Ying Boyi helped Diana up, picked up the Ruger revolver that fell to the ground and handed it back to Diana.

The commotion just now must have caused the survivors to panic. He suggested that we check if the windows on each floor were closed first and comfort the frightened people.

Diana nodded and stuffed the gun back into the holster. The pain on her left shoulder had not yet been eliminated and she felt a vague pain, reminding her that Ying Baiyi in front of her was not in a stable mood.

Along the way, Ying Boyi revealed to Diana about what happened in this world and about him.

The people around them turned into red ashes one day, and the ashes gathered together to form towering black pillars. They towered into the clouds and slowly gathered toward somewhere.

"You mean, the two pillars walking cross-walking..." Diana asked when she remembered the video Chen Ke had shown her.

"It's that, but not just those two, there are many in the world. Conservatively, it's estimated that millions of them will be killed." Ying Baiyi said.

Diana took a breath. With the height and quantity of that thing, if the earth is an egg, then this thing is like a needle, just like millions of black needles inserted into the earth...

"You said they were gathering somewhere? Has the Authority sent someone to investigate?" Diana asked.

Ying Boyi smiled, looked at Diana seriously, and then shook her head.

"Almost half of the 7 billion people around the world have turned into ashes in less than a second. When we figured out the situation, we found that even the director had turned into a handful of ashes..." Ying Baiyi said.

"That is to say... the entire human society was paralyzed during that period?" Diana said in surprise.

"That's right, it's not divided into ashes or species. Except for 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 Baiyi said.

The two went up to the fourth floor and the survivors holding m14 were patrolling the aisle. When they saw them, they greeted them.

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

"Don't worry, there will be no problem." Ying Baiyi comforted and patted his shoulder.

They knocked on the door of Room 402, and a little boy pulled the door open a crack and looked out secretly. After seeing Diana, a smile appeared on his face, and then he opened the door completely.

The room was lights on, and there were six survivors, some old and young, and a little girl was lying on the bed with Diana's arm bag hanging on her left arm.

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

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

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

"We wanted to find some ice to help her apply, but there was not even a refrigerator here. It looked like a very cheap hotel. Without medicine, there was no way to treat the wound. She could only let her lie here for the time being." The old man next to him said, and there was also a silt on his forehead.

"Someone has already set out to find medicine, and they will be back soon." Diana comforted.

"I hope so. We just heard strange noises outside. If the person who was looking for medicine has not 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 window. Don't open the window when you hear anything. Do you understand?" Ying Baiyi said.

Everyone nodded.

Ying Boyi and Diana walked out of the room and continued the topic just now.

"Some of the people turned into ashes, what about the remaining batch?" Diana asked.

"At the beginning, the rest of the people were ready to rebuild order. This optimistic attitude only lasted for less than two weeks, because our early assessment of the global situation was not thorough enough, but after obtaining a lot of disaster data, we knew very well that with the current population, it was a long time to recover." Ying Baiyi said.

Diana nodded.

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

"The administration can't handle such things?" 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 intensity is at most between level C and level B..." Ying Baiyi said.

"I know, there are always things, right?" Diana said.

"Yes, Diana... The strength of the monster is not the key. No matter how strong it is, there is nothing that cannot be dealt with. The agents and r6 cannot be dealt with. We still have a psionic army and superman... But, this kind of thing can be infinitely proliferated..." Ying Baiyi shook his head and said.

"Infinite... do they grow fast?" Diana puzzled.

"They don't need to be born... As long as they meet certain conditions, they will split themselves, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight... I have seen this situation above the square. At that time, there were dozens of civilians in the square. Suddenly a monster like that flew from the sky, and then the people below began to scream, and I watched it split..." Ying Baiyi said.

"Have the institute figured out their split conditions? I mean... it's not just the split of this monster... This is the situation in the world, so the institute should give an explanation... Is there no assumption?" Diana asked.

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

Modern people's lives cannot be separated from cities, and the equipment for maintaining people's livelihood in a city is actually quite complex, including sewers, gas, water and electricity, garbage disposal, epidemic prevention and control...

It is possible that the city you live in has electricity from dams thousands of miles away, and those dams need someone to be on duty at every moment.

Not to mention civil aviation systems, transportation systems, etc.

When people in these positions disappear instantly, the world will be in chaos, just like a normal-operated machine, suddenly losing half of gears and circuit boards.

"And Diana, the people in the institute are all crazy. If the Administration is trying its best to suppress the occurrence of psychic energy, then they would be dying every day." Ying Boyi sighed.

"They just craved for knowledge and wanted to explore the mystery." Diana remembered Wang Ailin.

"The cost of acquiring knowledge may be much greater than you think, for example, as it is now..." Ying Baiyi refused to comment.

"What do you mean...what happens here is caused by the Institute..." Diana asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!