"I'm going to lose him!" The wardrobe panicked.

It didn't take long for Ryan and Panda to find their allies, and they turned the ruins of a collapsed building into a shelter. The wardrobe plays the role of a masked surgeon, setting up a makeshift hospital tent with whatever materials she can find.

She had done her best to stitch up the knife wound from the atomic cat, but Felix was still in a state of shock. Meanwhile, despite the Shroud's best efforts, she is bleeding at an alarming rate. The acid rain grenade not only blew up his right arm, but also pierced his thigh with shrapnel.

"Won't you do CPR?" Panda asked a stupid question.

"CPR can do almost anything," Yuki replied, "but it can't restore blood!"

"But you can do something!" The panda panicked. "You can become Christ!"

"I can't solve all my problems by playing Jesus!" Wardrobe protested, but she quickly lost her courage due to failed efforts. "Who can heal the wounds?" I can't think of a suitable role!"

"I thought I could help," Ryan said as he searched for knives and wires in his suit for makeshift surgery. However, even optimists like him see little hope of saving the Shroud. The vigilantes shed a lot of blood; If he hadn't been a genome, he would have died long ago.

The courier blames himself for this. Ryan is used to fighting alone, not thinking about collateral damage; He didn't do very well in the team, as he had to dodge friendly fire. The Courier should train with his team before the battle, learning to coordinate better with the team.

Just before Ryan began his final surgery, he felt a strange sensation down his spine; For a moment, he thought that "Acid Rain" had escaped a headshot, only to see a purple crack appear near the crowd. Ace, the carnival teleporter, walked in with a man dressed as a plague doctor, cringing at the sight of his injured teammate.

"Go away," the plague doctor ordered, and Ryan recognized him as Carnival member Dr. Stitch. He opened a black bag he was carrying around his waist, which contained various tools and strange organic devices. He quickly grabbed one of them, a terrible white tumor with tendrils sticking out of it.

"Y-why are you carrying this yourself?" Panda asked, resisting the urge to vomit.

"My specialty is viruses and bacteria," Stitch replied, the tumor wriggling between his fingers. He quickly applied it to the wound of the shroud, and the tumor transplanted itself into the flesh of the vigilante. "My bacterial colonies will help repair—"

"There's no time for crazy science shows," Ace interjected, then focused on Ryan and the panda. "You two, report."

"The sarin gas was blown away, and the skull of acid rain was blown out," Ryan said. When he's stressed, he can't help but make nasty jokes.

"Very well, the Wyvern and the Devil are dealing with Frank right now, so we can assume that the surroundings are safe." The Teleporter nodded, and Stitch and the Wardrobe teamed up to save the Shroud. "You can still fight, can you?" Then you come with me. Stitch and the wardrobe would go to the infirmary to treat the wounded. ”

"We should bring our wardrobes." Ryan protested. "I mean, whales are as big as whales, and Yuki is Japanese. She was his natural predator. ”

Ace seemed amused by his joke, but still serious. "We have a lot of fighters, but not enough to treat the wounded."

"How's it going?" The messenger asked, as Ace opened a door that looked like Dinams' hospital camp. The wardrobe and Stitch quickly dragged the wounded through the cracks.

"Worse than expected, but still good." The teleporter replied, closing the portal and opening another. Leo and Mr. Bo blow up the superpower's mech, but Adam locks himself up in the underground base. We're going door-to-door fighting what's left of him, and Psyshock is throwing brainwashed suicide bombers at us. ”

As Ryan expected, failing to kill the Brain Robber led to an exponential increase in casualties. Most importantly, he can read beyond words.

Sunshine couldn't destroy Maykelen's base without killing the hostages of the Superpowers, and now, they had to clear cover with an old-fashioned attack. That is to say, Dy

Amis already knew it existed.

If the massive casualties don't force Ryan to start over, this change will. While they provided invaluable help in this cycle, the Courier did not believe that Dimenis would use Mekron's technology. There are too many corrupt elements in their ranks.

Ace opens a new portal, Rya

And the panda crossed. In the blink of an eye, they left the toxic open-air environment of Rust Town and arrived at the suffocating, claustrophobic Mekron bunker.

