He Who Flirts First Is Low (First Update for Monthly Ticket)

Driven by instinct, the large black dog edged over from the other side of the elevator, huddling at Xia Yuanfang's feet, desperately trying to avoid the approaching shockwave of the explosion.

*BOOM!* With a final deafening roar, the explosion finally crashed into the elevator like a tsunami.

The elevator's electrical system instantly failed.

The elevator, now entirely reliant on gravity, vibrated violently and plummeted downwards.

The top of the elevator car even began to cave in deeply.

However, as the indentation continued to deepen, compressing the remaining space, Liu Shun slightly raised his semi-circular mechanical head, struggling to support the structure and prevent further compression.

Xia Chujian was still wearing the complete Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha, and now the mecha's outstanding performance was on full display.

It was not only resistant to impacts, but also to vibrations!

When the elevator crashed to the ground with a deafening boom, the elevator car was already a mangled wreck.

Fortunately, the elevator was new and built according to the latest safety standards, capable of withstanding a magnitude twelve earthquake, which was just enough to withstand the massive explosive shockwave.

However, the elevator doors were jammed, and the building's power system was severely damaged, preventing the doors from opening.

Xia Chujian tried to look up, but found that the elevator car was being compressed from all sides, almost turning the interior into a ball...

A ball of steel.

Immediately afterwards, waves of heat washed over them, as if the deformed elevator car was being roasted in a steel furnace.

Xia Chujian was wearing the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha from head to toe, so she didn't feel the temperature change for the time being.

She coughed twice, opened a small gap in her helmet, and asked in a hoarse voice, "...Liu Shun? Are you alright?"

Liu Shun's slightly stiff, electronically synthesized voice replied, "Master, Liu Shun's head is dented."

Xia Chujian struggled to look up.

Liu Shun's originally hemispherical mechanical head had indeed been crushed into a concave, basin-like shape, and the eye display screen was no longer visible.

The pressure from above the elevator was immense. If she hadn't had the Shao Siming Mecha's helmet protecting her head, it would probably be crushed as well...

Xia Chujian comforted him, "Don't worry, when we get out, I'll find the best master craftsman to make you the best head."

Liu Shun thanked her in a muffled voice.

Xia Chujian hadn't been able to perceive the true situation outside because of the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha.

Now that she had opened a small gap, she realized that the air inside the elevator car was not only extremely bad, but the temperature was also getting higher and higher! Looking down at the unconscious Xia Yuanfang, Si Xi, and Wu Fu, Xia Chujian knew that they wouldn't be able to hold on! She gritted her teeth and said to Liu Shun, "No matter what I do later, you must not record or sense anything, understand?"

Liu Shun immediately shut down all sensory systems, but then said in a slightly stiff, electronically synthesized voice, "Liu Shun has heard the sound of ambulances and fire trucks arriving."

Xia Chujian: "..."

She simply turned on the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha helmet's built-in eyepiece, and used its far-infrared perspective imaging function to look outside the elevator.

She didn't know what had happened, but the outside had become an open space, with piles of rubble and ruins.

Fire trucks and ambulances were arriving one after another, and many fully armed firefighters were also coming with high-pressure hoses and water guns.

What she didn't see was that outside the elevator, in the dark night sky, the eleven-story old building, burned red by the raging fire and filled with explosions, was collapsing inch by inch in front of the Mulan City Punishment Department personnel who had rushed to the rescue. Finally, with a loud bang, the entire building collapsed in front of everyone like a controlled demolition.

This old building was still of the original reinforced concrete structure.

The heat generated by the massive explosion on the roof directly melted the building's steel bars, causing the building to lose its support and eventually collapse into a pile of rubble.

Within this pile of rubble, there was also an almost spherical elevator car, standing out very abruptly.

The fire was still burning fiercely around the elevator car, as if it was going to melt it as well.

Not only was this building affected by the explosive shock, but the three other buildings adjacent to it were also affected by the shockwave and were teetering on the brink of collapse.

The people in those three buildings were awakened from their sleep, screaming and quickly evacuating.

Xia Chujian quickly sent a distress signal to the Mulan City Punishment Department using the Quantum Optical Brain, while raising her leg and carefully kicking the elevator car three times.

The Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha's super performance was on display, each kick creating a dent, almost breaking through the elevator car's thick steel plate.

She didn't dare to use too much force, after all, there were already people surrounding the area, but she had to let them know to rescue them quickly!

Almost at the same moment, the Mulan City Punishment Department's rescue system received Xia Chujian's distress signal, and the rescue workers on the scene also heard the loud noises coming from the elevator car.

Clang! Clang! Clang! It sounded like someone was hammering the elevator.

"Someone's in there! There are people in the elevator!"

Everyone was roused and immediately set up high-pressure water guns, drenching the elevator car.

Duty Vehicles in the sky dropped special materials specifically targeting natural gas leaks.

Five minutes later, the fire was extinguished, and there was no natural gas detected at the scene. People could then use tools to cut open the elevator car, which had become a sphere.

Soon, the outer panels of the elevator car were symmetrically cut.

Two cleaning robots approached, each grabbing a cut-open outer panel of the elevator car. Their mechanical arms extended, and the power systems on their bodies emitted a burst of accelerating whirrs.

