Prologue: Break the dawn (Two)
The fight in the hallway seemed to be intense, but actually it was just a one-sided slaughter.
“Stop her!”
“Cover fire!”
“Over your head, watch over your head!”
“We can’t stop her, fall back…AHH,,,”
Under the fierce gunshots and unceasing roaring, there came one or two screeches, symbols that another life had came to its end. It was always like this, without a single exception.
The girl had just broken out of the cage. With bare hands and wounds all over her body, her mind was not fully sober. Even her clothes were ripped off from a dead body, without a pair of shoes. Facing her was a well-prepared army, carrying loaded guns and superior equipment. But the result was enough to be called astonishing, the army was being slaughtered continuously.
“Jesus, what kind of monster is that.”
In the center of the command room, Ce Ge was watching the images of the non-stopping shadow from the surveillance system. At this time, he was no longer calm, fear had taken over his mind. His heart was beating rapidly and a thought akin to the one of the guard captain came to his mind.
This was not something that could be done by human beings, it was impossible!
In the image, the barefooted girl just broke a guard’s neck. Her kick pushed the dead body forward several meters. Surrounding the girl, three guns were pointed at her. At the moment the guards pulled the trigger, her foot on the ground suddenly pushed her body up to the sky.
After the single-foot hop, it was like she was glued to the top of the hallway, moving like a spider while hanging from the ceiling.
It was like her hands had grip, her body was light enough, and she could easily hang on the roof. Before the force of that jump was dispelled, she had already arrived on top of her next target. She flipped her hand, and kicked the target while she was still in the air.
Boom!
When the guard raised his head, all he saw was a white, slim foot approaching extremely fast, after that, there was only darkness left.
There was not even enough time for his to feel the pain, his head was fully crushed into his chest. Right in front of him stood a trembling dead body of another guard, which had not fallen down until then.
Around the girl were several guards, and she kept moving. As soon as her foot touched the head of the guard, she leaned back. Her upper body bent backwards, allowing her to dodge several bullets. One second later, her body touched the ground and like a fully compressed spring, she popped up.
“She is unstoppable, we need assistance! Help us!”
In the corner, a panic-stricken guard yelled at his partner while holding the trigger, firing like crazy.
He was too frightened, and did not even notice that he used up his magazine. It was until a fist appeared in his vision that he realized, his gun did not help at all.
“Don’t kill me!”
He raised his hands in despair, meaning to surrender, but accidently placed his gun in front of his eyes with the muzzle facing outwards. Right in the way of the incoming fist.
Whether it was luck or coincidence, normally under rapid fire, no matter how powerful the female killer was, she cannot stay in the same place for over one second, which meant she should not be able to take back her fist and strike in another direction. The unconscious blocking of the guard might have saved his life.
However…
The fist was never stopped, it pounded at the hot muzzle like a hammer.
As smoke rose, the gun was pounded backward and inserted into the guard’s skull.
The smell of burning skin dispersed, yet the girl looked indifferent, and went away again.
Behind her was the surrendered guard, still holding the same position, while his life had already been taken.
“She is not human; she definitely is not.”
The combat or, more accurately, slaughter continued. For this battle, Ce Ge had given up hope, he was afraid of even looking at it.
They could longer count on the guards, not only because they were not capable, at that time they were also too frightened to fight. The guards began to flee as long as they got a chance. The rest of them who stayed, either was because they had no chance to escape or they were too afraid and even forgot to run away, just waiting for their lives to end.
Moke and his retinue were already on his way to the battlefield. Ce Ge was very confident about them before he saw the slaughter, but since the situation changed, Ce Ge hesitated. He wondered if he should just call them back, and find another way to solve this mess.
His mind told him that he should let them retreat. However, whenever he was going to issue the order to retreat, he felt that if he did, there wouldn’t be any other method to stop her. He could not decide.
He just cannot let go!
That girl possessed the power of a raging bull, and the speed of an arrow, she was swift like a swallow, and violent like a lion. Moreover, her body reflected some abilities that obviously cannot be gained by human beings. Like the spider-like climbing, flea-like jumping, those actions were only feasible in a game, how is it possible to be performed in real life?
She also had a beautiful face, soft and smooth skin, and graceful figure. Only if she changed her clothes, she might be eye-catching.
To subdue or kill such a powerful, precise and cold-blooded killer, Ce Ge can only think of one individual weapon: the Haphaestus.
The Haphaestus, also called the inferno’s fire, was a military equipment with a massive size and weight. Only people with a figure and strength like Moca could use it well. There was no doubt in the Haphaestus’s power. As long as the trigger was pulled, absolutely no creature could survive in front of it. Even Mechas needed to be careful about it.
In fact, the terrain in the hallway was quite suitable for the Haphaestus to be used. Once fired, there was no room to dodge in the hallway. Anyways, ZERO cannot go through walls, the only thing she could do was to wait for death or to be captured.
Sigh!
Thinking of the Haphaestus, Ce Ge could not stop sighing. It was never the case that he could not get the equipment from the military. The problem was, who could ever have known this would happen?
If he knew this beforehand, he would not even need a Haphaestus, he would just call in a Mecha army to conquer this monster, that would be a more secure way.
People felt bad when they possessed the power but had nowhere to use it. In front of the screen, Ce Ge was blue in his face, repeating a single action: clenching his fist and then releasing it. At that time, he was like a billionaire who went to buy an ice cream, possessing billions of dollars in the bank, but could not take one cent of cash out of his pocket.
“What should I do, what should I do?”
As Ce Ge was hesitating, the girl in the screen proceeded to move forward. The images from the screen went through several changes. Gradually, Ce Ge felt that there was something wrong, the tension became even more intense, like something worse was on its way.
“It looks like she…”
“Is moving towards me!”
“Jesus!”
The screams around Ce Ge gave him a warning, he shouted to the microphone.
“Moke, you must stop her.”
“Moca, where is Lawrence?”
“We have lost control, hurry….”
Moca’s huge body was fully stressed. Right in front of him, professor Lawrence was holding the box tightly, moving backward while explaining something with his mouth.
“I am the only one who can use the stuff here, so…”
“That is for sure.”
Said Moca when he walked towards Lawrence
“Let me hold this for you, I will surely give it back to you when we arrive.”
Moca’s movements, looking like a wall drifting, brought about more tension to the room. His jetty face enlarged in Lawrence’s vision, shrouding him like the dark night.
“What a pity.”
Moca’s eye went over Lawrence and fell on the landscape painting which had been torn apart. Moca walked up to Pu De, the younger scientist who was following Lawrence, and asked: I heard that this painting was professor’s favorite, is that true?”
Lawrence was right beside Moca, but instead Moca asked Pu De, that was kind of weird. At that moment, it was unknown what the professor was thinking about, but Pu De was quite upset, his doll face flushed and sweat started to fall.
“The professor liked it pretty much, but…”
“Hah,..” Moca asked mildly: “I also heard that the professor said that he will be dead if the painting was ruined, did he?”
“Ehh… it can’t be, this kind of thing…” Pu De was really embarrassed, he did not know how to respond.
“I understand now; you are just afraid of saying it out loud.”
Moca tapped Pu De’s shoulder with his huge hand, showing understanding.
Every one was under constraint, I know.
“It is not like that, I…”
When his words of explanation were only half-way said, a power went through him. Pu De screamed, lowered his body, and put his hands on the ground to avoid falling down.
“The body of researchers are quite weak.”
