Ten minutes later.

A pink Maserati came from the end of the street and braked hard before Su Lone.

The screeching of brakes and the low roar of the engine hit him in the face on the spot.

The window of the car rolled down, and Hua Jianxiao, who was wearing a pair of black super sunglasses, looked dusty, and Jiao'er Lang made a gesture on the spot, signaling Su Lin to get into the car immediately.

"Cow, buddy, so fast?" Su Lin was extremely shocked by the speed at which Hanami smiled, "It's just that your dress is a little ...... How to say, how many burial loves are eaten in one meal? ”

"You bury love, your whole family buries love!"

Hanami scolded with a smile, "And that has to be fast, I can't afford to eat if I don't go on a mission!" ”

"Don't look at my young age, I'm carrying a mortgage on two houses!"

"If you don't earn some bonuses, you'll really drink the northwest wind when you come back."

"So it's true that you work part-time as a duck?"

"Fuck off!"

The sound of on-board map navigation sounds, and the route to Xinning Port is spread out in the city road.

The pink Maserati started up and plunged straight into the traffic.

Hanami Xiao is obviously an old driver who is used to being in a commotion, and operations such as hitting the direction with his left hand and touching his thigh with his right hand are already commonplace, but today's road conditions make him have no chance to show at all.

Since the lockdown order came down, all key intersections in Xinning City have been guarded by personnel from the Public Security Division, and suspicious people must be checked immediately.

During this time, the traffic has become a little congested, and netizens in Xinning City have complained and complained on major platforms.

Only the players in the oath forum did not complain, everyone understands this kind of thing, and ordinary people who don't know the truth naturally don't understand the seriousness of the matter.

Although Hanami can obtain some priority at intersections by showing some official documents authorized by the Executive Office provided by the Tengenkai, there is still no way to achieve the level of unimpeded access.

It's not a big problem, though.

The location of Xinning Port is not too far away from them, and it is completely too late to rush over this point if nothing else.

Taking advantage of the time along the way, Su Lin quickly explained the ins and outs of the whole incident to Hua Jianxiao.

"Damn, I'll just say why are you so active this time, it turns out that you plan to be a hero to save the United States!" Hanami smiled disdainfully.

"That's really not the point...... So you ducks are really full of women, right? ”

"Gan, you don't have to get along with the duck today, right?"

After a few words of unnutritious nonsense, Su Xiao asked seriously: "Speaking of which, do you know Zhang Lihua?" ”

"Zhang Lihua? Absolutely! ”

Hanami smiled and nodded, "More than ten years ago, the Kuroshio Organization had a group of believers composed of ordinary human players, who sold their souls to Kuroshio in exchange for the power of sublimation or money and other things. ”

"At that time, Kuroshio was just an ordinary non-governmental player organization, just like a group of little hairy children who were making small fights, and they couldn't make any waves at all."

"Later, a group of capital with a keen sense of smell saw this opportunity to enter the market."

"After the inflow of capital, a large number of believers flocked to the Kuroshio, injecting tons of fresh blood into the Kuroshio."

"It was also from that time that Kuroshio began to grow rapidly."

"From the first birth of the magic capital, it has spread to the nearby Hangzhou City and Sioux City, to the northeast of Eastern Xia, and now there are members of the Kuroshio all over the country to set foot in ......"

"At this rate, you can't exaggerate to call it the flu and the plague."

"In the past few years, they have started the idea of near the southern coastal areas, and Xinning City has also been targeted by them recently."

Hua Jian smiled and said, "And the Zhang Lihua you mentioned was the most famous one among the group of believers in Xinning City back then. ”

"What's the way to get famous?" Su Lin said again.

"Uh...... Do you know Vipal? ”

Hanami smiled and scratched his cheeks, "Wei Pel was the leader of the Kuroshio Organization in this part of Xinning City at that time, of course, I don't know if it is now, after all, he has not been caught." ”

"I don't know he's been moved to another city."

"Vipel? Is this his ID? Su Lin asked.