Ryan didn't recognize the room, it looked like an industrial warehouse, with metal arms and cables hanging from the ceiling. An assembly line dedicated to the manufacture of robots was converted into a makeshift barricade; The smell of ozone filled the air, and an ominous red glow shimmered on the ceiling. The bodies of the mentally ill and the normal were lying on the ground, torn to pieces by heavy weapons.

Radioactive fallout and armored personnel of the private security forces form a line to bombard the barricades of the Superpower Gang. To Ryan's surprise, none of their enemies were mutated; They are all driverless dogs, brainwashed techies, and enslaved residents of Rusty Town. Most of them carry dy

Amis made guns, but there are also a few people brandished with Mech

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Strange weapons of the logo.

The scariest thing is that they are all wearing suicide belts, and the supergang ties people to the barricades. Psyshock doesn't just throw brainwashed slaves at Dy

Amis, he also dared to use the few remaining sane prisoners as human shields.

"I'm just saying that that's why I'm against automation," said a private security guard (P. Brown) in power armor

ivate Secu

Ity) members declared while bombarding a Hound drone with a laser mini-gun. "First they stole our jobs, then they tried to steal our lives!"

"yes, I get $3,000 a month, and these things cost $250,000 to make." Another guard added, while burning the brainwashed cannon fodder of Psyshock with a jet. "This is real economic inequality!"

"Shut up and keep fighting," Alphonse muttered, holding up a hand to a technician who threatened him with a bazooka. His metal fingers flashed with nuclear energy before blasting the attacker away with gamma rays.

Ryan approaches Dy as Panda roars through the barricade and Ace escapes through another portal

Vice President of AMIS. "How's it going, atomic cancer?"

"If we approach those brainwashed slaves, they blow themselves up, and they use those free-willed captives as shields," Alphonse muttered, completely ignoring the nickname Ryan had given him. "Disgusting".

"We've got to take Psyshock." Ryan turned around and noticed Enrique Manada behind them. The soldier rested on one knee on the ground, surrounded by slender, barely perceptible vines that sprawled into the corridors of the bunker. "He's the backbone of their defence. If he falls, others will follow. ”

"Newbie?" Ryan asked, quickly ducking his head to dodge a stray bullet. "You're here too?"

“Roma

O, surprised? The strawman replied dryly, placing his fingers on the vines. Unlike Ryan, the officer's cashmere suit was intact.

"I thought you were more like a clerk, bravely commanding in the rear."

"You're thinking wrong." Enrique turned to face his brother. "Al, I've found Adam and Psychoshock. The second room on the right. I suspect that this is the command center of the base. ”

This worries Ryan a lot. If the superpowered has managed to get into the bunker's host, it means that they may be able to enter Bahamut. Understand the big fat Adam, he will press the trigger as soon as possible.

"I'm going to make a straight path," Alphonse said, his metal hand shimmering with radioactive energy. "Brother, guide us. Help, cover our rear. ”

"Does anyone have a spare gun?" Ryan, who lost himself in the battle with Acid Rain, asked.

"Take mine," Enrique said, searching through his suit before tossing a Beretta pistol at Ryan. The courier claimed that it was his own, despite the apparent lack of enthusiasm. "What, Roma

Isn't it good enough for you?"

"I'm disappointed that it's not gold-plated."

"You have strange preconceptions about my social status, Romano."

"Say no more," Alphonse said, and put his hand on the wall on his right. As he directs energy through the metal, the heat increases and the metal melts. Within seconds, the radiation had formed a hole large enough for the trio to move on.

After a few minutes of improvised excavation, the group entered a large room protected by a huge blast door. As Enrique had guessed, this area looked like the central host of the bunker; Large screens cover the walls, while ten huge server towers serve as pillars to support the ceiling. A blast door serves as the entrance, and red lights flicker, shaking the building.

However, the most notable part of the area is the massive biomechanical structure of the center. The machine, which is about the size of an elephant, reminds Ryan of a human brain, even though it is completely blue and equipped with thick wires, alien implants, and electric towers sticking out of the brain. A cloud of nerve-like wires connects the structure to the metal base that supports the biomechanical brain, while a crimson force field isolates it from the outside world.

