After Zhou Jinru left the Timus Manor, he went all the way north to find a temporary settlement arranged by Russell, which was crowded with people.

"Ah Guang! Ah Guang! ”

In the midst of the cacophony of voices, someone shouted his name.

As soon as Zhou Jinru parked his bicycle at the door, he was dragged in.

"Ah Guang?"

It was a well-proportioned young man, thirty to forty years old, with a gray short-sleeved shirt and strong arms.

"It's me."

The young man pointed to a woman in the crowd: "Carter told me about you, she interviewed you." ”

Zhou Jinru suddenly realized that he had met an acquaintance, so he asked, "Mr. Rogers?" ”

"Well, do you want something to eat, it's going to be cold after the rain."

"Not for the time being, I drank some wine and didn't feel cold."

Rogers patted Zhou Jinru on the shoulder: "It's all fake to drink and keep warm, take it." ”

He stuffed an energy bar into Zhou Jinru's hand and beckoned to his wife, signaling that he had found someone.

"It's nice to see you again."

Carter looked excited and told her husband, "I told you he's a defender, and you don't believe it." ”

Rogers was skeptical of Carter's account, and now the subject stood in front of him, his heart tempting.

"What Carter said, I can only believe half of it, I don't mean to offend, it's just that the defenders have been gone for centuries."

In the face of Rogers' questioning, Zhou Jinru very much agreed, if someone told him that you were from heaven and star, he would only think that this person was sick.

"To be honest, I haven't heard of the existence of defenders before today, I know that there are Taiyue who are the ultimate birth, and there are Terra people who are fighting, but I don't know about the defenders."

Rogers agreed, "I feel the same way you do. ”

Carter didn't refute, took a deep look at Zhou Jinru, and asked, "I didn't think that after you drove towards that monster, you could come back intact, what do you want to do, is there a place where we can help you?" ”

Zhou Jinru smiled bitterly, this Mrs. Rogers didn't say anything, but in her heart she still regarded herself as a defender, and in Carter's eyes, his denial became a hidden identity for the purpose of carrying out the mission.

What is this?

Zhou Jinru thinks that this is a beautiful misunderstanding, and he doesn't plan to solve it for the time being, and he still has some things to investigate, such as how to end the dream.

"I have some special means, the monster that caused the fire in the city, has been solved."

The fire was extinguished by a torrential rain, which did not stop and was still pouring rain on the ground.

Zhou Jinru couldn't explain that when he entered the dream again, his body was refreshed to the way he had when he first came, and even the clothes on his body were no different, but the original body had been thrown in the Dimos Manor.

"Mister Rogers, do you know that chaos is going on in the Brilliant Avenue right now?"

To be precise, the Colombian Guard has already entered the city, and it is only a matter of time before they find it.

Zhou Jinru's words did not cause Rogers to react too much: "Mr. Ah Guang, I am not a showman, and besides, the chaos there in Brilliant Avenue is just a gang fight, not worth mentioning. ”

Gang brawls?

Carter also said it wasn't a big deal.

Zhou Jinru was shocked, what he saw was clearly the flag of the guards, why did it become a gang fight in the eyes of the two of them?

"Neither of them is a local, and they have only heard of the man-made disaster that caused the Rust Belt people to be heartbroken, so they will think of the guard as a strange gang."

Zhou Jinru took two steps on the spot, and suddenly grabbed Rogers' wrist: "Mr. Rogers, are you interested in accompanying me?" ”

"What do you want to do?"

Rogers was reluctant to go, after all, the man in front of him had also destroyed his car, and he wouldn't have bothered at all if Carter hadn't insisted on it.

"There are things that need to be seen with your own eyes, and I always feel that something is not quite right tonight, Mr. Rogers, for your losses, I will compensate you according to the price, no less."

This is a polite sentence, because all the losses in the dream, after waking up, are a vague memory.

But Rogers was pampered by his wife Carter, and with such a thing as compensation, of course he couldn't refuse, after all, it was his own loss.

"Okay, where are you going?"

