|||->->Meeting Meirui again, for Xue Ming, it was like an enemy meeting with jealousy.
So Xue Ming didn't talk nonsense to her at all and immediately took the lead in attacking.
In the blink of an eye, this broken land became a battlefield for Meirui and Xue Ming.
The arc flashed and the flames rose! In the blink of an eye, less than half of Meirui's clone was left. However, Meirui was not panicked at all. Instead, she giggled more and more proudly.
Xue Ming was well aware of how terrifying this woman was. Not to mention a head-on conflict with her, even a secret attack would probably be difficult to kill her with complete confidence.
So after cleaning up most of the clones, Xue Ming suddenly led the team and headed straight to the Broken Palace in the distance.
Meirui, who sensed Xue Ming's true intention, immediately launched a pursuit and soon stopped Xue Ming and others in front of the main entrance of the palace.
At this time, Xue Ming has activated the Desperate Arms and switched to death battle mode.
This is the strongest combat form of the Desperate Arms, but it consumes a lot of the Desperate Arms and is difficult to maintain for a long time.
Seeing Meirui blocking his path again, Xue Ming couldn't help but use his strongest form to engage in a head-on fight with Meirui.
I saw an arc visible to the naked eye that continued to amplify as the surrounding palace ruins were shattered, and everything in contact with it was shattered.
This punch hit Meirui right in the heart.
As three red fluorescent lights lit up behind Xue Ming, his arms moved forward in a penetrating posture, directly pouring the energy of annihilation into Mei Rui's body.
Meirui, who never expected that Xue Ming would launch such a crazy attack, was completely burned in the deep purple flames without even screaming!
At the end of the battle, the strongest armed form was lifted, and Xue Ming let out a sigh of relief. He immediately led the special forces members behind him deep into the Lost Palace without stopping for too long.
At this moment, Meili, who was thousands of kilometers away, was covering her heart with an extremely cold expression.
Zhang Yi saw him on the side and asked: "What? The clone was killed?"
Mei Rui glanced at Zhang Yi coldly, then picked up the wine glass and left the round table.
Zhang Yi smiled, shook the wine in his glass and said to himself: "May you and I be well, and the world be at peace..."
…
"What did the Interstellar Army say?" When Nan Yingjian returned to the base, she saw Yincheng, Bai Jin and others who were already getting ready.
Yincheng's expression was not so good: "They didn't say anything, but they didn't express support for our temporary action. To sum up, they 'didn't want to know' what we were going to do, and they 'didn't know' what we had done."
Nan Yingjian heard this and sneered: "What a bunch of old foxes. Who are Qi Xuan's men? Really."
"Isn't this good? It's better than a group of people stopping us." Yincheng said and called the adjutant: "After we go down, the base will be left to you. In addition, although Colonel Nan and I are not here,
But Natural Disaster and Penosio will still fight on their own, you just need to try your best to buy us time."
"Yes." The adjutant saluted and glanced at Bai Jin intentionally or unintentionally.
Bai Jin asked strangely: "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
The adjutant waved his hand quickly and said: "No, no, I...I'm going to work." After saying that, the adjutant left.
Bai Jin frowned: "Nervous."
Nan Yingjian looked at Bai Jin, then at the adjutant, and then asked Yincheng: "I heard that you fought an enemy wearing desperate weapons before, right?"
"It can't be considered a fight, it should be a one-sided killing." Yincheng said frankly.
"Oh...then...what's the point of you wearing this exoskeleton now?" Nan Yingjian knocked on Yincheng's mechanical exoskeleton.
Yincheng said: "This is the most advanced weapon in the base. If I don't wear it, how can I go down naked?"
Nan Yingjian blushed and whispered: "Dirty!"
Yincheng didn't hear clearly, but before he asked, a silver box arrived in Yincheng's hands.
"Put this on instead."
"What is this?" Yincheng was stunned.
