He must live, and he must do his part.

- [Russian] Fadeev, "Destruction"

"Still haven't you been able to contact them?" Wu Qiming asked, at this time, the loss of contact with the guardian was stirring up the last glimmer of hope in his heart.

"No, although there is still a signal from the mobile phone, the other party has not responded."

"Oh, God......" Wu Qiming lay on the table, "Don't destroy the guards with Badelik, the lost city can be recaptured, but the people are gone......"

"Colonel, there is good news!" The operator squeezed through the door, "We didn't get a response from the guards, but we managed to locate the location of Leopard Rees's phone through the call history, and Ivac has already sent someone to the target location." ”

"True?"

"Totally true!"

Wu Qiming rubbed his hands together and said, "I knew they wouldn't be sacrificed so easily!" ”

......

The sound of the water and the chirping of crickets woke Leopard Rees, and when he opened his eyes, he found himself washed up on a pebble beach, so he turned over slightly, but as soon as he turned his body at an angle, a feeling of nausea immediately rushed from his abdomen to his throat, and he lay on the ground and vomited all the water in his stomach. A cough caught his attention, it was Fine's voice, he also woke up, and just about to sit up, he immediately turned his head, and water spurted out of his mouth.

"Uh...... Where am I? Edo also woke up from a coma. Looking at the sparkling river not far away, the three of them remembered what had just happened.

"It's probably the suburbs." Leopard Rees said. The low hillside in the distance was suddenly magnified hundreds of times at this moment, looking spectacular, but also a little penetrating.

Suddenly, several armored vehicles sprang out of the darkness and stopped in front of the three of them, and the entire silent riverbank suddenly became noisy. About twenty soldiers jumped out of the car, who stood in small rows, raised their guns and pointed them at the unarmed defenders.

"Combine Defenders Task Force, you have been captured, immediately discard any offensive objects on your body, and raise your hands above your head, during which time any resistance will be treated as militants and fired."

Suddenly, a second engine sound appeared in the woods, followed by a third. The roar of the engine was so loud that the ground began to tremble. After a while, several smoke grenades were fired out of the woods, and the gray smoke emitted was thicker than poison gas, instantly covering everything around them, and the people present began to be confused.

"Turn on the infrared heat sensor and fire at the guardians!"

"Let's run!" Leopard Rees shouted.

The DIVE soldiers spotted their escape through the heat sensor, and the bullets flew towards them like eyes. In the smoke, a dark shadow swept over their heads, and the rocket flew through the smoke and hit the enemy vehicle, and the huge explosion and the ensuing flames successfully interfered with the infrared induction vision. Half a minute later, an armored car rushed out of the smoke that had not yet dissipated, stopped in front of the three men, and the back door of the car slowly opened. "Come up!"

There was a shout from the car. Without saying a word, they jumped into the armored car. When the doors were closed, the car started its engine, rushed out of the smoke, and drove onto the river.

"Did you miss me?" Greenwich asked, looking back.

"Greenwich...... It's you! Leopard Rees said in surprise.

"Why are you here?" Edo asked.

"Wu Qiming wants to miss you more than I do, fortunately, your location was locked in time, so that the rescue arrived in time, otherwise, that group of DIVE soldiers would not let you go." He asked, "Where did you just go?" ”

"It's a long story...... "but why did we get caught by DIVE, we were hiding underneath." ”

"I guess something outside of your body has been noticed by the enemy...... Did you call or anything at that time? ”

"Wu Qiming called at that time, and he told us about the situation outside."

"Then there's nothing to doubt about it." Greenwich said, "Look at the situation, you didn't go to the regular civil air defense project to take refuge, did you?" ”

"Of course not, we found an abandoned base underground, explored it a bit, and DIVE broke in."

"But we're underground, so why can they easily find the patio of the abandoned base and come down to catch us? Aren't they supposed to go around in circles? Fiin asked.

"Maybe they're familiar with that base?"

"For now, you made a wise choice." Greenwich picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Call Wu Qiming, this is Greenwich." ”

"This is Colonel Wu Qiming, please speak."

"Edo, Fiin and Leopard Rees have all been found and are in good condition with no injuries found." "They escaped into an abandoned underground base during the gas attack and were then discovered by DIVE because your call with Leopard Rees was monitored and located, and I would say that it was a wise choice for them to escape alone, and if they went into the civil air defense project to hide, then the consequences would be unimaginable." ”

"You bring them back first."

"Understood." Wu Qiming saw a water slope not far away, so he drove the car to it.

"We're going to go back by land, there are several Combine strongholds nearby, so safety can be guaranteed, but not necessarily by water."

"Let's get out of the car first."

