October 2101, Star County, Atlantic City.
It was night, the moon was like frost, but there were no lights in the city.
This city, famous for its gambling and tourism industries, should have been one of the most beautiful places with the most beautiful night views on the east coast of Star County, but now it looks like a ghost town. If you look from the sea to the shore, you can only see a hazy undulating black shadow.
A black figure was advancing rapidly on the street. Judging from its speed alone, it was obviously beyond the running ability of normal humans.
Some of the guerrillas who were ambushing in the streets also spotted this figure, but before they could even raise their guns, the opponent quickly left their sight and turned the corner of the next street.
The black shadow seemed to be escaping from something, running through the streets and alleys without daring to slow down at all. He ran away at this high speed for about ten minutes. Just when he slowed down slightly and tried to see if he had escaped the pursuers, a substantial electric light hit him in front of him. . The black shadow was shocked when he saw this and jumped back high.
But when I saw the spot on the road that was shattered by lightning, there was a person standing at the moment. He was wearing a bright yellow tight-fitting sportswear, with a black line between the seam of his pants and the side of his clothes. He had black hair, and the length of the hair at the back It is left to the root of the neck, and the sideburns are also very long. Seeing this, everyone probably guessed that, yes, this person also has nunchucks on his body...
"Run? You keep running! Can you still outrun me?" Lei Huo imitated Bruce Lee's costume in the Death Game and said loudly to the shadow without any scruples.
The black figure also knew that he was entangled with this opponent and might not be able to escape, so he simply gave up the idea of escape and took two steps forward. Under the moonlight, a figure wearing a black cloak, black clothes and black trousers appeared. Black boots and black gloves completely covered his skin, and he also wore a mirror mask.
"A reckless person who does things without thinking carefully." Mirror Face replied with that hoarse voice: "Do you know how dangerous this city is now? If you want to die, just go away and shout, don't involve me."
"Stop talking nonsense, hand over the things, don't force me to do it!" Lei Huo shouted.
They had barely said a few words when another pursuer noticed that a thirty-year-old white man came out of the corner behind Lei Huo. He was wearing a suit, sunglasses and black gloves, with a straight face. The line of the chin appears rough and resolute.
Mirror Face knew this person. When the consultant and Dark Water invaded the Freedom Front stronghold in Washington, Mirror Face was almost killed by Dark Water. At that time, it was the man in sunglasses who arrived in time to save Mirror Face.
"I advise you to do as he said." He said to the mirror: "Faced with a bad-tempered fierce-level ability user, you have no choice at all."
"Dixter..." Mirror Face replied: "So... Lei Huo is your new partner, ha... haha..." His hoarse laughter sounded like he was choking on sand: "It seems that this The city is getting more and more lively." He took out something from his cloak, held it in his hand and raised it: "You want this, don't you?"
What shone with cyan light in his hand was a fragment of the eternal core.
"Leave it to us, and then everyone will go their separate ways. No one will be hurt." Dixter said: "Freedom Frontline will no longer pursue your previous actions."
"What kind of behavior? Killed a few of you bastards? Destroyed a few strongholds? Hmph..." Jing Mian sneered and replied: "Didn't you choose to stand against me first? I would cooperate with you before, just for When dealing with the Anti-Cross, you compromised with them under blackmail! What a bunch of hypocritical collectivists and cowards."
"You can say that our interests come first, which is essentially nothing to be ashamed of. If you don't have enough chips, why should we choose to give up our own personal interests and stand on your side to satisfy your personal revenge? ?" Dixter said.
"You're right." Jing Mian put away the fragments again. It seemed that he was not going to hand over the things at all: "Therefore, you should also understand that since you can't give me any benefits, how can I possibly spend all my money on it?" Can I give you the fragments obtained through hard work?"
"After all the blathering, we still have to rely on force to rob him!" Lei Huo moved his neck twice, "You are really stubborn. You may not be able to deal with Dixter alone. Do you still want to fight one against two?"
Lei Huo didn't take Jing Mian seriously at all, ever since he escaped from Hell Island and joined the Freedom Front. When he was on a mission, he almost never faced an opponent who could make him take himself seriously. The guy wearing a mirror mask in front of him, although he was hiding under the clothes made of special materials and his energy status was unknown, according to Dixter's description, his ability level was Definitely not above the strong level. Besides, if this guy was good at fighting, why was he chased all over the street just now
Mirror Face didn't even take out the dagger. With his hands free, he said in a hoarse voice without any fear: "I didn't want to fight with the ferocious ability users, but since I can't get rid of you..."
… …
Elsewhere in the city, a man with sky-high short hair was squatting on the rooftop of a six-story building with a cigar in his mouth.
He looked to be in his forties, with a slightly ferocious face and unshaven stubble. He was wearing dark clothes and a pair of military boots. Compared to Lei Huo's outfit, he was obviously much more low-key.
"Oh... That's amazing, you've reached this distance." Fengxuan took out the cigar from his mouth and whispered.
