The few remaining walls in the ruins of the tall building eventually collapsed, but before they hit the ground, they were reduced to tiny pieces and gathered into the "giant snake". The sound rumbled like a muffled thunderbolt rolling through the sky, and the gray-black dragon was quickly covered by condensed water vapor due to the extremely low temperature, turning a crystal white.

An Ruosu stared at the ruins, her face expressionless. Until I saw a little red glow -

The moment the Frost Serpent skimmed over the ruins of a broken wall, a little red light flashed and disappeared beneath the earth.

So the giant serpent hovering in mid-air raised its head violently - as if it were really a snake, trying to choose a person to devour.

There was only one street between them, so she could see it quite clearly—it was Dai Bingcheng's shadow. He did seem to be badly injured, like a puppet in disrepair, the bright red copper film around his body falling off as he moved quickly, splashing green smoke on the ground like gold dust on the puppet's body.

So An Ruosu took a deep breath and raised his hand high, his wrist slightly down, and his fingertips down like a conductor in some concert hall, ready to deliver the fatal blow.

…… But suddenly, there was a sharp sound of breaking the sky.

It only took a split second from the sound appearing in the sky to the time she realized the air in her ears vibrating wildly. At this moment, she only had time to fly, and she took two steps back—

There was a loud bang, and the roof of the tall building where she was standing was neatly cut off like a huge piece of tofu.

The earth and rocks collapsed, and the smoke filled the air. She subconsciously looked at the bottom of the building—a metal dinner plate stuck in the street. It turns bright red because of the high-speed friction of the air, melting a large area of ice and snow around it, and steaming up a misty water vapor.

Then she looked up and saw Li Zhen in mid-air.

He came with the wings of the flames, a spear that shone with a strange red glow trembled slightly in the palm of his hand, as if he longed to drink the blood.

He slowly landed in mid-air, and turned his head sideways expressionlessly: "Miss An." ”

An Ruosu frowned violently, and his fingers caged -

There was a long, crisp sound, and the tip of the frost giant snake was aimed at Dai Bingcheng's hiding place.

"I'm going to kill him, you can't save him." She said in a deep voice.

"I'm going to save him. You can't kill her. Li Zhen smiled. His expression became serious, "You can try it." ”

An Ruosu stared at him for a second. Then Li Zhen suddenly waved his hand, and the lightning burst out, hitting a window in another high-rise building a hundred meters away. The sound of popping was accompanied by cries of pain. Longinus's body was shocked out of the window by the air wave generated by the explosion. and clinged to the window frame at the last moment.

"Didn't that man teach you that this is useless to me?" He turned his head to look at the ruins again. He raised his voice and asked, "Old Dai, how is it?" ”

After a while, the soil layer trembled slightly, and Dai Bingcheng's body crawled out of the ground with the scorched smoke emitted from the soil. He sat reclining against a piece of gravel on the cold ground. He beckoned weakly.

The tip of the ice serpent was less than two meters above his head, and the tiny fragments trembled slightly, and clouds of ice and snow fell down.

A fierce look flashed through An Ruosu's eyes, and she clenched her hands.

The Frost Serpent slammed away.

But she still couldn't see the moment when Dai Bingcheng was crushed to pieces—because just after she clenched her hand, she realized that there was one more person in front of her, and an extra hot spear between her neck.

As a result, the remnants of bricks and tiles composed of an entire high-rise building that had been suspended on Dai Bingcheng's head immediately lost their vitality, and the huge ice snake disintegrated in the air, as if a dense and huge hailstorm had fallen. Through Li Zhen's face, she saw a copper shield appear on Dai Bingcheng's head, and then it was completely buried by the earth and stones.

She sighed in her heart, pursed her lips, and turned to look at Li Zhen's eyes.

These eyes do seem to be different from the other. Although it also has a cruel and cold taste, it is clean and pure, without any impurities.

It's as if it's carved out of two pieces of ice.

"You were a kid when I first met you." She smiled in her helmet and said, "Say to your dad you're an adult." ”

Li Zhen looked at her coldly: "I heard that you said to Dai Bingcheng and Ying Ran - you can't get used to the secret service's practices." You said that they sacrificed so many people's lives to conduct secret research, so you are desperate for this world. At that time you said that the gate of truth was different from them—that you were trading the sacrifice of a small number of people for the eternal peace and joy that would be achieved in the future. ”

"So at this point—" he said, looking at the ruins around him, "do you still hold on to such ideas?" ”

An Ruosu curled the corners of her mouth slightly, and showed the gentle smile that the two of them had when they met for the first time: "Are you going to let me go?" ”

"I'd like to hear what you think now." Li Zhen replied.

An Ruosu was silent for a while and blinked: "We seem to have failed." The future is not as good as we thought. But a man has to have something that he can do for the rest of his life – and I don't regret it at all. ”

"What's more, what about regrets? Can I go back now? ”

Li Zhen thought about it and nodded: "I understand." ”

"See you later, then."