Zhou Jinru said calmly: "The control room of Brilliant Avenue." ”

Rogers glanced at his wife and said confusedly, "What are you going to do there?" ”

If it's really a nightmare outside, then the control room, that's where it all began.

"I bet there's a good show going on there."

"I'm going too!"

Carter raised his hand, and both men refused at the same time: "You are not allowed to go!" ”

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, Zhou Jinru took a step back, and reluctantly explained: "I mean there may be danger there, really, I believe in Rogers' ability, but ......"

Carter immediately raised his eyebrows and lashed out: "You are typical machismo, it is now the tenth century, women learn knowledge and practice self-defense, not to hide behind men, and I am ...... What am I? ”

At this point, Carter's face showed a look of confusion, and he couldn't say anything when he came to his lips, and he vaguely felt that he had forgotten something.

"Carter, you stay here and take care of the children whose parents are gone, and Mr. Ah Guang and I went to the control room of Brilliant Avenue, and he seems to be very confident in his ideas."

After Rogers gave a word of advice, he and Zhou Jinru left the resettlement site, and turned back in the heavy rain.

When they were halfway there, they were confronted by citizens who had fled from the Brilliant Avenue and nearly knocked over their bicycles.

"What the hell is going on there, why are there so many civilians?"

Zhou Jinru looked at Rogers, who was full of puzzlement, and explained: "I said that there are Colombian guards there, and they are entering the city. ”

"This is impossible, there is no reason for the guards to come to St. Aral at this time, and it is still in the middle of the night."

Rogers' resolute attitude aroused a trace of suspicion in Zhou Jinru's mind, according to Serea, they had come to settle in Santa Aral a few years ago, and they were both retired military officers from Colombia. 58 reading

In the dream, Carter's identity became a reporter, and Rogers' profession was still unclear to Zhou Jinru.

"When we get to the control room, maybe something else will be discovered."

When Zhou Jinru said this, Rogers' eyes changed slightly when he looked at him, as if he was recalling something from the past.

A kilometer further, they met the first group of guards, who were in uniform and armed with weapons, and kept moving forward, automatically ignoring Zhou Jinru and Rogers.

"Really the Guard?!"

Rogers frowned, staring intently at the guards' uniforms, trying to find out what was going on in them.

"I said ......"

As soon as Zhou Jinru spoke, there was a burst of white light in front of him, and he subconsciously closed his eyes, rolled sideways from the bicycle to the ground, and covered his face with both hands.

A huge force hit his arm, and the sharp pain came, Zhou Jinru gritted his teeth, and after rolling on the spot a few times, a carp stood up, and what caught his eye was several guards attacking him like crazy.

"There is no emotional source, they have no emotional source!"

Zhou Jinru roared in his heart, these people in front of him were just puppets in the dream world, and they had no bodies in the real world.

Quickly took off the shield hanging on the horizontal bar of the bicycle, Zhou Jinru only had time to raise his hand to block the oncoming slash, and retreated again and again with this force.

Rogers next to him had already reacted, although he didn't know why the guards suddenly attacked Zhou Jinru, but he still picked up his weapon for self-defense, and just when he was thinking about whether to help Zhou Jinru or wait and see, a member of the guard team had already raised his weapon and rushed towards him.

Yes!

Rogers' eyes widened, and he grabbed the knife that had been slashed, his face shocked and angry, and he immediately kicked his enemy over, his mind full of confusion.

How so, who the hell are they?!

The uniforms on the guards were obviously not products of this era, and Rogers was in a trance, as if he felt that he had seen something similar somewhere, and blurted out: "They are not from this era!" ”

Zhou Jinru gritted his teeth and was slashed several times in exchange for him snatching a standard long knife from one of his enemies.

"Of course they are not from this era anymore!"

Zhou Jinru roared, the blade of the knife slashed through the rain curtain, his feet did not stop, his body floated between several enemies, like a fluttering butterfly, the blade pierced the flesh, and in the blink of an eye, three people fell, and the blood stained the stagnant water around him.

Rogers easily knocked down the enemy in front of him, and the team was easily cleaned up by them, and the two stood in the rain, each looking at each other with wariness.

"Who the hell are you?"