Du She took a step forward, and his figure was already parallel to Feng Xuan: "The other two will be here soon."
"I know. I noticed Xue Xiao and Zuo Dao when they were still on the street. You were the only one, so elusive. I don't even know how you got up." Fengxuan was talking when the iron door at the entrance to the rooftop banged. He was knocked to the ground by the blood owl's punch.
"The lock seems to be rusty and not very flexible." The blood owl was still wearing a vest and a pair of camouflage military pants in late autumn.
Zuo Dao followed him up to the rooftop: "I was just about to say that this door opens inwards..."
"Are you three the only ones here?" Fengxuan took another puff of his cigar and asked after they approached.
"Yes, everyone else also has tasks. There are only two consultants and warlocks left in the headquarters. The boss took Yueyao to contact Xingtian's people." Zuo Dao replied.
"Are they acting together again? I asked... Could it be that the boss is really with her..." Fengxuan said.
"Who knows, how can ordinary people like us speculate on what is in the minds of the boss and consultants?" Zuo Dao joked.
While they were chatting, Gambling Snake was observing the surrounding situation. He looked at a seagull staying on the railing not far away and said to Feng Xuan, "Are those the eyes and ears of Wei Province?"
"That's right." Fengxuan replied: "I really envy him. He can work as a spy without leaving home. How is it like me? Come in wind and rain, water and fire..."
At this time, the blood owl walked up to him and without saying hello, he reached out and took out a cigar from his jacket pocket, put it in his mouth, and said, "Borrow me a fire."
"Are you really not seeing anyone outside?" Fengxuan said, snapping his fingers, and the cigar in the blood owl's mouth actually ignited on its own.
"How did you know I put the cigarette here?" Fengxuan asked curiously.
"Rely on the sense of smell." The blood owl replied, dusting off the cigarette ashes: "Speaking of which... I really want to smell a lot of interesting prey, and I'm a little excited." He laughed, "Tell me about the current situation in the city. Bar."
Feng Yan took out a tablet, clicked a few times, and unfolded a map on the screen: "I drew this by hand, just take a look."
"Is your art teacher an alcoholic?" Blood Owl glanced at him and said.
"Okay! That's it, your ability to create flaws has improved!" Zuo Dao praised from the sidelines.
Unexpectedly, the blood owl looked back at him and said, "This is not a joke."
Jing posthumous... Deadly silence, time seems to have stopped for a few seconds...
Feng Yan cleared his throat: "Okay, let me answer you for now. More than ten years ago, I was serving a sentence. Of course, I did not go to Tidal Prison, but served in a general prison. The prisoner in the same cell as me was a down-and-out painter. I heard from the prison guard that this guy couldn't afford alcohol, so he drank paint thinner and eventually burned out his brain and so on... But I think he used excrement to paint on the walls. Many of his graffiti are not much different from those of some so-called contemporary European masters, and his paintings are impressive just by the smell."
"Man... I don't want to hear similar stories in my lifetime. Can you say hello before you say such things in the future so that I can be mentally prepared." Zuo Dao said.
"Oh, you feel a bit disgusting, don't you?" Fengxuan took another puff of his cigar: "Then you should listen to the story about the prison guard asking me to clean the walls. You can call it a 'sequel'. There is also an easter egg. You Do you know what it is? Yes, the painter brother uses more than just his own shit. Sometimes I don’t have time to flush it after going to the toilet... "
"Enough is enough." Gambling stopped the three of them from continuing to talk nonsense with just one sentence. He pointed at the map and looked at Fengxuan: "Map, situation."
Fengxuan shrugged, pointed at the map, and began to explain: "Currently there are at least five forces in the city. First of all, there is the empire's local army here and a group of defeated soldiers composed of hl. Their team has been defeated. They are scattered everywhere in the city, ranging from three or five people to more than forty. The total number is hard to estimate. They occasionally have contact with each other, but it is dangerous to move freely in the city and they cannot get together. .
The second group of people are the troops from the Freedom Front. They occupy the entire coastal line to the east of the city, and there are several very powerful players among them. It would be difficult for any other force to break through this line of defense, but conversely, This group of people is fighting with their backs against the water. Once defeated, they will be in a situation of no retreat and will have no choice but to jump into the sea.
The third force was the civilians. Their number was very small. They were all hiding in the largest shopping mall in the city. Anyone who stayed outside died. They blocked all the entrances to the shopping mall and found some gentlemen with shotguns and all the junk that could be used as weapons to guard the rooftop.
The fourth group of people is the guerrillas, which can be regarded as a local resistance force. They are a group of dangerous elements, and their number may be as large as the remnants of the empire. They are the instigators of this incident. Of course, they did not do it on purpose. The only people in the world who would deliberately cause this situation are the two big guys of our reverse cross. This group of people are also scattered throughout the city, and they have been frightened by what they have done. Now they are basically in a semi-crazy state of beating everyone they see.
