marvel: behind the scenes

People in Marvel, the mastermind behind the scenes
Chapter 1: Heritage of the World
February 28, 2025
Earth, Su Province
“I heard that there will be a seven-star conjunction tonight. Do you want to come to my house and watch it together?”
“How about you come fishing with me and watch the Seven Stars in the Conjunction?”
“…”
Looking at the message sent by his female colleague on the phone, Roland’s index finger hovered three centimeters above the screen.
He recalled that at the company dinner last week, a 200-pound girl rubbed cream cake on his newly bought clothes, and the corners of his mouth twitched unconsciously.
“If the salary here wasn’t so good, I’d let you see what a foul-mouthed brother is.” He poked the nine-square grid with one hand, maintaining his straight man image while silently complaining in his heart.
Close WeChat, open the video, and wait for the fish to be caught.
It happened to be the moment when seven planets were aligned.
Suddenly, the river water rolled back and the sunset glow in the sky shattered into glass-like starlight.
“I haven’t caught any fish yet!” The last wail was swallowed up by the whistling sound.
When Roland opened his eyes again, the thick car exhaust fumes made him sneeze three times.
Roland remained in the squatting fishing position, holding a half-opened bag of bait in his hand, but the bluestone slab beneath him had turned into a rusty fire escape.
“Where the hell did this come from?” Roland widened his eyes and stared at the building with flashing neon signs at the entrance of the alley in astonishment.
Everything around me is so strange. The noisy cars and the hustle and bustle of the city coming from afar are all reminders that this is no longer the familiar world.
Before Roland could recover from his shock, a sharp pain pierced into his brain like a sharp steel needle.
The pain was like something foreign was rampaging in his mind, trying to forcibly occupy his consciousness.
Roland held his head with both hands, curled up into a ball, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and his face turned pale with pain.
“Ah!” Roland couldn’t help but let out a scream of pain.
This huge flow of information is like a surging tide, forcing itself into the mind. Every byte is like a bomb, exploding deep in the consciousness.
I don’t know how long it took, but the tidal-like pain finally subsided.
Roland slowly opened his eyes, and at that moment, it seemed as if countless brilliant divine lights were interweaving, bursting, and merging in his eyes, as if a miracle of creation was being conceived.
However, in just a blink of an eye, the dazzling light disappeared, and his eyes returned to their usual normal state, as if everything just now was just an illusion.
Roland took a deep breath and tried to calm his trembling body.
According to the methods conveyed by the mysterious flow of information in the mind, he circulated the divine power that had just awakened in the body.
He stretched out his finger, slowly pointed it into the void, and whispered, “Come on, let me see… how to create a quantum intelligent brain!”
As the words fell, countless rays of light seemed to burst out between his fingers in an instant. The light was dazzling, like countless miniature suns burning at his fingertips.
Then, the light quickly shrank again, and finally condensed into a point, hovering in front of the fingertips.
The light gradually dissipated, and a drop of water-drop-shaped object between reality and illusion was suspended in front of him.
“It’s all true!” Roland looked at the water-drop-shaped intelligent computer floating in front of him and couldn’t help but sigh.
Slowly reach out your hand and gently grab the suspended water droplet.
In an instant, the water drop turned into a ray of light, sank into the palm of the hand and disappeared.
At the same time, a cold mechanical voice sounded in my mind: “The intelligent brain is at your service, master.”
“Scan the memory, organize the inheritance from other worlds, deduce and build a database.” Roland gave the order quickly.
“Understood. Memory scanning…” The voice of the intelligent computer echoed in Roland’s mind.
However, not long after, the voice became intermittent, as if it encountered a great obstacle: “Memory scan completed, deduction started, the deduction amount is too large, lack of information, unable to deduce, unable to deduce, unable to deduce…”
Roland frowned, thought for a moment, and said decisively: “Seal all the knowledge above the level of gods in the memory. There is no need to analyze all the mysterious energy. Prioritize the knowledge below the level of gods in the memory, and classify the characters and props according to their levels.”
“Understood, my Lord…”
“The inherited knowledge is being sorted out, the model is being established… the knowledge is beginning to be extracted…”
“Unknown energy discovered, unable to analyze, abandoned… Occult knowledge discovered, beginning to be sealed… Master estimates that the knowledge will be organized in thirty-six hours, and the database will be established in fifty hours. Please wait patiently…”
“Connect to the Internet, search for special events and people, compare them with your memory, and analyze the general situation of the world.” Roland continued to give instructions.
“Understood. Start executing…” As the intelligent computer responded, the voice in Roland’s mind gradually faded away.
Roland was so excited that he whispered to himself, “I didn’t expect it to be true. I really got the legacy left after the destruction of a great world.”
“With the creation godhood and the creation stone tablet of the evolution of the godhood, the only thing left on the road to becoming a god is the last bit of divine power. As long as the divine power is sufficient, then… this is a sure thing, a great start!”
Roland stood up from the fire escape and looked around, then he realized that the most urgent thing was to find a place for himself to stay.
This strange world is full of unknowns and dangers. He needs a temporary safe haven to sort out all the sudden things.
Fifty hours later, in a slightly dated motel.
Roland sat cross-legged on the bed quietly with his eyes closed, quietly feeling the changes in his body and digesting and absorbing the knowledge in his mind. Only the old clock on the wall was “ticking” to record the passage of time.
“Master, the calculation is complete and the database has been established.”
“Special incident search complete.”
“It is discovered that there is a special person named Steven Grant Rogers.”
“Special Person Anthony Edward Tony Stark spotted.”
“Discover the special person Peter Benjamin Parker…”
“The characters are similar, speculating on the Marvel MCU universe…”
“The Emperor Foundation was discovered, the Hoover Plan was discovered…”
“No news of mutants in this world has been found. It is speculated that it is an unknown universe of Marvel…”
“There are multiple parallel universes in this world. There is insufficient data to continue the deduction.”
“There is high-energy life in this world, but there is insufficient data to continue the deduction…”
A series of voices from the intelligent computer rang clearly in Roland’s mind.
Roland slowly opened his eyes, a trace of helplessness on his face, and muttered to himself: “So what the hell is this place? This is the beginning of hell!”
“There is insufficient information to make any inferences, but the danger level in this world is high. Master, please act with caution…” the intelligent computer responded.
Roland nodded slightly, his expression becoming serious. According to the inherited knowledge, using faith to gather divine power is the most convenient and fastest way.
Otherwise, in that destroyed world, the gods would not have fought so fiercely for faith.
After all, relying solely on the gods themselves to absorb the energy of heaven and earth to increase their divine power is too slow. This is like the difference between a krypton gold player and a hardcore player.
A big spender may not necessarily beat a hard-working player, but if one is willing to spend both money and time playing, then the advantage is self-evident.
The power of faith is essentially the embodiment of the spiritual strength of all sentient beings in the world and the manifestation of the power of all living beings.
All emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness emitted by sentient beings can be condensed into the power of faith, and the more beloved a person is by the world, the stronger the emotional power they can provide.
Because of this, the gods use various methods to collect the spiritual strength of all living beings in order to gather the power of faith.
Some bring beauty and hope to believers, some spread death and fear, and others achieve their goals through intimidation, shock, deception and other means. It can be said that everyone has their own methods and their own path.
In this chaotic world that seems to be right but is not, if you want to quickly accumulate divine power, the power of faith is undoubtedly a shortcut.
However, it is not a wise move to show up in person. The best option is to use one’s own creations to collect the emotional power of all living beings.
“Intelligent brain, generate a plan and select a location for delivery.”
“Understood, Master. After careful deduction, the Clinton area of ​​New York, the infamous Hell’s Kitchen, is the best place to place the troops. The initial character must be familiar with the rules of modern society and the operation mode of the gangs, and have a certain amount of extraordinary power to test this world.”
“Hell’s Kitchen? Yes, chaos is the ladder to godhood.”
Roland took a deep breath and had a plan in mind.
After thinking for a while, Walon, the cunning and greedy but uniquely charming character in “The Adventures of Jackie Chan”, became his first choice.
Roland once again activated the divine power in his body. Light continued to flow out from his palms, gradually gathering into the outline of a human figure.
The light gradually dissipated, and a man in a black suit, with a shiny slicked-back hair, a hideous mask in his hand, and a signature sly smile on his face appeared in front of Roland. It was Valon.
Roland raised his hand and slashed. The space was torn apart by the sharp blade, and a deep crack suddenly appeared. At the other end was a dark and deserted alley in Hell’s Kitchen.
“Well, don’t let me down, Valon.”
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ActivityRegister as a Filo member and get 200 points![Register Now]Chapter 2: Valon’s Appearance (Old Version)
As the lights came on, the gorgeous charity auction scene looked like a shining palace.
The crystal chandelier casts a sparkling light, which complements the dazzling collections in the display cabinets.
Celebrities and wealthy people, dressed in exquisitely tailored dresses and suits, elegantly walked around the venue with their graceful partners, communicating with each other.
“My dear, look at that sapphire necklace. It’s as deep as the night sky.”
A gentleman leaned over slightly and whispered to the lady next to him, his eyes full of admiration.
The lady nodded slightly, with a faint smile on her lips: “It is indeed beautiful, but I think the emerald earrings over there suit me better.”
Around, groups of people were also having heated discussions.
“The collections here are truly rare, and each piece is a work of art.”
A middle-aged wealthy man, holding a glass of champagne, said to his friend beside him with emotion.
My friend nodded in agreement: “Yes, these collections are rarely seen under normal circumstances.”
“Everyone, please be quiet! Thank you all for coming to this charity auction.”
“I’m sure everyone knows that I spent a lot of effort to get these treasures out of Stark’s collection room.”
“If you like any of the collections here, you can participate in the auction. However, you have to leave a few pieces for Mr. Stark, otherwise I, an old man, will not be able to explain to him!”
Stan’s voice rang out clearly through the loudspeaker. As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of friendly laughter rang out around him, and the atmosphere became more harmonious.
“Good evening, everyone.” Valon’s deep and infectious voice suddenly rang out, like a heavy hammer, instantly attracting everyone’s attention to the gate.
“From this moment on, the protagonist of this auction is no longer these jewels, but me.”
Valon, wearing a black suit, walked slowly into the meeting room. He snapped his fingers lightly, and the sound was particularly clear in the silent meeting room.
In an instant, all the entrances and exits of the venue were controlled by a group of black-clad ninjas that emerged from the darkness of the venue. The originally lively venue was instantly shrouded in a tense atmosphere, and the laughter of the guests came to an abrupt end.
“Who are you? What do you want to do!” Stan’s voice trembled a little while being surrounded by a group of black-clad bodyguards. His eyes were full of shock and anger as he stared at the uninvited guest in front of him.
Valon turned around slowly, his eyes falling calmly on Stan, as if he was looking at an insignificant object.
“Dear Mr. Stan, I have heard of you, shareholder of Stark Industries.”
Valon’s tone was relaxed and casual, as if he was talking about something very ordinary.
“These treasures will soon belong to me.” As he said this, before the bodyguards could react, the black-clad ninjas who suddenly appeared had already put their knives on their necks.
“Don’t be afraid, gentlemen and ladies. Let me introduce myself. My name is Valon, a loyal believer in money. I am here only to make a deal with you. I want to exchange your precious lives for these lovely jewels. If you cooperate happily, you can all be intact.”
“Now, please help me put all these jewels into this bag, including the ones on your body, don’t miss any.”
The wealthy people who were taken hostage could only come to Valon trembling with fear and put all the valuables on them into their bags. No one dared to disobey, and they just hoped that this nightmare night could end quickly.
Just as the guests were lining up obediently to “pay”.
The New York Police Department, which received the alarm, has completed the siege of the venue.
Police cars were lined up neatly outside the exhibition hall, their lights flashing, illuminating the surroundings.
The police, armed with live ammunition, quickly formed a circle and cautiously approached the exhibition hall.
“Listen everyone inside, you have been surrounded, put down your weapons immediately and surrender!”
New York Police Commissioner George Stacy shouted loudly with a megaphone in hand and a stern look on his face.
However, Valon seemed not to hear anything and looked calm and composed, not at all panicked.
He walked calmly to Stan’s side, still with that unfathomable smile on his face. His movements were gentle but with irresistible force. He stretched out his arm and placed it firmly on Stan’s shoulders.
“Dear Mr. Stan, it looks like we are going to have to spend some very special time together.”
Valon lowered his voice and whispered in Stan’s ear. There was no threat in his tone, but it made Stan’s face dark as ink in an instant, and his body trembled uncontrollably with anger.
“Get out of the way, my dear police friends.”
Valon had a cynical smile on his face and his arm was casually hooked around Stan’s shoulders.
As the two walked, Valon turned his head and whispered to Stan. The two of them laughed and talked, and they looked so intimate, as if they were really old friends.
“Mr. Stanstein is old and needs to rest early. I want to take him home now.”
“SIR, we received a call from above, asking us to ensure Mr. Stan’s safety.”
A young police officer, looking hurried, trotted up to George and spoke softly.
George Stacy’s brows were instantly twisted into the shape of a “川” character, and his eyes were full of confusion and helplessness.
He stared at Valon, clenched his teeth, and clenched his hands unconsciously.
After hesitating for a moment, he sighed heavily and waved his hand slightly.
“Looks like I can leave now.” Valon smiled at George Stacy. There was a hint of sarcasm in that smile, and his tone was as relaxed as if he was ending a pleasant party.
Under the cover of the Black Shadow Ninja, he put his arm around Stan’s shoulder and walked out at a leisurely and unhurried pace.
Although the police officers were unwilling to give in, they could only watch them approach step by step. However, because they were afraid of the consequences, they could only retreat step by step and were unable to take any effective action.
“Mr. Stan, it’s nice to chat with you. If you need help someday, you can come to me as long as you can afford the price.”
Valon walked to the door, released his hand from Stan’s shoulder, and said meaningfully.
“Don’t rush to refuse. I can feel that we are the same kind of people. Hahaha.” The laughter was unbridled and echoed in the night sky.
After saying that, Valon stomped his feet suddenly, and his whole body was instantly enveloped by a thick shadow.
In the blink of an eye, his entire body disappeared, leaving behind the policemen who looked at each other in astonishment.
The next day, the controversy over the charity auction robbery continued to ferment in the city. TV stations interrupted their normal programs and urgently broadcast this major news. The front-page headlines of major newspapers were all eye-catching “Jewelry robbery at charity auction”. Related reports were widely circulated on social media, triggering heated discussions among netizens, and all kinds of speculation and public opinion were overwhelming.
“Hello, Chief George. I’m Agent Phil Coulson.”
Coulson was wearing a neat black suit, standing tall, with his signature kind smile on his face and a humble and polite tone. He stood steadily in front of George Stacy and handed over his ID.
“I have been ordered to take over this case.”
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Chapter 3 The Beginning of Chaos (Old Version)
On the second floor of an antique shop on the street in Hell’s Kitchen, New York.
Roland clearly felt that in his sea of ​​consciousness, a force was like a gurgling stream gradually gathering, coming continuously from the void and flowing into the godhead. After being constantly tempered by the godhead, it slowly condensed into divine power and flowed in the pool of divine power.
As the divine power steadily increased, the air around him began to fluctuate slightly, and a quiet and solemn atmosphere permeated the air, just like the mysterious charm emanating from an ancient temple.
Roland could vaguely hear a faint “hissing” sound coming from the space, as if the divine power was having a gentle conversation with the real world.
At this moment, he was like a furnace that was accumulating energy. The divine power in his body was growing at a steady yet unstoppable rate, as if he was trying to reshape the boundaries of his own power.
“As expected, creating chaos is the best way to gain divine power. A small robbery has brought me such a considerable increase in divine power. Moreover, the power displayed by Valon will inevitably attract various forces to make a move.”
Roland raised his lips to a meaningful smile and murmured, “Next, it’s time to give them a bigger surprise.”
He raised his head slightly, his eyes seemed to penetrate the ceiling and look into the endless distance.
“Intelligent brain, start the second step of the plan.”
“Yes, Master.”
An electronic voice without any emotion immediately responded, “The auxiliary creation program is activated, the model is being called, the memory weaving program is turned on, and the extraordinary power is being analyzed. Master, please use all your divine power to prepare for creation.”
…
Outside the West End docks of Hell’s Kitchen, the salty sea breeze carrying the smell of diesel howled among the rusty containers, and two thugs wrapped in cheap leather jackets squatted in the shadows smoking.
The tall man crushed the cigarette butt with his boot heel, and the spider tattoo on his neck glowed blue in the moonlight.
“This is worse than guarding a funeral parlor,” he blew into his palm. “The Viper Gang bastards are sharing a coffee pot with us? They also stuffed white phosphorus bombs into our container last week.”
The short fat man scanned berth number seven with his night vision goggles. “What day is it today? I heard that even Carlo the Butcher is here? Doesn’t that old guy only attend funerals?”
When the tall and thin younger brother heard this, he subconsciously moved closer.
He lowered his voice and whispered, “Watch your tongue. Do you know why old cripple Bobby only has half a leg left? It’s because he talks too much! I heard from the transport team that the lunatic has arranged for twelve gangs from Hell’s Kitchen to meet at the dock tonight. Even the lunatics from Hell’s Gate…”
The short fat kid’s pupils contracted. “Holy shit! Are you talking about the lunatic who robbed the auction with a mask? The one who took over Jin Bing’s three warehouses last week?”
“The second in command of the Latin guy was hung on the fire escape yesterday, with his intestines hanging down to the second floor. All because one of his subordinates said, ‘Maybe we should listen to Wallon’s conditions.'” The tall and thin man said, suddenly showing his yellow teeth and grinning, “But… I saw the gift from the British guy with my own eyes – a big bag of Burmese rubies, the purity of which is stronger than Grandma Fiona’s whiskey.”
“Okay, stop talking and keep quiet.” There was a sudden burst of electric sound from the intercom.
Twelve bulletproof SUVs slowly drove past the two men and headed towards the core area of ​​the port.
The car lights pierced the darkness, and Russian gang leader Ivan Petrov kicked open the car door. The barrel of an AK-47 was faintly visible under his mink coat.
“This is a fucking trap,” he blew smoke rings at the Italian mafia godfather, “Kingpin has more spies than cockroaches at the port.”
“So I made two preparations.” Maggie O’Connor’s red hair burned in the night wind. She opened the trunk of her Cadillac, and bundles of C4 explosives flashed with cold light.
The Irish queen twirled her gilded revolver: “Whoever is a traitor, his nest will be blown up to the sky.”
Carlo, the Italian godfather, wrapped in a mink coat, slowly and gently tapped the ground with his ivory cane, making a crisp “thump thump” sound.
His eyes were cloudy but shrewd, and he said slowly: “Stop arguing, wait until the people arrive.”
Suddenly, the seagulls on the steel frame were startled and flew up, and then the searchlight went out with a loud bang.
A strange and chilly wind blew by, and the surrounding air seemed to drop to freezing point in an instant, and the shadows on the ground began to surge like a tide.
When the emergency lights came back on, twenty black-clad ninjas had surrounded the entire venue.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Valon appeared in the salty air of the dock, stepping on the shadows that were wriggling like asphalt.
“It’s an honor to have the twelve dirtiest rats in Hell’s Kitchen gathered together.”
He was wearing a hideous black mask on his face, and he exuded a terrifying aura.
Behind him, a group of black-clad ninjas emerged silently like ghosts, lined up in neat rows, with weapons in their hands flashing cold light.
Scarface Joe used his artificial eye to scan the ninja army, and sneered at the corners of his gold-toothed mouth: “Save yourself from the ugly show.”
The old-school gang leader unbuttoned his Armani suit, revealing a chrome-plated Colt Python pinned to his alligator waistband. “The last bastard who dared to run wild in Kingpin’s territory is now trimming the nails of crawfish at the bottom of the East River.”
Ivan Petrov of the Russian gang twirled his brass knuckles with a red star on them and spoke in vodka-flavored English with a phlegm sound: “Fuckin’ Halloween trick.”
“Gentlemen, I am not that ‘outdated rat’! I am not here to share your pitiful leftovers.”
Valon folded his arms across his chest, his eyes sharp as torches as he scanned the crowd.
“It’s a chance for you to create a new order and establish true rule!”
Reyes’ back teeth oozed blood.
Three hours ago, he was kneeling in the oil in the repair shop, with the last warmth of six young bodies still remaining in his palms – those throats cut by sharp blades were now turning into blood-red afterimages that burned the retinas.
When the word “outdated rat” rolled over his eardrum, he heard the sound of blood vessels bursting in his temple, the metallic sound of Maggie’s wheel rubbing against each other, and the tapping sound of Carlo’s sandalwood cane, all distorted into the scream of the night when Valon blew up the armored car.
“Domination? Are you qualified to mention this word?” Reyes suddenly roared.
The gold-plated revolver was hot in his palm, and the muzzle still smelled of gunpowder from the street fight three days ago.
Six bullets, carrying the brothers’ still-warm bodies, the armored vehicles that had been blown into scrap metal, and the sound of Jin Bing’s photo shattering under Valon’s feet, all poured towards the figure shrouded in darkness.
When the last bullet shell fell to the ground, he suddenly remembered what the emperor said when he first met Kingpin, tapping his chest with the barrel of his gun: “Bullets are only for madmen who are willing to risk everything… Are you crazy enough, kid?”
“Fuck you, juggler!” Reyes yelled, and the gunfire wove a scarlet spider web in the container maze.
But the bullet only caused ripples like water waves when it passed through Wallon’s chest, and blasted six smoking holes in the rusty iron sheet.
The shadow suddenly squirmed like a living thing, and five gray-purple claws with protruding joints broke through the shadow and twisted Reyes’ right arm holding the gun into a knot.
“Fuck… fuck…” Reyes’ blood fell into the water, spreading into a dark red. The sound of the bullet shell hitting the ground had not yet faded, and Valon’s gilded cane tapped the Kingpin badge on his chest: “I heard that the day Kingpin helped you get revenge, you cried like a castrated Chihuahua.”
Reyes’ eyes instantly filled with bloodshot, red like a beast, and he suddenly jumped up and roared: “I will kill you, I must kill you!!!”
But his roar was still echoing in the air. A cold light flashed, and the ninja sword, accompanied by a sharp wind, accurately slashed across his neck.
Reyes’ head flew towards the crowd like a kite with a broken string, raining blood. With a “thump”, the headless body fell to the ground.
The blood rain splashed on Maggie’s expensive mink coat, blooming into bright red flowers.
“Now, who wants to be the next decoration on the traffic light?” Valon kicked the rolling head away, his voice cold without a trace of warmth.
In an instant, the scene was dead silent. Everyone was so shocked by the bloody and weird scene that they dared not even breathe.
In this dead silence, Walon flipped his wrist, and the jade token flew out of his hand, drawing arcs in the air and landing accurately on the ground in front of the remaining eleven gang leaders.
The front of each token is engraved with a unique totem corresponding to the logo of each gang, while the back is engraved with a strange dragon pattern.
“Join my Shadow Empire, and you will have unprecedented power and wealth; if you refuse…” Before Varon finished his words, he curled his lips at Reyes’ headless body, “You will end up like him.”
Maggie suddenly laughed, her bloody nails scratching her lips. “Honey, you killed seventeen FBI agents in my strip club.” She bit her nails like a beautiful snake. “But the stakes are exciting this time.”
Carlo stroked the cane in his hand and suddenly said, “King Bing’s accountant will come to collect the quarterly taxes tomorrow.” The old godfather smiled, and the smile was winding in his nasolabial folds, like a venomous snake ready to strike. “Perhaps Mr. Valon is willing to show more… sincerity for cooperation?”
Upon hearing this, Valon let out a deep laugh: “Old Ghost, I understand what you are thinking. Don’t worry, I will treat Jin Bing’s accountant well.”
An hour later, Reyes’ body had disappeared.
A figure wrapped in a tattered black robe suddenly appeared in the center of the blood.
The man slowly squatted down, his fingers traced the blood on the ground, and a hoarse whisper came from under the black robe: “The power of shadow…”
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Chapter 4: Wind Eagle Armor – Fusion (Old Version)
At Chelsea Piers in the heavy rain, salty water vapor mixed with the smell of diesel filled Matt Murdoch’s nostrils.
He squatted on top of the rusted container and ran his fingertips over the fresh scratches on the railing – three parallel grooves digging deep into the steel, like the claw marks of a giant beast.
“The seventh…” he muttered to himself.
Ever since Valon took control of the Twelve Gangs of Hell’s Kitchen, these inhuman traces have been growing at an extremely fast rate in the dock area.
I could hear the mumbling of a drunkard three hundred meters away, the sound of rats gnawing at carrion thirty meters below, and the
The blind lawyer spun around suddenly, crossing his sticks to protect his throat.
A strong wind with a strong stench came, and the sticky limbs of the evil ginseng beast pierced through with a fishy smell.
Tearing apart twisted tracks in the rain, he instantly smelled a pungent scent mixed with rotting plants.
“Hiss!” The evil ginseng beast suddenly jumped out, revealing its figure wrapped in thick darkness.
This monster looked like a sea cucumber that had been extremely distorted and magnified by some strange force.
It exuded a disgusting smell, and sharp spikes protruded from the tumor, flashing cold light.
Matt used his keen intuition to instantly dodge to the side, leaving behind an afterimage.
However, the evil ginseng beast’s attack was so powerful and powerful that it penetrated the afterimage with unstoppable force and slammed heavily on the roof of the container.
The ceiling caved in instantly, and dark red liquid oozed out from the cracks – Eddie, the dock worker who had disappeared last night, was now embedded between the iron sheets, with half of his body turned into a bloody mess.
In Matt’s special “vision”, the world is simplified into various sensory outlines.
The evil ginseng beast before him only presented the outline of an inhuman and terrifying monster emitting strong malice.
There was a dangerous aura as thick as ink lingering around him.
Before Matt could recover from the shock, the evil ginseng beast’s thick claws swept over with a strong wind.
The air was instantly torn apart, making a sharp whistling sound.
Matt reacted quickly and swung his guide stick without thinking, accurately hitting the crane cable.
The cane collided with the steel cable, splashing a spark, and Matt took advantage of the force to suddenly fly into the air, his body drawing an arc in the air, barely avoiding the fatal blow. ?
Upon seeing this, the evil ginseng beast opened its mouth and instantly sprayed out a large amount of sticky mucus.
The mucus was dark green in color, emitting a pungent and foul smell, and it drew strange tracks in the rain.
Matt was unable to adjust his body in the air and was unable to dodge the slime that was flying towards him.
The mucus instantly splashed onto Matt’s body. The moment it touched his skin, it burned like boiling sulfuric acid, and severe pain instantly spread throughout his body.
Matt bit his lower lip tightly, but still couldn’t help letting out a groan. The intense pain made his fingers loosen involuntarily, and his body lost support and fell heavily to the ground like a kite with a broken string.
“Bang!”
At this moment, the left shoulder of the evil ginseng beast suddenly exploded, mucus splashed everywhere, and fell on the tower crane support, making a “sizzling” corrosion sound.
Matt heard the unique high-frequency vibrations of the pulse pistol and the regular rhythm of leather shoes stepping on the iron stairs.
“Good evening, Mr. Murdoch.” Coulson’s voice was accompanied by the rustling sound of his raincoat.
“My name is Phil Coulson, an agent of the Strategic Homeland Defense Attack and Logistics Agency.”
The raindrops from the tip of the bulletproof umbrella formed a small vortex in front of his shiny leather shoes. “Regarding these creatures, we need…”
The shattered parts of the evil ginseng beast squirmed rapidly and grew again in the blink of an eye, and three sharp bone spurs burst out from the wound.
Coulson rolled quickly to avoid it, and a 20-centimeter-long tear was torn on the back of his suit.
“Be careful!” Matt threw out the grappling gun.
The steel cable was instantly twisted into a knot by the evil ginseng beast’s flexible claws.
At the critical moment, the rain curtain was suddenly torn apart by blue light.
“Wind Eagle Armor—Merge!”
Dongshan flipped the summoner on his wrist, and green armor appeared out of thin air, instantly covering his entire body.
The raindrops within a ten-meter radius seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and rolled back into the air. The scene was extremely spectacular.
Coulson’s eyes narrowed. As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., he had witnessed many supernatural phenomena, but the scene of such an instantaneous release of powerful energy still shocked him.
The Wind Eagle Armor spun around and kicked the Evil Ginseng right in the face. The rotten flesh of the monster burned on the armor’s leg armor, emitting green smoke.
But not hurt at all.
“Altered Beast! I finally found you!”
“Wait a moment, just leave this to me.”
No expression could be seen through the black eyepiece.
But both Coulson and Matt could sense that this battle was beyond their comprehension.
“Be careful, this monster is very powerful and can spray corrosive slime.”
Matt endured the pain and reminded with difficulty.
“Don’t worry, leave it to me.”
Accompanied by a low roar.
The evil ginseng beast swung its sturdy arms violently, bringing up a gust of foul-smelling wind that pounced towards the Wind Eagle Armor.
A blue light flashed, leaving a trail of afterimages, easily avoiding the attack. The speed was so fast that Coulson and Matt’s eyes widened.
“You have such powerful armor?” Matt asked.
“No, he is not my colleague. I have never seen such armor in the bureau…”
Coulson thought for a moment and shook his head: “Alien Beast, he just said this name, it’s obvious that he came here for this monster.”
“Is that all you can do? Look at my Wind Eagle Kick!” After saying that, he quickly alternated his legs and kicked out a series of kicks like a gust of wind, which landed heavily on the evil ginseng beast.
The evil ginseng beast felt pain, and rotten flesh on its body kept falling off, but it seemed to be enraged and became even more crazy. It opened its mouth and spewed out a stream of dark green venom. The venom emitted a pungent smell in the air and corroded the Wind Eagle Armor.
“Wood stretches and bends, breaking!”
Two high-speed rotating Wind Eagle Rings popped out from the shoulders of the Wind Eagle Armor.
“Roar~”
Along with the sound of the Wind Eagle Ring cutting through the rain curtain, the mucus was rolled back and the Evil Ginseng Beast’s painful roar sounded.
The Wind Eagle Ring cut at high speed, causing the evil ginseng beast’s rotten flesh to fly, mucus to splash, and black gas to continuously emanate from its body.
He stood there motionless for just a moment.
“Wind-piercing thorn.” With a flash of light, the Wind Eagle Armor appeared behind the evil ginseng beast.
“……”
Blue flames rose from the sealing array, and the mutant beasts turned into suspended magic stickers in the distorted light and shadow.
Coulson and Matt, who were not far away, looked at each other, shocked and confused as they saw the monster turned into a card and was put into the belt of the Wind Eagle Armor.
Dongshan took off his armor, revealing a young and resolute face, and rain kept dripping down his hair.
“Hey, how do you feel? Are you seriously injured?” Dongshan quickly walked to Matt’s side with a concerned look.
Matt took a deep breath, slowly stood up, and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.
Although it was pitch black in front of him, he used his keen senses to clearly capture the subtle changes in air flow caused by Dong Shan’s approach.
“I can still hold on. Thank you for your timely action.” He nodded slightly, his voice a little tired but steady.
At this time, Coulson also walked forward with his usual friendly smile on his face. He held the umbrella steadily over Matt and Dongshan’s heads, just enough to block the heavy rain for them.
“I’ve introduced myself before. My name is Phil Coulson. I’m from the Strategic Homeland Defense Attack and Logistics Agency, or SHIELD for short.”
“Our bureau has a top medical team, Mr. Murdoch, and can provide you with the best treatment.” Coulson’s tone was polite and professional.
Matt frowned slightly when he heard this.
The name SHIELD was very unfamiliar to him. In his past, he focused on the affairs of Hell’s Kitchen and had never heard of such an organization.
However, the waves of severe pain throughout his body at this moment reminded him that he urgently needed professional treatment.
After a brief thought, he nodded gently, “Thank you very much.”
Coulson turned to look at Dongshan, his eyes full of curiosity and inquiry.
“Mr. Armor, your performance tonight has completely overturned our previous understanding.”
“We are eager to learn more about the monster just now and the magical armor you are wearing.”
He paused, his expression turning serious.
“You should be aware that if things like this, which are beyond ordinary people’s understanding, are not handled properly, they are likely to pose a major threat to global security.”
Dongshan looked calm and nodded slightly in response. “Hello, my name is Dongshan, the current Wind Eagle Armor summoner.”
He looked at the pier that was destroyed by the battle and said after a moment’s hesitation: “That monster is called the Evil Trigger Beast, and it comes from the Shadow Realm.”
“Summoning? Shadow Realm?” Coulson frowned, his face full of confusion. This new concept was too abstract for him.
“I’m really sorry, this is… a little hard for me to understand. Could you please explain it in detail?”
Dongshan did not answer immediately, but asked: “Is your SHIELD considered a government department?”
“certainly.”
Coulson quickly adjusted his expression and returned to his professional and capable self.
“SHIELD is affiliated with the World Security Council and is responsible for maintaining global security and stability. It specializes in dealing with various supernatural and abnormal events.”
As he said this, he took out his ID from his pocket and handed it to Dongshan.
The badge on the document gleamed metallically in the dim light.
Dong Shan took the certificate and looked through it carefully. After a moment, he raised his head and said seriously: “Things are far more complicated than you think. I hope to meet with your leader and explain these situations to him in person.”
Coulson looked troubled. After thinking for a moment, he said, “I need to ask my superiors for instructions.”
“Go ahead.” Dongshan nodded slightly.
Coulson turned around, quickly took out a special phone, and dialed Nick Fury’s hotline.
“Sir,”
He lowered his voice, his tone solemn.
“I think we have something big to do…”
Chapter 5 Armor and Shadow (Old Version)
Antique shop.
“It looks like we’ll be contacting S.H.I.E.L.D. soon.”
Roland couldn’t help but smile as he felt the spiritual power continuously gathering from the void.
“Intelligent brain, compare and analyze the strength gains several times and quantify the emotional value.”
“Let me see how much divine power these people in destiny can bring me.”
“Understood Master, comparison begins… prepare to quantify…”
SHIELD, Triskelion Building, Director’s Office.
A bald, one-eyed black man was standing in front of the French window, looking out.
This person is the current director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury.
A mysterious figure, no one can really figure out how many secrets he is hiding.
“Boom boom boom”
There was a knock on the door at the right time.
Nick Fury said calmly without even turning his head: “Come in.”
At the same time, he walked towards the seat behind the desk at a leisurely pace.
Just as he sat down, Coulson led Dongshan into the office.
“Please take a seat, Mr. Dongshan.” Nick Fury said in a steady tone.
That single eye was like the sharpest star in the cold night, accurately falling on Dongshan.
Carefully scrutinizing this visitor from afar.
Dongshan stood straight, although his face revealed a hint of fatigue after a long journey.
But the determination and calmness in his bones are like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, its edge cannot be concealed.
“Mr. Dongshan,” Nick Fury was the first to break the silence, “Coulson has already given me a general report of the situation.”
“But I want to hear you tell me in detail about the mutants, the armor, and the Shadow Realm you mentioned.”
Nick Fury leaned forward slightly and placed his hands firmly on the table with his hands crossed.
It was as if his gaze was real, locking onto Dong Shan.
It seems as if he wants to dig out the hidden secrets directly from the depths of the other person’s eyes.
Dongshan took a deep breath, nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and then spoke in an orderly manner.
“Director Fury, this all started with the Shadow Emperor.”
Dongshan looked solemn, with a hint of worry in his eyes.
Nick Fury was shocked inside, but he remained calm on the surface.
She folded her hands over her chest and waited quietly for Dongshan to continue.
“No one knows who he was before or what he went through. All we know is that when he showed up, he was already called the Shadow Emperor.”
Dongshan paused, as if organizing his thoughts.
“The Shadow Realm appeared with it, like a dark parallel world that constantly infiltrates the real world, attempting to devour everything with the power of shadow.”
Nick Fury’s eyes sharpened.
“So, this shadow world is a big threat to our world?”
“That’s right, Director Fury.” Dongshan affirmed.
“Shadow Stone – a special creation of the Shadow Realm. It is the key item for the Shadow Emperor to tear apart reality. It is like a wedge, ready to turn the world upside down.”
“Those supernatural beasts were born when all things in the world were contaminated by the Shadow Stone.”
“They are living bombs. Every cell is corroded by darkness and they want to devour the light like crazy.”
Dongshan’s tone was filled with indignation.
“Those monsters? I think we’ve already seen them.” Nick Fury leaned back in his chair, his eyes fixed on Dongshan.
“That’s why Ming Zun melted the five elements to forge armor.”
Dongshan suddenly spread out his five fingers, and blue light flashed in his palms.
“The power of the five elements, gold, wood, water, fire and earth, is one of the origins of the world.”
“This armor is like a scalpel. It has only one purpose – to remove the lesion of the shadow.”
“With this armor, we will have the capital to fight against the Shadow Emperor and stop him from further devouring the world.”
“Thousands of years have passed since the last war between light and shadow. Countless warriors were sacrificed to win the war, and now the power of darkness has begun to revive again.”
“Wait, a thousand years?” Nick Fury interrupted Dong Shan, “You mean these existed thousands of years ago?”
“To be precise, I am already the 31st Armor Summoner.”
“MatherFac…” Nick Fury looked surprised.
“Now, the appearance of the mutants also shows that the power of shadow has begun to infiltrate this world.”
Dongshan explained further.
“If it is not curbed in time, the consequences will be disastrous.”
“So, for the sake of this world, I sincerely hope to get help from SHIELD.” Dong Shan spoke sincerely and looked at Nick Fury with a firm gaze.
“I need intelligence support from SHIELD to help evacuate the people.”
“Leave everything about the battle to me!”
Dongshan’s words revealed a strong sense of confidence.
Nick Fury leaned back in his chair and was silent for a moment.
A serious look appeared on his face, and he said slowly: “Mr. Dongshan, your story is indeed shocking.”
“SHIELD has always been responsible for maintaining world peace. In the face of such a crisis, we are willing to cooperate with you to jointly deal with this disaster that may sweep the world.”
Having said that, deep in his heart, there was still a trace of doubt.
After all, everything Dongshan said was too beyond common sense, and it was really hard for people to accept it without reservation.
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the office door.
Accompanied by a burst of crisp footsteps, the office door was gently pushed open.
A beautiful woman wearing a black tight combat uniform, with a graceful figure and exquisite curves, walked into the room.
Her every move showed the efficiency and boldness of a secret agent, and she said crisply, “Sir.”
Nick Fury looked up at Natasha and spoke calmly.
“Natasha, from now on, you will be Mr. Dongshan’s contact person.”
“Remember, you must pay close attention to the development of the situation and not miss any subtle changes. Report to me at any time.”
Nick Fury spoke in an unhurried tone, yet his tone was filled with unquestionable authority.
Natasha nodded slightly, her short fiery red hair swaying gently with her movements.
Her gaze lingered on Dongshan for a moment, and a hint of inquiry flashed in her eyes, as if she was trying to analyze everything about the person in front of her in an instant.
“Understood, Chief.” Her voice was clear and capable.
Nick Fury turned to Dongshan and added, “Mr. Dongshan, if you need anything during the subsequent cooperation, you can contact Agent Natasha. She will do her best to assist you.”
As he spoke, he turned slightly and looked at Natasha.
“Of course, Natasha, when we find any abnormal situation here, we must contact Mr. Dongshan as soon as possible.”
“On behalf of the Five Elements Armor, I pay my respects to Chief Fury.”
Dongshan clenched his fist and placed it in front of his chest.
After Natasha and Dongshan left.
Nick Fury looked at Coulson and said, “Tell me your true judgment, Coulson.”
Coulson thought for a moment and said seriously, “Director,”
“The vital sign data from the past 72 hours show that Dongshan’s micro-expressions and heart rate fluctuations during his narration are completely consistent with the truth response pattern.”
Nick Fury nodded slightly.
“His words are too shocking. Even if I want to believe them subjectively, the reality is…”?
As he was speaking, the office door opened again and Hill walked in with a document in his hand.
“Director, the investigation report on Dongshan is out, and there is no such person.”
