Gate of Apocalypse

Two days have passed since the meteorite was suddenly taken away.

During these two days, the whole Los Angeles was calm and quiet.

The meteorite team, together with Tian Lie Nicole, had found a hotel to stay in, and except for Tian Lie and Roddy, who were checking the internet, the others had been wandering around on the streets, almost all over Los Angeles.

But there was no movement in the city, as if the meteorite had been taken away and then disappeared.

But after all, the copy was still in progress, and there was no sign of the mission being canceled or aborted.

In the evening, Roddy was in his hotel room, with one hand on his laptop, collecting news from various local forums, but he still found nothing.

The door rang.

Roddy got up and went to the door and opened it to see JoJo standing outside.

"Miss JoJo ......?" Roddy saw JoJo with a couple of bottles of Maotai in her hands and was smiling at her, so he took two steps back in shock, "What are you ...... trying to do?"

"You won't find anyone for a while anyway, so take a break." Jojo lifted the wine in his hand, "What, you're not going to invite me in?"

Roddy looked at JoJo, his face bitter, hung his head, turned around, walked back inside, and sat down on the sofa.

Qiao Qiao lightly picked up two cups on the tea table, walked across the sofa and sat down, a pair of slender legs teetered on the small round table in front of him, unscrewed a bottle of wine and poured two full glasses, pushing one of the cups in front of Roddy: "Have a drink with me."

"Whether it's me drinking with you or you drinking with me?" Roddy was still hanging his head, not in the mood for a drink at all: "Miss Jo, Miss Jo ...... I know what you're looking for me to say, but ......"

JoJo went pale, sat up straight and smacked Roddy on the head with her knuckles, "What? Did you wimp out?"

"What does this have to do with wimpy or not?" JoJo's shot wasn't heavy enough to hurt, of course, but Roddy reached out and rubbed his head, "I just don't think ...... is offending."

"Offend?" Qiao Qiao sneered, "It's been two days, and I haven't seen you talk to her much except to discuss the copy of the mission. I say, Roddy, do you want to have anything more to do with her or not?"

"I ......"

"Give me a drink! Numb!" Qiao Qiao picked up the cup in front of her, touched the other one heavily, and took a big sip of half the cup: "If you really don't have the guts, then I'll get you drunk today, and then help you knock on her door."

"Not ...... "As soon as Roddy opened his mouth, he was forced back by the murderous look in JoJo's eyes, and obediently lifted his glass, gulping down a big gulp before grimacing and taking a long breath: "It's strong! "

"How do you get drunk when you've been fortified with so many physical qualities and the wine isn't strong?" As if juggling, Qiao Qiao took out a small lunch box from his storage device and dropped it on the table.

When the box was opened, it was filled with the following dishes: pig's ears, fried peanuts, and salted mao beans.

"You ...... "Roddy looked at Qiao Qiao in stunned silence: "Maotai is just that, where did you get this?"

"Wandered out during the day and went to Chinatown. Do you really think you can't get these things in America?" Qiao Qiao twisted a peanut, chewed it carefully in his mouth, opened it with his tongue, dunked another large glass down, and let out a contented sigh: "How can you drink liquor and not have something to go with it?"

Roddy stared at Qiao Qiao for a long time, shook his head, also picked up his chopsticks, and picked up a slice of pig's ear.

From time to time, he would pick up a glass of wine and clink it with Rody's. Before long, four bottles of wine had been finished. Before long, the four bottles of wine had been finished.

"That's about right, Miss JoJo ......" Roddy drank the last drop of wine in his glass and put it down.

"How many percent are you done?" JoJo took a look at Roddy's face, a little flushed, but her eyes were still clear.

"Forty-five percent," Roddy answered honestly.

"Then drink again, while we talk." Qiao Qiao lifted his hand and took out four more bottles of Maotai from his storage equipment.

Roddy stared at Qiao Qiao, smiled bitterly after a moment, and reached out to grab a bottle and twist it open.

"I know what you're afraid of." JoJo watched as Rowdy filled his glass with wine and suddenly spoke up, "You're thinking that this angel chick and that Sky Lie guy have been acting together and you're afraid that he's already taken down, right?"

"...... "Roddy picked up his glass and drank from it without speaking, craning his neck.

"Do you remember what you were like when you first met this chick Nicole?" Qiao Qiao looked at Roddy seriously: "At that time, you looked at her back and shouted at her that you were going to get her. Where have you been then, and where are you now?

