Underground city, Asahi district.
boom!!!
Above this most central and bustling block, the iconic sky fortress had just exploded violently. A light blue barrier rose from the edge of the block like a water wave, and suddenly closed upwards, blocking the falling explosion debris and flames.
If a professional familiar with Skynet saw this scene, he would know that this suddenly rising blue barrier has the same origin as Skynet on Earth.
Inside the restaurant, the originally magnificent ceiling suddenly collapsed, and countless large pieces of bricks and stones fell down like a rainstorm. The guards standing outside wanted to rush in immediately, but were blocked by the collapsed wall. Their anxious shouts seemed particularly weak and insignificant in the roar of the explosion.
"Lord City Lord!"
"Quick! Protect the city lord!!!"
"… "
Zhou Jiuya didn't expect that the other party was so angry that he would directly use a hand cannon to attack him.
At this moment, the legion commander had just dodged the explosion area and had not had time to catch his breath. Suddenly, a familiar figure broke through the dust and rubble, and rushed towards him like a sharp sword.
Swish!
The long knife was wrapped in electric arc, almost pointing directly at the throat.
"Zhou Jiuya!!!"
It was obvious that the other party was very determined to kill him.
Just like before, the handsome and gentle young man reached out his hand to him with such determination.
[Hey, someone asked me to ask you if you want to come with us?]
As a stain on the Jiang family, Zhou Jiuya, who was born into this world as an illegitimate child, ushered in a turning point in his entire life from that day on.
At this moment, the yellowed memory was like an old book blown by the wind, turning countless pages. Finally, it was frozen at the moment when Ye Shu's expression was hideous and full of hatred, and he stabbed with a knife.
—Why did they become like this
The blade reflected the dazzling snow light, which made the legion commander suddenly come to his senses at this moment. At the most dangerous moment, he barely dodged the fatal blow by leaning sideways. However, a very obvious blood mark was left on his neck.
In an instant, the two people's eyes suddenly collided, one with hatred, the other with complexity.
There were several loud claps, and the two of them fought back and forth for more than a dozen rounds. They were too familiar with each other's attack methods, and they could predict them instinctively without thinking.
This evenly matched close combat ended with a flaw that Ye Shu neglected due to anger.
boom!
"Ye Shu! Wake up!!!"
Zhou Jiuya grabbed the opponent's prosthetic left wrist and held him down.
Ye Shu's left arm seemed to be lost at the moment when the Earth became a dead planet, just like himself. Now, what Zhou Jiuya captured was a cold mechanical prosthesis.
"We have already tested it, haven't we?!"
The silver-haired alpha repeated it forcefully and cruelly.
"We checked it the day you brought Forbidden Abyss back! He... is not in the core of the wreckage of Forbidden Abyss at all!!! There is no point in you guarding it!!!"
Ye Shu's breathing suddenly stagnated, as if he had been hit hard with a club. The expression on his face slowly revealed a kind of extreme pain amidst the confusion and stiffness.
Yes, as the only mecha rated 3s, the core defense of Jinyuan can strictly resist interstellar nuclear bombs.
Even if millions of interstellar nuclear bombs were detonated at the same time, and all the metal limbs on the outside of Jinyuan were melted, the core inside was still managed to be snatched back by Ye Shu at the risk of his life.
But Marshal Huo Chao was not inside.
Even though they were all mentally prepared that the man would never come back alive, they didn't expect that they couldn't even get back the man's body.
No one knows why Huo Chao left the Forbidden Abyss at the moment when he detonated the interstellar nuclear bomb and perished together with the Zerg.
But regardless, the facts are established.
The Earth had long since become a dead planet, and the only thing representing the Huo Dynasty, apart from being hidden in the core of the Forbidden Abyss wreckage on the Tiandong Star, was a cold monument to heroes.
"… Pointless?"
Ye Shu looked at his most trusted friend in the past, and suddenly grinned, laughing mutely.
"So, for you, guarding his last possessions from being defiled by those disgusting people is a meaningless thing."
"… "
This sentence was probably more deadly than the knife that was close to his throat just now. Zhou Jiuya was stunned and could only close his eyes and take a deep breath.
"Ye Shu, you still don't understand the seriousness of the situation. The Zerg on Earth..."
"—I told you I don't care!!!"
