Chapter 57: The Storm Rises Again
“What’s_that_sound? (What sound is this?) Brünnhilde asked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
A "whine" sound that looked like a human choking was carried through the vent above the underground passage into the outer hall of the safe house.
As for his subordinates' claims about the ghosts of Yanin I, Brunhilde certainly did not buy it. It was the rumors that the captain of the guard had guessed that caught her attention.
“Gust_of_wind? (The wind?) "This kind of wind is only produced after air convection, but when the passage has been closed, how can there be a wind sound? Unless...
“Commander,is_there_any_other_exit_to_the_safe_house_beside_the_one_we’ve_been_through? (Captain of the Guard, is there any other exit to the safe house than the way we came?) )”
“If_you_ask_so… Indeed,there’s_another_exclusive_VIP_elevator_directly_connected_to_the_Viceroy_room_and_security_centre. The_access_will_be_activated_when_key_card_and_authorized_face_are_both_recognized (There is indeed another small VIP elevator that connects directly to the Governor's chambers and the Security Center, but it also requires a key card and facial recognition activation by authorized personnel.) )”
"Security_centre, is_everything_alright? (Security Center, is everything okay with you there?) Brünnhilde raised his hand and pressed the headset to call.
Located deep underground in the Governor's Palace, the safe house is divided into two rooms, the larger room is used to house the refuge officials and specially protected citizens, and the smaller VIP room is specially designed for the governor, and the rear of the VIP room also includes a separate escape elevator and a small independent security center responsible for the operation of the safe house. The two rooms were connected by the outer hall where Brünnhilde and the Guards were located, and were used as the last line of defense for the Guards against the enemy.
But Brünnhilde's call went unanswered.
“Security_centre?! (Security Center?!) Brunhilde raised his voice.
“I_have_access_to_check_the_monitor_camera. (I have permission to invoke the surveillance camera image.) Realizing that something was wrong, the captain of the guard hurriedly led Brunhild to the computer in the hall, entered the password, and accessed the data.
The summoned surveillance video was projected, and Brunhilde couldn't help but gasp.
Bang dang ~ bang dang ~
At the VIP elevator entrance, the elevator door is constantly closing and opening, and the cold air flow on the ground is running down through the elevator shaft, where it is backlogged out and the warm air flow in the basement intersects, making a "woo woo" sound.
Stuck in the elevator door and constantly hitting, it turned out to be... The corpse of a guard in the uniform of the coalition government of Asia and the United States! His face was bruised, his eyes were turned up, his mouth was foaming at the mouth, and his throat was deeply scratched and bruised. His body was sandwiched between the elevators, preventing the elevator car from rising again.
On the way from the elevator to the security center, there were blood and scratches, followed by the bodies of many more staff members lying on the ground, and it was clear from the death that most of them were killed with their bare hands without having time to take precautions, and the door of the security center was wide open, and the communicator inside was alone playing Brunhilde's anxious orders:
“Someone_else’_in_the_Viceroy_room! (There are others in the Doge's room!) )”
Police cars and ambulances whizzed past the area of the Doge's Palace to rescue the injured - the entire Doge's Palace was destroyed and Alex's Shield was disabled, allowing rescue vehicles to finally enter. The Yaning National Television station guide truck also followed the rescue team into the Governor's Palace.
"Here is urgent news from Yaning National TV!" Yaning's female host Situ Pei was reporting to the camera in the car, and the tragic situation of the Governor's Mansion in collapse was reflected outside the window: "At 16:52 this afternoon, at the scene of the commemoration of the Alliance Day, the mirage Governor's Mansion was subjected to a series of terrorist attacks, among which the undead ferry, which was originally used for commemorative activities, directly hit the Governor's Palace, and we have seen a large number of casualties at the scene!" ”
"We're too close!" The driver of the broadcast van complained, while Peter, another host, did not come with him, citing his refusal to risk his life entering the field zone.
"We need to get closer!" Situ Pei raised his hand and pressed the steering wheel that the driver was about to turn, and said firmly.
Before the two finished speaking, the side tower of the Governor's Palace in front of them happened to be collapsed by the collapsing main building, and the huge falling rocks rolled down towards the broadcast truck.
"Oh my God!!"
The driver urgently reversed the direction of travel, but it was too late...
Just when the broadcast car was smashed, a huge figure flashed in front of the car, and the side of the drifting car hit the figure hard to stop rushing forward, Situ Pei was almost thrown out of the car, but was fortunately pulled back by the seat belt fastened on his chest. The whole car slanted behind the giant's figure to avoid falling rocks.
