No one knows the details of Thomas Cotton, the grim reaper, and everything about him is a rumor, including his name, Thomas Cotton, except for the cold corpses.

His legend began with a bizarre massacre seventy years ago, when Essezanlia was far less developed than it is now, and even the capital city of Yasbarbes was not necessarily as prosperous as the current town of Mekofil, and there was a small village near Yasbarbes, where 73 people were slaughtered intermittently for ten days.

At the beginning of the massacre, the villagers were still looking for the murderer and strengthening the protection of the house, but no matter how tightly the doors and windows of the house were locked, someone would always be killed in the house the next day, and the doors and windows showed no signs of destruction or prying.

Gradually, the people in the village were afraid, and except for a small number of people who did not believe in evil, the rest of the people fled outside with their families, but no matter where they fled, they did not escape this fateful pursuit, and in the end, the whole village, regardless of men, women, and children, was spared.

The case caused a sensation throughout Ezeljanya at the time, and the authorities paid close attention to it, but after some investigation, it was fruitless, and only a possible suspect was obtained from the shepherd in the neighboring village.

According to the shepherds, Thomas Cotton, a young man named Thomas Cotton was the most suspicious in the slaughtered village, his mother died of childbirth when he was born, and his father, grandfather, and grandmother died of an inexplicable strange illness when he was two years old.

Thomas was raised by his uncle, but when he was 5 years old, his uncle's family was also killed in the fire due to an unknown fire, only Thomas escaped, and the young Thomas was adopted by his uncle in the same village, but only a little more than a year later, the uncle's family was swept away by a mudslide during an outing.

Rumors gradually spread in the village that Thomas was possessed by bad luck, and whoever was close to him would be unlucky, but the village's bachelor Niu Guan still adopted Thomas, but the bad luck still came as promised, and when Thomas was 8 years old, the bachelor was killed by his own cow like crazy.

Then the people in the village exploded all at once, everyone called him the little devil Thomas, who was unlucky, so the villagers drove him out of the village, but Thomas was still a child at that time, and he couldn't go anywhere, he hid in the jungle near the village during the day, and went to the village to steal food at night.

When Thomas was fifteen years old, he was caught stealing something, and one of the villagers accidentally fell off a cliff while chasing Thomas, and everyone blamed it on Thomas's bad luck, and after catching Thomas, someone proposed to burn him to death to completely eliminate his bad luck.

This proposal was approved by most of the people, and the fight tied Thomas to the center of the firewood, and then a lot was drawn to light the firewood, and after the firewood was lit, the villagers fled home, and no one dared to stay and watch, perhaps they felt that this would reduce their guilt.

In the empty square behind the village, only the crackling sound of firewood and Thomas's vicious curse remained:

"I swear! I will sacrifice my soul to the god of death, turn into a black scythe and ask for your life, none of you can escape, I will make you kneel before me and repent, you all deserve to die!"

The existence in the dark seemed to hear Thomas's angry curse, and suddenly the wind was fierce, and the black clouds overwhelmed the city, and when the weather was a little better, the villagers rushed to the square, and the flames had already been extinguished by the pouring rain, and Thomas was nowhere to be found.

The shepherd concludes by emphasizing that the blood-colored symbol in the victim's house is Thomas's pact with the Grim Reaper, and he fulfills his promise to make the deceased kneel before a blood sickle made of blood in repentance.

Seventy years ago, the massacre of the village became a headless case, but the story of Thomas Cotton told by the shepherd has been passed down and has become the talk of people after dinner, and they named him the Grim Reaper, Thomas Cotton.

Originally, this incident was slowly forgotten, and only some old people occasionally talked about it, but thirty years ago, another tragedy happened, and the god of death Thomas Cotton returned to people's attention, or the capital Yasbarbes, more than 30 employees of a factory, together with 131 family members, were slaughtered one after another.

In the end, the family of the factory director was killed, and even though the family was surrounded by the police three times for protection, they still did not avoid the fate of being killed. The massacre was the same as it had been seventy years earlier, with chambers, blood sickles, kneeling corpses and eerie symbols, and the name of Thomas Cotton resounded throughout Essezalia.

Thomas seems to be deliberately reminding everyone not to forget him, just as the gang that experienced the tragedy of thirty years ago is getting old, Thomas reappears five years ago, and destroys a small gang with the same mysterious and cruel means, this time the police even installed cameras without dead ends, but the display always turns to snowflakes at the critical moment.

Zhao Lifan also accidentally saw a story about Thomas from a magazine, as well as a photo of the scene of the last massacre, which Zhao Lifan only thought of when he saw the painting of the Grim Reaper on the top of Pietro Buendia's office.

He first used his divine sense to control the blood of Pietro and Cotuni and others to draw the blood sickle and strange symbols on the photos on the old magazine, and then controlled the corpse to kneel on the ground, and finally used his divine sense to create the illusion of a secret room.

Although Zhao Lifan didn't know when the sub-consciousness nirvana would wake up, his divine consciousness had been upgraded to another level due to the blessing of misfortune, although Zhao Lifan did not test the scope of divine consciousness, but the seventh-level divine consciousness was already able to easily control a weight of 300 catties.