"Don't ask, it's much better than what you're wearing."
Yincheng understood and immediately took the suitcase to change clothes.
Bai Jin looked hot and asked tentatively: "Um...is there anything I can wear?"
Nan Yingjian glanced at Bai Jin, her eyes cold, and her meaning was very clear.
"Uh... Okay, I understand, I won't bother you anymore." Bai Jin was also very conscious.
But she was not completely unprepared.
When she went down with Xue Ming and the others, she had already worn a civilian-grade autonomous concrete armed system. Although this armed system may not transform Bai Jin into a Valkyrie, it was enough to save her life in critical moments.
When Yincheng was ready, Bai Jin reminded: "When I was brought out by Xue Ming's people, there were many guards brought by him at the entrance. If we want to go down, I'm afraid it will take a while.
effort."
Nan Yingjian and Yin Cheng looked at each other and both smiled.
"Uh...why are you laughing?"
Yincheng said: "You don't have to worry about this. Even if you give them ten courages, they won't dare to stop two senior commanders of the Border Defense Force."
As he spoke, Yincheng thrust his battle ax at Nan Yingjian and turned his head: "Let's get out."
…
Erub, the Integrated Operations Command Center of the Supreme Defense Ministry.
In the private conference room, Han Kongwen was the only one standing by the window looking at the drizzle outside the window.
"Another group of people went down?" Han Kongwen asked.
"Yes, this time it's Yincheng, Nan Yingjian and Bai Jin."
"Well……"
"Should we arrange for someone to stop them?"
"No need, it's too late." Han Kongwen's voice was cold. She opened the cigarette case, only to find that there was no cigarette in it.
"Okay, then...if everything goes well, it is estimated that the 'Holy Grail of Life' will be fully activated in three hours."
"Hiss..." Han Kongwen took a breath and asked a digression: "If I get it wrong... what will be the result?"
"The result? Well...it's hard to say. After all, there are not many people who are still executing the 'Return Home' plan."
"What if that wasn't a distress signal?"
"You mean..."
"What if the direction is wrong? Maybe he has never found a way to advance at all, and what the forerunners bring back is not hope, but despair?"
"It's not good to have so many doubts at this time. You need to calm down."
"Huh... I'm already very calm, but Lin Sen told me before he left that he would only send back hope. If there is no sound, it means that he has not found a way to be promoted, so... logically I shouldn't doubt it.
It’s my judgment.”
"Well, it's true. You've done a good job, but you should also know that after he left, many unexpected situations occurred, which are all uncontrollable."
Han Kongwen turned around, walked to the table and poured himself a glass of wine.
Just when I was about to pick it up to drink, there was a knock on the door.
"He is from Zhang Yi."
"Let him in."
The door opened.
A woman came in with a child.
Seeing the two of them, Han Kongwen frowned: "Why are you here?"
The woman who entered the room first had long, aqua-blue hair, and her dress was very avant-garde. The seemingly scattered strips of cloth ran through the lines into a kind of rhythmic beauty, which made people's eyes bright.
"Zhang Yi called me here. He said there are some things that need to be handed over to you." The woman is none other than Zhang Yi's close "lover" - Angelica.
"Something?" Han Kongwen took it, but she didn't look at it, but looked at the child.
"Master, why are you here too?"
Luo Baoer, who dressed himself up like an innocent child, cleared his throat and said, "I had a feeling that I would soon see the disciple I most wanted to see, so I came."
"That you?"
"It happens" Angelica and Luo Baoer said in unison.
Han Kongwen expressed doubts: "Okay... let's sit down and talk."
The lights in the room slowly turned on, and the atmosphere became much more comfortable, no longer as quiet and cold as before.
Angelica's appearance at Han Kongwen's place was a bit unexpected, but judging from her calm and unhurried attitude, it probably wasn't the first time she had met Han Kongwen.
