By the time Barnes opened his eyes again, he was already in a hospital bed.

The moment he woke up, the pain of drilling up and down his body instantly poured into his mind.

……

He was badly wounded.

Even with such a special ability against humanity, it can't withstand the smashing of an entire building.

Luckily, he was saved by a special support structure in the rubble, otherwise he would have ended up in pieces.

……

…

"Huh? Wake up. ”

At this time, the voice of a man in his thirties rang out in the hospital room.

"I'll just say this guy won't die that easily."

Barnes looked in the direction the voice came from.

A short-haired man still wearing various gears sits on a chair with a bag of potato chips in his hand.

In addition to the man who ate potato chips, there were several beds in the ward.

Including Barnes himself, there were four people lying in the hospital bed.

These people are no strangers to Barnes.

They were all members of the team of agents who had just been assigned to him by the AHB hierarchy.

There were seven people in total.

Although there had not been a formal meeting before, the first time the two sides met was after the assignment, and each wore a closed armed helmet, which was not easy to identify.

But Barnes had long read the materials of all of them.

This team of agents is a total of seven people, and their respective code names are very simple, from No. 1 to No. 7.

Number 1 is their internal leader, and he is the only one who can actually lead this team except for the previous captains who have been hung up.

Number 1 is no longer young, he is now forty-one years old.

A seasoned agent.

He is the only one who can stop the other unruly creatures.

Barnes looked at the surrounding beds and found that Number 1 was lying on the very edge of the bed, apparently still unconscious.

……

And No. 2 is the only woman in the team.

Like the other female agents at the AHB Research Center, 2 is one of the kind of women who are reticent but have a very neat way to get things done.

Now the slender back figure standing outside the balcony smoking is No. 2.

Number 3 is a guy who likes to use some kind of stealth device.

He is usually on some of the more dangerous tasks in the team, just like when he used to sneak into the giant and place the golden card when facing the white giant.

And No. 3 is also one of the few people who was not injured in this mission, and the guy sitting on the chair with potato chips at this time is him.

The other two lying in the hospital bed are twins.

They are No. 4 and No. 5, and it seems that the two unlucky guys are not lightly injured, and some of the joints on their bodies are covered with bandages, but they did not fall into a coma like No. 1.

As for the remaining two people, they are No. 6, codenamed Eagle, and No. 7, Heavy Fireman.

The Eagle was a sniper, and he wasn't in the room at this time, and Barnes saw a figure outside the door, and if he guessed correctly, he was the Eagle.

This sniper is the youngest of the old fritter squad, but still four years older than Barnes.

The last one left, No. 7, the grumpy old guy who had his leg broken by the rubble of the mansion and is now being admitted to the intensive care unit for treatment.

So there were 6 people in the room, including Barnes.

……

The voice of Stealth No. 3 caught the attention of the others.

The others all looked to Barnes' side.

This is their youngest ever leader, and one of the few to survive the mission.

"Little brother, your life is really hard."

Number 3 grinned as he walked over to Barnes' bed.

"It's okay."

Barnes smiled wryly.

He's in terrible pain right now.

It was the first time since his body had acquired this strange ability to absorb energy, and it was the first time that he had been so badly injured.

It can be seen that the energy exerted on him in the battle not long ago is far beyond his capacity.

Luckily, he survived.

"Don't worry, the doctor said that your condition is not serious, but the nervous system is overloaded, and now you may feel severe pain, but in fact, the injury on your body does not involve bones, just some soft tissue injuries, and the recovery should be relatively fast." No. 3 said to Barnes as he chewed potato chips.

"That's good."

Barnes said calmly.

Then he asked Number 3, "What about the others?" ”

"No. 1 may have a more serious problem, and he may have to lie in the hospital bed for a while." No. 3 looked at the No. 1 leader, who was still in a coma, and then pointed to the pair of brothers in the other two hospital beds and said, "These two are minor problems. ”

The twin brothers had almost identical faces.

They nodded at Barnes.

"7, if you break a leg, it is estimated that it is very troublesome, and the whole leg is smashed......"

Speaking of which, No. 3 looked a little regretful.

"But, at least I'm lucky to have survived."

"Neither I, nor No. 2 nor the Eagles were injured."

……

…

Although No. 3 spoke slowly, but invisibly, he probably didn't even notice it, he had put the potato chips on the table, put his hands behind his back, and was telling Barnes about the situation in the posture of a subordinate reporting the situation to his superior.

……

This picture surprised both No. 2 who walked back from the balcony and the eagle who came in from outside the hallway.

Because every team leader in the past, no matter who he is, has not been able to be treated with such a serious attitude by No. 3.

But they didn't see anything wrong with it.

Because when they were on the battlefield, they all witnessed how Barnes stopped in front of Number 1 and helped him withstand the white giant's pursuit.

It can be said that if it weren't for Barnes, there might be a few people left in this squad now.

Such a thing has never happened to the past 22 team leaders.

……

So.

Subconsciously, every member of the team has accepted this young leader.

All along, they think that they don't need any team leaders, and in fact it is true, because they have good enough combat quality, have enough good leaders - No. 1, everyone has their own duties, and there is no need for any so-called team leader, they have submitted applications to their superiors many times, wanting No. 1 to be the team leader, but each time it has not passed.

