Gate of Apocalypse

Zero City ......?

Yang Yi was completely frozen, only to feel his whole body start to become numb from the shock and excitement.

In the days following Yang Yi's escape from Zero City, he did get word that one of the few people from Zero City had finally managed to escape, but their last traces were never known to anyone.

Even in these long days, Yang Yi and Tina have begun to gradually turn from expectation and search, into doubt and confusion, and finally even ...... simply stop thinking about it.

But now, in this completely unexpected situation, but once again heard this engraved into the bones of the name!

Yang Yi looked at the sentry mechs in the air through the misty water mist in the air. The paint on those mechs were indeed Zero City's!

To be more precise, it was the Blade Mountain Fire Sea!

These sentinel mechs were all top-quality versions with all the special components and additional weapons, and could never be obtained by a team outside of Zero City!

His heart began to beat wildly.

A figure swooped down from high in the air, and with a flash of green light, the double-bun shark man that had just tumbled up from the explosion was already cut into two pieces and fell to the ground like a wooden stake.

Ionic Shock Sword!

Yang Yi believed that his eyes would never be wrong, that was the melee energy weapon that came with the floating angel.

And the figure that flashed by just now has stopped and stood still.

Fitted on her diminutive figure was indeed the floating armor that shone with a silver-white glow!

"You guys ......"

Yang Yi opened his mouth wide and wanted to speak, but suddenly found himself choked up, unable to pronounce a complete syllable.

Those Sentinel Mechs and that Floating Angel, who seemed to not care about Yang Yi's existence at all, showed no signs of attacking him either, just aiming at all the fishmen on the ground and pouring out fire continuously.

--and it was far more firepower than necessary.

Even just one single fallen fishman would be swept to a crisp by at least dozens of beams, or torn to shreds by hundreds of machine guns.

And whether they shoot frost crossbow arrows, or weapons in physical combat, or double fins swinging blades, are completely unable to penetrate the energy shield of these sentinel mechs.

But in just two minutes, there was no longer a single fishman with an intact body in this shantytown, nor was there a single house that was still intact.

But these sentinel mechs and floating angels, who call themselves Zero City People, have not opened fire on Yang Yi since the beginning.

Only when everything was cleared up did Yang Yi see the floating angel slowly walk to the water mist sea tree, take out the high particle radiation source injection device and press it on the trunk of the water mist sea tree.

The front end immediately extended a thick and long syringe and pierced into the trunk. The mechanical device automatically activated, and the purple liquid was pushed and injected.

The tall water mist sea tree immediately began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the branches that had been constantly spraying white mist stopped moving and hung down softly.

"Point three resolved." That floating angel turned his head, reported in a low voice, and gestured at the sentinel mechs, "Next coordinate."

"Wait!"

Watching them about to leave, Yang Yi finally snapped out of the extreme shock he had just felt and let out a heartbreaking cry, "You guys ...... are you really from Zero City?"

That floating angel glanced at Yang Yi and coldly said, "No visitor applications will be accepted in this copy today. After the copy is over, we will send out a unified announcement."

"You are from the ...... Angel Legion? And you ......" Yang Yi took two steps forward and his gaze turned to the sentinel mech behind the floating angel: "You are ...... knives... ...knives ......"

"We are a mountain of swords and a sea of fire. It seems that you are familiar with Zero City, quite well?" The voice of the occupant inside came from one of the sentinel mechs at the front.

Yang Yi looked at him quietly, slowly raised his hand, removed the exoskeleton armor's helmet, and let it roll down to the ground as soon as he released his hand.

The next moment, all the sentry mechs let out a cry of surprise in unison.

The hatch of the foremost sentry mech popped open, and a figure jumped out and rushed towards Yang Yi.

It was Guanshan!

"Guanshan ...... you guys are really ...... still alive!"

Yang Yi looked at the familiar face in front of him, it was as if his mind had once again returned to the day when Zero City fell and fought to the death alongside each other.

"Yes, many people died, but we are still alive."

Guanshan wrapped his arms hard around Yang Yi's shoulders, and likewise could barely hold back the tears.

"So, what you guys just said ......" Yang Yi's voice was still trembling uncontrollably, "Zero City, it's really rebuilt?"

"Of course it's true. Brother, of course it's ...... true!"

Yang Yi nodded, suddenly broke away from Guanshan's hand, took two steps back, straightened his chest, and saluted a solemn military salute with all his strength.

"Report! Yang Yi, captain of the Knife Mountain Fire Thunder Squad, return to your team!"

......

"This is ...... the end?"

Yang Yi could hardly believe his ears when the countdown to the completion of the copy began to sound.

After returning to his team, he then followed Guanshan's group and watched them clear all the Water Mist Sea Trees one by one as if they were destroying them.

Not a single casualty!

"For us, completing the copy was supposed to be like this." Guanshan stood beside him, looking at the last Water Mist Sea Tree that had just been cleared away in front of him, as well as the shattered Fishman corpses in front of him: "It's just that we've been sunken for so long that we've forgotten the time when we were once on top of the Awakened World."

"Yes ......" Yang Yi sighed softly, "It has indeed been too long."

