A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

But...should we really go in that direction?

Although without his help, he and his daughter would probably have died at the hands of thugs, but can she really believe what he said?

Maybe this is just a performance to lead yourself to a more dangerous place and want to see the tragedy...

"Shall we go that way, Dad?"

But her daughter in her arms interrupted her thoughts. Even after experiencing this kind of thing, her mind was still filled with such innocent thoughts.

The child's idea is very simple. Because the brother saved her, he should be a good person, and good people will not harm themselves.

The father looked at the daughter in his arms and stroked his daughter's head with innocent thoughts with his hands. She did not speak, closed her eyes and put her head on her daughter's head, holding her tightly while stroking her.

"......it is good."

Maybe the other party just has pure goodwill, and when faced with pure goodwill, the child's simple and direct idea is the right thing. In fact, things are just that simple.

Since you may face danger no matter where you go, why not try to believe it?

He stood up, took his daughter's hand and walked in the direction that Yabu pointed.

Just like a pilgrim, while praying in his heart, he remembers the words spoken by the other party and his own code name.

'Now, I am East 3. '

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The doctor basically remembers everything about Yabu clearly.

It's not that she is controlling, it's just that she cares a little about things related to Yabu.

Every piece of clothing, every item, what is in the room, what is in which drawer, what is carried on the body every day, the doctor will basically ask Yabu to get it clear.

This is not about being controlling, it is just the basic care and concern for someone who lives together.

Among these things, there are three items that Yabu has been carrying with him for a long time...well, actually four items. Since the last time Yabu came back, the inside of his clothes has been close to the left lower abdomen. In that pocket, he often carries two feathers of unknown origin.

The other three items are the dagger given to him by his future self, the teleportation pendant, and...

"Where did you get this branch?" The doctor looked at the leader of the group in front of him, a woman, with cold eyes. To be more precise, he looked at the branch in the other person's hand.

It was something that Yabu always carried with him, a branch. According to him, it was a branch that was broken off from the place where he lived before.

He had always said that he wanted to find a place to plant it, but until the branch dried up and could no longer be planted, he neither planted it nor threw it away. He said that after all, it was considered his own. Folks, I just think of it as a collection, so I always carry it with me as a personal item.

But this kind of object, which the doctor had almost bound to him by default, appeared in the hands of a stranger at this moment.

This kind of personal thing will appear in the hands of others...

But the other party's movements interrupted the doctor's increasingly gloomy expression. She did not answer the doctor's question immediately, but slowly walked towards the doctor and his party, and seemed to prevent the entourage from mistaking her for an attack. , she walked very slowly, her hands were exposed, holding the branch.

The branch was not handed directly to the doctor, but was taken by the operator next to the doctor. After being inspected, the operator handed it to the doctor.

"You are [Doctor], right?" The lady kept looking at the branch handed to the doctor's hand, seeming to be reluctant to part with it.

"If you don't mean profession, but name, yes, I am a doctor." The doctor lowered his head and looked over to confirm that there were no problems or damage to the branch, and then looked up at the visitor, "... ...Where is the owner of this branch?”

"I don't know, he just... suddenly showed up."

"He gave me a branch and told me a few things, then he disappeared."

"...What did he tell you?"

"He gave each of us guidance on which direction to go. He said that because we were infected, we might not be protected if we went to the area where the military and police were, so he asked us to find an organization willing to rescue infected people. , he said you were an...employee there."

The lady who spoke obviously hesitated, because the protection the doctor in front of her received was not something that an ordinary employee would have.

So, she pretended to be casual and drew a pattern in the air in front of the doctor with her fingers. Judging from the trajectory of her movements, it seemed to be in the shape of a four-pointed star.

When the doctor saw this shape, he narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded to him, she felt relieved and said as if she had found the organization: "He said that the branch can be given to the [Doctor] as proof, that is, You, apart from that, we don’t know anything, is there anything else you need me to answer?”

Like a devout believer, after confirming the doctor's identity, her tone when speaking to the doctor was extremely respectful, making people feel that as long as the doctor asked questions, she would answer no matter what.

"...I have one more question."

Suddenly disappearing and reappearing, the doctor understood what it was. It was the effect of the pendant. The problem she felt was not how Yabu did it.

But why he can do so much.

Moving his eyes to the side and looking back, the doctor could see that there were quite a few people standing there in an orderly manner. At a rough glance, there might be nearly 100 people.

The lady in front of me just said...

"You said he gave an account to each of you?"

"Yes, everyone, we did not gather together at the beginning, but continued to gather together on the way here. Each of us who is helped has his own code name, as well as the leader of his own code name. "

As the lady spoke, she pointed at herself and the team behind her, "I am West 11, leading 27 people. Besides me, the teams here include West 7, South 3, South 14, and North 2. East 9, 122 people in total.”

"All of us, all of us saw...saw..." The lady seemed to want to find a word to describe what they saw, but she suddenly got stuck because she could never think of a suitable word. words to express their inner emotions.

It wasn't until a moment later that she finally thought of a word, a word that could properly describe how shocking this incident was to them.

"We all saw a miracle."

......

"Are you trying to say that you saw something incredible, a miracle, or a miracle or something like that, right?"

"Miracle...yes, that's right, miracle! This word should be used. This word is so appropriate. How did you come up with this extremely appropriate word? Have you ever seen it with your own eyes?"

"I would like to see..." The military policeman pointed at another group of people in the distance with the pen in his hand, indicating which way the noble-looking female student standing in front of him should look. , "Well, over there, you can understand, there have been several batches before you, and you are not the first."