Ye Shu dropped his sword, and his prosthetic left hand flipped and twisted at an incredible angle, instantly breaking free from the grip of the silver-haired alpha.
boom!!!
—Then he punched the legion commander so hard that he staggered.
"Zhou Jiuya, who was it that suddenly brought the rose to Earth when Skynet was not yet built? Do you want me to help you recall it again?!!"
The city lord waved his hand suddenly, refusing the nervous guards outside to approach.
"Ahem..."
Zhou Jiuya wiped the blood from the corner of his lips and when he looked up, he met the other person's mocking and hateful eyes.
"do not talk… "
Even though I knew that the past would be brought up again when we met again, it was like a scar that had never healed. I had already tried hard to forget it, but someone just stabbed it again with a knife and minced it into a pool of minced meat.
He repeated it again in a low voice.
"Ye Shu, stop talking..."
"Why can't I tell you?! Isn't it Pei Changyun?!"
Ye Shu strode over and grabbed his collar fiercely, his eyes reddened terribly.
"But... you are now swearing to follow and serve His Majesty the Emperor until death!!!"
The city lord sneered coldly.
"What? Last time the Zerg showed up, you wanted to use his life to fill the gap. This time, there's only a broken core left in the Forbidden Abyss, and you want to snatch it too?"
"—How shameless!"
"… "
This was not the first time Zhou Jiuya had heard such words.
But he had no way to explain it now. The legion commander closed his eyes deeply.
"The leaves are sparse..."
"—It's a pity that your plan will fail."
The city lord suddenly let go of Zhou Jiuya's collar, shook his hands, and his expression seemed to be suddenly bored.
"Zhou Jiuya, I already knew that you didn't come here specifically to see me, nor did you come here to see that omega kid in your family."
After a pause, Ye Shu smiled coldly.
"—you're here to hold me back for someone else."
He dusted off the chair, sat down casually, and put his forearms on the armrests.
"Oh, that's really a big deal. In order not to arouse my suspicion, they even dispatched a main force army to act for me."
Hearing this, Zhou Jiuya suddenly raised his head.
"you… !"
Buzz.
The legion commander's optical brain vibrated slightly.
—That was a text message from Jiang Ci.
Although the signal was blocked, fortunately, with Xiao X's continuous efforts, the key message finally arrived successfully after a delay of half an hour. But at this time, no one noticed the extremely subtle vibration.
Ye Shu gently stroked the skull mask on his left cheek.
"So the moment I saw you, I was actually in a good mood."
The Lord of the City opened his mouth with a malicious yet happy smile.
"Because today, they will all die without a burial place."
"Every one of them!"
·
At the same time, thousands of kilometers away in the desert no-man's land.
Jiang Ci suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He stopped abruptly, feeling his heart beating faster.
—This intuition is very bad.
It usually represents danger.
despair.
A hand was placed on his shoulder. The sudden touch made the silver-haired major general's body tremble violently, but he realized whose hand it was in an instant. However, it was obvious that the moment of shock just now made the major general a little annoyed.
"You suddenly...!"
Then a familiar breath enveloped Jiang Ci's left ear, causing him to suddenly stagnate. Huo Xianfeng suddenly came closer and whispered,
"If you're really scared, how about I go ahead?"
"… "
The young man leaned very close to her, and this distance could easily make people think of the intimacy between lovers. Even the other party's cautious and low words, with the slightly magnetic low tremor at the end of the tone, were terribly arousing.
Snapped!
The silver-haired omega froze for a moment, then immediately pressed his palm on Huo Xianfeng's chest to push him away.
"Who's scared?!"
He rubbed the itchy tip of his ear fiercely and ordered fiercely in a low voice,
"Don't come near me suddenly!"
If it was someone else, Jiang Ci's keen combat instinct would have discovered it long ago and he would have stabbed him with a dagger, but after being marked, no omega would be wary of the alpha who marked him.
"Well, okay."
Huo Xianfeng spread his hands, indicating that he would do whatever he said.
At this time, the two had already gone down about three thousand meters from the pipe opening on the surface. This place looked like an abandoned mine.
After all, when Tiandong Star was first discovered, it was famous for its countless mineral deposits. Even the underground city that has been built today is formed by the expansion and connection of countless abandoned mines.
Therefore, it was not uncommon to find an abandoned mine in the desert. However, after the initial vertical depth of 2,000 meters, they discovered that the passage was not completely straight down.
