Chapter 275: After the explosion---1
The sky ruptured in what looked like a mixture of red fire and blue fire works.
The crowd that had gathered at the headquarters of Space M witnessed the explosion with their very eyes. They watched as some of the pieces of the vessel were pulled back to the ground and an engine that was breathing fire crushed through the Space M building.
Sparks started to rain from the sky.
And then came the first scream, from a young girl. Like as if they had been awakened from a nightmare, more screams followed and the crowd panicked. Some sobbed others turned to seek escape.
Reporters on ground were even more active than they had been before the set off.
"There has been an explosion in the sky just now. The spaceship named Celestial Mo which was carrying the Empress has shattered in what can only be described as a reddish-blue explosion." Reporter Yu Jiayi of Phoenix news gasped into the camera, her words drawn out with static and disbelief.
Another reporter beside her was reporting the same news but in different words, "The vessel appears to have exploded without warning. It is hard to tell if anyone survived."
More and more of them were reporting this news, including foreign reporters that had flown into the empire to follow the Empress on her tour to fight technology. The assassination attempt had drawn the attention of the world.
"After surviving one assassination attempt, the Chinese Empress might have met her demise in an explosion on The Celestial Mo at the beginning of her campaign to seek technologically conscious companies in her empire. There seems to have been no warning before the spaceship exploded and disintegrated. Only a wing was seen descending from the sky." Reporter Cam Satur of the CCN news in America reported.
Above them, tiny embers were still failing to the ground and what appeared to be rescue efforts were already being made. The Imperial soldiers, police, fire and rescue and all the other concerned parties were actively working.