Gate of Apocalypse

Even though the Blue Sea, as a soldier, did not know how many gunfire shocks had been seen, but suddenly experienced such a critical juncture in life and death, it allowed his back to cool slightly and seeped a lot of cold sweat.

As the heart thumped, the Blue Sea heard the sound of footsteps ranging from far to near. Chen Xiaoliang walked up to him and the blade was stained with blood.

“Solved.” Chen Xiaolian smiled slightly at the Blue Sea.

“… thank you.” Blue Sea reached out to Chen Xiaolian.

Chen Xiaoliang shook Blue Sea's hand: “Find your companion and let's get out of here. This monster... I'm afraid there will be more. ”

The Blue Sea nodded and stepped forward, leaving before, looking back again.

In just a few seconds, the pillar behind it had been almost half-burned, and the flaming side was still slightly dark red.

There are several deep and shallow trenches on the surrounding ground and walls. Those are the marks that were swept when the three-headed monster was slaughtered by Chen Xiaolian when his body tilted and the fire column lost control.

All three Godzilla-like monsters fell on the ground with blood flowing.

“Who are you… exactly? ”

As Blue Sea walked, he asked Chen Xiaolian beside him: “Why can you do these things... that ordinary people can't do? ”

Chen Xiaoliang turned his head and took a deep look at the blue sea: “Are you surprised? ”

“It's okay.” Blue Sea slightly shook its head: “After dying into the world, I also saw a few strange people with special abilities like you. It's just... they don't seem to be as good as you. ”

Chen Xiaocai's eyes suddenly lit up: “Have you seen someone like me? So..."

And he thought, "Do any of these people have a girl? Her name is... Jojo, she looks two or three years older than me, has long black hair and is pretty. Temper... sometimes not good. ”

The Blue Sea shook its head gently, thinking carefully for a moment: "I have not seen it. But Yanglin and them are possible. Oh, the three of them with me. ”

Chen Xiaoliang nodded slightly, not saying much, only reaching out and pushing the front door.

The two of them have now reached the entrance to the stairwell. It's just the darkness inside the door, and you can't see exactly whether those three people are in there.

Chen Xiaolian's face remained silent even though his heart was slightly lost. Nor did he have the hope of finding Jojo immediately as soon as he entered the end of the world.

“Who is it?”

There was a sound of a bolt pulling and a man lowered his voice and drank.

“Yanglin, it's me, Blue Sea. ”

The Blue Sea raised its voice a little and shouted, then walked up the stairs first.

There was a little light upstairs, and the three men opened the flashlight on the gun.

The three men held their guns and looked vigilantly under the stairs until they clearly saw the face of the Blue Sea, all slightly relieved and lowered their guns.

Both men have dark hair, dark eyes, the looks of East Asians, just the woman who just screamed, but blond hair, blue eyes, typical white people.

“Are you... are you okay?” The man named Yang Lin nodded at the Blue Sea somewhat: “You let us run then, so...”

“It's okay." Blue Sea saw the embarrassment in his heart and waved: “You're doing great. Everyone stays there, but everyone is in danger. ”

“... thank you.” Yang Lin reached out and patted Blue Sea's shoulder: “If it weren't for you, the three of us would have died a long time ago. Fortunately... there you are. By the way, those monsters..."

Blue Sea lit up Chen Xiaocai with his chin: “He killed it. ”

Yang Lin glanced at Chen Xiaolian, but the question was to Blue Sea: “Is he... also... 'kind of person'? ”

“Seems so, but don't worry.” The Blue Sea shook its head: “He has no hostility towards us. ”

"Hostility?” Chen Xiaolei frowned slightly and looked at Yang Lin: “If I understand correctly, the so-called ‘kind of person' you just said should refer to someone with abilities beyond ordinary people. But why should they be hostile to you? ”

“Not ‘em’, but 'you’.” Yang Lin corrected Chen Xiaocai's words and looked at him with some vigilance: “As for why, how do I know! Anyway, all of you people we've seen so far, they just met us and started killing people! ”

“Like the one that flew in the sky before?” Chen Xiaolian looked at the Blue Sea.

“Yes." Blue Sea nodded: “We've met twice. The first time was a man who could turn his whole body into a rock. Luckily, he wasn't fast enough and we lost him. It's just that we lost two of our people. The second time, it was the skinny guy who chased us. Had it not been for you, we would have been killed by him. You've saved us twice with that monster. ”

“Never communicated?” Chen Xiaoliang frowned.

“No.” Blue Sea grinned bitterly: “On both occasions, as soon as they saw us, they immediately killed people. Without asking questions or listening to explanations, we are not given any opportunity for dialogue. ”

Chen Xiaoliang's mind became more confused.

