Chapter Twenty-Four: There Are Cracks in All Things

The engine roared, and the sedan raced through the streets under the night of Bahirdar, followed by a silver motorcycle that began a race to the death......

Car stereo ....... Adam's scream of unknown meaning was heard.

"Never grow old and never die! SoulPower! My soul is perfect! β€œ

Xingchen looked at the little red mark on the map, the blood-stained Lake Tana, the vein-like branches of the Nile tributaries, and the Abbe Falls hydroelectric power station near the downtown area!

"Perfect? Adam...... You asked me four years ago. In the winter of 2016, November 7th. That night, I cried very sadly, and I was never one to cry easily."

"Why am I so sad?"

Xingchen tore up the map and memorized all the details, and he didn't need it anymore! He stuffed the scraps of the map into his trouser pocket.

"Because on that day...... A singer has died."

[Leonard Cohen.] September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016. 】

[In his early years, he became famous in the literary world with poetry and novels, and later entered the music scene, becoming the "Byron of rock and roll" in the "New York Times" with his straightforward and gorgeous rhetorical style. 】

After more than half a century, because of his wonderful fate with Su Aya when he was a child, Xingchen has always been his loyal fan.

"And he sang ......"

Hiss--- hiss----

There was a loud sound from the spark plug.

"There is a crack in everything, and that's where the light comes in!!!!!"

"Soul perfection? You're like a chick hiding in a thick eggshell! Weak! ”

At that moment, Xingchen half-squatted on the driver's seat sofa! His eyes were fixed on the icy windshield.

Gollum ---

Nervously swallowing saliva, a thousand-meter-long sprint, releasing the throttle, the vehicle coasted in neutral by the last inertia, and the engine was already stalled.

Rumble-----

The stars are ready to take the onslaught!

The sky was spinning, the front of the car hit the exterior wall of the department store in the block, and the stars hit the windshield and landed on the floor of the daily necessities supermarket on the first floor, and the bones in his body were about to fall apart. He struggled to his feet and began to carry out his plan!

Adam braked sharply, and his motorcycle crossed in front of the department store in the business district, and he looked at the twisted and deformed iron fence, the sign that closed the door, and the security alarm sounded.

"Hidden......"

He was vigilant in his heart, Xingchen was never an easy guy to deal with. Rush into ...... Obviously fall into the trap of the stars.

But......

At the end of the security booth, two security guards hurriedly ran over holding wolf-eyed flashlights, and the question was not spoken. Adam glared back. Pixiu has taken their heads.

"Let me see what you want to do, what is in your head, the last straw, the key point to turn the tables and win." Adam went to the security booth and pushed the door open, there was a miasma of black smoke inside, the cigarette had not yet burned completely, and the news of the local station in Bahir Dar broadcast a sudden red warning for rain. and video footage from a handful of surveillance probes.

Adam pointed his electronic eyes at the main passages of the department store in front of his workbench. Carefully searching for the figure of the stars. After finding nothing, he ripped open the door of the safe of the electrical system, and the lightning flashed, completely invading all the surveillance of the department store, and then outputting the video signal to the TV in the security room.

He finally found the stars......

But......

Something is not quite right.

Adam watched the stars wander aimlessly, but in only five minutes, he ran to the fresh food section on the second floor, holding a sturgeon in his arms, as if he was hungry and crazy, and had lost his mind, and behaved very strangely.

"What are you thinking? Stellar ......"

"Have you given up already?"

......

......

Ten minutes ago. Adam stood in front of the building for a moment of hesitation. Xingchen ran up to the second floor with a roll of duct tape, and it took him a lot of time to unlock the lock. Twist the electronic eye with the best view in the corner position to the side, strap the phone to start recording.

Immediately afterwards, he pretended to be weak, his eyes were blank, he held a sturgeon in the fresh vegetable field, and began to wander in a demented appearance, the route of travel was very complicated, and there were many repetitions of the round trip. Then it disappears into the view of the phone.

Next, cut out the useless parts. Turn on the phone to play on the loop and stick it tightly to this electronic eye. It took no more than five minutes.

What does he want to do?