How sad were you when Nicole died in the war?

How happy were you to hear Face say she was resurrected?

For the past six months, you know she's been living somewhere in the world, and she's been talking to us about her from time to time, but now that she's actually met someone, why does she suddenly wimp out?

Roddy, don't tell me you don't like Nicole anymore."

"Of course not!" Roddy glared at JoJo, "Am I Roddy the kind of person who casually moves on?"

"I know you're not. But I also know you're not the kind of person to just back out of a job." Qiao Qiao smiled, "This copy has been dragging on, but it's got to be finished. If you can't take her down before the copy is finished, where are you going to find her when it's over?"

"See, getting to the crux of the matter." Roddy had gotten a good bit drunk and was talking a lot, and he smiled, "Let me ask you, how long has it been since Face told us that Nicole had come back to life?"

"Six months."

"Exactly. And have you ever wondered why she hasn't appeared before us again in these six months?" Roddy looked at JoJo, "We moved to the island, but since Nicole was able to find us once before, she should be able to find us a second time. Since she's still alive and able to join the replica, that means - she's just not going to see us again."

......

At the other end of the hotel, in Nicole's room.

Tian Lie was sitting in front of Nicole, staring at her intently.

"What are you staring at me for?" Nicole frowned and looked at Tian Lie with an unhappy face.

"You have something on your mind." Tian Lie's eyes looked as if they were about to pierce through Nicole: "Don't pretend, it's useless to pretend. These days, we've become very familiar with each other. What's on your mind, you can even see a general idea."

"Really? So tell me, what was I thinking?" Nicole snaps.

"You're afraid." Tian Lie said word for word, "The man who killed Gaza and took the meteorite."

"An S-class only. Although I don't know why he has surged forward in the past six months, but those people from the Meteorite Squad have become very strong now. Besides, you're also S-ranked, so together we can't beat that guy. What do I have to be afraid of?" Nicole's tone was calm.

"Come on, don't play dumb with Master Ben here." Tian Lie glared at Nicole, "Don't forget, I was once a high-ranking member of the Thorn Flower Crew. Which of the high-ranking members of Zero City's resident team am I not familiar with?"

Nicole looked at Tian Lie and didn't say anything.

"I also checked the body, there were no external wounds on it, it was killed from the soul level." Tian Lie stared at Nicole, "And at that time, you were already dragged away by that guy Roddy, but I still stayed where I was and saw clearly how Gaza was killed. Hmph, with a long sword, attack the soul ...... guy if it's not Adric, I'll cut this head off for you! If you don't see that he's Adric, I'll cut this head off for you too!"

"You like chopping off heads that much? Go ahead and cut yourself. You won't die if you cut off your head anyway." Nicole sneered.

"Don't fucking dodge the question for me!" Tian Lie slapped the table in front of him heavily.

"What's the problem?" Nicole looked at Tianlie coldly: "Yes, I did see that Gaza's death looks like a soul attack. Judging from the strength, it is also true that it was mostly Adric's doing. But he is a member of the Dark Knights, and I am a member of the Angel Legion, so what's the connection?"

"Do you think I'm an idiot?" Tian Lie rolled his eyes: "Didn't you go through a lot of trouble just to find those guys from Zero City? Now finally one person has shown up, but he's become our enemy. Say, what's the plan in your heart right now."

"What plans can I have?!" Nicole finally couldn't hold back her anger and screamed at the top of her lungs, "The copy wants us to be his enemy, what can I do! Can I tell him that I used to be a member of the Zero City Angel Corps and ask him to be a good boy and give up the fight and stick his neck out for me to kill, and better tell me where the rest of Zero City is now before he dies?!"

"Look at you, you get mad when you don't get your way." Tian Lie tsked, "You have it backwards. I'm afraid that when it's time to face him, you'll go soft in order to ask for the whereabouts of the Zero City people."

"Don't worry. I'm not going to drag you into this anyway." Nicole sneered, "Not to mention Adric, even Lord Martial Angel, since they are opposing identities in the copy, I can't be lenient."

"That's what I want from you." Tian Lie snapped his fingers and laughed, "Remember what you said today. If you go soft or even back down, I'll kill you myself."

The doorbell rang.

Without even looking at Tian Lie, Nicole stood up, strode to the door, and pulled it open heavily.

Outside the door, there stood a drunken Roddy.