"It's not...... Uh, it could be, too. Hanami said with a smile, "Because this is just a name that he has circulated from within the organization, and no one has actually seen his true face, let alone his real ID." ”

"Is there any rumor about what he looks like?"

"There are, but there are so many different versions, at least I've heard of them less than ten."

Hanami thought for a moment and said, "But no matter which version of the statement, it seems to have a common characteristic, that is, Vipal always likes to wear a black robe......"

"But it seems that he also wants to follow him, so in fact, the followers of the Kuroshio also like to dress in black robes, so this feature doesn't seem to be representative......"

"Do you know V?" Su Lin asked again.

"Isn't that the number one player in your Xinning? Knowing is knowing, but not paying much attention. ”

Hanami shrugged his shoulders, "I like to engage in this kind of bells and whistles the most." ”

"Honestly, I don't really understand what this kind of ranking means......"

"It's like fighting the king of pesticides, I don't even know who the first national service is, let alone pay attention to a municipal first."

"There's really nothing wrong with that." Su Lin nodded approvingly, "But I think now that V-maybe it's the Vipel you are talking about." ”

"I'll rub it, isn't it?"

Hanami smiled and glared, looking as if she had seen a ghost, "Be reasonable, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense." ”

"One thing to say, if your news is true, it will be a bit exciting."

"Oh? How exciting is it? ”

Hanami smiled and pondered slightly: "It's so hot that the bonus is enough to pay off my mortgage for a year?" ”

[Ding Dong!] ]

A system prompt sounded in Su Lian's mind at this time.

[I received an attachment email from the player "Lollipop Ranger"!] ]

This name is naturally familiar to Su Lone, this is the name of Tang Ran's game.

"I went to the Source Energy Cellar to take a look, and I passed on all the things that could come in handy."

Tang Ran called and said, "Xinning City is really poor, Xiao Yong, a bastard, hasn't done a few reliable things at all." ”

After opening the email to receive the attachment, Su Lin found that it was several boxes of supplies.

The first equipment box contained pistols, submachine guns, 9mm rounds loaded with elemental stone warheads, body armor, tactical daggers, and high-explosive fragmentation grenades.

Inside the second chest are [Scout Guard], [Escape Crystal], [Psionic Potion], [Potion of Abundance], [Healing Capsule...... and other basic extraordinary props and materials.

The last chest contains the more valuable tips, namely [Purification] and [Sprint].

This large box full of supplies really made Su Lian, who had never seen such a big scene, look stupid.

Hua Jianxiao obviously also received Tang Ran's attachment email, and when she saw Su Lian's appearance, she couldn't help but laugh a little:

"Dude, don't be too surprised."

"It's all standard for our normal missions."

"A few years ago, when I was sneaking in the Western Desert, the sub-bureau over there even provided us with two tanks equipped with spirit removal cannons, which can blow a team of little rabbit cubs like you into slag with one shot!"

After listening, Su Lin chose to be tactically silent......

Good guy, this can be regarded as a complete demonstration of how collapsed the Xinning Branch is.

"I just hope that the task ahead of me is not too tricky."

Hanami smiled on the steering wheel, pursed his lips, and muttered as if he was complaining:

"I'm going to make an appointment with KFC's sister tonight."

*

*

It's getting dark.

Xinning City.

Along the shore of a certain section of the Yongjiang River basin, Xinning Port.

This is the largest port in the whole city of Xinning.

The annual throughput of this large port can reach the level of 4 million tons, and it costs one billion Dongxia yuan for the completion alone.

It covers an area of 800 acres, with a shoreline of more than 1,000 meters, and has built 11 berths of more than 3,000 tons, and the total yard area has reached the level of more than 200,000 square meters.

The warehouse in the port has reached a level of nearly 30,000 square meters.

However, despite the staggering numbers, many of the warehouses have been idle and abandoned for a long time.

After all, the huge throughput and high operational efficiency of Xinning Port make it almost impossible to transport goods with excessive backlogs.

At this moment, a room hidden in the corner of the warehouse complex is in a state where all the doors and windows are closed.