Originally, the destination of the red mark on the map was the power station, but now Xingchen fled to the department store to confuse Adam?

Both could hear the rapids of Abbe Falls not far away, and the power station was so close.

Is the memory of the stars wrong?

In the building, Xingchen sat in front of the sofa in the rest area of the daily necessities counter on the third floor, holding a bar of soap in his hand. Everything is under control.

There was an iron bucket in front of him, two bottles of fine wine and the oily paper in his pocket that lit a fire.

As if he were cooking before he died, he threw the fish into it, and the sturgeon immediately made the red-hot iron bucket jump alive, and gradually froze again.

Slowly roast out the bio-fat, wafting out a fishy fragrance.

Xingchen poured the two bottles of mineral water in his hand. Starting to make soup, he tried to avoid the electronic eyes in the supermarket and became busy.

Adam realizes that something is wrong, and in the surveillance video, Xingchen finally discovers something strange when he repeats his third aimless "wandering". The video signal suddenly changed to "caller-assistant."

In the middle of a rainy night.

Hua Ying ran, aimlessly searching for the traces of the stars along the dark brake marks, her face full of anxiety.

"I can't get through... Predecessor...... I can't get through! It must be safe and sound......"

On the other side, Adam finally finds the stars on the grocery layer. He hurriedly fiddled around with various things in the supermarket, and suddenly raised his head. Bloodshot eyes staring at the electronic eye.

"You!"

Adam read his lips.

"You can see me, right?!"

"Come on!?"

"I'll be waiting for you right here."

"I also cooked a pot of fish soup! Come and try the taste?! ”

Adam's expression was angry, and when he saw the stars sprinkling salt into the pot, he really couldn't accept the other party's childish attitude.

Although I know that the stars must have a backmove, although leaving the cold and damp rainy night environment is very unfavorable to Pixiu.

But......

He could not refuse such "provocations" and "invitations".

and when Xingchen took a pencil, tore off the poster, and wrote an invitation for him......

The Funeral of Adam Bishaw

"Welcome."

Adam frantically rushed out of the security booth and headed for where the stars were hiding.

And Xingchen continues to add seasonings to the "hot pot" happily.

Salt, sugar. Pull over the newly manufactured fur coat from the garment area on the fifth floor, and make sure that the fur has been softened for only two weeks after nitrate.

Finally, he fished out the flesh and swallowed it in a big gulp, spit out the bones, and the bones were boiled soft and bitten to pieces.

"It tastes amazing."

The fur coat was torn to shreds, the soap was also thrown into the pot and boiled, and after eating, the body gradually warmed up.

After doing this, Xingchen finally took out the pencil in his pocket and used his strong left hand to pull out the pencil refill. Charcoal pencils were crushed one by one. The refill is kneaded into powder and stored in the mechanical index finger. Finally, the last blood-stained bullet in your pocket.

It was a relic belonging to the long-eared owl.

Xingchen cautiously, unscrewed the warhead, mixed the primer powder with the fragments of the leather coat, and saw that the compound in the pot was almost cooked, kicked away the fire source, and waited for it to cool down naturally.

Pour down pipe unclogging agents and cooking oil. To make the ingredients of this pot of "delicacies" even more complex.

Strong alkali in pipe dredging, nitrate in fur softening and bullet primer, biological vegetable oil, sulfur and fat, salt, sugar in soap, although some are not necessary......

He's going to make a bomb!

Even if it doesn't work well, it's not powerful enough to kill Adam......

And at this moment.

Adam had already cautiously touched the fresh food area, and the mobile phone on the second floor that covered the electronic eye, and the non-stop ringing of the mobile phone, all seemed to be an invisible mockery of his incompetence and ignorance.

He took off his phone and prepared to answer Hua Ying's call to convey the moment when "the stars are dead"! I want to convey the moment of the winner's "KO declaration"!

Rip off the fishing line that the stars have already laid out! Dozens of sharp knives on the top of the head fell!

Poof!!

Cut Adam's face! Several knives stabbed him in the shoulder, a cold blade stuck in the collarbone space, the pain was scorching, the trachea was almost cut, the lungs were bloody, and there were symptoms of perforation!

