svetikya Chapter 3 The Calamity Beast Attacks
Chapter 3 The Calamity Beast Attacks
bus stop
Bai Yuze gazed at the colorful flowers lining the street and sighed to himself.
I don't know how my adoptive parents gave birth to her. My little sister was born with superhuman strength. Later, my adoptive parents, with the same drive to find a treasure, enrolled her in all sorts of extracurricular classes in martial arts, taekwondo, and swordsmanship.
He was enrolled in extracurricular classes in dance, music, and computers, which has resulted in him being no match for his sister. He is often beaten to the ground by her and has no authority as an older brother.
This is also the only place where he harbors resentment towards his adoptive parents.
With a screech of brakes, Bai Yuze boarded the last bus, gazing at the neon-lit traffic outside. The bus was repeatedly playing a broadcast announcing the successful defense against the Black Tide from six months prior:
"Citizens, greetings. The President of the Earth Star United Nations Federation and the Earth Star Defense Military Committee hereby officially announce that, under the wise leadership of the five permanent members of the United Nations and with the valiant resistance of the people of all nations, we have successfully annihilated most of the calamity beasts, driven a small number of them out of human habitation areas, and closed the spacetime rifts around the world, thus eliminating the threat to humanity since the Third Black Tide..."
"But at the same time, we must also be prepared for the next Kuroshio Current. We will never give up..."
"...and for this reason, we extend our deepest condolences to all our compatriots who have suffered since the disaster, and pay our highest respects to the heroes who sacrificed their lives to protect the people and our planet..."
Having unknowingly spent over twenty years in this world, Bai Yuze had almost forgotten that he was a transmigrator.
His adoptive parents died in a car accident when he was in his senior year of high school, leaving behind a house and a younger sister who was about to enter junior high school.
He didn't have much savings, but it was enough for him and his sister to graduate, but they had no source of income.
In order to avoid a situation where they simply sit and do nothing and run out of money,
During the holiday, Bai Yuze left early and returned late every day, looking exhausted, all in the hope of earning more money.
This isn't for myself, but so that my younger sister can have a better life in the future.
His adoptive parents treated him very well, even better than his own son. Now that his adoptive parents have been in a car accident, he can only repay their kindness by taking care of his younger sister.
He only stopped taking on part-time jobs after meeting Iris.
After graduating from university, he obtained an interview qualification for Qiuyuan No.1 Middle School in Yeqiu City through internal recommendations from some teachers and became a teacher.
However, considering that the teacher's salary has not been high over the past three years, he recently found himself a part-time job that pays well and has little work.
He may have much less time in the future, but he still visits nursing homes frequently.
There's not much you can actually help with inside. It's mostly about tidying up the elderly's living quarters, trimming the flowers and plants in the nursing home, cleaning, and giving them massages. The tasks aren't difficult, but they're varied and energy-consuming.
At first, it was just to make myself feel better; I didn't plan to do it for long.
After working there for a while, I found the elderly people there to be quite kind.
An old house where a treasure.
Some of the elderly people had very rich personal experiences, and they could listen to their stories when they had nothing to do. So Bai Yuze stayed and would come over once or twice from time to time to listen to them talk about the past and boast.
The last bus from the nursing home to Ye Qiushi's home coincides with the route of the city's first and second ring roads. During the city's evening rush hour, the roads are busy and congested with traffic.
Shortly after boarding the bus, Bai Yuze gave his seat to an elderly man in his seventies and a little boy wearing a red scarf. The old man sat down as if it were his own business and picked up the little boy on his lap without saying thank you.
The little boy glanced at the old man, then turned away, blushing, and whispered a thank you to Bai Yuzhe.
The sound wasn't loud, but it was clear and pleasant, which improved Bai Yuzhe's mood considerably.
Although he didn't care about these things, having them and not having them were two different things.
My mood inexplicably improved.
As more and more people boarded the bus, Bai Yuze was jostled around by the crowd. Finally, he found an empty grab bar near the window, as if he had grabbed a lifeline in a raging storm.
Feeling my phone vibrate, I looked down, took it out, and glanced at it.
Within an hour, text messages poured in like bullets from a machine gun.
The messages and angry emojis were all from my younger sister.
His years of work experience told him.
He looked directly at the last two sentences, emphasizing the importance of learning to let go of secondary contradictions and focusing on the primary ones.
...
"Brother Useless Chicken, why aren't you back yet?"
"Bai Yuze, I went to the CR Vanguard supermarket to buy snacks. Hurry back and cook dinner. If I come back and there's no food, you know what will happen. [Threat]"
Upon seeing these extremely calm words, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Ever since he couldn't beat his sister who could only use one hand with both hands that year, Bai Youqing started calling him by his first name.
Even if someone calls someone "brother" once or twice, they'll always add "weakling" before it.
I opened another text message and took a look.
It was a message from Ms. Hoshino. She had already sent a friend request to Bai Youjing, but the other party had not accepted it yet and needed to get her to accept it.
