As it got late, the restaurant gradually became deserted like the end of the song, Gong Piqing was in a daze at the plate in front of the table, and there was still the last bite of rice balls he had snatched from Zhang Yuemei.

It didn't seem like he couldn't eat it, but as if he simply wanted to leave such a mouthful of rice balls here to watch, as if looking at this rice ball, it was like seeing Zhang Yuemei.

"Hey! Do you still eat or not! It's been half an hour since I got off work! If you don't eat, bring the plate! What are you grinding, don't you go to work! Behind her, an aunt in charge of the recycling of cutlery shouted angrily from behind.

Obviously, this is what he is talking about, because he is now the only one left in the restaurant.

He was stunned for a moment, then heard footsteps approaching, and then an arm with a sleeve reached from behind and grabbed the plate in front of him.

"Nope! I eat! He shouted in horror, and then grabbed the rice ball and stuffed it into his mouth like a beggar grabbing it.

The aunt glared at him angrily, but suddenly felt that this guy was a little familiar.

"Huh? Are you that tree? The Great Elm? Auntie asked suspiciously.

Gong Piqing almost squirted out the mouthful of rice in his mouth, "Eh, this one...... It's okay to call it, I'll see what tree I'm called. ”

After he finished speaking, he took out the badge with the Luxuriant World Tree badge from his breast pocket, and the words "World Tree" were prominently displayed on the card.

"I can't read, these days they all say that there is a big elm tree is very powerful, I also watched his video, are you the big elm tree, I said the more you look at it, the more familiar it becomes." The aunt smiled, as if the roar just now was not Gong Piqing at all.

"This ...... Training is a task assigned to us by the organization, of course, we have to treat it well, in fact, it is also very average, my guys are better than me. Gong Piqing was so embarrassed that he could almost use his toes to dig out a three-bedroom apartment on the ground, but he still had a polite smile on his face.

The aunt smiled as if she had ushered in spring, "They all say that the big elm tree is a fool, but I don't look stupid at all!" What a nice guy! ”

Gong Piqing's face was black, only to realize that he had forgotten to pretend to be another self.

Looking at the back of the aunt leaving and the lights in the restaurant gradually extinguished, his heart unconsciously a little lost, at this moment he finally understood why his other side was so afraid of loneliness, now the task is imminent, when he watched himself gradually swallowed up by the darkness, as if he was thrown into an isolated world, just now this aunt is his only lifeline in this darkness, but now with the departure of the aunt, it seems that he will be left alone in this world.

"If it were another me, he would have scolded you to stay here and talk to him, right? Even if you're scolding him, even if you're arguing, in fact, he just wants to prove that he hasn't been abandoned by the world......" He muttered, slowly getting up and walking towards his bedroom.

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In the early hours of the next morning.

Before the sun came out, the Mill Institute pulled out a van made of all-special alloys and drove towards the downtown area, which contained many of the most advanced ultra-high-tech products in human history, as well as a full three tons of the black virus taken from the underground ruins.

There were more than a dozen top commanders in the command headquarters in the train, and even the top person in charge of Gong Piqing's project, that is, the silver-haired old man, was among them, and this was the first time he had followed the mission again since his retirement four years ago, and their bodyguard was only one, that is, the ghost who claimed to have the strongest individual combat ability.

At this time, Gong Piqing and Hades were probably still sleeping in the bedroom, Gaia was ordered to watch the house, and the ghosts acted as a team guard, and their team's mission was to go to the underground ruins of the Xiguan Renai Research Institute to open the way for Gong Piqing and Hades.

Ten minutes later, the van stopped in the underground parking lot of Xiguan Renai Hospital, and all the members of the team entered Xiguan Renai Hospital, which had not yet woken up from the night.

Since the last time Gong Piqing and the Hades led the negotiation team came here to negotiate with the vice president, the Xiguan Renai Research Institute has temporarily reached a cooperative relationship with the Mill Research Institute, and the Xiguan Renai Research Institute has agreed to provide all possible help to the Mill Research Institute within a certain range, but to put it bluntly, this is also the Mill Research Institute by force, because the former Hades is their only hole card, but now their hole card has also been drawn out by Gong Piqing, They have lost all the capital they can compete with the Mill Institute, so they can't do anything if they don't cooperate.

The team successfully entered the Xiguan Renai Research Institute, and swiped the entrance of the ruins with the universal access card that had been prepared a long time ago, and everything was going well so far, even because no one was working here because it was too early, presumably the first batch of staff who came to work would be surprised to see a group of guys who were more professional than themselves suddenly coming here.