The area near it is cut off by an artificial cordon.

The cordon is also set up quite cleverly, opening up a large area so that neither the way nor the crowd can pass through, but it does not cause any sense of strangeness to it.

A van drove in from the side of the port.

The first to get out of the car was Lu Hekai, followed by a group of men in black.

Surrounded between them was a woman of about fifty years old, with gray hair curled up in a bun at the back of her head, and her face covered with a surging makeup.

She wore a white shirt and black trousers, smart and straight.

Although she is indeed old, and the years have left a knife-like wrinkle on her face, her eyebrows are sharp and heroic.

If people who don't know her look at it, they will definitely not associate her with a woman who is over half a hundred years old and has already entered the grandmother's generation with half a foot.

Under the leadership of Lu Hekai, a group of people surrounded the woman and entered the huge warehouse from a very secret entrance.

Except for everyone in the van, no one else around noticed the scene.

The light in the warehouse was very dim, Lu Hekai turned on the flashlight, and led the group to the innermost room with a familiar car.

"I'm back."

Lu Hekai said.

The moment the door was opened, the first thing I saw was a sparkling spot of light in the darkness, or countless quadrilateral-shaped blocks of glittering light.

Those are all arranged here, and there are completely countless indicators and displays of various instruments.

It's like a huge hospital room, with many beds on display.

In each bed lay a man in a coma.

Their hands and feet were fastened to the top of the bed, and their heads were covered with a hood-like device connected to a dense network of wires.

At this time, these devices are operating normally and at high frequencies, ensuring that everyone on them is stable and secure in Avalon's environment.

"Good work, you're doing a good job."

V's voice came from the darkness.

His figure gradually approached, and slowly became clear in front of everyone.

When the figure, silhouette, and the extra familiar mask on the other party's face were revealed.

Zhang Lihua only felt that the memories buried in her heart that she was reluctant to be read began to sway recklessly like black algae accumulated on the bottom of the sea.

"Long time no see, Miss Zhang."

A soft, laughing voice came from behind V's mask.

He walked up to Zhang Lihua, and his black-gloved hand poked out of his black robe.

Zhang Lihua shook his hand mechanically, and said in a calm voice: "What about my daughter?" ”

"You can put a hundred hearts, with me, of course she is well taken care of." V smiled, "Come with me." ”

Zhang Lihua followed V for another distance, and then came to a room.

Through the tempered glass, Zhang Lihua could see that a pale girl was sleeping on the bed, under the control of the hood device, her brows were frowning and her expression was nervous.

It's as if you're experiencing an indescribably horrific nightmare.

"Oh, look, look."

"How could I lie to you, dear~"

V said with a smile, his voice was light and bright:

"Specially equipped single room, all the hardware and equipment are top-notch, just like playing triple-A masterpieces with the best graphics card and CPU, the Avalon experience is simply a higher level!"

Zhang Lihua didn't speak, but her fingers involuntarily clenched into fists, trembling slightly.

V's mouth is full of nonsense about running trains, and she naturally doesn't even believe a punctuation mark.

Although she hadn't been in contact with the gamer's circle for many years, she even knew that her daughter was suffering from a dire situation at this time.

Most of the Avalons are not physically harmful, but the psychological damage is immeasurable.

For young children who are not yet mentally mature, a terrifying Avalon experience is enough to cast a shadow over their childhood.

In addition, medical research data has shown that the probability of such children suffering from depression, neurasthenia or other mental illnesses in the process of growing up will be nearly 25% higher than that of normal children.

Even for adults, if they experience this kind of Avalon torture for too long, they will inevitably produce mental trauma.

Zhang Lihua knows very well that it is not surprising that this man who wears a funny mask quilt and is now called V would do such a thing.

"Vipel, I warn you."

Zhang Lihua's tone was even colder, "If you really dare to move a finger against my daughter, I will fight with you." ”

"Desperate?"

After listening to Zhang Lihua's words, V laughed loudly as if he had heard some great joke of the century:

"I didn't take you seriously more than ten years ago."