“There is no citizen record matching his fingerprint in any database in the world.”
“First there was Valon who could control shadows, and now there are mutant beasts and armor summoners. It’s as if these people appeared out of thin air. This world is really getting more and more confusing.”
Nick Fury frowned and thought for a moment.
“Notify the Strategic Science Department. After the next battle, I will need all the data on the mutant beast and Dongshan’s armor.”
Hill and Coulson looked at each other and said in unison, “Understood, Chief.”
Chapter 6: Gangsters and Ninjas (Old Version)
Let’s go back ten days, to Hell’s Kitchen, New York.
The neon lights turned into blood-red spots in the rain.
Kingpin stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, leaning on a pure gold cane; the glass reflected his mountainous back.
“The surveillance videos of thirteen casinos all show…” Bullseye played with the darts, the scarlet triangle flying on his fingertips, “Those ninja bastards can turn into shadows.”
Kingpin’s fist smashed a spiderweb-like crack on the bulletproof glass, and his muscles under his Italian handmade suit were knotted like steel cables. “Mrs. Gao hasn’t replied yet?”
“Mrs. Gao said it would take time, but I think it would be more convenient to just twist off Valon’s head.”
“Young people are always impatient.”
Mrs. Gao walked into Jin Bing’s office.
“Valon is currently at Pier 3 counting your vaults.”
The dart from Bullseye grazes Mrs. Gao’s hair and gets nailed into the wall. “The old woman knows exactly where the mouse is.”
Kingpin’s golden cane suddenly crushed the coffee table: “Madam Gao, I hired you to solve the problem, not to report the news.”
Mrs. Gao was not in a hurry and just waved her hand gently.
In an instant, a group of Shurakai ninjas emerged from the shadows all around. They were dressed in red tights and exuded a murderous aura.
“The Hand will let Valon know what a true ninja is.”
“A real ninja?” All he heard was a sneer.
At the same time, a painful groan of twisted metal came from the direction of the elevator shaft.
The three of them turned around suddenly and saw a young man holding a long sword leaning leisurely in front of the broken elevator door.
The young man had a stern face and the cold light on his sword illuminated the mysterious scarlet magatama in his eyes.
“You know nothing about ninjas!”
A poisoned blade popped out from the tip of Kingpin’s golden staff: “It seems that Valon has sent a great gift.”
His body, as strong as a rhinoceros, suddenly leaned forward, and his cane plowed out half-meter-long sparks on the ground.
“Wrong.”
The young man’s figure rushed forward like a ghost, and the Kusanagi sword in his hand was wrapped in a sharp gust of wind and stabbed straight at Kingpin.
“I’m here to sow seeds.”
Jin Bing’s pupils suddenly shrank, and when he swung the poisonous blade of his cane backhandedly, the tip of the sword was only three inches away from his throat.
The strong wind created by the sword cut Jin Bing’s tie, and the diamond-studded collar clip fell to the ground with a clang.
Seeing this, Bullseye threw the chandelier wrapped in steel wires like a meteor hammer and smashed it towards the boy. At the same time, twelve darts formed a spiral killing formation.
“A little devil pretending to be a ghost!”
“Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!”
The red fireball wrapped around the darts and the chandelier and rolled back.
The pupil of the target’s eye shrank instantly, and the blood on his face was completely gone. He had no time to think, and he raised his right hand violently. In the flash of cold light, the steel wire was cut by the sharp blade. Then, relying on the agility he had acquired over the years, he twisted his body forcefully.
However, even so, the blazing fireball still brushed against the hem of his suit. Bullseye threw away the burning clothes and looked towards Sasuke warily.
Mrs. Gao stood aside and witnessed all this, the expression on her face gradually changing from initial astonishment to solemnity.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, a hint of imperceptible vigilance flashed in her eyes, and she murmured in a low voice: “This kind of power…”
Then, she stared at the boy with a sharp gaze and asked in a cold voice, “Who are you? You are not from Valon.”
The young man put away his sword and stood, his eyes calmly sweeping over Madam Gao.
“Uchiha Sasuke”
Seven days later, deep inside the experimental base.
The pale light cast bluish-gray spots on the metal walls, and the hem of Orochimaru’s white robe swept across the wet concrete floor.
The glass jars containing various biological specimens glowed faintly in the shadows, and the limbs suspended in the formalin solution trembled slightly with his footsteps.
“Lord Orochimaru, the experimental samples you need have been delivered.” Mrs. Gao said respectfully.
“The efficiency is acceptable.” The hoarse voice startled the ventilation ducts to echo.
The golden snake eyes swept over the kneeling Kingpin and the five fingers of the hand.
“The seeds of the sacred tree have sprouted, and the progress of the experiment can be accelerated.”
“As for those little bats that were afraid of sunlight, try to catch some of them. I’m very interested in them.”
“This…” Mrs. Gao looked embarrassed.
“What? Is there a problem?” Orochimaru raised his eyebrows.
“Lord Orochimaru, the vampires are very powerful, and recently there is a very annoying private detective who has been investigating us. We alone…”
Mrs. Gao hesitated a little and said through gritted teeth.
“We need strength, Lord Orochimaru, you promised us before…”
“Hahahaha, sure. Come on, let me show you my latest achievement.”
The corner of Orochimaru’s mouth curled up into a crazy arc.
Deep inside the laboratory, there are glass jars filled with various organisms.
Animals, plants, and even dangerous species from deep within the Amazon rainforest.
However, the largest number is still human beings, men, women, young and old, of all shapes and sizes.
“Hmph, sacred tree, let me see the power you have today!”
Orochimaru raised a weird smile and waved to the researcher in a white coat.
“Let’s get started…”
“Yes, sir.” The researcher replied tremblingly.
“Record, experiment number 3258, seventh injection begins…”
When the seventh tube of dark gray liquid was injected into the bodies of Jin Bing’s men.
The sturdy man with a skull tattoo suddenly knelt down and roared in pain.
Root-like lines gradually emerged under his skin, as if living roots were growing wildly inside his body.
Then, the skin gradually turned dark gray.
“Daniel…” Jin Bing stood in front of the glass window, frowning slightly, watching the scene, and whispering softly.
“Relax, Wilson. The flames of revenge have given him enough courage.”
Orochimaru’s hoarse voice sounded.
“You said so, Sasuke-kun?”
“snort”
Jin Bing recalled the day when he was recruiting experimenters, when Daniel knelt in front of him and begged to participate in the experiment.
Kingpin thought to himself, “Daniel, the power is now yours.”
“boom”?
With a loud bang, Daniel opened his mouth and spewed out a ball of fire, instantly burning a charred hole in the instrument.
The fireball was so hot that the air around it was distorted. ?
Orochimaru stuck out his snake-like tongue, licked his lips slowly, with a smile on his face.
“Heh, it’s a degraded version of chakra, but it can turn ninjutsu into instinct and can be performed without hand seals, which is quite interesting.”
The voice was full of satisfaction with the experimental results.
“It’s enough to deal with the people you mentioned.”
After a pause, he continued.
“Lord Orochimaru, 20.” Kingpin stepped forward and bowed slightly.
His eyes were fierce, “I need 20 warriors like this to burn Valon’s nest into slag.”
“Wilson,” Orochimaru’s eyes were as cold as a snake, “don’t forget those shadowy guys.”
“Don’t worry, sir,” Jin Bing gritted his teeth, “but the ninjas of Walon will turn into smoke and disappear…”
“Sasuke-kun, please go there as well.” The snake eyes swept over Kingpin and said to Sasuke.
“Hmph.” Sasuke curled his lips, “Sealing Scroll.”
“As expected, it’s Sasuke-kun. His insight is terrifying.”
Orochimaru spat out a slippery scroll from his mouth.
Chapter 7: Dark Killer Maggie (Old Version)
Hell’s Kitchen, West 39th Street and 10th Avenue.
Two hooligans stood on the street corner, staring at the newly renovated building not far away. There was a brand new sign hanging on it – Black Hand Club.
“How much the hell is this going to cost?”
The short and fat man crushed the broken neon reflections in the puddles with the toes of his shoes, and his cheap sneakers made a squeaking sound.
“Look at that weird marble statue at the door. It’s enough to keep us entertained for a month.”
“Stop talking nonsense and move quickly.” The tall and thin man said impatiently.
“These are the things that Boss Valon asked me to collect.”
The tall and thin man sneered with a cigarette butt in his mouth, and the newly tattooed totem of the Holy Lord on his neck was still oozing blood.
“Last week, One-Eyed Billy didn’t deliver his stuff on time, so guess what?”
He deliberately lowered his voice, “Right now that idiot’s eyeballs are being fed to the piranhas in the aquarium.”
“I see. I don’t know why Boss Valon is so crazy that he keeps collecting these glass balls with stars on them.”
The fat man looked helpless.
“Big Maggie is going crazy too!”
“squeak……”
The screeching sound of tires rubbing against the ground interrupted the fat man’s complaints.
A convoy of five stretched Lincolns blocked the entrance to the club.
The gold-plated Wilson Enterprises emblem on the car door glowed coldly under the neon light.
Twenty gray-skinned people got off the car in silence, and the leader even emitted sparks from his teeth with every breath.
The short and fat man was so frightened that his hands shook and the cigarette butt in his mouth fell directly into the box that was being moved.
“Holy shit! That’s Daniel, Reyes’s damn brother…”
Inside the club.
Peacock blue neon tubes wind around the surface of the laser ball, outlining a dragon pattern.
The strong sounds of electronic bass and industrial metal are intertwined, and the sound waves roll, causing tiny ripples on the edge of the whiskey glass.
On the stage, the stripper, wearing 15-centimeter red-soled high heels, spun rapidly around the steel pipe, her figure as graceful as a phantom.
The patch of her bikini, studded with rhinestones, seemed to brush the nose of the gangster in a suit below.
“Another tequila!” a burly man with a scorpion tattoo shouted at the top of his voice.
At the same time, he stuffed the US dollar bills into the bunny girl’s bra, and a strong smell of alcohol gushed out of his gold-toothed mouth.
Behind him, in a three-meter-high aquarium, piranhas were frantically gnawing at a skeleton dressed in a suit.
As the piranha’s blood-red gill covers opened and closed, the golden emblem clipped on the skeleton’s tie became faintly visible.
Just at this moment.
A small piece of ice fell quietly onto the obsidian bar.
The bulletproof glass in the VIP area on the second floor was rapidly frosting over at an extremely strange angle.
The originally peacock blue neon light was also distorted by some inexplicable high temperature and gradually turned into purple.
The bartender, who was wiping the glass, suddenly stopped moving.
He saw his reflection in the margarita glass.
The face was actually half swallowed up by the shadow cast by the ceiling.
Immediately afterwards, there was a loud bang and an explosion!
At this moment, the crystal chandelier fell into the center of the dance floor like a meteor.
The strippers panicked and ran around screaming in their burning high heels.
In the panic, I saw a transformed warrior with dark gray skin walking steadily towards me on sparks. The tree root-like blood vessels exposed at his collar were clearly visible, throbbing in the light of the fire.
“Greetings from Kingpin.” Daniel said as he stomped on the glass that rolled to his feet and broke it.
The dark red chakra surging in his throat burned his vocal cords and made him hoarse, “Where is Valon?”
In response to him, three gleaming samurai swords instantly stabbed out from the shadows around them.
Swish!
The blade made a sharp sound and slashed towards Daniel’s temple.
Daniel grinned with a hideous smile, and in an instant, the tree root patterns quickly covered his entire face like vines.
Then he opened his mouth and spewed out a red flame tornado, instantly burning the three shadow ninjas into smoke.
The molten tip of the knife fell “clink” into the champagne bucket beside it. The carbonic acid bubbles in the bucket, carrying blood and flesh fragments, kept splashing upwards, even splashing onto the ceiling.
“Ninja?” Daniel grabbed the burning grand piano and smashed it towards the second floor, shouting, “That’s what a fucking ninja is!”
“Valon! Pay for my brother’s life!”
In the top-floor office, Valon sat there leisurely, tapping the mahogany cigar box lightly with his fingers wearing the jade ring.
The twelve surveillance screens emitted a faint blue light, making the gold embroidery on his dark green suit particularly eye-catching.
He looked calmly at the first-floor dance floor being ruthlessly engulfed by flames on the screen, and the emerald cane in his hand lightly tapped the ground, making a slight sound.
“That’s all the new stuff Kingpin has come up with?”
The bulletproof glass made a harsh sound like nails scratching.
Maggie walked into the office in high heels, her scarlet nails scratching the flames on the surveillance screen.
The Holy Lord totem on the neck suddenly oozed black gas, which flowed along the collarbone into the deep V neckline, winding out ancient talismans on the skin.
“It’s time to trim the kittens’ nails.”
Valon trimmed the high-end cigars slowly and methodically with a cigar cutter.
Maggie licked the black blood that spilled from the corner of her mouth.
“Okay, sweetheart.”
As she walked down the spiral staircase stepping on the fragments of the crystal chandelier, the charred carpet suddenly oozed out an asphalt-like substance, and thirty shadow ninjas broke out of the ground.
The samurai swords in their hands were wrapped in purple-blue spells, and when the blades cut through the air, they made a shrill cry like a hundred demons crying at night.
“bitch…”
The chakra in Daniel’s throat was overloaded, and the red flames that spewed out covered Maggie and the black shadow ninja.
“Bury me with my brother!”
Maggie’s high heels sank suddenly into the marble floor, like stepping into a swamp.
The whole person turned into black smoke and passed through the oncoming fire wave, and the skirt made of ash swept across Daniel’s dark gray skin.
When the entity recondensed, fingers painted with scarlet nail polish were already pressing on the back of the transformed warrior’s neck.
“Your brother’s spine is still used as a coat rack in Boss Valon’s office.” The black energy attached to Maggie’s nails suddenly grew ten centimeters. “Now it’s your turn.”
A bone spur suddenly sprouted from Daniel’s elbow, but it only tore apart a ball of black mist.
“Tear them apart!”
Daniel roared from deep in his chest.
The pupils of the nineteen transformed warriors flashed with blood at the same time, and the violent chakra created a hurricane in the confined space.
Water guns and fire snakes intertwined into a web, and the spikes tore the marble floor into pieces.
Three half-melted shadow warriors suddenly jumped out of the smoke, and the spell wrapped around their blades actually split the flames in half.
Maggie stepped on the ice crystals and jumped to the marble bar. Wherever her skirt swept, thirty samurai swords wrapped in purple spells stabbed at Daniel’s heart at the same time.
The transformed warrior’s bone spurs collided with the spell blade, producing dazzling sparks.
“Too slow.” Maggie licked the black blood oozing from the wound and hung upside down. The black gas bursting out from her fingertips was like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue.
Just as the three transformed warriors set up the rock barrier, Maggie appeared behind them.
The black gas penetrated the skull, and the gray-white brain matter was corroded away in an instant.
Chapter 8: Shadow Corps vs. God Tree Warriors (Old Version)
The burning velvet curtains suddenly moved without wind.
Seven shurikens engraved with curse seals flew straight towards Maggie.
The three magatama of the Sharingan slowly rotated in the smoke, reflecting the restless Holy Lord totem on Maggie’s neck.
“Little kid shouldn’t be here.” Maggie suddenly appeared from the wall behind Sasuke, and her palm emitting black air was only three centimeters away from his back.
Sasuke turned into a piece of substitute wood swallowed by black air. When his real body appeared on the table on the side, the sealing scroll had already been unfolded.
“seal up!”
As the spell on the shuriken lit up, the blade that was about to pierce Sasuke’s forehead suddenly stopped.
The shadow ninja let out an inhuman wail as he was sucked into the scroll like a living snake.
“Crack!”
Maggie dug her nails into her palms, and black blood dripped from her fingers onto the marble floor.
“This is impossible!”
Her voice had a hoarseness like the scratching of metal.
“How could the Lord’s Black Shadow Army…”
Sasuke paused slightly as he put the scroll into his ninja tool bag.
When he raised his eyes, the three magatama flowed in scarlet: “Death is the fate of ninjas.”
As he turned around, his sleeves rolled up in a sharp arc, “Finishing.”
“Yes, sir.” Daniel knelt on one knee.
“Want to leave?”
The black fog suddenly exploded!
Maggie screamed and opened her arms, and countless black air turned into tentacles and pierced out from the void.
A sound of breaking air was heard.
Sasuke’s figure instantly disappeared into thin air, turning into smoke and dissipating in the reverse summoning formation.
Maggie was left standing there, shaking with anger.
“Son of a bitch!”
Daniel laughed wildly.
“Now it’s our turn to dance the death tango!”
“Black Shadow Army, follow my command and crush them all!”
Maggie’s face was now filled with rage, and she screamed hysterically, “You all must die!”
The shadow ninjas were like an endless black tide, surging madly in wave after wave.
“Just you, a bunch of shadow bastards?”
Daniel looked crazy and activated his chakra desperately.
“Look at me burning you all!”
After defeating wave after wave of shadow ninjas, Daniel felt a sense of emptiness. The gushing flames gradually became smaller and finally turned into only sporadic sparks.
“Fire… How come…”
Daniel staggered and held onto the charred pillar, the sparks between his fingers fainter than a candle.
Daniel, who had been showing his might just now, now felt weak.
The protruding tree-root patterns on his face were now wrinkled like withered vines, and even the fireballs that were ejected were shattered into a few clusters of ashes in mid-air.
Maggie’s high heels kicked through the rock barrier that Daniel had just half-formed.
“The little wolf-dog has no strength left?”
He leaned over Daniel’s knees and scratched his cracked lips with nails made of black energy.
“Your breathing fire is much sexier than Reyes drawing a gun.”
“Shut up!”
Daniel’s fist hit nothing, and his dark gray skin was fading to pale white at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Three of his men suddenly stood in front of him and formed seals, and the water tornado that should have gushed out only squeezed out a few drops of water.
The shadow warrior’s blade took the opportunity to pierce the chest of one of them.
“Boss… Chakra…” The dying transformed warrior grabbed the blade that pierced his body. The creeping tree roots under his skin were sucking his last vitality. “Stop…”
The blood in Daniel’s pupils flickered. He tore open his burning suit jacket, revealing the veins of the sacred tree that had swelled to the size of a fist at his heart.
“Burn them all…!”
But this time, all that came out was black smoke with sparks, which made him cough violently.
“It seems that when the match burns out–“
Maggie’s laughter mixed with the sound of shattering glass echoed in the fire scene.
“It’s time to treat yourself as firewood.
Daniel fell to his knees, watching the tree root patterns on his arms sucking away his life force like straws.
“Your bones are much more fragile than your brother’s!”
Maggie waved her hand, signaling the shadow ninja to come forward.
“Kill them.”
“Even if I die…I will…take you to be buried with me…”
Daniel tightly grasped the wrist of the shadow ninja holding the knife, and the blade was only half an inch away from his throat.
As Daniel roared, the roots of the tree suddenly wrapped around the ninja’s arms like leeches.
The clamped black shadow ninja suddenly twitched violently, and the black energy around him flowed back into Daniel’s body along his veins.
Maggie’s sneer froze at the corner of her mouth—she saw the black shadow ninja’s body being whipped into thin threads.
“Holy Lord!” Maggie dug her nails deep into her palms, and black blood dripped onto the charred carpet. “How dare this filthy experiment…”
The bulging veins under Daniel’s skin suddenly made a muffled sound as if a blood vessel had burst, and dark red lines spread wildly across his neck.
“Hahahaha, come on! Feed me more!”
Feeling the stronger power filling his body, he rushed headfirst into the densest area of ​​the black shadow army.
On the rooftop, Valon twirled his cane and watched the battle on the screen quietly.
“interesting.”
The voice was low and playful.
“Then show me how much you can suck!”
In a flash, more shadow ninjas emerged from the depths of the shadows like a surging tide.
Daniel only felt the energy in his body surging wildly.
His internal organs seemed to be pierced by countless steel needles, and every inch of his flesh and blood was bearing the onslaught of energy, as if it was going to burst him from the inside.
“Get out of here!” Daniel screamed.
His eyeballs were bloodshot, pain and fear intertwined, his body was shaking uncontrollably, and every breath was accompanied by heart-wrenching pain.
He gritted his teeth, unleashed all his energy, and tried to break out of the encirclement.
However, the surrounding black shadow ninjas gathered around him like a tide, and the thick shadows seemed to swallow him completely.
Unfortunately, the surging energy in his body prevented Daniel from moving forward.
“I haven’t…taken revenge yet…”
The words have not been finished yet.
“boom……”
In an instant, a dazzling white light bloomed before my eyes like a suddenly exploding sun.
The light was so strong that all that remained on everyone’s retina was a dizzying white.
Immediately afterwards, a powerful shock wave swept in with devastating force, blowing away everything wherever it went.
The dazzling crystal chandelier disappeared in an instant under the scorching heat, as if it had never existed.
The solid bulletproof glass curtain wall on the top floor was instantly shattered into crystal rain under the impact of this force.
As Maggie walked into the office, stepping on broken glass, her heels were still stained with ash from the explosion.
“Those bastards are eating the Shadow!”
Maggie’s nails suddenly pierced into the brass door frame, and white smoke of corrosion rose from the metal surface: “Daniel drained the energy of ten ninjas before he died!”
The surveillance footage suddenly froze at the moment when Daniel’s pupils bulged.
Valon magnified the image twenty times. In the transformed warrior’s burst capillaries, there was a faint black gas flowing through the veins.
“It looks like there’s a new player in the chess game of Hell’s Kitchen.”
Valon twirled his emerald staff, “Kingpin’s dog has learned to eat shadows.”
Maggie licked her red lips: “Do we need to make the new chess player’s head into a traffic light?”
“No, I want them to carry the crown to the Holy Altar themselves.”
Valon flicked off the cigar ash, and from the ashes emerged surveillance footage of a mutant beast roaming around the West District Pier.
“after all……”
Push Kingpin’s badge in the direction marked “Monster”.
“A good chef knows how to season the ingredients.”
Chapter 9: Alliance with ulterior motives (old version)
West Side Pier, the birthplace of the Black Hand Gang.
The neon lights turned into blood-red spots in the thick fog, and the rusty containers looked like a maze of giant beast skeletons.
When a dragon-shaped blood pattern appeared on the surface of the 36th container, Valon was tapping his pocket watch with his index finger wearing a jade ring, and the metal dial reflected the gradually widening curve of his mouth.
“It’s time to close the net.”
The dragon pupil on the ring suddenly opened its scarlet vertical eye, and a black beam of light shot up into the sky from the depths of the container group.
At this moment, on the underground altar several kilometers away, the suspended shadow stone suddenly vibrated violently.
Shadow Tyrant’s expression changed, and he quickly pressed down the pulsating shadow stone, exclaiming in surprise: “Such a strong shadow power!”
Shadow Tyrant didn’t dare to delay and immediately rushed to the dock with the Rock Beast.
When he arrived, he saw thirty-six containers being twisted and deformed by the erosion of shadows.
Valon stood upright at the intersection of the light beams, the hem of his suit raised elegantly by the turbulent energy. The corners of his mouth slightly raised, and his tone was a little teasing: “Two minutes and seventeen seconds later than I expected.”
“Shadow is not a toy.”
The asphalt road under Yingba’s feet turned into sand in an instant, and the mucus dripping from the fangs of the rock beast corroded into wisps of green smoke.
“Since we are both servants of the Shadow, hand over the ring. Perhaps your skull can become the wine glass on the throne of the Shadow Emperor.”
“Servant? No, I am just a servant of money and power, and power can only be used by me.” Valon looked proud.
A large number of ninjas emerged from the shadows all around and confronted the mutant beasts.
“Hmph, you ignorant natives.” Sweeping the surrounding ninjas, Yingba sneered disdainfully.
“Oh? The Shadow Emperor… a native…” A sly look flashed in Valon’s eyes, “Let me guess… a stray dog ​​from the Shadow Realm? How does it feel to wander alone?”
Upon hearing this, Shadow Tyrant’s expression suddenly changed: “How do you know about the Shadow Realm? You are not a native of this world!”
“Hahahaha, looks like we can sit down and have a cup of coffee together.”
Valon laughed so loudly that the sound echoed around the dock.
“This world is as lively as a market.”
With a snap of his fingers, the black shadow ninja slowly emerged from the shadows carrying the remains of the chakra warrior.
The veins of the sacred tree at the heart of the corpse were greedily sucking the shadow energy. Valon pointed at the corpse and said, “It’s just that some guests are not as polite as me.”
“Look at this greedy hyena devouring his dinner.”
“Hahahaha,” Shadow Tyrant also laughed, his laughter full of sarcasm, “Swallow? This is the funniest joke I’ve ever heard.”
Shadow Tyrant glanced casually at the remains of the Chakra Warrior, “The more the hyena eats, the closer he is to his true master.”
“Really? Unfortunately, this world doesn’t have enough nutrients for you to raise these… cute little pets.”
“You…” Yingba was choked and speechless, his face becoming increasingly gloomy.
“Poor little dog, didn’t your owner give you enough meat bones when you went out?” Valon laughed, “Or are you just an abandoned stray dog?”
Yingba’s face turned pale and red.
“Enough! Tell me! What is your purpose in bringing me here?”
“Cooperation!” Valon rubbed the ring on his hand.
“Hmph, cooperation?” Yingba snorted coldly when he heard that, obviously he was very angry.
“I can provide you with a constant supply of shadow energy,” Valon said as he threw the Holy Lord Ring to Shadow Tyrant, “I need your little cutie to help me deal with this Kingpin and the people behind him…”
Yingba reached out and grabbed the flying ring steadily. He was startled at first, then laughed out loud: “What a good way to divert trouble!” After the laughter stopped, he looked at Valon, “We can cooperate, but I have to know who I am cooperating with!”
“The remnants of the old world will eventually ignite the flames of the new world!” Valon raised his arms high, his voice magnetic and elegant.
“Who was I thinking? Turns out it’s you, a bunch of defeated enemies of the alliance!” Yingba mocked immediately.
“Failure is only temporary, but success only requires once.”
After saying this, without giving Yingba a chance to refute, he turned around and walked into the shadows.
He left a message “Happy cooperation!” and disappeared.
Shadow Tyrant looked at the place where Valon disappeared and snorted coldly: “Humph, no matter what you want to do, as long as I can open the passage to the Shadow Realm, I will be the one who laughs last!”
The dock returned to dead silence, with only the container eroded by shadows silently telling what had just happened.
Yingba returned to his underground altar, holding the Holy Lord’s ring tightly in his hand. The dragon emblem on the ring seemed to flash a mysterious light in the darkness.
“If it weren’t for that damn planetary observer and that damn Mingjie, why would I be so cautious?”
“Large-scale shadow contamination won’t work. We can only try to cooperate with the remnants…”
“I just didn’t expect that the remnants would be able to extract the power of shadow.”
“But Shadow is not so easy to be contaminated by!”
After a pause, Yingba’s expression revealed fanaticism and determination.
“All for Shadow!”
Meanwhile, in Orochimaru’s laboratory.
Under the pale light, the deformed biological specimens in the culture dish twitched slightly in the solution.
Orochimaru’s snake pupils narrowed into thin lines, and his pale fingers pressed on the bloody seal that sealed the scroll.
“untie!”
As the seal was completed, a tadpole-shaped black spell appeared on the surface of the scroll.
The black mist rushed out like a living snake, and six black shadow ninjas were entangled by the roots of the sacred tree and revealed their true forms.
As the samurai sword wrapped with purple spells was raised, the branches of the sacred tree suddenly grew long, and the roots pierced into the ninja’s chest like blood-sucking leeches.
“What an intoxicating nutrient…” Orochimaru’s tongue swept across his lips.
The branches of the sacred tree seedling began to twist and grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, and dark red blood vessel-like lines appeared on the surface of the bark.
When the last bit of shadow energy was sucked away, the newly grown leaves took on an ominous inky black color.
Sasuke leaned against the wall with his arms folded, his Sharingan reflecting the strange growth of the sacred tree: “It is more effective than expected.”
“It seems that the power of shadow is more delicious than the energy of the planet!”
Orochimaru ran his fingertips over the throbbing veins in the tree trunk, feeling the surging energy pulsating through it.
“The collision of chakra and shadow actually produces such beautiful fireworks.”
Orochimaru’s fingertips wandered over the protruding veins of the tree trunk like a harpist stroking the strings of a harp.
“If it could be watered with the purest shadow energy…”
“For example, using the hearts of those cute little ones in the Shadow Realm – Shadow Stones – as nutrients…”
He suddenly turned around, his snake pupils shrinking into slits in the phosphorescent light of the culture fluid, “Sasuke-kun… do you think that when the essence of the entire Shadow Realm is sucked out by the roots of the Divine Tree, will it be the most perfect evolutionary concerto?”
The Kusanagi sword reflected the dim light of the culture fluid, drawing a cold galaxy at Sasuke’s feet.
When Sasuke turned around, the forehead strap swept across his cheek, casting a winding shadow on the ground: “The Shadow Realm is not something we can mess with!”
“Well, Sasuke-kun, don’t be so serious…”
“If the Shadow Realm doesn’t work, then what about this world?”
“Will there be a meal or dessert?”
The hem of Orochimaru’s white coat swept across the slime on the ground, “When the sacred tree blooms, everything you want…” He deliberately dragged out the ending, looking at the boy’s back that suddenly stopped, “You will naturally get it from it.”
Chapter 10: Jessica Jones’s New Commission (Old Version)
Kana Detective Agency.
In the early morning in New York, the fog has not yet dissipated.
The sound of wine bottles clinking woke up the hungover Jessica Jones.
“Damn it, how the hell did you get in here!”
Jessica came to the kitchen and saw Malcolm dancing in front of the wine cabinet. Her temples throbbed and she wanted to punch him out.
“Breaking into a private residence is a felony!” Malcolm grabbed a fruit knife beside him in a daze, pointing the tip of the knife at Jessica, but his eyes were dull and there was no threat at all.
“This is my fucking apartment!” Jessica rolled her eyes and snatched the fruit knife.
“Oh! I was wondering why there is no more wine!” Malcolm spread his hands, “Also, your door is broken.”
“I know…” Jessica sighed and grabbed his collar and dragged him out.
The traces of the door lock being pried open were clearly visible, and she couldn’t help but shook her head.
“You can go now.”
“Okay, okay.” Malcolm raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, but suddenly turned around at the door and grabbed the door frame. “Oh, by the way, there is news about those strange things you asked me to find out last time!”
Jessica paused, raised her eyebrows slightly, and said, “Speak.”
“I heard from the old cripple in the West End that he saw a carriage flying from the ferry on the Hudson River.” Malcolm lowered his voice and said mysteriously, “He also said that there was a man-eating monster at the dock.”
“It sounds like a fantasy blockbuster written by a third-rate Hollywood screenwriter, with wizards fighting biological monsters!”
“Do you think it could be a secret government experiment?” Malcolm’s unconventional thinking made Jessica’s head ache.
“Do you need me to help you wake up?” Jessica clenched her fists, and her knuckles made a slight crackling sound.
“OK, OK, I’ll leave now!” Malcolm quickly let go of his hand, turned around and disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Back in the room, Jessica sat on the creaking swivel chair with her legs crossed, turned on the TV, picked up the half-empty bottle of whiskey beside her and took a big gulp.
The burning sensation from the alcohol sobered her up a little.
On TV, Director George was being besieged by a group of reporters, with flash cameras flashing constantly.
“This is the largest missing persons case in New York’s history…” A reporter held up the microphone, almost touching George’s face, “Valon, who committed the robbery before, has not been arrested yet. There is reason to doubt whether the New York Police Department is capable of protecting the lives and property of taxpayers…”
“The New York Police Department is fully capable of…” George’s voice was drowned out by the noisy questioning.
“Another bad day.”
Looking at the big bold words on TV saying “There have been 69 reports of missing persons this month”, Jessica took another sip of her wine.
“Crunch—”
At this moment, the broken door made a harsh sound.
A woman in a faded woolen coat walked in against the cold wind, with a somewhat embarrassed look on her face.
“Sorry, this door seems to be broken.”
“I know……”
“I’ve been reminded twice this morning, just ten minutes ago.”
Jessica shrugged and said indifferently.
“Are you Jessica Jones, private investigator?”
Barbara, looking tired, asked tentatively, unable to believe that this drunk woman so early in the morning was a famous private investigator.
“Yes, it’s me.” Jessica straightened her messy hair and tried to make herself look more professional. “How can I help you?”
“I called the police, but they said Tony ran away with a stripper.” Barbara put the information on the table and watched the report on TV with a trace of despair in her eyes.
Jessica used the bottom of a whiskey bottle to hold down the flying bills and picked up the photo in the file.
It was a surveillance screenshot, in which a man in a hoodie was withdrawing money from an ATM machine, and the glass behind him reflected the figure of a scantily clad black-haired woman.
“Did your husband withdraw cash in the early morning before he disappeared?” Jessica asked with sharp eyes.
“The police said it was money for the mistress to stay overnight.”
Barbara’s voice was trembling. “But I found this in the back of Tony’s truck.”
Then he took out a beautifully wrapped teddy bear from his canvas bag, “But he hasn’t even given his daughter a present yet. He never misses his daughter’s birthday.”
Jessica was silent for a moment, then nodded, “Okay, I’ll give you a standard contract later.”
“Thank you, thank you.”
Barbara thanked him repeatedly, left her phone number, and walked out of the office in a daze.
Jessica picked up the whiskey on the table, took a big gulp, and her eyes fell on the case board.
The recent missing persons cases have made her extremely anxious. She has received three commissions alone.
However, previous investigations did not yield many useful clues, and the only clues sounded a bit far-fetched.
Standing in front of the yellowed case board, pinning new photos of the missing person on the case board.
The three photos stood side by side, and the clues under the thumbtacks looked messy. Although it was very strange, as a professional private detective, no clue could be missed, no matter how outrageous it was.
Jessica sighed, hesitated for a moment, and picked up the pen.
“Invisible ninjas, flaming iron men, man-eating monsters, and flying carriages.” She whispered, writing these outrageous words on the board with the tip of her pen.
“Damn it, this is all some magical urban legend!”
Jessica couldn’t help but sigh, rubbed her swollen head, and took another gulp of wine.
“According to reliable sources…” A familiar voice from TV interrupted her thoughts.
In the picture, WNBC news anchor Tracy Walker is chasing Chief George.
“There are not only so many missing persons cases recently. Some of them are attributed to emotional discord and not filed. Director George, do you have anything to explain…”
George’s livid face was reflected on the microphone.
“It seems that a lot of things have been covered up…” Jessica looked at the familiar figure in the picture, thoughtfully.
A few hours later.
“Hi, hello, is this Miss Tracy’s home?” A young police officer with a reserved look on his face knocked on the door.
“So this is your new dog?” Jessica opened the door, turned to Tracy and said with a hint of teasing in her tone.
Stepping aside, the young police officer followed Jessica into the room, introducing himself to her as he walked.
“Patrolman Henry.”
“I never miss a piece of news from Miss Tracy.”
He turned to Tracy and gave her what he thought was a perfect smile.
“Miss Tracy, I brought everything you wanted.”
Henry took out a file bag with the words “emotional disputes will not be filed” marked on it.
He placed the documents on the table one by one. “It contains all the recent reports. All the cases that have not been filed are here.”
Jessica picked up the information and glanced through it quickly.
The missing persons are all men, and their occupations are filled in with different jobs such as deliveryman, plumber, warehouse manager, etc.
However, the words “romantic encounter” and “bar encounter” appeared repeatedly in the witness statements.
“That bastard Joseph always brags about hooking up with girls from the modeling agency…” The testimony of a construction worker was circled in red.
“It seems that we have found the common ground.” Jessica whispered, with a sharp light in her eyes.
The next day, at a restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen.
Jessica slapped the credit card bill on the greasy dining table, where the tall and thin Sgor and the short and fat Burke were sharing a pizza.
The Holy Lord tattoos are clearly visible on their necks.
“The new guy, Valon?” Jessica asked, with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
“How about it, big sister? Is it much better looking than the previous spider?” Sgor smiled proudly.
“It’s really like a poisonous snake.” Jessica’s voice was cold.
Jessica was already very unhappy when she found out that Maggie was a gangster boss, and now she found out that she was hanging out with Valon, the one who caused trouble in Hell’s Kitchen. It would be a miracle if she was nice to him.
“Um… Boss Maggie has looked for you many times.” Sgor and Burke looked at each other, with a hint of uneasiness in their tone.
“Okay, stop talking nonsense and get down to business.” Jessica waved her hand impatiently.
“That hot black-haired chick?”
“Yes, she said she would take me to an exciting place tonight.”
Sgor smiled and took credit.
“I’ll follow you guys tonight.” Jessica stood up, her eyes stern, “Don’t mess it up.”
“And tell that crazy woman Maggie not to get herself involved.”
Chapter 11: Death Flame Beast (Old Version)
As night fell, a graceful beauty led Sgor and Burke to a slaughterhouse.
“It’s right here.” The black-haired hot girl threw a wink, hooked her finger, and walked inside first.
The two men looked at the dark slaughterhouse in front of them and hesitated to move forward.
“Keep up, stay alert.”
Hearing the voice coming from the tiny earphones, the two looked at each other.
“Big sister, if there is any problem, you must come and save us.”
As soon as they stepped into the store, they were shocked by the scene before them.
Although the decoration is ordinary, the soul of the nightclub is the beauties!
Beautiful women are a scarce resource everywhere, and this nightclub is filled with beautiful women.
Although none of them have an angelic face, they at least have a breathtaking figure.
And it’s very open here.
In the corner next to the dance floor, a man and a woman were kissing passionately. There was even a slim beauty kneeling in front of the man, doing something indescribable.
“Wow, that’s amazing!” Burke exclaimed.
“Yes, I think so too!” Sgor looked at the man in the corner, wishing he could replace him.
“Oh~~~”
“Fack! You two idiots, I didn’t ask you to come and see beautiful women!”
“Pay attention to your surroundings and see if there’s anything wrong!”
Jessica’s roar came from the headphones.
The two of them shrugged helplessly and danced funny dances into the dance floor.
The handsome men and beautiful women on the dance floor twisted their bodies to the rhythm of the music.
Burke pretended to dance while observing the situation around him.
He also stretched out his dirty hands to touch the beautiful woman next to him who was wearing cool clothes, and felt the touch of the top beauty.
This action not only did not result in rejection, but instead earned him a seductive look.
“I love this place,” Burke enthused.
“There will be something more exciting soon.” The beauty said close to Burke’s ear.
The smell of perfume on her body fascinated Burke.
As a low-level gangster, Bourke had never experienced a beauty of this level.
Although Big Sister and Maggie are both beauties, one is a violent maniac and the other is a lunatic who likes excitement. They also both have extremely high fighting power, which is really scary to look at.
“Big sister, are you mistaken? Any normal man who comes to this place will cheat!”
“Shit, Bourke, use your pig brain. The fact that such a beautiful woman likes you is the biggest mistake!”
Jessica climbed to the roof, holding a high-definition camera in her hand, monitoring the situation inside the nightclub.
“Forehead…”
Before Burke could retort, he was interrupted by DJ’s voice.
“Dear compatriots, the carnival night begins now~~Blood bath~”
“Oh~~”
The cheers were deafening.
“Blood bath? What’s this new way to play?” Burke asked Sgor who was cheering on the side.
“I don’t know, who cares.” Sgor said without even turning his head.
The sprinkler head on the ceiling began to spray, and drops of blood fell down, gradually becoming larger and larger, like heavy rain pouring down.
When the first drop of blood fell on Burke’s face, he thought it was someone’s sweat until he saw Sgor’s blue face.
Then Burke smelled the familiar smell of blood.
“shit, shit”
“Big sister, help, help!”
“Hurry up, run outside!” Jessica’s anxious voice and the sound of metal colliding against each other came from the headphones.
With a livid face, Sgor grabbed the fat man and tried hard to squeeze out of the crowd.
“The carnival night has just begun, where do you want to go?” The beautiful woman who was dressed coolly just now showed her sharp fangs and asked with a grin.