Moca grinned, seemed to be satisfied. He did not pay attention to Pu De anymore, and turn his head to Lawrence, like he just saw him.
“You did say that?”
“…Yes, I did.”
The room was only that large, professor Lawrence had nowhere to go, so he just stood straight and held his head high.
“Not only did I say that, I also made an oath.”
“Really?”
Moca looked at his curiously and asked: “What was that oath?”
Professor Lawrence replied seriously: “Whoever blocks my way, I will kill him.”
“Really?”
After he heard that reply, Moca looked at the professor open-mouthed, and responded condescendingly.
“So, am I in danger right now?”
“Not only are you in danger, you are dead to me by now.”
Lawrence was smiling before he said the word “dead”. After that he suddenly raised his voice, and then turned into shouting.
“Kill him!”
“Yes, sir.”
The response came from right beside Moca. Two machetes appeared in Pu De’s hands from nowhere. Their shapes were like crescents, extremely thin, with an edged inner side. The outer side of the machetes were sculpted; an attack-ready snake imprint could be seen if the machetes were examined closely enough.
The snake was ink-black, hissing at the summit of the blade. The blue light reflected by the blades justified their power, and also gave the opponent a warning.
It was a black mamba, the king of snakes.
When Pu De was holding a blade in his hands, he had turned into another person. There was no fear on his face, his pupils turned white like they had disappeared, full of cold killing intent. He was like the snake on the machetes, who just woke after hibernation. Even the strongest fighter will be terrified by that look.
The attack of the snake was quick and fatal. Pu De attacked Moca around his body, slashing at his head and feet. Pu De had already finished seven slashes in just one second.
Pu De’s figure was different from normal people. The sound made by the blade scratching the air was different from any other kind of weapon. A red line slowly appeared anywhere the blade passed, then the red line suddenly became a fountain of blood, spurting like a blooming red flower.
Seven actions, the blade passed through seven parts of Moca’s body, blood came out of the seven wounds almost at the same time. The speed of Pu De’s slashing attack could be seen.
“Ahh…”
The pain came much slower than the blade. With paralysis, it wasn’t until the fifth slash that Moca finally knew that he made a huge mistake. It also wasn’t until then that he understood that this guy with a disguisable face, cowardly heart but astonishing power, was what he should have been careful with.
His heart was filled with regret, hatred erupted like a volcano, could not be stopped.
“Bastard.”
With those heavy wounds, Moca tried to do one thing: encircling Pu De.
Pu De was too fast, and every of his attack had a target. The first slash cut Moca’s hamstrings off. The forth slash was towards Moca’s eyes. Pu De tried to completely eliminate Moca’s ability to fight.
However, an accident stopped Pu De from finishing that. Moca had a big head and his bones were extremely firm. That slash targeting Moca’s eyes only destroyed one of his eyes. The blade did not make it through the bridge of Moca’s nose, so he still had one eye to use.
For an enemy like Pu De, even two eyes would not be enough, rather, Moca only had one left. If Pu De was not concerned about Moca having a gun with him which could hurt Lawrence, the fight would be already over. Just because of this, Pu De still needed to continue attacking, until Moca was completely dead.
This was a chance for Moca, even if he had no chance to survive, he still wanted to kill Pu De. Moca gave up dodging the following three slashes, on the opposite, he rushed to Pu De, opened his arms and encircled Pu De with all the momentum he had.
He succeeded.
“Oh, no.”
Huge forces were exerted on Pu De from all around. His bones made the sound of cracking. The swift fox was encircled by a huge bear, Pu De’s face turned black.
Boom! A sound came out from Pu De’s body, like an enormous wave hitting a stone.
Blood and organs in his chest surged up, Pu De’s neck suddenly enlarged nearly double than before. Under the intense stimulation of death, his eyes turned completely white, and he started to rapidly slashing towards Moca’s shoulder, neck, face and head.
Pu De’s actions no longer had any pattern nor technique, there was only speed and power.
“Ahh…ahh…ahh…”
The machetes continued slashing, their shadows were connected together. Every single second, Pu De felt that he was closer to death, panic almost made him insane. His cruel, relentless face was covered with blood and chopped bits of Moca’s body. He cursed insanely.
“Go to hell! Just die!”
At the same time.
ZERO was moving in the hallway. Her body was covered by blood like a devil but her eyes were brighter than before.
The combat was not over yet, there were still lots of enemies. After several stage changes, it finally came to the most critical part.
She was already tired, but her eyes became brighter as she got more tired.
Wounds were all over her body. During the battle, she kept changing directions in a high speed, making it harder to aim. However, it also consumed enormous energy, making her wounds hard to recover. The most important reason for her fatigue was still the one before: she attacked with all her strength every time, and she could not control it.
Exhausted, she could not take a rest, on the contrary, she had to keep acting aggressive. Before leaving here, any expression of exhaustion would suffer from fierce fighting back, the way to freedom would become more difficult.
Moreover, she sensed a crisis that was not from the enemy before her, and she did not know where it was from. It was like the dysphoria of animals before a natural havoc occurs. The animals cannot tell the reason; they simply know something bad is going to happen.
She knew, she had to speed up.
“Stop right there! You still running!? Kill him!”
“Ahh…you…”
Crack.
“Whoever tries to run will get the same result as him!”
She heard that someone was trying to stop the guards from running away at the next turning of the hallway. They were deploying interception squads, waiting for her arrival.
The desire of killing emerged again, she could not help quickening up, like a hungry lion smelled the scent of meat.
However, she forced herself to stop.
The instincts in her mind were intense, and that made her head hurt. She frowned and then took a deep breath. She was trying to control the blood-lust inside her.
Crack, that should be someone’s neck being twisted off.
She identified that there was a melee expert in the enemy team just from that sound.
She still had to keep going, and the enemy still needed to be killed, but that should be done in another way.
Except for her desire of freedom, this was the first time of her initiative thinking. It only lasted for a few seconds, and then she had to stop it.
Inside her mind, a voice unceasingly urged her to go ahead, a pair of hands dragged her forward. During the few seconds of standstill, she endured the pain that a normal person could never imagine. If she was to resist that voice any longer, her head would probably split.
Luckily she was not that kind of indecisive person, she did not need much time.
She walked up to a dead body, reached out one of her feet and kicked up a gun to her hand.
Afterwards she walked up to the turning of the hallway, reached out the gun and pulled the trigger without exposing her body to the enemy.
Whoosh!
No one could tell if that was one shot or many shots. A beam of red light went to the upper left, and took out all the lamps in the hallway. She then lowered her muzzle and strafed towards those closely deployed, well-equipped enemy.
“What?”
“The lights are down!”
“Be careful!”
“Get down, everyone get down!”
“There is no point in getting down, disperse, quick!”
Screams, screeches and the sound of explosions filled up the hallway. The guards stumbled in the darkness, collided with each other. They bled, whined, and died. Suffering a great loss, everything was in a mess.
ZERO could use a gun?
How come she could use a gun?
Yes, she could use a gun, and she could use it even better than anyone there.
It sounds unbelievable, and even funny, a question that normal people would have in mind was never thought of by them, including Ce Ge and Moke who had just joined the battle. That question was: Could ZERO use a gun?
In fact, it was not very difficult to intercept ZERO with the guards they had. With the special terrain of the hallway, there was only limited space, no advanced tactics were needed. The only thing they needed to do was to gather the guards together, and keep a long enough range with ZERO, and fire together when she appears.
She would not be able to get through even if she could fly.
