Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

Until the last moment before the screen completely goes out.

"Ms. Arata..." Kita leaned over the screen, trying to find a switch to turn it back on. Hongxia held onto the console next to her. Ichiri and Ryo stood there in a daze, motionless.

This was the first time they witnessed the sacrifice of someone they knew.

Xiduo searched in vain. She hammered hard on the screen, and it shattered. The glass scratched her skin, and blood flowed out. Ridiculous, she thought. This turned out to be the worst injury she had suffered since she traveled through time!

She turned to the crowd and shouted, "We must avenge her!" Her voice was so hoarse that she even surprised herself.

"That's right." Hong Xia stood up again, "But first we have to listen to her last words! Be prepared for battle and evacuate if necessary."

"It may not come here. But we must be prepared for everything. Defense is useless. We will try our best to disguise CiRCLE in the next period of time."

Compared to others, Hongxia was the most calm in assigning tasks to everyone, as if Miss Araki's death had no effect on her at all.

Even Yili noticed that her eyes were filled with tears.

"Xiao Shizi, think about whether there is any means of transportation that can move quickly across the Gobi Desert."

Shizi didn't hear what she said. "It's all because of me..." She squatted down, "Because of my time travel, all this happened..."

Hong Xia clenched her fists, suddenly rushed forward, and forcibly lifted her up: "Who can prove that your time travel is related to all this? Don't think of putting all the responsibility on yourself! Now! You are our partner! Cheer up!"

Everyone was shocked by Hong Xia's completely abnormal behavior.

She took a deep breath and put down the shiko. She looked around at everyone again and gave an order: "Gather on the rooftop. I'll go find Ms. Marina." Then she left.

Kita raised his palm. Unknowingly, the wound had been healed.

Yili walked towards Shizi. Shizi still had her head down. Yili approached her and wanted to take her hand.

Suddenly, Shizi raised his right hand and slapped himself hard!

"Shizi!"

Shizi raised her head, her confused eyes had calmed down. She called out to the rest of the people: "What are you waiting for? Go now."

When they arrived at the hall, Hongxia was arguing with Marina.

The two stopped immediately when they saw everyone. Marina seemed to have regained her normal demeanor: "Let's go to the roof."

When Hongxia walked past Shizi, Shizi asked in a low voice: "What's the matter?"

Hongxia shook her head and said nothing.

Chapter 32 CiRCLE

The sky was still clear, and it did not change because of the life or death of one person. At this time, the five people of CiRCLE gathered on the roof, and everyone's heart was tied to the distant horizon.

"Put another pile of rubble here... No, make the rocks bigger and more irregular..." Hongxia was directing the camouflage of CiRCLE. They were going to decorate CiRCLE as a natural pile of stones. Shiko was in charge of making the rocks, Ryo simulated wind erosion, Kita and Ichiri were in charge of dealing with the exposed outer wall of CiRCLE, and Hongxia herself was in charge of directing and supporting. Marina stood behind the telescope that Shiko had hastily made, keeping an eye on the movements in the distance.

The advantage of the roof is the wide view and convenient evacuation. The height of the two-story CiRCLE is not too high for them now, and with the slowly piled up rubble, they can escape from any direction at any time.

But Shizi thought of a better way to travel than by land.

"Hot air balloon?"

"That's right, a hot air balloon." Shizi took the water bottle handed to him by Hongxia and took a sip.

"In this kind of terrain, ground transportation is very slow, but it's not necessarily the same in the sky. The only aerial transportation I can create now is hot air balloons and paragliders. Compared with the two, hot air balloons are more reliable. And that thing doesn't seem to have any long-range attack methods. As long as it flies in the air, it poses no threat."

"Can safety be guaranteed?" Because of some criminal record, Hong Xia still had some concerns about this.

"No." Shizi admitted generously, "My knowledge of hot air balloons comes entirely from some basic physics and magazines in the lounge. But we also have experience in mid-air emergency landings." She looked at Liang. Liang's face twitched slightly, but he finally nodded.

Hong Xia covered her head with a headache. "Okay, there's no better way."

A hot air balloon large enough to carry everyone was quickly set up on the platform. The flame was lit early, and the weight and ropes tightly held the basket, ready to take off at any time.

While the few of them were making these preparations, Marina never got distracted.

There was no moon here at night, but the stars moved. Marina's telescope showed the swaying of the stars. In the eternal dance of the stars, the horizon never changed.

All possible preparations have been made. Everyone stood behind Marina.

"Maybe it won't come here." Yili comforted himself.

No one answered her. This was the first sleepless night in their lives. The night was so long, time passed slowly, and there was no sign of the sun appearing.

"Maybe it won't come here." Kita clenched his fists.

