Gate of Apocalypse

"Damn the radiation!"

Despite the radioactive dust floating in the air around him, Adric could only breathe heavily.

His body was covered with a light ionizing shield to keep out the high heat of the magma, and Dodoro was held in his arms, still unconscious.

After controlling the Healing Flower and engulfing him, Adric ordered the Healing Flower to dive deep into the ground to ensure absolute safety.

Thanks to this, Dodoro was able to survive the nuclear explosion.

As for Adric, he continued the same operation as before, quickly splitting a small part of the tissue and burrowing into the ground before the nuclear explosion.

Although the body left on the ground was vaporized in the moment of the nuclear explosion, the small part of the tissue was regrown and restored.

Fortunately, they were both deep enough that they were not engulfed by the surface melting magma.

He took out a small grenade, unscrewed the pull ring, and dropped it on the ground in front of him. A white light flashed, and countless frosts burst open, then melted, exploding into a large cloud of water vapor.

When the steam dissipated, a small patch of ground had solidified from the cooling of the frozen grenade, but was still hot.

Adric stood on top of the small piece of solidified ground, disarmed the ionization shield, and set Dodoro down.

He himself, however, fell to his knees with weak legs.

Twice in a row, an entire body had regrown from a small piece of flesh, and even with Adric's current terrifying recovery ability, it was a bit overwhelming.

Although the explosion on the ground had ended, the radioactive dust from the blast had spread across the sky, and there was a cloud of dust around it, making it impossible to see anything at all.

"Regiment ...... Captain?"

Dodoro had woken up. But the previous injury was too severe, and the time he had been sheltered by the Healing Flower was too short, and now he had not fully recovered, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the strange sight in front of him: "What's wrong?"

"There was just a nuclear explosion at ......." Adric was gloomy.

"A nuclear explosion? Here?!"

Dodoro rolled up and looked around quickly.

This purgatory-like environment really looked like it had just experienced a nuclear bombing, and it was right in the heart of the blast!

But ...... How is this possible?

"Don't worry. With our current physical state, the effects of radiation on us won't be immediately fatal. Once we leave this replica, the residual damage will also disappear." Adric gasped.

Even though he had remained calm, he was now finally losing his temper.

"No ...... I'm not worried about that, Captain." Dodoro deadpanned his eyebrows, "The point is why ...... the nukes are landing here!"

His teeth chattered: "You did say that the U.S. military might use nuclear bombs, but shouldn't that be in downtown Los Angeles! That's where a lot of mutants gather! Here's why ...... Rosemont Nature Preserve is a busted heart!"

"There's all ...... everywhere! Everywhere you look, you're exploding hearts!" Adric roared, with the same cannibalistic expression: "You're lucky you were unconscious and didn't see what was happening in the sky. ...... It was like a meteor shower, the sky was covered with warheads re-entering orbit! Hundreds of warheads wiped out all of Southern California! At least twenty nukes have been eaten here at the Rosemont Nature Preserve alone ...... Look beyond the ground beneath you!"

Dodoro looked at the ground around him, the lava was still flowing and the heat was pounding on his face.

This was indeed the terrifying force that would have been caused by the intense explosion of a multinuclear bomb.

He was stunned.

It had been their expectation that with such a serious bio-chemical crisis in Los Angeles, the U.S. government might indeed have used nuclear bombs to abort the situation. But that should have been their help to clean up downtown Los Angeles of other players and awakened people!

Hundreds of nuclear bombs ......?

All of Southern California ......?

Are the Americans crazy?

"I don't know what happened ...... but ...... there must be someone still alive in this copy, or else the copy would be over by now!" Adric finally stood up slowly and gritted his teeth, "Thanks to that guy equipped with parasite armor, he gave me the genome to recover myself. Otherwise ...... we would have all died in the nuclear explosion."

"There are still people ...... alive?! With this kind of equivalent nuclear explosion?!"

Dodoro was horrified and looked left and right, but his eyes could not penetrate the radiation dust around him: "This can't be! As long as the creature is still on the surface, it is impossible for it to survive!"

"Of course not those guys from earlier." Adric shook his head, "We are definitely the only ones who survived the battlefield just now. The ones who didn't die were probably not in the range of the nuclear bombs. I even suspect that the dense rain of nuclear bombs from ...... just now is related to them!"

"Who is ......?" Dodoro was horrified and hesitant: "I don't understand, Captain!"

"If a team left Los Angeles and California very early ......" Adric pondered slowly, "they borrowed the power of the NPCs in the copy, or changed a decision the US government might make, and took out all the other participants without doing it themselves or even showing up ......"

"How is this possible!" Dodoro stared.

"It's not impossible," Adric grunted, "There are many people who know how to borrow momentum from a copy, and it's rare indeed that they can do it, but it's not absolutely impossible to happen!"

"So ...... what do we do now?" Dodoro was busy.

"I had 72 hours to kill all the other participants from the time I acquired the master gene, and only a short time has passed." Adric's eyebrows knitted, "Only by killing them can we end this copy as victors."

"Damn, mission failure will punish us more than them! If you can't kill them ...... you will be wiped out. But the biggest problem is that right now we don't know exactly where these guys are. The system only shows us where we are, but it doesn't show us where the other teams are." Dodoro also realized that the situation was bad for him: ", it's just hard to find them ......".

"We can only expect them to come to us." Adric looked gloomy, "If neither side is able to kill the other completely, then they will also accept the penalty of losing points. They are able to see our coordinates location. We can only bet that these guys saw that we are still alive in the heart of the explosion and plan to come and give us the final death blow."

"But do they dare ...... "Dodoro is still a little worried: "Although they did not know our strength before, but seeing that we can survive under the indiscriminate washing of nuclear bombs ...... it is more likely that they will be so scared that they will go weak in the knees, rather than accept the punishment, rather than come over to take the risk ......".

"Indeed, that's why I said we have to bet." Adric said chillingly, "Come on, let's get out of here. All of Southern California has been destroyed now. We need to find another city that hasn't been nuked and rebuild our army of mutants."

"No, you're not going anywhere."

A young voice sounded not far away from the two men.

Adric and Dodoro turned their heads abruptly.

Behind the radiation dust stood a blurred figure.

"Who!"

Adric roared harshly.

He had never thought that there would be other living people here now.

Only five minutes had just passed since the nuclear bomb had exploded. Even if the speed was fast, it would be impossible for someone to pass through the radioactive dust and arrive here.

Or is it that the person who just spoke at ...... was already here?

But - it's even more impossible!

With the exception of Dodoro, who had already been sent underground by the Healing Flower, and myself, who had separated a small piece of body tissue and had the ability to self-proliferate and recover, it was impossible for anyone else to survive such a nuclear explosion!

Whether it is a Thunderstorm tank or a Sentinel armor, the shields on it absolutely cannot withstand the shockwave and heat of the blast core.

Perhaps that large armor, in its completely intact state, with its full power shields on, could have withstood such an explosion. But it had clearly hit itself in a state of semi-destruction and was on cooldown!

So who is this man ...... who is still alive?

The figure began to move forward. With his steps, his silhouette became clearer.

Finally, Adric and Dodoro got a good look at the other's face.

It was an unfamiliar face that they had only seen a handful of times, but it left an extremely deep impression on them.

"Chen ...... Little Practice?"