Now it was going deep underground at a 60-degree angle. The space that was originally wide enough to accommodate three or four people gradually narrowed to only allow one person. The dense darkness seemed to have been lingering here for a very long time, and now even the light was swallowed up.
Going further in, there’s no telling what’s hiding in the depths of darkness.
Woo…
There was a faint shrill low humming in the distance, accompanied by some rustling sounds, which made people's hair stand on end.
The boy frowned, his heart tightened slightly.
Is it the wind
Fortunately, this strange situation did not last long. The originally narrow passage gradually opened up and they finally reached the end.
Jiang Ci carefully observed the marks on it. It was an old alloy mechanical door, but the lock had been pried open. The traces of dust that had been wiped off showed that the person who opened the door did not go far.
"This should be... an abandoned underground mineral smelting plant?"
Huo Xianfeng did not answer, but walked around Jiang Ci and went in first. He quickly found the old and dilapidated switch next to it and groped for something among the tangled wires.
"you… "
Jiang Ci frowned slightly, wanting him to stop moving, but the next second—
Squeak... Squeak... La...
After a short burst of electric current,
Snapped!
The empty and dilapidated factory hall suddenly lit up. Jiang Ci guessed correctly that this was indeed an underground smelting plant, with a huge assembly line, a huge smelting pool, and a lot of broken and messy tools and gravel.
Jiang Ci took a quick look around and didn't find anything suspicious. But how could the church members come all the way from Xiling Star just for an abandoned smelter? !
—This in itself is suspicious!
What's more, ever since entering here, the alarm nerve in Jiang Ci's mind has been stretched to the extreme. He feels as if someone is secretly spying on him.
"Suddenly there is a problem,"
The boy's voice made Jiang Ci turn around.
"What?"
Huo Xianfeng crossed his arms across his chest, still looking lazy and casual, as if he was not worried at all about the danger that might be hiding somewhere.
"How many of those people in white clothes were there just now?"
"Seven."
"Well… "
The boy raised his head, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the huge gripper in the sky that was used to move the ore.
"So if a fight breaks out later, how many can you handle?"
"… "
Jiang Ci was stunned for a second, then realized something instantly.
-boom!!!
But before he could say anything, the door behind him slammed shut. Then, a strange low laugh came from the sky.
"I wondered who it was, it turned out to be the Jiang family's kid..."
Jiang family
Huo Xianfeng immediately grasped the key words.
Jiang Family... Ah Ci...
Jiang Porcelain
The young man frowned slightly, this name sounded so familiar.
At the same time, the silver-haired major general suddenly looked up and saw a figure in a white robe standing on the huge suspension bridge handle. He seemed to like this kind of condescending perspective very much, and his tone was undisguisedly superior and happy.
"I thought Zhou Jiuya would hide your precious omega in the capital planet, but I didn't expect..."
However, at this moment, when his eyes inadvertently swept across Huo Xianfeng next to Jiang Ci, the unfinished words suddenly paused, as if he had seen something extremely shocking.
boom!
An electromagnetic cannon was launched from the ground, accurately hitting the thick, rusty iron lock above the grabber. Immediately after, there was a loud bang, and the huge metal grabber and the person on it were blown away.
The beautiful omega looked stern and taunted without hesitation.
"Do people from your church always talk so much when they fight?"
“…Pfft.”
Huo Xianfeng who was standing next to him couldn't help but burst out laughing.
But Jiang Ci's expression was solemn. He recognized the other person. He was Rhodes, one of the archbishops under the Pope.
At the same time, Huo Xianfeng next to him shook his head slightly in his heart. Although this shot was very satisfying and the timing was very accurate, all the actions from shooting, aiming, to hitting were impeccable.
—But a little too hasty.
"careful!"
Jiang Ci suddenly shouted. He had never expected that Rhodes' first target was not him, but Huo Xianfeng. However, at this time, Jiang Ci had no time to go over to help, because he was surrounded by the remaining six people.
At this moment, the man who was supposed to fall in the explosion suddenly rushed to Huo Xianfeng like lightning.
The young man raised his eyes, and in an instant their gazes collided!
The next second, Huo Xianfeng tilted his head slightly and dodged the sharp blade. Such a casual movement looked so natural that it seemed like a coincidence.
But only the attacking party knows how terrifying the opponent's reaction and speed are.
