Gate of Apocalypse

“Fly steady, don't fall! ”

Chen Xiaolian stood behind Roddy and looked over his shoulder at the console in front of him.

And on the screen, a cluttered light spot and lines are flashing fast, and you can't see any meaningful images at all.

But Roddy was still staring at the screen, holding the joystick carefully in his hand and moving: “Bullshit, that's what you're saying! No, you want to try it? All the sensors were just burned down, and I've done everything I can to get Adam to fly, okay? ”

His face has slightly sparkled with sweat beads, but his fingers are still stable like machines: "Orientation is correct, altitude is fine, but the distance from us is uncertain. Tires, watch the radar. Although Adam was invisible, Zhao Yun did not. After a certain distance, it should be visible on the radar. Recycle as soon as found. ”

“Understood.” The tire sits in the co-pilot position and stares at the radar screen.

Soon after, the tire saw the moving light point on the radar: "Yes! ”

Roddy lightly took a breath and reached out and pressed a button to switch the display screen in front of him to the external monitor of the tidal fighter.

In the distance, a little black dot is flying fast.

“Tire, lift, hover height 500 meters, bearing angle 143, hold still. Face, get to the hatch and get ready to pick up. We don't know if there are any recruits, we have to leave as soon as we pick them up.” Roddy Fei quickly gave the order: "Operation Zhao Yun recycling, last step, go! ”

Tidal warplanes hovered and immediately circled, pointing their sides in the direction of Adam's flight and opening the hatch on the side at the same time.

Chen Xiaolei stood behind the hatch door and stared at the growing black spot in front of him.

“I'm slowing down! Face, hold on! ”

Finally, Adam in invisible condition held Zhao Yun and flew straight to the hatch door. Roddy shouted in the cockpit, manipulating near-transparent Adam half-wheeled in the air, turning the thrusters to maximum power with his back to the tidal warplanes.

“Roddy, you bastard! Why did you slow down at the end?” Chen Xiaolian was nearly sprayed by the flame of the thruster, flashing aside. One hand grabbed Adam, who had just come into contact with the optical stealth state, and his other hand held Zhao Yun's back.

“I can't help it! I'm afraid I'll be chased by the enemy behind me!” Roddy hey laugh, shut the hatch. Tidal fighters turned a turn, the thrusters were fully turned on, and the cruise speed went into the corner of the eye.

……

“What the fuck! Zodiac Dragon, the mission target is no longer able to fight back, how can you say run away and run away? You give me an explanation! ”

In the Chinese army battalion, the zodiac dragon sat behind a table and looked unemotionally at the dozens of awakener team leaders in front of him.

Cao Cao's army descended to the soldiers and the captain was ordered to stay 50 steps away from the barracks, and he could not enter without an order.

The only one who opened it was an old man with wrinkles, his whole head bald from top to bottom, without half a beard hair, but only one pair of eyes were sparkling.

“Mr. Losson, I understand your anger, and this was unexpected.” Zodiac dragon raised one hand and pressed it in front of him in vain: “We are all in the same camp, the common task is to kill Zhao Yun. I have no reason to do anything harmful to my interests. ”

The bald old man slapped the table loosely and stared at him: “If all the participants are in the same camp, how can someone save Zhao Yun halfway! You said you didn't let him go, so how did he escape? ”

Sitting around him, he was also the captain of the team of awakeners, each silently watching the zodiac dragon, waiting for his reply.

“Gentlemen, I am not God.” Zoolander smiled: “Oh no, there is no God in this world. So... I'm not a development team. I didn't arrange this copy. How could I know all about it and answer all your questions? ”

“If that is the case, then there is no longer a need for us to continue our alliance.” Eyes slackened: “In the fight just now, the old team died three people! One of them is our main member! Now you tell old age that even if you join your alliance, you can't guarantee that everything will go according to your plan? ”

“I never said that everything would go according to my plan.” The Zodiac Dragon stretched out his hand: "I would like to emphasize once again what I said to you before entering the copy - I hope that we can stand together, help each other, support each other and face the difficulties in the copy together. This will maximize our chances of doing our job. But even so, in the face of this copy, I cannot guarantee any results. ”

His gaze swept through the many team leaders in the books: "I understand, gentlemen here, that each team suffered some casualties in the raid just now. Even some of the positions close to the outside team are now gone.

But that's not my decision! This is a copy! It's a dangerous copy of every moment! The fact that this task does not require us to fight each other does not mean that it is simpler. On the contrary, it is precisely because of its unprecedented difficulty that the system makes such a setting!