If she could be hindered, they must be able to keep track of her and thereby pushing her to the corner, then kill her or capture her alive. Moreover, time stood with Ce Ge. Only if they could control the situation, Ce Ge could even send a troop here.
That was exactly what Moke was thinking about and doing right now. But he did not bring enough hands, so he made a prompt decision, killing one of the fleeing guards as a warning to others.
His fleeing guards started to get organized, with the first row lying in front, second row squatting, third row crouching, and forth row standing. A wall made of guards had been built.
In the past, before fully-automatic weapons were invented, this kind of three-row formation was commonly used. The purpose of this formation was to keep the continuality of firing. On that day Moke copied it, and even added another row for increased firepower strength.
When he saw Moke’s response, Ce Ge was pleasantly surprised. He believed that his idea was brilliant. If he assigned Moca to this battle, Moca may have not been able to come up with this strategy.
By the way, where was Moca? Still not come back? Anything went wrong?
At that moment, ZERO used her movements to demonstrate that: you should not use what had been obsolete since a long time ago.
It was necessary to mention that when Moke tried to use the special terrain of a channel to deal with her, as his opponent, ZERO was thinking about it too.
The channel was closed without windows and sunshine. If the lights on the dome were broken, it would become dark except for the corner down to the hall.
Suddenly the brightness turned into darkness, no one knew how well ZERO adapted with this new environment. However, guards certainly could not adapt to it judging by their screams. Right now, they suffered heavy casualties, their spirit completely collapsed and truly became the routed troops.
“Ah …… bastard!”
In the command post, Ce Ge was shocked for a moment, then cursed, and overturned the table. His grace and self-confidence were vanished.
“It’s too bad!”
He realized the seriousness of this problem and started to be panic.
The light was turned off. The only thing the screen showed was dark and the sound of gunfire, which was devouring fresh life.
Screams came one after another. After a few minutes, the muzzle flashes of the gun fire started to move forward.
“She is coming, fire!” Someone in the dark realized what happened, and shouted.
No one responded, the men who were still alive ran backwards desperately to escape. Other people tried to avoid her attacks and fight back sometimes. They were desperate and scared, how could put up any resistance.
After shouting, that guy was shot in the head.
“Moke, come back!” In the command spot, Ce Ge made a final decision.
Moca certainly had an accident, what the hell was Lawrence doing! In this situation, he didn’t care how to catch ZERO, right now he cared more about how to ensure his own safety. He had to leave as soon as possible.
After he made that decision, Ce Ge suddenly felt relaxed and all his troubles went away.
“I’ll be back, you must belong to me!”
He vowed, however they could not see each other through the screen.
At that time, the gunfire suddenly ceased. He heard the roar of Moke, and the sound of loud crashes.
“Bang! Bang bang bang bang bang bang!”
That was the colliding sound, occasionally he heard someone groan with pain. The monitor showed dimly that someone was moving down a corner.
“Eh?”
Ce Ge was flustered and shocked, he listened carefully for a moment.
As their boss, Ce Ge was familiar with two bodyguards. Although he could not see him, he knew Moke was actually a well-matched opponent for ZERO.
“Really? Oh, yes …… she don’t have a metal body, she would have been tired and hurt.”
He explained it to himself, Ce Ge was listening seriously, and stared at the screen. His eyes were filled with hope and greed again.
“Maybe …… Moke can win?”
“Pu De?”
“Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!”
“Pu De, he’s dead.”
“Yeah, almost!!”
“De Pu ! He’s dead!”
“I’ll kill you, kill you, kill ……”
“……”
The curved blade whipped up and down, it was hard to see the shape of Moca’s skull. The blood spurted and dropped on Pu De’s face. However, he still refused to give up, and stabbed him again and again. Beside him, Lawrence repeatedly shouted. The professor was afraid to get close to him. Therefore, the professor grabbed a chair and threw it at him.
Bang!
“What!”
“He’s dead! ”
“Uh……”
Pu De suddenly realized that and returned to normal. He was shocked after he saw Moca’s body. His grey eyes slowly changed back to the original color. With these changes, the grimness disappeared at the same time. The young man became normal and cowardly. If his face was not covered with flesh and blood, no one would believe he had just killed a man in the most brutal way.
“Died?”
“Yes.” Professor Lawrence was anxious and urged. “Be quick, we have to run.”
“Oh.”
Pu De took away his knife and wiped the blood from his face. He looked at Moca’s body which was unrecognizable, and started to fear a little bit.
“He was still alive when I cut off his head, this man… !”
Pu De tried to get away from Moca’s arms, however, the arms still held him tightly. He felt the pain from his waist when he squirmed.
“What?” Professor Lawrence asked him, and came to help.
“Slow down! …… My three ribs were broken!”
Pu De endured the pain and got out with Lawrence’s help then carefully adjusted his ribs.
The treatment was definitely too late. He had to make sure that broken bones didn’t prick other internal organs, and thus, he had to rearranged them before they could move.
Professor Lawrence had to wait and looked around anxiously.
“Are you ok right now?”
“Let me try.”
Pu De tried to walk a few steps, waved his arms, frowned and said: “I can walk, however, I can’t feel my hand …… professor, do you take anything you need?”
“Yes.”
“Including blood and genetic samples? And the analytical data of ZERO……”
“Yes, yes, yes, we need to hurry up, what do you want?” Professor Lawrence repeatedly urged with some impatience.
“You need to take a breath.” Pu De walked slowly to Laurence and asked: “Really? Are you sure you have anything?”
“I prepared this moment for long time. It’s impossible to forget. Take it easy, I got everything.”
Professor Lawrence was very impatient and hit the silver box. Suddenly, he seemed to understand what happened and his face suddenly stiffened.
“Pu De, you ……”
“Ugh!”
The blade inserted into the professor’s front chest.
“Professor, Thank you.”
When the bullets were closing in, she rushed out of the corner and opened fire. She ran across the hallway and reached the crowd of soldiers.
This was the art of war and the only thought in her mind was killing. Before she actually achieved freedom, she would be hurt by each pause because she was not invulnerable.
Gunfire ended lives around her and the guards became chaotic. In the dark, the ruthless massacre happened again with her arrival.
The darkness covered everyone’s eyes, but could not cover her green eyes and her brutalities. Around her, the temperature suddenly dropped. The crashing sound and the characteristic sound of breaking bones echoed in the channel.
“Help, help ah!”
“Don’t kill me!”
The injured people’s cries sounded as helpless as babies, and people desperately wanted to escape. However, they were often caught halfway and fell to the ground.
This not only meant that she killed every man she saw, but also targeted specifically those who had escape as their priority objective. This killer wanted to escape, kill them all!
“Ah ah!”
“Come on!”
Someone realized that, and became more afraid, until it was completely hopeless. The despair made people more irrational, so they picked up a gun and started to shoot anywhere they wanted. This situation got out of hand and nobody knew how to deal with it.
A strong team consisting of dozens of people suddenly became lambs, waiting to be slaughtered after a few moments.
In fact, only about half of the men were killed by her. Of course, she didn’t care and was ready to fight independently at the beginning when she decided to cross the hallway.
Someone didn’t agree!
“Go!”
The gunfire stopped in the darkness. She had just twisted a person’s throat off when, on the side, she heard a roar and three people came and surrounded her.
Suddenly, she was faced with the three people and a huge door, like the walls surrounded her.
Among the three guys, there was a huge person who blocked her way like a mountain.
That was Moke, and his team, named the black wind. At this moment when they were faced with the most dangerous situation and the most powerful opponent, Moke decided to charge!