"It's ......"

Look at the phone flashing missed call screen, and the "airplane mode" that has been turned on a long time ago! Hua Ying can't get through to Xingchen's phone at all!

"Is this also what you calculated!!"

Adam reluctantly pulled out the blade from the wound, and he even felt a crack in his skull, whether it was a hallucination caused by the severe pain, or if he was really mortally wounded.

"Yes, yes. Men are working hard outside, and women must not be worried."

Xingchen poked half of his head out of the staircase, his eyes calm as water, observing Adam's injury. And at the moment when Adam turned back! Tightened the trigger of the nail gun in his hand!!

Ding-ding-ding-ding-knock---knock----knock-knock--

Adam was like a powerless mortal, nailing the stars to the wall. There were shooting holes all over the body, face, and body, and there were even penetrating wounds.

"Damn......" Adam struggled to throw the knife and mobile phone in his hand as if venting his anger!

Syllable---

"Didn't fight~~ Are you angry?"

The phone shattered, and Xingchen took the lithium battery from it. But my heart is getting more and more bottomless.

[The man who is bleeding like a dying man. 】

Adam pulled out the foreign body in his body little by little, and the wounds all over his body were healing rapidly, just as steel could not kill him. The white hair and clothes stained with blood, and they didn't look weak at all. Like an immortal demon.

"Hahaha! You can't kill me! Stars! ”

Adam Bishaw relied on this to dare to step into the trap of the stars!

But Xingchen didn't answer a word, and crawled with a roll, as if he had exhausted his means in a panic, and fled to the last killing move. The expression is unusually calm.

"You can't escape!"

Adam Bishaw roared angrily and chased after him.

"Pixiu!"

The lightning caused by the Soul Power completely paralyzed the power system of this building! They were both plunged into darkness.

If the stars couldn't see Adam, that little trick in the shadows would be completely useless!

As soon as he went upstairs, a flame exploded at Adam's feet.

He...... The god of thunder and lightning, who claims to be the creator of life, finally feels the threat of death at this moment, and the healing speed of super regeneration cannot match the flames! That's why he's so taboo about Constellation, and if he wants to use the "Roma" chess piece, he has to abolish Constellation's combat power.

Xingchen smashed a simple alcohol incendiary bottle in one hand and smashed it to pieces! The fire spread quickly.

"Come to hell with me! Adam, that's where you and I belong, I've killed a lot of people, and so are you. We are all sinful people."

"Pixiu! Kill him! ”

Through the roaring firelight.

Xingchen saw the scene of a tiger with electric light rushing towards him.

I saw Adam running together because of the range of his soul.

even gave up the pride of "soul power", stretched out his hand to prepare to draw a gun, like a star, "relying on human craftsmanship", borrowing the ugly appearance of external forces.

The silvery-white index finger swirled in the palm of the star's palm and tossed it towards Adam.

Let Pixiu bite and smash!

The pencil lead powder hidden in it, the graphite dust scattered!

It's like the stars of the Ganges, bursting out with brilliant brilliance!

This small EMP channeled the thunder and lightning from Pixiu's body, and Adam suffered from it! M1991 in his hand, his whole body twitched violently and trembled because of the electric shock, and slipped from his hand.

But he's not dead.

The stars retorted with what Adam had said to him.

"You're still alive? Alive? ”

Adam struggled, writhing on the floor filled with alcohol and flames, "Damn...... Damn it!!! I, Adam, would ...... would make an ordinary person so embarrassed!! ”

The power of the soul dissipated in an instant, and the flames licked Adam's body, burning him beyond recognition, but the majestic vitality in his body still supported the monster and got up again.

"Every night."

Xingchen took a pack of cigarettes from the shelf, and he ......

He cried.

Lighting a cigarette and picking up M1991 from the ground, the hot handle of the gun burns off the flesh on Xingchen's hand.

Bang----

The bullet in the chamber of the gun also went off. It's like a dangerous relationship between the two that is on the verge of breaking out at any time.

The cigarette butt is a shocking red.

