Day00 – "Hope" (7)
At the same time, the central general control office also sent an urgent battle plan for rescuing Geburah: it is still an elite squad strategy, with me leading the team, leading Loki and Gregory to the Punishment Department to help, and Lydella is in charge of the guide - it seems that for a while, I really have no reason to stop the crazy woman who is bent on revenge from going to the battlefield.
But for the sake of the smooth implementation of the battle plan, I still asked Lidella for three chapters. And this action was not surprisingly resisted by the excited female rhinoceros: "Your upper echelons still look down on the Punishment Department?!" Tell you, the Punishment Department is the most disciplined of all departments, and the old lady will never be impulsive and cause a big deal! ”
It wasn't ideal, but at least it turned out to be good, and I got along with her.
Even though the evacuation operation and the sudden onslaught were devastated, the organization still showed considerable functional efficiency and professionalism, and the civilians of the training department gathered the materials and personnel needed to carry out the operation almost immediately; Lydira's EGO was badly damaged and unusable, and the civilians did their best to provide a fluorescent robe recovered from their fallen comrades, as well as a seventy-percent new pink military suit, allowing her to regain her previous combat effectiveness.
At this point, this combat team of four people, tasked with rescuing Geburah and protecting his colleagues in the evacuation area behind him, was assembled in the main lounge of the Ministry of Intelligence, ready to go-
"Have you checked everything?" I asked the people around me, "Let me remind you one last time, our destination is the main lounge of the Corrections Department, and we must all cheer up!" ”
"Uh-huh!" Lydela, who was most excited, was the first to respond, clutching the slightly unfamiliar spear, as if ready to stab it in the chest of her enemy.
Loki didn't say anything, just nodded slightly, casually glanced at Ida's concerned figure not far away, and took a deep breath.
"Hmm." Gregory nodded, subconsciously touching his pocket, but could only sigh shallowly in the regret of being empty.
"Good, all on alert!!" I immediately ordered, gathering strength and touching the space - "Let's go now!" I made a final warning - "Space-grasp!" "The moment I meditated in my heart, I opened my arms wide, and as soon as the dawn broke, I instantly created a distorted space-distorting rift, engulfing the four members of the team together.
Searching, drifting, clustering, locking, accelerating, I led my teammates through the Black Forest with a seemingly innate skill, and completed a series of actions in space shuttle in a short time - "Long Arm - Grasp". "I unleashed my power again to manipulate space, pulling up my teammates and rushing towards the space-time rift that was pointing straight to the destination—
"Buzz ——!" With a distortion of space, it shook and recovered. After experiencing a bizarre journey to another dimension, the four-member team arrived at the main lounge of the Punishment Department in an instant, and quickly surrounded the guard.
"Don't take it lightly!" I gestured to them as one last reminder.
But unexpectedly, there were no enemies around, and in this devastated and battle-ridden hall, it was as quiet as a graveyard at the moment—which could not help but arouse the high alarm of the crowd. I immediately spread my wings behind me, constantly vibrating the big eyes that flickered on them, and used the sound waves to repeatedly probe the surrounding area—
"Like...... Nobody ......" After a short wait, I was somewhat surprised to report this unusual result.
"There is no ambush nearby." I checked with the team again.
"Did they leave?" Gray gestured back.
“…… No, they're not far away. I enhanced the range of resonance detection: "In the construction department! I immediately informed.
"Good...... In this way, everyone will close together and immediately teleport again......"
Just as I was constantly waving my gestures and gathering strength, a familiar sense of detachment suddenly invaded my body, causing a cold sweat on my back, and I was frozen in place unconsciously.
"Dai...... Dai, are you okay? The sudden abnormality made Gray on the side quite puzzled, and immediately asked.
"No...... We're in big trouble. I gestured restlessly.
"What's going on?" Loki asked.
"We've been discovered." I replied lightly: "There are three levels of reverse Kabbalah suppressor signals here, and I can't guarantee the safety of your transmission." ”
"That means we have to hike ......"
