16- The Advent of Nicholas
All morning, Shi Yu had been fiddling with his sister's crystal necklace under the tree. Whenever he saw this thing, the vague figure of Toshiko Imagawa always came to mind.
"Brother will definitely find you." He muttered to himself.
At this moment, there was the sound of hurried footsteps behind him, and all the thoughts in his mind were suddenly shattered at this moment.
"Who's behind? Don't be so sneaky. After Shi Yu finished speaking, he continued to look at his necklace.
"Brother...... Brother ......"
This shout startled Shi Yu, and at that moment, his heart seemed to be hit by Wanjun Thunder. He turned his head and caught a small white figure in his eyes. Seeing this, he almost fainted.
Standing in front of him was his long-lost sister, Toshiko Imagawa.
"Lizi! ......" Shi Yu jumped up from the ground, hugged Lizi tightly, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.
"Where have you been all these years?" Shi Yu asked, "You don't know what my brother thinks about you day and night...... I'm about to break down! ”
"Brother, I'm back now." Riko said, wiping tears from his face with her hand. Suddenly, a very unusual smell entered Shi Yu's nose, not so much that it came from Lizi's hand, but that Lizi had this smell on his body. Sensing something was wrong, he let go of the sharp and took a step back.
"Riko, do you remember what this is?" Shi Yu raised the crystal necklace and asked.
"That's my crystal necklace!"
"Oh, and do you remember what's carved on it?" He asked, retracting the necklace.
"This ......" she hesitated for a long time until a pistol was pressed to her head.
"Brother...... What are you doing? ”
"I'm sure that even when Riko gets old, she won't forget his own name engraved on it." Shi Yu sneered and said, "It seems that your acting skills still need to be strengthened, my dear cloned orc." ”
The clone orc saw that his disguise had been revealed, and he spread his claws and pounced on the rain. Shi Yu dodged and then fired a shot at the clone orc, but it missed. When he tried to shoot again, the clone suddenly convulsed in place, and then fell to the ground.
"It must have broken into the military base last night." Colonel Alek came over and said.
"This bastard almost killed me!" When the rain channel.
Alek said to the people behind him, "Tell someone to wait at the door of the laboratory, I want to see what this cloned orc is capable of." ”
Ten minutes later, Shi Yu was called to the command room again.
"There's an order from Ivaki's side, you're going to Stena County to join up with the 'fog' squadron there, and there's a mission for all of you to work together." "Maybe you can meet them, reuniting, to be exact." ”
After a while, Shi Yu was taken away. The county town of Stena has been completely blockaded by the army. As soon as he arrived at the camp where the "Fog" squadron was located, he saw Leopard Rees and Fine.
"Shi Yu, you've arrived too." Leopard Rees stood up and said hello.
"Hasn't Edo come yet?" Shi Yu sat down and asked.
"I don't know, they're probably still stuck in traffic."
It was a few more minutes before Edo and Lana walked in from outside. They looked as if they had just been through a battle.
"Edo...... Brother, here you are! Leopard Rees stepped forward, and he was about to give Edo a hug when the soldier behind him suddenly stopped him.
"Come back, come back!" A small group of soldiers suddenly stood in line behind Leopard Rees, who stayed where he was, not daring to move. Suddenly, an evil smile appeared on Edo's face, he licked his mouth, and then lunged at Leopard Reese, who instinctively crouched down, and the soldiers behind began to fire at Edo, as well as Lana, who was just about to rush over, and the two of them were shot several times and fell to the ground without moving.
"Clone orcs?!" Leopard Reese said. This scene also stunned the two dragons who had just stepped into the base.
"Hey, I've got all my guns." Edo said, "You're just not giving me face? ”
"If I had given you face, I would have been dismantled by them." Leopard Rees said.
"Why is there such a mess here?" Lake and Wu Qiming came to the scene.
"Sir, this place was attacked by two cloned orcs, and the target has been killed."
A soldier pointed to two bodies lying on the ground.
"It's getting more and more serious." Wu Qiming said, "You have to make a plan early"
"It seems that DIVE is moving faster than we do." Lake Road.
"Guardians, the affairs here are handled by others, you come with me, I have a task to assign."
"Task Force members Edo and Lana managed to destroy DIVE's 'Colony Zero' of cloned orcs last week, but before that, DIVE had already produced many finished products and released them into the wild. In the past few days, there have been frequent incidents of cloned orcs hurting people in many places, although the clone orcs can be distinguished by military police dogs and the biological scanning system of the laboratory, but we can't control all the residents, so the only thing we can do at present is to let the residents load their guns and then take the necessary protective measures; Hospitals everywhere are to do a good job of quarantine, and if the cloned orcs are found to be in possession of pathogens, they should immediately report to the army and Ivac branches. On the other side of the conference room hung a projection screen, and Wu Qiming was not only speaking to the guards, but also to the delegates on the screen.