Huo Xianfeng also didn't understand why the other party's first target of attack would be himself, but it was obvious that this person was much more difficult to deal with than the new recruit on Earth.
The two men fought for more than a dozen rounds with the sound of fists colliding. Then, with a crisp sound of bone fracture, Huo Xianfeng actually broke Rhodes' arm.
Well, it was indeed a bit more difficult than the new recruit, but that didn't mean he couldn't handle it.
At this moment, the distance between the two of them was very close, so close that Rhodes could see his own disbelief in those dark pupils, and his face was slightly twisted because of the pain in his body.
Huo Xianfeng looked down at him, and this arrogant look, as if he was looking at an ant, reminded Rhodes of someone who should have died.
"you… "
No, no, it can’t be him!!!
When I saw them from a distance just now, they looked very similar, but when I looked closely, I felt that they were very different...
Too young, too hot-headed.
If that man was an ancient magical weapon stuck in a sea of corpses and blood, the young man in front of him was more like a magical sword that had just been tempered and forged.
"-you know me?"
Huo Xianfeng keenly caught the other party's doubtful look at this moment.
"No… "
Rhodes closed his eyes.
"That guy is better than you..."
boom!
Before Huo Xianfeng could hear the rest of the words, he was suddenly thrown away by a terrifying force.
At this moment, when the white-robed bishop opened his eyes again, his entire eyeballs had turned completely cold white. Countless red-gold lines grew out from under the man's white robe like some kind of parasitic creatures, and soon spread all over his body.
—Stigmata!
The moment his eyes touched that thing, this word popped up in Huo Xianfeng's mind without warning.
At this moment, he could hardly control the extreme disgusted expression on his face, as if they were natural enemies, causing the young man to have a splitting headache at this moment, and his heart was filled with surging and roaring murderous intent.
Everything in front of my eyes suddenly began to distort, like a backward torrent, rushing back to a long, long time ago.
The young man looked up and seemed to see a huge statue with eight strange heads, long snake-like necks, and each face was hideous and exaggerated.
The beautiful and holy Pope sat on a high throne in front of the statue. The blinding light poured from behind the statue, making it impossible for the boy to see the man's face.
All I know is that there must be an expression of compassion and mercy on the other person's face at this moment.
Then, all the images turned into a blinding white, and Huo Xianfeng could only hear that voice sighing softly.
[Huo Chao, you have no choice.]
what is that…
Who is Huo Chao... What choice...
At this moment, a familiar and anxious voice suddenly sounded—
"Huo Xianfeng!!!"
Jiang Ci blocked Rhodes's stabbing sword.
"What the hell are you daydreaming about?!"
Buzz!
The young man was shocked and came back to his senses in an instant.
At this time, Jiang Ci directly smashed the opponent's sword away, and then fired a fierce shot, blasting the person who was attacking from the side away for more than ten meters.
Huo Xianfeng was stunned for a moment. This moment of being protected gave him a subtle feeling in his heart. But there were too many people on the other side. Before Jiang Ci could react, Rhodes grabbed her arm.
boom!
The silver-haired Omgea was smashed to the ground, blood seeping out from the wound on his left shoulder, emitting the sweet scent unique to omega pheromones.
This was simply too exciting for the alpha. Rhodes couldn't help but grab him and wanted to suck him hard, but the next second, the fierce alpha pheromone inside made him reveal a kind of frightened and angry expression.
"Damn it! Who marked..."
boom!!!
Before he could finish his words, he was kicked away by a terrifying force, which even broke several pillars and created a huge dent in the wall.
At this moment, Huo Xianfeng's eyes were as cold and sharp as a knife. He restrained his anger a little, then turned back to look at Jiang Ci on the ground, and stretched out his hand to help -
"You're okay..."
But before he could finish his words, the seriously injured omega on the ground suddenly stood up, pulled open Huo Xianfeng's collar, buried himself in it, and took a deep breath.
God knows how Jiang Ci tried so hard to endure the disgust when Rhodes approached her just now, not wanting to vomit.
Huo Xianfeng, whose button fell off: "...?"
He felt a chill in his chest, followed by rapid, hot, and humid breathing. For a moment, he thought of the time before the Earth was destroyed by millions of nuclear bombs and insect swarms—
There is a plant called catnip.
(End of this chapter)