Everyone stepped out of the armored car, stepped on the muddy ground, and the sticky feeling suddenly covered the soles of their feet.

"Wow, there's a log cabin here, I almost didn't see it." Edo pointed deep into the grass. The four of them walked into the grass, and a dilapidated wooden hut immediately appeared in front of them, which was surrounded by vines all over the body, just like the "house of vines" often mentioned in fairy tales.

"There shouldn't be anyone in this room." Greenwich said, "Do you want to go in and have a look?" ”

"Oh, I hate to take risks!" Finen said.

"It's so much better than that!" Edo retorted, "At least there's no DIVE or anything here." ”

"Alright then, I'll listen to you."

Leopard Ris found the door of the house, and to his surprise, the door was opened without any effort, and when it opened, there was a piercing squeak, and the smell of plants mixed with rust rushed out of the room in an instant, and even the cobwebs on the beams were squirming.

"It's like sitting in an old-fashioned tank." Greenwich said with his hand in front of his nose.

"How old do you think this house is?" Finen asked.

"It's been about 30 years since I lived." "I was surprised that the door to the house wasn't sealed by the vines. ”

When they entered the house, they found that the environment inside was very different from the outside—the floors had been wiped clean, some wooden boxes were neatly arranged, and there were new iron tools on them. They found that the house was divided into two floors, with a staircase made of wood that extended to the second floor, and there was a hollow clatter when stepped on it. The scene on the second floor is even more surprising: a simple wooden bed sits by the wall, some old but undamaged books are placed on the desk, and even the kerosene lamp on the table has just been filled with kerosene...... These scenes tell visitors that the room has its own owner.

"Who would live in a place like this?" Leopard Rees asked.

"I guess it's a fisherman, next to the house is the Mesos River, anyway, he's not a farmer or a fisherman."

"Hey, the army car is parked here?" Suddenly there was a voice outside the house. Their nerves tensed.

"Oops, someone's really coming!" Edo said.

"We chose the wrong time to be a guest." Greenwich Road.

"What are we going to do?" He asked.

"What else can I do? Let's hide first! ”

They ran downstairs, crouched behind a small pile of wood, and Edo's horns were a little exposed, but the gloomy environment didn't make a mistake.

"Shhhh

After a while, the doorknob began to turn, then opened slightly, and a black cloak floated in, and he said something in the doorway, then made sure that there was nothing unusual around, and finally walked up the stairs step by step.

"Wait, where's Fine?" Edo asked.

"Finen isn't in the ...... Fine? Leopard Rees was startled, "Oh no, Fein won't be on it, will he?" ”

"Oh my God!" Greenwich took out his pistol and said, "If there's any movement upstairs later, you two will run up with me, understand?" ”

"Hmm." The two nodded.

At this point, Fine was hiding behind a bookcase upstairs - the gap between the cabinet and the wall wasn't that big. His heart was oppressed, but it was still beating faster and faster, the sound of plopping echoed in his ears, and the footsteps grew louder and louder, and Fein moved inside, even wanting to burrow directly into the chasm next to him. But it's useless to hide like this. Fein tried to position his limbs, but he stumbled, and the bookcase vibrated significantly. The orc turned around, and he struggled, but to no avail.

"You don't need to hide, just come out."

"There's a voice up there." Edo whispered.

"We're ready!"

Hearing this, Fiin took a deep breath and couldn't spit it out in his stomach, but he thought of Leopard Rees and the others who were hiding somewhere, and he had some bottom in his heart. After a long struggle of ideas, he crawled out from behind the cabinet.

"A lost antelope boy?" The orc looked at Fine's body and said, "I didn't expect you to have the army's signage with you!" ”

Finen didn't know what to say, just stood still. The orc continued to look at him, and suddenly noticed the pendulum around his neck.

"Pendulum?! You are the pendulum bearer! ”

At this time, the servant downstairs walked upstairs in response to the movement, and Greenwich came forward, holding his pistol and asking, "What's going on here?" ”

The orc saw Greenwich, and the two children behind him, who were also wearing pendulums, and smiled, and said, "It seems that my seclusion is over." ”

"Greenwich, we haven't seen you for a long time." The orc said.

"Who are you and how do you know my name?"

The orc took off his cloak, and a pair of green wings peeked out from his back.

"I miss my time at Earth Star."

The orc set his cloak aside, and his appearance surprised everyone present.

"Oh my God, this can't be!" Greenwich shouted.

Standing in front of them was Howard Kivu, a diplomat from the Dragon Ministry who had been assassinated four months earlier.

"Diplomat Kivu!!" Four people shouted at the same time.