"Yes!" There was a voice on the stereo.
"Alright, guardians, I'm going to give you a mission." Wu Qiming switched the projection, and a photo of a gray plain dragon suddenly appeared on it. "Her name is Berena Nordens, she is a geneticist of Ivach, and soon after the 'Broken Heart' operation, she began to do research on cloned orcs, but Ivac officially came to the news, eight hours ago, Berena suddenly entered a state of disconnection, and no means of communication could contact her, but we are sure that Berena was not killed, but we don't know if she had an accident, so today you are going to a county called Kedan to find her, and then bring her back here safely."
When the group arrived at Kedan, it was already seven o'clock in the evening, and this was also the time when the business of various gourmet shops was booming. The group walked into a food court called "Manor Street", and although it was raining lightly, it was still crowded with people. At the street corner, they encountered a heavily armed police force.
"We are a local SWAT detachment, and if you need anything, you can call us for assistance." said the captain of the SWAT team.
"Thank you for your help." Leopard Rees said.
"Wu Qiming said that Borena is in a pharmacy on this street, but what I see so far is a barbecue stall or a barbecue stall."
"Take a skewer from each of you, freshly baked." Edo had a few more skewers of roast meat in his hand, and he divided them among the others.
"Seriously, I've only had a barbecue once since I was a kid." Shi Yu said, "And that was when I was in the rescue camp." ”
"We used to grill raw meat on super-hot pebbles, which is great for freshly hunted meat." Lana said.
"When it comes to barbecue, I have to talk about my dad." "I still remember the scene of us setting up a small oven in the backyard! ”
"Here we are...... Chen's Pharmacy, this is it! The gazelle said, pointing to a red sign on the side of the street. The group walked into the pharmacy – this pharmacy was located on the second floor. The retro door has the word "Please come in" written in both Chinese and English. But when they pushed the door open and walked in, they found it empty.
"Is anyone there?" Edo shouted.
At this time, a pair of gray wings emerged from behind a certain medicine cabinet, and then a dragon in a white coat walked over and entered the back of the counter, looking a little nervous in the face of the arrival of the five people.
"Good evening, is there anything I can do to help?" She asked.
"Are you Ms. Berena Nordens?" Leopard Rees asked.
"I am." Berenna's eyes narrowed, and her expression became more serious.
"We're the Guardian Squad." Leopard Rees showed his badge.
"It turned out to be the Guardian." Her face relaxed, "Wu Qiming told me a story about you, it's good that you signed up early, otherwise I would have thought you were from DIVE." ”
"I'm Berina." She laughed, "Kids, what are you doing here today?" ”
"We're going to make sure you're safe and take you away." Edo said.
"Take away? Well, what a shame. "Mrs. Chen, I'm leaving," and as soon as she finished speaking, an elderly corgi opened the door and entered, also dressed in a white coat and with a kind smile on her face, like Mrs. Belinsky of the Denua Heights.
"Mrs. Chen, I may have to go back for a while, thank you for taking me in."
"Alright, little girl, you're a scientist, and I'm proud to have a scientist in the pharmacy." Mrs. Chen leaned on the table and squinted at the five of them.
"Young man, is there anything you have to do?" She asked.
"They're the 'Guardians' squad, and they're here to pick me up." Berena explained.
"In the army? ......," Mrs. Chen said with a smile, "I miss my time in the army a little. ”
"You're a soldier?" Leopard Rees asked.
"She was the first female medic to receive a first-class medal that year." Berena said.
"Wow, when am I going to get my first class medal?" Finen asked.
"You will someday." Mrs. Chan patted Edo on the shoulder and said.
After Mrs. Chan left, Berena removed a medicine cabinet against the wall, and a small room suddenly appeared in front of them, and she walked into the room and brought out the contents, including a suitcase and a backpack. She packed all the paper materials into her suitcase, and put her laptop and other things in her backpack, when a photo pressed under the paper caught Leopard Reese's attention, and he quietly pulled it out to see that it was a photo of Berina and Diamon.
"You know Diamon too?" He asked.
"That's what I said." Berena took the picture and looked at it, then put it in her backpack as well.
"May I take the liberty of asking a question?"
"Please."
"Excuse me...... What is your relationship with Diamon? ”
"Well...... "Berena was a little shy, "the two of us are classmates at the Polytechnic Institute, and one day, we met at the school's scientific and technological achievement exhibition, and then we ...... Since then, I have fallen in love with each other. ”
"It's hard to understand the hobbies between adults." Edo said.
"This is normal, you teenagers don't have enough social experience, of course you don't understand what true love is, so sometimes there is a misunderstanding, thinking that a good feeling for the opposite sex is 'love', but it is not. Also, I want to use this to tell you that if you like someone of the opposite sex, then it's best not to cuddle or anything, these are not for you people. ”
Lana, who was observing the medicine cabinet next to her, suddenly turned her head, and then quickly turned back.
