Gate of Apocalypse

"Found someone?"

When she saw Roddy knocking on the door, Nicole's face snapped.

"Huh? Not ...... not." Roddy was stunned at first, then immediately shook his head.

Looking over Nicole's shoulder, he saw that Tian Lie was also in Nicole's room.

But, fortunately, Nicole opened the door quickly, and both of them were dressed, which made Roddy a little relieved.

Seeing Nicole looking at him with a questioning look, Roddy even said, "Can ...... go for a walk with me? There's something I'd like to talk to you about."

"Okay." Nicole nodded crisply and brought the door with her backhand, "Where to?"

"Well ...... how about the food bar?"

......

Roddy led Nicole to sit down in a quiet corner of the bar.

"You've been drinking a lot."

Nicole sipped lightly from a glass of lemonade and looked at Roddy.

"Mmm." Roddy smiled apologetically. JoJo had just dragged herself down with four bottles of thatch each, and it was strange that she didn't smell great at the moment.

"Go ahead, what do you want to talk about?"

"It must have been more than half a year since I last saw you." Roddy looked up at Nicole's face, "But Chen Xiaolian told me that you're actually like Dagon, you've been hiding your identity and living beside us since your resurrection, is that right?"

"Do you need to have doubts about what your best friend, and your own captain, says, too?" Nicole smiled faintly.

Roddy shook his head, "Of course not. It's just that there are some things that I'd rather hear you say in person."

"Okay." Nicole admitted dryly, "Yes, I'm Yoko, and I opened a yoga studio next to your gym just to be close to you."

"And then, why didn't you ...... ever show up again?" Roddy hesitated, but asked, "If you can find us once, you can find us a second time. Even though we moved away, it shouldn't be hard for you to find us with your abilities."

"It really wasn't hard. In fact, we found you a long time ago." Nicole said something that Roddy couldn't believe: "And even, the two of us were originally going to join your team."

"What?!" Roddy stared, "Then why ......?"

"Because after finding you guys, we realized that Chen Xiaolian wasn't with you guys." Nicole sighed, "As you know very well, Tian Lie and I are now no longer ordinary Awakened Ones, and it is impossible for us to join any other team. Even when we tried to get close to you, it was to figure out what kind of identity we had become, and what ...... we should do next.

Moreover, we all owe Chen Xiaolian a debt of gratitude. A big one.

But now, Chen Xiaolian has not returned to your side. When we left Zero City, we thought he would be with us, but when we returned to the outside world, we found that he had only sent us out and had no idea where ...... he had gone."

"Wait-wait-wait-wait!" Roddy almost jumped out of his chair, "You mean, you were ...... with Face before? At ...... City Zero?!"

"Yes. He didn't tell you after he left?" Nicole looked questioningly at Rowdy.

"No." Roddy was busy shaking his head, "He didn't even meet us in person, he just called us and told us that he had some business to take care of and that it would be very dangerous for us if he continued to stay with us. Damn! Why didn't you tell us earlier! So the time he suddenly disappeared, he went to Zero City? What happened there?"

"We don't know much, after all, most of what happened happened in a special little space in City Zero." Nicole thought: "roughly ...... is that Tatsu intends to get the core of Zero City, and some other old monsters from the same era as him intend to stop him. Then ...... maybe there was a fight, but now the space where Zero City is located has collapsed and been folded up, and those old monsters, including Tatsu, are also sealed inside Zero City. The only ones who managed to escape are the three of us.

Oh yeah, there's one more piece of news that you should be happy to hear - Chen Xiaolian he, got the Singularity, what I said above, the core of Zero City."

"You ...... you slow down a bit, I'm a bit confused ......"

Roddy began to regret that he had drunk too much wine and that he hadn't brought anyone else along.

He had only planned to ask Nicole out to confess his love, but didn't expect her to know more about Chen Xiaolian!

And now, my own brain had become dulled by the alcohol.

"It's not complicated, and I had thought that Chen Xiaolian had already told you all, so I didn't tell you." Nicole smiled apologetically, "In short, Chen Xiaolian got a lot of good stuff. I mean, really good stuff. I don't know exactly where he's gone, but I'm sure that by the time he returns, your team will be far stronger than it is now."

"I'll have to ...... hurry up and tell my teammates the news." Roddy took a deep breath, "Thank you, Nicole."