“Um… let’s go buy a brace, there’s still time…”
Seeing the men and women around him baring their fangs, Sgor couldn’t help but shudder.
“Big sister, come quickly, I can’t take it anymore…” Burke was shivering on the side.
Just as the duo tried to escape, the entire dance floor suddenly fell silent and the blood rain from the ceiling stopped abruptly.
“Blade…It’s Blade…” A whisper came from the crowd, a mixture of fear and awe in their voices.
As soon as the name came out, the two found that the crowd had quietly gathered around them, looking at the entrance vigilantly.
A tall figure walked out of the shadows, his black windbreaker swaying slightly in the bloody air. He was wearing sunglasses and holding a silver sword in his hand, with a cold glow on the blade.
The Blade Warrior——Brad, his appearance made the originally reveling vampires instantly stiffen.
A ray of silver light cut through the darkness.
Blade didn’t waste any time and moved as fast as lightning. Before the vampire could recover from the shock, the nearest vampire was cut in two and turned into ashes before he could even scream.
With a flick of his hand, the vampire who attempted a sneak attack was torn into pieces.
“Uh! Big sister, is this Terminator your friend?”
The two hid in the corner and stared blankly at this one-sided massacre, wondering when the big sister had met another butcher.
You have to know that Blade is not only proficient in various martial arts, but can also handle both close combat and long-range attacks with ease. Moreover, as a daywalker, he not only has the physical qualities of a vampire, but also does not have their weaknesses.
Although he did not have the strange superpowers of higher-level vampires, with the help of the silver sword, killing these ordinary vampires was as easy as slaughtering chickens and dogs.
The vampires on the dance floor finally reacted and tried to surround Blade.
A tall vampire waved an iron chain, trying to entangle Blade’s sword, but Blade just shook his wrist lightly and the chain broke into several pieces.
Another vampire jumped down from the ceiling, but was kicked away by Blade with a roundhouse kick.
“Do you think you can win by having more people?”
“Unfortunately, you chose the wrong opponent.”
The cold sound of a blade rang out.
He stretched out his hand and pulled out a special shotgun from his windbreaker.
Bullet after bullet pierced through the vampires’ bodies, burning them to ashes.
Just when Blade had cleared out most of the vampires, Quinn, the head of the vampire nightclub, rushed in with a group of vampires armed with sophisticated weapons.
“It’s him, come on, kill him!”
“Just you guys?”
Just tap your finger to detonate the ultraviolet bomb left at the entrance.
“boom”
As the ultraviolet light swept across, all the vampires present turned to ashes.
Only Quinn, a viscount-level vampire, reacted quickly and escaped the disaster by taking advantage of the pillars.
“Daywalker!”
When the smoke cleared, Quinn, half of his body charred, roared and leaped out from behind the stone pillar, his fangs bulging.
Blade’s shotgun accurately blocked Quinn’s claws.
“A coward who can only attack by surprise!”
Quinn exerted force suddenly and knocked the shotgun away.
Blade said nothing, suddenly released his strength, and drew his sword as Quinn’s momentum continued to move forward.
Silver light flashed from bottom to top, and the vampire had a wound running through his torso from his left waist to his right shoulder, with flames gushing out from the crack of the wound.
“Silver nitrate incendiary bomb.” Blade shook off the blood drops on the blade and watched Quinn, who was kneeling on the ground, being swallowed by the blue flames.
“Ah, farewell, Viscount Quinn!”
Before he finished speaking, the flames on Quinn’s body suddenly gathered together, condensed into a pillar of fire, and rushed towards the second floor.
A figure wrapped in a coat in the shadow of the pillar revealed half of his steel face, opened his mouth wide, and swallowed the flames into his mouth.
“who?”
Blade looked at the intruder warily.
Jessica, who had just rushed into the nightclub, happened to witness this scene.
“Shit, angry iron man, I must not be sober yet!”
Every step taken by the figure emerging from the shadow of the pillar left a deep pit in the floor tiles.
The surging blue flames burst out, and the coat on his body turned to ashes in an instant, revealing a sturdy body wrapped in chains.
The 3-meter-tall body and the head wrapped in steel, fitted together tightly as if it were a whole, with robot-like scarlet eyes and no signs of human being.
“Under the throne of the Vampire King, the Death Flamemon!”
A hot air wave exploded with the sound, and the entire building became extremely hot as if it was stuffed into a furnace.
Chapter 12 Maggie’s Help (Old Version)
“run!”
Jessica kicked away the tables and chairs that were blocking her way and jumped into the center of the dance floor. Her waist and abdominal muscles suddenly tensed up, and she lifted up the entire DJ stand with her bare hands and smashed it at the Death Flame Beast. She turned around and roared at the terrified duo: “Run!”
Sgor reacted and grabbed the fat man’s collar and ran towards the passage.
“Scorching Chains”
A chain stained with flames attacked, and suddenly a sharp whistling sound of the chain breaking through the air was heard behind him.
At the critical moment, Jessica flew over and kicked the concrete load-bearing column in half. The two-meter-thick broken column was picked up and thrown towards the chain.
The burning chains struck bright sparks on the broken pillars.
“The big sister is so mighty!” The duo who escaped the disaster cheered.
Blade on the side took the opportunity to pick up his shotgun and fired two shots in succession.
However, the bullets melted completely in the blue flames surrounding the Death Flamemon, without causing any damage at all.
“Humans, let me burn you all to death!”
The sound of the Death Flamemon was so loud that it hurt people’s eardrums, and the flames wrapped around the chains suddenly exploded.
Jessica dodged the oncoming chains and smashed the steel head with a heavy punch. The Death Flame Beast didn’t move at all. The recoil force made Jessica’s entire arm red, which was a sign of ruptured capillaries.
At the same time, Blade flashed forward, and the sword in his hand stabbed straight into the heart of the Death Flame Beast.
“bite”
The chain sprang out like a python, easily separating the sword and instantly wrapping around Blade’s body.
“Ahhh~”
The blue flame on the chain instantly ignited Blade’s body, and the intense pain made Blade scream.
Seeing this, Jessica ignored the injury on her arm, picked up the broken pillar beside her and swung it over.
The broken pillar hit the Death Flamemon’s chest heavily and was immediately blasted against the wall. The huge impact force caused the entire load-bearing wall to collapse, and the rubble buried the monster under the ruins.
“Dude, are you still alive?” Jessica rushed to Blade and hurriedly checked his injuries.
“Cough… I can’t die…” Blade struggled hard and tried to stand up.
Jessica dropped to one knee and ripped open Blade’s damaged breastplate, exposing carbonized skin.
“Shit, brother, you’re almost charred!”
“It’s okay, I’m also half vampire.” Blade spat out a mouthful of blood.
“Heavy Metal Flame”
Amidst the rubble, as the sound rang out, large raging blue flames erupted.
At this moment, a sound of metal collision was suddenly heard in the passage.
Several gasoline barrels rolled down the slope, and Sgor’s voice came from the darkness in the distance: “Big sister, we are here to save you!”
“Fuck!” Jessica didn’t hesitate, picked up the blade, turned around and ran.
There was a loud bang, and the entire nightclub was overturned by the blast. Flames shot up into the sky, and thick smoke quickly spread.
Two dark shadows rushed out from the smoke.
Jessica, whose body was charred, carried the unconscious Blade and smashed open the big iron door of the slaughterhouse, with blue flames melting through the wall behind her.
In the ruins of the slaughterhouse, the blazing flames seemed to be drawn and continuously absorbed by the Death Flame Beast.
As the flames took over, its body expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Its muscles bulged, and it grew taller and taller, even breaking through the roof of the slaughterhouse.
“Fack, he can actually grow bigger!”
Looking back, Jessica was stunned to see the giant fire burning in the night.
The Death Flamemon attacked again, and the burning chains swept across like a fire dragon.
Just as the burning chain was about to hit the two men, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out from the shadow of the street lamp.
The sound of high heels rang out, and the tattoo on the back of Maggie’s neck was covered with black mist. More shadowy soldiers emerged from the shadow of the fire hydrant, blocking the chains that were sweeping over.
“These days, anyone who plays with fire will do so.”
“Boss, you’re finally here!” Sgor and Burke excitedly rushed to the hem of Maggie’s windbreaker and hugged her thighs tightly.
“If you two idiots had called a few minutes later, I would have been left in the morgue sorting out your charred bodies.”
Maggie kicked the two crying people away and ran her fingertips across Jessica’s bleeding arm, “Honey, it’s been so long since we last met. Are you having so much fun already?”
“Damn it, Maggie, you crazy woman, are you here to mock me?” Jessica rolled her eyes when she heard it.
“Heavy Metal Flame Bomb”
The roar of the Death Flamemon shattered the street-facing windows, and a column of blue fire surged out, drowning the black shadow ninja who rushed forward.
Maggie put one hand on Jessica’s shoulder: “Retreat first.”
Thick black air instantly enveloped everyone, and everything in front of them was suddenly plunged into darkness.
I don’t know how much time had passed, but when I saw the light again, I was already at the former headquarters of the Spider Gang.
“Who is this? Your new pet?”
Maggie kicked the blade lying on the ground and handed over a glass of whiskey on the rocks.
“I don’t know, I picked it up on the road.” Jessica drank it in one gulp, using the alcohol to rinse her throat that was about to smoke.
“So, can someone explain to me,” Maggie asked, holding the medicine box and applying medicine to Jessica’s injured arm, “what is that thing that’s flaming?”
“It’s a long story.” Jessica sighed, rubbing her temple.
Maggie leaned against the bar, her eyebrows slightly raised: “Take your time, I have plenty of time.”
“Okay…” Jessica pushed the empty glass to the bartender, “I received a new commission, and then tracked it all the way to that nightclub.”
“Fack, those vampires opened a bar in a slaughterhouse!”
“What a fucking irony!”
Jessica suddenly clenched her fist and smashed it on the bar, causing the wine glasses on the bar to clink.
“I saw it clearly when those things used their fangs to rip out my throat.”
“And then that guy suddenly appeared.” He raised his chin towards the corner.
The shadow ninja was wrapping the blade with layers of bandages, wrapping him up like a dumpling.
“Sunglasses, bulletproof breastplate, coat, more like the Terminator than the Terminator.”
“Yes, yes, yes!” Sgor suddenly poked his head out, “Those vampires shouted ‘Daywalker’ when they were running away, it’s almost like…”
“Hmm?” Black gas surged from Maggie’s nails, leaving five smoking holes on the table.
Sgor immediately shrank his neck and stepped back, covering half of his face with his collar and making the motion of sealing his mouth with a zipper.
“Then the fire-breathing monster appeared.”
“I’ve heard about this thing in intelligence, but seeing it melt steel beams with its flames with my own eyes…”
“I always thought it was some idiot hallucinating because he was high, but I didn’t expect this outrageous urban legend to be true.”
Jessica tilted her head back and drank the new whiskey. The bottom of the glass hit the countertop hard. “Fuck, I can even smell my hair burning.”
“And then you came.” She pulled open the collar of her blood-stained leather jacket, revealing the unhealed burns on her neck.
Maggie’s emerald pupils contracted, her mouth slightly opened, and she looked surprised: “Vampire?”
“It’s not important…”
“But you,” Jessica suddenly leaned forward, her eyes fixed on the tattoo on Maggie’s neck, “where did this thing come from? Valon?”
“Yes, it’s a gift from the new boss.” Maggie raised her swan-like neck, “Now I am a person with ‘talent’ just like you.” The tip of her tongue swept across her red lips.
“No! I’m not a kept dog!” Jessica finished the wine in one gulp and stood up to leave.
When walking past the black shadow ninja, he couldn’t help but ask: “Maggie, the invisible ninja that appeared in the recent missing case…”
“It’s the Hand!” Maggie suddenly crushed the wine glass, and the wine dripped through her fingers, “And those bastards under that fat guy Kingpin!” The shards of glass were crushed into powder in her palm.
“That’s better.” Jessica breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense body relaxed.
“Jesse, Hell’s Kitchen is going to hold a grand welcome ceremony soon.”
“Mind your own business!” Maggie stared at Jessica, not missing any change on her face.
“Is Valon going to make big news again?” Jessica paused.
Maggie picked up the jade token with a dragon on the back of her chest and said, “This time… the real devil is coming.”
Hearing this, the black shadow ninjas in the corner collectively lowered their heads.
Watching the actions of the black shadow ninja, Jessica’s expression changed slightly.
“I see.”
After saying that, he picked up the blade and turned to leave.
Chapter 13: Roland’s Prototype of the Kingdom of God (Old Version)
Jessica kicked the creaking broken door open, and the metal door hinges groaned like rust.
Putting the blade on the sofa, Jessica let out a heavy breath.
“What a hell of a night!”
Vampires and fire men who called themselves the gods of death, these things that should exist in fantasy books or myths and legends were actually seen with my own eyes. Things that seemed unscientific in any way turned out to be true!
Jessica felt that if God came one day, it would not be surprising for him to send a flood to destroy the world.
The client’s trembling voice was still echoing in my ears. Should I tell the woman that her husband was mummified by vampires? This truth is more difficult to believe than saying that he disappeared with the stripper.
He shook his head, walked to the mottled oak table, grabbed the whiskey bottle that was still two fingers high, and drank it all in one gulp.
After organizing my thoughts, I picked up a pen and walked to the desk board, looking at the three photos standing side by side.
He circled one of them and marked it “Vampire”, then after thinking for a moment, added “Fire Giant” below it.
The other two cards add “Shuhehui” and “Kingpin” to the clues next to them.
“Shit, New York can patent the Hell Theme Park!”
Before the morning light climbed onto the windowsill, the quarrels in the low-rent apartment tore Jessica’s shallow sleep apart.
She picked up the empty bottle of whiskey from the bedside table and threw it at the ceiling. The sound of the glass breaking cut off the noise downstairs, and the rustling of the wall also broke Jessica’s sleepiness.
After washing her face and waking up, Jessica went to the kitchen to fill her empty stomach.
When I opened the door, I found that Blade had woken up and was standing in front of the case board, wondering what he was thinking about.
Jessica narrowed her blurry eyes as the morning light swept across the man’s burly outline.
Blade’s tactical boots rolled over her credit card bills and rent receipts, and her metal necklace swung in a silver arc in front of the case.
“Private detective?”
“What? The Terminator still needs technical support from the public?” Jessica walked past Blade and glanced at the slightly raised silver blade under his windbreaker.
“The fire-breathing monster from last night.”
“Death Flamemon?” She stepped over the documents on the floor and came to the desk. “I can’t deal with that kind of thing.”
A Spanish gold coin popped out of Blade’s hand, “There are a lot of souvenirs like this in the vampire’s lair.”
Jessica hooked the fallen swivel chair with her foot and caught the gold flipping in the air: “Deal. It’s a good time to ask those bastards to reimburse me for my Scotch whisky.”
The blade of the silver dagger suddenly nailed to the case board, piercing through the vampire’s red lettering: “We need help.”
“It just so happens that I know some good guys…” The smile on Jessica’s face spread over her dark bags under her eyes.
The copper bells in the antique shop swayed gently in the breeze, making crisp sounds.
Roland stood in front of the second-floor window and sensed an old man and a young man approaching from a distance. His expression changed slightly: “It’s time to leave here.”
Immediately, divine light shone from his fingertips, and with a light stroke, the space in front of him was like a piece of silk being cut, silently splitting open a crack. He raised his foot and stepped into it. The moment his figure disappeared, the crack healed as if it had never existed.
Downstairs, the shop door was pushed open with a creaky sound.
“Dad, this should be it.”
“Hmm – this place is surprisingly clean.”
An old man wearing round-frame glasses and a Tang suit walked in slowly, followed by a Chinese girl with short black hair. She looked around curiously, her fingers brushing across the display cabinets, but not a speck of dust was picked up.
“Dad, are you sure this is the ‘Alliance-assigned safe house’? It looks like it has just been cleaned.” Xiaoyu tiptoed to take a blue and white porcelain vase from the shelf, turned it over and checked, “There’s not even a spider web.”
“Oh, Dad thinks this is what an antique shop should be like!”
“There is a cleansing formation in this place. It seems that the previous liaison officer was a master of formations!”
The old man nodded with satisfaction and took out a compass from his sleeve. The needle trembled slightly and then steadily pointed to the attic. “But… the formation above seems to be a little more special.”
Xiaoyu had already jumped up the stairs: “What’s in the attic?”
“It looks like a very advanced sealing formation.”
Dad looked carefully at the patterns printed on the attic door. There was a groove in the middle, as if it was used to insert something.
“Xiaoyu, bring me the alliance badge.”
Dad placed the badge with the stars on it into the groove and it fit perfectly.
The attic door slowly opened.
It looked like a study room, with only rows of bookshelves and a mahogany table.
A gold-stamped “Alliance Liaison Manual” lay quietly on the mahogany table, next to it was a mirror-like object, shining like new but unable to reflect anything. Under the manual was a note, with the handwriting as sharp as a knife:
“Welcome, new liaison officer, this is the contact point for this world – the Alliance’s Inter-World Communications Center.”
“Cool!” Xiaoyu grabbed the mirror, and the surface of the mirror immediately glowed faintly, projecting a line of floating text: “Please confirm your identity.”
“Xiaoyu! That mirror is the alliance’s cross-world communication equipment, you can’t play with it!”
Dad flipped open the manual, his brows gradually furrowed. “Cross-world communication protocols, shadow energy monitoring procedures… these are much more complicated than the regulations of District 13.”
“So we are agents now?” Xiaoyu curled her lips and put the mirror back to its place.
“It’s a liaison officer!” Dad corrected, and then closed the manual. “Mr. Seven discovered the anomaly of this world, so the Alliance sent a new liaison officer to this world!”
“We’re not here to play. If you don’t obey, I’ll send you back to be with Sheriff Black!”
Dad shook his head. If Aaron hadn’t gone to attend the alliance training and it was unsafe to leave Xiaoyu alone at home, he would not have brought Xiaoyu to carry out the mission!
“Haha, Dad, you can’t scare me! Even for the Alliance, it’s not easy to start a cross-world teleportation!”
Xiaoyu laughed out loud and even spun around happily, “This is my first time traveling across the world!”
“Dad said, Dad is not here for tourism, Dad is here to carry out a mission!”
“I know. I know.”
Xiaoyu ran away happily, leaving her father alone with his hand on his forehead and sighing.
On the other side, Roland left the antique shop and his figure emerged in the endless sea of ​​stars.
This is the prototype of the kingdom of God created by Roland.
The Kingdom of God is divided into three layers, each layer is separated. Without Roland’s permission, no one can travel between these three layers.
The topmost layer is a void with a magnificent temple suspended in it.
The dome is as deep as the universe, with countless stars circulating in it, as if the entire starry sky is compressed in this space. This is Roland’s temple, the center of the entire kingdom of God.
Entering the temple, it feels like the Milky Way is flowing under your feet, and the starlight ripples with every step you take, as if you are walking on the stars.
The walls of the hall were made of some kind of translucent crystals, through which the energy veins flowing could be vaguely seen, like the pulse of life. In the center was a pool of divine power, the surface of which was engraved with ancient runes. The entire space was quiet and solemn, with no unnecessary decorations, only pure order and power.
This is the pool of divine power created by Roland. The subsequent emotional power will undergo the first step of purification through the crystal wall of the kingdom of God, and then flow into the pool of divine power, and then be absorbed into the godhead by Roland, or used to smelt divine tools.
The impurities in the power of emotions can also be used to strengthen the kingdom of God, instead of being wasted by being reduced to ashes as before.
The second layer is a bright space, which will serve as the headquarters of the Multiverse Alliance in the future.
The bottom layer is a dark space, which will be the villains’ lair in the future.
The three are clearly distinct and different from each other.
“Master.” The voice of the intelligent computer sounded from the void, “Dad and Xiaoyu have received the communication equipment, and everything is going according to plan.”
Roland nodded slightly and glanced at the stars around him.
“very good.”
Chapter 14: Central City Elementary School and New Friends (Old Version)
The next morning, inside the antique shop.
Xiaoyu came down from upstairs yawning, still holding the star badge in her hand.
Dad had already made tea behind the counter, and wisps of hot steam were rising in the morning light.
“Dad, what are we going to do today?” Xiaoyu pulled out a chair and sat down, picking up a piece of biscuit on the table.
“Let’s sort out the inventory of antiques in the store first.” Dad pushed his glasses up. “Since this is an antique shop, it has to look presentable.”
“Ah? So boring?” Xiaoyu pouted, “I thought there would be a secret mission or something.”
“That’s Daddy’s job.” Daddy took a sip of tea slowly. “As for you, get ready and go to school. Daddy will contact a good school for you.”
“Ah, no, I don’t want to go to school!”
“Why do I have to go to school in a different world!”
Xiaoyu threw a tantrum, trying to convince her father to change his mind.
“Oh! Children’s duty is to study hard!”
As he said that, he raised his hand and gave Xiaoyu a head slap.
“I’m not an ordinary kid!”
“Besides, a regular school can’t make me a full member!”
Xiaoyu couldn’t help but retort.
“Never contradict Dad!”
“Now, take inventory of the antiques in the store!”
Xiaoyu pouted and stood up reluctantly.
“Remember to organize the ancient books upstairs.” Dad’s voice sounded behind him.
The attic of the antique shop was filled with books, and sunlight shone through the skylight onto rows of old wooden shelves. When Xiaoyu stood on tiptoe to sort out the books on the top shelf, she suddenly knocked over a pile of books.
“Oh!” She squatted down hurriedly to clean up, but found a heavy book with a gold cover among the scattered books – “A Comprehensive Guide to the Multiverse Alliance”. The spine of the book was painted with the star pattern of the alliance.
“What is this…” Xiaoyu curiously turned to the first page, and what came into view was an exquisite pattern. It was a schematic diagram of a chaotic sea with countless bubble-like worlds suspended in it.
It is labeled “Observed World Distribution Map” next to it.
“Well… this is the alliance’s record… Dad won’t find out that I’m secretly reading, right?” Xiaoyu muttered. While her dad was sorting out antiques downstairs, Xiaoyu sat cross-legged on the floor and began to read the books.
The book records some basic information about the various worlds observed by the Alliance, including some strange energy reactions, historical events, and even records about the “Shadow Realm” and the “Bright Realm”.
Although most of the content is obscure and difficult to understand, for the curious Xiaoyu, it is even more attractive than comics.
“Wow, cool! It turns out that the Alliance has observed so many worlds!” Just as she was absorbed in the sight, her father’s voice came from downstairs: “Xiaoyu! Have you sorted out the ancient books in the attic?!”
“Oh no!” Xiaoyu closed the book in a hurry.
“Xiaoyu! What are you dawdling about for?” Dad’s footsteps came from the stairs.
“Nothing, nothing!” She hurriedly stuffed the book back into the innermost shelf and pretended to be arranging the books. “Almost done! I’m arranging them.”
The old man looked at her suspiciously and said, “You will go to school in a few days. You must finish sorting all this before then.”
“Okay, Dad.” Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her father turning around.
Thinking about how my dad and Uncle Long never let me get too much exposure to the alliance, I finally found a book about the alliance, and I can’t let my dad confiscate it.
“You always say I’m a child. It’s not time for me yet. Obviously, I’m also a reserve member of the alliance!” Xiaoyu curled her lips and continued to organize the bookshelf.
A few days later.
“Xiaoyu! It’s time to get up!” Dad’s voice rang out along with a hasty knock on the door. “Today is your first day of school. If you don’t get up, you’ll be late!”
Xiaoyu shrank her head into the quilt and mumbled incoherently: “Just five more minutes… Just five minutes…”
“Oh!” Daddy came in through the door, holding a brand new school uniform in his hand. “You have to leave a good impression on the teacher on your first day of school! Daddy bought you a Chinese breakfast. If you don’t get up now, the buns will get cold!”
Xiaoyu reluctantly climbed out of bed and rubbed her sleepy eyes. The sunlight outside the window cast mottled light and shadows on the floor through the blinds, and the unique car horns and sirens in the early morning in New York could be faintly heard. She slowly changed into her school uniform and found that her father had actually prepared a new school bag with a panda pattern for her.
“Dad, this is too much, isn’t it?” Xiaoyu turned around with her schoolbag. “Besides, even if it’s a schoolbag, it doesn’t have to be so childish!”
The old man pushed his reading glasses on his nose and said, “Oh, other kids all have schoolbags like this!”
Xiaoyu wanted to refuse, but her father stuffed a hot meat bun into her hand and said, “Eat quickly, the school bus will arrive in ten minutes.”
“Make more new friends when you get to school.” Dad took Xiaoyu to the boarding point and reminded her.
“I got it…” Xiaoyu got on the school bus with a bun in her mouth.
The campus of Zhongcheng Primary School was much larger than Xiaoyu had imagined. In front of the red brick teaching building was a neatly trimmed lawn, and groups of students were walking to their respective classrooms in the morning light.
Xiaoyu followed the signs and found Class 3, Grade 7. She stood at the door and took a deep breath.
“Are you the new transfer student?” A middle-aged female teacher wearing glasses came up to me with a smile. “I’m Mrs. Smith, your homeroom teacher. Come in.”
The classroom suddenly became quiet, and more than 30 pairs of eyes looked at Xiaoyu. She noticed that a blonde girl in the second to last row by the window was concentrating on looking at a picture album, ignoring the commotion in the classroom.
“Classmates, this is Cheng Xiaoyu, a new transfer student.” Mrs. Smith patted Xiaoyu’s shoulder affectionately, “I hope you can help her adapt to the new environment.”
Xiaoyu waved her hand generously: “Hello everyone! My name is Cheng Xiaoyu, you can call me Xiaoyu!”
“Xiaoyu, please sit next to Kate.” Mrs. Smith pointed to the empty seat next to the blonde girl.
Xiaoyu skipped over, put her schoolbag on the table, and held out her hand: “Hello! Xiaoyu!”
The girl looked up, and Xiaoyu finally saw her face clearly. She had neat short blond hair, blue eyes, and a small silver earring on her right ear. The girl didn’t look as enthusiastic as the other students, and just nodded briefly: “Kate Bishop.” Then she lowered her head and continued to look at the album in her hand.
Xiaoyu leaned over curiously and found that it was a book about bows and arrows. It contained different types of bows and arrows with various sizes and material descriptions marked next to them.
“Wow! You can shoot arrows?” Xiaoyu couldn’t help asking.
Kate paused, raised her head and looked at Xiaoyu suspiciously: “How do you know?”
“You have calluses on your right index finger and thumb,” Xiaoyu pointed at Kate’s hand proudly, “standard archer calluses. And you are looking at the improved design of the recurve bow, right? This string length adjustment device is very creative!”
Kate’s eyes widened slightly, and for the first time, a look of surprise appeared on her face: “You know bows and arrows?”
“I know a little bit.” Xiaoyu said with a smile, “My uncle… uh… my dad’s friend opened a martial arts school and taught some traditional archery.”
Kate nodded thoughtfully, her attitude obviously a little friendlier than before: “The archery club has training after school, do you want to come and see it?”
“Of course!” Xiaoyu agreed immediately, and had already started thinking about how to explain to her father why she would be coming home late.
Chapter 15: Badge of Light (Old Version)
The school curriculum seemed like a long time for Xiaoyu.
The pencil was spinning on my fingertips, and the sunlight coming through the window cast mottled shadows on the desk.
Xiaoyu’s eyes drifted out the window, her thoughts already far away. The history teacher’s voice on the podium became unclear, as if separated by a thick layer of frosted glass.
Since defeating the demon dragon, everything has become different.
Dad and Uncle Long were recruited by the Alliance, and Cheng Xiaoyu was also exposed to the mysterious organization of the Alliance. Thinking of the scene she saw in the cross-world transmission channel that day, Xiaoyu’s fingertips unconsciously speeded up the pen spinning.
The dazzling galaxy, the interlaced light and shadow, and those who travel through different worlds…
“Student Cheng!” the teacher suddenly shouted, “Please answer what important event happened in 1789?”
Xiaoyu hurriedly caught the dropped pencil and her face turned red amid the laughter of the class.
“Ding-ling-ling”
Fortunately, the bell for the end of get out of class rang at the right time, saving Xiaoyu from embarrassment.
“Okay, get out of class is over. Cheng Xiaoyu, pay attention and listen carefully in the next class.”
The teacher walked out of the classroom with the textbook, and the originally quiet classroom suddenly became noisy.
“Hey, have you heard? There’s chocolate pudding in the cafeteria today!” The girl with pigtails excitedly shook her deskmate’s arm.
“I don’t want to eat the pudding in the cafeteria,” the boy with glasses pushed his glasses up on his nose, “I hate chocolate!”
“Shh – look, Kate goes to the cafeteria alone again.” The girl with a bow tie poked the two people in front of her with her elbow.
“That’s a freak!” the boy with glasses said disdainfully, “She kept saying she had a talking cat, but Teacher Parker sent her to see a counselor.”
The freckled girl in the back row whispered, “But she only started like this last month…”
“My mother said that this kind of person may have mental problems…” The boy with braces lowered his voice mysteriously, “This disease is irregular, sometimes it’s normal, sometimes…”
“Hey!” Xiaoyu suddenly kicked the chair in the front row, “It’s not polite to talk about classmates like this!”
The classroom fell silent instantly. Several students exchanged glances, and someone muttered quietly: “Another freak has arrived.”
At this moment, Kate quietly walked back to the classroom to pick up the notebook she had dropped. All the discussions stopped abruptly, and the students pretended to concentrate on packing their bags, but there was an uncomfortable silence in the air.
The cafeteria was bustling with people, and the aroma of pizza and fried chicken mixed together. Xiaoyu carried her plate through the crowd, scanning the unfamiliar faces one by one, and finally found Kate eating alone in the corner by the window.
The sunlight shone through the glass window onto Kate’s blonde hair as she concentrated on cutting the chicken breast on the plate.
“Do you mind if I sit here?” Xiaoyu put down the plate without waiting for an answer, and the plastic tray made a crisp sound when it hit the table.
Kate raised her gray-blue eyes and nodded slightly, stabbing a lettuce leaf with the tip of her fork.
Xiaoyu noticed that her plate was neatly stacked with poached chicken breast, vegetable salad, and half an apple, in stark contrast to the surrounding plates piled with cheeseburgers and fries.
“Is that all you’re going to eat?” Xiaoyu took a big bite of the burger, and sauce overflowed from the corners of her mouth.
“It’s necessary for training.” Kate answered briefly, and suddenly changed the subject, “Aren’t you afraid of me?”
Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took a sip of Coke: “I’m not as boring as those little brats…”
Kate’s eyes lingered on Jade’s face for a few seconds before returning to her salad.
“Don’t forget the archery training after school.”
“Of course not.” Xiaoyu took a bite of the burger and said vaguely.
After the last class in the afternoon, Kate took Xiaoyu across the playground and came to a red brick building. When they opened the door, the smell of wooden floors hit them in the face, and the walls were covered with various bows and trophies.
“Wow!” Xiaoyu’s eyes lit up and she ran her fingers across the glass of the display case. “Did you win all these?”
Kate took a recurve bow from the shelf. The bow was gleaming in the light. “Inter-school competition.”
“Want to try it?”
“Great!” Xiaoyu jumped and followed.
Kate handed her a small compound bow: “Learn the standing position first.”
Xiaoyu couldn’t wait to pull the string and put the arrow on, but her hand slipped and the arrow flew towards the ceiling and was deeply embedded in the beam.
“Uh…accident!” Xiaoyu scratched her head with a wry smile.
Kate sighed and walked behind her. When her hands rested on Xiaoyu’s shoulders, a strange warmth immediately spread.
That was not ordinary body temperature, but like the feeling of sunlight shining directly into the blood vessels, making Xiaoyu involuntarily want to get closer.
“Stretch your arms straight,” Kate’s voice sounded in her ears, “breathe… hold steady…”
The arrow finally hit the edge of the target. Xiaoyu cheered and said, “See? I hit it!”
Kate’s lips curled up slightly: “Just barely passed.”
The training lasted until dusk. When Kate took off her sports coat, Xiaoyu’s eyes were immediately attracted by the pendant hanging on Kate’s chest.
The metal frame is wrapped with purple glass, with a sun-shaped emblem engraved in the center, glowing mysteriously in the sunset.
“Your pendant…” Xiaoyu narrowed her eyes, “The pattern is so special.”
Kate’s fingers touched the pendant subconsciously, and her eyes suddenly softened: “This… is a souvenir!”
Xiaoyu moved closer: “Souvenir?”
“Yes, I found a wounded kitten on my way home. I took it home and took care of it for a while. This pendant is hanging around its neck.”
“After the injury healed…” Kate paused, “it was gone, leaving only this.”
Xiaoyu nodded thoughtfully. The symbol gave her a strange sense of familiarity, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen it before.
When we walked out of the gym, the sun was about to set.
“That cat…” Xiaoyu suddenly stopped, “It…”
Kate turned around, the pendant gleaming in the sunset. Her lips moved, and finally she just whispered, “See you tomorrow, Xiaoyu.”
“See you tomorrow…” Xiaoyu looked at Kate’s receding back. Although she was full of doubts, she finally did not ask any further questions.
The antique shop was immersed in the moonlight at midnight. Dad’s snoring came from the inner room, with regular rise and fall.
Xiaoyu secretly took the star badge and walked barefoot on the creaking floor, holding her breath with every step, and secretly looked to see if her father was woken up.
He quietly ran up to the attic, and the door lock made a light “click” sound when the badge was close to it. Then he went straight to the bookshelf and pulled out the heavy “General Solution of the Multiverse Alliance”.
Jade sat cross-legged on the floor, the pages of the book rustling in her lap.
Suddenly Xiaoyu’s fingers stopped on the page of the book.
“Found it!” Xiaoyu’s finger stopped on an illustration with eight symbols drawn on it. One of the symbols was almost exactly the same as the one she saw on Kate’s pendant today. Below it was marked: Badge of Light, one of the sacred objects of the digital world, representing the power of light, and having a strong inhibitory effect on the dark digital babies.
Chapter 16: The Battle to Find Tailmon (Old Version)
The next day after school, Xiaoyu mysteriously pulled Kate to the corner of the school’s back garden.
Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment: “Kate, about the talking cat…”
“Xiaoyu, do you think I’m crazy too?” Kate’s shoulders suddenly slumped.
“No way!” Xiaoyu said firmly, “I believe you!”
“But, Kate, I need you to tell me the truth.” Xiaoyu lowered her voice and took out a piece of paper from her pocket.
Painted on it is the pattern of the emblem of light.
Kate’s body visibly stiffened, and her gray-blue eyes glanced around vigilantly: “You…how could you…”
“This is the pattern in your pendant!” Xiaoyu pointed at the pattern excitedly, “I found it in my father’s ancient book. This is the Digimon’s emblem of light, right?”
Kate’s face turned pale instantly, and her fingers unconsciously clenched the pendant on her chest: “You… who are you?”
“I’m Xiaoyu!” Xiaoyu patted Kate’s shoulder, “Don’t be nervous, I’m here to help you.”
Kate looked at Xiaoyu hesitantly, and after a long while, she seemed to believe what Xiaoyu said.
She took a deep breath, her voice trembling a little: “That night… when I found her, she was covered in wounds… I have never seen a cat like that before, her eyes… were so spiritual…”
“I took it home, bandaged its wounds, fed it…”
“One night, it suddenly called my name, she…she could speak…”
Xiaoyu noticed that Kate’s hands were shaking slightly: “And then?”
“She said her name was Tailmon,” Kate’s voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, “She has been looking for the chosen child. She said the badge led her here…”
Kate’s tears suddenly burst out: “I remember that night, she suddenly woke up and said they found this place… She handed me this badge, and then she…” Kate choked, “She broke the window and jumped out, and I heard terrible roars and fighting sounds coming from outside…”
“Tailmon said this was a very important thing…why did you leave it to me…” Kate stroked the pendant on her chest.
Xiaoyu looked at Kate’s trembling fingers and suddenly held her hand: “Don’t worry! We can find her! Dad’s compass can track energy reactions. Since we have the badge of light…”
“Is it really possible?” Kate’s eyes flashed with hope, but then dimmed again, “But…will Tailmon…”
“Don’t worry! Tailmon will be fine.” Xiaoyu comforted.
“Thank you, Xiaoyu, thank you…”
“But if we encounter those who are chasing Tailmon…”
“Hey!” Xiaoyu patted her chest confidently, “I’ve defeated the devil before!”
“Ah? Devil?” Kate was stunned when she heard that.
“Ah, hahaha, nothing, let’s go get the compass first.” Xiaoyu laughed and turned around to lead the way.
As the sun was setting, the two girls stood in front of the antique shop. Xiaoyu looked around furtively, and after confirming that her father was not in the shop, she pulled Kate inside.
“Hurry up, Dad’s compass is upstairs…” Xiaoyu tiptoed up the stairs.
Kate followed nervously, “Should we really not tell your grandfather?”
“Dad will definitely say, kid, don’t worry about these dangerous things!” Xiaoyu imitated her father’s tone and took the old compass from the shelf.
When the badge of light on Kate’s chest approached the compass, the needle suddenly spun wildly and finally pointed to the northwest.
“Great! There’s a reaction!” Xiaoyu jumped up excitedly, “Let’s go!”
Following the guidance of the compass, Xiaoyu and Kate followed the trail all the way to an abandoned factory.
The factory under the moonlight was eerie, and a scream could be heard faintly. Xiaoyu and Kate squatted behind a collapsed wall, holding their breath and observing the movement in front of them.
“The compass is pointing right here,” Xiaoyu whispered, watching the needle spinning wildly in her hand. The badge of light on Kate’s chest was emitting a faint light, which was particularly conspicuous in the darkness.
Suddenly, a hoarse female voice came from behind: “What are you two doing here?”
The two were so scared that they almost screamed. Turning around, they saw five figures standing behind them.
These five people are Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Blade Warrior Brad, Punisher Frank Castle, and Daredevil Matthew Murdoch.
Since the last incident in the vampire bar, Jessica Jones and Blade have successively found Daredevil and others and explained what happened. After explaining what happened and indicating the seriousness of the matter, everyone decided to fight the threat of vampires together.
The first thing they did when they got together was to find the vampire’s lair and deal with the supernatural creatures that appeared that day. After everyone’s investigation, they finally tracked it down to an abandoned factory.
“I-we just…” Kate stuttered, unable to speak.
“This is not a place for you little brats to play hide and seek.” Jessica Jones waved her hand impatiently, “Go home quickly.”
Xiaoyu retorted unhappily, “Hey, we’re not brats, we have important things to do! My friend is locked in!”
Daredevil suddenly raised his head: “There’s movement.”
Just then, a shrill cat cry came from deep within the factory, which was particularly harsh in the silent night.
“Tailmon!” Kate’s face turned pale instantly and she rushed towards the source of the sound desperately.
“Stop!” Daredevil tried to stop him, but Xiaoyu quickly pulled out the chicken charm from her pocket: “Float!”
An invisible force suddenly lifted Daredevil up, leaving him suspended in mid-air and unable to move.
“What the hell…” Matthew struggled in surprise, but was unable to break free from the power of the spell.
“Let’s go!” Xiaoyu grabbed Kate’s hand, and the two of them took advantage of the chaos to quickly get through the broken barbed wire.
“Damn it!” Jessica was stunned. “Kid, put Matt down!”
“Lululu…” Xiaoyu turned her head and made a face, then rushed into the factory with Kate.
Immediately, the power of the chicken spell was canceled, and Matt fell from mid-air. “Quick, let’s go in too. This is not a place for children, even if they know magic…”
In the dim factory, they were horrified to find a specially made iron cage placed in the central open space, with a scarred kitten locked inside. Even more terrifying was that a monster with blue flames all over its body was reaching its claws towards the cage.
“Stop!” Kate screamed and rushed forward, and the badge on her chest suddenly burst into dazzling light.
The monster turned around suddenly, flames surging, “The chosen child! He actually showed himself to me!”
Just as the Death Flamemon approached Kate.