After the team entered the ruins, several staff members immediately opened a notebook full of obscure language like theologians, jumped into the bottom of the machine shaft ruins to check the symbols, and the other members guarded three tons of black viruses on it, and when everything was ready, it would be released; At the same time, several other staff members also untied the superconducting fiber optic cable prepared in advance, and placed the wheeled cart with the fiber optic cable next to the ruins of the well, and the total length of two kilometers of superconducting fiber optic cable was used to allow the Hades to communicate with them from the demon world.

Everything went as planned, and it wasn't until around dawn that a sound similar to the roar of a beast came from the depths of the research institute that they turned their attention to this side.

"Report to the headquarters, a voice similar to the roar of zombies can be heard from the Xiguan Renai Research Institute, and it seems that they are still conducting those studies." A staff member reported to headquarters with a communication device.

"Don't worry about anything else, do your own work, our job today is to send Hades and the World Tree to the Demon Realm safely, even if the zombies run to your face, no one can divert their attention!" The Commander's voice was heard from the communications device.

"Don't worry, everyone, with me, the zombies won't even have a chance to see you." The ghost on the side tossed around in the air with the two short knives he carried, like a master juggler.

"Yes, don't forget that the people who guard you are ghosts." The commander said, "The World Tree and the Immortal have woken up, and the command is now preparing for the final pre-battle mobilization of them, you must be fast, try to let them enter the Demon Realm after lunch, and the security measures must be taken well!" ”

"Roger, so far so good, the rune verification team is making technical adjustments, and after that, we will manually open the portal, and we will tell you when it is confirmed." As he spoke, the staff looked down at the partners in the well who were checking the runes, and their eyes flashed with determination to win.

It didn't take long for the first batch of staff members to come to work when they came in and saw the airtight door of the ruins wide open, and some people even took out their mobile phones for the first time to prepare to report to their leaders.

Suddenly, a puff of white smoke burst from the ghost's feet, and after the smoke cleared, a clone identical to the ghost himself appeared, and the clone appeared like a teleportation next to the group, playing with the two straight knives in his hands, and there was still a ghost standing in the same position to guard their team.

"Hey guys, I guess anyone of you should know me, right?" The ghost leaned against their front desk, the straight knife glowing with a cold blue glow in the light.

"You, who are you! Do you know what this place is? "A guy was holding a phone in a panic with a person's cell phone number on it.

"Oooh! I'm looking for your director, get through, I'm going to tell him something. The ghost said, manually pressing the dial button for him, and the call was quickly connected.

"Hey, hello, it's the director of the Xiguan Renai Psychiatric Research Institute, I'm one of your closest partners, you don't need to go into too much detail and you will definitely know about us, now we have received an urgent task to borrow your ruins for a while, now that we have been working here, we can guarantee that we will not borrow anything from you except the ruins, all the tools are brought by ourselves, here is a greeting to you in advance, I hope to understand, If you have any questions, you can come and tell me in person, my code name is Ghost. ”

With that, he handed the phone back to the staff member, with a bright smile on his face like the rising sun.

"Boss, boss, can you give it to them?" The staff member said into the phone in disbelief.

"Yes, they're partners." An old man's voice came over the phone.

The smile on the ghost's face immediately brightened, and he nodded with satisfaction, "Thank you for your cooperation, what should you be busy with, we promise not to disturb you." ”

After saying that, the "ghost" turned into a puff of white smoke that dissipated, choking the group of people immediately covered their faces and coughed, and when they came back to their senses, they saw that the ghost's body was waving at them in the ruins......

A few hours later, the staff in charge of checking the runes returned to the surface, and three tons of black virus poured into the ruins of the shaft, and a roar of magic came from below, as if they were in a large thundercloud but no one was afraid of it, because they were the ones who wanted to open the way for the two warriors who were going to hell.

A kilometer-long superconducting fiber optic cable is poked into the well with a "fully armed" camera, which is displayed on a screen next to it.

After a period of black screen, the screen lit up again, and the first thing that appeared on the screen was the dim yellow sky, and not far away was a sky-high, similar to a clock tower-like building, on the outer wall of the building, several huge gears could be faintly seen turning, and the complex mechanical structure drove the other machinery in the clock tower to operate.

There was a soft cheer from inside the ruins, and then their link to the headquarters opened again: "Report to the headquarters, the passage has been opened, it is to the country of machines, you can let the two of them come, we are here to guard." ”