He withdrew his hand and poked out again.

The spear of Longinus thrust through Anjosu's left ribcage, pierced her body, and poked out from behind.

The heat scorched the wound, and not a drop of blood came out.

An Ruosu let out a thin sigh, and her whole body hung softly on the spear, and she grabbed the body of the spear with both hands. She gritted her teeth, opened her mouth, and said in the last word, "...... Tell Ying Decisant that I'm ....... ”

But the brightest hint in her eyes faded. Li Zhen drew his gun, and the body fell to the ground.

He leaned down and lifted An Ruosu's mask, and a layer of frost crept up her face.

After waiting for a few seconds to confirm that the once-gentle Doctor Ann was indeed dead, he turned and pulled out an afterimage in mid-air—just as Longinus struggled to climb the window. Rolled over and fell into the house.

So he felt the gale when he looked up, and saw Li Zhen standing in front of him, gathering a pair of flaming wings behind him.

He coughed twice in a dull manner, and his mask was coated with blood.

Li Zhen reached out and lifted his mask - the old man closed his eyes in silence, waiting for the ultra-low temperature to kill him. Yet he felt a wave of warmth.

It is clear that the other side does not intend to deprive him of his life immediately.

Li Zhen looked at him slightly sideways for a while, and asked, "So you are the one with the biggest official in the Gate of Truth—the First Elder?" ”

Longinus tried to maintain his majesty. But the injuries inflicted by Dai Bingcheng and Li Zhen caused him to bend down in pain after he straightened his waist, and his long white beard trembled in the breeze.

Li Zhen sighed: "I always thought that the old man was always kind, but I didn't expect you to be among them." After living a handful of years and living such a result, is it meaningful for you to pursue something? ”

Longinus leaned against the window frame and took a heavy breath before saying, "Fate wants me to do this." Youngster. ”

He waved his hand. Wipe the blood from the corners of her mouth and smile.

He was looking at Li Zhen—there was no despair in his eyes, and there was no deeper sadness in his eyes. On the contrary, Li Zhen felt that the look was a little familiar-

He had seen a similar light in the eyes of the smug Shen Mu.

It was then that he shared with himself one afternoon his theory of the grand unification field—the look in his eyes when he saw the most perfect work that he had spent his whole life producing.

Li Zhen frowned.

Longinus laughed, "We thought that was the one we were looking for. But now it turns out that you are—you're the one who survives to the last of your life. That's fate. ”

Li Zhen looked at him. said coldly: "Do you still believe in fate until now? The Holy Spirit and the so-called Lord that you once believed in no longer exist—they are not gods. It's a real creature – what fate do you believe in now? ”

Longinus shook his head tiredly: "What is fate?" It is what is destined to happen in the future. You also know that there is a prophet in this world - then a prophet observed something. And what is wrong with us calling it fate? ”

He fixed his gaze on the gun in Li Zhen's hand and exclaimed, "Look. This thing is now in your hands...... That's fate. ”

Li Zhen looked at him seriously. However, he thought that the old man was awake at the moment—by no means mad because the end was coming.

So he paused: "What is the fate of your mouth?" What will happen in the future? What does it have to do with me? ”

Longinus slid to the ground against the wall and raised a hand to stop him: "The gun in your hand is called the Spear of Longinus." And my last name is Longinus - but more than two thousand years ago...... Or rather, two thousand and twenty years ago, it was just a name. ”

"Young man, my ancestors were Romans. This is his former name. ”

Li Zhen took a soft breath. He had doubts about the fact that the elder of the Gate of Truth was named Longinus, and that the spear was in their hands in the first place......

What is the relationship between the two?

Longinus's life was clearly running out, yet he seemed in a hurry to get something out of his mouth. Therefore, without waiting for Li Zhen to question him again, he smiled and said like a preacher: "Lucifer must have explained everything to you—about the Great Master, about his two successors. You are the bloodline of the Yellow Emperor......"

"But do you know that I am also in his blood."

Li Zhen was slightly surprised. Yet he shook his head: "You're Caucasian. ”

"But thousands of years ago my ancestors weren't." "I'll tell you everything—as compensation for the way we've gone astray," Longinus said wearily. ”

"You know that the Great Lord left behind two clones when he was about to die. One was the successor to what would become known as the Yellow Emperor, while the other inherited most of his evil—or all his sorrow, despair, and hesitation. ”

"You also know that the Yellow Emperor suppressed the other species, and also suppressed the other half of his clones. But that was repression, not extermination. The other half is not an ordinary species, and our common ancestor does not know when it will awaken. So. In our words today, he left an insurance policy. ”

"You mean, he left the gun." Li Zhen said in a deep voice.