A bullet whizzed in from a distance and hit the Death Flame Beast accurately in the chest, knocking it back several meters. The monster roared in pain, and the blue flames fluctuated violently.
“Stand back! Kids!” The Punisher appeared from a high place, with smoke coming out of the muzzle of the sniper rifle.
The others also rushed in one after another, and Luke Cage even stood in front of the two of them.
Xiaoyu took the opportunity to control the power of the chicken spell and float the iron cage to her side.
“Kate…” Tailmon opened his eyes weakly, “You shouldn’t have come here… It’s dangerous here…”
“I won’t abandon you! Tailmon!” Kate said firmly, and the badge on her chest shone brighter.
The Death Flamemon regained his footing and roared angrily: “You will all die!”
After saying this, the flames around him suddenly surged, and the temperature of the entire factory suddenly increased.
Chapter 17: Defender vs. Death Flamemon (Old Version)
The Punisher stood on a high place, the crosshairs of his sniper rifle locked onto the head of the Death Flame Beast. A calm and sharp voice was transmitted to the ears of each team member through the communicator:
“Blade, go behind it and wait until it is restrained.”
“Luke, contain it head-on and don’t let it have a chance to affect others.”
“Jessica, prepare the liquid nitrogen tank. Listen to my signal.”
“Matt, protect those two girls and that cat.”
Death Flamemon stood in the middle of the factory, his whole body burning with blue flames, and the air around him was distorted due to the high temperature.
Without warning, two burning chains shot out from its arms, with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and headed straight for Luke. The invulnerable man did not retreat but advanced, crossing his arms to take the blow.
“Come on, fire stick!” Luke roared.
“clang!”
The chain collided with the skin, making a crisp metallic sound.
Luke groaned, and the concrete floor beneath his feet cracked and sank. The hot chain wrapped around his arm and tightened, making a teeth-grinding “sizzling” sound, burning his arm red.
“Now!” The Punisher pulled the trigger.
Three specially made freezing bombs whizzed out in a V-shape, accurately hitting the head and hands of the Death Flamemon.
The liquid nitrogen in the bullet vaporized instantly, freezing the blue flame and slowing down its movement.
“Jessica!”
Jessica received the signal and immediately rushed out from the side carrying a tank of industrial liquid nitrogen. The muscles in her arms were tense, and she threw the heavy steel tank with all her strength.
“boom!”
At the moment of hitting the Death Flamemon, the Punisher’s bullet also hit the tank accurately. The exploding liquid nitrogen instantly vaporized into a white mist, completely covering the Death Flamemon.
The monster roared in pain, and the flames around it dimmed visibly.
“Blade!” The Punisher’s signal came again in the headset.
The figure of the Blade Warrior appeared silently behind the Death Flamemon, and the silver sword drew a cold arc of light in the dim factory and pierced directly into the back of the Death Flamemon.
“laugh–“
The moment the blade pierced the flaming body, the silver coating reacted violently with the shadow energy, bursting out with a blinding white light.
The roar of the Death Flame Beast caused dust to fall from the factory ceiling. It turned around and punched wildly, but the blade had already retreated several steps, leaving only a wound that was emitting black smoke.
“It works! Keep it suppressed!” The Punisher quickly changed the magazine.
“Cool! That’s how we took down that big guy!” Xiaoyu, who was watching the fight, cheered.
The white mist of liquid nitrogen had not yet dissipated, and Daredevil suddenly tensed his body. His extraordinary senses captured abnormal fluctuations: “No… above, get out of the way!”
The Punisher was half-crouching on a rusty steel frame. The moment he heard the words, he immediately turned the muzzle of the sniper rifle and aimed it at the top of the factory building.
“Keep the formation,” Frank’s voice rang out over the communicator. Blade prepared for a second round of assault, Luke continued to hold the defense in check, and Jessica provided cover.
“Hahahaha, you’re just in time. Come on, catch that girl!” A sharp laugh came from the beams of the factory building.
Everyone looked up and saw a small devil beast with bat wings hanging upside down on the steel frame, its scarlet eyes flashing with cunning light.
With a flap of its wings, the ceiling suddenly broke, and three evil dragon beasts swooped down, holding oil barrels in their claws.
“Shit!” Jessica spat, quickly grabbed a piece of steel plate to block her head, and warned: “Everyone be careful, the big guy is coming!”
The burning oil drums fell like meteorites, causing violent explosions throughout the factory.
The raging flames instantly engulfed most of the space. Just as Jessica had expected, the flames were converging towards the Death Flame Beast in the center in an irrational way.
“It’s absorbing the flames and evolving!” The Punisher fired three shots in a row, but the special armor-piercing bullets vaporized directly when they approached the flames. “Jessica, break the wall! The others provide cover!”
Jessica immediately rushed to the nearest load-bearing wall, but an evil dragon beast swooped down and its sharp claws left three deep wounds on her back that were visible to the bone.
Another evil dragon beast stood between the two of them, forcing back the Blade Warrior who wanted to provide support.
“Eastern passage!” Frank shouted, firing continuously to try to open the passage. But the third evil dragon beast blocked the exit with its body and fanned a scorching storm with its wings.
The Death Flamemon opened its arms, absorbing the waves of fire as if enjoying a feast. Its body expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the blue flames became more and more vigorous.
Every step you take leaves a deep footprint on the ground.
“Damn it!” Frank looked at the increasingly unfavorable battle situation, with cold sweat oozing from his forehead.
Suddenly, he saw Daredevil protecting two girls and hiding behind a heavy machine, and immediately ordered: “Matt, take them away first! Luke, cover them!”
At this moment, the Death Flamemon let out a deafening roar and suddenly accelerated towards Kate. Its four-meter-tall body left lava footprints on the ground with every step.
“No!” Xiaoyu tried to stop it with the chicken spell, but was interrupted by Impmon’s demon dart.
Luke roared and rushed forward, trying to block it with his body, but the more powerful Death Flamemon ignored him completely.
The burning chains collided with Luke’s iron fist.
With the clear sound of bone breaking, the invulnerable Luke Cage was knocked backwards for the first time, crashing through the abandoned equipment on the side, with his right arm twisted unnaturally.
“Luke!” Daredevil was about to rush over to rescue, but was forced back by a wall of fire.
As the Death Flame Beast roared ferociously, a destructive column of fire spit out of its mouth and swept towards Kate.
The scorching temperature distorted the air, and Kate’s blonde hair had already begun to curl and turn yellow before the flames reached her.
“Tailumon!” Kate did not run away. Instead, she held Tailmon tightly in her trembling arms.
Her thin back resolutely turned towards the incoming waves of fire, tears welling up in her eyes, but a determined light flashed: “This time… we have to stay together…”
Tailmon’s eyes shrank instantly. She saw the flames of death getting closer and closer behind Kate, saw the girl’s thin body trembling in the high temperature, and saw the hot tears dripping on her hair.
“Kate…NO!!!”
An unprecedented golden light suddenly burst out from Tailmon’s body, instantly enveloping the two. The flames of Death Flamemon collided with the golden light, scattering like waves hitting rocks.
Tailmon’s petite body was completely enveloped in golden light, and in front of everyone’s shocked gazes, her form began to change dramatically.
The slender limbs gradually lengthened, turning into a slender and elegant female outline. Pure white wings spread out from the back, each feather emitting a soft light. Purple ribbons were wrapped around the body, and a blindfold symbolizing equality appeared on the head, holy and beautiful.
“Tailmon evolves into Angewomon!”
Following this clear announcement, golden light suddenly exploded. The fully formed Angewomon floated in midair, its eight wings gently flapping, scattering countless feathers of light.
Chapter 18: The Angel Who Came to New York (Old Version)
“Holy shit…” Jessica subconsciously took a half step back and squinted her eyes that were stung by the strong light. “Is this… an angel?”
Luke Cage’s resolute face was full of shock. He had never seen such a beautiful creature. When the falling light feathers touched his injured arm, the burning pain was instantly relieved.
“So warm…” he murmured, looking at his healing wounds.
The Blade Warrior’s sunglasses reflected the bright light. The vampire’s keen perception made him the first to detect the fluctuation of the holy energy. He knelt on one knee unconsciously, with the silver sword inserted in front of him as support. “Such pure light…” Blade’s voice was rarely trembling, “It’s like…”
“The legendary archangel.” Daredevil continued. His extraordinary perception allowed him to “see” most clearly.
In Daredevil’s unique sensory world, Angewomon’s existence is like a warm golden nebula, and every movement carries a sacred rhythm.
The Death Flamemon was knocked back several steps by the sudden divine power, and the flames on his body fluctuated violently. Impmon screamed in horror: “Impossible!”
“Tailmon is… an angel!” Kate’s voice choked in her throat.
Angewomon ignored the enemy’s panic. She looked gently at Kate who had a dazed look on her face: “Kate, I feel it. I feel the power you convey to me!”
“Now,” Angewomon turned to Flamemon, her voice still gentle but with unquestionable authority, “it’s time to end this farce.”
“In the name of light…”
She gracefully drew the sacred bow, and the arrow of light gathered on the string. Unlike ordinary arrows, this arrow was made entirely of pure sacred energy, and it exuded a strong holy power.
“Holy Arrow!”
The moment the arrow of light left the bow, the entire factory was filled with dazzling light.
Death Flamemon gathered all its flames to resist, but the arrow of light pierced through its body with unstoppable force.
“No–!!!”
With a shrill wail, the body of the Death Flame Beast began to disintegrate from the inside. Its body was purified by the holy energy and turned into a point of light that slowly dissipated.
Just when the holy light was about to purify the last trace of darkness, the factory roof was suddenly torn apart, and the three-headed evil dragon beast grabbed the little devil beast and fled in panic.
“Just wait!” Impmon’s sharp voice echoed in the night sky, “Lord Vampiremon will not let you go!”
Angewomon’s wings fluttered slightly, and instantly turned into a golden stream of light and chased after it.
“Holy Purple Light!”
She was suspended in the night sky, and a beam of pure purple energy cut through the night sky, accurately hitting the fleeing evil dragon beast. The light of the explosion bloomed like fireworks over New York, lighting up the night sky of half of the city.
On the ground, countless New Yorkers looked up at this miraculous sight. Some exclaimed “Angel”, some knelt down to pray, and many more hurriedly took out their phones to record this supernatural scene.
The golden light gradually faded, and Angewomon’s silhouette began to become transparent.
“Kate…” she called gently, her body gradually shrinking, and finally turned back into Tailmon and fell into Kate’s arms.
At the same time, the remaining sacred energy condensed in the air, turned into a device, and slowly fell into Kate’s hands.
“What is this…?” Kate held the still glowing device carefully.
“This is the divine plan!” Xiaoyu excitedly pulled Kate’s hand, “Kate, you really are the chosen child!”
“Cheng Xiaoyu!” A powerful voice suddenly came from outside the ruins. Dad strode over with a staff, his eyes burning with anger behind his glasses. Dad had said so many times, go home after school, don’t run around!
Xiaoyu shrank her neck: “Dad, I was wrong… But look, we rescued Tailmon!”
Daddy gave Xiaoyu a slap on the face and said, “Oh no! That’s not the case! Do you know how dangerous it is out there? There could be evil magic and people with bad intentions everywhere. From now on, if you dare to come home late again, Daddy will use magic to lock the door!”
“Also, next time you encounter something like this, you should tell your dad first, remember?”
“Okay, okay, I get it, Dad.” Xiaoyu smiled awkwardly and scratched his head.
“Old sir, these things…” Matt looked at his father coming with dried puffer fish in his hand and green light emanating from his body. He knew that this old man was not a simple person and might know the truth of the matter.
Back at the antique shop, Dad started his story amid the aroma of tea.
Tailmon curled up on Kate’s lap, adding a few words from time to time.
“The digital world is a world made up of data,” Daddy said slowly after taking a sip of tea, “but now, the vampire beast has broken the barrier between the two worlds.”
“Yes, before that, Vampiremon opened the ancient gate of the Digital World. The four guardian beasts of the Digital World worked together to barely open a gap and sent me here.”
The Punisher frowned, “Is this blood-sucking monster the mastermind behind this?”
“That’s right.” Tailmon nodded weakly, “It has already controlled the vampires of this world. Although I don’t know what its conspiracy is, Death God Flamemon can only be regarded as one of the advance troops it sent out.”
“Hmph…vampire…” Hearing the vampire, Blade, who was leaning against the wall, snorted in dissatisfaction.
Daredevil keenly sensed the key: “So why is it chasing you?”
“Because of the Badge of Light.” Tailmon rubbed Kate’s hand, “It is a sacred object that can fight against him. Kate… is the chosen child.”
Jessica whistled. “So we’re dealing with an army of digital monsters now? Great.”
“Ha! Valon, shadow ninja, vampires, Digimon…” Jessica thought of Maggie’s warning to her before, “In a few days, there will be real demons coming out to have a party. New York is getting more and more lively now!”
Dad’s hand suddenly shook, and the teacup fell to the ground and shattered.
“Hey! What did you say?” Dad grabbed Jessica’s shoulders. “Devil?”
Jessica was shocked by her father’s reaction: “Uh… that crazy woman Maggie said something about Valon holding a welcoming ceremony to welcome the arrival of the real devil…”
“Holy Lord!” Dad yelled, his face instantly turning pale. He staggered back a few steps and almost knocked over the bookshelf behind him.
Xiaoyu quickly supported her father: “Dad! What’s wrong with you?”
The old man took off his glasses and wiped them with shaking hands: “Big trouble…big trouble! Valon and the Holy Lord are also in this world!”
“Who is the Holy Lord?” asked the Punisher with a frown.
Xiaoyu calmed down her father and explained to the Punisher: “The Holy Lord is the Demon of Fire, an ancient demon who once ruled all of Asia! He can control twelve kinds of divine power and can also summon the Shadow Corps, which are those shadow ninjas!”
“The Twelve Talismans are the key to sealing his power.” Dad added, “We spent a lot of effort to seal him back then…”
“Wait, you said Valon and the Holy Lord are not from this world… and you have sealed them before…” The Punisher asked the key point directly.
“Well…” Just as Dad was hesitating whether to answer.
Daredevil Matthew suddenly said: “I contacted helpers and now they are here.”
Chapter 19 Alliance (Old Version)
The doorbell of the antique shop rang crisply in the night breeze.
Everyone turned around alertly, only to see a red-haired woman in black tactical clothing push the door open, followed by an Asian youth in casual clothes.
“Good evening.” Natasha’s eyes swept over everyone. Except for the old man and the two little girls, the rest of the people in the room were “key targets” in the SHIELD files.
Although I had read the file given by Nick Fury on the way here, I was still a little surprised to see a room full of non-humans with my own eyes.
Frank’s finger instantly pulled the trigger safety, and his muscles tensed.
This familiar temperament, it is obvious that this woman is a well-trained agent. And agents, generally speaking, belong to government departments, and it is rare for them to retire at such a young age.
Blade was keenly aware of the change in atmosphere and quietly moved to a more advantageous defensive position. He noticed Matthew slightly shaking his head at Frank. It was obvious that these two people knew something that no one else knew.
“Everyone,” Matthew noticed Frank’s reaction and immediately stood up to introduce everyone, “This is Agent Natasha Romanoff from S.H.I.E.L.D., and…”
“Dongshan,” the young man introduced himself.
Punisher Frank’s fingers unconsciously rubbed the handle of the gun: “SHIELD? Nick Fury sent you?”
Natasha nodded slightly, her red hair glowing dark red under the light. “Yes, after Mr. Dongshan received the notice from Mr. Matthew, Director Fury thought you needed some…official support.”
His eyes lingered on Frank’s finger for a moment, “Meanwhile, Director Fury sent me to find out what’s going on. News of angels appearing over New York has spread all over the Internet, and we need to know what’s going on.”
Jessica glanced at Kate and Tailmon out of the corner of her eye and changed the subject: “Let’s talk about the angels later. I want to know what department S.H.I.E.L.D. is? I’ve never heard of it.”
In Jessica’s mind, government departments are not so trustworthy, especially when it comes to children.
“Because you don’t need to know,” Frank said coldly. “I worked with Fury when I was in the military. They specialize in shady missions.”
Daredevil explained softly, “They are members of… a special organization.”
Although Matthew still has some good feelings towards SHIELD, after all, it was SHIELD’s medical team that treated him when he was injured before. And now, he needs SHIELD’s help even more. Black shadow ninjas, mutants, and Digimon appeared in Hell’s Kitchen one after another. This chaotic situation made Daredevil feel powerless for the first time.
Luke Cage folded his arms and asked, “What kind of organization needs to be so secretive?”
Natasha did not answer, but took out her tablet and said, “According to the intelligence of S.H.I.E.L.D., there are at least four supernatural forces in New York.”
She called up the first set of images: “Valon and his Black Hand gang can summon a special kind of shadow ninja to control 40% of the underground transactions in Hell’s Kitchen. It is worth noting that Valon has been searching for something.” The screen switched to surveillance footage of the auction robbery and photos of the Black Hand gang searching for items.
The second set of pictures showed: “Wilson Fisk, also known as Kingpin. Recently, his men have suddenly gained supernatural powers.” A gray-skinned man spewed flames in the video. “We suspect that there is some mysterious technical support behind him.”
The third group was a blurry image of the Death God Flamemon burning a street: “Vampires and the monsters you just killed.”
Finally, there is the video of the battle at the dock: “The supernatural beasts are polluted creatures from the Shadow Realm. Mr. Dongshan is the armor summoner who specializes in dealing with them.”
“SHIELD is an organization responsible for the security of the entire world and specializes in dealing with all kinds of supernatural and abnormal events. Therefore, we will not expose ourselves to the public to prevent unnecessary chaos.”
Just as Natasha was explaining, Dad suddenly squeezed to the front, took out the star badge from his arms, and stared at Dongshan behind his reading glasses.
Dongshan’s pupils shrank slightly and he immediately took off his necklace, on which was another star badge.
Daddy whispered in an ancient language: “Guide by the stars, all worlds will be one.”
Dongshan responded immediately: “Chaos is the sea, and watch is connected.”
Jessica looked at the scene in confusion: “Can anyone explain what is going on now? Do you two know each other?”
The old man put away the badge and said seriously, “This Mr. Dongshan is the summoner of the Five Elements Armor.” He turned to Dongshan, “And the old man is the liaison of the Multiverse Alliance in this world.”
Dong Shan saluted solemnly, clenched his right fist and lightly touched the star pattern: “Senior, the 31st Wind Eagle Armor Summoner greets you.”
Daddy responded with the same courtesy: “Welcome, Mingjie warrior.”
Natasha noticed this detail keenly: “Multiverse Alliance?”
Dad pushed his reading glasses and slowly adjusted his collar, the star badge looming between his fingers. “Oh, it seems that it is time to make it clear.” He turned around and took out a thick ancient book from under the counter, the pages of which were glowing with a strange light.
“Have you heard of the parallel universe theory?”
Dad’s fingertips gently slid across the page, and a holographic projection unfolded. Universes were combined together to form a bubble. “Countless parallel universes make up one world.”
The bubbles continued to shrink, revealing a scene of countless bubbles suspended in the Chaos Sea. “And countless worlds were born in the Chaos Sea.”
Dong Shan took over the conversation in a steady voice: “Each bubble is an independent world, and the Alliance…” He pointed to the pattern on the star emblem, “is the organization that protects these worlds from being eroded by darkness.”
“Like the Holy Lord and the Shadow Realm?” Xiaoyu suddenly interrupted, her eyes sparkling.
This is the first time I have heard such a clear introduction to the Alliance. I didn’t expect that the Alliance is such a great organization!
“That’s right!” Dad tapped Xiaoyu’s head. “Valon and the Holy Lord are from another world. The Shadow Realm is the source of pollution in the Chaos Sea. Vampire Beast comes from the Digital World, a special world made up of data.” He turned to everyone, his expression more serious than ever before. “And your world is being invaded by these three forces at the same time.”
Natasha’s fingertips slid quickly on the tablet: “But Mr. Dongshan is not from the Ming Realm…”
“That’s right.” Dongshan nodded, “Mingjie is also a member of the alliance.”
The information revealed by the two people’s words was so unbelievable that the antique shop fell silent for a while.
Jessica’s eyes moved back and forth between her father and Dongshan. Although she didn’t want to admit it, her intuition told her that these were all true, even crazier than the most outrageous urban legends.
Luke Cage’s first reaction was disbelief, but he had just witnessed Angewomon with his own eyes and heard Tailmon say that he was indeed from another world.
Frank Castle had the gloomiest expression. Having experienced too many lies and betrayals from the government, he was instinctively wary of this so-called “Pluralistic World Alliance.”
Matthew Murdoch tilted his head slightly. The physiological reactions of his father and Dongshan were so steady that they didn’t seem to be lying, and the shock and suspicion of the others were equally real.
As a lawyer, Matthew habitually sorts out this information in his mind. If the multiverse is taken as a premise, then everything can indeed be explained…
“Wait,” Jessica suddenly broke the silence and pointed her finger at the holographic projection, “Since this alliance can act across the world, can we find a lot of helpers?
Dad sighed, “Oh, do you think that inter-world teleportation is like taking the subway?” He turned to another page of the ancient book, showing a set of complex light patterns, “Each world has its own barriers. Forcibly opening a large-scale channel will cause the two worlds to collapse at the same time.”
Chapter 20: Cheng Xiaoyu’s ace agent team, attack! (Old version)
“What should we do then? Does that mean we have to do it ourselves?” Jessica rubbed her temple and said speechlessly.
Dad and Dongshan exchanged helpless looks.
Finally, Dongshan explained: “In fact, the alliance is already taking action. Dad is a liaison officer stationed here, and the Wind Eagle Armor is just the advance force.”
“Dad will report the situation to the Alliance, but I don’t know when the Alliance’s rescue forces will arrive…”
“So now we have to rely on ourselves?” Jessica rolled her eyes. “Great, a group of street heroes are going to fight against four super villains from across the universe.”
Natasha placed the tactical tablet on the table and projected SHIELD’s support plan: “Three special tactical teams are in place, equipped with energy weapons. Two Quinjet fighters are ready for support at any time.”
“Hmph, Fury is finally willing to invest, I’m in!” Frank stared at the projection for a few seconds, then said solemnly.
After all, this battle has indeed gone beyond the scope of individual combat, and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s support is necessary. Moreover, keeping S.H.I.E.L.D. under their own noses is always better than letting them take action on their own.
“I’m only responsible for the vampire line.” Blade had no objection. For him, as long as he could deal with the vampires, it didn’t matter who he cooperated with.
Luke shrugged. “I’ll follow everyone’s arrangements. As long as these problems can be solved, anything is fine.”
Matthew tapped his cane and concluded, “There are four main threats we need to deal with right now: Valon and the Holy Lord, Kingpin’s cyborgs, Shadowmon’s Psychobeasts, and Vampiremon and his digital army.”
“We will split up.” Frank began to assign tasks. “Jessica and Matthew will be in charge of Valon. I will go meet Kingpin. Dongshan and SHIELD will prioritize cleaning up the mutants. Luke and Blade will keep an eye on the vampires. Dad, see if you can find some help.”
“What about us?” Xiaoyu raised her hand impatiently.
“No!” everyone said in unison.
“But… to deal with Vamdemon, we need Tailmon’s power…” Kate, who was standing by, also said carefully while holding Tailmon.
“Now is not the time…Remember never contradict Daddy!”
Natasha’s gaze stayed on Kate for a second longer. She thought of the satellite image of the angel, and then looked at the blonde girl and the strange cat-like creature in front of her, and she understood.
But she just said calmly: “SHIELD has a safe house in Brooklyn that you can use.”
“No way!” Xiaoyu made a face.
Kate also hugged Tailmon tightly: “…”
Natasha nodded calmly, “It’s up to you. Remember to keep the communication open.” She turned to look at the defenders, “Share all intelligence in real time. In case of emergency, use the SHIELD dedicated channel.”
“Then let’s go…” Everyone stood up.
“The old man is going to seek support from the alliance.” Dad also turned and walked towards the attic.
When everyone left the antique shop one after another, Xiaoyu slammed the door shut and her eyes lit up surprisingly when she turned around.
“Great! They’re finally gone!” She jumped up to Kate and said, “Kate, did you see that? They actually looked down on us!”
“But Dad and the others…”
Kate touched Tailmon’s ear nervously. She felt that what the adults said made sense, but Xiaoyu’s enthusiasm made her unable to refuse directly.
“Listen!” Xiaoyu suddenly put her hands on Kate’s shoulders. “There are four big villains in New York who want to cause trouble right now,” she pointed at Tailmon in Kate’s arms. “And we have Digimon and spells! Isn’t this the configuration of superheroes in comics?”
“Kate, the Badge of Light has chosen you…” Tailmon raised its head. It felt Kate’s inner struggle, but it knew more clearly that the chosen child must grow up, otherwise he would not be able to shoulder the responsibility of saving the world.
“See! Even Tailmon said so!” Xiaoyu ran to the back of the counter and started searching. “Dad hid the snake charm here…aha!” She held up a stone engraved with a snake pattern.
Kate bit her lower lip, the scene of Angewomon purifying the flame last night flashed through her mind. That power really belonged to her and Tailmon, “Well… okay…”
“Perfect!” Xiaoyu has put on a black windbreaker that she found out of nowhere. Let’s go investigate Valon first! The Rat Spell can make me invisible,” she winked at Tailmon, “When the time comes, you turn into an angel and beat them all down!”
Tailmon rubbed Kate’s palm, “Kate, I respect your decision.”
Kate took a deep breath and clenched her fists unconsciously. “Okay… but retreat immediately if you see any danger!”
“Yeah! Cheng Xiaoyu’s ace agent team, attack!” Xiaoyu made an exaggerated shooting posture, then lowered his voice, “Let’s sneak out from the back door to avoid triggering Dad’s magic alarm.”
“Xiao Yu!!” Dad’s angry roar suddenly came from the attic, scaring the two of them.
“Run!” Xiaoyu grabbed Kate and rushed to the back door. Her heart was beating like a drum, but the excitement made her smile wildly. She was already imagining the moment when she defeated the big bad guy and was recruited by the alliance to become a formal member.
Kate was dragged along and ran wildly, the cold wind blowing on her face. She felt an inexplicable sense of relief, finally she no longer had to be treated as a child who needed protection.
Tailmon clutched her shoulders tightly, a hint of worry in his eyes. The power of darkness is very strong… but maybe this is fate?
The two girls disappeared into the shadows at the alley, but they didn’t notice that a mechanical bee high up was flashing red light. The monitor left by Natasha had a clear view of everything.
At the same time, Valon was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with a glass of wine, overlooking the brightly lit night scene of New York.
Suddenly, the statue of the Holy Lord behind him suddenly lit up with a scarlet light, and the temperature of the entire room suddenly rose.
“Walon…” The Lord’s deep and hoarse voice echoed in the room, “I sense… the power of the spell.”
The wine glass in Valon’s hand broke with a “snap” sound, and the red wine dripped down his fingers. He slowly turned around and looked at the ferocious dragon statue.
“Amulet?” Valon narrowed his eyes. “Didn’t you say that the twelve amulets have already…”
“Yes, the talisman is in the hands of that old man.” The Holy Lord’s voice was filled with suppressed anger, “But someone is using the power of the talisman… in this city.”
Valon’s expression suddenly became serious. He walked quickly to the desk and pressed the communicator: “Maggie, come to my office immediately.”
In less than a minute, Maggie pushed the door open. She keenly noticed the broken wine glass on the ground and Valon’s gloomy face: “What happened?”
“An uninvited guest has arrived.” Valon sneered, “He’s from the Alliance, a dead old man!”
“The Holy Lord has sensed the power of the talisman.” Valon walked towards the map on the wall, “Right…” His finger stopped at the location of the abandoned factory.
Maggie leaned in to check. “Here? Honey, maybe you should check online.”
Valon tapped his fingers on the table. “What happened?”
“It’s said on the Internet that an angel appeared in New York.” Maggie smiled, “One of our guys saw the angel fly out from here.”
“Angel?” Valon raised his eyebrows. “It seems that we have more opponents than we thought.”
“My lord, do you think…” Valon turned and looked at the statue of the Holy Lord.
“Find the user of the spell.” The Holy Lord’s voice was like boiling magma, “Bring him to me.”
“As you command, Lord.” Maggie bowed respectfully. “Are you going to send the Shadow Corps?”
“No.” Valon shook his head, “Too conspicuous. Since the alliance has intervened, we have to change our strategy.” He showed a sly smile, “Notify them to keep a low profile recently… I will send a message to Yingba. He has been given so much energy, it’s time to let his little baby come out and move around…”
Maggie nodded knowingly, “Understood.”
Valon walked to the wine cabinet and poured another glass of wine: “Remember, Maggie, don’t alert the enemy. If they are really from the Alliance…” A trace of fear flashed in his eyes, “We have to find out how many people are here first.”
Chapter 21 Shadow Tyrant’s Big Move (Old Version)
At the West End dock, the damp air was filled with the smell of decay and mildew, and the containers that had been eroded by the shadows had disappeared.
Valon stood on the shore, the emerald cane twirled slightly between his fingers, reflecting a dark green light under the light. He raised his hand and glanced at his watch, his brows furrowed imperceptibly.
“You’re late again, Shadow King.”
“The servants of the Shadow do not follow the human concept of time, Valon.” A hoarse laugh came from the shadows, and the figure of the Shadow King wearing a tattered cloak gradually appeared.
“Does our agreement still stand? The energy you took from me is enough to feed an entire army of supernatural beasts.”
A dull voice came from under the black mask, “It’s not enough… You promised a constant supply of energy…”
“The premise is that you fulfill your promise first!” Valon suddenly raised his voice, then regained his composure, “Attack Jin Bing’s base and weaken his cyborg troops. After the success, the energy in the ring will naturally continue to flow…”
Valon knew very well that without the bait of shadow energy, Shadow Tyrant would never surrender easily.
“Five super beasts…” Yingba finally spoke after a long silence, “Rockmon, Devilmon and Antmon, attack at sunset.”
“Also, Wolfmon and Bullmon will be waiting in the dark…”
Valon nodded with satisfaction. “A wise choice. Remember, I want complete chaos. The bigger the better.”
“Chaos will attract the Armor Heroes! They have already come to this world!” Yingba warned.
“This is exactly what I want.” Valon’s lips curled up in an icy arc, “Don’t you want to know how many troops the Alliance has deployed to this world?”
A dark light flashed in Shadow Tyrant’s eyes, and he finally merged silently into the shadows.
Valon stood alone at the dock, the sea breeze lifted the corner of his clothes, and took out the communicator, “Maggie, Shadow Tyrant’s ‘gift’ will be delivered to Kingpin soon…”
A few hours later, on the upper floor of Orochimaru’s laboratory.
Mrs. Gao of the Hand was reporting on the recent progress in collecting experimental materials, while Jin Bing was standing in front of the experimental table, waiting respectfully.
“Lord Orochimaru, the recent disappearances have attracted the attention of the police, so we have to slow down our actions.” Madam Gao’s voice was hoarse, with a sinister look hidden between her wrinkles, “but we have gathered the next batch of experimental subjects.”
Suddenly, Jin Bing’s phone vibrated rapidly. He answered the call with a frown, and heard a panicked voice on the other end of the line: “Boss! Three bases in the west area were attacked at the same time! It’s… it’s a monster!”
“Calm down and explain yourself clearly.” Jin Bing’s voice was as low as thunder.
“Giants made of rocks, monsters that look like ants, and…centaurs! Our brothers can’t stop them!”
Kingpin’s knuckles turned white, and his golden cane cracked the ground. He turned to Orochimaru in the shadows and said, “Sir, our base may be under attack by a supernatural beast.”
“Oh?” Orochimaru’s golden snake pupils flickered in the darkness, and his voice was filled with morbid excitement, “Let the guy who reported the news come in and explain in detail.”
Soon, a trembling henchman was brought in. He fell to his knees, “Those monsters… are invulnerable… The flying rocks smashed the club to pieces…”
Kingpin leaned his cane against the ground and said, “Tell me, what do they look like?”
The minions widened their eyes in horror: “There are rock monsters… ants with swords and shields… centaurs that can shoot lasers…”
“Interesting…it looks like our neighbors can’t hold back any longer.”
“Kingpin, take your transformed warriors and go meet these ‘guests’.”
Orochimaru slowly walked out of the shadows, stroking his chin gently with his pale fingers, as if he was thinking about something.
Jin Bing frowned and said, “Sir, these monsters are very powerful. If we attack them rashly…”
“No need to worry, Wilson.” Orochimaru sneered, “It’s a good opportunity to test the limits of the cyborg.”
Jin Bing was silent for a moment, then nodded: “I understand.”
Orochimaru tapped the experimental table with his fingertips and looked at the departing Kingpin. “Monster…Wallon…what an interesting combination…”
He looked out the window, the flames from the explosion in the distance reflected in his pupils like the shadow of a burning snake.
“Sasuke-kun.”
In the shadows, Sasuke’s figure slowly emerged, his Sharingan glowing scarlet in the darkness.
“Follow him.” Orochimaru’s voice was very dangerous, “If Kingpin succeeds…”
“Then kill all the mutants and bring back the Shadow Stone…”
“If that fails… then lead them here…”
Sasuke snorted coldly and his figure disappeared from the spot in an instant.
The laboratory fell silent again, with only Orochimaru’s low laughter echoing in the darkness.
“The game… has just begun.”
The sky over Hell’s Kitchen was dyed gray by thick smoke, and the air was filled with a pungent burnt smell.
Kingpin stood in the center of the ruins, his golden cane deeply inserted into the cracked ground. He looked around and saw twenty cyborg warriors surrounding them, with blood vessels wriggling strangely under their gray skin.
The rock beast attacked first. Its four scarlet eyes shot out lasers, and the suspended stones turned into millstone-sized boulders in the blink of an eye. With a roar, several boulders whizzed towards the crowd.
Two cyborgs stepped forward, pressed their hands on the ground, and a wall of earth rose from the ground.
The boulder was blocked by the earth wall. The cyborg on the side opened his mouth, and a blazing fireball gushed out, hitting the rock beast directly. Another cyborg pressed his hands on the ground, and sharp stone spikes protruded from the ground, temporarily nailing the rock beast in place.
Mamomon took the opportunity to attack from the side. Its four hooves stomped on the ground with a thunderous sound, and the long sword in its hand flashed with cold light. One cyborg raised his hand and a lightning bolt was generated, forcing Mamomon to raise his shield to block. Another cyborg suddenly sprayed a high-pressure water column from his mouth, pushing Mamomon back again and again.
A fierce look flashed in Jin Bing’s eyes. He suddenly pulled out the golden cane, and the sharp blade on the top flashed coldly. His burly body burst out with amazing speed, and the cane went straight to the throat of the demon horse beast.
The sparks from the metal collision were particularly dazzling in the dim ruins. The shield of the Demon Horse Beast barely blocked the fatal blow, but the huge impact still made it retreat several steps.
The ground suddenly bulged, and Antmon broke out of the ground, sweeping across with his heavy sword. The two cyborgs turned into smoke the moment they were swept, dodging the fatal blow. Several cyborgs nearby waved their hands, and several wind blades whizzed out, forcing Antmon to retreat underground again.
The battle was deadlocked. The cyborgs used various ninjutsu instinctively, with fireballs, lightning, and wind blades interweaving in the air. Rockmon was forced back by the continuous fire escape, Demon Horsemon was slowed down by the multiple water escape attacks, and Antmon’s surprise attacks were repeatedly resolved by the earth escape defense.
At this moment, something strange happened…
Chapter 22: Orochimaru’s Conspiracy (Old Version)
“Kill them!”
Kingpin roared and smashed the besieged Devilmon with the golden staff in his hand.
Just when all the transformed humans took action and tried to kill the three mutant beasts.
“boom!!”
The ground suddenly shook violently, and two dark shadows rushed out from the shadow of the ruins.
“These cyborgs have some merits in being able to allow Wolfmon and Demonic Bullmon to attack at the same time.” In the shadows in the distance, Shadow Tyrant was watching the battlefield, “But if there are no new tricks, then that’s it!”
The wolf beast split into six phantoms like a ghost, its claws gleaming coldly in the moonlight. The demon bull beast took heavy steps, cracking the ground with every step, and dragged a huge axe behind it, plowing deep furrows.
“What?! There’s also…” Kingpin suddenly felt something was wrong. The oppressive feeling from these two mutant beasts far exceeded that of the previous three. Although the cyborg troops had the advantage, most of their chakra had been consumed.
The wolf beast ran quickly, and six phantoms pounced on the nearest cyborg at the same time. Lightning fist shadows attacked from all directions, and the cyborgs could not tell which one was the real attack. One cyborg’s chest was pierced, and another’s head was cut off half of its face by its claws.
“Calm down, organize your formation!” Jin Bing roared, but the movements of the transformed people were obviously slow – the tree root patterns under their skin were twisting wildly, as if something was draining their vitality.
The demon bull beast approached from the other side with heavy steps, and the ground shook with every step. Its huge axe dragged behind it, plowing deep grooves on the concrete ground. Suddenly, its eyes burst into a dazzling red light, and two blazing light bullets whizzed out, blowing the two modified people who tried to release flames into pieces.
A cyborg managed to build a wall of earth, but it was like paper in front of the axe of the demon bull beast.
The moment the axe blade split the earth wall, the demon bull beast opened its bloody mouth and dark green poisonous mist gushed out, instantly covering the remaining few modified humans.
“Ahem… this is… poison…” The transformed people fell to their knees, their skin festering at a speed visible to the naked eye. They struggled to get up, but their fingers were no longer under their control.
Rockmon on the side took the opportunity to break free and launched a fierce attack together with Devilmon and Antmon. The defense of the cyborgs collapsed instantly, and screams rang out one after another.
“Damn it…” Jin Bing’s face was as gloomy as water. He tightly grasped the golden staff and suddenly rushed towards the Demon Bull Beast. The sharp blade on the top of the staff went straight for the Demon Bull Beast’s throat, but was intercepted by the claws of the Evil Wolf Beast in mid-air.
“Dang!” The sparks from the metal collision illuminated Jin Bing’s astonished face. The wolf beast’s claws were actually harder than steel.
The six wolf beasts howled shrilly at the same time and pounced on Kingpin from different angles.
Kingpin barely dodged the first three attacks, but the fourth Wolfmon’s sharp claws slashed his suit, leaving five bloody marks on his chest. The fifth Wolfmon’s fist hit him hard on the back, causing him to stumble forward, just in time to meet the Demon Bullmon’s axe.
“Ah!” With a roar, Jin Bing tried his best, tensed his muscles, and raised his cane to block the axe of the demon bull beast.
A huge force came from the cane, and Jin Bing’s knuckles broke. He relied on his strong body to barely block the axe.
The wolf beast’s sharp claws followed closely behind the axe, and it seemed that Kingpin was about to be torn apart by the claws.
“Chidori!”
Amid the shrill sound of birds chirping, blue lightning streaked across the battlefield.
Sasuke appeared on the battlefield like a flash, and the Kusanagi sword went straight for the throat of the Demon Bull Beast. The Demon Bull Beast hastily raised its axe to block, and the sparks of metal collision illuminated its ferocious face.
“Sasuke-kun…” Kingpin struggled to get up, his lungs burning with pain.
Sasuke didn’t look back, his Sharingan fixed on the two monsters.
“Take your remaining troops and withdraw to report. Leave this to me.”
The Wolfmon growled and circled behind Sasuke, forming a pincer attack with the Bullmon. Six identical Wolfmon surrounded Sasuke.
“Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Jutsu!” Sasuke quickly formed hand seals, and dozens of fireballs flew in all directions. Five phantoms dissipated in the flames.
The real wolf beast rushed forward quickly, and the strong wind created by its sharp claws swept across Sasuke’s cheek.
The Demon Bull took the opportunity to charge forward, and Sasuke dodged sideways. The Kusanagi sword cut a wound in the Demon Bull’s ribs. Dark purple blood gushed out, and the Demon Bull angrily sprayed out more poisonous mist.
“Wind Escape, big breakthrough!”