We at Starfleet want to be a bond of sincere cooperation for all teams in this copy, but we are not able to be the leaders and umbrellas. All of us, we can only do it in front of each other, scouting and carefully probing. And it's all based on trust!

If any of you don't trust me, it doesn't matter. Our partnership can be terminated at any time. The Starfall Squad will recall the liaison officer and will no longer continue to share any intelligence. ”

He stood up and looked at the crowd with a glance: "Now the problem is. Will you trust me? ”

“Cough...” A mediocre middle-aged man coughed lightly twice, smiling: "Mr. Losson was just in a hurry. If we chose to work with the Starfall team before entering the copy, how could there be any distrust? The Deacon of the Zodiac Dragon rests his words. Mr. Droppin? ”

He patted himself gently on the loose shoulder: “I think you just want to talk to Deacon Zorron about the rational logic of what just happened, right? ”

“That's what I mean.” The expression on his loose face stifled for a moment and nodded slowly: “Deacon Zodiac, the wording of the old man was a little more intense, not dissatisfied with the Starfall squad. Don't be surprised at Deacon Zorron. ”

“That's good. How can I blame Mr. Falling Soon?” Zodiac dragon hurriedly smiled at his jaw and looked at the others: “Everyone... wouldn't suspect me, would they? ”

“Of course not. ”

“No, no, no. ”

“Solidarity is all that matters. ”

Seeing many awakeners shook their heads and denied, the zodiac dragon nodded satisfied.

“So, Deacon Zorron, now that we have all reached a consensus, can we seriously discuss the current situation and the way forward?” The middle-aged man smiled.

“Of course.” Zoolander nodded: “That's exactly what I was going to do. Now all Cao Cao soldiers have been instructed, and we have been given the status of an Inhuman Samurai from the West. Whatever action is taken, it will not give rise to suspicion and lose the identity of Cao Cao soldiers. ”

“Good.” Slowly nodded: “If old is right...”

His eyes swept towards the phantom behind the zodiac dragon: “This NPC Cao Cao is already under the control of the Starfall Squad. ”

Zolonghaha smiled: “Mr. Falling Song's eyes are like a torch. That's right, our team has occupied Cao Cao's body. Otherwise, how dare I reassure everyone to use all the weapons? ”

“That makes sense.” Loosen your head: “So now our position, and the time node, should have been confirmed, right? ”

The zodiac dragon looked back at the phantom and compared it to a gesture. Tongyu took two steps forward, respectfully said: “We are now 80 miles south of Shinno, moving towards Xiangyang, Fancheng. Cao Cao had just accepted Liu Xian's surrender and learned that Liu Bei had abandoned Fancheng and fled south. But the whole army, including Cao Cao himself, had no expectations of this night attack. ”

“So now the troops here are the main force under Cao Cao Nan? How many?” Loosen immediately asked.

“Some of them stayed in the city, led by Cao Ren, about 20,000 people. The total number of this force is over 78,000, but much has been lost in the night raid just now, for which no specific statistics are yet available.” The ghost replied without hesitation.

“There are still 56,000 people left to lose.” Falling loose with his greasy bald head: “There are so many cannon ashes on top, even if Zhao Yun is stronger, there will always be tiredness, grinding him to death. Anyway, those cavalry men he brought, they've been killed. ”

“But the cavalry numbers are not very large, certainly not all of Liu Beijun's men and horses.” Tongyuan shook his head: “According to the return of General Cao Cao, the total number of enemies in this night attack was only more than 500, which should only be under Zhao Yun's headquarters. Liu Bei's total strength should be around 5,000 people, which is only one tenth of the total. ”

“It doesn't work, does each of Liu Bei's soldiers have this strength? If that's the case, Cao Cao wins with his head?” The middle-aged man laughed: “The cavalry unit that the mission target brought is clearly the most elite. ”

“Old age agrees with that statement.” Slow down and nod: "Now replicate the battle scene. The goal of the mission is to use the cavalry as bait to attract the attention of the large army and then break in from the other direction to assassinate Cao Cao. But with our presence, the mission goal plan failed. Liu Beijun will probably never find a cavalry unit of the same quality again. ”

“So the problem now is that his plan failed, but it was saved.” The middle-aged look at the zodiac dragon: “Of course we believe that the Starfleet will not let go of the mission's objectives in secret in order to swallow points. But who did it, Deacon Zoolander? ”

The zodiac dragon nodded, pulled out a small box, placed it on the table, pressed the button, and the box projected a light screen on the empty ground in front of it.