Although a senior, but the direction of reinforcement for technology to Yang Yi, in battle is more dependent on a variety of equipment. And after leaving the mountain of swords and the sea of fire, and leaving the endless supply of the Zero City system, his strength inevitably suffered a substantial weakening.

"Don't worry. From now on, it's all over." Guanshan gently patted Yang Yi's shoulder, "We didn't enter the copy together, so when it ends, we won't be able to leave from the same coordinates either. But it's okay, when you leave, you can use it to return to Zero City."

Yang Yi looked down at the card Guanshan gave him in his palm and nodded: "Now ...... what exactly is the condition of Zero City?"

Guanshan smiled: "Do you still remember Chen Xiaolian?"

"The one who helped us win the Blood Ruling ......" Yang Yi certainly wouldn't forget this teenager who replaced Mr. Blue Sea in the battle and saved the entire Blade Mountain Fire Sea from being removed from the resident team. Not to mention that they had fought side by side on the day Zero City fell.

"It was him ...... who rebuilt Zero City. Details of the matter, wait until you return." Guanshan smiled. The countdown is almost gone, even if you want to explain, it's too late now. It is better to wait for Yang Yi to return to Zero City and officially return to the team, and then let him see the current Zero City with his own eyes.

Yang Yi nodded, the light screen fell, and when it refreshed again, Guanshan and the others had disappeared in front of him.

Rio de Janeiro, which had been destroyed into ruins, reappeared, and the buildings and vehicles and pedestrians on the streets remained the same.

He and Tina looked at each other and simultaneously cupped the card in their palms.

"Come on, let's go home."

......

"The copy was completed smoothly, without any casualties."

Inside Zero City's main control hall, Adric stood in front of Chen Xiaolian and was reporting to him, "In addition, we also happened to find two former members of Zero City's resident team and got them to rejoin the team."

"Very good." Chen Xiaolian nodded in satisfaction, "What about the other participants?"

"There are a total of thirty-two Awakened Ones that we have directly contacted. According to your intention, no access permission was provided to others except for those two former resident team members. But the information that the first of next month will be the Zero City Open Day has been passed out through them."

"Hmm." Chen Xiaolian wasn't too dissatisfied with this number.

The number of participants in a copy would not be too many in the first place. The point was that these thirty-two people would definitely spread the news of Zero City's reconstruction immediately after learning about it. Soon, this explosive news would resound throughout the Awakened World.

At next month's Zero City Open House, even at the lowest estimate, the number of Awakened Ones who would come in to find out what was going on could not be less than 500.

And after the first open day, this number will grow exponentially.

"But ...... now there's a problem." Adric hesitated for a moment: "We don't have enough manpower right now."

"Not enough manpower?" Chen Xiaolian frowned in confusion: "Now you have hundreds of people on hand, what manpower is still missing?"

Now all of Zero City's control systems and production systems had been taken over by the GM. Strictly speaking, there was no longer any need for logisticians.

Although these Zero City remnants led by Adric only had a few hundred people, which was just a fraction compared to the number of people Zero City once had. But if used only as combatants, it was already sufficient.

"If Zero City is only considered as a base, then it is indeed sufficient. But as a city ...... is not nearly enough." Adric shook his head: "Although the necessary functions have been able to function, but facilities like hotels and restaurants require a large number of people to maintain them. Without these things, it is impossible for us to give enough confidence to the other Awakened ones to believe that Zero City has really been completely revived. So ...... we may need to recruit new team members from among the other Awakened, as well as expand the number of peripheral teams."

"That's true." Being reminded of this by Adric, Chen Xiaolian also reacted.

Without these facilities, Zero City could only be called a large base, not a living "city".

To accommodate a large number of peripheral team members like the previous Zero City, and to receive thousands of Awakened Ones on regular open days, the current number of core members was indeed far from enough.

"What was your original recruitment model like?" Chen Xiaolian asked after thinking about it.

"Each team has different rules individually." Adric said, "Like our Dark Knights, we accept applications from anyone, and as long as they can pass the team's test, they are able to join. Whereas, like the Roderia Corps, they only receive invitations from targets they actively want to absorb. And then there's Dagger Mountain Fire Sea, they only seem to allow people who have served in the Heavenly Army before being called Awakened to join, but there's no hard limit on their strength."

"Then leave it up to you guys." Chen Xiaolian pondered for a moment, "This is considered your internal affairs, I will not interfere."

Chen Xiaolian's generous attitude made even Adric couldn't help but stare.

The current New Zero City was built by Chen Xiaolian. Allowing them, the original resident team, to enter had already made Adric feel incredible. And now, he was actually tantamount to letting go of all access to himself.

"There's nothing surprising about it." Chen Xiaolian saw Adric's expression and smiled, "As I said, you and I are partners in this."

"Thanks." Adrick thought about it and also felt that Chen Xiaolian's current strength was no longer enough to worry about anything like being overridden, and simply said thanks.

"Alright, if there's nothing else, that's it." Chen Xiaolian waved his hand at Adric.

"By the way, I have one more question." Adric had already turned to leave when he suddenly turned his head again, "When that day comes, after all the Awakened are integrated, what are you going to do?"

"When that day comes, I will let you know." Chen Xiaolian blinked his eyes.