Psychic shock mingles in the machine like a blood-sucking flea, its tentacles tangled with nerves. Hannifat Lecter stood in front of the force field, his skin covered in a layer of carbon alloy, his eyes fixed on the screen above.

"You know, Psyshock, I think it's time to deal with them the Old Testament way." Ha

ifat Lecte

Ordered his deputy, looking at Dy on the screen

Amis's troops broke through their defenses. "Bombing Sodom and Gomorrah Back to the Stone Age"

"No, I need more time to crack the firewall—" Psyshock froze as he and his commander noticed the newcomer. When he saw Ryan, his cold voice turned angry. "Little Caesar...... You and your sister ruined everything. ”

"Thank you," Ryan said, pointing his gun at the hijacker, while Alphonse held up and pointed at Adam. "It's my pleasure."

"Fontaine, Grey, it's time to surrender." Even with so much chaos going on around him, Blackthorne was still coldly polite. "Release the hostages, you are surrounded. There is no escape. ”

"Maybe," the big fat Adam replied with a smirk, revealing what was hidden behind his back, "but I have one last trick." ”

A bottle filled with a black swirl liquid, some kind of stained glass with the Mackelen logo on it. The elixir of life, as black as a starless night.

mech

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The elixir of life.

"You know what they say!" Adam said, holding up the bottle and preparing to throw it at everyone like a spirit-making grenade. "If you can't beat them, join them!"

Ryan froze time, calmly raised his gun, and shot the bottle while it was still in Adam's hand.

To his shock, the liquid moved in the time it stopped. It was like a living mass of black oil, enveloping the ogre's fingers, melting his carbon armor and seeping into his skin.

When the clock struck again, Big Fat Adam let out a scream of pain as the oozing devoured his arm and passed through his body. "Sir!" Psychic shouted in horror, and the black elixir slowly covered its master's entire body like a dark cloak.

The radioactive fallout immediately released a wave of energy on the mutated psychopath, enough to vaporize him. Adam held up his blackened hand, an invisible force canceling out the atomic rays. It just doesn't exist after a certain point.

Hannifat Lecter wished he was dead. His screams became deafening, and the black elixir melted his skin and flesh, leaving only charred bones and organs. The psychopath's body was unable to absorb the black elixir, so it devoured him alive.

"What kind of magic is this......" Blackthorn muttered to himself, frightened by the sight in front of him. At the same time, his more cruel brother increased his explosive output, but to no avail; The power of the black elixir was superior to his own.

Adam's skeleton is crumbling, and the black ooze manipulates the bones like a puppet. The body of the undead is degrading at an accelerated rate, and the organs are dissolving, but it can still form words.

"You...... You...... Turn on ...... "The voice is not Adam's." "You ......"

The corpse held up a melted finger and looked at the surprised Ryan, black liquid oozing out of the hollow eye socket. Blackthorne quickly pushed the messenger behind him, as if to protect him. Ah, he cares!

"You...... You...... Must be turned on......"

Adam has lost control.

The elixir is.

"Open...... Gate...... Send me ...... Send me ...... Go to the Black Prison...... It's ......" The voice changed from pleading to pain, and Adam's jaw and throat began to go limp. "This dimension... Isn't it...... Take me ...... Send it back ......."

After that, even the enhanced body of Hannifat Lecter could no longer resist this degradation. The words became incomprehensible when the corpse collapsed into a puddle of black oil; After devouring its host, the evil substance vanished. The leader of the Superpower Gang, not even a trace of dust was left.

"Well, that's a goddamn weight loss treatment!" Ryan joked, trying to lighten the mood.

After a brief silence, Fallout attacks Psyshock again. One of his beams of nuclear radiation hit the force field, releasing a pulse of energy that short-circuited half of the screen. However, the defensive barrier remained untouched.

In response, part of the ceiling was opened, revealing the automatic Gatling turret, all of which opened fire on the group. Ryan briefly stopped time and pushed Enrique out of the line of fire, sparing a volley of bullets in his face. Radiant armor got rid of the projectile, and Dy

amis's VP increases his energy output; He unleashed a continuous, concentrated beam of nuclear energy in the force field, until Ryan had to cover his eyes to protect himself from the rays. Unstoppable force wrestles with immovable objects.