He opened his arm and was holding the alloy doors. He ran towards ZERO and got ready for this upcoming battle.
It was a simple, crude, and violent tactic. Moke looked like a furious, unstoppable bear.
Moke blocked most of the space while, the two guys were flanking from both sides holding double daggers. They were ordinary people who had trained to be able to run at astonishing speeds. Surprisingly, they didn’t use their advantages. They ran along Moke, looking like they were willing to die to kill ZERO.
After the battle before, Moke and his allies knew roughly about this monster. If there was just a little space, ZERO could easily maneuvered it. Compared their dexterities, his partners and himself could never compete with ZERO.
Walling off tactics completely failed earlier and it was meaningless to regret that. ZERO was coming and at this moment, Moke understood that they had to create opportunities. This was their only chance.
The man ZERO just killed was the bait. Moke cut his legs off and left him there on purpose. If ZERO wanted to escape, they would let her go, however, if ZERO wanted to kill everyone here, she would fall into the trap.
It’s now!
I allowed you to leave, but you wanted to kill us. We will fight to the death with you.
On one side, Moke ran toward her with the alloy door, on another side, the two guys were brandishing their weapons. There was definitely no space to escape. When Moke’s group attacked at that moment, they felt that their blades would even kill an elephant.
“Kill her!”
“Pu De!”
It felt like someone punched his chest. Professor Lawrence leaned forward and fell onto the ground.
Pu De came up, grabbed the silver box from the professor’s arms and held him.
“Ho! Ho ho ho.”
The professor clutched Pu De’s shoulders and trembled. He felt that he had no hope of surviving, and panicked.
“Pu De, you ……”
The professor turned around and looked at Pu De’s face, which was both familiar and strange somehow. He was leaning on Pu De’s shoulder and said it in his ear.
Compared with the physical pain, he suffered the pain from the betrayal. Professor Lawrence said with the trembling voice,
“Why ……”
“For the genetic soldiers, the Terminator in your words.”
“Without me, you, how would you do it?”
“I’m not the only one.”
Pu De told the truth: “I have a couple of rich backers, a ready-made laboratory and many experts like you.”
“Haha……”
The professor understood everything right now. Professor Lawrence somewhat smiled, and replied somewhat conceitedly.
“This field … No one is better than me. Why did you not take me…?”
“I acknowledge that you are indeed a genius,” Pu De said with some frustrations: “It would have been best to take you too, but Professor ah, your goal is too aggressive, it is hard… really hard. ”
He said: “Now, the accident must have been reported. Ce Ge may suspect you and with Moca’s death, then, you cannot even dream of escaping this planet. I think that even considering illegal immigration or other methods, no matter what it is, it is impossible to get you out of here. ”
“Also the company is too powerful in the galaxy, bordering even Star Pirates, you think it’s possible?”
After the explanation, Pu De sighed and said: “If I wasn’t hurt, maybe I could try to take you with me, but right now, I do not really have the ability to take you away.”
Professor reconciled and then screamed: “But you don’t have to kill me. You, you can leave me here and take away the box. Or you can take me on the plane, and just throw me in any place! I can leave by myself, why do you have to kill…… ”
“I do not believe in your methods. Or I should say, I didn’t believe in Gray Hu’s ability. You expect that he can take you away? It’s a joke.”
“You, how do you know Gray Hu?”
“I know everything.”
“How about you, how do you leave?”
“I have my own way. Do not worry, Professor, everything is arranged, and it cannot go wrong.”
“You really have to kill me …… …… …… you can let me go.”
“Sir, please don’t say that.”
Pu De gently said: ” This technology, how can I allow a copy? ”
“So you ……”
“I have to.”
Professor Lawrence stopped talking and closed his eyes like he was thinking or resting. So after a while, he said: “You got everything you need. You have to leave as soon as possible. Why not just kill me?”
“I’m waiting.”
“For what?”
“Waiting for your words.” Pu De replied calmly: “You need to give me the solution for the genetic drug. I know it’s toxic”
“Oh, so you remember this?” Lawrence mocked.
“Of course.”
“Yes ah, if I got it, I will remember as well.” Professor took the breath several times, asked: “Why do you take it when you know it is toxic?”
Pu De calmly replied: “You need a guard you trust, who has a strong ability to fight and protect you so you can escape. If I didn’t take your medicine, I would’ve had no opportunity to enter this room.”
Professor Lawrence thought if something, and could not say anything.
Regret!
Pu De continued: “I know generic drugs stimulate the process of evolution. It is not just a poison; it is actually a tonic, which helps me enhance my ability. In fact, I become half a genetic soldier after I took the drug. Of course, the most important thing is that you thought it could guarantee loyalty. For me, I am willing to gamble with “poisoning” in exchange for trust. The extra strength is just a bonus.”
“Oh, you can really be …… conscientious.”
“It’s not. The toxicity has begun and my eyes became like a ghost, and becomes more serious day by day.”
“Ha this is retribution! Retribution!” Professor Lawrence crazily laughed.
“It’s not retribution,” Depp said lightly: ” You gave me poison, I take your life. That is retribution.”
“……” Professor Lawrence became speechless.
“In addition, if I’m right, the reason why the professor studied genes is not for the ultimate goal to manufacture a Terminator, but to find the method to achieve the immortality.”
“So?”
“So, please tell me your solution, or how to control it …… if it exists.”
“What are you talking about?” Professor Lawrence fully understood, and wondered that: “Are you crazy, what is ……”
“Miss Ellen.” Pu De said a name: “She will taste what I have eaten.”
“You ……” Professor Lawrence suddenly became angry and raised his head. He yelled: “How dare you! ”
Pu De didn’t pause and calmly said: “Miss Ellen will experience what I have. Anyways, if I get benefits from these generic drugs, she will get it as well.”
Lawrence became silent, the anger started to disappear slowly and turned into pleading.
“Pu De, you ……”
“Professor, don’t worry, Miss Ellen knows nothing about you and what you are doing. Don’t worry, I will take care of her. ”
“No, no.”
Professor shook his head and seriously said.
“Kill her, please.”
“……”
This time, Pu De was totally shocked and started to seriously ponder the professor’s words.
Lawrence didn’t rush him and gave no explanation. He just quietly waited, and hoped he could agree.
Soon, Pu De understood the meaning and he shook his head apologetically.
“Sorry, it’s something I cannot make a decision on.”
Lawrence’s eyes quickly turned dim, and his body fell to the ground.
“I don’t have the solution. Even if I did, I will not give you.”
“Fine, I just wanted to try ……”
Pu De expected this answer, so he didn’t feel upset. He nodded his head and got ready to turn the blade around.
“Professor, I will leave here.”
“Wait a minute!” Lawrence raised his head again and shouted: “Tell me who you are.”
“This ……” Pu De hesitated.
“Don’t want to say it? You just want to hide in the shadows?”
“Professor, you do not need to provoke me, it’s for your good.”
“For me? Haha, it’s for my good!!”
“It’s true, I want you to die with hope.” Pu De proudly said: “If you knew my real identity, you will know that the backup you left for Miss Ellen is a failure. ”
“I have to know! You! Tell me!” Lawrence shouted with his last breath.
“Alright …… Well, if you wish.”
Pu De’s voice suddenly became conceited as he looked into Lawrence’s eyes. At the same time, he twisted the curved blade into the deepest place inside the professor’s body.
“Under the emperor, the dark ninja: Yuichi Yamamoto.”