No one answered her. All she could hear was the sound of the wind blowing from the flames. This little flame was their only hope before the sun rose.

"Maybe it won't come here!" Hong Xia prayed devoutly.

The sun is about to rise. The morning star is hanging in the sky, and a glimmer of dawn has appeared on the eastern horizon.

The pitch black gradually transitions to milky white, and then to golden yellow.

"The sun has risen!" A golden light burst out! Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After a night of sadness and fatigue, Hongxia's face showed joy for the first time.

"Well, at least we can rest for a while. But this area is not safe anymore. We should prepare to move in the next two days and look for Roselia..." She turned to the others, "Xiao Shizi, aren't you a fan of Roselia?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a piece of rubble rolled down from the platform.

Hong Xia's smile froze. Everyone's eyes were focused on the distance, in the direction of the canyon.

From the summit, a moving black mountain approaches.

Black Mountain woke up from his deep sleep. There was an ant beside him, but he didn't care. However, the ant hurt him, which had never happened in his infinite life. His shallow consciousness couldn't figure out the reason, but he needed food to repair himself - even if it was ants. He had already devoured some of his own kind, but it was not enough. So, he went to a place nearby that attracted him very much - there were many ants there.

"It's heading here." Marina quickly came to the conclusion, "Let's evacuate."

This is the only way. Shizi looked at the building under her feet. This was her first home in this world, where she spent many glorious days - and CiRCLE meant more to her than that. This was supposed to be the place where her dreams came true, but now it was going to be destroyed by an earthquake or trampling?

Shizi forced herself not to think about it. Everyone boarded the hanging basket one after another, while Hongxia and Marina stayed on the ground.

"Marina-san, Ijichi-san, please come up quickly." Kita extended his hand to the two of them. Neither of them moved.

"Hurry up." In the distance, the mountainside was about to emerge from the horizon.

Hongxia lowered her head and stepped into the hanging basket without saying a word. Marina remained motionless.

"Ms. Marina?"

"She can't come up." Hong Xia said this.

"What do you mean?"

"Actually, I couldn't leave CiRCLE from the beginning." Marina explained calmly.

Every person who enters this world for the first time has a maximum ability of 150. Therefore, no one's ability limit is too high, but Marina's CiRCLE does not seem to have this limitation. It provides a perfect shelter and can give various powerful and rare bonuses regardless of distance, including numerical improvement, long-range support, damage tolerance, and even comes with a technology tree - this kind of power is not without cost.

CiRCLE uses the resources they grew up with as fuel, and Shizi once thought that this price was fair.

She recalled every detail since she came to CiRCLE. No matter what the situation was, Marina never left CiRCLE, not even when the monsters nearby fled and the environment was absolutely safe.

She used to think that was just Marina's caution.

But now, no matter how hard everyone tried, Marina's feet seemed to be connected to the ground and could not be lifted at all.

"You guys go quickly. It won't necessarily destroy this place." The calmest person among everyone was Marina herself.

It was a lie that even a three-year-old wouldn't believe. But Marina's expression was so natural, without any fear.

Shizi looked up into the distance, the mountain was getting closer and closer. She gritted her teeth, jumped out of the hanging basket, and ran towards the ground from the pile of rubble she had piled up earlier.

"What are you doing!" Hong Xia was unable to react and failed to catch her.

"I'll lead it away!" Shizi absolutely couldn't accept leaving anyone behind. Since Miss Xinmu could seriously injure Heishan by sacrificing herself, it wouldn't be a problem for him to lead it away as long as he tried his best!

An invisible wall of sound rose before her, trying to stop her. The water was approaching rapidly. She threw back a jade slip, which emitted a blinding light, temporarily blinding everyone. The rope broke in time, and the hot air balloon carrying the four members of the band began to fly.

The jade slip originally recorded Hong Xia's starlight, but Shi Zi actually concentrated all his power in an instant and made a flash bomb!

When the four people's vision returned, the hot air balloon had already floated into the air.

"Senior Liang, push the hot air balloon over there!" Kita pointed in the direction where Shiko was running.

Driven by the sound waves, the hot air balloon quickly approached Shiko, who only had two legs. Kita controlled the flames and the hot air balloon gradually approached the ground.

Shizi saw them and took out another jade slip. Before she threw it, Yili stretched out his hand to her: "The hot air balloon is faster, let's go and lure it away together."

Shizi was slightly stunned. Then, she laughed at herself and grabbed Yili's hand.

The hot air balloon soon reached a sufficient distance from CiRCLE. They hovered in midair, and the giant peak appeared in front of them in its entirety. It was in a very bad state: its entire body was covered with solidified basalt, and there were broken limbs everywhere. The road it walked on was stained with blood red. However, it continued to move towards CiRCLE.

