Gate of Apocalypse

Run! Must run! There is no point in continuing the fight!

The enemy is too strong this time!

An armor that can withstand the full force of an earthquake mountain strike!

A monster with a self-recovery ability so strong that it's almost indestructible!

An assassin with stalking skills and an extremely powerful attack!

And, he didn't even know if they were the only three on the other side!

Damn! Why did we meet such a powerful team! Is it possible to have at least three of these levels of power at the same time as the resident team at ...... Zero City?

But City Zero was - obviously - already destroyed!

The armored man bit his teeth and crushed the necklace pendant hanging around his neck.

Guardian Crystal, a disposable B-grade protection item. Manually triggered and in effect, it is immune to any attack that does not exceed A-rank for 30 minutes.

The armor's cannon fire and beams of light stormed his back, but they were all blocked as if they had touched an invisible barrier.

"Rodigo?"

Flagsmith flew after the armored man as he asked a quick question on the team channel.

"Leave the weakest little guy! I'll take this guy out."

Roddy was the most senior of the three, and the temporary head of command after the split. He had just finished speaking in the team channel, and had turned on the propulsion device behind him, chasing after the armored man.

He had just accelerated to top speed, but suddenly his right foot slammed on the ground, and his whole body turned 180 degrees as if he had cut a hook, rushing back to the spot.

At this moment, the last player had also been struck into a sieve by the living body laser in Xia Xiaolei's left palm and fell to the ground.

The skinny young man, holding two laser pistols, looked at Xia Xiaolei in front of him, then at Flagimusi behind him, and his legs went weak.

"Drop the guns."

Xia Xiaolei's right hand also turned into a biologic laser emitter, pointing his hands together at the skinny young man, and lowered his voice.

And Flagwood West also disengaged his sneak, thumping his twin blades twice and looking coldly at the enemy in front of him.

He only hesitated for a moment, then immediately his legs went weak, kneeling down and placing the two laser pistols on the ground.

"Very well."

Xia Xiaolei quickly walked over, his right hand still in the form of a biological laser, while his left hand produced a spike that pierced into the skinny young man's neck aorta.

In just a few seconds, the skinny youth rolled his eyes, twitched twice, and fell softly to the ground.

"It's not going to kill him." Flagwood West frowned at Xia Xiaolei.

"Don't worry." As the skinny young man collapsed, Xia Xiaolei's hardened armor all over his body began to disintegrate, revealing his true colors, "The dose was calculated based on his weight, and the duration of unconsciousness is between ten and twelve hours, so it's definitely not fatal."

"Good." Flagimusi nodded.

The armored man was hard against the curtain of bullets behind him, and as he rushed to the window, he already had a short submachine gun in his right hand and was shooting at the glass. The window had just shattered, and at the same time, his entire body had rushed out of the window.

Outside was a fifteen-story building, and below was hard concrete. But since the guardian crystals were turned on, it was impossible for him to do any harm at that height.

And the armor man's hands were already sealed.

Earth Escape! Undergrounding!

In the instant he fell, his body merged into the ground and disappeared without a trace.

Roddy behind him, despite having the Sentinel armor's thrusters turned up to maximum, was still a step behind. The moment he burst out of the window, only the armored man's body was seen just missing the ground.

"Think it's useful to get into the ground?"

There was no panic or remorse on Roddy's face, but a sneer.

The Sentinel armor suddenly disappeared, leaving Roddy in the air in a free fall.

Then--

A giant armor, several times larger than the Sentinel armor, suddenly appeared in the air.

In a split second, Roddy loaded the Sentinel armor into his storage gear and took out the Gundam!

After appearing, the Gundam not only didn't fall, but instead opened its thrusters and lifted upwards by tens of meters, while the armor plate on top of both shoulders flipped open, revealing two red-painted cannon tubes, pointed at the ground.

Mega Particle Cannon, 50% power, fire!

Two purple beams of light shone out and blasted the ground directly below.

A giant ball of light silently flickered away, leaving behind a pit with a radius of ten meters or so.

The man in the armor who had disappeared into the earth had long since vanished under the mega-cannon's bombardment.

Gundam put away the armor plate and slowly fell back down, extending his palm toward the window he had just come out of.

Xia Xiaolei, carrying the skinny young man on his back, rushed out of the window with the flag Mushi, and landed on the palm of the Gundam without missing a beat.

When the Gundam landed, Roddy had already popped out of the cockpit with a flash, and smoothly put the Gundam back into the storage space.

"Go!"

......

Inside a moving van.

Roddy was in the driver's seat, while Xia Xiaolei and Qi Muxie were in the trunk.

The thin man, who had just been captured, was still unconscious and had several restraints on him. Nevertheless, Xia Xiaolei and Banner Mushi were still guarding him, one on the left and one on the right.

"Tires, we've got the target." Roddy told Tire on the team channel.

"Is everything okay?"

"That went well." Roddy laughed, "With our current strength, this small team is not worth mentioning. It's just that in the end, I used the Gundam to make sure to kill their leader."