Since the people of the Snake Gang in the conference room knew that they might be the masterpiece of Thomas Cotton, the god of death, they no longer had the heart to sit here and compete for the position of the gang leader, the bearded man looked at everyone's performance, his eyes flashed a little disdain, he never believed in Thomas, the god of death, got up and said:

"Don't scare yourself, it is estimated that someone is scaring us with a mysterious image, even if it is Thomas, the god of death, he was sixteen or seventeen years old seventy years ago, what is there to be afraid of an old man!"

"Thomas made a pact with the Grim Reaper, and it cannot be measured by common sense. The older leader continued to express his opinions.

The bearded man looked at everyone's dodgy gaze, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said:

"Let's not choose a new gang leader for the time being, but we have to deal with these Chinese people, don't forget that the diamonds in their hands are enough for us to spend a few lifetimes, and they are now at the end of the crossbow, not to mention that the sun never sets and brought us a bazooka. ”

Hearing the diamonds, several more leaders flashed greed in their eyes, and their expressions became hesitant, they didn't know whether to hide from Thomas the Grim Reaper or snatch the diamonds at their fingertips, and finally greed prevailed over reason, one of the leaders said:

"Okay! We'll launch a general attack in ten minutes, but whether it's successful or not, we'll only attack this once, and we'll go back to the town's headquarters right away. ”

The bearded man finally nodded, believing that with those bazookas, he would be able to break through the Chinese people's garage this time.

Zhao Lifan, who was clinging to the window outside the conference room, muttered after hearing that the people in the conference room were almost leaving:

"Looks like we need to add more fire!"

Dodge to the top of the building, listen to the voices in the office building, and run towards the room where the beard was.

Five minutes later, Zhao Lifan jumped out of a window and headed straight for a van, if he guessed correctly, it should be the bazooka brought by Pietro Buendia, he didn't know if the snake gang would retreat after seeing the bearded corpse, so he had to find a way to break the bazooka that posed the biggest threat to them.

Just as Zhao Lifan was sabotaging, the people of the Snake Gang found the bearded corpse kneeling in front of the blood sickle drawn by his own blood, and a feeling of terror quickly spread to the entire upper echelons of the Snake Gang like a plague, and even the lower gang members were infected by this terrifying atmosphere and began to be at a loss.

After Zhao Lifan flattened all the bazookas in the truck, there was a commotion outside the car, Zhao Lifan took advantage of the chaos to hide in the shadows, watching the people of the Snake Gang flee and evacuate, and he didn't even have time to clean up the corpses of his companions.

Looking at the headlights that were gradually moving away, Zhao Lifan knew that they had escaped the catastrophe, and hurriedly ran towards the garage. Hu Haiyang, the captain of the escort team, saw a large number of people from the Snake Gang evacuate from the monitor in the warehouse, and muttered:

"Did this kid succeed?"

After so much time, Hu Haiyang thought that Zhao Lifan's operation had failed, and after the last counterattack, there were only a few bullets left in the pistols, and he had asked his comrades to add bayonets to the rifles, ready to rush out, and how many could escape.

Hu Haiyang and the others didn't know that Hua Guo had secretly sent a search and rescue team composed of eight people to the place where they were, and during this time, the search and rescue team had successfully crossed the battlefield of the Ethiopian government army and the tribal alliance, and penetrated deep into the hinterland of Goss City, but Hu Haiyang's satellite phone was damaged during the last attack of the Snake Gang, so they couldn't get the news.

After Zhao Lifan arrived at the garage, he briefly introduced the general situation, and suggested that Hu Haiyang organize to leave immediately, and abandon a few pickup trucks when the Snake Gang left, which should be enough for them.

Hu Haiyang also felt that what Zhao Lifan said made sense, they had to leave this place as soon as possible, so as not to be aware of the Snake Gang and fight back again, he commanded people to clean up the battlefield, took the weapon from the corpse of the Snake Gang, and reluctantly armed the crippled team again.

When dawn broke in the east, Zhao Lifan and others set off again with the employers of the Meike Copper Mine, but the search and rescue team 100 kilometers away from them encountered the biggest threat since they joined the army.

At about ten o'clock the night before, Lan Ying, the leader of the Snow Eagle Squadron, received an order from her superiors to lead seven team members to infiltrate the hinterland of Gauss City in makeup to rescue Dr. Cheng Lu and the Huaguo employees of the Meike Copper Mine.

The Snow Eagle Squadron is subordinate to the Ninth Army of the Ministry of National Defense of China, and the national army announced by China to the outside world has only eight armies, which are commanded by the eight theater commands of China, and there is also an independent unit called the Huaguo Rapid Response Task Force, which is not subject to the control of any of the eight theater commands, and directly obeys the orders of the Ministry of National Defense, commonly known as the Ninth Army.

The number of soldiers of this Ninth Army cannot be compared with other Eighth Armies, but the military quality is incomparable to that of other Eighth Armies, and it is recognized as the most mysterious and powerful organization in the world like the Strategic Security Bureau of the United States, the Red Beray of the Soviet Republic, and the terrorist organization Hydra.