"Looking at that little girl's reaction, I can guess who your 'sweetheart' is."
"It's ......," Edo blushed.
"Why did you suddenly disconnect the message?" Shi Yu stepped forward and asked.
"Ever since I started investigating and researching the cloned orcs, I've always felt like someone was watching me, as if I had something like Cthulhu around me. Recently, this feeling has become more and more intense, and I can't sleep well at night, so I have to cut off communication for a while. "Before you go, would you like to hear about my research?" ”
"What results?"
"I found that at present, the production of these cloned orcs uses the somatic cells of ordinary orcs to produce them one by one, that is to say, DIVE carves another you according to the genes of ordinary orcs, and the somatic cells I am talking about may be blood, or other things such as sperm, and the production speed of cloned orcs is extremely fast, and it may only take three days to create one. But there is also a great flaw in this kind of creation, which is that they are stupid. Wisdom is precious and sacred, of course, it can't be made casually, so the brain of the cloned orcs can only give some simple behaviors, just like those protozoars in the wild, clone orcs who can know how to use language are also extremely rare. ”
"So they're a kind of biological weapon." Edo asked.
"It's fair to say, but DIVE has this kind of technology that we can't even think of, which shows that we are facing a strong opponent this time...... I'll pack my things first. ”
"Sir, we've found Berina, and we're all right." Leopard Rees said.
"Okay, the pick-up vehicle will be dispatched immediately, and it will be near Manor Street in about thirty minutes." Wu Qiming said, "The local police have discovered the traces of DIVE spying, you should be careful." ”
"Understood."
"DIVE's track of Kedan has been discovered, we need to leave quickly." Leopard Rees said.
At this time, there was some commotion upstairs.
"Berena, haven't you ever complained about the nightly renovation upstairs?" Finen said.
"No, it's not a renovation, something doesn't seem right." Berena opened the door and ran upstairs, followed by the others. With each step up the stairs, the feeling of unease increases by a point. They finally reached the third floor, where the rooms were unlocked, and Berena put her ears up to hear the conversation clearly.
"This blood is really bothering you."
"No, no, no, it's just a gesture."
"These things can make about a hundred and seventy cloned orcs."
"Blood!" Leopard Rees whispered, "They're going to clone orcs!" ”
"If this blood is successfully transferred, it will be bad. They must not be allowed to succeed! Berena drew her pistol and charged in with the guards. The room was a mess, with a few orcs in military uniforms standing at a table full of ice cubes containing six or seven jars of fresh blood.
"Stop me!" Berena and the guards raised their guns, and the men showed no signs of weakness as they drew their guns and pointed them at the outsiders.
"Is it the Combine?"
"Put everything down, then raise your hands in surrender."
"Don't think!" An orc quickly closed the box, then lifted it up and threw it out the window, and Berena and the others took advantage of the situation to shoot, killing all the orcs in front of them. She ran to the window and looked down, only to see a few orcs pulling out of the box from the grass, and then running away.
"Catch up!"
When they ran downstairs, the men had already run some distance, and since it was in a crowded area and there was some commotion in the crowd at this time, they could not fire at the target.
"Call the SWAT team!" Edodao.
"We're here, do you need help?"
"There are a few DIVE people running towards the street, you have to stop them and make a way for us by the way"
"Understood!"
Some SWAT officers went into the crowd to help evacuate the crowd on the street, while the guards followed another group of SWAT officers all the way to the street. As the orc with the box ran to the side of the road, a black jeep suddenly rushed over and knocked the orc to the ground, and a group of soldiers emerged from both sides of the road, blocking the road ahead.
"Reinforcements are coming?" Edo asked.
"No, they're not here to pick us up," Leopard Rees said. An orc dressed in black got out of the car, he walked to the front of the car, picked up the box on the ground, patted the dust on it with his hand, then took it to the car and quickly left the scene. The soldiers slowly began to retreat, leaving only the orc lying on the ground.
"Call an ambulance, he's still alive!" Berena said.
"Are you Balk Zaka Edo?" A SWAT officer ran over and asked.
"I am, what's wrong?"
"I have something for you." SWAT took a white envelope out of his pocket, placed it in Edo's hands, and hurried away.
"Damn, let him go." Berena muttered to herself as she assisted the paramedics.
"Guardians, your vehicles have arrived around here."
"Berina, we're leaving." Edo said.
......
The rain began to fall heavily, and several people in the military vehicle were in a somewhat depressed mood. Edo took out the envelope, there was not a word on it, he opened it, and there was half of a torn photograph of a cheetah, he was taller than Leopard Reese, and there were a few more wrinkles on his face.
"Is this your father?" Edo gave the picture to Leopard Reese.
"yes, where did you get this picture?" Leopard Rees asked.
"It's a long story."
Leopard Rees flipped to the back of the photo, and the outline of a white portal immediately caught his attention.