"A man in desperation."

Zhou Jinru said casually, picked up the bicycle, hung up the shield again, and prepared to move on.

Is he really a defender? It doesn't look like it in any way, and besides, the defenders only appear in legends, and in that battle with the end of the life, all of them have already been sacrificed.

Rogers wiped his face, got on his bike, and silently followed.

Zhou Jinru walked in front, but he had been observing Rogers behind him with his talent, and found that this man was wavering, he was doubting, guessing, and uncertainty occupied his heart.

In order to avoid the guards entering the city, Zhou Jinru and Rogers chose to advance from the small road, all the way to the control room of Brilliant Avenue, but fortunately, the small road did not encounter any more enemies.

Zhou Jinru let out a long breath, and now he was already standing in front of the door, and he just pushed open the door to take a look, he remembered that in the city museum, there was a relevant description:

On the day the Guards arrived in St. Aral, the people of the city chose to compromise and let them destroy the control room.

Now after Rogers' confirmation, these guards are not from this era, that is to say, some changes have occurred in the people or things that appear in the dream, such as the era of confusion, and the scene of Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong is staged.

"I warn you, if you're going to do something illegal, I'll stop you."

In the face of Rogers' threat, Zhou Jinru ignored it, threw his bicycle on the side of the road, and walked towards the underground passage leading to the control room.

"What is the origin of the nightmare, when everything is irretrievable? Is it when all efforts are broken? No, it is the ability to save everything, but choosing to give up and choose another path from which there will be no return, and its pain, remorse, and self-blame are enough to destroy a person's spirit. ”

Zhou Jinru silently recited these words, walked into a dark basement, twisted the flashlight on his chest, and a faint light was projected into the darkness.

No matter how heavy the rain outside, it didn't affect here, on the road leading to the control room, dry, faintly flowing airflow, Zhou Jinru walked in front, Rogers followed, and the two walked to the end of the road in a few minutes, standing in front of a locked gate.

"What do you think?"

Zhou Jinru asked.

Rogers' face disappeared into the darkness and shook his head slightly: "No idea, I'm here for the first time." ”

"I believe in you."

Zhou Jinru faced the door, his back to the exit, and suddenly, countless lights shone in, illuminating the dark environment.

The Rhode Island doctor turned around and came face to face with Rogers, who looked complicated, and smiled, "Do you remember?" ”

"Well, how do you know?"

Zhou Jinru sighed: "A normal Colombian would not choose to settle in the Rust Belt, and it is still in Saint-Aral, when I came in from Tenan State, there were no man's land for hundreds of miles, and I saw a few stupid roe deer at most, but everyone with a little ability is fleeing from the Rust Belt, and you and Carter are both retired officers, not afraid of hardships and dangers, when you come here, I thought, do you two have anything to do with here, to be honest, I admit that there is an element of gambling, and now it seems that I won." ”

"Destroying this control room, my grandfather was involved, I heard him talk about the past, and he was there."

Zhou Jinru looked over, and among the hundred and ten guards surrounding them, they couldn't tell who was who, and they were shouting a warning to them, asking them to leave quickly.

"I'm glad that if it weren't for you, a Colombian with good roots, they would have done it."

Rogers shook his head with a wry smile, turned around, faced the bright light shining on his body, and said softly: "This is the beginning of suffering, believe me, this is by no means the source of suffering, because, the root, is us." ”

He raised the knife in his hand and pounced on the guards.

In an instant, the sword light drifted away, like snow, and like a silver bottle bursting through the water slurry!

"It's so strong!"

Zhou Jinru exclaimed, he didn't expect Rogers' sword skills to be so strong, one person and one knife could cut the guard line of hundreds of people backwards.

He stood still, watching it happen.

The people of St. Aral had given up resistance, so even though they were now fighting head-on, they were defeated in front of the guards.

The guards destroyed the control room, and even Superman standing here now, the control room was not spared.

"Rogers, you are the person I brought, you are certainly not a variable, what is a variable."

At this moment, there was a click and unlocking sound in his ears, and Zhou Jinru's body froze as the door of the control room behind him opened.