"There may be an ambush."
"Then avoid the war as much as possible."
"Focus on protecting Lytria."
"Silence the whole time, follow the source of the sound."
"The objectives of the second mission are confirmed: to permanently weaken Binah, stabilize the position, and then evacuate."
"Well, that's all. Without further ado, act now. ”
As soon as the order was issued, the three blood pupils immediately moved towards the depths of the Punishment Department. Litella, who stood on the side, was suspicious because she didn't know anything about the symbolic sign language circulating in the exclusive organization, but in the face of the sudden accident, she still followed without hesitation.
"Buzz—buzz—" As the resonance frequency accelerated, I began to understand my surroundings in more detail. The journey was unexpectedly smooth, and I couldn't even discern any valuable information in the clutter. And the guards in Lydela's mouth seemed to have evaporated from the world at this moment, completely gone. The road was empty and silent, and the sporadic lights gradually extended forward with our footsteps, as if in an eerie and playful welcome ceremony.
Soon, the footsteps of the four-person team officially arrived at the elevator room where it was handed over to the R&D Department - naturally the elevator here had been destroyed by the continuous fighting (perhaps intentionally by the R&D personnel during the evacuation), but there was still a deep elevator shaft - Loki saw it, skillfully waved the Paradise Lost in his hand, coiled and wound countless blood vines from the abyss of Paradise into a platform, and after all four of them took the stage, they tapped the scepter, and the team slowly rose under the support of the vines, and soon left the Punishment Department, Shuttle through the lower divisions that connect the entire building (though it's now at the top of the facility...... in the elevator hall.
The lower corridor of the Punishment Department and the main lounge of the R&D Department...... It is true that in the face of this familiar scene in front of me, I can't help but think back to the various experiences of the past - even if most of them ended in violent deaths, but compared to the life and death at this time, there is still an unprecedented sentimentality rising in my heart - from the "nostalgia" and betrayal of the old days.
But...... I didn't have much time to spend time at the moment, and I immediately regained my concentration and vigilance again, and the wings behind me continued to radiate sound waves, resonating everywhere, providing the four-person team with valuable information about life and death.
"There are no anomalies...... ......"Every ten seconds, I report to my teammates about the situation, and this alarm is especially important in this elevator shaft where vision and movement are restricted.
But...... The R&D department doesn't seem to have any plans to ambush us here, and everything around us is still calm and eerie, as always.
The vines of "Hu ......" reached the top, and we finally "arrived".
At this moment, there is a corridor of the construction department that cannot be seen at a glance.
As the last department to open in the regular cycle, and very few permanent clerical staff to move around, we naturally have very few memories of it, only that it has a huge management space that spans the entire work area, not inferior to the central headquarters, the only corridor is crammed with a full eight boxes of containment units, and the main lounge is also the same high-level mansion, but it is neither like the upper department stuffed with all kinds of functional equipment, nor as deliberately ornate and pompous decoration as the central headquarters - in that vast space, The only image is the director's familiar office, with huge pieces of furniture, materials, and office equipment floating between the four walls, which is extremely unreal.
Of course...... Now we finally know that all this is extracted from the "heart" of the man who wrote the script, as the only minister and resident employee of the construction department, in the short twenty years of brutal expansion and development of the company, he quietly penetrated the branches of the construction department that represented the march of the "script" and the extension of self-will, and comprehensively penetrated into the countless branches of the company all over the city, building every fortress, filling every gap, and stepping through the thorns and practicing the goal with a ruthlessness and shrewdness that no one can match- Until now, at this moment when the giant tree of light broke through the ground, it was always in danger of being invaded.
Whenever I recall what that man did, I always feel a deep sense of disconnection - but perhaps this is not inexplicable, in the thousands of resets and cycles created by the TT2 protocol, the director-Ayin is no longer a person, and every time he is "reborn" in this underground prison, there will always be a completely different experience and experience - it is all this that zeros out the soul of "their" over and over again, and gradually fixes it, before finally becoming the one sitting in the office, A smug figure talking to a group of suspicious returnees.
