Gate of Apocalypse

The beasts had just marched to a distance of less than two hundred meters from the fortress, and as long as they were rushed to the front, the fortress, which was only half their height, was destined to be destroyed immediately.

Now, however, the beasts were fighting each other as if they had gone mad.

Losing all sense of friend and foe, their mountainous fists slammed into each other, each blow exploding with a dull bang.

At the same moment, the other mutants also happened to rush in front of the beasts.

One of the beasts roared up to the sky and stamped heavily on the ground. The entire ground shook, and dozens of mutants didn't even have time to scream before they were trampled into a blur of flesh and blood. Even the heavily armored individuals that were at the front were completely powerless to resist this tonnage of stomping.

More mutants, like the giant beasts, also started to kill each other.

The entire perimeter of the Alloy Stronghold suddenly turned into a Shura field.

There was no longer the neat and unified action as before, and the mutants had fallen into complete chaos.

"Everyone! Formation! Start moving!"

The tire immediately shouted and slammed his left shield into an alloy plate in front of him, and was about to jump out through the gap when he heard Xia Xiaolei let out a cry of pain from behind him.

The tire turned back sharply to see Xia Xiaolei tumbling to the ground, his whole body convulsing violently and even starting to roll his eyes.

"Xiaolei!"

Tire's heart sank, and despite having issued the order, he immediately turned back, rushed back to Xia Xiaolei's side, and helped him up.

The tentacles on Xia Xiaolei's body were still attached to the captured mutant, yet the endings were already showing a hint of wilting and were expanding at a rapid rate.

"Give me ...... sugar ......"

Xia Xiaolei's voice was very weak, as if he was suffering a great deal of pain. He had taken out several packets of molasses from his storage equipment, but his trembling hands couldn't grasp them, and they rolled down to the ground beside him.

"What's going on!"

The tire quickly picked up the syrup from the ground, haphazardly tore open the seal, and poured it into Xia Xiaolei's mouth.

Xia Xiaolei gulped down the sticky syrup like drinking water, and only when the plastic bag dried up did he catch his breath a little, while the necrosis at the end of the tentacles was also gradually being repaired.

"That guy ...... Adric ...... is fighting me for control ......"

......

"Is it still not resolved, Captain?"

Dodoro gently rubbed his hands against the smooth hilt of the twin knives at his waist and asked, somewhat puzzled.

It had been more than two hours since Adric woke up. According to the strength and terrifying number of mutants he had seen, no matter how many players and awakened ones there were in the city, they should have all been killed by now.

In front of him, Adric was standing with his hands crossed and his eyes closed and expressionless.

"All the teams in the city of Los Angeles have been dealt with. But before that, there's a good team that has put everyone in Griffith Park together and is heading here." Adric still didn't open his eyes, but faintly explained to Dodoro, "The ones I saw when I was killing Gaza."

Despite Adric's genetic enhancement, Dodoro had not become a mutant like the ordinary people in Los Angeles, and naturally could not get battlefield information through sensing, so he could only be relayed to him by Adric.

Listening to Adric's words, Dodoro's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"Don't worry."

Although he didn't open his eyes, Adric still seemed to have seen Dodoro's worry and smiled slightly, "With such a number of our troops, they have already stopped advancing. It's only a matter of time before they're gone. I've concocted a new batch of mutants to destroy their defenses, and in ten minutes at most, these guys will be completely overwhelmed and torn apart as well."

"That's good." Duo Duo Luo always had a trace of inexplicable worry in his heart, always felt that ...... some unexpected shadow was gradually expanding. But looking at the head of the head of such a confident, victorious expression and tone of voice, can only put his mind at ease for the time being.

Maybe ...... is just too much over-worried himself.

"Okay ...... there are only a few hundred meters left." After another moment, Adric laughed, "Think it's useful to temporarily build a shabby house on the battlefield? In front of my giant mutant, it will eventually be completely-ah!!!"

Adric suddenly erupted with a scream and crouched down, his whole body curled into a ball.

"Captain!?"

In a flash, Dodoro dashed in front of Adric and grabbed him by the shoulders with both hands: "Captain! What's wrong with you Captain!"

Hell ...... Is my own bad feeling about this coming true?

"There's a guy ......" Adric was still bent over with his head down and his voice filled with pain, "There's a guy ...... fighting me for control. "

"Control?!" Dodoro was horrified: "There was only one alien meteorite in the copy's task list! Who else can compete with you for control!"