This isn't urgent; I'll go back and talk to my sister about it.
Let her politely decline; that would fit the persona of his younger sister, who is going through a rebellious phase, as he described her.
I'm sorry, Hoshino-sensei, you're a good person...
Bai Yuze, who was standing near the window, felt dejected at the thought of not being able to hold his head up in front of his sister.
I simply turned off my phone, cleared my mind, and began to relieve the pain in my head.
The pain was caused by the increasingly intense abyss-like perspective every day, and I felt that if this continued, I would break down soon.
The reason we don't use the word "crazy" is, for example, the protagonist of a novel that was very popular a while ago, like Li Huowang.
It's because there are truly visible and tangible monsters in his world...
"Holy crap, a monster!"
Just as he was thinking of it, a startled exclamation drew Bai Yuze's attention.
As the first scream rang out, gasps of surprise rose and fell around them.
The bus was on an elevated highway with a wide view. Looking down, not far away, there was a tall building with a logo of two sparkling green leaves.
This is one of the top shopping malls in Yeqiu City, CR Supermarket.
A gigantic monster, about three meters tall, appeared next to the building, its two lantern-sized scarlet eyes scanning the surrounding "food".
Its back and massive fists were covered with sharp bone spikes, and its vital parts were covered with a layer of silvery-white armor of unknown material. It was this armor that prevented human-made thermal weapons from causing it much damage.
The sudden appearance of the calamity beast caused great panic among the surrounding citizens.
However, upon discovering that there was only one calamity beast, the citizens did not even need any personnel to maintain order; they calmed down on their own and began to orderly flee to the air-raid shelter.
Some of the bolder ones even stood there watching, taking out their phones to take pictures and posting them on social media.
A single calamity beast might cause casualties, but compared to the oppressive feeling created when hundreds or thousands of calamity beasts attacked the city at the beginning of the third wave of the Hell Tide, this scale is insignificant.
Even a calamity beast is still a calamity beast, and alarms and broadcasts quickly rang throughout the city.
"Dear citizens, a dangerous beast has appeared near Changhong Road in Yeqiu. Changhong Road will be closed shortly. Please proceed to Shelter No. 114 in an orderly manner. Do not crowd or panic. It is expected to be closed in half an hour..."
Within minutes, batches of special vehicles appeared on the scene, and a group of armed men in black got out. They did not attack the monsters, but instead began to disperse the crowd in an orderly manner and organize the scene. Eliminating the monsters was not something they could do.
Another minute or two passed.
A beam of emerald green light appeared out of nowhere.
boom!
It sped towards the location of the calamity beast, colliding with the beast's armor and generating intense sparks.
In just a few seconds,
Several more thick, eerie green beams shot out and struck the same spot. Soon, even the hard armor could not withstand the attack, and a cold green light pierced through it from front to back, causing green blood to splatter out.
The green bloodstains splattered on the cement soil caused a hissing, corrosive sound.
"roar!"
A furious and painful roar resounded through the sky.
Clearly, the attack injured the calamity beast, which opened its terrifying jaws and let out a deafening roar.
"Holy crap, a magical girl!!!"
"Damn, there's some idiot anime fangirl next to me!"
On the bus, some people were inexplicably angry, some were fearful, some exclaimed, some were joyful, and some took out their phones to take selfies and post them on Douyin and Pixiv.
On the way, Bai Yuzhe's gaze lingered on the enormous calamity beast, his expression inscrutable.
【Calamity Beast - Giant】Vital parts: Head, heart area.
Then the gaze shifted to the magical girl... no... the Arbitrator.
"what!"
A sharp, intense pain suddenly shot through him, and he quickly lowered his head.
She muttered to herself, "Don't think about it, don't worry about it, don't do it, don't go to the past. Just take good care of your sister, and don't worry about anything else..."
His body trembled slightly, and the veins on his arms, gripping the bus handrail, bulged.
Fortunately, the crowd's minds were still focused on the battle with the calamity beast, and no one noticed his unusual behavior.
If someone were to pay attention to him at this time, they would notice that his eyes have changed from normal brown pupils to a pale violet.
That was the unique pupil color of the Demoness.
He mumbled something that was clearly not in human language.
"A new magical girl has appeared! Her colors and outfit are unlike anything I've ever seen before. She's so beautiful… so… I want to kill her!"
On the bus bridge
Most of the people in the crowd wanted to watch the live broadcast, but the bus driver did not give the passengers that opportunity.
For the safety of the passengers, and also to relive that bygone youth.
The driver's eyes welled up with tears.
Haha... Finally, he can let loose again today.
The buses that used to be so slow are now bursting with speed and passion.
It was a dark night, and the people on the bus once again witnessed a series of high-difficulty maneuvers that are usually only seen in short videos, such as blade overtaking, dragon tail swing, and lightning drift.
The journey, which should have taken more than forty minutes, was completed in just ten minutes by bus.
Almost none of the passengers gave a negative review...