"Boom!"
Accompanied by a loud bang, the door was suddenly pushed open, startling everyone.
The person who entered was the young man from the security booth, Thorwald, Sephyrin's son.
"Calamity! The Calamity is here!"
After entering the door and seeing his father, Thorwald immediately shouted.
Hearing Thorwald's words, everyone was first stunned, then erupted into chaos. Many people turned their gaze to a young man beside Sephyrin who was looking up at the sky with a pale, disbelieving expression.
"Biderman, didn't you say the Calamity wouldn't affect us here!"
In the fear of the impending Calamity, someone shrieked, trying to shift the blame for the Calamity to the young man called Biderman.
Just as everyone was indignantly demanding an explanation from Biderman, Sephyrin slammed his staff onto the ground.
"Enough! The Calamity is about to fall on us, and instead of thinking about how to solve the problem at hand, you're all just looking for trouble and blaming others.
Immediately sound the Calamity alarm, open all safety passages, and organize the townspeople to evacuate to the city's underground areas. I will go activate the core area. If you don't want to die under the Calamity, all of you get moving!"
From Biderman's despairing eyes, Sephyrin understood that his son was right, so he immediately began to direct the people in the room according to the city's emergency evacuation plan for a Calamity.
Soon, piercing alarm bells echoed throughout the city. All closed passages in the city were rapidly opened, and all city broadcasts continuously called and reminded all Wolumonde townspeople to evacuate urgently.
At this moment, outside the hotel, Kanna Squad stood fully armed, awaiting Kanna's instructions.
"Gloria, Weedy, and Yuki, you three stay at the hotel. Be careful to protect the unloaded supplies. Everyone else, get your gear ready. Nian, you take Mousse and Surtur and search to the left, assisting residents on the road to evacuate to the safety passages. Anto, and Miss Tatyana, you will search to the right with me. Everyone remember to protect your own safety, especially your masks.
During a Calamity, the Originium concentration in the atmosphere will rise rapidly. I'm sure I don't need to repeat what the consequences will be if you inhale too much.
Alright, the situation is urgent, everyone move out!"
After Kanna clapped her hands, Nian quickly walked out with two others. Kanna turned to look at Gloria. At this moment, her demeanor had changed drastically; she was no longer the timid girl, but looked at the Calamity above with a wild intensity.
"Nightmare, can I entrust the safety of this place to you?"
"Of course. I guarantee this place will not fall before you return." Although she was now taken over by another personality, seeing the Calamity that could descend at any moment, Nightmare did not intentionally make things difficult for Kanna, but decisively agreed.
Tatyana, at this moment, was completely in shock. She had never expected that the seemingly reliable and steady adults, Anto and Folinic, would actually listen to the orders of a child.
The key was that while giving orders, she was holding a can of tumor beast milk and took a big gulp, with a trace of it still on the corner of her mouth.
"Aren't you the captain? Why are you listening to a child?" Tatyana only came to her senses when she started moving with Anto and Kanna. She secretly asked Anto beside her.
"It's a different division of labor, I suppose. Although I'm older and more experienced, I'm ultimately a Medical Operator, and commanding combat isn't my strong suit. She, on the other hand, is our squad's combat commander. Don't let her age fool you; she's a certified genius Elite Operator from Rhodes Island. In emergency situations, we usually have her lead the command."
This excuse had been planned with Kanna long ago. After all, even though Anto was usually responsible for external communication and interaction, there would always be situations requiring combat command, and the command authority still rested with Kanna. So, if anyone questioned it, they had a prepared excuse.
"I see!" Terra was not without young geniuses, so Tatyana, upon hearing this, simply assumed Kanna was a command-type talent cultivated by this organization called Rhodes Island.
At this moment, the road was in chaos. Many people were scurrying around like headless chickens. As a militiaman, Tatyana had received emergency evacuation training. Led by her, a local, those bewildered people standing in the road were quickly evacuated into the air-raid shelters and safety passages.
After clearing one street, Tatyana was already drenched in sweat, but she didn't stop. Instead, she led the two towards another heavily trafficked road.
At this moment, a gust of wind picked up overhead. Kanna looked up at the sky. Her extraordinary vision noticed that this Calamity was different from previous ones, and in terms of intensity, it was no less than the one in Chernobog.
Thick Originium clouds condensed into tiny Originium particles in the sky, and as these particles fell from the sky, they would absorb surrounding Originium, forming larger Originium fragments.
What eventually fell to the ground were chunks of Originium "hail" roughly the size of a baby's fist.
If people could still flee outside under the raindrops, then the falling Originium hailstones made everyone realize how dangerous it was to stay outside without shelter.
"We can't do this, we have to hide indoors. Staying outside, let alone saving people, with this density and intensity of 'Originium rain,' everyone will be smashed to death here."
Anto, whose gaze followed Kanna's and noticed the situation in the sky, pulled Tatyana, who was still helping people move their belongings from outside.
Under the choice of death if they didn't evacuate, even the vendors who had stalls outside and hadn't packed up their goods had no choice but to tearfully hide back indoors, and then escape into the lower areas through the safe passages in their homes.
As for why they didn't just hide indoors and wait for the Calamity to pass?
With the increasingly strong Originium concentration in the air, a normal person, without proper protective equipment, would likely become an Infected after just a few breaths.
And for the Infected, the active Originium in the air would directly intensify their illness, turning them into walking human bombs.
Only Kanna Squad, using the strictest and most advanced masks, could stay on the upper level for a longer time.
"Let's go down from here. If you want to go back to the hotel, you can also use this underground passage."
After realizing there was no way to continue going out to rescue people, Tatyana, with a heavy heart, guided the two to an underground passage entrance in a nearby house that connected to the lower level.
Just as the group was about to go down from there, Kanna suddenly looked up at the wall in front of them.
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