Gate of Apocalypse

Overhead, a helicopter gunship roared overhead and fired a volley of rockets at a giant sea turtle on the road. Amidst the fire and roar, the turtle's shell was blown to pieces and fell to the ground.

After the helicopter gunships, there was the sound of heavy tank tracks crushing through the rubble.

The city of Los Angeles has been filled with such scenes. The U.S. Army alone had mobilized at least five heavy divisions, not including the Air Force and Navy aviation forces, as well as the Marine Corps and National Guard.

It can be said that almost the entire military power of Southern California is now concentrated in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and there are still follow-on forces arriving.

"Do you guys think that the U.S. military pushed to the zoo first, or did the coordinates show up first? Want to hang a bet?" Roddy looked around at the crowd playfully.

"What's the bet." JoJo wasn't the least bit interested: "Money? Points? We're all spending it together, so what are we betting with?"

"Post-it notes are okay too - watch out!!!"

Roddy was saying something when his face suddenly changed.

The helicopter gunship overhead suddenly looked as if it was drunk, twisting and turning and falling down the slope.

And looking at its trajectory, it was pointing at the roof of this very building!

"Back off!" Tire looked like he had already taken out his shield fast, hung it on his left arm, and leapt high into the sky to meet the helicopter gunship.

This distance was already too close for Roddy to have enough time to take out the armor and enter the cockpit. And if the spare tire didn't have ingots prepared beforehand, the available firepower wouldn't be enough to blast a helicopter gunship of this size to smithereens.

As for JoJo's anti-matter annihilation ability, it also needed enough time to work.

Tire leapt into the air, the shield in his hand suddenly grew ten times larger, covering his entire body behind it, and at the same time he activated his muscle-fruit ability, his whole body swelling up like a blow-up balloon with mighty tendons.

Exhaling and shouting, the tires blocked the falling helicopter with the shield, and at the same time heaved to the side. The ten-ton Longbow Apache was pushed out of the way and bounced outward.

The tires themselves were smashed back to the rooftop by the heavy impact of the descent.

The tires, though powerful, were still not strong enough to completely eject such a heavy helicopter gunship. The building's rooftop was large enough that the helicopter was able to reverse its trajectory and still land on the far side of the rooftop. The fast-spinning propeller hit the ground, slicing out countless sparks, and snapped off in a strange arc towards the Meteorite Squadron.

Tian Lie rushed forward two steps, and reached out his hand to stop the propeller. The propeller slashed heavily at Tian Lie's arm, but only a few centimeters into it before it lost power.

With a blank expression, Tian Lie lowered his head and watched as the paddle blade seemed to melt and gradually merge into his body.

"Damn it! Don't pilots in the U.S. Army Air Force need to take a driver's license?" Roddy had now taken out his armor and entered the cockpit, cursing as he strode toward the crashed helicopter.

Everyone had just seen clearly that the helicopter had not been attacked in any way, and had crashed by itself for no reason at all.

Roddy walked toward the crashed helicopter, intending to examine what had caused the crash.

As he approached, the hatch was slowly pushed open.

A pilot struggled to climb out of the cockpit and rolled to the ground.

The helicopter had not fallen very high, and was cushioned by tires that did not appear to have fatally injured the occupants.

He took a couple of breaths on the ground, looked up at Roddy, and crawled forward on his hands and knees.

His eyes were out of focus, and despite the fact that there was a never-before-seen, sci-fi looking Sentinel armor standing in front of him, he didn't seem the least bit surprised, but instinctively moaned, "Save ...... save me ......"

"Thunder!" Roddy whispered, "Come check on his injuries."

Xia Xiaolei quickly walked forward in response and crouched down to look at the pilot.

His left leg was broken, with white stubble poking out of his bones, he was bleeding unceasingly, and there were several serious bruises on his body.

"How did you fall? Is the helicopter under attack?"

"Save Me ...... Save Me ......"

