Day00 – Hope (5)
"What's going on up ahead?!"
"Let's go to the Ministry of Intelligence first!"
"Don't stop! Evacuate! ”
“……”
Constant cries echoed all around—from combatants who had gone to the Ministry of Welfare to evacuate the crowd. The call was earnest, anxious, and tinged with fear and anxiety.
In addition to the chaotic footsteps, there seemed to be a faint echo of the sound of fighting and burning behind him, and it was obvious that the R&D forces intended to wipe them out. Camille and the others had already entered the battlefield first, and at the moment they were trying to hold back the enemy's iron hooves.
The order quickly dispersed the crowd of onlookers around me, and they immediately fled for their lives like frightened birds towards the makeshift position in the direction of the intelligence department's lobby. We are like a boulder intercepting the flow, stubbornly pushing through the turbulent flow of people.
"Hoo ——!"
In silence, in silence, Bo Hao finally crossed the "singularity", and this dying body really began to transform into a "container".
A shockwave of twilight and feather black suddenly swept through the entire space, but did not cause any harm to everything in its path, and when the light curtain penetrated the body and continued to flow away, people felt only a faint sadness and frustration.
"Click...... ......With a scarf-shaving churn, a second "Dawn" emerged from my body, and the original left wing gradually metamorphosed—its wingspan expanded, its claws grow, and its large eyes shone brighter. And in this strange nirvana, the boundaries of "self" have become more and more blurred, and "twilight" has begun to merge with me......
Time is running out.
I licked up the remaining blood in my hands, slowly lifted Helena's remaining bones to the ground, then got up and took my sword, opened my right hand and slammed the space, rushing into the Black Forest with lightning speed, and immediately flashed out at the end of the crowd, and came behind the fire man and Liboti.
"You ...... It's too noisy. ”
Wielding the Black Feather Greatsword, the mechanical condensation, channeling, solidification, and activation of power, I placed it in my arms and unleashed an unprecedented devastating slash in front of me.
"Buzz ——!!!" In an instant, an extremely dangerous sword aura roared through the entire hall, piercing through walls and crushing obstacles, causing countless damages along the way, only to gradually dissipate under the roar of the macro suppressor. And the power of disintegration and separation, guided by the little beak, returned to my body again.
But when I actually withdrew the blade feather back into my body and looked around, I found that only my colleagues were panicked, and the unbroken charred ash, unbroken flesh and bones, and the unique EGO aura had all dissipated and was difficult to detect.
"Escaped?" I frowned and muttered.
"......Shh
I withdrew the Black Feather Greatsword, raised my head, and looked at my colleagues who had already been frightened by the scene in front of me, I stretched out my hand slightly, and waved it carefully:
"Everybody...... It's okay now. I said softly.
The people were clearly shocked by the immensity of the apocalypse, and they looked at each other in disbelief.
In order to appease the emotions of my colleagues, I shrank my wings and hid them, and tried my best to control the bright light of the big golden eyes on my body, stretched out my hands, and said tentatively again:
"Don't worry, it's all right."
Finally, Camille, who trusted me the most in getting along day and night, began to act: "Senior...... You okay? She said, with a timid but firm step, and stepped forward smoothly and evenly, and stretched out her arms—"Smack." "Eventually she grabbed my hand.
"No...... Not so good. I shook my head: "I have no choice but to turn back." ”
"Senior wasn't that powerful just now......" At this time, Parker also hurriedly followed, asking with concern and confusion.
"That's just a surplus at the cost of your body." I said, "But don't worry, nothing will happen anytime soon......"
"Seniors must pay attention to physical ......," Camille said, snapping his fingers at Parker, and the two of them immediately put one of my arms on their own, supporting me, who was physically and mentally exhausted, and with the slowly advancing crowd, methodically approached the temporary position of the Intelligence Department.
Loki was soon treated in the same way, and Neves, who was accompanying him, had been comforting and supporting him, and in the end, he had at least succeeded in pulling the dejected body back into the temporary safe zone of the Ministry of Intelligence, without giving the stubborn guy any chance to kill himself.
A bitter victory.