As for the fifth wave of forces, the survivors of evolution, the irony is that most of their deaths were killed by monsters that escaped from their own research institutes. Haha... Who would have thought that the secret agency of the empire would be discovered by a group of civilian guerrillas, and the current disaster would occur in the chaos...
In addition, at this moment, there should be a sixth force in the city, and it is us. We have... um... one, two, three, four... four people and one bird. "
Afterwards, Feng Yan pointed out a few locations on the map, "This is the area where the number of Imperial soldiers is most concentrated. This circle can be regarded as their base area. Needless to say, the east side is full of people from the Freedom Front." , here and here, there are more guerrillas, and finally, this place is the shopping mall." He threw away the cigar that he had almost finished smoking: "Needless to say, the outside of the city was completely blocked by the army of the Freedom Front. The birds can’t fly out.”
The crow on the other side of the railing crowed twice.
Feng Yan turned around and glanced at it, "I think Wei Sheng wanted to emphasize that it is true that even 'a bird' cannot fly out."
"I think I understand the strength of the blockade." Gambling Snake responded.
Fengxuan continued: "There is one more thing worth mentioning. Regarding the issue of supplies, the city has been paralyzed for more than seventy-two hours. Except for the civilians in the shopping mall, they should be able to survive. Outside, People can only find ways to find things in buildings to be self-sufficient. But I don’t recommend that we do the same. As far as I know, the pollution started to spread from the underground research institute at an alarming rate, so the water source in the city may not be clean at the moment. , let alone drink it, you'd better not touch it. As for electricity, there is still electricity. After all, those monsters have average IQs and are not smart enough to attack power plants or anything like that. However, a fool from the Freedom Front is actually stupid enough to do it. During the battle, the entire city’s power supply collapsed.”
Gambler was silent for a while, thought for a while, and said: "Our goal is to find 'that person' in the city. If he is not dead yet, he is probably staying with civilians in the shopping mall, or is being treated as a civilian with People from the empire are together. He is an esper, and most likely he will use a false identity. It is difficult to find him using the Book of Hearts from other people's perspectives. But the current situation in the city is very dangerous, even for paper-level espers. It is also possible that he will die without a complete body at any time, so we have to control the situation first and ensure that he will not be killed before we find him."
Zuo Dao's thinking was also very fast. He probably knew what Gambling Snake was planning, and he quickly said: "Hey, hey, hey! You don't want us to solve the problem of pollution and monsters, do you?"
Gambling Snake said: "It is not necessary to do this, but the first step is to arrest an evolution person and get more information about the pollution from him, and then consider whether to solve the pollution."
Zuo Dao nodded: "Oh, that is to say, if this kind of pollution is still manageable, we will solve the problem easily and then slowly find someone. If it is difficult to solve, we will try to find that person in a short time. , and then run away, leaving the rest of the mess for them to do whatever they like."
Unexpectedly, Gambling Snake replied: "On the contrary."
"Ah?" Zuo Dao was stunned when he heard this.
Gambling Snake said: "If the pollution problem is not big, we can feel free to find people, but if the pollution is extremely dangerous, we will do our best to solve the problem first."
"What are you doing? Do good deeds like Lei Feng? Serve the people?! Do you know the consequences of doing this? You have to respect yourself, brother!" Zuo Dao became emotional.
The blood owl was very calm. He was worthy of being a qualified abnormal scientist. He looked at the problem from a different perspective. He snorted disdainfully and said to Zuo Dao: "Are you stupid? If the pollution situation is very serious, maybe If it threatens the safety of all mankind, of course we must nip it in the cradle now, and all other plans must be put on the back burner. And judging from the situation in this city, only we have the ability to do it at the moment."
Zuo Dao is right. If this pollution accident will lead to a global disaster, then mankind should stand on a united front. If this is not the case, then we should continue to fight among ourselves. Then he thought in hindsight that he was despised by this combatant who looked like a rough guy. As expected, being literate was a terrible thing.
Fengxuan said: "Then, just as Du Snake said, let's try to catch someone first..."
Before he could finish speaking, a few kilometers away from them, a huge pillar of electric light pulled up from the ground in the city and rushed into the sky, even the clouds in the sky were dispersed.
"What are you doing? Dragon Po Slaying, what is this?" Zuo Dao stared, and he began to regret it at this moment. Yan Kong said that this field mission was just a good opportunity to test his strongest level strength and the presence of God. At that time, he felt that the power in actual combat was unreliable. The old man sneaked away to the toy dome in the Arctic Ocean with the Marshal and Doctor Shi, but he let this cheap disciple come out to play with others. It was unkind.
"Hmph... interesting, I have to go take a look." After the blood owl said this, he threw away the cigar in his hand, stepped forward, and leaped into the air, unable to stop him.
Gambling Snake's expression remained unchanged, calm as usual: "Hey... I didn't expect him to follow the team spirit." He turned around, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp and cold-blooded.
He looked at the railing at the far end of the rooftop and said in a warning tone to the two people beside him: "Something is going to climb up, very soon, very quietly..." He paused: "And it's not human."