Mysteries: Arcana Wars

The short literacy session was over, and Rad jumped out of bed with a sense of unfulfilled desire; it was time for him to go out to work.

Luna watched the little boy go out. After making sure Rad was far away, she immediately turned over, stabbed her finger into her esophagus to induce vomiting, and retched under the bed.

Yes, she had already gone far away from the ground, her communication signals had been cut off, and she had even been polluted to the point where she could no longer travel freely through the spirit world. It seemed that in every aspect, Luna had completely drawn a line between herself and Abraham.

But Luna knew that there was a hidden danger in her body that was tenaciously maintaining her last extraordinary connection with the Abraham family.

[Bright Egg].

This is something all astronauts must take before leaving Earth.

During the training, the [Bright Egg] was regarded as a protective umbrella for Abraham astronauts' activities on the surface of the starry sky and the last hope of survival in the wandering disaster.

In daily activities, the Luminous Egg can provide a certain degree of protection for astronauts in abnormal spiritual environments. When a wandering disaster occurs, as long as the astronauts come near any satellite in the Rupert-EME series, the activated Luminous Egg will teleport the astronauts directly back to the surface base station of Abraham.

Luna felt that this was a scam, a lie to convince her to go up and die willingly: If it was really that useful, why didn't she bring back her mother Ravni?

But Luna knew that this was just a rant, and the Bright Egg did have such power. After coming into contact with the confidential technology within the group, Luna finally knew that her father was brought back to the ground by the Bright Egg in a wandering disaster, and then he shot himself in the long-term torture of the sequelae of the starry sky.

Now this so-called protective power has become a sword hanging over Luna's head:

Since it can bring back stranded astronauts, can it also easily bring back a defector?

In fact, Luna didn't know what the Bright Egg was. She just concluded from her own technical knowledge that it should have a "secret-keeping" nature, and it seemed to be related to the guardian angel of the Abraham family, the Bright Angel, who disappeared three hundred years ago. But Luna didn't have the authority to know more.

A week before deciding to set off for negotiations with the Church of Evernight, Luna was urgently selected as an astronaut to carry out the mission, and was then forced to eat the Egg of Radiance.

Luna still remembered that ominous thing. It lay in Luna's hand, small like an ordinary pill, but covered with precise circuits and structures, as if it were some kind of micro robot. But at the same time, Luna could also feel its slightly fluctuating spirituality, a mysterious and dangerous power wrapped in high-tech modern technology, sleeping inside.

She had an indescribable resistance to the Bright Egg, and felt nauseous and terrified when she heard that she had to swallow this mechanical pill. However, under the absolute order of the Elders Council and Dr. Helgi, she had to eat this strange thing.

Now she has been retching in bed for a long time, but still cannot expel the food from her stomach.

Only bits of digestion fell to the ground.

This is yesterday's dinner, the energy bars I brought from Abraham.

Energy bars can be said to be the main food for residents of the underground city Banyan Street, but Luna is completely unaccustomed to them.

During her days on the ground, Luna never lacked any food for her three meals a day. As an astronaut, she also had no objection to energy bars.

It’s just that the energy bars designed specifically for astronauts have been specially adjusted, and have a good taste and rich flavors, which can meet the physical and mental needs of Abraham astronauts during their wanderings in the starry sky.

In comparison, eating the Banyan Street energy bars is like chewing on a brick, dry and astringent. Just biting off a small piece and swallowing it feels as if those small pieces are going to suck up all the water in your digestive system along the way, and then expand explosively, as if to inflate your entire stomach like a balloon.

Luna hated these crudely made energy bars. She had brought a lot of Abraham food with her, and if she divided it into small portions, she could last a little longer.

Rad would bring back some low-quality energy bars for Luna every few days, but Luna refused every time and asked Rad to bring some better food for her.

Luna thought this shouldn't be difficult for Rad because he worked in a "food factory".

At this time, Rad was on his way to work.

Rad is fifteen years old and, like other children on Banyan Street, has been working in the factory for two years.

Like his stowaway parents who died young, Rad did not have the legal identity of Backlund. The last bit of care that the Kingdom of Loen had for poor children could not fall into his hands.

On Banyan Street, fifty percent of the people had no legal residence status in Backlund or even in the Kingdom of Loen.

The first generation of people who came to Banyan Street might be homeless people from the Kingdom of Loen, destitute and seeking a place to live; they might also be desperate criminals who had committed crimes and fled from the pursuit of the upper world, avoiding being wanted and punished in the underground world; of course, Backlund was also the dream place of all kinds of illegal immigrants, and those without legal identities eventually hid in the underground city to survive.

Thus, people with different purposes gathered here and formed a small community. After generations, the outsiders gradually became natives.

Rad was a native of the underground city, Banyan Street. He had never been to the aboveground world since he was a child.

Today, Banyan Street was the same as usual. The crowded space was filled with many shabby small compartments, a kind of underground city-style building. The people wandering on the street were thin and haggard, with dull eyes, floating past Rad.

There were some painful shouts from the house next door, followed by some smashing sounds. Rad didn't care at all, and stepped over the drug addict lying on the ground, his life or death unknown.

This kind of thing happens every day in the disordered underground city of Banyan Street, but Rad couldn't help but glance to the side and then click the stars on his chest.

May the goddess bless me...

But Rad felt that Banyan Street seemed not as lively as usual in the past two days.

Even a week ago, Rad could hear all kinds of banging and destruction on the street, wailing and crying, and those bastards who were not sure whether they were from the Cinder Gang or the Coke Gang, swaggering around collecting protection fees, and then randomly robbing lucky passers-by on the street. There was no need for those scum to speak, just hold up a weapon and stretch out your hand, and the rags floating on the street would silently take out change.

Silent streets and roaring houses, this is the characteristic of Banyan Street.

Now thinking about it, it seems like I haven’t seen anyone from the Coke Gang and the Cinder Gang for a long time.