When the tired and frightened civilians of the Ministry of Welfare learned of the death of Maxi and the containment team, who had been protecting and caring for them at all times, they all left tears of grief and indignation—howling, sobbing, male and female voices, which suddenly resounded in the hall of the temporary shelter arranged for them. In the face of this amiable senior, but with no bones left, this may have been the highest level of mourning ceremony they could hold here.
When the combatants returned to the containment area, which had been reduced to a battlefield, their mood was no longer the same. Without saying a word, Loki picked up the cigarette he had long since quit, and smoked one by one, exhaling layers of messy and pungent smoke rings; Ida sat beside him in silence, clutching Loki's slightly trembling right hand, her eyes closed, as if she had become tired and exhausted; Gregory quietly left the crowd, sword in hand, and slashed at the scattered paranormal corpses in the hallway, as if fearing that they would come back from the dead; Marx's voice had disappeared from the communicator, and the odd command was temporarily replaced by Eugenie, who was obviously just as upset.
The ministers in the intense work each commemorated their former subordinates in a simple and brief manner, and the civilians around them were also infected by the sad atmosphere, and they also pinched their voices and walked softly, and there was no longer the heat of the past.
The hall was dead, and morale in the organization was lower than ever.
"Ada...... My dear. Loki suddenly stretched out his hands and pressed Ada's shoulders heavily: "Listen to me...... Listen to me. He looked up and stared into his wife's eyes.
At that moment, the same complex look appeared in their eyes—it seemed to be helplessness, sigh, guilt, regret, entrustment, and expectation—and when they poured into their hearts like broken paint, echoing in the depths of their souls, they both couldn't help but be shocked and fell into a brief silence.
"You say...... I listen. Ida slowly raised her hands and landed them on the back of Loki's trembling palms again.
"Uh...... I ......" This sudden warmth touched the innocent big boy again, and he wanted to swallow the words back into his stomach for a while, but when the scene of the sacrifice of Maxi, Corbinha, Velasqueth and other colleagues resurfaced, Loki was shaken - something like that...... It must be said:
"What if...... If...... If either of us dies here, we ...... Let's not go and avenge each other......"
Loki spoke softly, word by word, like a girl waiting to be married; But it also showed unprecedented seriousness and firmness: "I want you to live well, even if I'm gone." ”
Ada's eyes flashed with a hint of strangeness, but it was quickly replaced by a watery calm again: "Is that it?" She asked softly, as calm as a machine.
"Hmm......? Hmm......" Loki pursed his lips and silently sank his head, "That's it." He said, "Please." ”
"Yes, dear." Ida squeezed out a smile and assured her loved ones with her usual optimism, "If only that's it...... Well, I promise you that no matter what happens to us, I will not go for revenge. ”
But when she said this, her hands grasped her lover's fingers more tightly, as if she was afraid that she would let go......
Ida lied.
Loki seemed to know this, too, but he didn't say anything more, just raised the corners of his mouth slightly, trying to control the tears that flickered in his eyes.
"But we ...... You have to live well, okay? Ida was still smiling, trying her best to pretend to be natural: "We all have to live." ”
"Hmmm! Let's live together...... Ada, dear. Loki nodded fiercely, but said with mixed feelings: "Thank you......"
"Poof......
Before the words fell, Ida suddenly stretched out her arms and stepped forward, grabbed Loki's shoulder, and hugged the self-pitying man in front of her in all directions - "Don't say anything, that's it." She muttered quietly.
"Dear ......" Loki also seemed to feel the warmth of his lover, so he didn't say anything more, stretched out his arms, and hugged Ada tightly.
Two hearts, two souls, in this pure embrace, condensed, sublimated......
At this moment, emotions no longer seem to be a shackle to existence, and what we have been pursuing from beginning to end may not be everything we can control around us, but into cold-blooded killing machines......
But at least for now, we still need to try to survive.
At this point, despite the poor equipment and material constraints, the surviving colleagues from the Ministry of Welfare still conducted a comprehensive physical examination and evaluation of me under the organization of Marx, and the final result was not surprising - the EGO erosion from the Apocalypse Bird has begun in full swing, and I will finally fight and die in the future...... Completely, losing oneself.
Of course, this is not good news, but when I can still maintain my sanity and fail to completely "transform", I can make full use of this sudden powerful power to cut through thorns and open up mountains and seas for my colleagues who are always struggling between life and death......