Gate of Apocalypse

Chapter 126 [Angel Killer]

After driving on the street at night and walking two blocks, there was no trace of pursuit behind him. Chen Xiaocao's heart relaxed slightly, but his eyebrows were tightened.

Letting Xia Xiaolei buy through the system, Jojo and Roddy took a piece of healing animal blood and Chen Xiaolei watched Jo and Roddy sit in the back seat and sigh flat before turning their heads and staring at Nicole driving the car.

“We need to talk! ”

“Go ahead, ask what.” Nicole's eyes stared at the road ahead, a little deep.

“Who the hell was that guy? ”

Nicole was silent for a moment and she whispered, “Thorn blossom. ”

The name is not unfamiliar, and Chen Xiaoliang immediately remembered the painting of the Thornflower pattern he saw on the wreckage of a thunderstorm tank.

“A strong team? ”

“It's probably not enough to describe thorny blossoms in terms of 'strong’ alone.” Nicole's smile is bitter: “Simply put, 'Thornflower' has always been one of the biggest enemies of Zero City. It could even be a 'Zero City Enemy'. Several of the top teams in Zero City, as well as organizations in Zero City, have been fighting this thorny blossom. ”

Chen Xiaolian breathed cold breath.

He's seen everything in Zero City, and for a small team like Meteor Squad, almost everything in Zero City is huge. And this “Thorn Blossom” is a public enemy that can compete with the top organizations in Zero City!

Note the word "public enemy”.

“So the Thorn Blossom is the player's team? The public enemy of all awakeners? ”

When Chen Xiaoliang asked the question, he acutely noticed that Nicole's mouth corner smiled a little bitter.

Then he saw Nicole's eyes, and the bitter smile before him gradually faded away, replacing it with a deep pain!

“I'm afraid you're wrong. The Thorn Blossom is not an ’Enemy of the Awakened', it is just a 'Enemy of the Zero City'. ”

“I don't understand what you mean. ”

Nicole suddenly turned her head and looked deeply at Chen Xiaolian: “Don't you understand? Then make it simple and clear! Thorn Blossom is not just a player! ”

“What?!” Chen Xiaoliang, that really shocked me: “You mean...”

“There are many awakeners who have also been recruited by the Thorn Blossom to serve the Thorn Blossom! Or a thorny blossom. ”

“But... but we are awakeners! Shouldn't the awakener's position be natural and hostile to the player? ”

Nicole held the steering wheel in her hands, her fingers very hard, and she sighed a long time before lowering her voice: “There's absolutely nothing going on in the world. For those players, we are all NPCs. Even awakeners, for them, are just smarter NPCs that can give them more game-inspiration and a richer gaming experience.

If players can kill NPCs, they can kill us... then why not enslave, exploit, solicit?

And... not every awakener is so determined against the player. Some awakeners, in order to survive, or to live better, naturally also have people leaning on the players.

It is normal for surrender factions and puppet armies to emerge even in wars between countries.

Your country, in that war with Japan decades ago, is there not a small number of fornicators? ”

Chen Xiaoliang opened his mouth and was speechless.

“The thorn blossom is very powerful and has a complex personnel structure. Of course, their core circles are all players. But there are also powerful and outstanding awakeners who will be tempted, threatened by them, or joined for a variety of different reasons.

Some to survive, some to gain more strength. In short, confrontation with the Thorn Blossom has been one of the most headaches in Zero City. ”

“That bald guy just now...”

“I know that guy.” Nicole's eyes jumped and took a deep breath: “He... is famous and a master in thorny blossoms. ”

Afterwards, Nicole suddenly said in a strange tone: “I told you I belonged to the ‘plankton angel' group of Zero City Security.

The plankton angel, an organization of Zero City security fighters, can be said to have been on the front line as security personnel, fighting against a variety of enemies in defence of Zero City.

The plankton angel team is an honorary organization, but it also has a core staff. A core team of twelve.

These twelve are called true ‘angels’. Twelve of the strongest in the plankton. The Twelve Angels have always been the core force in defending Zero City.