"Do you think I'm going to take what you're saying now?"

V's smile gradually froze, and his voice became calm and emotionless: "You can go to the altar to arrange the sublimation ceremony." ”

"Okay."

Xiao Yong, who had been standing silently behind V, nodded in response, and then left with Lu Hekai first.

After the two left and walked away, V slowly turned around and continued to say to Zhang Lihua:

"You may not believe it when you say it."

"In just ten years of hard work, I have completed the second stage of sublimation."

"With this level of speed and efficiency, you won't find anyone in the entire organization who can match me."

"And after today's third sublimation ceremony, I will completely shed the shell of this inferior race and become a great existence that you can't even imagine."

"This will be the closest thing I will ever have to the name [of the deity]......"

V took two more steps forward, closer to Zhang Lihua, then bent down slightly, looked down at her, and said with a smile: "And all this will be thanks to you, my dear." ”

"You're disgusting." Zhang Lihua said expressionlessly.

Whenever she heard the other party call her with this word, Zhang Lihua only felt a surge of stomach acid, nausea and wanted to vomit.

"Is it disgusting? No, are you serious? ”

V looked at her through the mask and said in an exaggerated tone, "Do you really know what you're doing?" ”

"You're arrogant, you're blasphemy."

"You know? You're in for a big deal......"

"No matter how much you say, it's useless." Zhang Lihua shook her head and said, saying in a very cold tone, "Unless I release my daughter now, I will never cooperate with you." ”

That's the real reason she's here today.

Three days ago, she received a threatening message from V, to the effect that her daughter was already in their hands, and she wanted to come to Xinning City with her life to cooperate with his ascension ceremony.

Zhang Lihua knew what he wanted.

When she first ascended, the [remnant] contained in the fragment of her soul alone was equivalent to the amount of ten people.

And in terms of purity, she is the only existence that can reach the essence level.

In a not-so-nice but popular enough phrase, in V's eyes, she is the most perfect negative energy machine.

Obviously, over the years, V has traveled all over Dongxia and the world, and has not been able to find a better replacement than her.

So this is the most critical sublimation, and he came to the door again.

However, since she sold half of her soul to this guy more than ten years ago in order to raise money for her daughter's treatment, she broke away from the Kuroshio and cut off all ties with the organization.

So no matter what, Zhang Lihua couldn't have imagined that ten years later, this bastard really spent three feet of hard work to track down her whereabouts, and he succeeded.

Not only did V contact her, but even found her daughter, who lives in Xinning City.

So she had no choice but to go to the appointment.

But that doesn't mean she'll let V slaughter at will, she also has chips in her hand, and that's the remaining half of her soul.

There are many ways to snatch souls, one is extracted from a corpse, and the other is stripped from a living body.

The former is basically a sporadic fragment, and most of the [remnant] contained in it disappears at the time of death, so the purity is not very high.

Only the latter can obtain the perfect essence and refine the high-quality [Soul Crystal].

And the soul is such a thing, strictly speaking, it exists in the spirit of the human body.

For human beings, having a strong will is like putting a strong lock on the soul.

It just so happens that Zhang Lihua is such a person.

Her fortitude and steadfastness can completely dispel the idea of stripping her soul from her living body, and as long as she doesn't want to, V will never have the slightest way to take her.

And that's why she's not afraid of the other party.

"What do I want?"

v asked Zhang Lihua rhetorically.

Immediately after, a terrible laugh came from the depths of his throat, followed by wild laughter.

"I love the confident look you look like, my dear ......"

V suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhang Lihua's hair.

Then he pushed the latter hard, pinched her head, and in the midst of her screams, violently pressed her face against the glass.

"I have to admit that you were one of the best [remnant] vessels in the past."

"It's a pity — not anymore."

Through the glass, Zhang Lihua saw Liu Yiyi lying on the hospital bed again.

She suddenly understood something.

A wave of fear suddenly came to my heart.

……

Meanwhile.

In front of the entrance to Xinning Port.

A dazzling pink Maserati came at high speed from the end of the road, like a sharp arrow......