Sasuke blew out a strong wind, blowing away the poisonous fog. The Demon Bull Beast’s axe followed closely, and Sasuke drew his sword to block it. Cracks on the concrete floor under his feet spread like spider webs.
He dodged and retreated, seeing that the remaining cyborgs had already evacuated. He then pretended to be unable to withstand the siege of the two mutant beasts and retreated towards the laboratory.
The Wolfmon appeared in front of Sasuke, blocking the way of retreat, but Sasuke curled up a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
“Lightning Style: Chidori Sharp Spear!”
The blue electric light extended like a spear, and the Wolfmon dodged in panic, but still had its front leg scratched. Sasuke did not chase, but continued to run towards the laboratory, even slowing down to wait for the Psychomon to catch up.
“Follow them and see what tricks they are playing!” Yingba’s voice sounded in the ears of the two mutant beasts.
The two mutants looked at each other and chased in the direction Sasuke left.
During the chase, Sasuke deliberately slowed down to ensure that the two monsters would not be lost.
Outside Orochimaru’s laboratory, Sasuke suddenly stopped, and Wolfmon and Bullmon also stopped chasing vigilantly at the same time.
The two mutant beasts looked around. This place was eerily quiet and there was an unsettling smell in the air. Their animal instincts made them feel that there was danger here!
The door of the laboratory opened silently, and Orochimaru’s pale face appeared in the shadows. His golden snake eyes stared at the two monsters, and his tongue licked his lips unconsciously.
“Welcome, little cutie from the Shadow Realm…”
The Wolf Beast quickly moved to the side of the Demon Bull Beast, and six clones appeared at the same time. The Demon Bull Beast’s eyes shone with light, ready to attack at any time.
Orochimaru walked out slowly, his white robe swaying gently in the wind, and formed seals with his hands: “Summoning Technique”
The ground shook violently, then cracked open, and a strange giant tree emerged from the ground. The trunk was covered with vein-like lines, some branches and leaves were ominous dark red, and some branches and leaves were dark black. What frightened the two monsters the most was that the shadow ninja entangled at the roots of the tree was constantly being drained of shadow energy.
The Demon Bull Beast fired frantically out of fear, and the beams of light blasted scorch marks on the trunk, but it could not stop the spread of the roots of the sacred tree. A thick root suddenly entangled its hind legs, and the Demon Bull Beast struggled hard.
Seeing this, the Wolfmon immediately wanted to rescue him, but was entangled by the snakes thrown by Orochimaru. Dozens of poisonous snakes bit the Wolfmon’s limbs tightly. Although it quickly broke free, the opportunity for rescue had been missed.
The Demon Bull Beast spewed out its last sip of poisonous mist, but the roots of the sacred tree pierced into its body without any care. The shadow energy was madly extracted, and the roar of the Demon Bull Beast gradually turned into a whine, and its sturdy body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The dark color on the sacred tree became more and more conspicuous and slowly spread outwards.
A trace of fear flashed in the eyes of the evil wolf beast. It suddenly created clones at the same time and moved quickly. The six clones fled in different directions. Orochimaru deliberately slowed down the pursuit, allowing one of the “clones” to successfully escape.
Looking at the wolf beast’s receding back, Orochimaru showed a sinister smile: “Go… tell your master what’s here…”
He turned around and stroked the sacred tree that absorbed the shadow energy. He watched the dark color continue to expand and took a deep breath in ecstasy: “Soon…more nutrients will be delivered to my door…”
Chapter 23 Special Response Team (Old Version)
A seemingly ordinary barber shop in New York is the New York branch of S.H.I.E.L.D.
All employees in the store are well-trained S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and the barber chair in the barber shop is the elevator to the underground base.
Since Valon committed a major crime in New York, supernatural events began to occur frequently in the city. In particular, the fierce battle between the supernatural beasts and the armored warriors that broke out at the West Side Pier aroused the high alert of S.H.I.E.L.D.
After Armor Hero Dongshan explained in detail to Nick Fury the origin of the mutants and the threat of the shadow forces, S.H.I.E.L.D. immediately formed a special response team in its New York branch.
The team includes an armed combat team, an intelligence team, a medical team, and two genius scientists, Fitz and Simmons.
Simmons and Fitz are geniuses who graduated from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy.
Leo Fitz, a genius science and engineering scientist, has a confidential security level of five and is the top graduate of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. He specializes in rocket and mechanical engineering and is good at developing new weapons and equipment.
Jemma Simmons, also a confidential security level 5, specializes in biology and chemistry, and is Fitz’s partner.
“Fitz, you should have told me before you made the model…”
“Bullets are hollow… I’m lucky if I can keep them from disintegrating in the chamber…”
“Or use a larger caliber bullet…”
As the two were having their daily discussion, a shrill alarm sounded in the base.
The two looked at each other and turned on the holographic projection.
“There are a lot of energy reactions, some of which match the characteristics of the mutant beasts provided by Mr. Dongshan!” Simmons’ fingers tapped rapidly on the virtual keyboard.
“Location locked, Hell’s Kitchen!”
Fitz quickly retrieved the satellite footage, only to see that Kingpin’s cyborg troops were fighting fiercely with five mutant beasts of various shapes.
Huge stones and earth walls clashed, flames and shadows intertwined, and the entire building was reduced to ruins.
“Shit…” Simmons gasped, “How did that big rock move?!”
Just then the door of the command room opened, and Natasha and Dongshan walked in quickly. Dongshan’s attention was immediately attracted by the battle in the projection, especially when Sasuke’s figure appeared in the picture, his pupils suddenly contracted.
“Orochimaru…” Dongshan murmured in a low voice, with obvious fear in his voice.
Natasha was keenly aware of Dongshan’s abnormality: “Do you know that person?”
Dongshan took a deep breath and pointed at Sasuke holding the Kusanagi sword in the picture: “The Disordered Ones are an organization that specifically opposes the Alliance. There are all kinds of people in it!”
“Uchiha Sasuke, a rebel ninja in the Naruto world. And behind him is… Orochimaru, a madman obsessed with forbidden experiments.” Dongshan frowned.
“Before I tracked Shadow Tyrant to this place, a major event happened in the Alliance… It was done by the Disordered…”
“One of them is Orochimaru…”
Natasha’s expression changed slightly. This was another unheard of organization… The Disordered! It sounded like a restless organization. And judging from Dongshan’s reaction, this organization was obviously hostile to the Alliance. It seemed that the Alliance, the guardian of the multiverse, had many enemies.
“His speed and strength are far beyond those of ordinary people, and he can also release energy-like attacks…” Fitz analyzed and recorded the data.
“Chakra, a special power in the ninja world.” Dongshan explained.
“Romanov, what’s the situation?” Nick Fury’s voice, who had received the notification at the same time, came from the communicator.
“Sir, we have discovered a new supernatural individual who is suspected to be the mastermind behind Kingpin.” Natasha reported briefly, “Mr. Dongshan confirmed that the other party is from another world and his purpose is unknown.”
In the projection, the destructive power of the five monsters made everyone in the command room feel uneasy. The huge rocks thrown by Rockmon razed the entire building to the ground, the long sword of Demon Horsemon easily split the vehicle, Antmon sneaked up and down underground, and Wolfmon and Demon Bullmon showed overwhelming combat power.
Dong Shan’s fists clenched unconsciously: “Five supernatural beasts appeared at the same time… Shadow’s power is growing rapidly. I must go to the scene immediately.”
“It’s obvious that the mutants and Orochimaru are in a hostile state…” Natasha hesitated and spoke.
“No, the power of the shadow is growing too fast, we can’t let it go on…”
“Romanov, lead the special response team to support Mr. Dongshan. Prioritize controlling the situation and avoid civilian casualties.” Nick Fury gave the order directly.
“Understood, sir.” Natasha nodded and quickly gave orders, “Fitz, prepare the Quinjet. Simmons, continue monitoring and report any abnormalities at any time.”
“Shadow Tyrant… Orochimaru…” Dongshan’s eyes flashed with determination, “No matter what, the mutant beast must be sealed.”
Ten minutes later, the Quinjet arrived over the battlefield. Dongshan stood in front of the hatch, his hair ruffled by the strong wind.
Below, Sasuke, Wolfmon and Bullmon have disappeared, while Rockmon, Horsemon and Antmon are still wreaking havoc.
“Two mutant beasts are chasing the boy named Uchiha. Personnel have been sent to track them!” Natasha’s voice rang out from the cockpit of the fighter plane.
“Okay! Let’s deal with these three first.” Dong Shan jumped down and raised the summoner high in the air: “Wind Eagle Armor – Combine!”
Blue light instantly enveloped his body, and the energy fluctuations from the armor’s fusion caused the Quinjet to shake slightly.
The Wind Eagle Armor landed lightly on the ground, and before the splashed gravel settled, the Wind Eagle Ring had already made its move.
The Wind Eagle Ring accurately hit the rock beast’s head, causing it to stagger back. Dong Shan did not stop, and his body moved as fast as lightning, heading straight for the nearest demon horse beast.
“Dhyana Seal!”
A special barrier enveloped the mutant beast, making its movements instantly immobile. Dong Shan seized the opportunity and kicked the demon horse beast hard in the chest with a wind eagle kick, sending it flying dozens of meters.
“Wooden Armor!” Yingba’s voice came through the connection between the monsters, “Rockmon, Devilmon, Antmon, attack with all your strength!”
The three mutant beasts immediately adjusted their formations. Rockmon released boulders in front, Demonhorsemon attacked from the side with a sword, and Antmon lurked underground, waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
Dong Shan was attacked from three sides, and he blocked with the Wind Eagle Sword and the Wind Eagle Ring alternately, and they were entangled in a fight for a while.
Chapter 24: Shadow Tyrant’s Abnormal Behavior (Old Version)
While Dongshan was fighting fiercely with the mutant beast, the special response team led by Natasha had quickly launched tactical deployment.
Six agents in black tactical uniforms set up monitoring equipment using the building’s commanding heights. Two of the technicians were quickly debugging the equipment.
“Start recording armor combat data.” The technician stared at the data jumping on the screen.
Natasha pressed the microphone: “Team A, test conventional weapons.” Twenty meters away, four agents raised their guns and fired at the same time. The armor-piercing bullets sparked on the body of the rock beast but had no effect.
“Conventional weapons are ineffective. Team B, test-fire freezing bombs.”
Two liquid nitrogen bombs exploded at the feet of the Antmon, and the movements of the Mutantmon in the white mist were obviously slow. Dongshan took the opportunity to jump up, and the Wind Eagle Sword flashed a blue light.
“It works! But it lasts too short!” Before Natasha finished her words, the Antmon broke free from the frozen state and smashed the entire concrete wall with its heavy sword.
“Try energy interference!” Fitz’s voice came from the communicator. The agent on the roof on the other side immediately launched a charged particle net, and the blue-purple arc enveloped the Devil Beast.
The mutant beast roared, and the shadow energy on its body surged like boiling water, tearing the power grid apart in an instant.
Natasha frowned as she looked at the data feedback: “The energy interference lasted less than 0.5 seconds, and the intensity was insufficient.” She suddenly drew her gun and shot at Dongshan’s feet: “Be careful of the ground!”
Dong Shan jumped back instantly upon hearing this, thrusting out his sharp sword from where he was standing. The moment the ant beast broke out of the ground, the wind eagle ring accurately hit its eyes, and dark purple body fluids splattered on the ground, corroding and producing hissing white smoke.
Seeing this, Rockmon and Devilmon immediately came forward to besiege Dongshan and rescue Antmon. Antmon was irritated by the continuous harassment of the SHIELD team. It let out a piercing neigh, suddenly turned around, and rushed towards Natasha.
“Abandon the test! Everyone concentrate their fire!” Natasha ordered immediately.
The agents quickly switched weapons, firing rockets and howitzers, and the explosions instantly engulfed the Antmon. However, when the smoke cleared, the Antmon only staggered slightly, and there was no trace of it on its shell.
“Damn, it’s totally ineffective!” an agent exclaimed.
The Antmon roared angrily and suddenly burrowed into the ground. The ground shook violently, and before the agents could react, the hard concrete floor suddenly cracked, and the Antmon broke out of the ground, sweeping out with a heavy sword, splitting the agents standing in front in two.
“Hiss~~”
Antmon roared, as if venting his emotions from being beaten by the Armor Hero, and was about to continue swinging his sword to clean up the humans who were harassing him, when a blue light flashed, and the Eagle Ring whizzed over, accurately hitting Antmon’s sword-holding arm.
“careful!”
Dong Shan took the opportunity to leap in front of the team, blocking the blow with the Wind Eagle Sword.
“Back off! This is not an enemy you can handle!” Dong Shan said in a deep voice, his voice under the armor carrying unquestionable majesty.
Natasha immediately ordered the surviving team members to retreat, and at the same time pressed the communicator: “Attention all units, evacuate the combat area immediately! Repeat, evacuate immediately!”
“Long-range fire support, don’t get close to the battlefield! I repeat, don’t get close to the battlefield!”
In the shadows in the distance, Shadow Overlord was watching the situation on the battlefield.
The figure of the evil wolf beast flashed from a distance and quickly came to Yingba’s side. Before it got close, Yingba noticed its abnormality and asked in a deep voice: “What’s going on?”
The evil wolf beast roared to convey information, and Shadow Tyrant’s expression changed: “A tree that can absorb energy? And it also absorbs the power of shadow?”
“Ahh… Roar…”
“Hahahaha, I see. Who was I thinking? Turns out it was them!”
“Looks like we have to change our plans!”
Yingba turned his gaze to the battlefield. Dongshan was fighting one against three. The energy fluctuations of the Wind Eagle Armor continued to vibrate. “Now is not the time to fight with the Armor Warriors. We can’t waste our strength here!”
“Antmon, hold him back! The rest of you, retreat!”
The ant beast immediately emerged from the ground and swept the heavy sword across Dong Shan’s waist. Dong Shan dodged sideways and blocked with the wind eagle sword, which collided with the ant beast’s sword, creating dazzling sparks.
Rockmon and Devilhorsemon took the opportunity to evacuate, and Wolfmon quickly disappeared into the shadows. Dongshan wanted to chase, but was entangled by Antmon.
“Don’t even think about escaping!” Dong Shan shouted angrily, slashing with the Wind Eagle Sword, forcing the Ant Beast to retreat. But the Ant Beast was extremely tenacious, and rushed forward regardless of everything, swinging the sharp sword so tightly that it was difficult to break through for a while.
In the distance, Shadow Tyrant stood in the shadows, his eyes flickering: “The sacred tree… can absorb the energy of the planet… and is also contaminated by the shadow…”
“If we could transform all the energy absorbed by the sacred tree into shadow…”
“Orochimaru, you have prepared a big gift for me! Hahaha!” Amid Yingba’s arrogant laughter, Rockmon, Devilmon and Wolfmon followed Yingba and disappeared into the shadows of the block.
Only Antmon was still fighting with Dongshan, entangled in Wind Eagle Armor so that he could not escape.
Dongshan knew that the pursuit was hopeless and could only focus all his attention on the ant beast.
After only a few rounds, Dongshan seized the opportunity when the ant beast’s sword swung in vain and stabbed its chest with the Wind Eagle Sword.
“Wind-piercing thorns!”
The sword light with concentrated energy penetrated the body of Antmon and nailed it in place. Dongshan jumped into the air, and the sealing array lit up under the feet of Antmon.
“seal!”
With an unwilling roar, the ant beast turned into a magic sticker and was put into Dongshan’s belt.
Although the battle was over and a supernatural beast was successfully sealed, Dongshan felt even more depressed. Looking at the direction where the supernatural beast left, Dongshan knew that the threat of the shadow was imminent.
When I was alone, Yingba actually evacuated at the cost of giving up a mutant beast rather than fight with me. It was obvious that he had other plans. It was very likely that Yingba had a bigger conspiracy!
The agents led by Natasha began to clean up the scene. She walked over to Dongshan and said, “Four mutants escaped.”
“The intelligence personnel who were tracking the wolf-type mutants and the bull-type mutants have disappeared. The tracking device located them in an abandoned factory a few kilometers away. There was only a large pit left. At the same time, Fitz also detected abnormal energy readings there.”
“There must have been a battle in that place, which caused the bull-shaped mutant to disappear!”
“Yeah.” Dong Shan took off his armor, his face solemn, “Ying Ba retreated too hastily. He would rather sacrifice a supernatural beast to withdraw from the battle than try his best to keep me. This is not in line with his style…”
“And it involves Orochimaru… I hope things won’t be as bad as I think!”
Natasha’s communicator rang again, and Fury’s voice came: “Everyone return to headquarters, we need to reassess the situation now.”
After a pause, he continued: “Mr. Dongshan, I’m sorry to bother you to come to the headquarters again this time…”
Chapter 25: The Disordered (Old Version)
SHIELD headquarters, Triskelion Building.
Nick Fury, as always, was wearing a black windbreaker, standing in front of the French window, gazing at the scenery outside, wondering what he was thinking about. There was a light knock on the office door, and Natasha and Dong Shan walked in one after the other.
“Mission report, sir.” Natasha stood still and saluted neatly.
“The battle in Hell’s Kitchen is over. Mr. Dongshan successfully sealed one mutant beast, but the other four escaped. It is worth noting that Yingba chose to retreat actively and seemed to have other plans.” Natasha briefly reported the mission process.
Fury turned slowly and fixed his eyes on Dongshan: “Mr. Dongshan, I need more detailed information about the man named Orochimaru and the organization behind him, ‘The Disorderly’. Is there a possibility that they will unite with Yingba? This is related to the adjustment of our entire strategic assessment.”
Dong Shan took a deep breath with a solemn expression: “The Disordered are a trans-world criminal organization, and its members come from all planes.”
“Motherfucker…” The first sentence Dongshan said made Fury curse in a low voice, and his already dark face became even gloomier at this moment.
This sudden news made his knuckles tap on the table unconsciously. Nick Fury had just digested the shock of the existence of the Alliance, and now another cross-world organization of the same scale had emerged, which made him feel dizzy.
As the director of SHIELD, he knew too well how huge the resources a global organization could mobilize were. And for an organization like the Alliance that governed multiple worlds, its resource reserves were simply inestimable.
What’s even more terrifying is what kind of chemical reaction will occur when the unique resources and technologies of each world are superimposed on each other?
Fury’s thoughts involuntarily drifted to a more dangerous area. How many beings like Ming Zun who were close to being gods were there in the alliance? Did those omniscient and omnipotent gods like the legendary God really exist in the alliance?
Under such circumstances, the Disordered Organization is still active, which means that this organization also has the power to rival the Alliance! At least it can ensure that it will not be destroyed!
If one day this world is invaded by the disorderly,
The more he thought about it, the worse Nick Fury’s expression became.
Dong Shan did not notice Fury’s changing expression and continued to explain, “This organization is composed of a group of extremists who pursue absolute freedom and have absorbed wanted criminals from all over the world.”
“But there are all kinds of people in this organization, with different ideologies. Some join just because they don’t want to be bound by constraints, but there are also some lunatics who are willing to break the balance of the world or even destroy the world for their own pursuits. These people put their own pursuits first and are indifferent to everything else. They are very dangerous!”
“Orochimaru is one of them, an S-rank rebel ninja from the ninja world, obsessed with forbidden experiments, and will do anything to pursue immortality.”
“And it seems that Orochimaru was also involved in the theft of the alliance’s special items!”
Fury’s single eye narrowed slightly; he needed time to digest this shocking information.
“Just before I came to this world, the Disordered Ones infiltrated the Alliance and interfered with the inter-world transmission channel of the 648th sector, causing a batch of special items sent to the Alliance headquarters to be lost…”
Natasha interrupted Dongshan and asked in disbelief, “So, this dangerous lunatic might have the super weapon stolen from the Alliance?”
“That’s right. Although it is unclear what Orochimaru has obtained specifically, he must have some ulterior motives for hiding in this world.” Dongshan nodded in confirmation.
Fury frowned. “Is Shadow Tyrant’s behavior related to him? Or is it related to this item? Is there any possibility of their reaching a cooperation?”
“It’s still unclear at this point,” Dong Shan nodded, “but Yingba would rather give up a supernatural beast and evacuate, which means he has found a more important target.”
“The Shadow is the public enemy of all worlds, but a madman like Orochimaru doesn’t care about the survival of the world at all!”
The director’s office fell into silence. Fury was thinking while digesting the information given by Dongshan.
Finally, it was Dong Shan who broke the silence. “The situation is beyond my ability to handle. I must return to Mingjie immediately to seek help. During this period, if there is an emergency, you can contact me through Dad’s antique shop.”
Fury nodded heavily and watched Dongshan leave.
“Alliance…” Nick Fury murmured the word in a low voice, as if chewing on its weight.
As a spy chief who controls a global intelligence network, he knows too well what it means to have an organization that can control multiple worlds. It’s not just a matter of resources, it’s more like a crushing of dimensions.
Imagine an organization that can mobilize different world forces such as magic, technology, and superpowers at the same time, and its strategic depth has exceeded the cognitive scope of Earth civilization.
Fury narrowed his single eye slightly. Even though the Alliance claimed to be the guardian, this level of power itself was disturbing. Countless lessons in history told him that absolute power is often accompanied by absolute corruption. Can a super organization without checks and balances really keep its original intention forever?
“Sir?” Natasha keenly noticed her boss’s abnormality.
“I’m thinking…” Fury turned around, his voice heavy, “The existence of the alliance is like a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads. They are indeed maintaining order, but who can guarantee that this sword will never fall?”
Natasha nodded thoughtfully: “Just like nuclear deterrence, peace is built on a balance of terror.”
“What’s even more ironic is…” Fury pulled a wry smile from the corner of his mouth, “The emergence of the Disordered makes the existence of the Alliance more credible. Just like the eternal opposition between light and darkness, the more we understand the horror of chaos, the more we understand the necessity of order.”
He walked to the holographic projection table and called up the various intelligence he had recently collected: “The question is, what role does our Earth play in this game that spans the world? Chess piece? Chessboard? Or…”
“The chess player?” Natasha continued.
Fury shook his head: “At least for now, we haven’t even fully understood the rules. Even if we did, we wouldn’t be qualified!”
He pointed to the projection of a battle between several supernatural entities and said, “These supernatural events are becoming more and more frequent, like the thunder before a storm.”
“Notify all field agents to enter a level one alert state. Also, have the scientific team speed up the analysis of the energy characteristics of the mutant beasts and analyze the data of the armor at the same time. We can’t be completely helpless!”
“Understood, sir.”
Just as Natasha turned to leave, Coulson knocked on the office door.
“Sir, I just received news that Tony Stark was attacked and missing…” Coulson walked into the office and handed the report to Nick Fury.
Chapter 26 Before Resurrection (Old Version)
At the highest point of the kingdom of God, a towering temple is suspended in the boundless void.
Divine light flowed on the crystal wall, and the torrent of emotions was filtered layer by layer, turning into brilliant divine power, gathering in the pool of divine power in the center of the temple.
Roland woke up from his training, and the moment he opened his eyes, divine light poured out like a galaxy.
“The news about Tony Stark’s disappearance has been all over the place. It seems that the birth of Iron Man is not far away… I should speed up…”
“Intelligent Brain, how is the construction progress of the Alliance Headquarters?”
A mechanical voice sounded, “Master, the core area of ​​the alliance has been designed and can be created at any time…”
Roland nodded slightly, waved his sleeves, and the God of Creation surged like a tide. In an instant, the divine light shone brightly, and a magnificent building complex spanning dimensions slowly took shape in the void.
“Now that the gears of fate have begun to turn… let’s make this game even more exciting.”
In a shabby apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, greasy fast food containers are piled up on the coffee table.
Fat Burke and thin Sgor were slumped on the yellowed sofa cushions, their fat and thin bodies forming a sharp contrast.
The two were commenting on the soap opera heroine on TV, accompanied by the sound of bubbles from the carbonated drinks.
“Fack, this girl’s curves are killer…” Bourque licked his sauce-covered fingers, his greasy eyes fixed on the screen.
“What kind of fucking aesthetic do you have?” Sgor kicked his fat waist. “The blond one is the best. Her legs can break your neck!”
“Ha! That ‘long-legged supermodel’ you mentioned last time turned out to be an FBI agent!”
“If Boss Maggie hadn’t discovered it early, we would still be licking toilets in prison…” Burke took a sip of Coke and sneered with disdain.
“Speaking of Boss Maggie, he’s been acting mysterious lately and suddenly gave us a holiday… I’ve been in the mafia for so long, and this is the first time I’ve heard of such a thing as paid vacation…”
Before he finished speaking——
The door of the apartment was kicked open suddenly. Jessica Jones stood at the door with her arms folded across her chest, a cold face and eyes sharp enough to pierce people.
“I’d also like to know what Maggie is up to.”
“Big sister?!” Sgor was so scared that he jumped up from the sofa.
Jessica didn’t waste any words. She grabbed Burke by the collar and almost lifted him up: “Where is Maggie? Don’t tell me you don’t know!”
Burke’s eyes rolled around in panic, and he forced out a dry laugh: “Ma, Maggie said…you’d better not get involved in this matter…”
“And we really don’t know! She gave us a holiday and didn’t tell us anything!” Sgor echoed.
“My heart is beating faster and I’m sweating all over. He’s lying.” Daredevil’s voice came out of nowhere.
Jessica sneered and cracked her knuckles.
Two minutes later.
Burke slumped on the faded leather sofa, his right face swollen and his speech unclear: “Red Velvet… Club… Don’t ever say… It was us…”
Sgor next to him was even worse off, with blood still dripping from his nose, staining his white shirt red.
Outside the door, Xiaoyu held her breath, the light of the snake charm flickered in her palm. Kate nervously tugged at the corner of her clothes, and Tailmon twisted uncomfortably in her arms.
“I told you that we can find clues by following them!” Xiaoyu whispered excitedly, her eyes seeming to glow.
Kate pulled her nervously: “Is it not good for us to do this…”
“Shh, keep your voice down…we are fighting for a just cause!” Xiaoyu suddenly covered Kate’s mouth.
“Come out.” Daredevil suddenly looked towards where the two were hiding. “Your heartbeats are louder than the moans of the two people inside.”
Xiaoyu stuck out her tongue, smiled awkwardly, and ended her invisibility. She complained to Kate, “Look, I told you to keep your voice down, but now you’ve been discovered…”
“…” Kate hugged Tailmon and rolled her eyes helplessly. It was really an eye-opener to see how one could pass on the blame.
“We just want to help!”
Xiaoyu jumped in front of Jessica and clasped her hands together in a praying gesture.
“Please, we won’t fall behind! I promise!”
Jessica crossed her arms and said, “Don’t even think about it. This is not a child’s game! I’ll contact the boss right now—”
“etc.”
Daredevil suddenly spoke up, stopping Jessica’s actions, and turned to face Tailmon, “If it is true as the intelligence says… a demon is about to descend… we may need the power of angels.”
Jessica’s finger stopped on the communicator, her eyes moving between Tailmon and the two girls. Finally, she sighed heavily.
“Follow me closely. If you dare to run away, I will tell Dad and ground you for a year!”
“Understood!” they said in unison.
Meanwhile, underground at the Red Velvet Club.
Maggie walked through the dark corridor in her high heels and pushed open the heavy oak door. The magic circle in the secret room was emitting a strange dark red light.
Ivan and Carlo stood on either side, the former was polishing his brass knuckles, while the latter was leaning on his cane with his eyes closed. Maggie nodded slightly at them, and then her eyes fell on Valon in front of the magic circle.
“The Shadow Tyrant has taken action, but the mutant beast only attracted the Armored Hero and did not find any other alliance members!”
Valon tapped the ground with his emerald cane, a playful smile on his face, “Unexpected, but reasonable! The Alliance has really been distracted by that incident! They don’t even have the energy to pay attention to us little guys!”
“But Yingba seemed to have other ideas and did not follow the agreement…”
Valon chuckled and waved his hand, interrupting Maggie. “It doesn’t matter. Shadow Tyrant is just a pawn to attract attention. If he can make a bigger noise, that would be great.”
“It just so happens that our goal is not to become a thorn in the alliance’s side!”
“What we need to do now is to help the Holy Lord break the seal!”
“Only with enough power can our plan be carried out instantly!”
After that, he continued with the ritual, using the power gained from organizing the remnants of the party to slowly wear away the seal that the alliance had placed on the Holy Lord.
As the ceremony progressed, the statue of the Holy Lord began to tremble in the magic circle. Spider-web-like cracks appeared on the stone surface, and flames seeped out from the cracks, illuminating the entire space like purgatory.
At this moment, the Holy Lord seemed to sense something.
“Talisman…” The Holy Lord’s voice echoed in the underground space, and every syllable made the air vibrate.
“I also smelled… a sickening scent of light…”
Upon hearing this, Valon spun his cane lightly in his palm, with a cold light flashing in his eyes: “There are always some ignorant little mice who like to disturb us at critical moments…”
“Dark Shadow Ninja!”
Shadows on the ground surged like boiling water, and dozens of black shadow ninjas broke out from the ground.
“Go and greet my…old friend.” Valon waved his hand gently, then gave a look to Maggie and the other two.
The three received the signal from Walon and immediately entered combat status. The totems of the Holy Lord on their necks suddenly lit up, and black air emanated from them, wrapping around their bodies like living things.
Chapter 27: The Lord’s Resurrection (Old Version)
Outside the Red Velvet Club, neon lights illuminate the decadent life of New York.
Jessica kicked open the iron door of the fire escape, followed closely by Daredevil, and the two of them were on the roof of the Silent Club.
“There are at least a hundred heartbeats down there,” Matthew’s fingertips lightly tapped his earlobes. His extraordinary senses penetrated the walls and captured the movements inside, the flipping of cards, the clinking of glasses, and… some kind of low chanting.
Jessica squinted her eyes and looked down through the gap in the skylight.
The club was dimly lit and filled with smoke. Several gangsters in suits sat around a gambling table with chips piled high. Scantily clad girls holding wine glasses wandered among the crowd, but Maggie was not among them.
“Underground,” Matthew frowned suddenly, “there are strange sounds… and some kind of… fluctuations.”
Jessica nodded and looked around: “Where are Xiaoyu and Kate?”
“They are behind,” Daredevil listened carefully and caught the sound of very light footsteps. “Xiaoyu used a spell to become invisible, and Kate and Tailmon are waiting in the dark.”
“I hope they don’t do anything rash. I hope our choice is the right one!” Jessica sighed, then kicked the skylight to pieces and jumped into the club.
The two men landed lightly on the top floor corridor. The jazz music downstairs masked their movements and disrupted their perception, but Matthew’s super senses still captured the unusual movements.
“Wait!” He suddenly reached out and grabbed the back collar of Jessica’s leather jacket, “There’s an ambush…”
Before he could finish his words, six black shadows jumped out from the shadows in the corner, and ninja darts tore through the air, making sharp whistles.
“Damn it!” Jessica leaned back suddenly, a dart grazing her nose, leaving a bloody mark on her cheek. She picked up the bronze ornaments in the corridor and smashed them hard at the nearest black shadow ninja.
The ninja dodged sideways, but Jessica had anticipated it and followed up with a left fist, hitting the opponent’s throat with a heavy punch. The shadow ninja instantly turned into smoke and dissipated.
Meanwhile, Matthew’s battle was smooth sailing.
The blind man’s cane accurately blocked the dart, and his body flashed, and the tip of the cane pierced out like a venomous snake, piercing through the chest of the second ninja. The third ninja attacked from behind, and Matthew didn’t even turn his head, and smashed the opponent’s jaw with a backhand elbow, and the three black shadow ninjas disappeared one after another.
However, more ninjas came from all directions, seemingly endless. Jessica looked at the many shadow ninjas in front of her: “Shit, why are these guys endless?”
“I never saw these guys being so difficult when they were helping me.”
Just then, Xiaoyu’s voice came.
“Dragon Blast!”
A blazing pillar of fire gushed out from Xiaoyu’s palm, and the flames exploded among the black shadow ninjas, and all of them were instantly dispersed into smoke.
Xiaoyu appeared from thin air, with her hands on her hips, laughing triumphantly: “Hehehe, I told you we can help!”
Jessica smiled and shook her head, giving Xiaoyu a thumbs up, “You’re awesome!”
“Fortunately, I picked up a dragon talisman,” Xiaoyu laughed proudly.
“Hurry!” Tailmon’s ears perked up, and he said in a hurry, “I can sense that the power of darkness is getting stronger!”
Jessica and Matthew looked at each other and rushed to the basement without hesitation.
In the basement, the air was so hot that it was almost suffocating.
The light on the statue of the Holy Lord became increasingly intense, and cracks on the ground below spread like a spider web. Hot magma seeped out of the cracks, burning the ground black.
Valon waved his hand, and a black shadow ninja emerged from the shadows on the ground, holding a black stone slab in his hand.
The shadow ninja held the stone slab in both hands and respectfully placed it in the center of the altar. The ancient spell on the stone slab was gradually emitting an evil dark green light.
“Holy Lord, it’s time to come back…”
The entire basement began to shake, magma gushed out of the ground, the walls cracked, and rubble fell.
“It’s almost there, it’s almost there…”
Suddenly, the door of the secret room was kicked open and Jessica and Daredevil rushed in.
“Varon! Stop your tricks!” Jessica took the lead.
The dragon head did not turn back and continued with the ritual, the light on the slab becoming increasingly brighter.
Maggie turned around suddenly, slightly stunned: “Jesse? Why are you here?”
Then, as if he had thought of something, an angry look appeared on his face, “I warned you a long time ago, but you still like to meddle in other people’s business!”
“I don’t want to either, but I have to stop this farce. Maggie, you don’t even know what the Holy Lord is.” Jessica stepped forward and stared at Maggie.
“Farce? No, Jesse!”
“I know what I want. You have talent. I begged you, but you always give me those old-fashioned theories!”
“And now I have seen the true power, the power to change destiny!”
“Only with strength can we survive! And the power of the Holy Lord is unstoppable!” There was madness in Maggie’s eyes.
Jessica was shocked and clenched her fist unconsciously: “It seems that only fists can convince you!”
“You failed to convince me before, and you can’t convince me now!” Maggie took a defensive posture, and black energy formed a vortex around her.
“Then give it a try!” Jessica rushed out like a cannonball, her fist tearing through the black air and going straight to Maggie’s face.
Maggie leaned back strangely, and the black energy turned into a sharp blade, slashing at Jessica fiercely: “Now I have the same talent as you!”
At the same time, Matthew rushed towards the magic circle, his guide stick turned into silver light and went straight for Valon’s throat.
Carlo suddenly flashed out, blocked the blow accurately with his cane, and sneered: “Greetings from the Italian, the fearless man of Hell’s Kitchen.”
“That blind man? Let me see if you are still so fearless when your bones are broken!” Ivan rushed towards Matthew’s back with his brass knuckles.
Carlo’s cane changed its position at the same time, stabbing Matthew’s throat from a tricky angle: “Why waste your time talking to a dead man.”
Daredevil dodged sideways and hit the opponent’s ribs with a backhand elbow: “You are working for the devil, do you know the consequences?”
“Consequences?” Carlo’s cane struck his elbow. “Power is the best consequence!”
Looking at Jessica and Matthew being entangled by the black killer in the corner, Tailmon became more and more anxious, “It’s almost too late… The power of darkness is getting stronger!”
“Kate…I…”
“This…what should I do?” Kate held the Badge of Light tightly in her hand, her face full of anxiety.
“There’s no other way, I’ll do it!” Xiaoyu looked at the urgent situation and suddenly said with a firm face.
He then used the snake charm to quietly approach the magic circle and suddenly revealed himself.
The pillar of fire roared out and hit the statue of the Holy Lord hard.
Suddenly, the explosion raised a cloud of smoke all over the sky.
“Hahahaha! Success! Cheng Xiaoyu saved the world again!” Xiaoyu put her hands on her hips and laughed triumphantly.
Seeing this, Maggie was stunned: “How is it possible…”
Ivan and Carlo were also stunned, as if they couldn’t believe that the ancient demon could be destroyed so easily.
However–
“No! There’s something inside! Xiaoyu, come back quickly! Matthew’s senses suddenly tensed up.
Boom——
The first heartbeat echoed throughout the basement, causing everyone’s heart to stop.
When the second heartbeat came, the floating gravel was shattered into powder by an invisible force.
“Ha ha ha ha–!”
The Lord’s wild laughter was like thunder, causing pain in everyone’s eardrums. The smoke was torn apart by an invisible force, and the vertical pupils emitting red light lit up in the darkness. The fiery dragon might swept across the entire basement like a tsunami.
“I’m finally free again!”
The body appeared in the dispersing smoke and dust, covered with dark green scales, with four sharp dragon horns bending backwards, a slender and powerful torso, strong limbs, and claws as sharp as steel hooks.
The dragon claw was slightly raised, and the dragon talisman, snake talisman and chicken talisman flew into his palm as if summoned.
“Talisman…” The Holy Lord’s gaze fell on Xiaoyu, and a ferocious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
“No!” Xiaoyu wanted to rush forward to snatch it, but was grabbed by the neck by Walon.
“Little boy, we meet again.” Valon smiled and tightened his fingers.
Xiaoyu lifted her feet off the ground and struggled desperately: “Let me go, Valon!”
The Holy Lord took slow steps, the ground melting beneath his feet, and his voice was as deep as the echo of hell: “Now… it’s time to settle the accounts.”
Chapter 28 Angewomon VS Holy Lord (Old Version)
“Let me go! Let me go!” Xiaoyu twisted desperately in Walon’s hands.
Valon placed his cane against Jade’s throat, a dangerous smile on his face, “Don’t move, kid, or I can’t guarantee that your neck will remain intact.”
Kate rushed out from her hiding place, the Divine Plan glowing slightly in her hands.
“Stop!” Kate’s voice was filled with anger and a hint of nervousness.
“Another ignorant brat.” Valon sneered and pushed Xiaoyu towards the black shadow ninja that appeared in the shadows behind him, “Take her down.”
“Let her go!” Jessica gave up Maggie who was entangled with her and rushed towards Valon.
The ground cracked under her explosive charge. The punch made a sound of breaking through the air, but it stopped abruptly three inches away from Valon’s face. The Holy Lord’s dragon claws grabbed her wrist like an iron clamp.
“The strength is OK, but the speed is a bit slow.”
The Holy Lord’s dragon whiskers trembled slightly, and the tips of his claws sank into Jessica’s skin. With the crisp sound of bones dislocating, Jessica was thrown to the ground, and the concrete floor cracked like a spider web.
“Uh…” Jessica groaned.
“Jessica!” Matthew swept his guide stick across, forcing Ivan and Carlo back.
In the shadows on the ground, a rain of black shadow ninja darts came towards him. Although his super senses allowed Matthew to avoid them, it also stopped him from moving forward.
Matthew’s guide cane accurately knocked down two ninjas, but he was suddenly attacked by Carlo from behind. The cane emitting blue light scratched his back, and blood immediately soaked his dark red battle suit.
“The power of light…what a disgusting smell…” The Lord ignored Jessica who was struggling on the ground and Daredevil who was blocked, and walked straight towards Kate who was emitting the power of light.
Tailmon jumped out of Kate’s arms and went straight for the Lord’s eyes with its sharp claws.
“Meow meow punch!”
The Holy Lord swung his dragon tail, and the little guy crashed into the rubble like a kite with a broken string.
“What a weak fist.”
“Matthew!” Jessica struggled to get up, but was entangled by Maggie’s black energy chain around her ankle and fell heavily to the ground again. “Stay here obediently…”
“Ahh!” Jessica groaned in pain. Matthew tried to struggle, but the black shadow ninja’s sharp blade was already against his throat.
The Holy Lord floated up, standing steadily in the air without wings, this was the power of the chicken talisman.
There was contempt in the dragon’s eyes, and the sound of its scales rubbing against each other was like the whisper of the god of death: “Pathetic ant.”
He turned his gaze to Kate, his pupils shrinking slightly: “The Badge of Light… What a pity, it is so unbearable.”
