windows. Don't open the windows no matter what you hear, understand?" Ying Baiyi said.

Everyone nodded.

Ying Baiyi and Diana walked out of the room and continued the previous topic.

"Some people turned into ashes, what about the rest?" Diana asked.

"At the beginning, the remaining people were ready to restore order. This optimistic attitude lasted less than two weeks because our assessment of the global situation was not thorough enough in the early stage. But after obtaining a lot of disaster data, we knew that with the current population, it would take a long time to recover." Ying Baiyi said.

Diana nodded.

"And, as you heard just now, the group of things in the sky have been hunting living people on the ground." Ying Baiyi continued.

"The Administration can't handle this kind of thing?" Diana asked in confusion.

"From the perspective of combat power, it can be dealt with. Although they are not recorded in the monster manual of the Administration, according to my experience, the strength is at most between C and B level..." Ying Boyi said.

"I know, there is always a but, right?" Diana said.

"Yes, Diana... The strength of the monster is not the key. No matter how strong it is, there is nothing that can't be dealt with. Agents and R6 can't deal with it. We still have the psychic army and superman... But, this kind of thing, they can multiply infinitely..." Ying Boyi shook his head and said.

"Infinitely... Do they reproduce very quickly?" Diana asked in confusion.

"They don't need to reproduce... As long as certain conditions are met, they will split themselves, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight... I have seen this situation above the square. There were dozens of civilians in the square at that time. Suddenly, a monster of that kind flew in the sky, and then the people below began to scream, and I watched it split..." Ying Boyi said.

"Has the institute figured out the conditions for their splitting? I mean... not just the splitting of this monster... the world is in this situation, the institute should give an explanation... no hypothesis?" Diana asked.

"They can't take care of themselves, and because many people turned to ashes, hydropower stations, dams, nuclear power plants, black box control centers... these places all had major accidents in an instant, it was really a mess." Ying Baiyi shook his head.

Modern people's lives are inseparable from cities, and the equipment to maintain people's livelihood in a city is actually quite complicated, including sewers, gas, water and electricity, as well as garbage disposal, epidemic prevention and control...

It is possible that the city you live in gets its electricity from dams thousands of miles away, and those dams need to be guarded at all times.

Not to mention the civil aviation system, transportation system, etc.

When people in these positions disappear in an instant, the world will be in chaos, just like a machine that is running normally, but suddenly loses more than half of its gears and circuit boards.

"And Diana, those people in the institute are all crazy. If the Administration is doing its best to suppress the occurrence of psychic phenomena, then they would like to have psychic explosions every day." Ying Boyi sighed.

"They just crave knowledge and want to explore the mystery." Diana thought of Wang Ailin.

"The price of obtaining knowledge may be much greater than you think. For example, like now..." Ying Boyi did not comment.

"You mean... everything that happened here was caused by the institute..." Diana asked in confusion.

"No, it's just my guess, and I tend to put the blame on them first." Ying Boyi said bluntly.

There will be another update in the evening, around 11 o'clock.