Prologue: Break the dawn (Two)
The fight in the hallway seemed to be intense, but actually it was just a one-sided slaughter.
“Stop her!”
“Cover fire!”
“Over your head, watch over your head!”
“We can’t stop her, fall back…AHH,,,”
Under the fierce gunshots and unceasing roaring, there came one or two screeches, symbols that another life had came to its end. It was always like this, without a single exception.
The girl had just broken out of the cage. With bare hands and wounds all over her body, her mind was not fully sober. Even her clothes were ripped off from a dead body, without a pair of shoes. Facing her was a well-prepared army, carrying loaded guns and superior equipment. But the result was enough to be called astonishing, the army was being slaughtered continuously.
“Jesus, what kind of monster is that.”
In the center of the command room, Ce Ge was watching the images of the non-stopping shadow from the surveillance system. At this time, he was no longer calm, fear had taken over his mind. His heart was beating rapidly and a thought akin to the one of the guard captain came to his mind.
This was not something that could be done by human beings, it was impossible!
In the image, the barefooted girl just broke a guard’s neck. Her kick pushed the dead body forward several meters. Surrounding the girl, three guns were pointed at her. At the moment the guards pulled the trigger, her foot on the ground suddenly pushed her body up to the sky.
After the single-foot hop, it was like she was glued to the top of the hallway, moving like a spider while hanging from the ceiling.
It was like her hands had grip, her body was light enough, and she could easily hang on the roof. Before the force of that jump was dispelled, she had already arrived on top of her next target. She flipped her hand, and kicked the target while she was still in the air.
Boom!
When the guard raised his head, all he saw was a white, slim foot approaching extremely fast, after that, there was only darkness left.
There was not even enough time for his to feel the pain, his head was fully crushed into his chest. Right in front of him stood a trembling dead body of another guard, which had not fallen down until then.
Around the girl were several guards, and she kept moving. As soon as her foot touched the head of the guard, she leaned back. Her upper body bent backwards, allowing her to dodge several bullets. One second later, her body touched the ground and like a fully compressed spring, she popped up.
“She is unstoppable, we need assistance! Help us!”
In the corner, a panic-stricken guard yelled at his partner while holding the trigger, firing like crazy.
He was too frightened, and did not even notice that he used up his magazine. It was until a fist appeared in his vision that he realized, his gun did not help at all.
“Don’t kill me!”
He raised his hands in despair, meaning to surrender, but accidently placed his gun in front of his eyes with the muzzle facing outwards. Right in the way of the incoming fist.
Whether it was luck or coincidence, normally under rapid fire, no matter how powerful the female killer was, she cannot stay in the same place for over one second, which meant she should not be able to take back her fist and strike in another direction. The unconscious blocking of the guard might have saved his life.
However…
The fist was never stopped, it pounded at the hot muzzle like a hammer.
As smoke rose, the gun was pounded backward and inserted into the guard’s skull.
The smell of burning skin dispersed, yet the girl looked indifferent, and went away again.
Behind her was the surrendered guard, still holding the same position, while his life had already been taken.
“She is not human; she definitely is not.”
The combat or, more accurately, slaughter continued. For this battle, Ce Ge had given up hope, he was afraid of even looking at it.
They could longer count on the guards, not only because they were not capable, at that time they were also too frightened to fight. The guards began to flee as long as they got a chance. The rest of them who stayed, either was because they had no chance to escape or they were too afraid and even forgot to run away, just waiting for their lives to end.
Moke and his retinue were already on his way to the battlefield. Ce Ge was very confident about them before he saw the slaughter, but since the situation changed, Ce Ge hesitated. He wondered if he should just call them back, and find another way to solve this mess.
His mind told him that he should let them retreat. However, whenever he was going to issue the order to retreat, he felt that if he did, there wouldn’t be any other method to stop her. He could not decide.
He just cannot let go!
That girl possessed the power of a raging bull, and the speed of an arrow, she was swift like a swallow, and violent like a lion. Moreover, her body reflected some abilities that obviously cannot be gained by human beings. Like the spider-like climbing, flea-like jumping, those actions were only feasible in a game, how is it possible to be performed in real life?
She also had a beautiful face, soft and smooth skin, and graceful figure. Only if she changed her clothes, she might be eye-catching.
To subdue or kill such a powerful, precise and cold-blooded killer, Ce Ge can only think of one individual weapon: the Haphaestus.
The Haphaestus, also called the inferno’s fire, was a military equipment with a massive size and weight. Only people with a figure and strength like Moca could use it well. There was no doubt in the Haphaestus’s power. As long as the trigger was pulled, absolutely no creature could survive in front of it. Even Mechas needed to be careful about it.
In fact, the terrain in the hallway was quite suitable for the Haphaestus to be used. Once fired, there was no room to dodge in the hallway. Anyways, ZERO cannot go through walls, the only thing she could do was to wait for death or to be captured.
Sigh!
Thinking of the Haphaestus, Ce Ge could not stop sighing. It was never the case that he could not get the equipment from the military. The problem was, who could ever have known this would happen?
If he knew this beforehand, he would not even need a Haphaestus, he would just call in a Mecha army to conquer this monster, that would be a more secure way.
People felt bad when they possessed the power but had nowhere to use it. In front of the screen, Ce Ge was blue in his face, repeating a single action: clenching his fist and then releasing it. At that time, he was like a billionaire who went to buy an ice cream, possessing billions of dollars in the bank, but could not take one cent of cash out of his pocket.
“What should I do, what should I do?”
As Ce Ge was hesitating, the girl in the screen proceeded to move forward. The images from the screen went through several changes. Gradually, Ce Ge felt that there was something wrong, the tension became even more intense, like something worse was on its way.
“It looks like she…”
“Is moving towards me!”
“Jesus!”
The screams around Ce Ge gave him a warning, he shouted to the microphone.
“Moke, you must stop her.”
“Moca, where is Lawrence?”
“We have lost control, hurry….”
Moca’s huge body was fully stressed. Right in front of him, professor Lawrence was holding the box tightly, moving backward while explaining something with his mouth.
“I am the only one who can use the stuff here, so…”
“That is for sure.”
Said Moca when he walked towards Lawrence
“Let me hold this for you, I will surely give it back to you when we arrive.”
Moca’s movements, looking like a wall drifting, brought about more tension to the room. His jetty face enlarged in Lawrence’s vision, shrouding him like the dark night.
“What a pity.”
Moca’s eye went over Lawrence and fell on the landscape painting which had been torn apart. Moca walked up to Pu De, the younger scientist who was following Lawrence, and asked: I heard that this painting was professor’s favorite, is that true?”
Lawrence was right beside Moca, but instead Moca asked Pu De, that was kind of weird. At that moment, it was unknown what the professor was thinking about, but Pu De was quite upset, his doll face flushed and sweat started to fall.
“The professor liked it pretty much, but…”
“Hah,..” Moca asked mildly: “I also heard that the professor said that he will be dead if the painting was ruined, did he?”
“Ehh… it can’t be, this kind of thing…” Pu De was really embarrassed, he did not know how to respond.
“I understand now; you are just afraid of saying it out loud.”
Moca tapped Pu De’s shoulder with his huge hand, showing understanding.
Every one was under constraint, I know.
“It is not like that, I…”
When his words of explanation were only half-way said, a power went through him. Pu De screamed, lowered his body, and put his hands on the ground to avoid falling down.
“The body of researchers are quite weak.”