After the violent shock, Situ Pei lowered his arm to protect his face, and saw the figure outside the car through the broken window: in the rolling smoke, there was a scarred steel mecha, the hands of the mecha were gone, the breastplate and head armor were also broken, and the exposed driver's hair fluttered in the waves of air raised by the shock wave - it was also when Alex's shield stopped working, and rushed into the governor's palace with his troops, and happened to pass by Zhong Jiu in the guide car.
As a journalist, Situ Pei knew about the new councillor, but Zhong Jiu did not look at himself, but directed his subordinates to rescue in the direction of the collapsed governor's palace. Situ Pei also looked in the direction that Zhong Jiu was staring, and couldn't help but be stunned by the tragic scene.
The once majestic and glorious Governor's Palace was in ruins, and a beam of light rose from the remains of the Ferry of the Dead, which was only a skeleton, and through the ruined walls and the wailing and moaning hell on earth, a huge human face was reflected over the Governor's Palace, large enough to replace the previous illusion of the god Meda Busoa!
"Liu..." Although Situ Pei couldn't see Zhong Jiu's expression, he could hear Zhong Jiu reading a person's name in a trembling voice:
"Liu Yuetai ??!"
The holographic projection of the god-like face in the air was the face of a Yaning man in his fifties, although the wrinkles on his face depicted his weather-beaten, but his eyes were determined, looking ahead, and his eyes were full of the light of a leader and a guardian.
"Sons of Yanin,"
Liu Yuetai's lips were slightly open, and his voice was loud enough for all the people in the Governor's Mansion and the surrounding areas to hear clearly:
"When you see this image, some people will say that what I am doing is destroying my country.
On the contrary, I and Revival will save it from lies. ”
"Give me the camera!" Situ Peichong shouted to the dust-faced photographer who was still sitting in the broken car, she gritted her teeth and picked up the heavy photographic equipment, rushed out of the broadcast car, carried the machine on her shoulder and faced Liu Yuetai's face in the air, and the video was broadcast live on TV through the camera.
"We were all once the people of the free land of Yaning, and we all swore eternal allegiance to the motherland.
The colonial government of Medabsoa, and its supporters, they are liars, war criminals,
They committed crimes during the Asian-American War, as well as during the colonization of Yaning, but they were never held accountable.
Many innocent Yanin people, among them are your relatives, your lovers, your friends, whose deaths are buried and no one knows. ”
"Open_the_Viceroy_room!(Open the Governor's room immediately!) Brunhilde shouted from outside the VIP room.
“The_safe_house_only_can_be_opened_from_inside_once_close_the_door... (Once the safe house is closed, it can only be opened from the inside...) The captain of the guard was also at a loss.
"Father! Do you hear me? Father?!! Brünnhilde kept calling Governor William in the sealed room through his headset, but there was only a rustle.
In the VIP room, there is only a white snowflake dot on the communication screen, and a red signal is constantly flashing at the bottom, which is an alarm that has been disturbed. But both Mr. Stephens and Governor William were fascinated by the old man on the television in front of them, and neither of them noticed the alarm signal on the communication screen behind them.
"Liu Yuetai?! Hasn't he already been slain by us? Even Mr. Stephens, who was always calm, was shocked by what he saw. He still clearly remembers the scene of Liu Yuetai being confirmed dead in the Sunset Goddess mission a year ago.
"Humph!" However, Governor William has experienced a hundred battles, and he is still calm: "It really deserves to be the "Tiger of Yaning". From the very beginning, we were tricked by him! ”
"But why did he do it?!" Mr. Stephens looked at the Governor suspiciously.
"Because after that, we stopped tracking Liu Yuetai, and were attracted by other trivial clues, and mistakenly thought that we had exterminated the Revival Society on a large scale. This gave Liu Yuetai the time and opportunity to regroup and arrange a large-scale operation again. Governor William bowed his head and laughed as he spoke, and his voice was full of mixed emotions, mixed with sighs, and even some admiration:
"After all these years, I have forgotten that he was once known for his trickery in the art of war."
While the two were talking, a black shadow that had been hidden in the dark part of the room behind them slowly walked out, the white tiger's door card was hanging on his chest, and the rusty mechanical hand was still holding a signal jammer...
Hong Yuesheng lay in the ruins and made a gesture to Zhong Jiu who was passing by, signaling Zhong Jiu not to worry about himself.
Nakahisa understood and manipulated the mecha to rush into the ruins of the Governor's Palace.
