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The continuous sound of artillery and fire reflected half of the sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis is a rare sight on the North American continent in decades, the time has fallen into the night, the artillery fire and movement of the armies on both sides have not stopped at all, almost every instrument is flashing red lights, alerting the operator that the system may collapse at any time, but no one cares about this, everyone is staring at the target marked as red in front of them, and pouring all the ammunition without hesitation.

"Hold on, don't get thrown out!" The off-road vehicle struggled to pass through the artillery fire, but Zhao Yu found that Kuroda Mitsutada's driving skills were surprisingly reliable, if he could at least mix the nickname of the Akina Mountain Bike God in his own time, "What time is it?!" ”

"Half past eight in the evening!" Christine hugged Stephanie and secured herself to the corner of the back seat with her seat belt, "What the hell are the Confederates thinking?" ”

"It's the same on both sides, it's all crazy! I think in a few hours the equipment on both sides will be scrapped! Zhao Yu looked at the artillery fire outside, and then at Fisher, "What the hell does that damn Dusk Project want us to do?" ”

"You are needed! The Doctor needs you! Fisher screamed as always, "But I don't know what he's going to do!" I don't have enough permissions! Stephanie just knew! ”

"Scum!" Christine said with deep contempt.

At this time, Kuroda Mitsutada slammed on the brakes and said, "Get out of the car!" ”

No one asked why, driving on this kind of battlefield was supposed to be ready to abandon the car at any time, Kuroda jumped out of the car and ran to the back seat, carrying Stephanie on his shoulder, while Christine kicked Fisher: "Lead the way, if you don't want to die here!" ”

Artillery fire raged all around, and five men ran wildly through the wasteland. Looking at the shells that kept exploding around him, Zhao Yu had the illusion that he was on the set of a Hollywood blockbuster.

It didn't take long for their goal to finally emerge.

It was a gray-white building standing in the middle of the wasteland, the size of two basketball courts at most, no more than three meters high, and it looked unremarkable, but neither the National Army nor the Union Army had ever dropped a shell within a hundred meters of the building. With explosions and fires everywhere, there is an unusual tranquility that makes it stand out.

"What the Coalition Forces want is not to destroy the Institute, but to occupy the Institute!" Christine shouted, "So what the hell is there!" ”

Fisher didn't even have the desire to answer, just held his head in his hands and ran desperately.

The door of the institute didn't look much more advanced than Bodwell's, and as soon as Fisher ran to the door, the door opened automatically, making Zhao Yu wonder what the judgment mechanism of this door was. And in the door, as expected, there are only some simple equipment, as well as an elevator.

"We're safe." Fisher breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his head to press the elevator switch, "Let's go, I'll take you to the doctor." ”

The elevator descended a few dozen meters with a low hum, revealing a passageway.

"How many people are there in your institute?" Zhao Yu asked.

"If you don't count the doctors, there are five." Fisher pointed to himself, "I, Stephanie, and Michael Maz are both students and assistants of the Ph.D. ......."

"Are you really an assistant?" Christine asked with a mocking look on her face.

“…… Second-level assistant. ”

"Oh, miscellaneous scumbag." Christine nodded understandingly, "Who else?" ”

"Catherine Chow, she's the equipment maintainer, and Tim Layton, the security guard at the institute...... Nope. ”

Zhao Yu had already raised his gun towards Fisher's back: "Oh, so who is this?" Michael, Catherine, Tim...... Or is it Dr. Thomas? ”

Fisher looked back in amazement to see a man across the hallway staring at him.

It may be a little reluctant to say that it is a "person", because the person's face is as miserable as if he has been splashed with sulfuric acid, and he can hardly even make out his facial features, and Fisher screamed at it, and jumped behind Kuroda Mitsutada like a little girl—Kuroda was big.

"Looks like our little girl is frightened." Christine shook her head and pulled out her pistol as well, "Zhao Yu, do you remember anyone?" ”

"Some handsome guy Bodwell met." Zhao Yu replied.

The disfigured face rushed over without saying a word, and there was no need to aim at all in such a narrow corridor, Zhao Yu and Christine fired together, and Fisher was still asking in a shrill voice: "Who is he?" ”

"Oh, I'll ask when I get back!" Zhao Yu replied while shooting.

As he spoke, his disfigured face rushed through a distance of about fifty meters, and Zhao Yu and Christine each emptied a magazine! But the other party, like the Gum in Bodwell, was unmoved by the bullet attack, and when he was about to rush in front of the two, Kuroda Mitsutada finally moved.

He grabbed the long knife with both hands and slashed it out!

I saw a white light pass by, and his disfigured face still maintained the momentum of rushing forward, but a thin red line appeared from his left shoulder to his chest, and the red line quickly expanded, and finally tore him in half, and fell heavily to the ground, and his upper body just fell at Fisher's feet, so frightened that he almost jumped.