Moca grinned, seemed to be satisfied. He did not pay attention to Pu De anymore, and turn his head to Lawrence, like he just saw him.
“You did say that?”
“…Yes, I did.”
The room was only that large, professor Lawrence had nowhere to go, so he just stood straight and held his head high.
“Not only did I say that, I also made an oath.”
“Really?”
Moca looked at his curiously and asked: “What was that oath?”
Professor Lawrence replied seriously: “Whoever blocks my way, I will kill him.”
“Really?”
After he heard that reply, Moca looked at the professor open-mouthed, and responded condescendingly.
“So, am I in danger right now?”
“Not only are you in danger, you are dead to me by now.”
Lawrence was smiling before he said the word “dead”. After that he suddenly raised his voice, and then turned into shouting.
“Kill him!”
“Yes, sir.”
The response came from right beside Moca. Two machetes appeared in Pu De’s hands from nowhere. Their shapes were like crescents, extremely thin, with an edged inner side. The outer side of the machetes were sculpted; an attack-ready snake imprint could be seen if the machetes were examined closely enough.
The snake was ink-black, hissing at the summit of the blade. The blue light reflected by the blades justified their power, and also gave the opponent a warning.
It was a black mamba, the king of snakes.
When Pu De was holding a blade in his hands, he had turned into another person. There was no fear on his face, his pupils turned white like they had disappeared, full of cold killing intent. He was like the snake on the machetes, who just woke after hibernation. Even the strongest fighter will be terrified by that look.
The attack of the snake was quick and fatal. Pu De attacked Moca around his body, slashing at his head and feet. Pu De had already finished seven slashes in just one second.
Pu De’s figure was different from normal people. The sound made by the blade scratching the air was different from any other kind of weapon. A red line slowly appeared anywhere the blade passed, then the red line suddenly became a fountain of blood, spurting like a blooming red flower.
Seven actions, the blade passed through seven parts of Moca’s body, blood came out of the seven wounds almost at the same time. The speed of Pu De’s slashing attack could be seen.
“Ahh…”
The pain came much slower than the blade. With paralysis, it wasn’t until the fifth slash that Moca finally knew that he made a huge mistake. It also wasn’t until then that he understood that this guy with a disguisable face, cowardly heart but astonishing power, was what he should have been careful with.
His heart was filled with regret, hatred erupted like a volcano, could not be stopped.
“Bastard.”
With those heavy wounds, Moca tried to do one thing: encircling Pu De.
Pu De was too fast, and every of his attack had a target. The first slash cut Moca’s hamstrings off. The forth slash was towards Moca’s eyes. Pu De tried to completely eliminate Moca’s ability to fight.
However, an accident stopped Pu De from finishing that. Moca had a big head and his bones were extremely firm. That slash targeting Moca’s eyes only destroyed one of his eyes. The blade did not make it through the bridge of Moca’s nose, so he still had one eye to use.
For an enemy like Pu De, even two eyes would not be enough, rather, Moca only had one left. If Pu De was not concerned about Moca having a gun with him which could hurt Lawrence, the fight would be already over. Just because of this, Pu De still needed to continue attacking, until Moca was completely dead.
This was a chance for Moca, even if he had no chance to survive, he still wanted to kill Pu De. Moca gave up dodging the following three slashes, on the opposite, he rushed to Pu De, opened his arms and encircled Pu De with all the momentum he had.
He succeeded.
“Oh, no.”
Huge forces were exerted on Pu De from all around. His bones made the sound of cracking. The swift fox was encircled by a huge bear, Pu De’s face turned black.
Boom! A sound came out from Pu De’s body, like an enormous wave hitting a stone.
Blood and organs in his chest surged up, Pu De’s neck suddenly enlarged nearly double than before. Under the intense stimulation of death, his eyes turned completely white, and he started to rapidly slashing towards Moca’s shoulder, neck, face and head.
Pu De’s actions no longer had any pattern nor technique, there was only speed and power.
“Ahh…ahh…ahh…”
The machetes continued slashing, their shadows were connected together. Every single second, Pu De felt that he was closer to death, panic almost made him insane. His cruel, relentless face was covered with blood and chopped bits of Moca’s body. He cursed insanely.
“Go to hell! Just die!”
At the same time.
ZERO was moving in the hallway. Her body was covered by blood like a devil but her eyes were brighter than before.
The combat was not over yet, there were still lots of enemies. After several stage changes, it finally came to the most critical part.
She was already tired, but her eyes became brighter as she got more tired.
Wounds were all over her body. During the battle, she kept changing directions in a high speed, making it harder to aim. However, it also consumed enormous energy, making her wounds hard to recover. The most important reason for her fatigue was still the one before: she attacked with all her strength every time, and she could not control it.
Exhausted, she could not take a rest, on the contrary, she had to keep acting aggressive. Before leaving here, any expression of exhaustion would suffer from fierce fighting back, the way to freedom would become more difficult.
Moreover, she sensed a crisis that was not from the enemy before her, and she did not know where it was from. It was like the dysphoria of animals before a natural havoc occurs. The animals cannot tell the reason; they simply know something bad is going to happen.
She knew, she had to speed up.
“Stop right there! You still running!? Kill him!”
“Ahh…you…”
Crack.
“Whoever tries to run will get the same result as him!”
She heard that someone was trying to stop the guards from running away at the next turning of the hallway. They were deploying interception squads, waiting for her arrival.
The desire of killing emerged again, she could not help quickening up, like a hungry lion smelled the scent of meat.
However, she forced herself to stop.
The instincts in her mind were intense, and that made her head hurt. She frowned and then took a deep breath. She was trying to control the blood-lust inside her.
Crack, that should be someone’s neck being twisted off.
She identified that there was a melee expert in the enemy team just from that sound.
She still had to keep going, and the enemy still needed to be killed, but that should be done in another way.
Except for her desire of freedom, this was the first time of her initiative thinking. It only lasted for a few seconds, and then she had to stop it.
Inside her mind, a voice unceasingly urged her to go ahead, a pair of hands dragged her forward. During the few seconds of standstill, she endured the pain that a normal person could never imagine. If she was to resist that voice any longer, her head would probably split.
Luckily she was not that kind of indecisive person, she did not need much time.
She walked up to a dead body, reached out one of her feet and kicked up a gun to her hand.
Afterwards she walked up to the turning of the hallway, reached out the gun and pulled the trigger without exposing her body to the enemy.
Whoosh!
No one could tell if that was one shot or many shots. A beam of red light went to the upper left, and took out all the lamps in the hallway. She then lowered her muzzle and strafed towards those closely deployed, well-equipped enemy.
“What?”
“The lights are down!”
“Be careful!”
“Get down, everyone get down!”
“There is no point in getting down, disperse, quick!”
Screams, screeches and the sound of explosions filled up the hallway. The guards stumbled in the darkness, collided with each other. They bled, whined, and died. Suffering a great loss, everything was in a mess.
ZERO could use a gun?
How come she could use a gun?
Yes, she could use a gun, and she could use it even better than anyone there.
It sounds unbelievable, and even funny, a question that normal people would have in mind was never thought of by them, including Ce Ge and Moke who had just joined the battle. That question was: Could ZERO use a gun?
In fact, it was not very difficult to intercept ZERO with the guards they had. With the special terrain of the hallway, there was only limited space, no advanced tactics were needed. The only thing they needed to do was to gather the guards together, and keep a long enough range with ZERO, and fire together when she appears.
She would not be able to get through even if she could fly.