"That's right." Longinus smiled weakly and nodded, "Lucifer can give that little friend of yours the strength to make her a disciple, then the Yellow Emperor can do the same, and do it better than it." He created a disciple and gave him the spear before he fell asleep. ”

"The disciple left by our ancestors gave birth to offspring and passed on the secret. The other half had indeed been asleep for a long time—so long that even the disciples' strength had been weakened by the dilution of their bloodlines. However, just before that powerful ability died out completely, it awakened. ”

"You mean......" Li Zhen muttered. Hesitate slightly. "The One who was crucified."

"Yes. It calls itself the Son – and that is true in a way. ”

Li Zhen frowned: "But it is said that - even if it is just a legend, I think the difference from the truth is not too big - that one is quite a kind person." ”

"The things it has to do demand from it. And what it wanted to do was the same thing we wanted to do before – just it didn't have time. Longinus shook his head slowly, "It's not fully awakened yet, and its strength isn't strong yet—not enough to counter even the military power of the time. So it opted for a gentler way. ”

"But it did not anticipate that humanity had become arrogant enough to ignore all authority – that the rulers of the time could not tolerate such a 'man' on their land. You can find the details of this in the history books. That's true. The cause of the incident was the fear of losing their power to the rulers of the human race. And what brought that thing to an end...... It was my ancestor named Longinus. ”

"It tried to perform a miracle like 'resurrection from the dead' to achieve its goal, but it did not expect a Roman soldier named Longinus to have that deadly weapon in his hands."

"My ancestors stabbed it with this spear in your hand. However, the initial strength had been diluted by generations of human blood, and he hadn't done it well enough - it had taken a heavy hit. But it was still 'resurrected'. It's just that after resurrection, it quickly reverts back to its original form and goes dormant - you've seen the core in the Philippines. ”

Li Zhen pondered for a moment and shook his head: "Then what your ancestor did is what I want to do now, and what you have to do is what it was supposed to do." How did you jump from one faction to another? ”

Longinus's expression became serious: "Because my ancestor finally listened to its teachings—he understood the good intentions of that one." But that era was not the best era, there were too few human beings. Now, it's our golden age. ”

He sighed, "I may not be able to see that day coming, but you. As I said before, this gun is in your hand. My ancestors used it to stop a bad decision, and today you will use it to carry out the will of that one. ”

"Destroy all mankind? Nonsense. Li Zhen sneered, "It's just a tool, but I still have brains." ”

"Also...... You still think I'm that Lord. But now that you've seen my position, I'm not interested in turning the entire world into aliens. You say that you are also a descendant of the Yellow Emperor - then perhaps you do not see yourself as a human being, but as a kindred race. ”

"But what I don't understand is, what kind of prophecy makes you think that one day in the future my brain will suddenly break down, sacrificing those I care about for the sake of your community?"

Longinus glanced at Li Zhen and stroked his ribs with his hand. Blood was pouring out of it - and now he felt like he was warm in his winter suit, as if he had returned to the warmth of the room.

So he sighed comfortably, feeling that the wound seemed to be less painful anymore.

He smiled and shook his head at Li Zhen: "You are a happy person. Someday you will learn this. ”

Li Zhen waited a little longer, but Longinus stopped talking.

Realizing something, he walked over and put his hand under his nose - breathing stopped.

All right. He also sighed in his heart - just like in many TV series, the villain dies with a smile, leaving a suspense for the protagonist of Radiance and Justice.

He turned and flew out of the window. The corpse by the window was soon covered in frost and turned into an ice sculpture.

Dai Bingcheng reclined on a broken marble slab, several pieces of crimson copper floating around him, providing him with heat.

When Li Zhen fell in front of him, the blood had already soaked the ground under him. His left hand was bent at an eerie angle, one eye was closed, and his eyelids were bloody and blurry. A patch of skin on his left shoulder vanished, revealing the blood-red muscles underneath.

His uniform was torn in many places, and blood was almost all over his body. It seemed that he didn't have the slightest strength to do anything other than barely use his psionic energy to maintain his body temperature.

When he saw Li Zhen, he smiled weakly: "You talk for a while, I won't be able to wait for you to come." ”

And Li Zhen looked at him with a complicated expression, and after the last moment, he didn't say anything and hugged him.

It's the kind of "princess hug" that is used. Dai Bingcheng was obviously quite unaccustomed to this posture, but fortunately, the blood stains on his face covered his expression. As the two of them flew into the sky, he laboriously whispered, "...... There is something strange. I suspect they're covering someone's way. I didn't find the First Saint. ”

Li Zhen smiled: "I know the way." Can't run. Rest assured. ”

Snowflakes were falling from the sky. Li Zhen looked up - the sky was clear overhead, and there were no clouds.

Dai Bingcheng coughed up a mouthful of blood, trying to alleviate the current awkward atmosphere between the two people: "Sunny and snowy days are rare." ”

But Li Zhen turned his head to look at the central area of Murmansk, the base camp of the Gate of Truth, and shook his head slightly.

"It's not snow." "It's carbon dioxide," he said in a deep voice. (To be continued......)