The Dark Phoenix's final attack caused the entire star to begin to crumble, and Ciri could feel the blocked space-time disintegrating in the spatial perception given by the blood of the elders that he had revived.

Madeleine's time of escape was approaching, and she rushed forward to look at Mason, who was half-kneeling in front of the pile of black embers, as if saying goodbye, and put her hand on his shoulder to try to persuade her little Valentine's Day to be obedient.

She knew what kind of person Mason was, and even though Madeleine had caused him a lot of trouble, the loss of a life was not something to be happy about for Mason.

But before the Hunter could say anything to comfort him, he was shocked to see Mason's hands remove the embers of Madeleine's "ashes" and pick up a crying baby from the warm black ash pile.

It's like a fucking human being!

But Mason wasn't surprised.

Satisfied, he got up and reached out to gently remove the ashes from the baby's skin, and then looked back at the wide-eyed Ciri in the black embers.

He said:

"Lo and behold, the resurrection potion experiment was successful. It proved that what you had just drunk was working, and my last worries disappeared. ”

Ciri looked at the baby in Mason's arms, and she was speechless in shock for a moment.

Then I don't know what kind of mental state she thought, she broke out and asked:

"In other words, will I also be reborn as a baby? No! It's not what I want, it means I'll have to spend another sixteen years with you."

"It's eighteen years, I'm a normal person, and I don't have any interest in being a minor."

The Captain corrected Ciri's statement in a serious manner, and was satisfied with the wonderful change in the expression on the Hunter's face, and then explained to her with a wicked smile:

"But you're drinking the fortified version, so I'm guessing you'll go back to your eighteenth birthday, which I specifically requested when I ordered the potion."

"Gollum! (This is Madeleine?) You saved her! ）”

The Iron Empress, who was in pain from the death of her best friend, rushed over, and she looked at the white baby in Mason's arms and didn't know what to say for a while.

The captain understood Gollum's confusion at this time.

He didn't bother to explain, he turned around and shoved the crying child into Gollum's arms.

The former empress, who could hunt a dragon without changing her face, hurriedly took the human cub, tore off her protective cloak, wrapped her properly, and clumsily tied it to her chest.

It can be seen that Gollum does not intend to let the young Madeleine out of her sight until she is truly safe.

"She's dead, that's the exact fact. Madeleine Pryor must die for the sins she committed, and there is no sin in this day and age that will go unpunished. ”

Mason glanced at the world around him, which could no longer stop the cataclysm, gave Ciri a look and told her to jump out of the space, and then said to Gollum:

"The Madeleine you knew is gone, but the resurrection potion has reshaped her life force back to a baby, and has nothing to do with the darkness and sorrow of the past.

She can continue to be called Madeleine, but if you don't want your girlfriend to grow up to be that bad in the future, you have to learn to take care of her from now on.

Of course, I'm sure Emma would be willing to help. ”

With that, Mason reached out and grabbed the hilt of the Black Death Sword stuck in the black ashes, which fell silent after Madeleine, the sword-wielder, died.

The captain pulled it out of the ground, flicked the blade of his sword, and asked:

"Hey, teaser, are you dead?"

"It's okay, although I made a mistake, but believe me, it's not much better! It's just a hard push. ”

The fragment of the Black Sword of Death belonging to Mason was still trying to explain why he had failed, but the captain didn't care anymore, he said:

"And will it affect me if I hold it now?"

"No!"

The Black Sword of Death replied:

"I have failed, but my sword-bearer has won! This also means that I have won the final victory in this battle of the will of the Black Death Sword.

I will reign over the will of this sword until you fail or die. ”

It shook the blade and "melted" it, like a parasite of a black symbiote, fused into Mason's palm and reattached to the spear of Ragnarok in its nimble crawling.

It says:

"The frenzied battle makes me hungry right now, you know?"

"Understood!"

Mason drew his pistol and aimed it at the sky, firing several shots at the gods as they tried to flee the area.

Grabbing the complete Black Death Sword made this pistol more powerful, and there was no limit to three rounds of ammunition, and the black bullet flew into the shattered clouds, and in the screams of the opponent and the blood of the gods, the final death was sacrificed to this land that was about to collapse.

Seconds later, Ciri struggled to tear open a silver arc of light leading to the outside world, and Mason whistled for Azu and his companions to go.

Although it was a meeting in Pingshui, this group of guys finally made a choice and implemented it with action, so they should be given a little sweetness and reward.