The previous interview with the skinny man was interrupted by a monster who suddenly burst out. He had not had time to find out the truth. He only heard the skinny man say, "Because the trash can no longer be refreshed”.

But what is the so-called “refresh bin” and the “refresh bin does not refresh" thing, why does it cause "they” to start killing innocent ordinary people in such a hurry that Chen Xiaocai always wonders.

“I... let's go!” The woman looked at the Blue Sea twice and whispered.

“Mm-hmm.” The Blue Sea nodded, not immediately, but asked: “Jan Lin, Daniel, Grace, have any of you seen a girl named Jojo? Long black hair, probably under twenty years old, like him, is‘ that kind of person '. ”

After that, he reached out his finger to Chen Xiaolian.

The three glanced at each other and shook their heads.

Chen Xiaoliang sighed secretly, nodded and said nothing.

“Let's go.” Blue Sea patted Chen Xiaocai's shoulder and didn't ask him why he was looking for Jojo: “I'll ask for your help when I get back to the village. There's a lot of people out there, maybe somebody will know. ”

“Go." Chen Xiaoliang was somewhat surprised to hear the word village, but didn't ask much. Time is running out, but it's more important to get out of here.

The three men walked on the ground and searched the side of the road for a seven-seater business car, but there were no further problems along the way. Neither the loopholes hunted, nor the monsters left in the copy, appeared again.

“Where are we going now? ”

Chen Xiaolian sat in the co-pilot's seat and asked the Blue Sea on the driver's seat.

“Find a supermarket or something.” The Blue Sea started the engine and answered, “We didn't have enough supplies in the village. We came out to find supplies. ”

Chen Xiaoliang nodded and listened to Blue Sea driving while briefly introducing him to the current situation.

The Blue Sea and the three people in the back seat are all new to the world. Soon after the initial chaos and confusion, he realized the reality that he was dead.

They were lucky enough to meet other people who had also entered this copy after their death, and gradually figured out the rules of the world.

At least, it's the appearance of rules.

This post-mortem world is divided into unknown blocks of varying sizes, each of which is independent of the other.

It's possible that you were driving around downtown London the other day, and the next step in the throttle was to get to the edge of the Amazon Rainforest.

And in this world, there are creatures beyond the ordinary human imagination!

Having just met those three Godzilla-like monsters, it's not the first time the Blue Sea has been in distress in this world. More than a dozen days ago, he was risked to be eaten clean by a bunch of giant, wolf-dog ants.

And the village that the Blue Sea just mentioned was formed spontaneously by a group of reborns who entered the world.

“So you came out to collect supplies for the village, and I didn't quite get it.” Chen Xiaocai interrupted Blue Sea's story: “Why didn't you initially put your village directly in a resourceful copy? ”

“Copy?” Blue Sea frowned and looked at Chen Xiao Liang: “What is that? ”

Chen Xiaoliang reacted this way, Blue Sea does not know what is a copy. But it's too much trouble to explain to him the complexities of players, awakeners, vulnerabilities, systems, etc.

Chen Xiaocai smiled bitterly: “That is... the different areas you are talking about. As for the word copy, I'll explain it to you later. ”

The Blue Sea has always been stabilised with the kind of soldiers that are unique to it, nodded and stopped asking: “A small town in the southwest of the United States was where several of us first appeared. And it's not like no one's ever tried to explore it outwards, but a few of the surrounding areas… or, in your words, copies, are extremely harsh environments. It's either a rainforest, or a vast desert, or a polar wasteland. After exploring the neighborhood, we discovered that the best place to live was in that town. So everybody totaled up and stayed in the town. ”

Chen Xiaoliang nodded: “How long has it been? How many of you are there now? ”

Blue Sea thought, "It's been over a month since I've been here since I died. Over the course of more than a month, people have arrived. Either it appears directly in the town, or it moves wildly from some of the surrounding areas to us. There are now a total of 35 people, but the more people they are, the more food they consume every day. Although there are some food stores and restaurants in the town, the food reserves there will only be reduced and will not increase, and they are now dwindling. All we have to do is think about finding new sources of food.

We drove a car, picked out three people who had used guns, and then drove along the desert. Fortunately, there's a gun shop in town, so we can still arm ourselves. By the way... "

As Blue Sea drove, he reached out his right hand and pointed back at the finger: "Yang Lin, formerly a policeman. Daniel, Chinese American new immigrant, shooting enthusiast. Grace, Swiss, gun-trained. ”

Chen Xiaolei glanced back at the three of them, nodded his head as a greeting, and listened to Blue Sea continue: “By the way, the world is strange. I know I don't speak German, Grace doesn't speak Chinese, including in the village, and there are several different nationalities, but no matter what language we speak, we can communicate without any obstacles. ”

“In the afterlife, what can't happen?” Chen Xiaolian smiled.

