Gate of Apocalypse

[Because yesterday's leave was unchanged, this chapter is 6,000 words, it's a two-in-one chapter, it comes out extra, even if it makes up for yesterday ~]

Chapter 485 [Determining One Thing]

“So? So now Joey Peak's daughter is completely gone? ”

Blue Sea sat in his room, his fingers tapped twice on the table in front of him, his eyelids dripping, his expression not sad, seemed not to see any fluctuations.

The black suit stood in front of the Blue Sea, and the expression was serious. After some thought, he slowed down: “That's pretty much the case. I've already confirmed it, including Mr. Joe's neighbors, crew members, and company assistants. are already cognitively biased. ”

“Are all the people you've identified not awakened? ”

“Yes, all non-awakeners.” Think about the black suit: “At present, the people around Mr. Joe, the awakener, along with me, there are four people, the other three members of the team, I didn't suddenly confirm, but when I found the anomaly, I reported it first. ”

The blue sea lifted his eyelids, his eyes calm, nodded: “You did well. ”

The black suit was silent.

“Cognitive deviations, and they occur at the level of ordinary people. There is no doubt that only the system can do this and only the system can do it. Joey Peak's daughter completely disappeared... so..." The Blue Sea sighed for a moment, slowly: “So, from now on, Joey Peak's close armor personnel change, you stay with him, the other three are immediately transferred back to Zero City headquarters. I will pull people from the field team to make it up to you and choose someone unfamiliar with the situation of the Joey Peak family.

In short, you try not to spook Joey Peak and let him find out for himself - well, since his memory has been altered, it is unlikely that he will find it on his own unless someone tells him so. ”

“Understood, I must keep my mouth shut. ”

Blue Sea eyebrows picked out and looked at the black suit: “Of course I can trust you, you're an old man on the team. I'm talking about other people...”

“You mean, Chen Xiaoliang? ”

“I doubt that Jojo must have made a huge difference.” Blue Sea frowned and sighed: “Looks like I'm going out. ”

……

“Really, no hope of resurrection?” Roddy poured a beer into his stomach and photographed it on the table. He looked at the empty bottle in front of him and frowned out loudly: “Boss, one more case! Ice! ”

Chen Xiaoliang pinched the glass and drank it all, although he did not have a large mouthful of irrigation, he drank it one by one, but never slowly. He took a deep breath after dropping the empty cup: “I don't know… if it was an awakener, Jojo should be refreshed into a normal person by now. And if it disappears completely..."

“Is there really no other way?” Roddy sighed.

Chen Xiaoliang felt a bit of bitterness in his mouth, and he looked down and thought: “I don't know. ”

“What about... GM? Can't you just ask it? Can't you really be resurrected when you're dead? ”

Chen Xiaoliang moved in his heart, but he remembered a possibility.

The weak will not be resurrected after death.

So... it may not work to find GM, but where's Mr. Umbrella?

At first, Mr. Umbrella, they were the real first loopholes.

Or, even if it is uncertain whether Mr. Umbrella is the first batch, it is, in the end, earlier than himself.

So, Mr. Umbrella, who are the loopholes, resurrected after death?

I'm afraid not.

If there is one. Then Mr. Umbrella will not be so alone now.

But... would there be an accident?

Chen Xiaolian's heart moved.

Bai Qi!

The relationship between Mr. Umbrella and Mr. White is strange, so by inference, Mr. White could have been Mr. Umbrella's companion, and Mr. White could have been a loophole?

So... what's the status now?

The only question is, did you die once in your life?

Or he didn't die, but was made to look like that.

From a loophole to a BOSS in a copy.

This change……

“Since it is all possible, then... who can guarantee that the resurrection of the already dead loophole will not be possible?” Chen Xiaolian thought in his heart.

This is a roadside barbecue stall with a noisy environment, just next door at a table, a few men spelling wine, and people screaming and screaming with cigarettes in their mouths.

This place is a barbecue that Roddy and Chen Xiaocai used to love. According to Chen Xiaocai: This family's barbecued crispy bones are completely golden. In fact, Roddy threw up. Chen Xiaocai simply felt that this place was close to his house. Every time he asked him out for a snack night, he was lazy to run before coming to this house.

This is the first time they've been here in months since they got involved in this game.

Roddy Murmoe filled himself with another beer. A beer box on the ground was empty. He bit his teeth: “Now that his body has strengthened, his alcohol has risen. Can't you even get drunk...”

