At that moment, everyone in the room had utterly collapsed, the space filled ceaselessly with sobs, shouts, and curses. Alex, however, watched the myriad human conditions inside the room with a bizarre emotion, ignoring all the shouting and cursing directed at him, even though some of it came from children. To Alex, they were like a strange landscape.
All of the noise no longer had any effect on him, and behind him, the system's warning beeps continued to decrease in volume until the countdown reached its final second, and everyone's faces shifted from various angry emotions to ultimate despair.
As a blinding light flashed, everyone's consciousness froze at that second, and in the moment they vanished, Finn Lewis also suddenly stood up from his chair, "Activate the jump drive, retreat two light-years," Finn directly ordered.
"Yes, Your Highness," Luna Starfield didn't ask why.