However, the plankton angels are not invincible. In the battle with the thorny blossoms, several plankton angels were sacrificed in the battle with the thorny blooms and, most importantly, a member of the ‘Twelve Angels' died in battle! ”

Speaking of which, Chen Xiaoliang noticed that Nicole's orbit was a little red and she bit her lip hard.

Chen Xiaoliang's heart also started to wave!

The plankton angels themselves are already very strong, and can be among the top plankton angels, ranked among the twelve strongest, not to mention their natural strength.

Masters like that die in battle...

“This bald-headed guy, he's a famous expert in the thorn blossom, and he has a very special nickname called... Angel Killer. ”

Chen Xiaoliang's heart moved: “Angel killer? So... did you say that one of the twelve angels who died in the war..."

“He's the one who died!” Nicole's face was pale, her fingers were a little white, the steering wheel was squeaking in her hand, and she seemed to use a lot of effort to suppress the turbulent mood: “The man who died in the war, code-named ‘The Guardian Angel' in the Twelve Angels, was a remarkable warrior, a brilliant leader, an elder respected and loved by all members of the plankton angels. Three years ago, on a field mission, his team, in a copy, engaged in a brutal struggle against the Thorn Blossom. Eventually..."

Nicole suddenly grabbed her lips with a drop of tears and slipped down her cheek.

Chen Xiaolian suddenly thought: “Nicole, you...”

“The ‘guardian angel' who died in the war was my father, my own father.” Nicole suddenly turned her head and looked at Chen Xiaocai's surprised expression: “Are you surprised? Didn't expect fathers and daughters in the awakener? ”

“… surprisingly.” Chen Xiaocai whispered: “The awakener should have been randomly created by accident...”

“It was an accident.” Nicole nodded, and she wiped her tears off quickly, coldly: “I was six that year, and I traveled with my father, and then I got involved in a copy, and my father and I both became awakeners! Father-daughter combinations like ours are extremely rare throughout the awakener world.

It is unfortunate for us to be caught in this cruel world!! But... for me personally, I'm lucky. Because I grew up with my father protecting me all the way, I was able to survive being an awakener when I was only six years old.

I'm 21 years old, and I've been growing under my father's wing for over a decade. In Zero City, my father's comrades took care of me like my own daughter. My father taught me everything… fighting, tactics, training, driving… I follow my father almost every step of the way.

We fought alongside each other many times, and my father took me to death once, and I can't even remember how many times it was my father who carried my life on his shoulders!

And then, just two years ago, my father never went back to Zero City after that trip! Father's teammate, only brought back that plankton that belonged to Father! And it's almost dead!! ”

Chen Xiaoliang suddenly remembered something. He cautiously said: “After the death of the awakener, it should be possible to refresh into ordinary people, then your father...”

“Of course he was refreshed. ”

Nicole said here, slowly in a complex tone: “My father was refreshed into the ordinary world, restoring his ordinary identity in the outside world, passing through the ordinary.

But in the last 16 years of memory, these 16 years of birth and death and fighting side by side, 16 years of my father's teachings me little by little, everything... all these memories don't exist anymore.

None of them exist anymore.

He doesn't remember all the adventures we've been through together, the life and death choices we've been through together, the bullets we've used against each other! He doesn't remember teaching me how to fly a robot with his hands, and he doesn't remember teaching me how to fight with his hands.

The refreshed father was just an accountant sitting in the garden raising grass for retirement.

And for me... the guy who's been with me for 16 years in the shooting rain doesn't exist anymore. Sixteen years of memory, sixteen years of the man, is gone!

Refreshed, maybe just the guy who remembered 16 years ago, before I was six!

Do you know what's most ridiculous? ”

“... anything? ”

“The system, it programmed a memory automatically! Fill these 16 years! Yeah, that's ridiculous. From the time I was six years old to the time I was 21 years old, in order to maintain the balance of the system, my refreshed father was programmed into a 16-year memory set! In this memory, just think of me as a distant daughter who has had a weak relationship with her family for over a decade, a daughter who often doesn't go home to work, and a daughter who is very indifferent to him!

I used to leave Zero City once in a while to go home and see him.

But I couldn't stand the father who used to lift the sky for me with his shoulders and use his body to resist bullets for me... and now he's looking at me with a cold, distant eye.

For me, my true father, 16 years of memory, is dead! ”

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