“This is a holographic video of the battle just around the main battalion, which you can take a look at. ”

A blurry phantom dived down from above, caught Zhao Yun's armor, then immediately turned up, and flew out of the camp in a flash.

“This is…”

All the Awakener Team Leaders stood up in front of a hologram projection and watched every detail carefully.

Zodiac dragons also minimize the speed at which hologram projections play.

“It's not the power of the magic system.” Sincerely and slowly: “The outline of the thing is square, and although it seems transparent, a careful look reveals a certain delay between its surface and the surrounding environment. This is an invisible technology developed by optical projection principles. It's -- it's a tech prop! ”

Several awakeners nodded in favour of a relaxed view.

“This copy should be set at a high martial level, so it is not surprising that soldiers and martial arts on both sides will be able to use fighting. But there can be no more technical props. This is definitely not something in the copy.” Drop the nail and cut the iron: “This was done by an awakener! ”

“This…” all awakeners look at each other in disdain.

There's nothing wrong with loose judgment. While many of the props produced in the system have invisible capabilities, they also exhibit different features in appearance due to different realization principles. This invisible means that the naked eye can discover at close range can only be generated by optical projection.

But the question is, why would the awakener do that?

“Not all teams are part of this alliance, are they?” A young man with white hair thought about it and interjected: “Could it be those single-handed teams... wanting to take the reward of the mission...”

“Aren't you going to take your pants off and fart?” A man with a tattoo stared at him with a big, round shoulder next to him: "Do you really want to kill him just to swallow points? Even if he had been captured, it would have been so long ago that it was time to kill him. At this time, the copy was not finished, which means that Zhao Yun is not dead. He was saved, not caught, okay? ”

“Then there's really no way to explain it.” The young man with white hair grinned: “All awakeners have the same mission goal, no reason to do so. NPC in this copy, it's not possible to use technology props... what else could it be? ”

“Yes,” said the zodiac dragon, who had never had an opening, "you forgot a possibility. ”

“What's possible?” Everyone looked to him.

“In the system description of the copy, the goal of the task is indeed shared by all awakeners. But -- have you forgotten, will there be anyone else in the copy besides the Awakener and NPC? ”

The zodiac dragon pressed twice over the box, and the projection on the light screen turned into a radar image.

“Suddenly, we didn't have time to catch up, but the temporarily erected mini radar detected each other's movement trajectory. After Zhao Yun was caught by the unknown flying object, he flew all the way south to high speed, but suddenly slowed down at a distance of 30 km, while another larger bright spot appeared on the radar briefly, but only for five seconds, and disappeared with Zhao Yun. ”

“This is...” I loosened my eyes and looked carefully at the radar diagram that was playing over and over, with uncertainty in my tone: “Recycled? ”

“Old Mr. Losson certainly has a long experience.” Zodiac Dragon Nod: “According to my guess, it should be a large, invisible aircraft that recycles mission targets. ”

Everyone present sucked in a cold breath of air.

Large manned aerial vehicles also have invisible features… There are only two possibilities for a team that can equip such high-end items.

Zero City's resident team, with ——

Thorn Blossom!

The loose complexion is also a bit ugly: “Deacon Zorron means that players may be in this copy as well, and their mission objectives are opposite to ours, or at least conflicting? ”

“That's the most likely thing.” The zodiac dragon nodded and sighed softly: “Since the destruction of Zero City, no Zero Citizen has ever appeared, not knowing where he was lurking. I don't think it's very likely that they would have done such a shaky thing, even if they had entered the copy. Besides… they are also awakeners and have no reason to obstruct themselves from accomplishing their mission goals. So..."

The zodiac dragon didn't finish the story, but everyone already knew the answer.

The invisible shadow whispered in the camp.

“Come on, don't worry too much.” Zodiac dragon suddenly laughed and broke the silence: “Even if it's a thorny blossom, so what? At least we have tens of thousands of armies in our hands. If the Thorn Blossom really came from a group of masters, it wouldn't be so sneaky to save people. Anyway, we have to do our job. ”

The sound of harmony gradually rings below.

“From now on, we will not act as Cao Cao has done in history.” The zodiac dragon replaced the holographic projection in front of it with a map pointing out the position above: “The system didn't set a target time frame for the task this time, so we didn't have to rush at all. We are now less than 50 miles from Van Cheng and Xiangyang and will arrive tomorrow. After that, we will continue to march with the army, without breaking up into pursuits, targets-”

His fingers crossed Fancheng Xiangyang and moved down to Jiangling: “It's still Jiangling! ”