"Want to have one?" Kita raised his hand towards the mountain.

"No, your special move consumes too much energy, and you still need to control the hot air balloon, I'll do it." Shizi took out a red jade slip. She had made it when Xiduo first released [Purifying Dawn], and now it was just in time to use it.

Locking onto the middle of the mountain, Shizi then broke the jade slip.

The same destruction as last time fell from the sky, melting the newly solidified crust of Black Mountain again. Magma flowed out of the mountain, which was its blood.

"Success!" Shizi found that it had begun to change direction and began to move towards the hot air balloon, "Quick! Fly!"

The similar injuries to the previous one obviously greatly angered Black Mountain. It gave up the easy prey and turned to the small flying insect over there. The flying insect was faster than it thought. Even if it used all its strength, the distance between them did not show any sign of shortening. Instead, it was getting farther and farther away from the previous prey.

So it stood still. The outer shell of the basalt peeled off layer by layer, and a huge piece of debris flew towards the hot air balloon in the distance!

"Pull up, pull up, pull up--" Several people were so scared that their faces turned pale. They didn't expect that thing to be able to attack remotely! It was not shown in the previous video, simply because it had no chance to fight back at that time!

The hot air balloon climbed at a dangerous speed, and the huge rock barely scraped the bottom of the basket and fell below. Shizi looked at the "Black Mountain" again: a twisted giant arm stretched out from the place where the shell had originally covered it, and at its root was a huge gray human face, which was unpredictable. The arm and face were in a state of severe burns, but at this moment the huge mouth opened, and a huge amount of energy was gathering!

It's over. Shizi completely gave up. Who would have thought that there was a human face that could spit out light cannons under the rock shell? The hot air balloon's evasive ability has its limits, and they will definitely not be able to avoid this attack.

But they still had to struggle. Liang used the sound wall to wrap the hot air balloon layer by layer, and the miracle in the Book of Daniel happened again, and the starlight filled the space. Shizi came to his senses, and the sound walls were filled with hard alloy.

There is only one way out. What use is the weak water at this moment? Usually, water provides a lot of convenience for everyone, but water can't stop anything at this moment.

No! Yili doesn't want to think like this!

She plucked her guitar. The water gathered in the air, but it wasn't enough! It needed to be harder!

As if hearing her inner desire, a little ice crystal gradually appeared in the water. This was not the result of Shizi. In desperation, Yili's ability changed!

Ichisato Goto

Ability: [Guitar Hero!] Can be as soft as water, or as strong as ice!

A layer of ice wall appeared in front of everyone, which was not inferior to Shizi's iron wall!

"(We must block it!)" Yili exhausted all his strength and fell to the ground.

At this moment, a black beam of light came out of the giant mouth and tore the sky and earth apart. It first tore through the invisible sound wall with ease, and the copper wall and iron wall behind it did not hold up even for a moment. The light column continued to move forward, and it consumed all the ice walls that supported it and shattered them into pieces. In front of this black light that devoured space, the flames and starlight were like mayflies trying to shake a tree.

has it ended?

The darkness expanded before us.

At this moment, CiRCLE's shadow enveloped everyone, and the black light stopped there.

"Ms. Marina!" Shizi saw the shadow of Miss Marina standing among the crowd. She didn't look at them, but just raised her hand, and then the wind stopped and the water stopped.

The hot air balloon flew backwards like a bullet. Before he lost consciousness, Shizi seemed to hear Marina sigh.

There are regrets and satisfaction.

The next moment, the hanging basket crashed into the cliff. After the smoke and dust cleared, a new cave appeared on the cliff. Five people were lying inside, and no one was injured.

The five of them returned to where CiRCLE was. They didn't know where Heishan had gone. CiRCLE was no longer here.

There is only a ruin and a body buried in it.

ps: There will be another chapter tonight

Chapter 33 Ether and Stars

Miss Marina was lying quietly on the floor, with no external injuries and her eyes closed, exactly the same position she had when she fell asleep.

The morning sun shone on Ms. Marina's face, but she did not open her eyes as usual. The starlight poured into her body, but she did not react.

The world in Shizi's eyes was blurry. There was always something noisy in her ears. She listened for a long time and heard it clearly. Everyone was crying and shouting Miss Marina's name.

She turned her head. Kita was lying on top of Ms. Marina, crying loudly. Ichiri fell to the ground. Hongxia cried and covered Ichiri's eyes. Ryo stood aside, head down, hands clenched into fists, trembling all over.

impossible.

How could Ms. Marina die? This is impossible. This is a girl band project, how could this happen?

So this is a dream. Even if it is a nightmare, it is too much, right?