"You are already such a big shot, why do you still like to drink this kind of cheap bitter wine like Zhang Yi?" Angelica saw the bottle of Anasu on the table as soon as she sat down.
Han Kongwen rolled his eyes at Angelica and said, "Stop teasing me, as if you no longer play puppets after changing your appearance."
Angelica smiled slightly when she heard this.
Han Kongwen also laughed. She picked up the cup and shook it at Angelica: "'Red Scorpion'?"
"Add two cubes of ice."
This scene...
Luo Baoer was very surprised. He couldn't help but ask: "What is the relationship between you two?"
Han Kongwen didn't explain. She silently took out the wine and ice cubes from the wine cabinet.
Angelica looked at the child-like mysterious master and said with a smile: "Master, you are proficient in the mysterious method, can't you see my true identity?"
Luo Baoer thought for a while and said: "Mysterious methods are indeed mysterious, but the human heart is separated from the belly, so how can we easily see through it? Besides, I remember... you seem to have only appeared in one chapter or two?"
"
Angelica was stunned: "What one chapter and two chapters?"
Luo Baoer was startled and realized that he had let something slip. He quickly changed the subject and said, "Well... how about this? You give me some hints and I'll guess."
Angelica smiled: "Okay, then... let's do this... I'll give you a few keywords, and you can guess my identity based on these keywords."
"Okay."
"Then...the first keyword is Yang Yurong."
"Yang Yurong?" Luo Baoer knew Yang Yurong, but there were too many people related to Yang Yurong.
"Can't you guess?"
"Come again."
"The second keyword... Haha, Master, if you want to hear the second keyword, you have to drink this glass of wine first." Angelica raised her eyebrows and picked up the drink that Han Kongwen had just brought from the table.
handed it to Luo Baoer.
Luo Baoer looked at the glass of emerald green wine in front of him and said with a bitter look on his face: "Can you change it to something else?"
"No." Angelica and Han Kongwen said in unison, and their tacit understanding was a bit surprising.
It was rare that Han Kongwen was in a good mood.
Luo Baoer was helpless and thought to himself: 'I have lived for hundreds of years, how can I be scared by you two little girls and just drink!'
As he spoke, Luo Baoer drank down the glass of wine in one gulp.
Angelica and Han Kongwen were shocked by the amount of alcohol they drank.
Luo Baoer licked his lips and said, "Well, it looks ugly, but I didn't expect it tastes good."
Putting down his wine glass, Luo Baoer noticed the expressions of the two people in front of him and couldn't help but asked strangely: "What's wrong with you?"
"Um...it's nothing, I have a good drinker!" Han Kongwen gave Luo Baoer a thumbs up and grinned quietly,
You know, the glass Angelica handed to Luo Baoer just now was a high-strength liquor with a purity of 70%. It is estimated that only a robot without a taste system can drink this kind of thing.
After finishing the drink, the next keyword came.
"The second key word was actually already mentioned by Kong Wen just now, which is puppets."
"Puppet??Puppet...Puppet?! You are! You are!" Luo Baoer's eyes widened. He knew who the person in front of him was, and at the same time he looked at Han Kongwen in great surprise.
Han Kongwen and Angelica looked at each other and smiled. Their smiles were not only filled with a little bit of pride, but more out of a high degree of mutual trust and dependence on each other.
Although Luo Baoer did not say the name in the end, a faint bitter smile appeared on his face.
He sighed: "I heard my master say it a few years ago that in this all-encompassing world, what really makes people linger is actually the hustle and bustle of the world that exists among the general public. I didn't believe it at the beginning, but today
It seems that I am really arrogant."
Han Kongwen sat down and said: "Master is too modest. We are just actors on the stage, and we are all doing our best for a wonderful performance. When it comes to a critical moment, someone still needs to stand up and remind us that this is a stage."
, some exaggerated, exaggerated, and extreme things can only stop at the stage."