"Never mind. Within a few hours, we shouldn't encounter a scenario that requires full combat." Tire's voice was confident, "We're close to the target location now, send you a perimeter coordinate and meet up there."

"Good." Roddy checked the coordinates of his current location with the coordinates sent by the tire, "This replica isn't particularly large, we don't have much need to move through the tidal fighter. By car, it's just less than an hour away."

"Well, there's still a danger of exposing our target with the tidal fighter, so try not to use it if you don't have to." Tire agreed with Roddy's suggestion, "The coordinates for you are a vantage point, meet you there in an hour."

"Roger!"

......

"The small town of Greendale ...... is here." Nicole looked at the sign at the fork in the road ahead and stopped the car, "According to the map, turn in from this intersection, and fifteen kilometers later is the town that was destroyed by the alien meteorite."

Tian Lie looked at the road sign and was a little puzzled: "Fifteen kilometers to go and you stop here?"

Nicole shook her head: "This is the only road out of town. I hacked into the database and looked at the plans, and the transportation plan calls for an overland route, so this road must already be blocked. Further in, it's almost as if the military is watching."

"You're just plain stupid." Tian Lie rolled his eyes at Nicole, "We're already here, are you really going to wait for the transport to start before you do anything?!"

"Of course I'm not that stupid!" Nicole frowned: "At that point, the coordinates of the meteorite will be displayed in everyone's personal system ......"

"Then what the hell were you thinking!" Tian Lie interrupted Nicole with an expression on his face that looked like he wanted to slap Nicole in the face: "Don't forget that there were other teams that attacked the building when we were just leaving! They must have gotten information about the meteorite too!"

"Will you let me finish my sentence!" Nicole glared at Tian Lie: "It's because another team attacked the building directly and got information about the meteorite that we shouldn't have done it right away! Do you want to be a cicada, a praying mantis, or a yellow bird?"

"Then of course I'd like to be the ......" Tenley understood what Nicole meant and he laughed twice, "The hand with the slingshot."

"That's right." Nicole spread her hands, "That team and us, that's the time difference between before and after. We'll ambush them first and observe the surroundings. Once they start moving to take the meteorite, we'll attack from behind and disengage immediately with a single hit."

"Okay." Tian Lie shrugged his shoulders.

Actually, according to his nature, he would prefer to kill more directly in.

With his strength, there wasn't much that could pose a threat to him, whether it was a player or an Awakened. Even if he swaggered into the U.S. Army's defensive positions, seized the meteorite, and made a huge mess, he wouldn't be afraid of who might be behind it.

But after all, Nicole was still a little weaker than him.

In the past few days, Tian Lie and Nicole have made several copies together. Nicole is no longer empty-handed as she was when she was just resurrected, with only one floater.

However, due to the lack of a personal system and the disappearance of City Zero, even if the two of them earned points, they could not exchange them for skills and equipment that could improve their strength.

With the trophies and rewards from the replicas, Nicole's fighting strength has been somewhat improved. But to be on the safe side, Tian Lie still accepted Nicole's proposal.

At this moment, it was almost dusk. The two of them put the car into their storage equipment and headed into the sparsely wooded hills on the side.

Both of them had physical qualities far beyond those of ordinary people. Although there were no roads on the hills, and there were all kinds of trees in between, the two of them walked easily and smoothly. Before long, after climbing two hills, they could already see the American camp at the foot of the hills from above.

What should have been a small town on the map had been completely razed to the ground, leaving only some broken walls.

On the entrance/exit road to the town, the U.S. Army has set up a blockade, while to the south of the town, there is a huge camp.

The U.S. troops here, though numerous, were not on high alert. The helicopter gunships parked on the tarmac in the distance had not taken off, the tanks had not been launched, and only the searchlights of some of the outposts were sweeping back and forth.

"Is it so lax? Look at them, just a few people will be able to wipe out the pot." Tian Lie looked down the hill at the American camp and shook his head.

"This is American soil, how could it be invaded so easily by a foreign enemy? Now that the mutated creatures have been cleared out, the alert level is certainly not too high." Nicole smiled, "Otherwise, the hill we are now on would definitely have secret sentries set up as well."

"It's been a long time since we've been here, it's been a long time since we've been here!" Heavenly Lie shook his head heavily and looked like he hated the iron: "Either ...... you just wait here and I'll go and get the job done by myself."

"...... Do you like being the punching bag that much?" Eventually, Nicole stared at Tian Lie and thought, "Let's say we wait for half an hour. If there's still no other team to take action, then we'll go straight to capture the meteorite."

"We?"

"Nonsense, of course we are." Nicole snorted, "You want to keep the reward all to yourself?"

"Okay." Tian Lie didn't argue with Nicole, laying down on the ground beside her and crossing his legs, "It's a deal, just half an hour."

Without saying a word, Nicole took some electronic binoculars out of her storage gear and set them up, pointing them in both directions of the camp and connecting them to a small monitor. Although it was pitch black all around the camp except for the area where the searchlight was focused, the image on the monitor was clear and bright, and there was no discoloration of any red or green light.