The pilot looked delirious, his whole body was twitching and he could only mumble vague sounds out of his mouth.

"Brother Tire, do you want to use a bottle of animal blood for him?" Xia Xiaolei looked back at the tire, "The injury seems to be serious."

"Use it." Tire nodded, Xia Xiaolei took out a portion of Healing Beast Blood and stuffed it into the pilot's mouth.

After instinctively swallowing the healing beast blood, the injuries on the pilot's body recovered at a rapid rate that was visible to the naked eye. Except for his broken leg, all the wounds on his body had healed.

But the strange thing was that he never regained consciousness, and the trembling of his body not only did not lessen, but became more and more violent, literally convulsing.

"Strange ...... "Xia Xiaolei frowned. The pilot's injuries weren't fatal, and one serving of Healing Beast Blood should be completely enough to heal him.

"Ah-!!!"

The pilot's whole body suddenly shook violently and spurted out a mouthful of blood. Only this time, the blood spurted out was not red, but yellow-green mucus.

"Back off!"

The tire immediately drank low with a serious expression.

Xia Xiaolei and Roddy stepped back a few meters without any hesitation, and one of them evolved a biomass hot-wire cannon and aimed it at the pilot, while the other opened the cannon tube on the body of the armor.

The pilot's whole body convulsed for several seconds, his face turned pale, his eyes lost their pupils, his throat gasped like a wild animal, his hands grabbed his neck, and his legs kept stirring.

A bone thorn suddenly sprouted from his body, piercing through his skin, then penetrating through his clothes and covering every part of his body.

"It's infected." Qiao Qiao muffled.

"Should I fire?" All the weapons on Roddy's body were already aimed at the pilot, and to the tire he asked, "This guy ...... is mutating."

"Wait a minute." Tire shook his head.

"Hey, this guy's mutating. Are you going to wait until he's done mutating?" Roddy was puzzled.

The tire smiled indifferently, "It's just one, what's there to be afraid of? Let it finish its mutation, and let's see what kind of power level it is. It doesn't seem to be the same as the beasts in the zoo."

"Makes sense." Roddy nodded and maneuvered the Sentinel armor to make a fist motion, "So, who's coming?"

"Xia Xiaolei, you do it." Tire laughed and looked at Xia Xiaolei, "You have a more comprehensive fighting style and are the least likely to die, and your strength doesn't crush this guy."

Tire smiled and nodded when he heard the last sentence.

The pilot was still continuing to mutate, with more and more bone spurs on his body and fangs starting to grow in his mouth.

The skin on his body was shrinking and drying up so fast that it became black and tightly wrapped around his body. His limbs were elongated, with four claws protruding from each tip.

His features were also distorted and deformed, like a battered persimmon.

As his breathing subsided, the pilot stood up, transformed into a monstrous creature.

Unlike what the meteorite squad had seen before, this time the guy in front of him was not an enlarged version of some existing creature on Earth, and there was not a trace of any other creature on him.

"Be careful, Ray." Tire warned, and took a few steps backwards.

Everyone backed away, leaving a large enough open space for Xia Xiaolei on the rooftop.

"Not so much." Xia Xiaolei looked relaxed and shrugged his shoulders, his body already hardening fast and covered in parasite armor.

"Hey, do you guys feel ...... that these two guys have similar styling styles?"

Qiao Qiao reached out and poked the tire with a bad smile.

Xia Xiaolei's Parasite Armor is also a biologically enhanced item. When using his abilities, he also covered his entire body with bio-hardened armor, and then used his tentacles to evolve various biologic weapons.

When he used his abilities, he looked quite similar to the mutated monster in front of him, except for the difference in size.

"Ho-ga!!!"

After the pilot completed his mutation, he seemed to have lost his original language ability as a human, roared wildly, leapt, and smashed his right hand heavily into Xia Xiaolei.

