The soldier's fear was always frozen on his face, which brought an unparalleled picture impact to other companions. Except for Rankin, the remaining three soldiers turned around and ran away with a scream.
The danger level in Rankin's heart instantly climbed to the top!
"Don't run..."
Rankin just opened his mouth to warn, when suddenly three thorns pierced in the darkness, passing through the throats of the three soldiers with incomparable accuracy. The sharp vines brought out a puff of blood, and took away three lives at the same time!
When the vines retracted, the darkness returned to silence, only the roaring sound of Rankin's breathing sounded.
After his chest heaved and heaved three times, Rankin roared, quickly changed the magazine, and fired repeatedly into the darkness.
The muzzle of the gun continued to spew out tongues of flame, but this time, there was no sound of hitting metal. A vine swam up in the darkness like a snake, wrapped around his ankle without Rankin noticing, and swung it hard again. Immediately, Rankin, who lost his balance, was thrown by the vines to the abandoned warehouse next to him.
Rankin hit the wall, and the force of the impact made him stare. While trying to regain his consciousness, he saw a pair of feet.
Looking further up, it was a thin man in a loose windbreaker. There was a cruel smile on the man's face, and behind him, there were seven or eight thorny vines swinging irregularly like the tentacles of an octopus.
Rankin struggled to get the pistol that fell to the side, but one of the vines behind the man tapped on the pistol before him. With a flick of the vine, the pistol slid in circles into the darkness. Then, the vine rolled towards Rankin. Rankin jumped up suddenly, followed by his arms and legs, and pushed him to the ground at the same time, causing him to fall to the left side of the man like lightning.
The vine curled up, and the man with a surprised expression looked at Rankin and said, "It seems that you don't want to die."
"Nonsense, who would think that their life is long?" Rankin retorted.
"Very good, so maybe we can make a deal." He bowed to Rankin like a gentleman and said, "My name is Gunabel, and it is an honor to meet your Excellency. Let's put it this way, as long as you answer a question for me, then I will I don't need to kill you."
Rankin's face was livid, and he didn't answer. His hands were clenched into fists and trembling slightly, it was hard to see whether he was nervous or afraid.
Gunabel put all this in his eyes, smiled and said: "I want to ask you about a person, a soldier named Zero. Tell me where he is, and the reward is your life."
Rankin showed a surprised expression, and said: "So you want to find some trouble. I didn't like that guy a long time ago. It couldn't be easier to tell you where he is."
"Oh, what's the answer?"
"Well, that guy Zero is..."
Seeing that he was about to find out Zero's whereabouts, Gunabel couldn't help showing an expression of listening attentively. Although he knew that Zero was in this base, the underground base of the Cossacks was really too big. If Gunabel doesn't know Zero's specific movements, it's really not easy to find him in a short time. Now that he finally heard the exact news about him, Gunabel was not only slightly happy.
So he didn't realize that the warehouse buildings on both sides of him were shaking slightly at this moment.
"Where is he?" Gunabel asked.
"He's right behind you!" Rankin yelled suddenly, showing a shocked expression.
Gunabel was also taken aback, and turned around quickly, but there was no figure behind him. He just realized that he was being tricked, and just as he was about to get angry, the warehouses on both sides suddenly made earth-shattering noises and fell towards him. Things came too hastily, and Gunabel could only scream and watch himself being overwhelmed by shadows. At the moment when he was submerged by the stone flow, he felt the faint power of the earth element remaining on the warehouse building.
It was Rankin who created this result with the ability of elemental vibration. Just now, he clenched his fists and trembled all over his body. It's just a manifestation of his full strength to condense the earth element. Now Rankin is gasping for breath and scolding with a smile: "I don't like Zero, and at the same time, I don't like being threatened by others!"
Looking at Gunabel, who was crushed by a hill-like ruin, Rankin spit thick phlegm in his direction, and then walked towards the dark place where his pistol was. But when Rankin picked up his weapon, there was a click from behind.
It was the sound of a gravel falling to the ground, followed by a second, a third...
In the end, there was a loud bang, and hundreds of black shadows pierced out of the stone pile amidst the huge cloud of dust and smoke. Then spread out around like a flower in full bloom, and finally tie it to the ground. These black shadows are exactly Gunabel's thorny vines, and after they hit the ground, they suddenly rose up. Immediately, countless gravels were lifted up and rolled down to the sides. Finally, the vines supported Gunabel, allowing him to slowly rise from the ruins.
Gunabel's face was so bad that it couldn't be worse. He didn't expect that he would be plotted against by a mouse. He looked at Rankin and said in a cold and heartless voice, "Are you choosing to commit suicide, or are you going to let me do it myself?"