"It's something else." Adric finally looked up with a gasp, his face livid, "There's a guy who has the ability ...... or has some kind of equipment that also falls into the bio-modification category. He captured one of my mutants and used it as an interface to parse these alien genes and used it as a bridge into the mental network I built."

"That ...... "Dodoro understood immediately and was a bit overwhelmed.

After devouring the alien embryos in the meteorite, Adric became the master of the population. The huge population formed by these mutants was originally under Adric's control because of his genes.

But now, there is an outsider in this population!

And - by whatever means - he has the opportunity to threaten the head of the head's dominance.

"No ...... don't worry." Adric deadpanned, "This kid ...... after all just read the genetic code in one of the mutants and anthropomorphized himself. He won't be able to successfully wrest control from me, the rightful ruler, and at most ...... will cause a little confusion for a while. It will only take a little time for me to get control back in my hands. Just until then ......"

"What happens before then?" Dodoro's hands were pressed on the hilt of the knife.

Adric closed his eyes slowly, "Until then, I must not be distracted or move, I must focus all my energy on taking back control. And you ...... must protect me."

"Protect? But there are so many more around us ......"

As soon as Dodoro was halfway through his sentence, he heard the roar of a rising and falling sound around him.

The hundreds of chrysalids that were originally churning out mutants were being fed out in a steady stream. And the newly born mutants, like products from an assembly line, were arranged in a neat formation, grouped according to different species, and went out of the valley.

But now, the whole valley had turned into chaos.

No matter what kind of mutants they were, they had all lost control and were frantically biting and pouncing on their companions. There were even a few giant chrysalises that had been damaged in the fierce fight.

One of the closest mutants, which had noticed Adric and Dodoro here, took a big step forward, showing sharp teeth and claws, and rushed over.

"They will be in such a state of confusion for the time being until I regain control. And I will go into a temporary state of false death in order to concentrate. You ...... can handle that, right Dodoro."

After Adric said this, his head slowly sank, never to be heard from again.

"...... I understand, Captain."

Dodoro gritted his teeth and pulled out the twin knives at his waist, "Don't worry Captain, I won't let any sentient thing come ten meters closer to you until you take back control!"

The blade light flashed, and the mutant's momentum, which had taken a giant step forward, suddenly came to a halt.

In the next moment, it was transformed into countless fragmented body parts, one half of which was burning with fire, the other half caked with thick frost.

......

"Tires? What's going on?"

On the team channel, Roddy hurriedly asked.

Now that Tire had given the order to attack, the other teams had begun to assemble before the Alloy Fortress, but both himself and Xia Xiaolei stayed in place late and did not appear.

"Xiaolei didn't manage to seize control of these variants. Adric spotted him and is fighting for dominance of the neural network." Tire chortled, "Ray is unable to move for now. You guys go ahead, I'll take care of him here."

"Then we'll wait until he's finished seizing!" As soon as Roddy finished speaking, people had already rushed into the top floor of the Alloy Fortress, followed by the rest of the Meteorite Squad, looking anxious: "We can't leave our companions behind!"

"No." Tire shook his head slowly, his expression serious, "Little Thunder just told me that Adric's spiritual power is far more powerful than he thought, and with the mastery authority granted by his copy, he inherently holds more of an advantage over Little Thunder. Now ...... Little Ray can only put all his energy into competing with Adric."

"You mean ...... "Roddy stared at him, "He may not be able to win? And what happens if you lose?"

Tire sighed and turned to look at Xia Xiaolei, who was sitting on his knees on the ground behind him, eyes closed tightly: "Those mutants will be back under Adric's control, which naturally goes without saying. As for Xiaolei ......"

He thought to himself, "Maybe it will backfire ...... but that's not good enough. All right, now is not the time to dwell on these issues. Little Ray has bought us an unknown amount of time, and you must leave immediately. I'll stay ......"

"You go, I'll stay."

Flagimusi shook his head and stepped from behind Roddy to Tire's side, "Tien Lie said that his resilience is ineffective against the effects of Adric's direct touch to the soul attack, your defense is needed on the team."

"Flagwood West ...... "Tire frowned, to say something, thought about it or nodded, "Okay. Guard Ray, don't let him die."

"Does that even need to be said?" QiMusi smiled faintly, held the hilt of his short sword, and stood behind Xia Xiaolei.