Luo Baoer couldn't help but look at Han Kongwen with admiration after hearing this. He nodded and said: "You can see through this, which is already very admirable. Of course, what I admire most is the tacit understanding and trust between you. I think...
Even if I had not come to Gaia, the performance here would not have ended miserably."
After Han Kongwen and Angelica looked at each other, Angelica picked up the wine glass and sighed: "Master, master, you think highly of us... In fact, we have been working hard to maintain our lives these years. Really
At this critical moment, we are still very panicked."
"What are you panicking about?" Luo Baoer asked.
Han Kongwen said: "I'm afraid all this is irreversible, I'm afraid all this will be lost..."
Luo Baoer looked at Han Kongwen silently after hearing this, and after pondering for a while, he asked: "Back then, when your fathers made a 'returning home' plan in front of the crane round table, and tried their best to turn the tide and buy this precious time for human civilization, they didn't panic.
Are you panicking?"
Han Kongwen and Angelica didn't speak.
"Although I am just a bystander, I clearly remember that when I first saw your uncle Han Wensheng in front of the SkyTrain Round Table, I was so surprised. It is hard for me to believe that such a group of people
People will gather together..." Luo Baoer paused and continued: "It is obvious that there is an opposition between light and dark. Both parties have no consensus on morality, world view and values, but they are trying their best for one thing. Their purpose
What is it? It is to continue the will of the ancestors of the earth and preserve the fire of human civilization. This high degree of spiritual awareness is impossible for the general public to understand, and there is absolutely no need to understand this... When you take over your father's
Career, when you became the Order of Cerberus Dome, you should have seen it clearly, right?"
Han Kongwen nodded silently.
Angelica stood up and sat next to Han Kongwen. She held Han Kongwen's hand and said, "Kongwen... do you remember?"
"Um?"
"What you and Lin Yan said back then were that you would protect the last Garden of Eden together."
Han Kongwen was shocked when she heard this. Of course she remembered it.
If not, why would she stay here?
Bearing everything alone, formulating and executing in silence...
Luo Baoer looked at the two people opposite him and sighed deeply: "This topic cannot be easy from the beginning. No one dares to say that it can satisfy everyone and allow everyone to live a free and happy life."
Life, at least... in the real world, under the rules of the Creator, we can't do it, and at the current level of human civilization, we can't do it, so... this becomes a multiple-choice question."
"Survive...or perish..." Han Kongwen caught Luo Baoer's words.
Luo Baoer smiled and nodded.
"Nearly half a century ago, in order to get rid of the shackles of the golden birdcage's yearning for freedom, mankind bravely took the first step in front of this multiple-choice question. Although the cost was heavy, the good news is that we are waking up from the dream.
Come." Luo Baoer spread his hands, and the golden birdcage opened, but there was a pale ancient tree outside the birdcage.
That is the foundation on which the survival of human civilization must rely - the central curtain.
"But the choices we have to face do not end here... In other words, as the variable itself, the embodiment of chaos, choices are made almost every moment." Luo Baoer waved his hand again, and the pale branches instantly flourished.
Bloody petals fluttered and fell.
"I'm also very curious... why does 'Prometheus' use the central curtain to trap humans, or... why does he want to protect us?" Luo Baoer's question actually had an answer in his heart, but he needs it now
The answer is Han Kongwen and the person next to her.
Of course, Han Kongwen, who had experienced the Center Curtain incident, participated in it, and became one of the supporting actors on the stage, had seriously thought about this issue.
It is a classic question, one that has been discussed since a long time ago.
"Should I sink in the gentle land of the devil, or fight for survival on the battlefield of angels?"
"Lin Sen... before he left, he had already asked everyone to make a choice." Han Kongwen revealed a secret that had been hidden from the world for many, many years.
Luo Baoer sighed deeply, looked at Han Kong and said, "Is this the price of Victory Day?"
Han Kongwen shook her head and said: "No, the cost of Victory Day... is much sadder than this..."