Rankin gave a wry smile.
The elemental shock just now had consumed the last of his strength, and there was even the last bullet left in his pistol.
No matter how you look at it, this bullet is for yourself.
He raised the pistol with a wry smile, then moved it to his forehead. Rankin murmured, "Suicide..."
Suddenly, his eyes became sharp.
"Kill you shit!"
Amidst the furious scolding, Rankin turned his gun and pointed it at Gunabel's chest. He was just about to press the trigger, to declare his indifference. But suddenly his whole body shook, but a vine stabbed out from the ground behind Rankin at some point, pierced the back of Rankin's head, and directly stabbed out between his forehead and brow.
The vine retracted abruptly, and the unsupported corpse immediately fell to the ground. The vines sank into the metal floor, finally emerged at Gunabel's feet, and retracted into him.
Gunabel fell to the ground, and the hundreds of vines supporting his body shrank into his clothes. He glanced at Rankin's body coldly, then turned around and left.
When the thin man's figure disappeared at the entrance leading to the third-floor base, the area became quiet again. Whether it was Gunabel's murderous aura or Rankin's last elemental shock, they all warned the living corpses wandering nearby that an inhuman battle was taking place here. But not long after, footsteps broke the silence of the base again.
Anthony and his party came to the place where the blaster team was slaughtered by Gunabel.
Although they were competitors, everyone couldn't help but sigh when they saw that five people including Rankin had been killed. At Anthony's behest, they collected the bodies of members of the blaster squad and piled them together.
Anthony walked up to Rankine's body in person. The vicious captain sighed for some reason, and then picked up Rankine's pistol. In the pistol, there was another bullet that Rankine hadn't had time to fire. Anthony gently retracted the bullet, and then put the pistol on Rankine's body.
"Captain?" Luca looked at Anthony and asked, "What should I do?"
"Cremated." Anthony said in a low voice, "Although Rankine was a fool, he finally died like a man. He should be respected at the very least, and his body should not become food for living corpses after death. Therefore, Cremate them."
Anthony raised his head, looked at Luca and said, "It is said that true warriors can be led to heaven. I hope Rankin and the others can be reborn in the fire!"
After that, Anthony turned and left. Looking at the captain's body, Luca felt that some subtle changes had taken place in him as a result of Rankine's death.
He was not idle, and took out a piece of solid fuel that was originally used for marching from the carrying tool. Luka crushed it and sprinkled it on the corpses of the blasters. Following him, he looked at Oram, who nodded and took out a lighter from his body.
Oram's thumb brushed against the pulley, and the spark sparked by the flint fell into the liquid, and immediately a flame rose from the lighter. With a solemn expression, Oram lightly threw the lighter onto the pile of corpses.
In the darkness, the lighter spun, leaving circles of fire in the space. When it fell on the corpse, it instantly ignited the stationary fuel. With a bang, a bluish-white flame rose suddenly.
The high temperature released by the flames caused the hair of everyone nearby to curl slightly, but no one wanted to leave. They just watched the corpses of Rankine and other team members gradually melt in the thousand-degree high-temperature flame released by solid combustion. Yes, not only Anthony, but the team members including Luca also thought that Rankine was not smart. Although there is an uncle who is a member of parliament behind this man, but Rankine's talent is limited, and his potential and achievements are almost predictable.
But this man, who was branded as a fool and a reckless man, burst out with great courage in the last moments of his life. Rankin died, but left as a warrior who was not afraid of powerful enemies. As such, he gets the respect he deserves.
Looking at the corpse in the flames, everyone hoped that it was also their own destination. The warriors of Asgard, rather than dying of old age in silence, they would rather choose to die vigorously in battle!
Anthony's voice interrupted their respective thoughts as the flames died down.
"Let's go, Rankin can stop here, but we can't!"
Anthony was the first to walk in the direction of the entrance on the third floor, and the others chased after Anthony after bowing to the dead in the fire. Luka walked quickly to the captain's side and asked, "What shall we do next?"
"Of course it is to work hard to complete the task!" Anthony's mouth pulled a smile: "You should have heard it, that man is looking for zero trouble. In this way, the situation is in our favor."
"But that person killed Rankin and the others, I think he is a common enemy!" Luca emphasized.
Anthony stopped and said coldly: "The enemy of the enemy is our friend, or do you think Zero is our friend?"
Luca shut his mouth knowingly, and Anthony looked at his best friend after saying that, and walked straight forward. Looking at this figure, Luca shook his head.
It turned out to be an illusion just now. Luka said softly in his heart.