Chen Xiaolian looked at Roddy and slowly said: “If you really want to get drunk, you can get drunk on anything. ”

“Don't bullshit me!” Roddy stared at Chen Xiaolian and took a deep breath: “You know what? I really want to beat you up right now! Kick your ass! ”

'Cause I didn't look sad? ”Chen Xiaoliang hesitated for a moment:“ I'm sorry. ”

“You… you * * * * * * are not sorry for me! It's Jojo!” Roddy slaps the table! Teng stood up: “Chen Xiaolian! What the hell is wrong with you? The Chen Xiao Liang I know is definitely not a miserable man! If it weren't for the many years I've known you, I'd know you very well, and now I really would think that you had no heart for Jojo!! My friend will weep over her sacrifice, you! You..."

He pointed at Chen Xiaoliang, his fingers trembling: "You are like a fucking nobody!! ”

Speaking of which, bang, Roddy tapped the table, and all the glasses and plates on the table rolled over to the floor.

A table man next to him heard the movement here, turned his head and looked at him. There was also a face with a fierce bald head, staring into his eyes and scolding him.

Roddy's eyebrow picked, but Chen Xiaoliang held him down. “Okay, you want to ask me anything, I'll tell you everything. Don't mess around here. ”

Roddy snorted and looked at Chen Xiaolian.

His eyes suddenly turned red, holding his fist: "Little face! It's me. It's me! If you are holding yourself up in front of outsiders and don't want other brothers on the team to see your weakness, then I understand you! Now it's just the two of us, no outsiders, you don't have to keep pushing. You can cry, you can get drunk, I'll be your brother! If you want to cry, I'll get drunk with you! But... how can you be so indifferent? ”

Chen Xiaocao silenced for a moment. He silently poured himself a glass of wine, poured it down, gasped, stared at Roddy, and then lit up his heart position with his fingers.

“I don't know why, I'm here, it's empty.” Chen Xiaocai's tone is bitter: “I also know that I behaved very abnormally, Jojo... dead, I am the one who should suffer the most, go mad, tear the most. But I can't cry, nor can I be impulsive. Here I am... it seems to be emptied by something, empty, empty! You know what I mean? Empty!”

Rhodey stunned.

“You think I don't want to yell? You don't want to cry, you don't want to drink him so hard?” Chen Xiaocai whispered: “But now I wonder if I * * * * * have a brain problem. I don't feel that way at all, Jojo's dead, how important she is to me, you know, but... but I'm just * * * * * * * apathetic like a robot! I don't even know what's wrong with me, I really want to... I really want to cut myself! See if I can still feel it, if it hurts, if it bleeds! ”

“You… there's really nothing wrong with that.” Roddy's a little worried: "Psychological problems? I think you should go see a psychiatrist. ”

“Doctor?” Chen Xiaolian chuckled: “The system can be exchanged for the best medical supplies, and if it is a mental problem, I can remove all negative mental effects with the stone sword... what doctor do I need? Now I wonder if I'm just a bone-distorted bastard at all. ”

“You're not an asshole. I know that Chen Xiao Liang. He smells heavier than anyone else.” Roddy shook his head: “He was the kind of guy who tried so hard to protect himself. ”

“But I'm like a bottle of wine now.” Chen Xiaocai picked up a bottle, didn't open the cap, and lay the bottle down: “I know I should be sad, should be painful, like this bottle, obviously there should be alcohol - everyone thought there should be alcohol in this bottle, but when I crossed the bottle, I couldn't find anything to pour out. ”

……

Tires walk to the central resting area and see a small figure sitting alone in front of the table.

Tires slowly walked past and behind the show.

The girl lays on the table with a blank piece of paper in front of her, a sketch on it, the portrait content… is Jojo.

Xiu Xiu's brush is also very juvenile, and this sketch, at best, resembles only 56% of Jojo himself.

Tires stood behind the show and watched quietly for a minute before lowering their voice: “Why don't you rest? ”

Xiu Xiu shook her head and she lowered her voice: “Brother Tire, I... can't find my sister's picture, I can't find one. I only painted my sister, but I painted too poorly. I'm scared...”

“Afraid of what? ”

“Everything about my sister doesn't exist anymore, I don't even have a photo, I'm worried... In that case, after a long time, my sister's appearance will gradually become blurred... Maybe in a few years, when I miss her, I won't even remember her appearance...”

Xiu Xiu chewed her lips hard and her face was filled with tears.

Tires stretched out a big hand, rough palms pressed against the head of the show and gently touched it.