The scrapped mecha pressed on Hong Yuesheng's body, but it became a burden, making him unable to move, and he could only watch Liu Yuetai in the sky, the leader of the Revival Society that he once thought he had killed with his own hands:
"I am here to seek justice for those who have fought and sacrificed for their country, and at the same time for all Yaning people to see the truth! Look what kind of crimes the Meda Busoya invaders have committed!! ”
Liu Yuetai's face faded in the air, and instead projected in the air was an intermittent, edited image, from the quality of the image, it looks like a passer-by casually took a picture with a mobile phone camera:
Like a flock of birds, the batfighters hovering around the "Valkyrie" air fortress swooped down towards the block one by one.
Hong Yuesheng immediately found the old neighborhood, the dilapidated and withered Oriental shops, the cheap shops... It's so familiar - it's my old home, the mirage of the old town!
Sure enough, in the lower right corner of the video, the date of the shooting is displayed: November 18, 15/15 (MY), which was exactly the Confederate Day riots a year ago.
The incendiary bombs dropped by the bat fighter columns turned the entire old city neighborhood into a sea of fire, and then the bottom magazine of the "Valkyrie", known as the demon of the air, opened, and a huge pillar of light poured down like a waterfall, turning night into day.
But then something even stranger happened, from the smoke of the war in the neighborhood, a pink gas with different color levels from the inside to the outside emerged, spreading rapidly, everywhere it passed, all the people and objects that were touched instantly burned white flames, the skin and flesh blistered and then decayed, deep into the bones, the victim fell on the street twisted and convulsed, his face was deformed, and the pain was abnormal...
Not only the survivors in the area of the Governor's Palace looking up at the sky, but this video was also completely broadcast by Situ Pei on the TV throughout Yaning. Everyone who saw it was dumbfounded, and some viewers even vomited at the time. Hong Yuesheng's eyes were also wide open, and he couldn't believe it: since he escaped from the old city with the manta ray rescue boat, he only knew that the law and order in the old city was finally restored under the coordination of the troops of the coalition government of Asia and the United States, but he never thought that the old city would be so brutally suppressed. This may also explain why, in the following year, every time the public and the media asked about the old city, the Doge's Palace was flickering in the name that it was still being rebuilt.
The pink smoke finally pounced on the person who recorded the video, and the picture cut off, and then Liu Yuetai's face reappeared:
"Now, do you still believe in the lie of the so-called Asian-American union, common prosperity?
This is the lesson of blood,
How the aggressor trampled on my homeland,
We'll give it back! ”
"Brother, can you receive my message?!" Brunhilde's voice came from the communicator in front of Nakaku.
"Received, the main entrance to the safe house has been completely blocked, and I won't be able to enter for a while!" At this time, Nakaku was driving the mecha through the ruins to move the ruins, looking for a way into the safe house.
"There's another passage to the safe house! I'll send you the location! In the underground hall, Bonnie, who had rushed over from the large safe house next door to protect the special people, sent the structure of the safe house to Nakahisa according to Brunhilde's instructions, and Nakahisa immediately turned around and ran towards the red coordinates displayed on the mecha computer.
Bonnie then immediately switched back to continuing to operate the computer, trying to circumvent the signal jamming in the Governor's safe house, which she had been in charge of intelligence gathering and hacking in the Manta Ray Squad.
Brunhilde looked back at the surveillance footage inside the large safe house, where Applejack's widow, Meiying, and her child were accompanied by Emily among the many high-ranking officials who had been rushed here.
"Bring Mrs. Miei here for me at once." She suddenly realized something.
"Your Excellency the Governor..." Looking at the television screen shrouded in pink smoke, Mr. Stephens turned to look at William.
William frowned and remained silent. The moment he looked down, Mr. Stephens saw a third man in the reflection of the gold-rimmed spectacle lenses on the bridge of the governor's nose...
Nakahisa's mech removed the rubble above the coordinate point and found a small elevator shaft that could only seat four or five people, but there were no elevator cars. The shaft was too small for the Machine Heart Mecha to enter, so Nakahisa opened the cockpit, jumped off the mech, grabbed the steel cable inside the elevator, and slid down the shaft.
After a brief period of darkness, he landed on the carriage at the bottom of the shaft, and had barely removed the top guard of the compartment when he heard "Bang! Bang! Bang! The continuous gunshots.
Mr. Stephens was shielding Governor William with one hand, and with the other he was shooting at the unknown assassin behind him. The Assassin covered his face with his hands and rushed towards Stephens, the bullet striking his iron hand with golden fire, but failing to hurt him in the slightest. He rushed up to Mr. Stephens and grabbed his gun-wielding hand, "Click! With the sound of bones shattering, the old man's wrist was instantly crushed.
"Your Excellency, go away!" Mr. Stephens cried out in pain.