"Every night." Xingchen muttered, "The friendship, trust, and understanding you have given me have all left my arm and right leg!" ”

His righteous remains clenched into fists. Tears.

"From the lost limb, the phantom pain that came from it was wiped away again and again!!"

He roared at Adam Bishaw!

"Bishaw! Why does it hurt so much!! ”

It's not just physiological, it's just a heart full of holes.

"They remind me again and again! Take what I lost! Take them all back!! ”

Bang----

Bang-----

Bang------

Pull the trigger suddenly!

Adam had just regained some strength, supporting his body and trying to get up!

Left arm for the stars to break! Fly out and far!

Xingchen: "For you, I have nothing left but revenge!" ”

Bang----

Bang-----

Bang------

Bang-------

Bang---------

Bang----------

Adam's right leg was shattered by the stars!

All so-called friendship.

But the glitz bubbles.

In the air that seems to be real and illusory, the distorted air of flames, and the thunder that flickers on the demons, it turns into unforgettable hatred!

Xingchen's eyes were red, but he couldn't stop his tears: "Bi Xiao!! ”

Bi Xiao revealed his fierce face: "The stars are !!"

[They roared, calling their real names, like two beasts trapped in an iron cage. 】

Bang----!

Adam looked at the stars with stunned eyes.

The blood hole the size of a finger in the center of the eyebrows is vivid. The back of the head explodes.

Xingchen's entire mechanical arm was faintly red, as if it had already been overloaded with high temperatures!

Moments later.

"It's not over yet!"

Adam's hands and feet are no longer human, and they are regenerating at a rapid pace with the naked eye!

The same is true of the brain tissue, as if everything is being restructured, but in a few seconds, the monster-like vitality makes him regain consciousness. The cerebral cortex and memory blocks were completely damaged, and he did not have time to regain consciousness. But undoubtedly!

He came back to life!

It's just that there is still a cognitive impairment, and he doesn't even know who he is or who the person in front of him is, and soon he will remember it again!

Xingchen shoots as he retreats!

Destroying Adam's head again and again!

But...... There is no truth about the conservation of energy! It's like the weird superpower of "Soul Power" itself!

Is he immortal?!!!

Puff---- ----

The heat dissipation hole in the left arm opened and closed, and Xingchen's expression was solemn.

Take the "hot pot bomb" prepared in advance, and inside the bucket is a jelly-like soup body that has been condensed.

Placed beside Adam, the star tiptoed down the stairs. Tear the lithium battery through a small opening. The rapidly oxidizing capacitors begin to produce high temperatures and high heat, emitting smoke gases.

"Don't come unharmed, Bishaw."

Throw out the battery.

Bang-----

Draw your gun and shoot!

The massive impact lifted the stars into the cistern on the second floor. He scrambled to his feet. You can still see the pieces of meat scattered on the ceiling. Those blackened cells are slowly reorganized to regain their human form.

The stars wiped away their tears.

He finally dragged Adam this terrible monster.

Then run out of the building and head towards the power station!

Before you know it, the rain stopped, probably because Adam was too badly injured, and the power of the soul power also dissipated.

The stars walk lonely on the streets. But there is no certainty of victory in my heart.

Only the lone cigarette spark accompanies him.

......

......

At this moment, on the other side, there is another passenger in the narrow corridor, fighting for his life!

Su Aya could feel the rising temperature, and her color blindness couldn't tell the colors on the walls...

At first, it is blue, which is characteristic of low-temperature flames, and gradually heats up, turns yellow, turns white...

Jinhua: "It's amazing willpower... You're exactly as rumored."

In my sight, the HP of the UI panel is falling at a constant speed, and the health value that is not much has fallen to 43 points... Continuing to decrease.

Su Aya gritted her teeth and endured the discomfort in her body: "What is this?"

Jinhua: "This is hell... The hell I have prepared for you, as long as you continue to walk, walk through this underground tunnel of the Abbe power station, walk through the core of this nuclear power plant, this trap full of deadly radiation, you will see me."

"Huh... Then I'm really..."

Su Aya almost couldn't support her body, and leaned on the wall with one hand, and told it to burn and wake up.

"I really have to see you! Jinhua! ”