Xiu Xiu grabbed the sketch in front of him with force, his hands wrinkled the edges of the drawing paper, and grabbed it hard, sticking it in his heart.

tire sighed.

……

It was already midnight when Chen Xiaoliang and Rhodey entered the base.

Tires sit at the table with a bottle of whisky in front of them, leaving less than a third of the wine.

He looked back at Chen Xiao Liang and Rhodey.

Rhodey seemed to be drunk and was held back by Chen Xiaolian.

Chen Xiaolian saw the tire and seemed surprised. He glanced at the side of the tire and Xiu Xiu had fallen asleep on the chair.

“She must wait for you to come back.” The tire seemed to smile, “I couldn't help but let her. ”

Chen Xiaoliang nodded, then walked over and the tire took over from Chen Xiaolian's already drunk Roddy.

“How much did he drink? ”

“I drank all the beer from the barbecue stall owner.” Chen Xiaocai smiled bitterly: “He also went to the shops around him to buy two boxes. Finally, I drank it. ”

“Give it to me, I'll send him back to his room.” Roddy walked up to a door with the tire rack and suddenly looked back at Chen Xiaolian: “We need to talk! ”

He spoke very seriously.

Chen Xiaocai seemed ready and nodded: “Okay, I'll wait for you here. ”

After the tire took Roddy away, Chen Xiaoliang hugged Xiao Xiao directly across the chair and walked into Xiu Xiu's room, placing her on the bed.

Standing by the bed, Xiu Xiu's body was still trying to shrink into a bunch with tears in the corner of her eyes.

Chen Xiaoliang reached out his finger and rubbed it around the corner of the show's eyes. Then sighed and covered the show with a blanket.

“Being able to cry... is lucky. ”

He turned around and walked out the door.

……

In the central lounge, the tires are already sitting there waiting.

Chen Xiaocai walked over and first glanced at the whisky bottle on the table: “How much did you drink? ”

“The third bottle.” Tires faint: “Don't worry, I'm still sober. With my current physical qualities, alcohol tolerance and metabolism, I need about seven bottles to get drunk. ”

“Talk about what?” Chen Xiaolian sat in front of the tire.

Tire looked at Chen Xiaolian, but reached out to take the bottle from his hand, then raised his neck and drank all the rest of the bottle in one sip.

After a few seconds, the tire sighed and looked at Chen Xiaolian: "Our team, this time the problem is huge! ”

Chen Xiaolian looked at the tire calmly.

“The mission of the Magic Array, the dream fantasy before the final mission.” The tire looks ugly: “JoJo Jo's death was an accident, but in addition to Jo Jo's sacrifice, our team also had serious problems this time. As a leader, if you can't handle it properly, our team will probably fall apart! ”

Chen Xiaocao did not speak.

“In fact, at the end of the illusion, things were very wrong.” Tire Sinking: “I don't know if you noticed, but when the illusion was just over, the show had a strange attitude towards Jojo. Xia Xiaolei and Qingmuxi, from the first copy until coming back, the two did not say a word to each other, the whole process zero communication! And Roddy, his emotions are depressing... and I'm pretty sure this depression wasn't just about JoJo's death. Roddy's got a heart, a heart of sorts. ”

Chen Xiaocao still didn't speak.

“I'm pretty sure Roddy's definitely not a ’kind of' brother-in-law, and I don't think Roddy's gonna have any special feelings for Jojo.” Tires frowned: “But I found one, just now... I took that guy back to his room, and he was already drunk and said a drunken word. ”

Chen Xiaolian lifted his eyelids and looked at the tires.

Tires frowned: “He mumbled in his mouth:" Why didn't I die? I'd like to die instead of you. ”

Chen Xiaocai listened quietly.

“I'm sure Roddy doesn't have any other special intentions for Jojo, so he's drunk about 'dying instead of you', and this‘ you ’, maybe someone else? ”

Chen Xiaocai sighed: “He... I've heard this intoxicating phrase. On the way back, he said it at least a dozen times. ”

Tires stunned.

“If I didn't know Roddy well enough to know he wouldn't have any special feelings for Jojo - and if I didn't, I'm afraid someone else would have misunderstood.” Chen Xiaolian shook his head: “This‘ you ’, I guess, is Nicole. ”

“That's the problem.” Tires frowned: “Roddy was in a very bad mood and he was always depressed. Coming back from a copy... it's been weird since that dream fantasy ended, to be exact. ”

“That woman has problems, too.” Tire frowned, continuing: “At the last moment in the copy, the woman, she manipulated Roddy's plankton. ”

Chen Xiaocai's eyes narrowed: “No, it's not Roddy's plankton, that plankton, it's Nicole's. ”

The tire shocked: “That's why I said that the woman was weird. I don't know much about the Angel Corps, but I do know at least one thing: a high-end prop like the plankton angel can't be manipulated by any passerby, and she's much better at manipulating than Roddy. ”

“So you suspect?” Chen Xiaoliang frowned.