It was probably yesterday, to be precise just a few hours ago, one of their colleagues named Loban told them that some citizens who needed protection would be coming here one after another, and he also said that there would be people with protective gear in every direction. The person corresponding to the location code.

At first, they didn't really believe it.

However, because I knew that Loban was not someone who would joke around at this time, and they would have been stationed in their respective directions, it was not a big deal to write this down, so I wrote it down.

Then......

Then, it really appeared, and it happened one after another without stopping.

Some of the people who came here one after another were not close to here, but they still came here.

This is rare, because the entire Chernobog is in riots, and you may encounter thugs at any time on the way here. Don't look at the crowds of people and think that there must be a large number of people, so you can get here safely. When these citizens who have nothing real on their hands encounter thugs who have countless lives on their hands, in most cases no one dares to resist even if there are many people.

But they suffered almost no injuries, and some of them were injured. It was said that they were not injured on the way here, but were there before.

When the military police asked them how they got here, their answer was that someone was helping them.

And when asking them who helped them and how.

The answer to the former question was basically that I didn’t know, I didn’t know, a person who looked quite young, and some even said it was some kind of god.

As for the subsequent questions, they hesitated, said something that suddenly appeared, or thought about it for a long time, and then gave a very strange word.

--miracle.

"Looking at your clothes, you should be a student of an aristocratic school." The military policeman asked curiously, "You students should be better at talking about things. Can you, in a way that I can understand, talk about that god?" What are the traces?"

At first, they thought that the miracle these people were talking about was the beam of light that dispersed the natural disaster. After all, that thing was almost the entire Chernobog, no, it should be said that it was even outside Chernobog. You can definitely see that thing too.

It seems that only that thing can be linked to the word miracle.

But these people said that the miracle they mentioned was not a magnificent thing like a pillar of light, but simply an existence and a person.

But when you ask them how a person is connected to a miracle, they often can't tell the reason, and they often end up giving a very similar answer.

"...He seemed to be everywhere."

"Hey, if there weren't so many people here, I would have suspected that you guys had strung together the words in advance."

"But this is the most appropriate way to say it. On the way we came, he was not anywhere, but when we needed him, he seemed to be everywhere."

She didn't know about other teams, but when her team moved in this direction, it did exactly what she said, doing everything.

If there are thugs ahead, he will suddenly appear to deal with them, and then disappear. When they continue to move forward and pass by the burning house, he will suddenly jump out of the window with the children in his arms. Come out and give those kids to them.

He does exactly what he says - his assistant will always be by your side.

And they just need to move forward without thinking about anything. All they need to do is trust this person and go in that direction.

They followed the team with women and old people from the alley next to them, and stayed there to watch them disappear after they left. However, they believed that as long as they continued walking, he would suddenly appear in front and solve the obstacle.

After experiencing it several times, almost everyone will calm down in the rioting Chernobog, even because there is a feeling that someone is watching them with their heads raised, whether it is to show that person, It was really spontaneous from the heart. On the way here, they slowly began to carry out some rescues within their ability.

They have a feeling that the person seems to be leaving, but never leaves, and seems to be there watching them and protecting them.

"Sounds like a patron saint in some fairy tale."

"...God?" The student read the word for a moment, but then he shook his head negatively in his mind.

He is definitely not a god.

Because everyone can see that he is injured, he will bleed, he looks extremely tired, and he will be tired.

His hair was stuck together due to sweat, and his constant breathing made it clear that his physical condition was unimaginably bad. He was crumbling, as if he would fall to the ground if someone pushed him.

This is definitely not what the noble and holy God described in the story should look like without a trace of dust on his body.

He is a human being. Although he cannot tell what race he is, he is indeed a human being.

"maybe......"

But some people think that is.

They know, everyone knows, and those who regard him as a god also know that he may indeed not be the god of Chernobog, not the god of Ursus, or what he has placed his faith in.

But that person guided them, and this was absolutely not false. They also knew that if they could not call him God if he did such a thing for them, then what else could be called God?Those things that look at them from above?

"Oh, by the way, you seem to be the team leader. I remember you all have code names. What is yours? If possible, could you please tell me your name."

They basically arrived here in groups. Some of these people had code names, and some did not just follow the large army, but all teams had at least one person with a code name.

The student curiously looked closer at the book in the hands of the military policeman who was about to record her code name. As she turned over the pages, she saw that each side of the paper was filled with various code names.

The military policeman was right, they were not the first here.

[North 13, 23 people in total, name: Gilbert]

[South 4, 9 people in total, name: Swinburne Frederick]

[East 3, 12 people in total, name: Saint Andre]

[East 18, 74 people in total, name: Sonia]

【South......】

I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but at the beginning, no one told them the format of the report, and no one organized them to do so.

But they all did it, without exception.

It's as if there is really something above these people, linking them, allowing them to constantly connect with each other.

"Are you required to remember these things?"

"That's not true." The military policeman's voice was a little brisk, as if he was showing off his collection. "This is what I personally want to do. Look, I wrote this down. Don't you think this is very commemorative?" ?You know, my kids are among those numbers."

"It is indeed very memorable. Can you let me make a copy later?"

"Of course, let me tell you your code name first."

"My code name is West 13, there are 31 people in total."

The student did not finish speaking in a hurry. She quietly stared at the military police in front of her and slowly filled in her code name in a book full of commemorative significance.

I was a little excited, a little happy, as if I had participated in something worthy of being recorded in history, and left some traces of myself in it.

She waited until the military police had written down everything she said, and then she said her name:

"The name is, Natalia."

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"Doctor, do you need me to help you get to your room?"

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