Then, with a bang, the elevator car, which had been rolled into a ball, was pulled open, revealing the scene inside.

Xia Chujian had already started stowing the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha helmet as a neck brace when they began cutting open the elevator car from the outside.

By the time the elevator car was completely opened, her head and face were covered in dust from inside the elevator car.

The various media outlets waiting outside couldn't wait to swarm in and capture the first-hand footage.

Xia Chujian quickly bent down and used the large blanket that Liu Shun had produced to wrap Xia Yuanfang, Si Xi, and Wu Fu inside.

Her own body was covered in dust, her face smeared with black grime, and her hair was disheveled, obscuring most of her face. Even her Aunt wouldn't recognize her standing right in front of her, so she wasn't afraid of being photographed.

Just as the media were about to come over for interviews, the Mulan City Punishment Department personnel who had come to rescue them blocked them. Then, several paramedics came over with stretchers and placed the still-unconscious Xia Yuanfang and Wu Fu from the blanket onto the stretchers.

Although Small Dog was also unconscious, it didn't get a stretcher.

Xia Chujian had no choice but to hold Small Dog Si Xi in her arms and, along with the robot Liu Shun, whose head was dented like a basin, got into the ambulance.

Just before the ambulance doors closed, a greasy-haired male self-media anchor squeezed in front of Xia Chujian and loudly asked, "The entire building has collapsed, and no one except you has escaped... How did you manage to escape? Did you set the fire beforehand?"

Xia Chujian was furious. She had been feeling stifled all day, and this was the last straw.

She leaped out of the ambulance, grabbed the greasy male anchor by the neck, slapped him across the face, and said coldly, "You set the fire! Your whole family are arsonists!"

"Tell me, did you deliberately set the fire?! To create a big news story?!"

"You're still live-streaming?!"

Only then did Xia Chujian realize that the male anchor had been live-streaming the entire time he was asking questions. She immediately snatched his live-streaming pole, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it twice, flattening his live-streaming equipment before turning to leave.

This anchor was really going all out to get first-hand information.

He didn't expect that with Xia Chujian, he would not only run into a brick wall but also get slapped so hard that his nose bled and even his back molars loosened.

At first, there weren't many people in the male anchor's live-streaming room.

But after he provoked her and got slapped, it suddenly exploded in popularity.

Countless netizens flooded into his live-streaming room, wanting to see what was happening with the sudden building collapse in Mulan City.

The explosion was so loud that people within a ten-mile radius heard the sound and felt the tremors, waking up many who were sleeping.

Now, seeing the scene through the live stream, everyone was initially cheering for the fact that someone had survived the building, but then they saw this anchor suddenly run over and ask if they were arsonists...

This ridiculous behavior made many people feel disgusted, and then they saw him get slapped by Xia Chujian.

That slap was so satisfying!

However, not long after the slap, the live stream went black.

But it didn't matter; the slap had already been recorded, turned into a GIF, and started circulating on the Star Network for repeated viewing.

At this moment, the male anchor's face was immediately swollen with pain. He covered his face and said indistinctly, "You dare hit me! Do you know I'm an influencer! I have tens of thousands of fans! You were recorded on live stream! I'm going to sue you!"

Xia Chujian jumped back into the ambulance in one swift motion and said coldly, "I'm going to sue you for slander and defamation too. Which platform are you on? I'm going to sue your platform as well!"

Hearing that she was going to counter-sue and sue the platform, the male anchor immediately cowered.

Then, the Punishment Department personnel who had caught up also escorted the male anchor out of the scene, beyond the cordon.

Although the building had collapsed into a pile of rubble, there was no guarantee that someone else could still be alive.

Mulan City had historical records of finding survivors in the rubble even after the magnitude ten earthquake hundreds of years ago.

This was now a rescue site, and no media, regardless of who they were, could cross the cordon.

Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Department of the Mulan City Punishment Department immediately opened a case to investigate the explosion and collapse of the building.

The media on the periphery were idle and unwilling to leave at this time, all fearing that others would scoop the big news.

They used all their connections and racked their brains to find out who the family that survived in the building today was.

Although they didn't think the family was responsible for the arson, they were very interested in knowing how they escaped.

Every time there is a disaster news story, the most eye-catching thing is this kind of "escape from death" story.

Because the scope of the disaster was relatively large this time, the rescue workers of the Mulan City Punishment Department specially borrowed a very efficient large-scale biological detector from the Special Security Bureau branch.

This kind of biological detector can detect various biological signs within one square kilometer at a time, especially the biological signs of the human body.

Whether alive or dead, it can be detected.

It's the end of the month, my dearies, please cast your Hongxiu Tickets and Monthly Tickets!

And Recommendation Tickets too!

The second update will be at 1 p.m.

I've saved some manuscripts, and I'll try to update three times tomorrow! PS: Those of you who like to guess the plot, don't be confused by the appearance! You have to see the essence through the phenomenon.

But it doesn't matter if you can't guess, as long as you follow along every day, and in the end you have a "Wow! So that's how it is" feeling, I'll be satisfied. I have to make everyone feel that it's worth it, right? (^▽^)

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