"Is there anything else?" Nicole finished her glass of water: "No then ......"

"There!"

Roddy even waved his hand, paused, and cleared his throat, "That ...... is actually all you know about it. I ...... like you!"

"Yeah, I know." Nicole nodded her head, her expression not showing joy or anger.

"I've liked you since the first moment I saw you at City Zero. I also said that I'm going to get you." Through the wine, Roddy simply poured out his heartfelt words in a bamboo tube: "Then, in the Tokyo replica, you were killed in battle. I never had the chance to see you again. Or if I did see you, I didn't know it was you. Anyway, ...... Now that I see you alive and well again, I'm very happy!"

"Roddy ......" Nicole's eyelashes quivered lightly and lightened her lips, "I'm sorry."

"...... Shit."

Roddy leaned back heavily and collapsed into the seat back, muttering, "JoJo the bastard!"

If it wasn't for the fact that Qiao Qiao had poured so much into her, she would never have plucked up the courage to come running to Nicole to confess.

At least, as long as he didn't say the words, he could still have a glimmer of hope in his heart.

"Why? Is it because of that dead bald guy?" Roddy lowered his head and only looked up again half a day later, smiling bitterly, "I say, don't forget, this guy was an angel killer before, and his hands are covered with the blood of your teammates, even including your father, who died at his hands!"

"I don't forget such things, I don't need you to remind me." Nicole's expression sank, "Besides, it's enough for you to know that I don't have those kinds of feelings for you. As for why that is, it's none of your business."

"Makes sense." Roddy laughed bitterly, "It really has nothing to do with me."

"You're a nice guy, and it's an honor to work alongside you." Nicole stood up, "I have a respect for Chen Xiaolian, for you, and for the rest of your Meteorite Squad. This time, I also believe that we will fight together and win the replica together. But I can't reciprocate your special feelings, so I can only say I'm sorry."

"Thank you ...... for putting it so bluntly and cutting me off." Roddy laughed miserably.

"Those words should have been said to you much earlier. But for one thing, I hadn't figured out how exactly I should say them to you myself before. Secondly, I also didn't find the right opportunity to do so. If I could have said it to you earlier, it might have been better for you." Nicole looked at Roddy seriously: "Really, I'm sorry."

"Forget it ......" Roddy waved weakly at Nicole.

"Well, I'm off." Nicole also couldn't bear to see Roddy looking so dejected, and waved her hand at him as well: "About the copy, if there is any new development, come to me anytime.".

After saying that, she turned her head and left the bar.

Roddy was still sitting in his seat with his head hanging low and his eyes vacant.

"Hey, Roddy, how's it going?"

JoJo's gossipy voice came over the team channel, "I saw Nicole in the hallway going back to her house. Did you get her yet?"

"Do you think, if I had taken care of her, she would be going back alone now?" Roddy muffled a snort.

"Give me a minute!"

A short time later, Roddy saw her dash into the bar with little steps and sit on her butt in front of him.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Tell me, how did you confess and how did you get rejected?" Qiao Qiao looked at Roddy with a curious face: "She can't be ...... really because she's fallen in love with Tian Lie, can she? It's also a little ...... too off-putting."

"I don't know." Roddy shook his head, still keeping his head down, "She just sent me a nice card and then told me that I didn't have to take care of her business."

"Say that heavily?!" JoJo's eyes were wide open: "Hey, you're not just going to give up, are you?"

"Or what? What else can you do?" Roddy rolled his eyes, "Jump on her, hold her down, tell her don't go, that I can't live without her? Or kneel down in front of her and cry and beg her to be my girlfriend?"

"Wait a minute, let me think about this picture ......" said JoJo, giggling.

"You've had enough!" The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past few years, and is now in the process of developing the new product. Even if I don't think I'm too cheap, I can't embarrass our Meteorite Battle Team by making such a lowly move!"

"Spirited!" JoJo gave a thumbs up and bantered with a loud compliment at Roddy, "So what are you going to do next? You can't just give up, right?"

"And what else?" Roddy straightened his back with a show of hands: "Falling flowers are intentional, but flowing water is merciless. A man, it's better to be unrestrained. I've tried my best," he said. The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past two years. The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past two years. This kind of thing is not my style. Besides, as you know, the more a man behaves like this, the more he will be looked down upon by women. After all-.

A dog licker never ends up with nothing!"