The unstoppable forces won.

The force field was short-circuited, and Psyshock barely had time to jump out of the biomechanical database before being hit by Fallout. The explosion vaporized the huge brain, both organic and mechanical, and continued through the wall behind. In the face of this great force, steel and glass melted. All screens and lights went black, leaving only Alphonse Manada's light to illuminate it, and the turret suddenly stopped firing.

Psyshock, who is as nimble as a spider, jumps around the room with his tendrils, trying to get around the three men. Rya

Freezes time and shoots the tentacles that support his weight, causing the psychopath to crash to the ground before he can escape.

"Didn't you hear, Sepsie?" Ryan laughs at him, and he shoots a tentacle before Psyshock can shatter his skull with his tentacles. "We have fried squid on our menu today!"

The roses on Enrique Manada's clothes grew thorny tendrils until they turned into flower squid as big as a cypsy. Its roots suppressed the psychopath, while the flower released a puff of colored smoke on his face. Psyshock struggled for a moment, then went limp.

"I know Dy

Amis's perfume is of poor quality, but not to the point where it makes people faint," Ryan said aloud in thought.

"I used a GMO brand of hands," Blackthorne replied, and Ryan thought it was a phytoneurotoxin. "Because Psyshock needs death to activate his body transfer, hopefully leaving him in an unconscious state will be able to disable it."

"Because Sepsie is almost entirely made up of nerves, even if his physiology is enhanced, it has a double effect on him!" Ryan had to admit that the idea was good. Enough to shamelessly reproduce it in later runs.

"We do research too, Romano." Blackthorne said dryly. "You don't have a monopoly on intelligence."

"All the teams are out," said Alphonse Manada

se Ma

ADA) said through the walkie-talkie in his suit. "Adam is dead, and Psyshock is eliminated. Take action to protect the site. ”

"Do you know what that is?" Ryan asked, glancing at the place where Big Fat Adam had died. This happened to a person who was better than him, but the entity picked the courier out of the crowd, which confused him.

Blackthorne shook his head in disgust, and if the Courier was not mistaken, he still had a hint of remorse. "Our early days are repeated."

"Our results are worse," Radiation replied, while receiving a response over his walkie-talkie. Unlike his siblings, he didn't care at all. "Drones and robots are out of service, but Psyshock's slaves are still fighting. I must order a total annihilation. ”

To Ryan's surprise, Blackthorne immediately protested. "Al, they're not our enemies, they're victims."

"I don't like that either, but the lives of our soldiers are the most important thing." Alphonse replied coldly. "The slaves fought to the death."

"Guys, I can stop time," Ryan announced, and both siblings looked at him. "I can safely disarm people and incapacitate them."

"Yes, Al, let's try to catch as many people as possible first," Enrique asked his brother. "We might be able to heal them later."

"You and your sentimentality......" Alphonse grunted, then commanded through the walkie-talkie. Ten minutes for you. No more. ”

"You hear you, Romano."

"yes, newbie." They rushed through the hole in the wall, Ryan said. "Frankly, I was a little surprised. I thought you didn't care about casualties. ”

"We can't always make the world a better place," Enrique replied with a shrug, "but we have to try anyway." ”

In the end, Ryan saved as many people as he could. He dismantled the suicide belt in the cold hours, disarmed countless militants, saved dozens of lives.

But he couldn't save everyone.

When the Courier emerges from the bunker through a half-melted blast door, the battle ends with a decisive victory for the Carnival/Power Team. The soldiers have taken control of the dump, formed a defensive perimeter, and built a sniper's nest on the garbage wall. Leo Hargraves burned half of the place, which did not affect them.

Since he couldn't see the giant monsters fighting, the ground stopped shaking, and Ryan thought that both the crazy Frank and the earth had been defeated. Meta-Ga

Most of the cannon fodder of the g was bound, either in chains or in a cocoon made of countless pieces of paper; There is a paperworker on the payroll of both Carnival and Power Team. Ace opened the portals left and right to let the army through, Panda proudly carried an anesthetized psychoshock into the quarantine area, and Leo Hargraves circled over Rusty Town, surveying the area. The message couldn't be clearer.