If she could be hindered, they must be able to keep track of her and thereby pushing her to the corner, then kill her or capture her alive. Moreover, time stood with Ce Ge. Only if they could control the situation, Ce Ge could even send a troop here.
That was exactly what Moke was thinking about and doing right now. But he did not bring enough hands, so he made a prompt decision, killing one of the fleeing guards as a warning to others.
His fleeing guards started to get organized, with the first row lying in front, second row squatting, third row crouching, and forth row standing. A wall made of guards had been built.
In the past, before fully-automatic weapons were invented, this kind of three-row formation was commonly used. The purpose of this formation was to keep the continuality of firing. On that day Moke copied it, and even added another row for increased firepower strength.
When he saw Moke’s response, Ce Ge was pleasantly surprised. He believed that his idea was brilliant. If he assigned Moca to this battle, Moca may have not been able to come up with this strategy.
By the way, where was Moca? Still not come back? Anything went wrong?
At that moment, ZERO used her movements to demonstrate that: you should not use what had been obsolete since a long time ago.
It was necessary to mention that when Moke tried to use the special terrain of a channel to deal with her, as his opponent, ZERO was thinking about it too.
The channel was closed without windows and sunshine. If the lights on the dome were broken, it would become dark except for the corner down to the hall.
Suddenly the brightness turned into darkness, no one knew how well ZERO adapted with this new environment. However, guards certainly could not adapt to it judging by their screams. Right now, they suffered heavy casualties, their spirit completely collapsed and truly became the routed troops.
“Ah …… bastard!”
In the command post, Ce Ge was shocked for a moment, then cursed, and overturned the table. His grace and self-confidence were vanished.
“It’s too bad!”
He realized the seriousness of this problem and started to be panic.
The light was turned off. The only thing the screen showed was dark and the sound of gunfire, which was devouring fresh life.
Screams came one after another. After a few minutes, the muzzle flashes of the gun fire started to move forward.
“She is coming, fire!” Someone in the dark realized what happened, and shouted.
No one responded, the men who were still alive ran backwards desperately to escape. Other people tried to avoid her attacks and fight back sometimes. They were desperate and scared, how could put up any resistance.
After shouting, that guy was shot in the head.
“Moke, come back!” In the command spot, Ce Ge made a final decision.
Moca certainly had an accident, what the hell was Lawrence doing! In this situation, he didn’t care how to catch ZERO, right now he cared more about how to ensure his own safety. He had to leave as soon as possible.
After he made that decision, Ce Ge suddenly felt relaxed and all his troubles went away.
“I’ll be back, you must belong to me!”
He vowed, however they could not see each other through the screen.
At that time, the gunfire suddenly ceased. He heard the roar of Moke, and the sound of loud crashes.
“Bang! Bang bang bang bang bang bang!”
That was the colliding sound, occasionally he heard someone groan with pain. The monitor showed dimly that someone was moving down a corner.
“Eh?”
Ce Ge was flustered and shocked, he listened carefully for a moment.
As their boss, Ce Ge was familiar with two bodyguards. Although he could not see him, he knew Moke was actually a well-matched opponent for ZERO.
“Really? Oh, yes …… she don’t have a metal body, she would have been tired and hurt.”
He explained it to himself, Ce Ge was listening seriously, and stared at the screen. His eyes were filled with hope and greed again.
“Maybe …… Moke can win?”
“Pu De?”
“Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!”
“Pu De, he’s dead.”
“Yeah, almost!!”
“De Pu ! He’s dead!”
“I’ll kill you, kill you, kill ……”
“……”
The curved blade whipped up and down, it was hard to see the shape of Moca’s skull. The blood spurted and dropped on Pu De’s face. However, he still refused to give up, and stabbed him again and again. Beside him, Lawrence repeatedly shouted. The professor was afraid to get close to him. Therefore, the professor grabbed a chair and threw it at him.
Bang!
“What!”
“He’s dead! ”
“Uh……”
Pu De suddenly realized that and returned to normal. He was shocked after he saw Moca’s body. His grey eyes slowly changed back to the original color. With these changes, the grimness disappeared at the same time. The young man became normal and cowardly. If his face was not covered with flesh and blood, no one would believe he had just killed a man in the most brutal way.
“Died?”
“Yes.” Professor Lawrence was anxious and urged. “Be quick, we have to run.”
“Oh.”
Pu De took away his knife and wiped the blood from his face. He looked at Moca’s body which was unrecognizable, and started to fear a little bit.
“He was still alive when I cut off his head, this man… !”
Pu De tried to get away from Moca’s arms, however, the arms still held him tightly. He felt the pain from his waist when he squirmed.
“What?” Professor Lawrence asked him, and came to help.
“Slow down! …… My three ribs were broken!”
Pu De endured the pain and got out with Lawrence’s help then carefully adjusted his ribs.
The treatment was definitely too late. He had to make sure that broken bones didn’t prick other internal organs, and thus, he had to rearranged them before they could move.
Professor Lawrence had to wait and looked around anxiously.
“Are you ok right now?”
“Let me try.”
Pu De tried to walk a few steps, waved his arms, frowned and said: “I can walk, however, I can’t feel my hand …… professor, do you take anything you need?”
“Yes.”
“Including blood and genetic samples? And the analytical data of ZERO……”
“Yes, yes, yes, we need to hurry up, what do you want?” Professor Lawrence repeatedly urged with some impatience.
“You need to take a breath.” Pu De walked slowly to Laurence and asked: “Really? Are you sure you have anything?”
“I prepared this moment for long time. It’s impossible to forget. Take it easy, I got everything.”
Professor Lawrence was very impatient and hit the silver box. Suddenly, he seemed to understand what happened and his face suddenly stiffened.
“Pu De, you ……”
“Ugh!”
The blade inserted into the professor’s front chest.
“Professor, Thank you.”
When the bullets were closing in, she rushed out of the corner and opened fire. She ran across the hallway and reached the crowd of soldiers.
This was the art of war and the only thought in her mind was killing. Before she actually achieved freedom, she would be hurt by each pause because she was not invulnerable.
Gunfire ended lives around her and the guards became chaotic. In the dark, the ruthless massacre happened again with her arrival.
The darkness covered everyone’s eyes, but could not cover her green eyes and her brutalities. Around her, the temperature suddenly dropped. The crashing sound and the characteristic sound of breaking bones echoed in the channel.
“Help, help ah!”
“Don’t kill me!”
The injured people’s cries sounded as helpless as babies, and people desperately wanted to escape. However, they were often caught halfway and fell to the ground.
This not only meant that she killed every man she saw, but also targeted specifically those who had escape as their priority objective. This killer wanted to escape, kill them all!
“Ah ah!”
“Come on!”
Someone realized that, and became more afraid, until it was completely hopeless. The despair made people more irrational, so they picked up a gun and started to shoot anywhere they wanted. This situation got out of hand and nobody knew how to deal with it.
A strong team consisting of dozens of people suddenly became lambs, waiting to be slaughtered after a few moments.
In fact, only about half of the men were killed by her. Of course, she didn’t care and was ready to fight independently at the beginning when she decided to cross the hallway.
Someone didn’t agree!
“Go!”
The gunfire stopped in the darkness. She had just twisted a person’s throat off when, on the side, she heard a roar and three people came and surrounded her.
Suddenly, she was faced with the three people and a huge door, like the walls surrounded her.
Among the three guys, there was a huge person who blocked her way like a mountain.
That was Moke, and his team, named the black wind. At this moment when they were faced with the most dangerous situation and the most powerful opponent, Moke decided to charge!