This made them even more repulsive to all the team leaders sent down by their superiors.

And those guys are really not angry, and they can always be sent to God in the middle of the mission.

All these guys who have been old fritters for a long time have become the thorns in the AHB field agents, they have qualifications, strength, and qualifications, and they are a very headache for high-level officials at all levels.

However, today, these old fritters unanimously accept this young junior who is only in his early twenties.

For them, what is needed is not a leader with strong leadership skills or good command skills, they just need a guy who is pleasing to the eye, and this guy who fights like a mad dog is very pleasing to the eye.

……

After the 3rd reported all the casualties, the atmosphere in the ward suddenly became a little quieter.

Barnes narrowed.

He also realized that there was something wrong with the guys' gaze.

"Uh...... Do you have anything to say? ”

He asked in a whisper.

……

"You can see that." Number 3 shrugged his shoulders and said, "I have something to inform you. ”

"Oh? What's up? Barnes asked.

"Congratulations on being the number 0 on our team." Number 3 said, moving his lips.

"Number 0?" Barnes paused for a moment.

"It's our leader." Number 3 explained.

"Oh~" He nodded abruptly.

There was something strange in my heart.

Isn't he already the leader of this team when the task order from his superiors comes down? It turns out that these guys didn't take themselves seriously at first......

The subordinate "informs" the superior: Congratulations on being our leader now.

This is really unheard of.

However, Barnes didn't say what was in his heart, he smiled and nodded: "It's good, I like this codename, Zero." ”

"We have reached an internal consensus on this matter, and No. 1 will definitely have no opinion." Number 3 nodded and said:

"Let me tell you, the more than 20 captains in our team are all beasts, beasts, garbage, and parasites, but you look different from them, so what you have to do next is very simple......"

"What's the matter?" Barnes asked.

"Try to live as long as you can." Number 3 gave an intriguing smile.

"Uh...... Oh, understood, understood. Barnes nodded.

Naturally, he knew what No. 3 meant.

After all, it's not like the players accept him as a success.

You must know that more than 20 team leaders in the past have lost their lives in the mission.

The position of leader of this team, which can be called a suicide squad, is not so easy to do.

Fortunately, Barnes is still relatively confident in saving his life.

After all, it's hard for him to die.

……

However, after this mission, Barnes also realized the mystery of this team, and perhaps serving as their leader would indeed become more dangerous.

No, just a few days after Barnes took office, he ushered in his first serious injury since gaining ability.

It seems that there is indeed a bit of metaphysics......

……

"Well, thank you, seniors."

Barnes smiled and nodded at Number 2 on the balcony and the eagle by the door.

The latter two also nodded slightly at him as a gesture of friendship.

For this newcomer, although they do look more pleasing to the eye, as an old self-governing old fritter, even if you want to lower your posture, you can't be too fast, and you still have to behave coldly for the time being......

Obviously, every member of the team has a tsundere little heart......

……

"So...... Oh yes, how's the final mission? ”

Barnes thought about it for a moment and realized that when he passed out, the battle was still going on, and he only woke up to find that the casualties of his team members were still relatively optimistic, and subconsciously thought that the mission should go relatively smoothly.

After all, the situation at that time, as long as they insisted on delaying for a few minutes, should be enough reinforcements to catch up and support.

However, when he asked this sentence, Barnes saw that the faces of the 3rd and several of them suddenly became colder, and he realized that things should not be as simple as he thought.

……

"Well, it's complicated, and we haven't received the most accurate response yet, so I guess those guys above are now two big ...... heads," said Number 3 with a shrug.

"How?" Barnes blinked, he didn't quite understand what 3 meant.

"Here's this, see for yourself." Number 3 pulled out a tablet from behind him and handed it to Barnes.

Barnes tried to raise his hand to take it, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't lift his arm.

Now he was a little flustered.

However, No. 3 waved his hand and said to him: "Don't panic, small problems, your nervous system is in some small trouble now, it takes time to recover, there will be some problems with your control of your body during the recovery period, I will help you hold the computer, you can just look at it." ”

Number 3 held up his tablet, clicked on the computer screen, and played the latest news.

It was the horrific battle that took place in the city center last night that was reported on the news.

The picture shows the ruins of collapsed buildings and entire streets that have been blown to shreds.

The screen scrolled with the words "reckless action measures of the military" and "more than 300 casualties caused by the destruction of the building by warplanes".

After reading these news reports, coupled with some brief explanations from Number 3, Barnes quickly understood how last night's battle ended.

For the collapse of the entire building, he himself did not expect such consequences.

And his keen sense of smell told him that the force that hijacked the military fighter plane was most likely the immortal bird that Rael mentioned before.

Although there is no clear information that it is the Immortal Bird Company, Barnes's instinct is that.

From the time he first carried out his hunt for Yang to the time when he gradually learned the secrets behind these things through Rael Adam, Barnes knew that he was now facing a behemoth with deep roots.

The extent to which the other party did whatever he wanted far exceeded his own predictions.

He once thought that the world was completely under the cover of the law, that most of the things were in order, and that only a few special cases needed to be solved by an agency like AHB, but that was only now that he realized that he was still thinking too well.

The outlaw fanatic was far more terrifying than he had imagined.

(End of chapter)