The dragon’s breath burned Kate’s cheeks, and the Divine Plan wailed in her trembling hands.
“I don’t want to…lose to a monster like you!”
In an instant——
The sacred plan bursts into dazzling golden light!
Tailmon’s body was wrapped in light, and at the same time, the golden light of the Divine Plan turned into a golden bubble that wrapped around Kate.
In the light, a slender figure slowly stretched out, eight pure white wings suddenly spread out, and the sacred light illuminated the entire underground space.
Angewomon, come!
The beam of light instantly penetrated several black shadow ninjas. Maggie was forced to retreat, and the black energy that was wrapped around Jessica melted like ice and snow under the holy light.
“Actually… such a disgusting aura of light…” The Holy Lord was stunned for a moment, as if he did not expect Kate to be able to activate the power of the Badge of Light at this time.
“Dragon blast!” The Holy Lord was enraged by the sudden evolution and activated the power of the dragon talisman.
Angewomon folded its wings, and the sacred barrier blocked the magma-like flames.
Without hesitation, he flapped his wings and rushed directly towards the Holy Lord.
Light and fire collided in mid-air, and the shock wave of the explosion instantly collapsed the roof of the basement!
In the rain of gravel, Angewomon grabbed Matt and Jessica and soared into the sky, with Kate following closely behind wrapped in a shield of light.
“boom–!”
With a loud bang, the ground of the club suddenly collapsed, and the Holy Lord rushed out from underground, suspended in the air, and his roar shattered the glass within a radius of 100 meters.
“Oh my God! What is that?!” A passerby pointed to the sky in horror, and his phone slipped from his trembling hands.
“Dragon…it’s a dragon!” Screams rang out one after another.
The Lord of Gods was suspended in mid-air, his fiery breath twisting the surrounding air. Angewomon spread out his eight wings, his sacred light shining like stars.
“Call the police! No… call the army!” The convenience store owner on the corner frantically dialed 911, his voice trembling with fear.
The New York Police Department’s phone was instantly flooded with calls, and the operators were busy recording the calls from all over.
“Giant creature appears on West 32nd Street…yeah, like a dragon from the movies!”
“And angels… No, I’m not kidding!”
Sirens blared throughout Manhattan as dozens of police cars rushed to the scene from all directions. At the same time, in order to capture this hot news, news media helicopters took off at the same time, regardless of the danger.
At the headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D., shrill alarms rang throughout the entire Triskelion building.
“Sir! There is a fight between supernatural creatures in Manhattan!” Hill quickly walked into Fury’s office and projected the real-time images onto the screen.
Fury’s single eye stared at the battle between the Holy Lord and Angewomon on the screen: “Notify all available teams, evacuate civilians, and seal off the scene. Also, contact Dongshan and Dad.”
“We’ve tried to contact him, but Mr. Dongshan is currently out of the service area, and no one answered the phone at my dad’s antique shop.” Hill reported quickly.
On the street, the battle between the Holy Lord and Angewomon has reached a fever pitch.
The Holy Lord swooped down towards Angewomon, passing over the vehicles at a low altitude, causing their tires to burst one after another in the high temperature.
Angewomon, who had just settled Jessica and Matt, did not dodge or evade. Instead, it flapped its wings and rushed towards the Holy Lord.
Angewomon drew a golden trail in the air, and the dragon breath of the Holy Lord melted the glass curtain walls along the way into liquid.
An office building collapsed in the explosion, and thick smoke rose thousands of meters into the sky.
Inside the Triskelion building of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury stared at the satellite images with his fists clenched white.
“Matherfac…”
The Holy Lord laughed wildly, and his dragon claws went straight for Angewomon: “A mere Digimon dares to challenge the Fire Devil?”
Angewomon gritted her teeth and fought back, but the power of the Holy Lord was far beyond imagination. The dragon claws tore through the light, and the blazing flames burned her wings.
“Is that all you can do?” The Holy Lord suddenly accelerated, grabbed Angewomon’s ankle with his dragon claws and threw her towards a tall building nearby.
“No!” Kate screamed as the metal decoration on the spire twisted and deformed in the impact.
Angewomon managed to keep his balance, but found that the Holy Lord had appeared behind him.
The dragon claw grabbed Angewomon’s throat and slammed it against the building.
In the sky, the sound of a helicopter was heard, and the searchlights were shining on Angewomon.
The whole world watched this scene through the live broadcast camera. The eight-winged angel was strangled by the dragon-shaped demon and crashed through three buildings.
Chapter 29 Ancient One (Old Version)
“OHmygod”
In a small apartment in Brooklyn, Martha, a devout old woman, knelt down in front of the TV, trembling, and the Bible in her hands fell to the ground.
Her grandson hugged her tightly, his eyes wide open, staring at the live broadcast on TV.
“Grandma… the angel will win, right? Just like the Archangel Michael defeated the dragon…”
Martha’s lips trembled, but no sound came out.
At the same time, all people around the world who were watching the live broadcast were stunned in amazement.
In Tokyo, an office worker was squeezing a beer can out of shape. The Holy Lord in the live broadcast grabbed it and swung it out. The flames engulfed half of the building, and screams rang out in the bar.
In London, Big Ben abnormally rang at an off-hour, and the deep bell sound was mixed with the sobbing of the crowd. The priest held up the cross and prayed hoarsely: “Lord, please judge me!”
In the Vatican, the Pope closed his eyes and remained silent, with the cross in his hand turning white.
The sudden burst of holy light turned all electronic devices around the world that were watching the live broadcast into a sea of ​​white.
A beam of light shot up into the sky, and the Holy Lord’s huge body was blasted out of the building.
“Hoo! You pissed me off, Digimon!”
The Holy Lord let out a deafening roar of pain, and the anger in his dragon eyes almost turned into substance.
The fire hydrant burst under the high temperature, and the water column shot up into the sky. The moment it touched the Holy Lord’s flames, it was evaporated into white mist by the high temperature.
In the hovering helicopter, the pilot shouted into the radio: “Retreat! Retreat immediately! The temperature has exceeded the safety threshold!”
With flames rising, the Holy Lord swooped down towards Angewomon, but dodged immediately before crashing into the building.
“This is…”
An even brighter sacred light condensed between the ruins of the building.
An even stronger holy light burst out, and the arrow pierced through the Holy Lord’s chest like a meteor. Lava-like blood gushed out and sprinkled on the street below, causing a series of explosions.
Just when everyone thought that a turning point had occurred and the Angels would win.
In TV broadcast studios around the world, anchors fell silent at the same time.
A senior CNN reporter took off his headset and made the sign of the cross on his chest with trembling hands. The BBC studio suddenly fell silent, and then the host’s scream was heard.
On the giant screen of Times Square, the live broadcast suddenly switched. The ferocious dragon claws of the Holy Lord grasped Angewomon’s neck, and its glowing wings gradually dimmed during the struggle.
Billions of people around the world held their breath, and social media was instantly flooded with desperate prayers and devastated questions.
The light dissipated, and the small figure fell from the sky, and the golden light wrapped in the sacred plan on Kate’s body also dissipated.
“Tailmon!”
Kate jumped up desperately, caught her dying partner with both arms, and then fell heavily to the ground, her knees bleeding.
“Kate, I’m sorry… I tried my best…” Tailmon’s weak voice sounded.
“It’s…it’s okay…” Kate hugged Tailmon tightly, her voice choked with sobs.
“Hahahaha, what a perfect appearance!”
The Holy Lord laughed wildly, and his dragon claws ignited a destructive flame, and the entire street twisted and deformed in the high temperature.
“The new world will soon be under my rule!”
At the same time, in the SHIELD command room, Fury was still arguing with the World Security Council.
The image of World Security Council Chairman Markley flashed: “Fury! Nuclear strike immediately!”
Nick Fury stared at the surveillance screen: “No, this is not New York!”
The British representative roared: “Even if we don’t launch a nuclear bomb, that monster will destroy all of New York!”
The surveillance footage suddenly shook violently, showing the Holy Lord spewing flames and destroying a building.
Just when Nick Fury was about to press the communicator with the Captain Marvel logo on it, a turning point occurred on the battlefield.
“Get out of here, monsters! Get out of here, monsters!”
Dad’s voice sounded.
A green magic circle unfolded on the ground, and the green magic power wrapped around the Holy Lord’s limbs like chains. The flames slowly extinguished under the suppression of magic.
“Dad?!” Kate turned around in surprise.
The Holy Lord was furious: “You old bastard, we meet again!”
“Now we have to reminisce about the past!”
Even more intense flames erupted from the Holy Lord’s body, and he struggled to break out of the magic circle.
Because Dad was in a hurry to look for Xiaoyu, he didn’t have time to prepare in advance.
Without the support of other instruments, Dad’s dried pufferfish instrument could not withstand such a huge pressure and slowly cracked. Dad gritted his teeth and said, “Dad can’t hold on any longer. Take Kate away first!”
Jessica didn’t hesitate, she picked up Kate and ran.
“But, Xiaoyu…” Kate, who was holding Tailmon, was still struggling.
Matthew grabbed Kate’s arm: “We have no way to save Xiaoyu now!”
“Roar!” With the Holy Lord’s roar, the power of the dragon talisman was revealed.
The magic chains that were entangled with the Holy Lord were broken one by one.
Just as the Holy Lord was about to break free, golden sparks appeared in the space behind him.
Golden sparks drew a perfect circle in the air, and a figure in a yellow robe calmly stepped out of the portal. The yellow robe did not move in the heat wave, and his calm eyes met the burning dragon eyes of the Holy Lord.
The Holy Lord’s roar came to an abrupt end, “Who are you?!”
“Demon, you have crossed the line.” Master Ancient One responded calmly.
“Ha, here comes another guy getting in the way!”
The Holy Lord exerted force suddenly, and the magic chain shattered and flew!
The old man was knocked over by the shock wave and looked at the strange wizard in front of him in amazement: “Such a powerful magic power, who are you?”
Ancient One did not respond. He raised his hand and drew a circle. Golden sparks bloomed in his hand. A golden energy shield blocked all the rubble, and collided with it to produce brilliant sparks.
“Dragon Explosion!” The Holy Lord opened his bloody mouth and gushed out hot dragon breath. Ancient One drew a circle with his right hand, and the flames were suddenly absorbed by the mirror space in front of him.
At the moment when the Holy Lord was shocked, Ancient One suddenly appeared above her head. She folded her hands, and the mysterious runes of the Book of Vishanti appeared in the air.
“Use Hogs’ name as the lock, Oshutu as the prison, and Agamotto as the key…”
A huge golden magic circle emerged from the ground beneath the Holy Lord’s feet, and the dimensional barrier began to distort.
“In the name of Vishanti, I will banish you to where you belong!”
The space shattered like glass, revealing a scarlet hell.
The Holy Lord’s roar was distorted in the dimensional cracks, and the dragon’s body was dragged towards hell by an irresistible force.
“No! This is impossible…”
The last syllable stopped abruptly. The golden sparks dissipated, and the streets returned to silence, with only a few wisps of smoke left to prove the fierce battle just now.
The whole street suddenly became eerily quiet, with only the crackling sound of burning.
When the golden sparks died down, Ancient One flicked his sleeves and turned to look at the stunned crowd.
His eyes swept across the embarrassed faces of the people, and finally stopped on Tailmon in Kate’s arms.
“I think we need to talk about the visitor from another world.” Ancient One made a stroke of his hand, and a portal appeared, opposite which was the reception room of Kamar-Taj.
Dad stood up: “Wait! Who are you…”
“You can call me Master Ancient One.” Ancient One took the lead and walked towards the portal.
Several people looked at each other and followed into the portal one after another.
Chapter 30: Conversation with Ancient One (Old Version)
The golden portal slowly closed. In the quaint reception room of Kamar-Taj, sunlight shone through the carved wooden windows and the air was filled with a faint scent of sandalwood.
Master Gu Yi sat cross-legged in front of the tea table, tapping the rim of the cup with his fingertips. The originally empty cup was slowly filled with tea.
Gu Yi’s eyes swept across everyone calmly, finally stopping on his father.
“Mr. Cheng, I’ve heard a lot about you.” She nodded slightly with a smile on her face.
The old man was stunned and frowned slightly: “Do you know me?”
Gu Yi did not answer directly, but took out a star badge from his sleeve, which was exactly the same as the one in his father’s hand.
The badge gleamed in the sunlight, and the mark of the alliance was clearly visible.
“Member badge of the Multiverse Alliance? How do you have this?” Dad opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“Because I have met members of the alliance before.” Gu Yi smiled slightly.
“Many years ago, a member of the Alliance from the future visited Kamar-Taj.”
“At that time, we were facing a crisis of dimensional collapse, and forces from outside the world were trying to devour this world.” Gu Yi’s voice sounded distant and calm.
“She is a high-ranking member of the Alliance. With her help, we defeated the invading enemy. After we fought side by side, she introduced the existence of the Alliance to me.”
“She?” Kate asked curiously.
“Yes, she calls herself the ‘Guardian of Tireface’!”
“The magic he uses is called arcane, which is not from the same system as the magic I use, but he is also a very powerful wizard.” Gu nodded.
“Alas, Master Aegwynn, a powerful wizard who once defeated the fallen Titan incarnation.”
“I didn’t expect that Master Ancient One had a connection with her.” When Dad heard Ancient One’s description, he immediately thought of the powerful wizard in the alliance.
“So that’s when you joined the alliance?”
“No, I refuse.”
“My duty is to protect the dimensional balance of this world. I cannot leave for long.”
“But I accepted Aegwynn and left this badge…”
“Aegwynn told me that at some point in the future, when dark forces from multiple worlds invade this world at the same time, someone holding the same badge will appear, and the Alliance will intervene again…” Ancient One’s voice was slightly low.
Jessica couldn’t help but ask: “So, you already knew that the Holy Lord would break the seal?”
“No, I just know ‘maybe’.”
“The timeline is not fixed. The future that Aegwynn saw is only one of many possibilities.”
“It’s not necessarily the future I’m experiencing, but now, with the appearance of Mr. Cheng, I’m sure this timeline has become a reality.” Gu Yi shook his head slightly, refuting Jessica’s question.
“The Holy Lord should not have awakened at this moment, and you should not have existed. This is just one possibility among many timelines.” Ancient One said, drawing a line with his hand.
A golden stream of time appeared in front of Jessica, emanating countless branches.
“For a long time afterwards, I didn’t see any trace of the Alliance…”
“Until… one day not long ago, the world underwent an unknown change, and the future became unclear…”
“The power from outside the world has come to this world… and brought unknown variables.” As the father of a magic master, after thinking for a moment, he knew the cause and effect.
“Yes…”
As she spoke, the golden time stream in front of Jessica converged to a point, and then emanated more tributaries.
At the same time, the golden flow of time seemed to be stained with mist and became blurred.
“Can you say something we can understand?”
“Xiaoyu is still in Valon’s hands. Even though you sent that damn dragon away, who knows if it will come back!”
“We need an action plan, not riddles!
Jessica impatiently interrupted the conversation between Dad and Ancient One, waving her hands randomly to try to disrupt the golden time stream in front of her.
“I am also responsible for resisting invasions from outside the dimension. You have to rely on yourselves…”
Gu Yi shook his head, and what he said made Jessica’s heart fall to the bottom.
Then he suddenly turned to his father and said, “Mr. Cheng, Aegwynn left one more thing behind.”
Then she pulled out an ancient scroll from her bosom, “She said that when the darkest moment comes, this will help you.”
Dad took the scroll and felt a familiar energy fluctuation as soon as he touched it: “Is this… the purification technique of the Ming Realm?”
“Why is it purification?!” Dad was stunned when he felt the power in the scroll.
Since the Holy Lord is immortal, shouldn’t he use sealing techniques?
Could there be a more formidable opponent? Who could it be? Valon? Vampire Beast? Shadow Tyrant? Or
“Oh, things are becoming increasingly difficult…” Dad sighed helplessly.
“Mr. Cheng, I have done everything I can. It’s up to you now.” Gu Yi nodded to his father, then moved forward and the portal was opened again.
“What should we do now? It’s hard for us to fight such a powerful enemy alone.” Daredevil suddenly spoke after passing through the portal.
“As the guardian of the world, you just watch it?” Jessica turned around and said to Ancient One very unhappily.
“I have done the best I can, otherwise it will trigger a more serious chain reaction.” Gu Yi shook his head slowly.
“this…”
Jessica sighed, looked at Kate, and walked through the portal helplessly.
“Master Ancient One, thank you for your help.” Dad nodded to Ancient One and stood up to say goodbye.
Ancient One nodded slightly, and the golden portal slowly rotated in front of his father.
Just as Dad was about to step into the portal, Ancient One suddenly spoke:
“Mr. Cheng, may the light of magic… shine upon you.”
The portal’s sparks gradually died out.
……
Chapter 31: After the War (Old Version)
After the war, the streets of New York were filled with a sense of anxiety.
Broken glass, collapsed buildings, burning wreckage…traces of the battle between the Lord and Angewomon were scattered throughout the entire block.
The sounds of police sirens and ambulance sirens intertwined, and the air was filled with panic and anxiety.
Citizens stood outside the cordon, watching all this in horror, anger, or confusion.
“Is that a dragon? An angel? What is going on?!” a middle-aged man asked in a trembling voice.
“Is the end of the world coming?” An old man muttered to himself, clutching the cross tightly.
Videos and photos spread wildly on social media, and #NewYorkAngelsVsDevilsBattle# quickly became a global trending search.
Conspiracy theorists, religious fanatics, and science fiction enthusiasts have all expressed their opinions.
Some even claimed that this was a “punishment from God” or an “alien invasion.”
All major TV stations were reporting this explosive news, and everyone was guessing who the mysterious person who appeared at the end was.
And in another stronghold of the Black Hand Gang.
In the dim room, Valon was also watching the report on TV.
Maggie, Ivan and Carlo stood behind him, and the atmosphere was solemn.
“The Holy Lord… was defeated just like that?” There was disbelief in Maggie’s voice.
“Impossible! The Holy Lord is invincible!” Ivan clenched his fists, his brass knuckles glowing coldly under the light.
Carlo remained silent, but his eyes were also full of confusion.
Valon chuckled and turned around: “Do you really think that the Holy Lord will fail so easily?”
Maggie frowned and pointed at Gu Yi’s figure on the TV screen: “But this mysterious man…”
Valon interrupted her, “It’s normal. There are always a few strong people in this world. The power that this world can bear is far more than this. It’s normal to have such power. It would be incredible if there is no such power!”
Valon paced slowly, speaking calmly, “This was all part of the plan.”
“Plan?” Maggie was stunned, as if she didn’t expect Valon to say that.
“The Holy Lord is immortal and indestructible. He cannot be killed. Even if he is exiled, there are ways for him to come back.” Valon’s fingers lightly tapped the emerald on the top of the cane.
“But this is not what we want… Don’t forget our purpose all along…”
“You mean…” Carlo seemed to understand something.
“That’s right.” Valon smiled meaningfully.
“The Lord’s revival was intended to draw out the power of the alliance, but unfortunately there are only a few big and small cats.”
“Secondly, it is to test the power of this world. Now we have also determined what kind of enemy we need to face at this stage…”
“And the third reason is, of course, to allow us to smoothly move into the dark. After all, without the power of the devil, we are no longer their priority target.”
Maggie’s eyes flashed with realization: “So, the Lord’s ‘failure’ was actually… intentional?”
“That’s true! If it succeeds, it will be detrimental to the implementation of our plan. Otherwise, the organization would not have assigned me and the Holy Lord to lead the charge. We would have been worried about how it would end if it succeeded…”
“Failure is part of the plan!” Valon nodded and said affirmatively.
“I originally thought that it would attract reinforcements from the Alliance, but I didn’t expect it to attract the guardian of this world. But it doesn’t matter, whether it succeeds or fails, we have now achieved our goal.”
Valon turned and looked out the window. The night in New York was still prosperous, as if the previous disaster had never happened.
“A high-level world like this that is not yet a member of the alliance is a big piece of fat meat, and fat meat will always attract the attention of jackals.”
“There are too many external forces in this world, and they need to be consumed…”
“Next, we will go into the dark.” Valon’s voice was low and dangerous. “Let those who think they have won… be happy for a while.”
“Give the stage to those who need it more.”
“After all, we are just remnants of the old world and are not fit to be in the center of the stage.”
“But that little girl… isn’t she from the Alliance…” Maggie said hesitantly, worried that if Xiaoyu was captured by their side, the Alliance would chase her closely, thus affecting the implementation of the plan. After all, what they need now is quiet hibernation.
“She is an old friend of mine. I never thought she would come into this world.”
“What a surprise!”
“Surprise?” Maggie was stunned. Is there something special about this little girl?
“Yes, surprise…”
In the temple at the highest point of the Kingdom of God, Roland, who was comprehending the laws, slowly opened his eyes, and the divine light flowing in his pupils gradually disappeared.
The scene of Ancient One’s conversation with his father appeared in the void in front of him, gently rippling like ripples on the water.
“I see…” Roland raised his lips slightly, tapped his fingertips, and the picture dissipated into starlight, “Have I succeeded in my future self…”
He stood up, his divine robe fluttering without wind, and the crystal wall of the kingdom of God beneath his feet trembled slightly with his thoughts.
Through the crystal wall of the Kingdom of God, Roland looked towards the center of everything, New York.
Not only did his future self foresee all of this, but he also passed the key information back through the Ancient One.
“The path to becoming a god…” Roland murmured softly, his eyes cast towards the creation stone tablet suspended in the center of the kingdom of God, “It really isn’t that easy…”
The voice of the intelligent computer echoed in the temple: Master, 10,086 ways to become a god have been simulated, and the success rate is less than 0.001% at present. “
“Cancel it… I already know what to do…” Roland’s eyes flashed with sharpness.
“Understood, Master. The simulation of the subsequent drop locations has been completed. Please review it…” The voice of the intelligent computer continued.
“Very good.” Roland raised his hand and waved it lightly. As divine power surged, seven glowing dragon balls rotated above his palm.
The current divine power does not allow Roland to create a complete version of the Dragon Balls, but that doesn’t matter.
As for whether it will be exposed, it is impossible for people to collect all of them before Roland’s divine power can create a complete version of the Dragon Balls.
“Valon works so hard, we should give him some reward…” Roland chuckled.
Chapter 32 Hydra (Old Version)
The holographic projector projected five figures in the dim conference room, and the representatives of the World Security Council looked solemn.
The leader was Gideon Malik, one of the leaders of Hydra and a member of the World Security Council planted by Hydra.
“Fury, the disaster in New York has exceeded our tolerance limit!”
“A battle between angels and demons? This is simply a mockery of modern civilization!”
Malik’s fingers pounded on the table, and his angry voice echoed in the empty conference room.
Another representative, Holly, had his image flicker. “S.H.I.E.L.D.’s annual budget is as high as tens of billions, but they can’t even protect the civilians in New York? How can they guarantee the safety of the entire world?”
“Fury, you have to know that those live broadcasts are now going viral around the world and have caused panic around the world!”
Nick Fury put his hands behind his back and scanned the holographic projection with his one eye. “Everyone, we are taking measures…”
“Measures? What measures? According to post-war statistics, the dragon-like creature destroyed ten buildings before disappearing, causing at least six hundred casualties!”
Another representative suddenly interrupted, with obvious distrust in his voice.
“Director Fury, the Security Council has just passed an emergency resolution. SHIELD must submit a complete report within 24 hours and accept the presence of a supervisory team sent by the World Security Council.”
As the only Asian representative in the Security Council, Yan’s expression was calm and serious.
Fury clenched his fists behind his back.
Oversight team? That would be equivalent to exposing all of SHIELD’s secrets.
Just as Nick Fury was about to respond, the door to the conference room slid open silently.
“Please forgive my interruption.”
Alexander Pierce walked slowly into the conference room. He nodded slightly to the holographic projection and said, “As the Secretary General of SHIELD and the liaison of the Security Council, perhaps these questions should be answered by me.”
Markley frowned: “Mr. Pierce, this…”
“Don’t I have the qualifications?” Pierce interrupted softly.
“This is not a question of qualifications. As the current director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury has an obligation to explain his inaction to the World Security Council!” In the holographic image, a representative looked a little excited.
“Of course, of course, but as a former director, I can provide some… different perspectives?”
Pierce said with a smile, while sliding his finger quickly on the touch screen: “When the dragon was spewing flames over New York, SHIELD had already collected their intelligence…”
As he was speaking, the Holy Lord’s information was displayed to all the representatives through holographic projection.
“The evil dragon is called Shengzhu, a demon that ruled Asia in ancient times…”
Hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Yan, the representative from Asia.
“Sorry, I’ve never heard of the title Holy Lord…” Yan rolled his eyes and shook his head in denial.
“Our totem is not such an ugly thing, this thing looks like a big lizard!”
A new set of data charts was projected in the center of the conference room.
Pierce spoke directly: “The SHIELD task force completed 72% of the scene blockade at the same time, and the medical team treated more than 400 wounded.”
With a flick of his finger, the screen switched to the video of Dong Shan sealing the mutant beast: “More importantly, we have mastered the preliminary means to fight against this kind of supernatural threat.”
“As for the angel…”
Malik continued switching the screen, showing the image of Angewomon.
“It is related to a little girl named Kate Bishop. SHIELD had already established contact with her before…”
The scene of Natasha meeting everyone in her father’s antique shop appeared before her eyes.
Representative Holly’s expression changed: “Angel…can we…”
“It’s not a real angel, but a special creature!” Nick Fury interrupted.
Glancing at Nick Fury, Pierce continued his explanation.
“The Armored Heroes and the Angels,” Pierce answered calmly, his eyes slowly sweeping over each member of the Security Council, “all of them have had contact with SHIELD. Some of them are special consultants to SHIELD, and some may even become members of SHIELD in the future. Their cooperation with SHIELD has just begun.”
He paused for a moment and said, “If we send a supervisory team now, it will probably scare away these…key allies…”
“Words are not enough! We need substantial evidence.” The Rockwell representative, who had been excited before, snorted coldly, as if he was still unwilling to give up.
But Pierce seemed prepared.
He called up another encrypted video, which was the scene of S.H.I.E.L.D. cooperating with Dongshan in sealing Antmon in New York.
“Then SHIELD, don’t they have any countermeasures of their own? They can only rely on these people of unknown origin?”
Pierce said nothing and played back another experimental video.
A strike team led by Crossbones Brock Rumlow is carrying out a mission in the ruins.
In the picture, the commandos are holding strangely shaped weapons, with the muzzles glowing with a faint blue light. An energy bullet accurately hits the enemy.
“Rumlow’s special tactical team is equipped with experimental weapons specifically designed to deal with this type of threat,” Pierce explained, giving Fury a meaningful look.
Yan suddenly asked: “Where is the technology of these weapons derived from?”
“The prototype of the energy weapon left over from World War II has finally reached actual combat standards after years of improvement and perfection by S.H.I.E.L.D.’s scientific research department.” Pierce’s answer was flawless.
He pulled up a technical document marked ‘Top Secret’: “These are some of the technical parameters. Of course, for security reasons, the detailed information requires a higher level of authorization.”
The conference room fell into a brief silence.
Pierce seized the opportunity and stepped forward. “Everyone, what we need now is unity and cooperation, not blaming each other. Give S.H.I.E.L.D. some more time. If the situation is still not under control by then, I will be the first to support the reorganization of management.”
His gaze finally landed on Fury and he winked at Nick Fury.
“…” Nick Fury stood aside without saying anything.
The Security Council representatives exchanged glances.
After several minutes of whispered discussion, Malik finally nodded: “Okay. But the actions of the special tactical team must be supervised by the Security Council.”
“Of course, Captain Brock Rumlow will report the progress of the operation to the committee regularly.” Pierce smiled professionally.
As the holographic projections went out one by one, the conference room returned to silence.
Fury turned to face Pierce, a critical gleam in his one eye: “You know that the Armor Heroes and the Angels have their own organizations!”
Pierce walked to the wine cabinet in the corner, and the crystal glasses made a crisp sound when they clinked together.
“Sometimes, a white lie can buy us valuable time.”
Pushing the amber whiskey toward Fury, “Rumlow’s team is ready. New York needs a visible show of strength now.”
Fury didn’t take the glass. “When did the special tactical team get these weapons? I remember the last assessment report showed that the energy weapons project was still in the experimental stage.”
“Yes, some of the experimental equipment, those prototype weapons from the World War II era have been improved and specially modified to barely reach the actual combat standards.” Pierce took a sip of wine, his Adam’s apple sliding slightly.
He gently put down the wine glass, and the glass made a slight sound when it collided with the marble table. “The important thing is that the Security Council will not interfere with our actions for the time being.”
“Agent Hill will be the commander of the special tactical team!” Nick Fury thought for a moment and spoke to Pierce with a firm tone in his voice.
“Of course… You’re the director,” Pierce said with a smile, “I’m already old enough to retire. If it weren’t for these things, I’d still be fishing at home!”
When the door of the conference room closed, the gentle expression on Pierce’s face disappeared instantly.
He pressed the micro communicator hidden in his sleeve, his voice was cold and emotionless: “Rumlow, prepare for action! Focus on monitoring the target ‘Valon’.”
On the surveillance screen on the mobile phone, Crossbones was debugging weapons in the underground armory.
Those energy weapons glowing with a faint blue light are the results of Hydra’s years of research and development.
Pierce’s gaze lingered on a certain picture for a moment. It was the new energy rifle that Rumlow was inspecting. The Hydra logo on the gun was cleverly hidden under the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo.
If you want to pick the weak ones, Valon, who has lost his demonic power, is a good choice. With energy weapons, it should not be a problem to deal with those shadow ninjas.
“Secretary General Pierce?” an assistant asked quietly outside the door.
“I’ll be right there.” Pierce adjusted his tie and walked out of the conference room. Then he glanced at Fury’s closed office door and turned to walk towards the elevator.
The moment the elevator door closed, a barely perceptible sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The tentacles of the Hydra will not give up contact with these fascinating supernatural forces!
“HailHydra”
Chapter 33 Assault (Old Version)
S.H.I.E.L.D. Special Operations Command Center
Agent Hill stood in front of the large surveillance screen, which showed the special tactics team led by Rumlow.
“According to intelligence, Valon is currently in this factory, and the factory layout has been uploaded to the microcomputer.” The technician’s voice came from the communicator.
“Very well, Rumlow, are the commandos ready?”
Hill narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the tactical layout on the screen.
In the picture, Rumlow pulled up a map of the factory from the microcomputer on his arm. “Everyone, stand by, awaiting your orders, sir.”
“Remember, the priority is to ensure the safety of the hostages.”
“Don’t underestimate Valon’s methods. We haven’t fully understood what he has in his hands.” Hill gave the order.
Rumlow grinned, with a gleam of ruthlessness in his eyes: “Don’t worry, we will let him enjoy the ‘hospitality’ of SHIELD.”
Interior of an abandoned factory building.
The dim lights cast distorted shadows on the walls, and the air was filled with the smell of decay and rusted metal.
Valon stood in the middle of the room, tapping the ground with his emerald cane. The crisp sound was particularly piercing in the silence. His eyes fell on Xiaoyu who was floating in the air.
Xiaoyu’s eyes were tightly closed, and an inky black aura surrounded her body. On her calves, strange dark shadow patterns appeared that were exactly the same as the black shadow mask.
The corners of Valon’s mouth curled up into a smile, “As expected of a natural son of shadow, he is indeed extraordinary.”
Maggie walked in from the door in high heels, the black air flowing through her fingertips like a living thing: “Sweetheart, the people from that annoying department have surrounded this place.”
“Tsk, the fish I should catch didn’t get caught, but instead a bunch of unknown people were caught.” Wa Longtou didn’t reply, and continued to stare at Xiaoyu who was transformed by the shadow.
“But it doesn’t matter. With such a strong shadow fluctuation, it’s impossible for Shadow Tyrant not to come and take a look…”
“Let Ivan and Carlo act out a play with them, and then retreat…”
“Remember, follow the plan!” Valon paused, thought for a moment and continued.
Maggie nodded, the Holy Lord totem on her neck glowed slightly, black air instantly enveloped her whole body, and she disappeared into the darkness in a flash.
Valon stared at Xiaoyu, with an elusive emotion flashing in his eyes: “Let’s give our guests… an unforgettable welcome ceremony.”
Rumlow raised his fist and signaled the team to stop.
Nine fully armed special forces soldiers immediately formed a tactical formation behind the wall outside the factory. The buzzing sound of energy weapons charging was particularly clear in the silent night.
“Satellite scans show a high-energy reaction inside, and an abnormal energy reading in the center of the factory.” The technician’s voice sounded in the headset.
“clear!”
Rumlow put down his hand on the communicator and began to arrange the tasks: “Team A, block the exit, Team B, follow me in. Remember, the safety of the hostages is the priority.”
When the demolition experts were installing directional door-breaking bombs at the back door of the club, Commander Hill’s voice suddenly came from Rumlow’s communicator: “Energy readings are soaring, act now!”
“Got it.” Rumlow gestured, “Three, two, one–“
The shock wave from the directional blast shattered the factory door, and debris flew like raindrops.
Rumlow was the first to rush in, and the blue energy bullets emitted by his energy weapons were particularly conspicuous in the darkness.
“Clear the area!”
The commandos quickly dispersed, and the buzzing sound of energy weapons could be heard one after another.
The black shadow ninja who was on guard near the factory gate was directly broken into black mist and disappeared.
Rumlow’s tactical eyepiece scanned quickly and suddenly locked onto the air in the center of the factory.
Xiaoyu was suspended in mid-air, and the black energy was entwined around her like a living thing.
“Hostage found! Cover me!”
Before he finished his words, a sharp and piercing sound of breaking through the air was heard, and dozens of ninja darts suddenly shot out from the shadows.
One of the team members groaned as his tactical armor was pierced directly, and blood instantly soaked his tactical uniform.
“Fire!”
The energy pulse beam tore through the darkness, blasting the attacking shadow ninja into smoke.
Rumlow took the opportunity to rush to the center of the factory, but was intercepted by a dark shadow halfway.
Carlo’s cane stabbed out from the side like a ghost, straight for Rumlow’s neck!
However, Rumlow’s intuition, which had been developed through years of combat, enabled him to dodge Carlo’s cane before he was pierced.
The tip of the cane just grazed the back of his neck, and the impact on the metal pipe sent up a string of sparks.
Rumlow rushed forward, turned, aimed, and pulled the trigger in one smooth motion.
Carlo, however, stepped aside as if he had expected it, with a mocking smile on his face.
“The old man is quite flexible!” Rumlow spat, and suddenly felt a chill on his back.
Maggie appeared behind him at some point, and her nails wrapped in black energy scratched across his tactical vest, leaving five smoky cracks on the Kevlar fiber.
Rumlow rolled to create distance and fired his energy rifle at full power, but was dodged by Maggie again.
“Watch out! Ten o’clock!”
Ivan’s roar came at the same time as the sound in the headphones.
The right wall suddenly exploded and Ivan rushed out roaring.
The brass knuckles emitting blue light hit Rumlow in the chest!
“cough!”
Rumlow was knocked back several meters by the huge force, and his tactical armor was dented.
Rumlow spat out a mouthful of blood foam, endured the severe pain and threw himself to the side, pressing the controller at his waist, and the energy weapon that had just fallen to the ground was immediately overloaded.
The self-detonation of the energy weapon caused a burst of blue light to burst out at the original location.
Wait until the light fades and there is nothing left at the explosion site.
“Russian barbarians…” Rumlow spat out a mouthful of blood in disdain. Just as he was about to stand up, he heard Valon’s voice coming from the center of the factory:
“What a wonderful struggle.”
Valon stood in front of the platform, and Ivan walked out from the shadows beside him, dragging his injured body.
“Originally this gift wasn’t meant for you, but since you came here first, enjoy it!”
As he spoke, Valon snapped his fingers, and a magic circle lit up under his feet, flashing red light.
At the same time, as if sensing danger, the shadow power around Xiaoyu began to run wild!
The three commandos were thrown against the wall. Rumlow held on to the steel bars tightly to steady himself. The microcomputer on his arm flashed wildly: “Warning! Warning! High-energy reaction detected!”
Winking at Maggie and the others, Valon’s mouth curled up into an elegant and dangerous smile: “Now!”
Maggie and the others disappeared into the shadows. Valon took one last look at the unconscious Xiaoyu and tapped his cane: “I’ll give the person to you, along with the gift I sent you.”
As the power of shadow raged, the girl suddenly twitched violently.
“Goodbye, everyone, and good luck to you!”
Valon laughed and retreated into the shadows, and the entire factory collapsed in the conflict between the magic circle and the shadow energy!
When the dust settled, Rumlow crawled out of the ruins and looked at Xiaoyu floating in the air in disbelief.
“Rumlow…how are you?” Hill’s voice came from the communicator.
“The surveillance footage suddenly disappeared just now…but the satellite detected…”
“Sir, I’m fine. It was Valon who detonated something…” Rumlow looked at Xiaoyu, who was floating in the air and had not yet opened her eyes, and heard a faint roar like a beast coming from not far away, and said:
“There are bigger problems than Valon now…”
On a tall building in the distance, the shadow stone in Shadow King’s hand was vibrating wildly. He narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction of the explosion.
“Such pure shadow…”
Chapter 34 Armor Hero (Old Version)
Smoke and dust filled the air above the factory ruins.
Rumlow was half lying behind the broken wall, holding an energy weapon he had just picked up from the ruins.
Unfortunately, the weapon’s energy bar was flashing a blinding red light, indicating that the energy was running low.
“Commander! Group A is wiped out!” said a team member tremblingly, with blood from his forehead blurring his right eye.
In the explosion, Group A was completely wiped out. The only four remaining members of Group B stood back to back in a defensive formation, breathing heavily.
“Hold on! Support will be here soon!” Rumlow raised his gun and aimed, saying without turning his head.
The heavy footsteps of the rock beast gradually approached, and each step made the ground tremble slightly.
Rumlow spat out a mouthful of blood foam and pressed the communicator: “Headquarters! We need…”
“Sizzle…”
The only response he got was the harsh noise of electricity.
The strong shadow energy affected communications, and support was delayed.
“Shit…” Rumlow looked up suddenly, and the roar of the mutant beast had disappeared.
“Crunch!”
The collapsed steel beams nearby made a harsh twisting sound.
A dark shadow rushed out from behind the broken steel beam.
They are the two mutant beasts, Rockmon and Demonhorsemon.
“Such pure shadow power… It’s simply born for shadow!” Yingba’s voice was hoarse and excited, and his eyes under the mask were fixed on Xiaoyu who was floating in the air.
“Quick victory.” Yingba waved his hand.
The rock beast’s four scarlet eyes suddenly lit up, and the suspended gravel swelled to the size of a millstone in the red light and was knocked out by its punch.
One team member was smashed into a pulp by a huge rock before he could even scream.
Demamon charged from the side, splitting the energy bomb with his sword and severing another commando in half.
Blood splattered on Rumlow’s face. He roared and pulled the trigger, but the energy bullet went straight through the shadow of the Devilmon and failed to hurt the Devilmon at all.
“Freeze bomb!” Rumlow rolled to avoid it and picked up the weapons in his teammates’ hands.
One of the only two remaining team members opened fire to provide cover, while the other threw out the liquid nitrogen grenade in his hand. The freezing bomb exploded in the chest of the rock beast, instantly condensing into a large piece of ice.
The monster’s movements faltered, but the shadow energy quickly tore through the ice.
The Demon Horse Beast on the side took the opportunity to charge forward, sweeping with its sword.
At the critical moment, an armor-piercing bullet accurately hit the forehead of the Demon Horse Beast, causing it to stagger.
Rumlow looked back and saw that the support team led by Agent Hill had finally arrived. Twelve agents broke in from the gap in the ruins, holding modified anti-material rifles.
“Cross fire!” Hill ordered coldly.
The barrage of bullets instantly enveloped the two mutant beasts. Rockmon was beaten back repeatedly, and Demonhorsemon was forced to raise his shield to block.