“There it is!” Blue Sea suddenly shined her eyes, pointing forward.

Not far from the street is a small convenience store.

Four people walked out of the car and walked into the store.

One shopping basket each started sweeping wildly. There's no one else in the store, so you don't have to worry about the owner or the payment.

“Too little stuff.” Yang Lin quickly threw the food on the shelf into the basket, frowning and complaining.

“In the most central part of New York, Inch King's Island of Manhattan, you still expect to find a Wal-Mart?” The young man named Daniel hey hey smile: “Okay, everything in this store is loaded and should be about enough. Just come back for luck after this meal. ”

“Are we… coming back?” Grace beat a chill: “But... there's a monster here! ”

“People have to eat when they're alive. Although... I don't know if we're dead or alive right now.” Daniel shrugged his shoulders and smiled on his face, apparently influenced by the American mindset.

“We can only go one step at a time.” Blue Sea faintly said, then looked at the shopping basket that had been piled up several floors in front of the store: "A car can't be loaded much, you load it here first, I'll get another car. ”

“I'm with you.” Looking at the blue sea towards the convenience store door, Chen Xiaocai pulled his legs behind him.

They walked out the door and looked around. Traces of fighting on this road are not obvious, with a number of vehicles parked on the surrounding roadside, but unfortunately almost all of them are small sedans.

“There must be some unopened goods in the warehouse back there. This area is too dangerous and it is best to take as much food back as possible.” The Blue Sea looks around: "Also, since someone is trying to kill us, it would be better to collect some more weapons. There's not much ammunition in the gun store in town. ”

“Mmm.” Chen Xiaoliang nodded: “Well, we need a van. Let's go.”

“Or... I'll find it myself.” Blue Sea looked at Chen Xiaocai next to him: “Could you please stay here and take care of the three of them for me? ”

“Why?” asked Chen Xiaoliang.

“They… need more protection.” Blue Sea sighed: "I am a soldier, and the three of them… Although Yanglin is a policeman, Daniel loves shooting, and Grace is trained by the state's military, after all, they are just civilians. You just saw them in the underground parking lot, how they behaved in the face of an emergency. If a monster like that reappears, even if it's just one, they have no way to live. Now, you're the only one who can protect them. ”

“But I do not seem to have an obligation to protect them.” Chen Xiaocai blunted.

Blue Sea stunned, but did not speak, only turned to look at Chen Xiaolian, his eyes calm.

Chen Xiaolian felt a pack of cigarettes he had just found in the convenience store from his pocket. He opened it and stuffed one in his mouth. He swayed the blue sea again: “Or? ”

Blue Sea nodded and took the cigarette.

Chen Xiaocai lit a cigarette on the Blue Sea and lit himself up. He took a deep breath before smiling: “I know Mr. Blue Sea, he is a smart man. And you, while not the" him, "I'm sure you're smart, too. Now, things are simple, and I have no obligation to protect anyone. Neither the monster in the copy nor the hunter is a threat to me. I can totally ignore it and walk away myself. ”

“Yes.” The Blue Sea nodded without a place to hide: “I am also well aware that you do not need to accompany us. You did it just to find information. The girl named Jojo. ”

“Yeah. So you're more important to me than all three of them combined.” Chen Xiaoliang: “Even if all three of them die, I believe you have the ability to take me back to your village. But if you're dead, I doubt they can do that. I can protect them, but first it's on the premise of protecting you. ”

thats all? ”

“And because... I know you.” Chen Xiaocai looked at Blue Sea's face and suddenly sighed, showing a slight expression on his face: “You don't need to doubt or ask about this. I'm sure I know you, and I know why you don't have any memories of me. ”

“Okay.” Blue Sea nodded: “But since it's a deal, of course I have the right to bid. When I get back to the village, I'll try to help you find out about the girl named Jojo, and at the opposite price -- protect the three of them. ”

Chen Xiaoliang spit out a smoke slowly, his eyes glanced at the blue sea, and the blue sea also looked at Chen Xiaoliang, his eyes as calm as the lake water.

Half the time, Chen Xiaoliang suddenly laughed: “Mr. Blue Sea, you can still... just like then, always disregard your life for the team. ”

“Back then? ”

“Mmm.” Chen Xiaolei popped his cigarette butt and looked up at the sky: “A team called Knife Mountain Fire Sea. ”