Originally, this fight was to test the opponent's ability, Xia Xiaolei did not make any counterattack, just put his arms in front of him, blocking the mutant's claws.

The claws slightly broke open the shell of the parasite armor, but were unable to go any deeper, so Xia Xiaolei kicked it out.

"The power is okay, but it's not too strong." Xia Xiaolei looked at the mutant monster that hissed and pounced again, strafing the attack while reporting loudly, "The speed is relatively good, but everyone on our team should be faster than it."

This mutant looked just like the mutant beasts in the zoo before, also without much intelligence, and only relied on instinct, shrieking repeatedly and constantly swinging its claws at Xia Xiaolei.

"Looks like it should only be able to melee. So, the attack test is done, next it's time to test the defense." Xia Xiaolei squeezed the mutant's swung arm with one hand and twisted it.

The mutant roared, and its entire massive body was flung by Xia Xiaolei onto the rooftop floor, falling in a large spiderweb pattern.

"Be careful, don't smash through the floorboards!"

The tire waved off a few concrete fragments and shouted out to Xia Xiaolei.

"Got it, hey!" Xia Xiaolei smiled, his five fingers still didn't let go of the mutant's wrist, his foot stepped on it, and he gave it another ruthless tug.

This time, Xia Xiaolei used eight points of force. Although the mutant's exoskeleton was strong, it was still unable to resist Xia Xiaolei's strength, and one of its arms was torn off.

What came out of the wound was still the same yellow-green blood from before.

"Good news, the blood is not corrosive!" Xia Xiaolei continued to report, "But the limb strength is good, it should be able to withstand ordinary metal melee weapons."

The mutant rolled over, and although it was severely wounded by Xia Xiaolei, it did not look fearful at all and rushed up again.

A beam of light shot through the mutant's chest.

"No additional resistance to energy attacks!"

Xia Xiaolei stretched out two tentacles on his body and evolved the Biotronium Cannon, blasting the mutant without stopping, each beam of light hitting it right through.

"Let's try a live weapon! Back off, Ray." The spare tire watched Xia Xiaolei playing with it, and also got some itch, his left arm morphed into a machine gun and fired it directly at the mutant.

Most of the dense bullets that hit the mutant's exoskeleton body were bounced off, and less than a tenth of them penetrated the exoskeleton, causing not even enough damage to repel it.

"Hey, it's pretty hard?"

The spare tire stared, the machine gun in his hands expanded its caliber to a small 30mm gun, and a five-shot shot immediately pressed the arm of liquid metal against the ingot from which the spare had been removed.

The arm of liquid metal, which had been reduced in size by the shooting, was replenished and immediately returned to its original size.

"It's quite similar to you." Nicole looked at Tianlie, "except that he only has one arm."

"A little, but I can't evolve an explosive." Tian Lie smiled.

At such a close distance, none of the five shells fell short and hit the mutant's body.

"Brother Spare Tire, next time, tell me in advance, okay!"

The distance between Xia Xiaolei and the mutant was so close that the power of the explosion also affected him, and he was heavily lifted off the ground with a pile of shrapnel stuck in the front of his body, rolling over and crawling up and complaining.

"You can't hit it anyway!" The spare tire laughed twice and looked ahead at the mutant.

"That's going to hurt too!" Xia Xiaolei took two steps backward in aggravation.

This time, the power was much greater than just now. Half of that mutant's body was blown away, and it could only lie on the ground and struggle continuously, no longer able to get up.

"It's pretty hard, but not particularly hard." Spare Tire nodded in satisfaction, "Although it's a lot stronger than that group of animals, the army should be able to clean it up."

"The question is, how did this one get infected." JoJo frowned, "This guy is flying a helicopter gunship. If even he can be infected, then everyone could be infected. If someone else in the military has developed this mutation ......"

As soon as her voice fell, her body suddenly sank downward.

Beneath several people, the floor of the rooftop suddenly collapsed.

Several claws swung over from all directions at the same time.