Due to the discovery of electricity, human cities in the twenty-first century had all become cities that never slept.
Various neon lights illuminated cities shrouded in darkness, making nighttime cities extraordinarily lively.
However, since the corpse crisis broke out during the day, after entering nighttime, aside from some settings that automatically lit up, the city was naturally much dimmer than usual.
After a day of chaos, the lighting was now much weaker.
Therefore, under such night conditions, a glowing object streaking across the sky was so conspicuous.
Most people could recognize what this should be. Because it wasn't very rare - occasionally when some country launched rockets to send satellites into the sky, the traces of rockets flying across the sky.
During the day it might not be very obvious, but at night it was very prominent.
However, this was now a collapsed world - normally it would be unlikely for any rocket launch plans to continue.
This meant the current situation should be traces of missiles with technology similar to rockets.
In peacetime, even discovering these were missile traces wouldn't be too worrying - probably just some country conducting experiments.
But now, in a collapsed world, it would only inspire fear.
Especially if it was truly a missile carrying warheads, and extremely likely carrying humanity's most evil and vicious weapon - nuclear bombs.
Looking at these streaking traces, obviously it wouldn't directly strike Tokonosu City.
So Saya Takagi, witnessing this scene, only hoped this thing would continue flying over Tokonosu City's sky and fly much farther away.
Well, it quickly crossed from one end of Tokonosu City to the other, and in that direction was a base, which was probably the strike target.
"It looks like it won't be attacking us."
The moment the confused teacher's words fell, the dark world instantly brightened, becoming brighter than daylight.
"Ah!"
The teacher's scream brought everyone back to their senses.
The reason for screaming was that her phone was smoking, and everything related to electronic devices was having problems.
The abnormal daylight also quickly disappeared, letting darkness shroud everything again.
At this moment, the world truly went black.
The city originally had at least some illumination, but now that had also disappeared.
"This is terrible!"
Saya Takagi's voice was first to break the pitch-black silence - they ultimately couldn't escape it.
"So it really was this kind of EMP attack."
Kiba Mikoto also made a somewhat trembling sound.
This was great - unless there were specially protected electronic instruments, the vast majority of devices with electronic components were destroyed at this moment.
So she immediately tried to open one of her briefcases, but was stopped by a hand pressing down.
"Wait a bit before opening it. If you open it now, maybe it would have been fine, but opening it right now might expose it to aftershock waves."
Ejie explained this way.
The laptop computer Kiba Mikoto carried was placed in a specially made case that could prevent EMP damage.
There wasn't just one such briefcase - Saya Takagi also had one with a laptop computer inside.
Besides that, a third case also contained some electronic equipment and parts, like radios and satellite phones.
The cases were provided by the Takagi family.
"Miss, what, what should we do?"
"What do you mean what should we do? Didn't I tell you before departure that we might encounter this kind of situation? Just do as I said, and keep your voice down!"
Saya Takagi somewhat angrily scolded the people who had gotten out of the vehicle in panic behind them.
Also to make the team calmer, she began giving commands.
So this team was immediately illuminated by lights.
It wasn't that they had prepared many flashlights in cases that could prevent EMP attacks - there weren't that many such cases.
The illumination came from kerosene lamps, which had nothing to do with electronics.
In a flash, the convoy was moving again.
There were three vehicles total, two of which were obtained from Teacher Shizuka's side, and the third was a large truck.
The reason they could still start now was because the original owners of the two vehicles had made further modifications, installing anti-EMP attack devices.
The truck naturally didn't have this, and although they had backup parts - stored in metal boxes - it looked like it couldn't be repaired quickly for now, so the Humvee was pulling it along.
Afterward, they forcibly penetrated various obstacles along the way. Even steel was directly melted under the bullets from a special gun.
"What kind of bullets are these?"
Kiba Mikoto looked somewhat incredulously at the melted metal obstacles before them.
Hitting people, or rather corpses, saying it melted wasn't accurate - it was more like vaporization.
The melting phenomenon that could be seen was obvious melting at the residual wound areas after part of it was vaporized.
So with such a weapon clearing the path, they quickly reached their destination - the largest general hospital.
NieR World.
A transport-type aircraft stopped right in front of A2.
As the cabin door opened, 2B and 6O could be seen pushing out a box - a metal cube close to one cubic meter.
Then 2B activated this metal box on the spot, and the box began transforming with clicking sounds, becoming power armor that didn't provide full-body coverage.
This design looked very much like the humanoid form of a Pod after transformation.
Actually, it could indeed transform into fighter form - a miniature Pod fighter.
Then 2B backed into this power armor and integrated with it, directly beginning on-site ground testing in an actual environment again.
This was the latest armament that Commander White had the android research center produce, worth the equivalent of two Pod fighters.
Within these two days, White had research personnel work desperately overtime to complete it for use.
So 2B was now directly conducting surface testing. Once there were no problems, A2 would transmit this equipment to him.
As for the golden energy coin, half a day ago due to participating in a small-scale conflict with machine lifeforms, it had filled up and earned one coin.
With this, it should at least increase safety.
Because this equipment also had a force field defense system - simply put, it could deploy energy shields.
However, since this was an experimental machine, miniaturizing the force field defense device for mounting could only maintain the shield for a short time.
If opened to maximum defense level, it would last at most five seconds.
But for him in that world more hellish than hell, returning to face the harsh environment he would encounter, it could at least provide some support against the hellfire shooting toward the sky.
Even one second would do - this one second might be the hope for survival.
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