William did not abandon his old subordinates and fled alone, he grabbed the fruit knife that had been placed on the table and stabbed the assassin in the ribs, although the assassin's arm was as hard as steel, but he did not expect the knife to successfully stab the assassin in the flank, where it was still human flesh.
The assassin was in pain and put down Mr. Stephens in his hand. The frail old man clenched his wrists and collapsed to the floor. The Assassin struck William with a backhand, sending him flying and slamming him into the wall next to him, only to be within easy reach of the security door.
Despite spitting blood, William tried his best to crawl towards the security door, and just as his hand was almost within reach of the door button of the safe house, a bullet stopped William's movement and almost wounded William's hand.
The assassin threw down Mr. Stephens's gun, which was still carrying the smoke of gunpowder, pulled out the dinner knife inserted in his waist, and rushed to William's side in a few arrows, and the mechanical prosthetic leg grabbed William's neck violently, lifting William's whole person from the ground, and the whole set of movements was well-trained and completed in one go.
Liu Yuetai on TV is saying: "Blood debts must be repaid with blood!" ”
The Assassin's fingers clasped tightly, and he was about to crush William's neck, and his mouth repeated: "The blood debt must be paid with blood... ”
"Applejack?!!
A familiar and weak voice came, but it froze the assassin's entire body like ten thousand years of ice.
"Applejack? It's really you! The sound came from the communication screen above the security door, and it turned out that Bonnie had finally succeeded in fixing the disturbed system and turned the communication screen on again.
The Assassin immediately tilted his head away from the camera.
"Even if you don't look at me, I know it's you, and I can feel your presence." The screen shows Miei's face, and her voice whimperes: "They said you were dead before, but now that you are clearly alive, they say that you have been brainwashed by the Revival Society and plan to assassinate the Governor... ”
The Assassin was silent, but he did not make any further moves, and William, although his face was already bruised, took the opportunity to clasp the Assassin's steel arm with both hands, giving him a chance to breathe.
"Daddy!!" Xiaojie kept jumping from below to look at the screen, "I didn't tell you and my secret!" It's Sister Brunhild who wants to bring Mom and me to you! "He's still as old as ever, and he can't tell the difference.
The Assassin's other hanging hand grew tighter and tighter, and finally he looked up at the screen, and his face was projected onto the screen outside the safe house as he saw his wife and children. It's really Applejack! It's just that his face is now full of beard, his face is emaciated, and all his limbs have been replaced with steel prosthetics except for his head and upper body.
"Applejack!" Brunhilde, who was next to Mei Ying, interjected: "We know you must have something unspeakable, but you are a sworn soldier of the Asian-American coalition government and a friend of my brother Lieutenant Colonel Nakaku, don't do anything stupid!" ”
"Applejack... Biei interrupted Brunhilde, "I want you to know that I never forgot you after you left, really! Never, I've always loved you, and I haven't stopped for a minute. I don't care what happens to you, as long as you come back. ”
From the passage connecting the elevator to the VIP safe house, Nakahisa cautiously approached the back door of the safe house with a gun in his hand, and the figure he saw through the crack in the side door shocked him.
It was his father who was caught up in the air, and the perpetrator was Ajie, the personal guard who had been torn apart by the Yaksha to protect himself?! Although Zhongjiu has always been commanding Applejack in the past, in fact, in his heart, Zhongjiu's loyalty to Applejack, as well as the backbone of Yaning's self-improvement as a member of the new city in power of the Meda Busuya, has always had a good impression in his heart, otherwise he would not have been transferred from the Governor's Palace Guard to be his personal guard when he went to the old city a year ago, and of course it would not have led to Applejack's murder later, for which he has always felt guilty, but he didn't expect to meet again on such an occasion today.
"Brother," Brunhilde's whispered communication came from Nakaku's headset, "if you have a chance, shoot Applejack immediately!" ”
Nakahisa's hand holding the gun not only trembled, but he aimed at the back of Applejack's head, but he couldn't press the trigger.
Applejack's cold facial expression finally softened, a tear ran down her eyes, and her lips finally moved, and she responded softly:
"Mei Ying, Xiao Jie...
As soon as she heard Applejack's voice, Mei Ying immediately burst into tears, and she suddenly changed her words: "Honey, I did something wrong... ”
"No, no, no, don't Biei!" Brunhilde, who was on the side, hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Mei Ying and continued.
"They want to kill you! Run! Come on! But it was too late, and Miei was already shouting hoarsely at the surveillance screen.
Applejack's face immediately becomes furious again.
"Brother! Shoot!!! "Brünnhilde shouted!
Nakahisa gritted his teeth and hooked his index finger back, and at the same time, Applejack held Governor William's hand around the neck and shook it fiercely.
Boom!!!