The Superpowers Gang is gone.

Ryan should have been happy about it, but the raid left him with a bittersweet feeling. Yes, he fulfilled his promise to Jessamine to make sure that Hannifar Lector would not launch an orbital laser at New Rome. But Dimenes now knew about the bunker, and Augustus would soon learn about the existence of the Carnival. One problem solved, but many more.

A man hurriedly called the courier.

"Rome". Enrique walked out of the bunker, his roses back on his clothes. "We still have things to do."

"Is it about Beretta's pistol?" Ryan asked. Frankly, he will, in principle, pay it back. The courier only takes the best, and the gun is not so good.

"You can keep it now," the policeman replied contemptuously. "It's not over yet."

"Dealing with people who have fallen behind?" Can I run them over? I like to do it. ”

"Leave the books to our army." Enrique raised his eyes as the living sun Leo floated to their place. "Hargraves".

"Enrique, help." Greet both of them as the sun falls. "I guess the bunker is safe, right?"

"Yes, it is," Enrique replied, looking at the head of the living sun. "You already knew."

Sunshine was silent for a moment, but he was a shining knight and would not lie. "Yes."

"As I thought," Enrique replied, not really surprised. "I'm guessing you're worried that my father or Augustus would know about this place. Wise, but troublesome. ”

"You know this technology is dangerous. It once destroyed the world. ”

"In the right hands—"

"No right hand, Enrique." Leonard interrupts Blackthorne, and Ryan is tempted to agree. "Maykrona's legacy must be lost."

"Maybe. In any case, after we have dealt with the issue at hand, we can decide what to do with this bunker like a civilized man. Enrique crossed his arms. What about you?"

"With the help of origami, I neutralized the land," replied Living Sun. I believe we've captured or killed almost all of the psychopaths active in Rusttown. The only ones whose whereabouts are "Stealth" and "Gemini", who must have used their powers, slipped into your troops, and fled. ”

"I'm not worried about these two people. Without Adam's guidance, they would only be annoying. We'll catch them eventually. ”

"Then we're done," Leonard said, crossing his hands. "Are we?"

"And one last worrying thing," Enrique said, as there was an echo from above. Ryan raised his eyes and noticed that a helicopter was preparing to land. "We found the evidence we needed, Alphonse wanted to arrest our father before he organized a counter-coup. We're going to the family estate, we're going to clean up this mess completely. ”

"I'll go first," Sunshine said, ready to take off. "Don't let him run away."

"Don't fight, wait for us." Blackthorne ordered, and Leo nodded and flew away. As soon as the living sun was gone, Enrique turned to look at Ryan. "Considering that you planned it all, I think you might want to be there too."

"Plan?" Ryan chuckled. "I don't plan, I adapt."

"You're taking me for a fool, Romano," Enrique replied coldly, "but whatever you want." I warned you at the time, and we'll talk as soon as it's over today. ”

"I'll drive to our destination," Ryan said with a shrug. "No offense, but my car is better than yours"

"Then hurry up," Enrique said, straightening his suit as his helicopter blew dust in all directions. "History will not wait for you."

If only he knew.

Ryan didn't waste another word and walked out of the dump, whistling as loudly as he could. His "Plymouth Fury" drove himself to the entrance to the garbage maze, scaring several of Dinamith's soldiers, but Ryan raised his hand to make peace and prevented them from committing suicide.

As soon as Ryan sat in the driver's seat, he turned on the ch

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adis。 "Shorty? Shorty?"

For a moment, Ryan feared that the answer would never appear, but it did. "Rihanna? Relily, can you hear me?"

"Thank God you're alive!" The courier breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the sky. Enrique's helicopter flew to the east of Rusty Town in pursuit of Leo Hargraves. "Where are you?" You okay? Is everything alright?"

"I ...... I'm fine," she replied, while the courier followed Enrique's helicopter. "At the bottom of the sea. Dy

When Amis invaded the lower level, I escaped through the tunnel. Me and ......"

Ryan's fingers gripped the steering wheel.

"I have," Ryan said, with a calm sense of triumph in his voice, "and I've got brain technology." ”