"...Observatory broadcast, at Duoling time, 21:37, an extra-large meteor shower will hit the southwestern outskirts. To avoid accidents, please try not to go outside during the meteor shower... Please pay attention, citizens...."
The earth was shrouded in darkness, and white beams of light occasionally fell, breaking the darkness and illuminating gaps.
These were lights cast to the ground by the patrol Mechas of the city's defense system as they occasionally flew overhead.
On the black wilderness, several figures stood beneath a slightly arched hillside, as if waiting for something.
"Three minutes left...."
One of the four people looked at the time and reported quietly.
The remaining three said nothing, all appearing to be teenagers around sixteen or seventeen years old.
One of them kept looking up at the pitch-black sky, while the other two, one tall and one short, stood beside him like followers, occasionally checking their phones.