"And someone!"

Ciri looked at Mason and said:

"Steve is still down there"

"That's his goodbye to Old A."

Mason took Ciri's hand, and as he walked into the pulsing silver arc of light, he said:

"Let's go, give him one last bit of decency."

"It was the stubborn remnants of the old era, unwilling to set foot on the ship of the new era."

——

"Poof"

The sound of blood spilling echoed through the dark underground, and in the devastated super mutant base, the Third Commander let go of his hand, and the clone with the dagger piercing the eye smashed to the ground.

At this moment when there was no need to fight, Steve Rogers still didn't stop fighting.

He single-handedly blocked the entire underground base from spawning super mutants to prevent them from stepping into the surface to intervene in the confrontation between Mason and Old A.

This kind of action can be called cruel, but for these monsters who are not infused with full consciousness at all, and are only born as cannon fodder for killing, it may be the real mercy to give them a simple death.

And the third commander of the whole process from beginning to end was covered in blood, but not much of it belonged to him.

As a close friend of Lao A and the commander of operations under his command, the combat effectiveness of the captain, who has been strengthened many times, is no longer what it used to be, and with such strength, if he also joins in the obstruction and assassination of Mason, then the captain will definitely encounter terrible trouble today.

Of course, the third commander was indeed sent by Lao A as part of this death trap, but he didn't intend to complete his job from the beginning.

By the time he sent Mason that "don't come" message, he had actually made up his mind about what he would do today.

"Smack"

The round shield stained with blood and flesh smashed to the ground, and in the Shura field strewn with corpses in the darkness, the third commander moved his somewhat sore wrist.

He looked up and could see the crumbling underbelly around him and the terrain that was crushing wildly in the shattering of the star core, the world was coming to an end, and if he wasn't going to leave, he would be able to see the end of the world in a few minutes.

At this moment, Steve turned on the hanging communicator on his shoulder.

As he waited for communication, he reached out and took off his classic helmet and threw it on the bloody ground without hesitation.

The boots moved forward, leaving one bloody footprint after another, and as he approached the catapult device in front of him, the communication was finally connected.

The optical projection appeared in a pixelated manner before the eyes of the third commander, quickly forming the gloomy and angry face of Old A and the bright background of the office behind him.

"The operation failed."

Steve boarded the catapult and set the target to the surface, and while undoing the bloodstained armor on his body, he reported to Old A very formulaicly:

An unexpected strong man with a conscience intervened in the operation, single-handedly stopping all the super mutants and leading directly to Ciria's escape.

Your plans go awry at the start, and Mason doesn't have to go deep underground to find his lover, which gives him more flexibility in how he breaches the net.

As it turns out, this assassination attempt you've crafted really sucks compared to Mason's plan of resistance.

Seriously, when you set Madeleine Pryor at the center of your plan, didn't you think she might betray her? After all, it was her titular family and brother. ”

"Shut up, Steve!"

Old A couldn't bear to listen to these hellish reports, and he said in a gloomy tone:

"I trusted you to send you to preside over it all, but you've really disappointed me! Your old oath has been ruthlessly cast away by you, and you have sided with my opponents when I needed help the most. ”

"I feel ridiculous when you say that!"

During the countdown to the launch of the catapult, the third commander sneered:

"I am a witness in your agreement with Mason, and I am also a member of this three-person agreement, and we have made a promise to him, and after he has come up with a plan and implemented it perfectly, shouldn't it be proper to fulfill the contract?

Or did you not actually plan to complete the bet in the first place?

From the very beginning, you see all of this as a joke to appease your subordinates, a pie drawn out of thin air.

Fury, we've known each other for over thirty years.

Even in the vanilla era before the impact, I trusted you so much that you said we needed a plan, so I was willing to saddle up.

You said that the Council had fallen and needed a new organization, and I did not hesitate to join you at the risk of being executed.

You said that the casting of the Star of the End would require the essence of countless worlds to create this sanctuary for the next era, so I plunged my hands into the dirty land, preferring to let my heart be covered with ashes than to help you complete this plan.

I am not helping you because you are trustworthy, nor because of our past relationships, in the face of such a state of affairs, personal emotions are no longer enough to be a reason for action.

I'm helping you because I'm sure you can get through it with everyone!

But how do you give back to me?