“The evil wolf beast!” Yingba was a little impatient. The evil wolf beast quietly appeared in the shadow next to him.
With a wave of his hand, the evil wolf beast left a series of afterimages on the spot, and six phantoms pounced on the reinforcements of the agents at the same time.
The long knife tore through the bulletproof vest and blood gushed out.
The demon horse beast on the side suddenly exerted force, changed direction, and aimed the sword straight at Hill’s throat.
The clear shout resounded throughout the battlefield, and time seemed to freeze in an instant.
The Demon Horse Beast’s sword hovered just inches in front of Hill’s throat and could no longer move forward.
Blue, black and yellow lights fell like meteors.
The Wind Eagle Armor landed first, and the Wind Eagle Ring spun and split the sword of the Demon Horse Beast.
The Black Rhino Armor’s water shield blocked the rock beast’s punch, and he used a meteor spear to force it back.
The Earth Tiger’s armor-breaking claws tore open the ground, breaking up the wolf beast’s phantom clone.
“Monsters, your opponents are us!” Dongshan’s voice came through the armor.
Yingba frowned: “Armor Hero?!”
“Stop talking nonsense!”
The meteor spear of the Black Rhino Armor was pointed directly at the Shadow Tyrant, “Today I will catch you all in one fell swoop!”
The Earth Tiger Armor unleashed its earth-cracking claws: “I let you escape last time, but you won’t be so lucky this time!”
The battle broke out instantly!
“Wind Eagle Sword!”
A blue light flashed, and Dongshan’s sword collided with the long sword of Momamon, and sparks splashed like raindrops.
“Meteor Gun!”
The black rhino armor crashed into the battlefield like a chariot, and the meteor spear and the rock beast’s heavy punches collided. The shock wave blew away everything within a few meters.
Bei Miao sneered: “Is that all the strength you have?”
Kunzhong took the opportunity to attack: “Splitting the Earth!”
The evil wolf beast quickly teleported to dodge, and five deep grooves were torn in the place where it was standing. Just as it was about to counterattack, the wind eagle ring of the wind eagle armor came whistling and accurately cut its body, causing a string of sparks to burst out.
“Damn Armor Hero!”
Seeing that the situation was not good, Shadow Tyrant burst out with the power of shadow around him: “Don’t think that this is all I can do!”
“Thornmon! Crocodilemon!”
Two hideous figures suddenly emerged from the shadow of the ruins.
The Thornwood Beast was covered with sharp thorns, had dark green skin like a tree trunk, and held a mace covered with iron nails. The Crocodile Beast had short limbs covered with hard scales like crocodile skin, and its long tail shattered the concrete wall with a sweep.
The thorny wood beast let out a piercing roar, and its mace slammed heavily into the earth tiger armor with a sound of breaking through the air. Kunzhong blocked it hastily, but was knocked back several steps by the huge force, and two deep grooves were plowed on the ground.
At the same time, a burst of black mist accompanied by dark green light flashed by, and the crocodile beast suddenly swung out its thick tail, sweeping away the three agents. It opened its bloody mouth, and its sharp steel teeth flashed with cold light, biting towards Bei Miao who was closest to it.
“Looking for death!” Bei Miao put up a water armor shield, and the crocodile beast’s steel teeth bit on the shield, making a teeth-grinding metal friction sound.
“Wind Eagle Crossbow!”
Dongshan quickly came to support, and the blue light bullet hit Thornmon and Crocodilemon, sending out a series of sparks.
Taking this opportunity, the three mutant beasts, Demon Horsemon, Rockmon, and Wolfmon, gathered together, reorganized their formation, and stared at the three Armored Heroes.
Shadow King stood on a high place, his cloak fluttering:
“Armor Hero, this is just the beginning!”
Chapter 35: Shadow Queen – Cheng Xiaoyu (Old Version)
Just when the Armor Hero and the mutant were about to fight.
The air above the factory ruins suddenly became thick, as if even time had slowed down.
Xiaoyu, who was suspended in mid-air, twitched slightly and her face gradually turned blue-gray.
The slender fingers suddenly opened like a spasm,
Shadow energy erupted like a tsunami. With Xiaoyu as the center, a dark shock wave spread out in a circular shape. Wherever it passed, the ground cracked and gravel floated in the air.
Everyone staggered back due to the impact of this sudden force.
Even the three Armor Warriors wearing Wind Eagle Armor, Black Rhino Armor, and Earth Tiger Armor were pushed back by the sudden burst of power.
“Such a strong shadow power… How could it be?!” Dongshan knelt on one knee and inserted the Wind Eagle Sword deeply into the ground to stabilize his body.
“This concentration…!”
The originally ferocious mutant beast actually trembled under this gaze and crawled on the ground as if it had seen its master.
The four red eyes of Rockmon flickered, the long sword of Demonhorsemon was deeply inserted into the ground to support its body, and even the most ferocious Wolfmon lowered its body and made a whimpering sound.
“This…this…!”
Shadow Tyrant’s cloak fluttered in the energy storm, his eyes widened under the mask, and the shadow stone in his hand trembled wildly, almost breaking free from his control.
The shadow power in the body was running wildly like a wild horse, as if trying to break free from the shackles of this body and throw itself into Xiaoyu’s arms.
“How could this be… Just awakening is enough to trigger the resonance of the shadow power!”
“This purity… is like the incarnation of that person…”
Xiaoyu, who was at the center of the storm, was surrounded by liquid black mist, and the surging shadow power became extremely docile at her fingertips.
Looking at Xiaoyu’s posture, Yingba suddenly remembered the stunning glimpse he had once had, the Shadow Emperor, the Dark Universe Emperor, and… the legend whose breath alone made the world tremble!
“Born as a holy body of shadow…”
Shadow Tyrant was extremely shocked. The shadow displayed by Xiaoyu was so pure. If she could continue to grow, she might become a figure comparable to Shadow Emperor, Dark Universe Emperor and other big names in the shadow world in time.
“If I could protect her growth… No, no, no, I can’t do that…” Thinking of the powerful force of the alliance, Yingba gave up this idea in an instant.
“But if we bring her to the Emperor…” This idea really moved Shadow King. This natural child of shadow will surely be valued by the Shadow Emperor. When she grows up, she will definitely be a main force against the Alliance!
As long as I bring her to the Shadow Realm… then I can use this credit to…
Yingba’s tongue licked his dry lips, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind, as if he had tasted the fine wine given as a reward.
The energy storm gradually subsided, and Xiaoyu slowly opened her eyes. They were a pair of strange eyes that were as red as blood, without a single bit of white in them.
“Your Majesty the Queen?”
Yingba suddenly spoke, and his voice became extremely humble.
Xiaoyu swept the battlefield with a calm gaze. Yingba suppressed his inner thoughts and knelt on one knee involuntarily. This action shocked Bei Miao who was not far away.
The floating girl tilted her head, her long black hair moving without wind. When she spoke, her voice was mixed with creepy childishness:
“I like this name…
Agent Hill quietly made a gesture, and the surviving commandos began to retreat. But Rumlow stared at Xiaoyu, his eyes flashing with greed.
“Xiaoyu!”
Dongshan suddenly stepped forward with the Wind Eagle Sword across his chest.
“Can you hear me? This is the bewitching power of shadow!”
Xiaoyu turned her blood-red eyes to the Sealing Armor, and a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth: “Bewitched?”
She raised her hand slightly, and dozens of dark shadow spikes suddenly emerged from the ground. “I feel very awake–!”
Dongshan rolled over in a panic to dodge, but was still pierced by a spike on his shoulder armor, causing energy sparks to fly.
“Why waste your words on her!”
Bei Miao suddenly shouted, and the Black Rhino Armor burst out with all its strength. The Meteor Spear pierced Xiaoyu’s heart with a sound of breaking through the air. “If anyone is controlled, knock them out and take them back!”
“Bei Miao, don’t–!” Kun Zhong’s warning was drowned out by the roar of the mutant beast.
The Wolfmon, who had originally surrendered, suddenly jumped up, and six phantoms pounced out at the same time; the huge rocks thrown by the Rockmon blocked all the evasive angles; the Demon Horsemon picked up the long sword and went straight for the chest of the Black Rhino Armor.
Before the sparks from the collision between the meteor spear and the long sword had dissipated, Bei Miao felt a sharp pain in his back. The wolf beast’s long sword hit the back of the black rhino armor heavily, and then three rocks as big as millstones hit him one after another.
“Crazy Waterfall!” Bei Miao barely managed to use his special move, and the water-like energy shattered two boulders, but he was knocked to his knees by the fourth one.
The sword of Demon Horse Beast then pierced the chest of Black Rhino Armor.
Energy sparks flew everywhere and Bei Miao was knocked flying backwards.
“Ants.”
Dongshan and Kunzhong were about to step forward to help when they heard Xiaoyu utter the word softly and waved her little hand casually.
The more intense shadow power turned into a giant palm, knocking the three armored warriors away at the same time. The armor crashed through three concrete walls before stopping.
“This is… the true power of Shadow!”
Yingba was so excited that he was shaking all over. He faced Xiaoyu and knelt down, saying, “I am willing to offer everything. I beg Your Majesty to have mercy on me!”
The ruins fell into an eerie silence.
Everyone held their breath and watched the floating Xiaoyu slowly land in front of Yingba.
She stepped barefoot on the charred ground, and every step caused the shadow power to fluctuate.
“servant?”
Xiaoyu tilted her head and suddenly reached out to grab Yingba’s mask.
The metal mask turned into black quicksand and dissipated under her fingertips, revealing the face underneath.
“It’s so ugly.” Xiaoyu commented with a pout.
Shadow Tyrant was as if he had been pardoned: “I will go find a more suitable mask right away! Whatever Her Majesty wants, I can do it…”
“Shut up.”
Xiaoyu snatched the shadow stone from Yingba’s hand, feeling the shadow power as gentle as a cat, a bright smile appeared on her face.
“I’ll take these toys.”
Turning around and looking at the armored warriors who were struggling to get up, his smile became even brighter: “As for them… leave them for next time.”
Chapter 36 Shadow Tyrant’s Plan (Old Version)
“Your Majesty is wise!”
Shadow King leads the way ahead.
“Agent Hill…”
Agent Hill’s communicator suddenly rang, but she had no time to pay attention.
The scene before them was beyond everyone’s expectations. The twelve-year-old girl was fiddling with the shadow stone casually, while five mutant beasts stood by her side like loyal guards.
Dongshan struggled to move forward, but was held back by Kunzhong: “Don’t be impulsive! Her current state…”
Xiaoyu seemed to have heard their conversation and her bloodshot eyes turned over.
At that moment, everyone seemed to see endless darkness.
“Tell Dad…I found a new toy and he can’t stop me anymore!” Xiaoyu’s voice suddenly became erratic, with a strange echo.
Shadows began to gather beneath her feet, spinning into a dark vortex three meters in diameter.
“Wait…Xiaoyu…”
Dongshan reacted and opened his mouth to stop it, but it was too late.
Xiaoyu and Yingba have disappeared, and then several mutant beasts jumped into the shadow vortex one after another. The rock beast blocked the way with its body and retreated into the darkness.
After the smoke and dust cleared, only people were left standing there in shock.
“Notify headquarters immediately, code name – ‘Shadow Queen’! The threat level is raised to the highest.” Hill’s voice was too dry, not like that of an experienced agent.
Dongshan knelt on one knee, removed his Wind Eagle armor, revealing his pale face.
The trembling fingers lightly touched the residual shadow energy on the ground, and a tingling pain immediately came from the fingertips.
“This energy… is a hundred times purer than the one controlled by Shadow Tyrant.”
“Now is not the time to study this!” Bei Miao staggered over, with blood still on the corner of his mouth.
“The supernatural beast submitted to that little girl! Do you know what this means?”
Kunzhong removed the Earth Tiger Armor, his young face full of anxiety: “We must notify Dad and the Alliance immediately. Xiaoyu has been controlled, she doesn’t know what she is doing!”
“Control? Humph! I think it should be awakening! That posture, that power…” Bei Miao snorted coldly and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
“Mr. Dongshan and these two new friends.” Hill greeted Dongshan and the other two, then asked, “What’s going on with that girl? Why can she control those monsters?”
Dongshan exchanged glances with his two companions.
“She is also… one of ours. But… she was used by the enemy…” Dongshan chose his words carefully.
Hill glanced at the three people: “SHIELD has the most advanced medical equipment and anti-brainwashing technology. If you want to save her…”
“It makes no sense, and this is our internal affair!” Bei Miao interrupted abruptly.
On top of a tall building in the distance, Valon put down his telescope: “Well done, my Shadow Queen…”
He turned and stepped into the shadows, his laughter drifting in the wind: “The stage has been set… Now it’s up to the protagonist… Hahahaha!”
Deep beneath New York, in Shadow Tyrant’s shadow base.
The damp and dark passage was filled with the smell of shadows, and occasionally there was the sound of water dripping into the puddles, which was particularly harsh in the silence.
Xiaoyu stepped barefoot on the cold ground, the power of shadow wrapped around her ankles like a living thing, and with every step she took, the shadow on the ground fluctuated slightly.
The scarlet eyes casually looked around Shadow Tyrant’s base, a faint smile hung on the corners of his mouth, and his fingertips played with the Shadow Stone that he had snatched from Shadow Tyrant.
“Your Majesty, please come this way.” Yingba bent over and walked in front to lead the way.
Turning the corner, at the end of the passage was a spacious circular hall with a twisted black altar in the center, surrounded by five stone pillars. Each of the stone pillars was engraved with strange runes, exuding a shadowy aura.
“Is this your lair?” Xiaoyu tilted her head and looked around the space in front of her, seemingly disdainful of Yingba’s aesthetic taste.
“It’s just a temporary shelter. As long as the plan succeeds…” Yingba replied respectfully with his head down.
Xiaoyu tapped the ground lightly with her toes, and an invisible force lifted her up and slowly flew towards the center of the altar.
A strong force of shadow surged out of Xiaoyu’s body, sweeping across the entire hall like a tide. The runes on the stone pillars lit up one by one, emitting a dark light.
But it seemed that the power was not enough, and in the end, it could only light up two stone pillars.
“Hmph!” Xiaoyu snorted in dissatisfaction, and her scarlet eyes swept over Yingba, “You just said that you wanted me to become the real Shadow Queen?”
“Yes, sire.”
“The Queen deserves her own palace! And more power!”
Shadow Tyrant quickly explained: “Your Majesty is born to be the darling of the shadow. As long as you obtain the power of the sacred tree and use your majesty’s power as the key to open the shadow passage, you can open the passage to the shadow world.”
“As long as we return to the Shadow Realm, the Shadow Emperor will definitely prepare a perfect palace for Your Majesty!”
“At the same time, under the protection and guidance of the Great Emperor, you can also gain powerful strength comparable to that of the Great Emperor!”
“Shadow Emperor?” Xiaoyu tilted her head, a hint of doubt flashed in her eyes, but was quickly replaced by excitement. “Sounds good. Where is the sacred tree?”
Yingba carefully observed Xiaoyu’s expression and said, “Your Majesty, the sacred tree is currently controlled by a man named Orochimaru. He uses the sacred tree to absorb the energy of this world, but I have discovered that the sacred tree has been partially contaminated by the power of shadow.”
“oh?”
Xiaoyu floated down from the altar and hovered in front of Yingba, “How did you know?”
Yingba did not hide anything and explained in detail the source of the information: “My subordinate, the Wolfmon, tracked down Orochimaru’s men and discovered the existence of the sacred tree.”
“That Orochimaru also used the sacred tree to absorb the power of a supernatural beast…”
Xiaoyu nodded thoughtfully: “So, that tree can absorb energy. As long as we grab that tree, we can convert all its power into shadow power, and then open a channel through me…”
Xiaoyu’s voice became more and more excited as she spoke, “I can become a real queen!”
“That’s right!” Shadow Tyrant quickly agreed, “With Her Majesty the Queen’s natural shadow physique, plus the power of the sacred tree, she can definitely open a passage large enough to welcome the arrival of the Shadow Emperor!”
Xiaoyu suddenly fell silent, her scarlet eyes flickering slightly.
Yingba held his breath, fearing that Xiaoyu would raise any objections.
After a moment, Xiaoyu suddenly giggled, and her laughter echoed in the empty hall.
“Okay! Let’s do it!” Xiaoyu waved her hand, and the power of shadow turned into a throne. She sat on it lazily, crossed her legs, and said, “Where is Orochimaru? Let’s go and rob that sacred tree now!”
Ying Ba wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, “Your Majesty, please be patient. To seize the sacred tree, we need a more detailed plan!”
“Plan? What plan do you need when I’m here?” Xiaoyu curled her lips, waved her little hand, and the power of shadow surged.
“Orochimaru is a member of the Disorder Organization. He is extremely powerful and has strange methods. Just in case, I think…” Yingba explained.
Xiaoyu frowned and waved her hands impatiently: “Then what do you say we should do?”
Shadow Tyrant came closer: “I can create even more powerful supernatural beasts…but I need your Majesty to provide more pure shadow power…”
Xiaoyu floated down from the throne, the power of shadow flowing around her body: “Sounds good. Let’s do it!”
Chapter 37: Blade and Luke’s Cleanup Operation (Old Version)
Meanwhile, Blade and Luke track a Harkite to a New York nightclub.
The neon lights reflected a hazy halo on the wet street. Blade stood in the shadow at the alley entrance, rain dripping down his hood.
“Are you sure it’s here?” Luke Cage’s voice came from the side.
Blade stared at the man in police uniform standing in front of the club door opposite. The man was moving a refrigerator stealthily, with dark red stains faintly visible on his cuffs.
“No mistake. The cooler has been delivered at this time for three nights in a row.”
“The police won’t deliver packages at midnight.” Blade said with a sneer.
“And look at the sign at the door, it’s the sign of a vampire, there’s no mistaking it!”
When the man dressed as a policeman appeared again, Luke jumped out like a cheetah, grabbed the man’s throat with his iron fingers and pressed him against the wall, causing cracks to appear on the wall.
“Good evening, Harui tribe.”
The man was shaking with fear and the cooler fell to the ground with a thud.
The lid of the box popped open, and twenty bags of plasma lay quietly in the refrigerator.
“lead the way.”
Blade emerged from the shadows, the silver sword pressed against the man’s back.
“Don’t… don’t kill me… I’m just helping them deliver things…”
The man walked ahead tremblingly, with his hands raised to show that he was not a threat.
The moment the back door of the club was pushed open, six vampire guards who were patrolling with guns discovered the sudden uninvited guest.
“Enemy attack! It’s Blade!”
The leading vampire yelled and pulled the trigger.
Luke shook off the ghosts and charged into the hail of bullets, the bullets hitting him with clanking sounds. He tore off the iron gate and swung it at the vampires.
Forcing the vampire to dodge aside.
The blade rushed forward quickly and appeared behind the leading vampire. The silver sword drew an arc under the light, and the head of the first guard flew high.
In the chaos, the Hagui tribe suddenly struggled to their feet, turned around and fled.
“I’ll chase him!” Luke shouted and rushed out like a cannonball.
Blade didn’t reply, he drew his gun and fired quickly, the silver-coated bullets hitting the hearts of the three vampires accurately.
At the same time, the silver sword swung and cut the fourth guard in half.
The fifth guard suddenly transformed, his fangs growing in size, his claws going straight for Blade’s throat.
Blade dodged sideways, raised the shotgun under his coat, and the bullet hit the vampire’s chest, piercing his entire chest cavity.
The last guard turned around and tried to escape, but Blade threw a silver dart and hit him accurately in the back of the neck. The guard screamed and turned into ashes.
In the back kitchen, the Hagui tribe stumbled and ran wildly, their clothes soaked with sweat. Luke’s heavy footsteps were approaching quickly.
“No…don’t kill me!”
The Hagui tribe took out his pistol tremblingly and fired three shots in succession.
The bullet sparked on Luke’s chest, but he didn’t slow down and pounced on him, pinning him to the greasy ground.
“Can you tell me now?” Luke’s iron fingers gripped the man’s throat.
“Inside, there is a database!” cried the Hagui tribe, “I… I am only responsible for delivering the plasma!”
Blade, who had rushed over, put the silver sword in his hand against his throat: “Database? What else?”
“There’s also a recorder! Her name is Pearl! I’m here to deliver plasma to her…” The Haguizu glanced unconsciously at the refrigerator next to him.
“Please…”
Luke knocked him out with a knife: “Looks like we found the right place.”
Push open the secret door behind the refrigerator, and you will see a huge data room.
File cabinets filled with ancient books and account books were everywhere, and parchment scrolls were scattered on the central operating table.
Luke Cage walked in front, his iron muscles tense, and he looked around vigilantly.
“Is this place full of documents?” His eyes swept across the towering bookshelves on both sides.
The silver blade of the sword shone slightly in the shadows. “Vampire’s archives, be careful.”
Suddenly, the sound of neat military boots stepping on the ground came from deep inside the bookshelf.
Several fully armed vampire guards walked out of the shadows. They were wearing black tactical vests and holding modified MP5 submachine guns. The ultraviolet lamps under the barrels emitted a faint blue light.
The leading vampire bared his fangs and said, “Daywalker, you have entered a place you are not supposed to be in.”
Blade’s sunglasses flashed a cold light: “Did Deacon’s lackeys change into the arms dealer’s equipment?”
“Times are advancing.” The vampire captain sneered and suddenly pressed the tactical headset: “Execute the elimination protocol!”
The ceiling suddenly exploded and six stun grenades fell at the same time.
Blade threw the darts instantly, shattering two in mid-air, but the remaining four still exploded at their feet.
Bright light and noise filled the space.
Luke took the impact head on, and Blade’s vampire senses were amplified tenfold, causing him to fall to one knee in agony.
The MP5 spewed out flames at the same time, and the special silver bullets formed a crossfire network.
Luke charged into the hail of bullets, which sent countless sparks flying on his skin.
“What the hell is this! Switch to armor-piercing bullets!” The captain looked shocked.
The vampires quickly changed their magazines upon hearing this, and the newly loaded tungsten core armor-piercing bullets left white marks on Luke’s chest. Blade took the opportunity to roll behind the bookshelf and pulled out two guns from the inside of his windbreaker to fight back.
“Bang! Bang!”
Two silver bullets accurately hit the left vampire’s forehead. The vampire fell to the ground with a scream, and turned into ashes the next moment.
The remaining two vampires suddenly dispersed their tactical formation.
One person opened fire to suppress the attack, while the other released a micro drone from his tactical backpack and went behind Blade.
With the humming sound of its wings, the drone shot out a high-voltage electric grid to wrap around Blade’s wrist.
“Ahhh!” The high voltage current caused Blade’s muscles to spasm and the pistol fell to the ground with a clang.
Another vampire took the opportunity to rush forward and aimed the tactical dagger straight at the throat.
At the critical moment, Luke grabbed a row of metal bookshelves and smashed them. The vampire flipped back swiftly, but the bookshelves still scraped off his tactical vest, revealing the ceramic insert inside.
“It’s my turn now.” Luke rolled his shoulders.
The vampire captain suddenly smiled and said, “Are you sure?”
Four automatic sentry machine guns protruded from secret compartments on both walls of the data room, each loaded with a rotating silver bullet chain magazine.
The barrage instantly enveloped the entire space. Luke grabbed the heavy oak table as a shield and rushed towards the vampire, while the blade quickly rolled behind the stone pillar.
“Reloading interval!” Blade keenly caught the moment when the machine gun stopped firing and threw out four silver darts. Three of the darts accurately destroyed the machine gun’s ammunition supply system, but the fourth dart was blocked by the vampire captain’s saber.
“Old trick.” The captain sneered and stabbed Luke’s chest with his saber, creating dazzling sparks.
Luke took the opportunity to swing his fist, and his iron fist hit the captain in the face.
The vampire smiled strangely, and suddenly turned into dozens of bats and scattered.
“Blood magic!” Blade warned sternly.
The swarm of bats reorganized behind Luke, and their blood-covered fingers grabbed at Luke’s back.
“You’ve been fooled!”
Luke didn’t dodge, but grabbed the vampire captain’s shoulder and held it tight.
“Puff!”
The silver sword pierced the vampire captain’s chest.
The captain looked down in disbelief, looking at the smoking sword tip on his chest: “How is it possible…”
Blade drew back the silver sword: “I forgot to tell you that Luke’s iron body cannot be broken by a useless Viscount like you. I was just fooling you just now!”
Chapter 38 Two Blood God Plans (Old Version)
In the archive room, the pungent smell of blood mixed with the smell of moldy paper created a disgusting odor.
Blade pointed the silver sword at Pearl’s fat chin, and the cold blade made the vampire recorder, who was so fat that he could hardly move, tremble all over.
“Tell me, what is the Blood God Project?” Blade scanned the computer screen in front of Pearl.
Pearl’s Adam’s apple rolled and she swallowed hard, sweat dripping down her triple-layered chin onto the silver sword, her eyes moving back and forth between Luke and the blade.
“I, I’m just a translator…” Pearl’s trembling voice sounded, “Dickenfels asked me to translate ancient documents…”
“Think it over carefully before you speak. We don’t have time to listen to your nonsense!” Blade pushed the silver sword in his hand forward, with the tip of the sword against Pearl’s chin.
The silver sword made Pearl’s skin seem to be corroded, and wisps of green smoke came out.
“Don’t, don’t kill me…”
Pearl looked at the silver sword in front of her in horror and said quickly, “Blood God! It’s the Blood God! The legend of ancient vampires! Through rituals, the Blood God can be summoned to descend, allowing the caster to gain supreme power!”
Blade’s shocked expression was hidden under his sunglasses. He calmed himself down and said, “Continue.”
“Lord Dickon… No, that lunatic Dickon!”
Pearl hastily changed her words, “He found the ritual document for summoning the Blood God, but the document is written in ancient vampire language and requires a special translation…”
The blade of the silver sword suddenly slashed forward, leaving a bloody mark on Pearl’s chin.
Pearl screamed like a pig being slaughtered, and blood flowed down her fat neck.
“What are the conditions for the Blood God Ritual?” Blade asked coldly.
Pearl gasped in pain: “The ritual… the ritual requires twelve pure-blood earl elders and…”
“And the blood of the Daywalker!” Pearl said hesitantly as she glanced over the blade.
“Humph, it looks like he treats me as prey!”
Blade and Luke exchanged a look.
Blade retracted the silver sword, pulled out a lighter from the inner pocket of his windbreaker, and played with it in his hand.
“Then why have vampires recently started to produce low-level vampires in large quantities? What does this have to do with the Blood God Project?”
Pearl’s expression suddenly turned into horror, with a hint of awe mixed in with the fear. “That’s…that’s a scam!”
“Diaconferth is deceiving Vampiremon!”
“Cheat?” Luke frowned.
Pearl’s fat flesh trembled unconsciously, and her voice was very low: “Diaconferth only surrendered to the blood-sucking beast on the surface… He, he wanted to use the blood god ritual to gain powerful strength, and then… resist!”
“What do you mean? Explain it clearly!” A look of doubt flashed in Blade’s eyes.
“Dickenfers wants to resist the rule of the vampire beast. He says that people of unknown origin are not worthy of ruling the blood race, but the power of the vampire beast is too strong… and the Blood God Ritual is to gain the powerful power to resist the vampire beast!”
Pearl swallowed and continued, “However, in order to avoid being discovered by the vampire beast, he took the initiative to tell the vampire beast about the Blood God Ritual, but with some deletions and revisions…”
“What deletions?” Luke asked curiously.
“It’s just replacing the twelve pure-blood elders with a large number of ordinary vampires…”
Luke and Blade exchanged glances and found the reason.
“Is that why so many people have gone missing recently?!” Luke said.
“I think this is the reason why there are more vampire strongholds!” Blade nodded, confirming Luke’s guess.
“Then those converted low-level vampires…”
“They are all cannon fodder…” Pearl’s voice was almost inaudible, “Diaconferth deceived the vampire beast. The ritual requires a large number of vampires as sacrifices. Not only can it buy time for itself, but it can also…”
“Just train some cannon fodder…” Blade continued his words coldly.
Pearl nodded desperately: “Yes…”
“Shit… so many innocent people…” Luke punched the iron cabinet next to him, causing the cabinet door to be dented.
“These damn monsters!” He turned to look at Blade, “We must stop him.”
Blade was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, “Where is the ceremony location?”
Pearl’s face turned pale in an instant: “I, I don’t know…I really don’t know! Deaconface never trusts anyone!”
Blade sneered, and the silver lighter flicked open, with a blue flame dancing in front of Pearl’s eyes. “Think about it again.”
Pearl’s pupils constricted and she tried to shrink her body backwards, but she couldn’t move because she was too fat.
“Really, I really don’t know…”
“Then you’re of no use!” Blade pretended to throw out the lighter.
“Wait! Wait! I, I know where Deacon is at!”
Luke pressed Pearl’s shoulders and said, “Hurry up and tell me!”
“Dicken…Dicken relied on the power of Vampire Beast to eliminate the six elders who opposed him and imprisoned them when Vampire Beast first established his rule…” Pearl said hurriedly, “and he has been very close to the other five elders recently…”
“It’s just… the Great Elder hasn’t shown up for a long time, and Deacon has been looking for the Great Elder…”
Blade put away the lighter, turned and walked towards the door: “Let’s go.”
Pearl collapsed on the bed with a sense of relief, but the next second, Blade threw a silver dart without looking back, accurately piercing Pearl’s forehead.
The fat vampire turned into a pile of ashes before he could even scream.
“You could have saved his life,” Luke frowned.
Blade pushed open the door of the data room and said in a cold voice: “I never spare the lives of vampires! And he killed countless people when he translated those documents.”
Chapter 39: Trap (Old Version)
The night sky of Manhattan is lit up by bright lights.
The Tribeca Building at night has a different kind of beauty under the lights. Blade and Luke stand in the shadow opposite the building, their black windbreakers blending into the night.
“Are you sure it’s here?” Luke asked, looking at the building in front of him.
Blade adjusted the micro display screen on his wrist armor, and the SHIELD logo flashed by. “The coordinates given by SHIELD are here!”
“Vampires living in a penthouse? These bastards really know how to enjoy it.” Luke narrowed his eyes and looked at the entrance of the building: “Security situation?”
Blade took a special silver dart from his tactical belt, the sharp edge flashing with cold light. “S.H.I.E.L.D.’s intelligence shows that Deacon has transformed this place into a base.”
“So we’re going to charge right in?” Luke narrowed his eyes and looked at the top floor of the building opposite. He flexed his fist, and his knuckles made a crackling sound.
The glass revolving door of the building was close at hand, reflecting the figures of the two hunters. Blade’s fingers gently stroked the silver sword at his waist, while Luke stretched his body.
“Are you ready?” Blade asked in a low voice.
Luke took a deep breath. “Let’s give these blood-sucking bastards a night to remember.”
The door to the penthouse was intricately carved with the vampire symbol.
Blade took out a micro device from the inside of his windbreaker and stuck it on the door lock. Three seconds later, the electronic lock made a slight “beep” sound.
“Get ready.” Blade whispered, his right hand already grasping the hilt of the silver sword.
Luke nodded and assumed a fighting stance.
The door was kicked open, and the blade rushed into the hall like a black lightning.
Unexpectedly, the spacious living room was empty. Only the LCD screen in the center suddenly lit up, reflecting the pale face of Deacon Faith.
“Welcome, Daywalker. I knew you would come.” Deacon said with a smile on his face as if he was greeting an old friend.
Blade said bluntly: “Save the nonsense, Deacon. Your Blood God plan ends here.”
Deacon chuckled, “Why be so hostile? I’m here to discuss cooperation.”
“Cooperation? What’s the point of cooperating with a vampire like you?” Luke sneered.
“We actually have a common enemy, the vampire beast.” Deacon ignored Luke and spoke to Blade.
Luke snorted coldly: “Don’t try to play tricks on me! You and the vampire beast are the same kind of people.”
“No! The difference is that I want to restore the glory of the vampires, while they only want to turn us into slaves.” A trace of anger flashed in Deacon’s eyes, “I need your strength, Blade, let’s overthrow it together.”
“Your ambition has nothing to do with me. Tonight, you will die!” Blade said coldly, unmoved.
Deacon chuckled, revealing his sharp canine teeth. “Still so…direct.” He suddenly snapped his fingers. “But I think you will change your mind.”
Blade pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the silver bullet hit the center of the screen accurately. With a loud bang, the display screen exploded into countless pieces, and glass shards flew everywhere.
The alarm sounded throughout the entire apartment in an instant, the secret door slid open, and more than twenty vampire special forces members in tactical uniforms and holding submachine guns poured out.
Luke grinned, revealing his white teeth: “That’s more like it!”
Blade’s figure shuttled through the hail of bullets, and the silver sword drew a deadly arc.
The first vampire agent who rushed up was cut in half and turned into ashes with screams. Luke crashed into the enemy group like a human tank, and spider-web-like cracks appeared on the concrete wall under his impact.
“Three on the left!” Blade warned as he dodged. Luke understood, rushed forward under the bullets, and smashed the heads of the three vampires together with his iron fist.
They killed their way through the corridors filled with famous Renaissance paintings, and every priceless painting was stained by splattered blood.
Blade kicked open a door, revealing Deacon’s private study. Ancient parchment scrolls were scattered all over the floor, and priceless paintings hung on the walls.
“Not here.” Blade walked out of the room and suddenly his ears moved slightly and he heard a faint voice.
The sound came from the end of the corridor. It was the sound of a piano.
Luke frowned: “You still have the leisure to play the piano at this time?”
Blade’s expression suddenly changed, and he walked towards the direction of the music like a possessed man. Luke noticed that the hands of this always calm vampire hunter were shaking slightly.
“Blade? What’s wrong?” Luke quickly followed.
They came to a pure white door at the end of the corridor, and the piano music came from inside. Blade’s hand was hanging on the door handle, and he hesitated for the first time.
When Blade pushed open the pure white door, time seemed to freeze.
It was a completely white room, white walls, white carpet, and a white grand piano.
Sitting in front of the piano is an elegant woman, wearing a plain white silk dress, her slender fingers dancing on the keys. The moonlight pours in through the French windows, casting a hazy glow over the entire room.
“I thought you were dead…that night…” Blade’s voice trembled slightly, and the hand holding the knife loosened unconsciously.
For the past thirty years, Blade has been hunting vampires to avenge his mother. He feels that this is his mission!
However, reality played a big joke on him. The deep hatred that had been engraved in his heart for thirty years suddenly became blurred at this moment.
Blade’s mother turned around, and the years had left no trace on her face.
“Eric?” Her voice was still gentle, but with a coldness that was unfamiliar to Blade.
“After that night, I was alive again, and Deacon accepted everything about me…”
Blade was stunned when he heard this. In the blink of an eye, several dark shadows flashed out from behind the door.
The fully armed vampires, holding high-voltage electric batons, surrounded him in a well-trained tactical formation. With the piercing sound of electricity, tens of thousands of volts of voltage instantly penetrated Blade’s body.
“Blade!” Luke roared, veins popping out of his muscular arms. However, just as he took half a step, the entire French window suddenly exploded.
Two pitch-black evil dragon beasts broke in through the window, and their sharp hisses hurt people’s eardrums.
Two of the evil dragon beasts clamped down on Luke with astonishing speed, grabbing his arms with their sharp claws.
Luke Cage was dragged out of the window and disappeared into the night sky.
Just as Blade was struggling to get up, Deacon’s voice suddenly rang out: “Surprised, Daywalker? Didn’t you expect…”
“……” Blade was unable to speak due to the high voltage current.
“I finally got to see my mother, and this is what you want?” Deacon laughed at Blade, a smile of success on his face, “She belongs to me, man!”
Upon hearing this, Daofeng struggled to get up, but was electrocuted and fell to his knees.
“I’m telling you a secret. The vampire who bit your mother and whom you’ve been looking for your whole life is me!”
Deacon walked up to Blade and whispered in his ear. Then he took the electric baton from his men and shocked Blade unconscious.
“Now we are a happy family again!”
“Tell Lord Vampire Beast…” Deacon turned around and hugged Blade’s mother, and said to his men, “Blade has been captured! The Blood God Plan is only one step away!”
On the other side, in a gloomy castle, the vampire beast was listening to a report. His pale fingers tapped lightly on the armrests of the throne, with a playful smile on his lips.
“Idiot…” Vampiremon said softly, looking down at the great elder who was imprisoned in chains at his feet. The dying vampire noble was already dying.
“You think you are playing a big game, Deacon…” The vampire beast smiled, “Little do you know that you are just a chess piece on my chessboard.”
The vampire beast stood up from the throne, his black cape fluttering behind him. He walked to the window and looked up at the moon covered by clouds.
“Blood God… just the material for evolution…”
Outside the window, the night wind suddenly rose, the clouds dispersed, and the moonlight spread, illuminating the hideous smile of the vampire beast.
Chapter 40: Shadow Legion (Old Version)
Deep in the Shadow Base, the fluctuations of shadow power became stronger and stronger.
Xiaoyu was suspended in the center of the altar, her scarlet eyes emitting red light in the darkness.
Under her feet was a vortex of shadow power, with black mist constantly rising from it, wrapping around her hands, and then continuously pouring into the shadow stone in the culture room next to her.
“Your Majesty!” Yingba stood outside the training room, his voice trembling with excitement.
The shadow stone in the culture room has been heavily wrapped by the power of shadow, forming a thick cocoon that beats slowly like breathing.
“It’s just the last bit! The power of the Five Guardians is awakening!”
Xiaoyu tilted her head, a smile on her lips: “You want a more powerful toy? Then give it to you!”
She suddenly opened her arms and the power of shadow gushed out like a wave.
The entire altar shook violently, and the runes on the bottom layers of the five stone pillars lit up one after another, emitting a suffocating dark light.
The ground cracked and the plants were infected by the shadows. They seemed to have consciousness and emerged from the cracks, dancing wildly in the air.
Shadow Tyrant stumbled back, his eyes wide open under the new mask. He had never seen such pure shadow energy before. The black mist was no longer a disordered chaos, but was controlled by Xiaoyu, accurately injected into the five shadow energy cocoons in the cultivation room.
“Crack—”
The first energy cocoon cracked open, and a majestic figure slowly took shape.
It was wearing a cloak made of snow-white fur, its arms were inlaid with sharp spikes that gleamed coldly, and it had a metal forehead protector on its head. Its six scarlet eyes were lit up. This was the leader of the five guardians, the evil gold guardian.
It shook its thick white mane, and the electromagnetic field formed a blue barrier around its body.
In the second energy cocoon, a figure with a sharp bird beak emerged. Its body was covered with short thorns like thorns, and it held a serrated sword in its clawed hand.
The evil wood protector smiled sinisterly, and his figure appeared and disappeared from time to time.
“Swish!”
It suddenly disappeared, but the Shadow Sword cut off a stone pillar out of thin air.
The aftermath tore a hole in Shadow Tyrant’s cloak, but he couldn’t see the attacker at all.
The third energy cocoon turned into a pool of black water.
A tall figure stood up gracefully, his asymmetrical metal shoulder armor glowing coldly, his high-collared cape swaying in the wind.
The Evil Water Guardian twirled the slender shadow spear, and the tip of the spear drew a perfect arc.
She easily blocked Shadow Tyrant’s probing attack, and her spear immediately turned into a silver whirlwind.
A blazing flame erupted from the fourth energy cocoon.
A figure with his whole body burning stepped out into the fire, with flame patterns dancing on his armor.
The Evil Fire Guardian wielded a bow-shaped machete, leaving a burning trail wherever the blade passed.
“Boom!” It created a wall of fire, and the heat wave forced Yingba to retreat again and again. The temperature in the base soared instantly.
In the last energy cocoon, a figure as strong as a mountain stepped out from the ground.
The Evil Land Protector silently carried the shadow sword. The khaki armor seemed plain and simple, but it exuded a suffocating sense of oppression.
“Perfect…too perfect!” Yingba knelt on the ground excitedly. The five guardians lined up according to their positions: Evil Gold was in the middle, with the sinister Evil Wood and the elegant Evil Water on the left, and the violent Evil Fire and the heavy Evil Earth on the right.