He may never be forgotten...... It can't be forgotten by the city.
In between actions, we soon found ourselves in and out of the long, desperate corridor beneath our feet, the containment units all shattered with the escape of the anomalytes, and the empty doors were like tombstones, commemorating our brief lives. On top of that, it was clearly one of the sites of the battle of the century between the Binah and Geburah ministers, and the terrifying knife marks and the incomparably neat prismatic pits around it were a constant reminder of the terrible dangers that those who had come here - but we had no other choice, and the burden of survival pressed everyone to rise up and fight. At this moment, everyone firmly believes in a wordless revelation in their hearts - only by seeing death as home, can we survive in a desperate situation.
"Bang ——!!" Just as the team of four was about to reach the end of the corridor and rush into the vast main lounge, there was a violent thud, and the square metal body of Minister Geburah smashed through the door, roaring towards the corridor like a cannonball! The sheer size of his body and terrifying speed nearly crushed the four-man team that couldn't dodge it - thankfully, Minister Geburah only narrowly brushed past the panicked Lydira before it caused a tragedy.
But it didn't end there - "Bang-snort-sss Repeatedly colliding, rubbing, taking off, colliding, rubbing, taking off again, repeating the cycle, Geburah sparked and lightning all the way through the long corridor of the construction department, and looked extremely embarrassed - "Ahhhh And this unfavorable situation seemed to inspire her fighting spirit at the same time, only to see Geburah let out a loud shout, and immediately swung the giant blade in his hand and slashed towards the high-speed flying giant pillar that continued to impact her body, the "key", "Ping——! Suddenly, there was a popping sound that seemed to be crystal shattering, and the huge black "key" shattered. Geburah immediately drew his sword and slammed it into the floor, doing his best to control his stalled body - "Zizi-Ka!" After cutting down a series of terrifying cuts half a meter deep, Minister Geburah finally stopped immediately when he was about to collide violently with the elevator behind him, and was not further impacted, corroded, or crushed.
Stunned, the team's eyes couldn't help but move to the enemy's attack place again - only to see that under the terrifying broken giant cave, in the panicked smoke and dust, slowly walked out of a round of scattered twilight shadows - it was indifferent, dark, majestic and elegant, and its gestures were full of pampering and strategizing, moving freely and steadily, even if the body was in the shape of a metal box, but the majesty that penetrated the heart and spleen was still like a tiger coiling dragon accompanying it, making people afraid before fighting.
That's right, the person who came was Binah, the former "adjuster" and the former head of the R&D department. At this point, her mechanical arm was holding the same metal severed limb - it was from the battle-hardened Geburah.
"When—bang!" With a crisp thud, Binah threw it aside without hesitation, as if throwing a piece of garbage with dirty hands.
"This time...... There will be no more opportunities to nail to the wall. She smirked.
As soon as the "damned ......" saw the enemy in front of her, Lydella was immediately furious, and almost immediately rushed to attack - but looking at Geburah, who was about to fight again, she still suppressed the urge for revenge, and the dragon lurked in the abyss, waiting for the battle situation to change.
It was only at this moment that Binah finally recovered from the unfinished intention of Fang Cai's small victory, and glanced at us with a hostile gaze......
“…… Walk all the way, don't come unharmed? She said with a smile hidden in her hand.
"You knew we were coming." Gregory glared at her through gritted teeth, "What the hell is your purpose?!" ”
"It's just to better borrow someone's power." Binah said, snapping his fingers—and in an instant, a strong feeling of weakness swept over my body, and my body fell to my knees as if it were there, unable to move. But at the same time, bundles of activated, condensed apocalyptic power have broken away from the original free plane, and have begun to rapidly accumulate in a visible way into the "rings" of Binah's hand—twilight light channels from the body of the self, channeling, extracting, and drawing into the air in perfect curves, and finally converging into the three-fingered mechanical claws. Unconsciously, the golden prosthetic eye in the middle of it became more and more shining.