"What the hell is that Kuroda coming from?" Zhao Yu asked Christine through the communication channel, but unfortunately Christine was completely confused: "He was contacted by Yoko Nakamura after regaining consciousness, and he should also be a member of WPA, I think it may be someone from the military." ”

"Are WPA soldiers all monsters!"

"Zhao Yu......" Christine suddenly whispered, "don't you think the current battlefield itself is a bit strange?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"In the past two decades or so, there had been few military technologies that focused on individual capabilities -- if that Kuroda's capabilities came from – but for how long? Gabriel, the gray wolf, the wood saw, those creatures of Professor Steve, all the demons and monsters are out! And now Kuroda! ”

Zhao Yu thought for a moment and agreed with his companion's feelings: "That's right, even when I first went to the battlefield, I didn't see these powerful individual combat bodies, mutants have always been just legends, just like ...... It was the forces behind them who realized something and began to use it without any scruples. ”

Although there is a countdown to death, the war in this era has not reached the point of unscrupulousness, after all, there are still two hundred years before the appearance of the Grim Reaper, and no matter how long the people of this era live, the hope of seeing that day is quite slim, so there is actually no too urgent feeling for the so-called countdown - if there are only ten years left in this time, it is difficult to say how crazy the people of the earth will be.

And now, it seems, there is an invisible force that is pushing the various forces involved in the war to speed up the process.

"It's damn bad, I always feel like there's a big conspiracy going on, and we don't know it." Zhao Yu complained, and a vague foreboding arose in his heart, but this premonition was different from the previous one, it was more like some kind of worry about the future, it must be compared to the kind of worry that a scumbag is worried about the final exam that will come in a few months......

At this time, Stephanie connected to a walk-in in the hallway: "Catherine, is that you?" ”

A female voice came out of the intercom: "Stephanie, I saw you on the surveillance footage, and I'm glad you're back, but now there's a little bit of a problem with the institute." ”

"I saw that a strange man was trying to attack us, what the hell happened?"

"About two hours ago, these ugly monsters invaded the institute, apparently trying to find something, but we've moved the data and entered a makeshift shelter under the guidance of the doctor."

Zhao Yu nodded thoughtfully: "No wonder the Alliance Army doesn't attack the research institute, they still have something to look forward to." ”

"She's talking 'these' ugly bastards, isn't she?" Christine whispered, "It seems that there is more than one...... That Professor Steve's work was obviously not hidden in Bodwell's own viewing, right? ”

"And it's the Confederates who got his findings." Zhao Yu added.

But Stephanie's attention was focused on something else: "Temporary shelter? I've been working here for six years, how did I not know there was this place? ”

"I didn't know there was a place before the Doctor brought us there." Catherine replied.

"Your doctor seems to be a man who likes to hide little secrets." Christine commented.

Stephanie shrugged her shoulders, it seemed that she was already immune to Christine's poisonous tongue along the way, she just asked the intercom, "How do we get there?" ”

"You have to avoid the intruders, now you can use the third passage, enter the fourth freight elevator, and then go to the fifth basement floor and enter the ...... through the emergency passage on the west side"

"Wait a minute, what's the emergency passage on the west side?" Fisher couldn't help but ask, "I've never seen this on the fifth basement floor!" ”

"Remember the portrait of President Lincoln at the door of Lab 2? It has a cipher disk on its back. ”

"Your doctor must be an amateur puzzle enthusiast." Christine said.

A few minutes later, several people stood in front of the portrait of Lincoln, and Fisher reached out to uncover the portrait, and sure enough, he saw a small cipher disk on the wall, which was very simple in design, with only nine numeric keys and a confirmation button. After entering the number reported by Catherine, a "ding" sound was heard, and the wall next to it slid open, revealing an entrance.

And standing at the entrance was a black-haired woman with East Asian characteristics, looking to be in her early twenties, wearing a very capable-looking military civilian uniform, holding a gun in her hand, and seeing Stephanie and Fisher, her expression eased: "Quick, the passage will automatically close in thirty seconds!" It will take another half an hour to reopen! ”

Christine rolled her eyes: "I retract what I said about the Doctor as an amateur puzzle player, he is a veteran puzzle game enthusiast. ”

A black man was waiting at the end of the passage, according to Fisher's introduction, it was security guard Tim Layton, who helped Stephanie to the infirmary, and the black-haired woman, that is, Catherine Zhou, asked Fisher to take the others to the conference room to rest, but when Zhao Yu followed everyone, Catherine reached out and stopped him.

"Follow me," said Catherine, "the doctor is waiting for you." ”

Christine couldn't help but stop, but Zhao Yu nodded at her: "It's okay, it should be safer." ”

"I don't believe them." Christine snorted and handed over his pistol, "The magazine is full, if you need it, you're welcome." ”

Zhao Yu seriously pinned the pistol to his waist and turned his head to look at Catherine: "Then, let's go?" ”

Catherine didn't say anything, turned and walked in the other direction.

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It is expected that work will also be done on the evening of the 31st...... I hope this wave of unhappiness will end soon......

We'll see you next year......