"I didn't expect you to recognize my face for so long." "I didn't expect to be discovered so quickly. ”

"Why is that?" "Haven't you been assassinated, but why are you here now?" ”

"Could it be that he is a cloned orc!?" Greenwich raised his pistol.

"Oh, do you know about cloning orcs, too?" Kivu said, "Okay, okay, I'm not a cloned orc, the technology of cloning orcs can't be so mature in a short period of time, they hunt is a problem, and there are still people who can talk like me, and the one who was killed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the cloned orc." ”

"The one who was killed...... At that time, there were cloned orcs? Edo asked.

"Yes, what about you now? Cloning orcs was applied so quickly? ”

"It's been used, but it's a weapon." Greenwich said.

"Weapons?"

"The separatist forces are back." "And this time they're determined to destroy our world." ”

“...... I'll go back. "Since this time, the separatist forces want to destroy us completely, then this war cannot afford to lose my leadership." ”

"We're getting out of here." Greenwich said, "There's still a lot to work out...... Kivu, you go with us. ”

......

The armored car passed through the checkpoint and drove to the road.

"I don't know what has become of the orc world since I've been away for so long." Kivus said.

"The clouds of war have covered the entire orc world." "First of all, the right wing launched the official dragon eradication operation 'Axe Stone Project' because of your death, and then the separatist forces took advantage of the fire to loot, and at this time, we knew the real name of the separatist forces, DIVE, but the good news is that the right wing and the rebels have joined forces to fight the enemy." ”

Kivu was stunned for a moment, then fell silent again. After a while, he suddenly started chatting with Edo.

"Your name is Balk Zaka Edo, isn't it?"

"That's right."

Kivu just smiled lightly and said, "I know your father. ”

......

The armored car arrived at a naval base on the south coast of the orc world, where Wu Qiming and the rest of the Guardian Team also arrived.

"I'm glad the three of you are okay." Wu Qiming suddenly became serious, "But why do you have to leave the civil air defense project and run to a base that you don't know at all?" ”

"We can't get to the bomb shelter." Leopard Rees said, "I suspect that the fake Wu Qiming had stolen my phone information when he was on the phone last time, and this time, when you called me, DIVE successfully locked my location, and then sent troops to start the pursuit, if we hide in the bomb shelter, then the almost 1,000 people in the bomb shelter will be in trouble." ”

"Well, I was negligent." Wu Qiming said, "I will arrange another communication tool for you in the future." ”

"I want to tell you something, Colonel." Greenwich came over and said, "Howard Kivu, a diplomat from the Dragon's Ministry, is still alive." With that, he brought Kivu to him.

"What, is this a joke?" Wu Qiming said, "You don't want to bring a cloned orc into the base, okay." ”

"I'm not a cloned orc!" Kivu said, "Clone orcs don't lie at all!" ”

"Haven't you been killed a long time ago?"

"That horrific weapon you're fighting now has done me a great favor before." Kivu said, "I didn't expect my trick to fool everyone in the orc world, including Ryker. ”

"Let's go in and talk." Wu Qiming said.

......

"Ah, Kivu really resurrected?" Lana asked.

"That's not a resurrection, it's a 'return.'" Edo said.

"Everyone, including me, was incredulous that the diplomat, Mr. Kivu, was not dead!" Lake said, "If the body found in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a cloned orc, then the facts are clear if you connect the various clues." ”

"It's really like Leopard Rees said, someone is messing around inside." Wu Qiming said this sentence to Lake, "But it's too late to say it now." ”

"Alas—it's all my fault, if I hadn't flinched at that time, I don't think the orc world would have fallen into this position."

"No, no, no, you're doing the right thing in the face of an unfathomable enemy." Dimitri, who was sitting on the sidelines, said, "Even if you were killed, the right flank would launch the Axe Stone Project, and we would not be able to come up with such a complete chain of clues now, and the entire Combine struggle would have lost this crucial leadership." ”

"Chairman Louis of Ivac is coming in."

"Let him in."

......

On this day, the guards were woken up early, and as soon as they washed up, they were urgently called to the command room.

"You're leaving again? Where are we going? Edo asked.

"The Combine is preparing for a full-scale counterattack, there are many weapons that have just been formed have been sent to the battlefield, and we will have to fully command the troops on the front line to fight, so there is no way to watch you, the command of the 'Guardian' team has been handed over to Cliff Una, who is now located in the military base belonging to Ivac on the southern island of Wyke, you are going to go to that place with Shi Yu, who has just returned to the team, and fight with Cliff, understand?"

"Understood, let's go!"

"See you after the war is won, boys." Wu Qiming said, "I wish you all a happy boarding ship. ”