"Whew-ha-that's true." She sighed contentedly, as if she was tasting an unprecedented and rare delicacy—"Huh-Hum-" Suddenly, that powerful force instantly filled her body, spreading out a golden shockwave that instantly suppressed the attempts of a group of people to step forward and intervene, and the dual power from the end and the leader's hand covering the sky stimulated the instinct of every living creature around to avoid death and survive all the time. All of a sudden, even the returnees were in an unprecedented state of helplessness, and I was even more unable to move an inch—and all of this unsurprisingly fueled Binah's aggressive arrogance, and she was concentrating and ready to go, and in an instant the karmic fire and twilight were shining, as if she had drawn a special end to this war—
"......Huh" Binah raised his head, swept his gaze full of terrifying murderous desire and surging power to us who were timid and waiting to be slaughtered, and stretched out his right arm slightly:
"Now...... All of you ......"
"Whoosh-woo——!" Just when Binah was about to snap his fingers and everyone was on the line of life and death, a blood-red knife suddenly roared from the depths of the corridor and rushed straight to Binah! "Hoo ——!" And the cunning former leader immediately dodged away. Although it did not succeed in hitting Binah directly, it also briefly interrupted the devastating blow that followed-
"Hoo ——!"
In this brief window of attack, it was Lydra - it was Lydra who swung her spear and bravely launched a surprise attack on Binah! "When-when!" I saw that she wielded the fungus spear as dexterously as if she was operating her hands, and at the last moment, she stopped several flashing demon spirits that rushed out, and between the sword shadow and sword light, the line between life and death, she actually successfully broke into Binah's inner circle - "Ring!" Lydira immediately made a decision and stabbed with a gun—"Poof! But how could Binah be easily calculated, she immediately released a rising black wave from her hand to instantly resist the attack, and used the rapidly solidifying wall to force back Lytria's attack, "You really surprised me......" Binah sneered slightly, she immediately rubbed her fingers, ready to completely obliterate this daring little pest.
"Woo——!" Instantly, a crimson figure burst out of the hallway, and under the stunned gaze of the team, it crashed into Binah's violently radiating body - it was none other than Minister Geburah! With desperation and determination, he launched a fierce charge against the invincible enemy in front of him!
"Boom ——!!!" The impact of a thousand pounds, the rapid and joyful firelight, the punch, the sweep, the surge, the cutting, the avoidance, the pursuit, the knot, the battle. Even though he had lost an arm, Minister Geburah still burst out with a firm and majestic fighting spirit in a desperate situation, and the speed of the attack, the strength of the strength, the overturning of the moves, and the stability of the strategy forced Binah to almost subconsciously release the demon spirit and wave, and concentrate on facing the enemy attack. At the same time, it also gave Lydira a precious opportunity to rush forward again.
"Poof!" Just as Lydella was about to swing her spear at her arm again, breaking Binah's crush on the returnees. Minister Geburah suddenly swung his fist wide, creating a once-in-a-lifetime window for Binah, and she took the opportunity to attack Lydira, who rushed forward without knowing whether she was alive or dead—"Spirit, be obedient. She chanted quickly, using the "ring" in her hand to release and drive the "sharp" demon spirit like a needle straight towards the oncoming Lydira - but this window period was extremely short, and Minister Geburah immediately adjusted his position, and the empty fist had already turned sharply, and smashed again with a powerful back-fist, straight to Binah's only eyebrow!
"The same move won't work for me." Binah snorted, manipulating the hardening wave to immediately deflect Geburah's attack, "Key, condensation." As she chanted at high speed, countless cubes inlaid with black gold accumulated out of thin air, and gradually converged into a giant pillar with a diameter of nearly a meter at her side—aiming at Minister Geburah's already empty body, and was about to blast it out again!