“We all watched Nicole die.” Tire shakes head: “I'm confused now, too. ”

“Roddy had gone to Nicole before... After he died, he refreshed Nicole. He found it, and he observed it in close proximity, making sure that Nicole was really dead and refreshed into a normal person. That's not wrong.” Chen Xiaoliang frowned: “Now this mysterious woman who emerges knows how to manipulate plankton angels, I doubt it will have anything to do with Zero City's Angel Legion. ”

“The woman disappeared after the copying mission. At the end of the copy, we were transferred to different places, and now it's hard to find her.” Tire shakes head: “And, don't you think it's weird? She seems familiar with the people on our team. We haven't seen her, but in the copy, she can name you and Roddy one at a time. ”

Chen Xiaoliang was also thinking about what he was about to say.

Suddenly, in front of the central lobby, the metal ball flashed in the main control center, and an electronically synthesized sound appeared.

This is the voice of the base's GM controller.

“Chen Xiaoliang, I feel that the communication signal is blocked by the base. I detected that this is a communication connection to your mobile phone. Do I need to connect you? Or continue blocking? ”

“Hmm?” Chen Xiaoliang stunned.

“You've set it up before, and if it's a regular call, I'll ignore it and let the base do the external shielding. But this phone call happens to be an important list in your setup.” GM's voice has no feelings.

“Who is it?”

“Caller says it's Joey Peak. ”

Chen Xiaoliang stunned.

A second later, he took a deep breath: “Turn it on. ”

Chen Xiaocai took out his phone and the signal was quickly unblocked. He looked at the phone call and immediately heard the angry sound of Joey Peak.

“Chen Boy, what exactly did you do to my daughter?! ”

Chen Xiaoliang faced such angry interrogation, his subconscious stunned and spoke out: “I'm sorry...”

Speaking of which, Chen Xiaoliang suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Who does Joey Peak mean by "my daughter”?

“Is that how you bully her? She likes you so much, she wants to be with you! You're bullying her right now? To make her cry and leave her alone at home?” The angry sound of Joey Peak woke Chen Xiaoliang up.

Joey Peak said it wasn't Joey Peak! It's Yu Jiajia!

This judgment made Chen Xiaoliang immediately understand: Joey Peak's memory has also been reset by the system refresh.

“I'm... sorry.” Chen Xiaocai sighed.

Qiao Yifeng apologized simply to Chen Xiaocai. Instead, he stunned. After a few seconds of silence, he lowered his voice: “It is normal for young people to make a mess together, you... be good to her. After all, she is an ordinary person and she cannot feel the pressure on you. You promised to protect her. ”

Chen Xiaoliang suddenly had a sad smell in her heart - no doubt she had said something like "protect her well” to Joey Peak.

But this “she” is definitely not about Yu Jiajia, but Jojo!

Just a slight feeling of sadness in my heart, Chen Xiaoliang suddenly felt as if he had some strange power, suddenly took up all the sadness in his emotions!

This sentiment breeds the feeling of suddenly treading off his feet, creating the kind of "hollow out of mind” that he was familiar with these two days.

He squeezed the phone and couldn't help standing still.

This feels... what the hell is going on?

“I'm doing one thing in Japan now, and when I'm done, I'll go back and check on you.” Joey Peak whispered, “Protect her! Be nice to her. You promised me, boy! ”

After that, the phone hung up.

Chen Xiaolian held the phone and the tire looked at Chen Xiaolian and frowned: “Is it Joey Peak? What did he say? ”

“... nothing.” Chen Xiaoliang carefully smelled the feeling of the sadness just now being suddenly “smoked” empty.

He suddenly stood up! Turn around and walk out of the base.

“Where are you going? ”

“Find someone to make sure of one thing! ”

……

Chen Xiaolei left the base, left the island, and when he arrived ashore, took out a car and drove towards the city.

After driving to the city, Chen Xiaocai stopped the car and immediately walked to a small square next to a green belt. He looked at the pedestrians in the square and shouted directly out.

“Come out!! I have something to ask you!! I know you can hear me!! ”

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