He opened his arm and was holding the alloy doors. He ran towards ZERO and got ready for this upcoming battle.
It was a simple, crude, and violent tactic. Moke looked like a furious, unstoppable bear.
Moke blocked most of the space while, the two guys were flanking from both sides holding double daggers. They were ordinary people who had trained to be able to run at astonishing speeds. Surprisingly, they didn’t use their advantages. They ran along Moke, looking like they were willing to die to kill ZERO.
After the battle before, Moke and his allies knew roughly about this monster. If there was just a little space, ZERO could easily maneuvered it. Compared their dexterities, his partners and himself could never compete with ZERO.
Walling off tactics completely failed earlier and it was meaningless to regret that. ZERO was coming and at this moment, Moke understood that they had to create opportunities. This was their only chance.
The man ZERO just killed was the bait. Moke cut his legs off and left him there on purpose. If ZERO wanted to escape, they would let her go, however, if ZERO wanted to kill everyone here, she would fall into the trap.
It’s now!
I allowed you to leave, but you wanted to kill us. We will fight to the death with you.
On one side, Moke ran toward her with the alloy door, on another side, the two guys were brandishing their weapons. There was definitely no space to escape. When Moke’s group attacked at that moment, they felt that their blades would even kill an elephant.
“Kill her!”
“Pu De!”
It felt like someone punched his chest. Professor Lawrence leaned forward and fell onto the ground.
Pu De came up, grabbed the silver box from the professor’s arms and held him.
“Ho! Ho ho ho.”
The professor clutched Pu De’s shoulders and trembled. He felt that he had no hope of surviving, and panicked.
“Pu De, you ……”
The professor turned around and looked at Pu De’s face, which was both familiar and strange somehow. He was leaning on Pu De’s shoulder and said it in his ear.
Compared with the physical pain, he suffered the pain from the betrayal. Professor Lawrence said with the trembling voice,
“Why ……”
“For the genetic soldiers, the Terminator in your words.”
“Without me, you, how would you do it?”
“I’m not the only one.”
Pu De told the truth: “I have a couple of rich backers, a ready-made laboratory and many experts like you.”
“Haha……”
The professor understood everything right now. Professor Lawrence somewhat smiled, and replied somewhat conceitedly.
“This field … No one is better than me. Why did you not take me…?”
“I acknowledge that you are indeed a genius,” Pu De said with some frustrations: “It would have been best to take you too, but Professor ah, your goal is too aggressive, it is hard… really hard. ”
He said: “Now, the accident must have been reported. Ce Ge may suspect you and with Moca’s death, then, you cannot even dream of escaping this planet. I think that even considering illegal immigration or other methods, no matter what it is, it is impossible to get you out of here. ”
“Also the company is too powerful in the galaxy, bordering even Star Pirates, you think it’s possible?”
After the explanation, Pu De sighed and said: “If I wasn’t hurt, maybe I could try to take you with me, but right now, I do not really have the ability to take you away.”
Professor reconciled and then screamed: “But you don’t have to kill me. You, you can leave me here and take away the box. Or you can take me on the plane, and just throw me in any place! I can leave by myself, why do you have to kill…… ”
“I do not believe in your methods. Or I should say, I didn’t believe in Gray Hu’s ability. You expect that he can take you away? It’s a joke.”
“You, how do you know Gray Hu?”
“I know everything.”
“How about you, how do you leave?”
“I have my own way. Do not worry, Professor, everything is arranged, and it cannot go wrong.”
“You really have to kill me …… …… …… you can let me go.”
“Sir, please don’t say that.”
Pu De gently said: ” This technology, how can I allow a copy? ”
“So you ……”
“I have to.”
Professor Lawrence stopped talking and closed his eyes like he was thinking or resting. So after a while, he said: “You got everything you need. You have to leave as soon as possible. Why not just kill me?”
“I’m waiting.”
“For what?”
“Waiting for your words.” Pu De replied calmly: “You need to give me the solution for the genetic drug. I know it’s toxic”
“Oh, so you remember this?” Lawrence mocked.
“Of course.”
“Yes ah, if I got it, I will remember as well.” Professor took the breath several times, asked: “Why do you take it when you know it is toxic?”
Pu De calmly replied: “You need a guard you trust, who has a strong ability to fight and protect you so you can escape. If I didn’t take your medicine, I would’ve had no opportunity to enter this room.”
Professor Lawrence thought if something, and could not say anything.
Regret!
Pu De continued: “I know generic drugs stimulate the process of evolution. It is not just a poison; it is actually a tonic, which helps me enhance my ability. In fact, I become half a genetic soldier after I took the drug. Of course, the most important thing is that you thought it could guarantee loyalty. For me, I am willing to gamble with “poisoning” in exchange for trust. The extra strength is just a bonus.”
“Oh, you can really be …… conscientious.”
“It’s not. The toxicity has begun and my eyes became like a ghost, and becomes more serious day by day.”
“Ha this is retribution! Retribution!” Professor Lawrence crazily laughed.
“It’s not retribution,” Depp said lightly: ” You gave me poison, I take your life. That is retribution.”
“……” Professor Lawrence became speechless.
“In addition, if I’m right, the reason why the professor studied genes is not for the ultimate goal to manufacture a Terminator, but to find the method to achieve the immortality.”
“So?”
“So, please tell me your solution, or how to control it …… if it exists.”
“What are you talking about?” Professor Lawrence fully understood, and wondered that: “Are you crazy, what is ……”
“Miss Ellen.” Pu De said a name: “She will taste what I have eaten.”
“You ……” Professor Lawrence suddenly became angry and raised his head. He yelled: “How dare you! ”
Pu De didn’t pause and calmly said: “Miss Ellen will experience what I have. Anyways, if I get benefits from these generic drugs, she will get it as well.”
Lawrence became silent, the anger started to disappear slowly and turned into pleading.
“Pu De, you ……”
“Professor, don’t worry, Miss Ellen knows nothing about you and what you are doing. Don’t worry, I will take care of her. ”
“No, no.”
Professor shook his head and seriously said.
“Kill her, please.”
“……”
This time, Pu De was totally shocked and started to seriously ponder the professor’s words.
Lawrence didn’t rush him and gave no explanation. He just quietly waited, and hoped he could agree.
Soon, Pu De understood the meaning and he shook his head apologetically.
“Sorry, it’s something I cannot make a decision on.”
Lawrence’s eyes quickly turned dim, and his body fell to the ground.
“I don’t have the solution. Even if I did, I will not give you.”
“Fine, I just wanted to try ……”
Pu De expected this answer, so he didn’t feel upset. He nodded his head and got ready to turn the blade around.
“Professor, I will leave here.”
“Wait a minute!” Lawrence raised his head again and shouted: “Tell me who you are.”
“This ……” Pu De hesitated.
“Don’t want to say it? You just want to hide in the shadows?”
“Professor, you do not need to provoke me, it’s for your good.”
“For me? Haha, it’s for my good!!”
“It’s true, I want you to die with hope.” Pu De proudly said: “If you knew my real identity, you will know that the backup you left for Miss Ellen is a failure. ”
“I have to know! You! Tell me!” Lawrence shouted with his last breath.
“Alright …… Well, if you wish.”
Pu De’s voice suddenly became conceited as he looked into Lawrence’s eyes. At the same time, he twisted the curved blade into the deepest place inside the professor’s body.
“Under the emperor, the dark ninja: Yuichi Yamamoto.”