"Phew—Ping Pong!"
At this moment, a scarred fungus spear suddenly cut through the space filled with demon spirit primer and tungsten powder, with incomparable precision and sufficient strength, the goal was clear, and the whole body was full of energy, and when all eyes were focused on the imminent defeat, it rushed straight out of Binah's side, stabbed into the "ring" that grasped the power of ego, and burst out with a crystal crisp and clear sound......
"Brush !!" It was at this moment of distraction that Minister Geburah immediately dodged sideways, avoiding the edge of the "key" that was about to shoot out to the extreme, and after being pierced by the shell, leaving a diamond-shaped gap nearly five centimeters deep, he quickly moved to the side, stood still again, and stabilized his position.
A group of centaurs who had lost their power and suppressed finally picked up their swords again and returned to their senses to fight.
When everyone's eyes returned to the bloody battlefield again, they were surprised to find that the hero who saved us and forgot to die, Lytrira. Her body had been ruthlessly pierced by Binah's cold mechanical arm, and her body was covered with terrifying gaps that resembled knife wounds caused by demons—as shallow as one or two centimeters as deep as more than ten centimeters, almost cutting off her arms and limbs, and blood was gushing out of them like erupting volcanoes.
But Lydella was still gasping for breath, and she was still glaring at Binah with her trademark punch.
"You're really astonishing me." The domineering creature was finally willing to show some respect for the opponent in front of her—perhaps she didn't expect that the lethal bundle of "sharp" spirits would not make Lydella retreat, but would rise to the occasion desperately—even if the price was undoubtedly her own death, or in other words: a painful death.
But Lydella endured it, just like all the pain she suffered when she knelt down—when bursts of pain that were enough to make ordinary people dazed and wrinkled their nerves bombarded her cranial nerves, when the will to survive hit the of her mind again and again like a rushing flood, Lydella did not abandon the fortress of dignity, she kept forbearance, she kept glaring, more painful than the mother who lost her son, more tragic than the general who gave death, more enthusiastic than the student who was full of convulsions.
"Lydra Lockhart, you deserve my last words." Minister Binah said coldly.
“…… Ha...... Haha......"
Unconsciously, Lydira slowly raised the corners of her mouth, and from the blood-filled throat, she struggled to utter her final words:
"I ...... Our Corrections Department...... There are no bad seeds! ”
"Poof——!!!
In the next second, a beam of extremely sharp demon spirits passed straight through her neck, and Lydira's head fell to the ground, never to live again.
"Poof." After doing all this, Binah gently threw Lydira's body off her arm, and quickly manipulated the demon key to quickly remove the blood and flesh from her body.
“…… Lily ...... Lydira ......! Minister Geburah's eyes were full of anger and surprise – even a little guilt, but the physical trauma immediately halted all the things she was going to do. Her body suddenly tilted, and she fell to her knees, unable to attack again......
"Lydira ...... like this" And for us returnees, in addition to regret and guilt, more attention is still focused on Binah's powerful destructive power - if Lydira in the "pink red suit" is still like this, then it will be difficult for us to face the terrifying power head-on......
"It's a good thing this guy isn't very skilled in the use of alien powers, otherwise ......," I muttered with a sigh of apprehension, and the next battle would have to be more cautious.
Fortunately, with the spread of the corrosive spores of the fungus spear, the "ring" that grasped the power of ego had even lost its basic storage function, and the accumulated power of the apocalypse soon escaped to the surrounding space and plane again—the light flow blended, the branches connected, flowed out, deconstructed, and disappeared like a peacock on the screen, and Binah finally faded the aura that did not belong to him and returned to his original appearance.
"Heh......" Binah sneered, and looked back at us without changing his face, the surprise of the blitzkrieg did not hit the strategist in the slightest—she knew very well that Geburah was at the end of her power, and the time we had stalled here was of no avail—this was her home field, and she still had her cards; But we can only bet on our own lives, and if we make a wrong step, we will be doomed......