I realized when you made the bet with Mason that you don't care about whether we can win or not, you care more about who wins than about that outcome

You no longer focus on the outcome that is good for everyone, you are just angry that it is not you who is going to win!

You put your own honor and disgrace and interests above the survival of trillions of people.

You're still trying to keep me going down the path you've chosen, but I'm not your dog! Fury, I have my morality, I have my philosophy.

I've given you a chance to turn back, more than once. ”

During the seven-second countdown, the Third Commander tied himself to the charged catapult, closed his eyes, and said to his former best friend with a sense of anger and loss that could no longer be suppressed:

"There are only a few outsiders in Utopia's visitor system who can leave permissions, how did Doom paralyze Utopia's Sentinel Legion and directly cause the slaughter and destruction of a world?

Do you really think I didn't notice what you were doing in the shadows?

Professor Supreme isn't just your friend, he's my friend! And when you need him to die, you don't even give him a choice.

You're no longer the Nick Fury I knew.

The spy chief, who will always mess things up, but whose starting point is to prevent crises and protect the people.

Everyone is aware of this, only I don't want to believe this truth, and I've been lying to myself that it's all a necessary sacrifice.

I also lived myself into the most hated person I ever was, and I became the Red Skull. No, I've become a monster more abominable and insane than the Red Skull.

And all this today is my answer to you!

I resigned, bastard! ”

"Boom"

The catapult fired, and the flying seat carrying the Third Commander leaped upwards along the broken rails, in the background of the earth crumbling and everything dying.

The moment he saw the light, the world behind him quietly shattered.

The corpses of the slain gods were swallowed up by the magma that erupted from beneath the earth, and all the evils that had occurred here were wiped out by this extinctional destruction.

In the sea of stars in front of the Third Commander, who was still advancing towards the sky, the neutron killing cannon that had locked onto the target and entered the firing program had already swallowed up a dark blue plume.

It's like an oversized sniper rifle aimed at the ground, and the Third Commander is flying towards the muzzle.

"I don't want to help the abuse, Fury, we no longer represent justice and order and the future, we are no longer what we remember.

We've allowed the end to shape us into the most terrible monsters of all, and when we give up on our original intentions, we deserve to die.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this day.

Its only problem is that it came too late. ”

In the mechanical chair, the third commander raised his head with open arms, as if embracing the entire sky.

His hair was blown to the sound of hunting, and the scars on his eyes were bleeding from the outburst of emotion, staining his cheeks like drops of bloody tears.

He closed his eyes and said to Fury:

"Give up with dignity, we lost, don't struggle anymore, don't do more wrong things for Mason and his righteous teachers to laugh at us, and keep the last dignity as the echo of the moment you were at the end of the road.

There is no paradise left for us.

You and I will meet in hell, where a judgment has been waiting too long, and those who die because of us are our judges.

I'm just going first, Fury. ”

"Launch program terminated! Damn it! Give me a stop! Bastard! You are not allowed to be a deserter! It's not over yet, you come back to me! Steve!

I command you, come back!

Mazefak!

You give me back"

Old A's pitch-shifting roar came from another moment in communication.

But his cry could not change the ending, and a dark blue killing plume shot out from the star track, like a waterfall of light gushing out of heaven or hell.

In the last second of communication, he said to Old A:

"I've wanted to tell you a long time ago, you look stupid when you swear."

Steve Rogers, sitting in the mechanical catapult chair, was shrouded in this deadly destruction, like a stone swimming against the current, flickering a few times before being completely engulfed.

"Toot"

The communication signal was disconnected, and the projection in front of Old A's eyes also collapsed, and he grabbed the instrument at hand and glanced at it, which represented that Steve Rogers' life signal had been extinguished.

That meant the departure of the last friend who had accompanied him until now.

Not to die in a war or an attack, but to choose to kill himself in an indescribable way.

Old A felt a wave of dizziness.

He took a step back and fell into his chair.

He knew that everything was out of control, that his assassination plan had failed, and that nothing could stop Mason Cooper and his career from being pushed to the final step.

His fingers began to spasm, followed by his stomach and heart, like a pair of invisible hands holding his neck, making it difficult for him to breathe.

He knows how it feels.

This feeling is called fear.

Fear that he had never felt before overwhelmed him.

He finally woke up from the illusion of being in control, and then sadly discovered that he was still just the same mortal who was helpless in the face of the impact.

He did many, many bad things to survive or something.

Now, retribution has come.

The name of this retribution is Old K

(End of chapter)