“It’s really perfect…” Yingba said with admiration; “Is this the power of the Shadow Guardian?” Yingba looked at these new shadow creations obsessively, they were several times more powerful than any mutant beasts Yingba had created before.
Xiaoyu slowly descended from midair, stepping barefoot on the cold ground. With every step she took, the power of shadow spread like ripples. The five high-level supernatural beasts immediately bowed their heads in submission.
“Now, is my toy strong enough?” Xiaoyu asked, tilting her head.
Yingba knelt on one knee, his voice trembling with awe: “That’s enough, Your Majesty!”
“Although they are just supernatural beasts that imitate the power of the five guardians of the Shadow Realm, with them, Orochimaru’s sacred tree is within reach!”
“Hahahaha, great! I can’t wait!” Xiaoyu laughed, and her laughter echoed in the empty underground space.
“Then let’s go, my servant.” Xiaoyu waved her hand, and the power of shadow immediately spread out behind her like a cloak. “I can’t wait to see the tree that can make me stronger.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
Shadow Tyrant quickly stood up and waved his hand to open the shadow passage.
Xiaoyu was suspended in the air and was the first to step in, as happy as a child going to an amusement park.
Immediately afterwards, low-level and high-level mutant beasts roared excitedly and rushed in impatiently.
“The door to the shadow world will eventually open for me.” Shadow Overlord murmured in a low voice, and then stepped into the shadow passage.
At the other end of the passage, outside Orochimaru’s laboratory, the night was as dark as ink.
Suddenly, the shadows on the ground began to move abnormally, like boiling black water.
Xiaoyu was the first to walk out of the passage. She took a deep breath and said, “I smell… the power.”
Inside the laboratory, the alarm sounded shrilly.
“It’s finally here…”
A strange smile appeared on Orochimaru’s lips.
“Follow the plan, Sasuke-kun.” He turned and looked at Sasuke, who was resting with his eyes closed in the shadows.
The magatama in Sasuke’s eyes slowly rotated, he snorted coldly, and then disappeared on the spot.
Outside the laboratory, Xiaoyu led the team straight in. The six eyes of the Evil Gold Protector emitted light to cut through the wall. The Evil Wood Protector appeared and disappeared mysteriously, and the guards fell to the ground one after another inexplicably. The Evil Water Protector’s spear was like a silver snake spitting out its tongue, and each attack accurately knocked the enemy away. The Evil Fire Protector’s bow-shaped machete turned the place into a sea of ​​fire wherever it passed. The most desperate one was the Evil Earth Protector. Any attack on it was like an ant trying to shake a tree.
“Too weak!” Xiaoyu pouted in dissatisfaction, and her scarlet eyes scanned the surroundings, “Where is Orochimaru? Let him come out to see me!”
As if in response to her call, the door of the laboratory slowly opened.
Orochimaru walked out slowly, his pale face looking particularly strange in the moonlight. Behind him, dozens of transformed sacred tree warriors were ready for battle.
“Sparasi…the power of shadow…” Orochimaru’s voice was like the hissing of a snake.
Chapter 41: Death of Orochimaru (Old Version)
In the open space outside the laboratory, the moonlight was refracted into strange colors by the distorted shadow energy.
Xiaoyu was suspended barefoot in the air three meters high, her black skirt moving without wind, and liquid shadow energy was wrapped around her fingers.
“Are you Orochimaru?” She tilted her head and looked at Orochimaru.
Yingba stood behind her, his metal mask reflecting a cold light: “Your Majesty, please allow me to…”
“don’t want.”
Xiaoyu suddenly raised her hand, and the power of shadow pushed Yingba aside, “I want to play it myself.”
With a slight flick of his finger, the five low-level mutant beasts behind him roared excitedly. The rock beast was the first to be hit, and its four red eyes shot out lasers. The suspended stones turned into boulders and were fired out like cannonballs.
Orochimaru raised his hand to signal, and twenty warriors transformed from the sacred tree rushed out from behind him, with wood texture appearing on their skin.
The transformed warriors attacked at the same time, pressing their palms to the ground, and suddenly countless sharp earth spikes sprang out from the ground. The rock beast roared, punched the ground with both fists, and all the earth spikes on the ground were shattered.
“Boring.” Xiaoyu yawned and flicked her fingertips.
The Demon Horsemon suddenly accelerated, and the long sword left a trail of afterimage. The three transformed warriors were cut in half before they could react.
The battle situation became one-sided.
The ninjutsu of the transformed warriors had little effect in front of the hard shells of the monsters, and each attack of the monsters could take away several lives. In just a few minutes, dozens of transformed warriors were dead or wounded, and their limbs and arms were scattered all over the ground, emitting the smell of decaying plants.
“That’s it?” Xiaoyu curled her lips in disappointment, her black hair moving without wind, “My servant said you are very powerful…”
Orochimaru suddenly laughed, and the laughter was creepy. His body twisted as if he had no bones, and his hands quickly formed seals: “Summoning Technique: Ten Thousand Snakes Formation!”
The ground suddenly cracked open, and countless white snakes poured out like a tide, instantly covering the entire battlefield.
These snakes were extremely flexible and specialized in attacking the weak parts of the mutants, such as their joints and eyes. The two low-level mutants were entangled by the snakes and rolled over in pain. They were soon submerged in the white waves and were tightly wrapped by the snakes.
Then, the ground suddenly cracked, and thick roots suddenly stretched out, wrapped around the imprisoned mutant beast, dragged it underground and disappeared.
“Give me back my toy!” Xiaoyu frowned and waved her little hand.
The power of shadow spread like a wave, and the white snakes turned into smoke wherever they passed.
“Your Majesty, that was the sacred tree just now!” Yingba saw it clearly from the side and said to Xiaoyu immediately.
“Oh?” Xiaoyu looked at Orochimaru, “Give me your tree, and I won’t hold you accountable for stealing my toys!”
“Hahahaha, what an innocent and cute threat. If you want it, come and get it yourself!” Orochimaru said with a smile.
Before he could finish his words, Orochimaru suddenly attacked!
“Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!”
“Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon Technique!”
A violent whirlwind mixed with flames swept over, and the Evil Land Guardian immediately stepped forward, directly using his body to block Xiaoyu, and took Orochimaru’s combination of ninjutsu.
“This is interesting~” Xiaoyu clapped her hands excitedly, “Fifth Guardian, teach him a lesson!”
The evil gold guardian attacked first, and slammed an axe at Orochimaru’s face. Orochimaru leaned back strangely, narrowly avoiding the attack, but his shirt was still cut open. The evil fire guardian took the opportunity to attack from the side, and the bow-shaped machete swept across with blazing flames.
“Earth Escape: Earth Flow Wall!”
Orochimaru quickly formed a seal, and a wall of earth rose from the ground to block the fire attack. But the evil wood guardian suddenly appeared from the shadows, and the sawtooth sword went straight to the back of Orochimaru!
Although Orochimaru tried his best to dodge, the sawtooth sword still left a deep wound on his right shoulder. Blood gushed out, and he staggered back a few steps, but a strange smile appeared on his face.
Not a bad attack… Orochimaru licked his lips, “But it’s far from enough.”
“Yakita no Jutsu!”
His body suddenly began to swell unnaturally, his skin tore apart, and seven huge snake heads emerged from the wounds.
In the blink of an eye, an eight-headed giant snake with a length of more than 30 meters appeared on the battlefield. Each snake head had an independent consciousness and spewed poisonous mist, acid and flames.
The electromagnetic barrier of the Evil Gold Protector was smashed by a snake head and he staggered backwards.
The flame of the Evil Fire Guardian was directly swallowed by the other snake head, which actually enhanced its power.
“He does have some skills, but if it’s just this extent, even if he’s not a true Shadow Guardian…” Shadow Overlord, who was watching the battle at the side, thought to himself.
“Wow!” Xiaoyu’s eyes lit up, like a child seeing a new toy, “This is fun! Five guardians, combine!”
The five high-level mutant beasts immediately retreated and formed a circle.
Shadow power gushed out from their bodies, interweaving into a huge black cocoon in the air.
The seven heads of the Yamata no Orochi attacked at the same time, but were bounced back the moment they touched the black cocoon, letting out painful hissing.
The black cocoon burst open, and a five-meter-tall shadow giant stood on the battlefield. The faces of the five guardians were imprinted all over the shadow giant’s body. This was the ultimate combined form of the five guardians, the black beast.
Even though the five shadow guardians are not their real selves but merely artificially created replicas, the black beast formed by their fusion still demonstrates a powerful strength that cannot be underestimated.
Looking at the dozens of meters tall body of the Yamata no Orochi, the Black Demon Beast was not to be outdone. It grew with the wind and its body became the same size as the Yamata no Orochi.
The New York sky was occupied by two huge shadows that blocked out the sun, and the whole city fell into panic again.
On the streets of Manhattan, crowds screamed and fled in all directions, cars collided in a chain reaction, and sirens and crying intertwined into a chaotic symphony.
The White House quickly convened an emergency meeting. The president stared at the real-time satellite images with a grim face, and the participants in the meeting were already arguing.
“Mather Facker, what’s going on this time?” In S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury looked at the two huge monsters on the screen and couldn’t help but curse out loud.
Hill called up the data and quickly replied: “Sir, the energy fluctuations match those of the mutant beast. As for the other one, there is no valid information at the moment!”
Fury was silent for a moment. “First, evacuate the civilians, block Manhattan, and then…”
Watching the fight between the two behemoths in the picture, the place where they passed was a mess. But before Nick Fury could make any arrangements, the situation on the battlefield had changed dramatically.
The black monster fought against seven alone, and was not at a disadvantage at all. With one hand, it summoned a saw-toothed sword to cut off a snake head, pierced another with a spear, and spit out purple light from its mouth, burning the third snake head into charcoal.
Although the snake head can regenerate, the speed of regeneration is obviously not as fast as the speed of destruction.
Orochimaru’s true form was hidden in the central snake head, and a hint of shock flashed across his golden vertical pupils. He had not expected that the combined strength of the five guardians would increase so dramatically.
It was indeed a little beyond Orochimaru’s expectations.
“Game over~” Xiaoyu looked at the crushed Orochimaru.
The black monster suddenly leaped up dozens of meters high, and the weapons in its hands burst into dazzling black light at the same time. The five weapons, the sawtooth sword, shadow spear, axe, bow-shaped machete, and long knife, merged into one, turning into a giant blade wrapped in black flames, slashing down with the momentum of destroying everything!
“boom!!!”
The giant blade accurately hit the central snake head of the Yamata no Orochi, splitting it into two.
The Black Demon Beast’s final blow not only killed the Yamata-no-Orochi, but also triggered catastrophic aftermath.
The moment the giant blade fell, a terrifying shock wave exploded in a circular shape. The glass of skyscrapers within a radius of hundreds of meters was shattered, the steel bars were twisted, and the concrete cracked.
A huge dent was created on the surface of the Hudson River, followed by waves tens of meters high that slammed heavily into the coastal docks, and the moored yachts were overturned like toys.
A 40-story commercial building tilted in the impact and slowly fell towards the street next to it, raising a cloud of dust that covered the sky.
After the smoke and dust cleared, the remains of the Yamata no Orochi began to rot rapidly, eventually turning into a pool of smelly blood.
Chapter 42: Group Annihilation (Old Version)
“Her Majesty the Queen is so majestic!”
Yingba knelt on one knee and spoke to Xiaoyu respectfully.
Xiaoyu tilted her head and looked at the laboratory building in front of her, which was devastated by the battle just now, with excitement flashing in her eyes.
“The sacred tree is inside this?”
Yingba stood half a step behind her respectfully, his metal mask glowing coldly in the moonlight: “Yes, Your Majesty!”
“Then let’s go in and take a look!” Xiaoyu smiled and waved her hand. Five low-level mutants immediately roared excitedly and rushed into the laboratory door first.
“Soon…soon I will be a real queen…”
The laboratory was in a mess. Xiaoyu floated into the laboratory and looked around curiously.
The alarm lights flashed a blinding red light, the broken instruments were sparking, and various experimental equipment and documents were scattered on the ground. The air was filled with the pungent smell of chemicals and a faint smell of blood, which made her wrinkle her nose unconsciously.
“Clean it up.” Yingba ordered coldly.
Rockmon immediately swung its huge fist, and the boulder smashed through a metal wall directly, covering the debris under the boulder. Demonhorsemon’s sword slashed across, and several computers that were still running were neatly cut in half. The data screen flickered a few times and then went out completely.
Just then, hurried footsteps were heard from deep within the laboratory.
“There are still people alive.” A cold light flashed in Yingba’s eyes, and he waved his hand, “Get rid of them!”
The mutant beasts immediately scattered.
At the other end of the laboratory, Jin Bing, Madam Gao, and the five elders of the Hand were evacuating urgently.
They had just witnessed the horrific scene of Orochimaru being killed, and now they just wanted to escape from this nightmarish place as quickly as possible.
“Go!”
Kingpin growled and slammed his golden cane to the ground. His suit was torn and there was blood on his forehead, but his eyes were still calm.
Suddenly, six black shadows rushed out from the corner, and the wolf beasts’ sharp claws flashed coldly, and went straight for Kingpin’s throat.
“Be careful!” Alexandra of the Hand immediately stood in front of Kingpin and pushed her hands forward to form an invisible wall of air in front of her.
It was the Kunlun Qigong that Alexandra had studied for many years.
The wolf beast’s claws collided with the air wall, making a loud crash. Alexandra’s face changed, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth. She didn’t expect the monster’s power to be so terrifying.
“Let’s go! I’ll hold it back!” Murakami drew out his samurai sword, and a faint blue light shone from the blade. With a horizontal slash, he forced back the two clones of the evil wolf beast.
Mrs. Gao quickly formed seals, and several earth walls suddenly rose from the ground, temporarily blocking the pursuit of the mutant beast.
“Go separately! Reunite after breaking out!” Jin Bing made a prompt decision.
The six people immediately broke out into three groups: Kingpin and Madam Gao, Alexandra and Sowanda, and Murakami and Botu.
However, they underestimated the number and tracking ability of the mutants.
As soon as Murakami and Botu turned a corner, they ran into the waiting Demamon. Demamon’s long sword came across with a sound of breaking through the air, and Murakami hurriedly raised his sword to block it.
The sparks from the metal collision were particularly dazzling in the dim corridor. Murakami’s samurai sword broke with a sound, and he stumbled back a few steps, his knuckles cracked and blood gushed out.
“Damn it!”
The gambling man immediately pulled out a special pistol from his pocket and fired continuously. The bullets hit the armor of the demon horse beast, only creating a few sparks.
The demon horse beast neighed, raised its front hooves high, and then stomped down heavily. The ground shook violently, and Murakami and Botu lost their balance and fell to the ground.
“Get up quickly!” Murakami struggled to get up, but saw that the long sword of the Demon Horse Beast had already stabbed in front of him.
The sword pierced Murakami’s chest and blood gushed out.
“Murakami!”
Botu yelled, pulled out a dagger from his boot and rushed towards Momamon. Momamon just shook his head lightly, and the sharp horn pierced Botu’s throat.
Meanwhile, Alexandra and Sowanda were in equally dire situations.
As soon as they ran to the emergency exit of the laboratory, they were blocked by the rock beast. Its four scarlet eyes flashed with ferocity, and the gravel on the ground floated around it.
“Let’s go together!”
Alexandra attacked, and an invisible shock wave hit the rock beast. Sowanda pulled out a long metal whip from her waist, with electric current wrapped around it.
The rock beast did not dodge or evade, but took Alexandra’s shockwave head-on, and only took a half step back. Sowanda’s electric whip lashed at it, but not even a trace was left.
“This…how is it possible…” Alexandra’s face turned pale.
The rock beast roared, and the suspended rubble shot towards the two like cannonballs. Alexandra hurriedly used Qigong to forcefully prop up the shield, but the amount of rubble was too much and the force was too great. Cracks soon appeared on the shield.
“Bang!”
A fist-sized rock pierced through the protective shield and hit Alexandra’s chest hard. She spurted out a mouthful of blood, flew backwards, hit the wall and slid to the ground.
“Alexandra!” Sowanda tried to rescue her, but was hit by more rubble. A sharp stone chip cut off half of his cheek, and he fell to the ground screaming.
The rock beast approached with heavy steps, raised its huge paw and stomped down hard.
The sound of bones breaking was particularly clear in the corridor.
Jin Bing and Mrs. Gao heard their companions’ screams, but they did not dare to stay and continued to flee deeper into the laboratory.
“The sacred tree cultivation room is in front! There is an emergency escape passage there!” Mrs. Gao said breathlessly.
The two turned the last corner and finally arrived at the huge cultivation room where the sacred tree was located.
The dome of the cultivation room was 20 meters high, and in the center stood the strange sacred tree. Its roots were deeply buried in the ground, and the vein-like lines on the trunk glowed dark red.
However, the moment they rushed into the breeding room, they froze in place.
Chapter 43: Jin Bing’s Pledge of Allegiance (Old Version)
Xiaoyu was floating in front of the sacred tree, curiously looking at this strange plant, with Yingba and five high-level supernatural beasts guarding her. Hearing the noise, everyone turned to look at the door.
“Oh? Is there anyone who has slipped through the net?” Xiaoyu tilted her head and looked at Jin Bing who had broken in.
With powerful enemies in front and pursuers behind, there is no way to escape.
Jin Bing looked as if he was facing a formidable enemy, but he was actually calm inside.
Madam Gao suddenly formed seals with her hands, and several earth walls rose up from the ground. At the same time, dozens of poison darts shot out from her sleeves.
“Don’t show off your trivial skills!” Ying Ba sneered and waved his hand. A black light flashed and all the poison darts shot by Mrs. Gao were shot down, scattering on the ground with clanging sounds.
The Evil Fire Guardian then spewed out a flame, burning the earth wall summoned by Madam Gao into ashes.
Jin Bing’s brain was working rapidly. There was no chance of winning in a head-on fight, and there was no way to escape. His eyes moved between a secret door behind the sacred tree and Xiaoyu in front of him, and finally fixed on Madam Gao’s hunched back.
“Jin Bing, we…” Mrs. Gao started to speak, but her voice suddenly stopped.
Kingpin’s staff struck her chest like thunder.
Mrs. Gao looked down in disbelief at the blood-stained cane that had pierced her chest. Her lips trembled, but the blood was stuck in her throat, so she could only make a “ho ho” sound.
Jin Bing pulled back his cane expressionlessly. Mrs. Gao’s body collapsed to the ground, and blood quickly dyed the ground beneath her red.
“This is my sincerity.”
Jin Bing knelt on one knee, his voice low and steady, as if what he had just killed was not an ally of many years, but just an insignificant ant.
“She is a die-hard fan of Orochimaru…”
Jin said as he pushed Madame Gao’s still twitching body forward, “But now Orochimaru is dead!”
Xiaoyu’s eyes widened slightly, and then she burst into laughter: “Wow~ This is really… a surprising turn!”
She floated a few steps closer, examining Kingpin with interest, “You’re a lot more interesting than you look, big guy.”
Shadow Tyrant’s shadow power turned into a sharp sword and pressed against Kingpin’s throat. The sharp tip of the sword pierced the skin and a drop of blood slid down.
“People who betray their own people are never trustworthy.” Yingba said coldly.
Kingpin didn’t move, didn’t even blink. “This isn’t betrayal, this is choice.”
“I was originally forced to submit to Orochimaru… From the beginning to the end, I submitted to power. I will work for whoever has the bigger fist!” Kingpin’s voice was steady and powerful, and what he said was reasonable and well-founded.
“And I’m worth a lot more than that old woman.”
As he spoke, Jin took out a blood-red crystal from his arms.
There seemed to be liquid flowing inside the crystal, emitting a faint bloody smell and strange energy fluctuations. When the crystal was exposed to the air, the branches of the sacred tree suddenly moved without wind, as if attracted by the energy.
“Blood Essence,” Kingpin offered it with both hands, “It is extracted from vampire blood and is a byproduct of Orochimaru’s research on the reasons for vampire immortality. A piece of this crystal contains energy equivalent to objective.”
Xiaoyu took the crystal and held it up to her eyes curiously. Feeling the energy surging in it, her eyes lit up, “Interesting! Is there a lot of this?”
“As long as we control the vampire population, we can have as many as we want.”
“They reproduce through the Embrace and can grow rapidly as needed. They are a perfect source of energy.” Jin Bing looked at Xiaoyu and gave an affirmative answer.
Yingba’s gaze moved back and forth between the crystal stone and Jinbing, with a hint of hesitation in his vigilant eyes.
“Your Majesty, this could be a trap.”
Xiaoyu did not answer Yingba, but floated in front of Jin Bing, looked directly into Jin Bing’s eyes, a smile appeared on her blue-gray face, and a strange voice with an echo rang out: “I like your eyes.”
“There is no fear in it, only…ambition.” Xiaoyu suddenly changed the subject.
Kingpin remained kneeling, but a gleam of light flashed in his eyes: “I can provide you with more. There are hundreds of vampires in the underground of New York. I can capture them all and refine them into blood essence.”
“If you’re worried, I know where all of Orochimaru’s research is hidden.”
Yingba snorted coldly: “Do you think we will trust a man who just killed his colleague?”
“It is because I killed her,” Jin Bing raised his head and looked directly at Yingba, “that it proves that my choice is serious. Strength is everything, and you…” He glanced across the mutants and looked at Xiaoyu, “represent the true power.”
Xiaoyu ignored Jinbing’s words. Instead, she turned around and floated back to the front of the sacred tree, fiddling with the blood essence like a little girl playing with a new toy.
“Yingba, how do we use this? Feed it directly to the sacred tree?” As he spoke, he threw the crystal stone in his hand, which was emitting a strange blood-red light, to the sacred tree.
The branches of the sacred tree greedily wrapped around the thrown crystal and began to absorb the energy from it. Dark red light flowed inside the trunk, and the entire sacred tree seemed to tremble slightly.
“It’s quite useful! Yingba, what do you think…” Xiaoyu clapped her hands happily.
“Absorbing the energy of the planet alone is too slow, but if a vampire is used as a medium, the accumulation of shadow power will be twice as effective with half the effort…”
A trace of thought flashed through Yingba’s eyes. His original plan was to slowly absorb energy through the sacred tree, but now Xiaoyu’s existence has attracted the attention of the alliance. If the alliance pursues her with all their strength, they may find it difficult to resist.
“Your Majesty, this proposal… may be feasible.” Yingba whispered, “Vampires reproduce rapidly. If we can control them, our power will grow rapidly.”
“Then give it a try. It sounds interesting.” Xiaoyu turned to Jin Bing and smiled. “Then I’ll take you in as my little brother for the time being~”
Jin Bing bowed his head deeply: “My pleasure.”
Chapter 44: The Origin of the Sacred Tree (Old Version)
When Dad, Dongshan and others rushed to the laboratory, all they saw was a ruin.
The air was filled with a burning smell, and traces of corrosion from shadow energy remained on the shattered walls. The ground was cracked, as if it had been torn apart by some enormous force.
Occasionally, the sound of metal cooling down could be heard from the ruins.
“We are late…” Dong Shan looked around solemnly. The broken instruments, collapsed walls, and charred marks all told of the fierceness of the battle just now.
Natasha and Daredevil quickly checked the scene and soon found the bodies of the Hand elders. Murakami’s chest was pierced, Botu’s throat was pierced, and Alexandra and Sowanda were smashed beyond recognition.
“This is… the elder of the Hand?” Natasha squatted down to check the wound, “All dead…”
There were several corpses lying around, including several elders of the Hand, Murakami, Botu, Alexandra and Sowanda. They had died in horrible ways, apparently having been brutally killed by mutant beasts while fleeing.
Kate hugged Tailmon, her voice trembling slightly: “Did Tama really… become like that?”
“……” Dongshan looked solemn and did not answer.
“This energy reaction…” Sensing the strong residual energy ahead, he looked at his father and rushed into the passage ahead.
Passing through the passage, a huge pit with a diameter of more than ten meters suddenly appeared in the center of the deepest part of the laboratory. The edges were jagged, as if something had been pulled out of the ground. The ground around the pit was in a strange crystallized state, emitting a faint glow in the moonlight cast by the broken roof.
Dad walked quickly forward, carefully observing the big hole in front of him and studying the residue around the hole.
Kate held Tailmon and carefully approached the edge of the pit. Tailmon’s hair suddenly stood up and said vigilantly: “Be careful! Kate, I sense the remnants of a powerful dark force!”
Dad seemed to have discovered something. He walked around to the other end of the pit, bent down and picked up a withered leaf from the ground. There was still a trace of energy fluctuation on it.
“What on earth is this?” Dong Shan asked with a frown, noticing his father’s actions.
Dad didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he looked at the big pit in front of him and explained slowly: “If I’m not mistaken, there should have been a plant here…with powerful energy. Its roots go deep into the ground and can absorb the energy of the earth veins.”
“Plants? What kind of plants need so much space?” Kate looked at the huge hole in disbelief.
“It’s not that it needs it, it grows on its own. This plant will expand actively, and its root system can extend for several kilometers, absorbing the vitality of the entire land.” Dad shook his head.
“Look at this piece of land in front of you. It has no vitality anymore…”
The old man looked at the leaf in his hand, took a deep breath, and looked more solemn than ever before: “The sacred tree! It was originally one of the special items kept by the alliance!”
“Special items? Could it be?” Kun Zhong on the side was surprised.
“That’s right, you should all know what happened in the alliance before!” Dad nodded slowly.
“You mean…the theft of special items?”
“Hmph… a bunch of rubbish from sector 648!” Bei Miao glanced at the big pit in front of him and said speechlessly, “They left behind such a big mess!”
“Oh! Don’t say that about your colleague!” Dad raised his hand and gave Bei Miao a brain-splitting blow.
“But Dad…” Bei Miao was a little unconvinced.
Dad waved his hand, interrupting Bei Miao and saying, “It has already happened. We should think about how to prevent the disaster from happening again!”
“Hmph…” Bei Miao snorted coldly and said nothing more.
“But Dad, what exactly is the sacred tree?” Kunzhong asked in confusion.
Dad slowly explained: “The sacred tree is a product from the Ninja World. It is a forbidden object that can absorb the energy of the planet. In legend, it is called the ‘Ancestor of Chakra’ and is the source of all chakra in the Ninja World.”
According to the records of the Alliance, the origin of the sacred tree can be traced back to the ancient times of the Ninja World. According to legend, it was originally planted by the Otsutsuki clan from outer space.
The Otsutsuki clan can evolve through the fruit of the sacred tree and gain unparalleled power.
The power of the sacred tree is extremely terrifying. Once it is attacked, its roots can slowly spread to the entire planet, absorbing the energy of the earth and life, and converting it into chakra. Once it is fully mature, it will produce a “chakra fruit”, but the price is that the vitality of the entire planet will be drained, turning it into a dead desert.
“In the history of the ninja world, the sacred tree once caused a war that almost destroyed the world. Later, the ancestors of the ninjas worked together to seal it and disperse its power, thus avoiding the disaster.” Dad said in a deep voice.
“Then why not destroy the sacred tree!” Jessica rolled her eyes.
“Oh, everything in the world is interdependent and mutually exclusive, yin and yang are opposites, they can’t be destroyed just like that!”
“Can you say something that we can understand?”
“Well, to put it simply, the reason why the Alliance took it in was to prevent it from falling into the hands of ambitious people. On the other hand, it was also to prevent the birth of more terrible things…”
“Destructive chain reaction!” Daredevil nodded and used a modern term.
“Shit, I still don’t understand…”
“It’s the theory of cause and effect!” Dad looked at Jessica with disdain.
“Forehead……”
Ignoring Jessica, Dad continued, “But some time ago, the Disordered stole a batch of dangerous items, including the seeds of this sacred tree.”
“So Orochimaru may have used this seed to cultivate a new sacred tree underground in New York!” Dongshan continued to speculate.
“That’s right, but now, there is something even more terrifying…”
“Originally, the sacred tree can absorb natural energy and life energy…”
Dong Shan’s expression changed: “What if Yingba and Xiaoyu controlled the sacred tree…”
“They are likely to use the shadows to pollute the sacred tree, and then obtain the enormous power of shadow. They can even use this power to open a permanent shadow channel.” Dad thought for a moment and spoke with a serious expression.
“……” Dongshan, Beimiao and Kunzhong all changed their expressions when they heard this.
Once the shadow channel is opened, it means that the power of the Shadow Emperor can penetrate into this world at any time. At that time, unless a figure of Mingzun level takes action, this world will be doomed!
On the side, Natasha had just checked the scene and confirmed that Jin Bing was not dead in the pile of corpses.
“Jin is missing, but he killed Mrs. Gao…why?” Natasha frowned.
“A pledge of allegiance?” Jessica snorted coldly. “Kingpin is a smart man. He knows that Yingba and Xiaoyu are more powerful, so he chooses to betray Orochimaru in exchange for a chance to survive.”
“No, it’s not that simple. I always feel like something is not right!” Daredevil Matthew shook his head. His hunch told him that things were not that simple.
“I also think things are not that simple… Orochimaru…”
“Hmph, what’s wrong? It’s because you have not seen the power of the Shadow Realm!” Bei Miao said disdainfully.
“Stop making noise!”
Jessica punched the wall, and gravel flew everywhere. “Now we are one step slower! Xiaoyu was taken away, and the sacred tree was also robbed. What should we do next?”
Dad pondered for a moment and said, “No matter what, let’s focus on the present first!”
“The most important thing now is to stop them from activating the Shadow Channel.”
“But even if the sacred tree wants to absorb so much energy, it is not that easy. We still have time!”
“Besides, the alliance’s support should be arriving soon. Before that, we must find their hiding place as soon as possible.”
Kate clenched her fists: “No matter what, we have to rescue Xiaoyu.”
Dad nodded, his expression solemn: “Xiaoyu…”
Chapter 45: Sasuke’s surrender (old version)
Sasuke’s figure was moving back and forth in the dark corridor of the castle.
The three magatama in the Sharingan slowly turned, vigilantly scanning the surrounding darkness.
“roar–!”
On the walls on both sides, four evil dragon beast statues came to life and became solid entities. They opened their bloody mouths and released a black storm.
The two huge dragon claws behind Sasuke grabbed his back with a sound of breaking through the air.
Sasuke’s Sharingan spun rapidly, and he dodged sideways at the critical moment, while quickly forming a seal: “Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon Technique!”
The blazing fire dragon collided with the storm, causing a violent explosion in the narrow corridor.
Amid the flying gravel, the third evil dragon beast suddenly widened its four eyes, two large and two small.
“Red eyes!”
The already blood-red eyes suddenly turned redder, almost bleeding. As the red light lit up, a special fluctuation was emitted.
Sasuke felt a wave of dizziness coming over him, and his body suddenly went stiff.
The evil dragon beasts rushed over excitedly.
Just when the red claws were about to tear Sasuke apart, a sneer suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth: “How dare you cast an illusion in front of these eyes!”
The illusion was broken instantly, and the real Sasuke had already appeared behind them.
“Chidori!” Amid the shrill sound of birds chirping, blue lightning pierced through the throat of another evil dragon beast.
As the evil dragon beast turned into a point of light and dissipated, the remaining three evil dragon beasts roared angrily and attacked with their sharp claws tearing through the air.
Sasuke flashed, his Sharingan predicted all the attack trajectories, he flexibly shuttled between the claw blades, and threw three shurikens with his backhand.
“Fuma Shuriken: Shadow Windmill!”
The spinning shuriken changed its trajectory strangely in the air, cutting into the joints of Evildramon from a tricky angle.
Taking advantage of the moment when the evil dragon beasts were slow to move, Sasuke quickly formed a seal: “Lightning Release: Kirin!” A bolt of lightning struck from the dark clouds above the castle and accurately hit the two evil dragon beasts, blasting them into scattered points of light.
The last evil dragonmon took advantage of the moment when Sasuke was taking a breath and launched the “True Claw” again.
This time it was faster, Sasuke barely blocked it, the Kusanagi sword collided with the dragon claw and produced dazzling sparks. Just as the stalemate was about to begin, the eyes of the evil dragon beast glowed red again.
At such a close distance, Sasuke was finally hit and his body was instantly paralyzed.
The sharp claws of the evil dragon beast scratched his chest fiercely, and the blood immediately dyed his black suit red.
The evil dragon beast roared excitedly. However, the next second, its expression froze, and the enemy in front of it suddenly turned into a group of crows and flew away.
The real Sasuke appeared from the shadows, the Kusanagi sword in his hand was already wrapped in dazzling lightning: “Raikiri!” This blow directly pierced through the evil dragon beast.
As the body of the last evil dragon beast turned into data fragments and dissipated, the corridor returned to silence.
In the hole blasted open by the ninjutsu, the curse seal on Sasuke’s neck glowed blue-black in the moonlight, like a dormant poisonous snake.
“I already told you…”
“Don’t play tricks in front of these eyes.”
Sasuke panted, put away the Kusanagi sword, and continued to move deeper into the castle.
After passing through the last archway, he came to the throne room of Vampiremon. At the end of the carpet, Vampiremon was lazily leaning on the throne, tapping the armrests with his fingertips.
“It can break through my evil dragon beast guard…”
“Nice power, kid. Now can you tell me what you are doing here?”
The blood-sucking monster narrowed its scarlet eyes slightly as it looked at the young man who had suddenly appeared.
Sasuke knelt on one knee and took out a sealing scroll from his ninja tool bag.
After being unsealed, a dark red branch of the sacred tree appeared in his palm, its surface covered with strange black lines, emitting heart-pounding energy fluctuations.
“This is the remains of the sacred tree.”
“It can consume life energy and transform it into pure power.”
“continue.”
The vampire beast sat up straight, showing a hint of interest.
“I would give you the secret of the sacred tree… just for a place to stay.”
The throne room fell into an eerie silence as the vampire beast slowly stood up and walked down the steps, each step carrying a sense of oppression.
“Oh? A place to stay?”
The vampire beast stopped in front of Sasuke, its blue eyes staring at Sasuke’s scarlet Sharingan.
“So what are your enemies? Who are they?”
“Shadowland! And the Alliance!”
“Hahahaha, funny!”
“Then tell me, if it’s valuable, I can consider it!”
“The sacred tree comes from the Ninja World. It is the treasure used by the Otsutsuki clan, the strongest clan in the Ninja World, to evolve!”
“…” The pupils of the vampire beast’s blue eyes contracted.
In Sasuke’s words, Vamdemon captured the key word “evolution”!
This is his lifelong pursuit, and one of the reasons why he left the Digital World. If you want to become the king of darkness, it is not enough to just be a perfect body! Only by becoming an Ultimate Body, or surpassing the Ultimate Body, can it be possible!
And now an opportunity has inadvertently been placed in front of the vampire beast.
“The sacred tree can absorb the energy of the entire planet and grow a fruit. As long as you swallow this fruit, you can evolve!” Sasuke seemed not to notice the abnormality of the vampire beast and spoke to himself.
“Then where is the sacred tree?” asked the vampire beast.
“It was taken away from Orochimaru by Shadow Tyrant and Shadow Child! And Orochimaru…died at the hands of Darkmon, the super biological weapon of the Shadow Realm.”
The blood-sucking monster suddenly laughed, and the laughter echoed in the empty hall. He turned and walked towards a stained glass window. The moonlight shone through the blood-red glass, casting strange light and shadows on his pale face.
“Interesting… It’s really interesting!” The vampire beast turned around suddenly, its cloak rustling. “But why should I believe you?”
Sasuke remained calm: “I can prove it!”
As he spoke, he suspended the branch of the sacred tree in his palm, and the dark red lines on the broken branch wriggled like blood vessels.
Vampiremon narrowed his eyes and waved his hand. An evil dragonmon bound by Vampiremon’s power immediately floated out from the shadow of the throne room.
“Let’s get started.”
Sasuke threw the branch at the evil dragon beast, and the branch pierced its chest like a living thing, and black lines instantly spread to the evil dragon beast’s body. With a shrill roar, its energy flowed into the sacred tree at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the branch grew strange young leaves, and the energy fluctuations surged.
Three seconds later, the evil dragon beast turned into a data stream and dissipated.
“Devouring life and transforming it into power.” Sasuke retracted the branches. The tender leaves were still slowly stretching out, but they gradually withered in a moment.
The vampire beast stood up, raised his hand slightly, and the branch of the sacred tree slowly floated into his hand.
The pale fingers gently stroked the branches, and suddenly, dark energy surged from the palm of the blood-sucking monster, trying to control it by force. The branches trembled violently, and the black lines intertwined and resisted the dark power of the blood-sucking monster, but in just a moment, the branches stopped resisting, docilely absorbed the dark energy, and grew new leaves.
“Not only can it devour, it can also be controlled.” Sasuke looked directly at the vampire beast, “Of course, the premise is… the controller is strong enough.”
The vampire beast felt the pure energy in it and a smile appeared on its lips.
“Right… Well then… I promise, Sasuke-kun!”
Chapter 46 Luke’s Request for Help (Old Version)
Natasha walked quickly into her father’s antique shop, her expression solemn: “Luke just sent a message that Blade was captured by the vampire leader Deacon Firth.”
“What?” Jessica stood up suddenly and slammed her fist on the counter. “Those vampires are looking for death!”
“Diacon Ferris is preparing to hold a Blood God ritual to obtain the power of the Blood God to fight against the vampire beasts.” Natasha unfolded the holographic projection, and Luke’s haggard face appeared in front of everyone.
In the projection, Luke’s voice was anxious: “We found Deacon’s men and got the news that Deacon was going to hold a blood god ceremony. Later, we found Deacon’s lair, but we didn’t expect it to be a trap!”
“What about the vampire beast? Hasn’t he been controlling the vampire population?” Dong Shan asked with a frown.
“The Blood God ritual requires the blood of the twelve vampire counts and the daywalker, but…”
“Dicken lied to Vampiremon and told him that the Blood God ritual required a large amount of vampire and daywalker blood to complete… What’s worse is that Vampiremon seemed to believe Dicken’s words.”
“Impossible, Vamdemon must also be trying to seize the power of the Blood God!” Tailmon suddenly said.
“Why do you say that?”
“The Vampire Beast has been seeking evolution. If it involves evolution, he will not leave the blade, the key figure of the ritual, in Deacon’s hands!”
“Evolution?” Kunzhong asked doubtfully.
“That’s right.” Tailmon nodded.
“Vampiremon is a Perfect Digimon in the Digital World. If he were to obtain the power of the Blood God, he would likely break through his limits and become an even more terrifying existence, an Ultimate Digimon.”
Dad put down his teacup and said, “Anyway, we currently have too many enemies and they are too powerful. We cannot afford another powerful enemy to appear.”
“Then what are you waiting for?” Bei Miao snorted coldly.
“Go ahead and rescue Blade, and take care of that Deacon and the vampire beast at the same time!”
“It’s not that simple.” Natasha shook her head.
“We don’t know the location of the Blood God Ritual…”
“And Luke said that Deacon has already controlled most of the vampire tribe. If we add the blood-sucking beasts hiding in the dark, any rash action will only lead to being surrounded…”
“We must act now… otherwise the vampire beast will only become stronger!” Daredevil Matthew interrupted Natasha’s worries.
“Then let’s take action.” Dong Shan said decisively.
“Beimiao, Kunzhong, I will charge in head-on and draw fire. Natasha, Jessica, Matthew, and Luke will sneak in to rescue Blade and stop the ceremony.”
“Tailmon and I will go too!” Kate stood up quickly.
“Stopping Vamdemon is my mission!” Tailmon also said following Kate’s words.
On the other side, inside the castle of the vampire beast.
Quinn, Deacon’s trusted henchman, knelt on one knee, his cloak still damp with the night dew.
“My lord, Deacon has completed the preliminary preparations for the Blood God Ritual and now orders us to search for the Great Elder with all our strength.”
The corner of the blood-sucking monster’s mouth curled up into a sneer, and the stained glass reflected his white fangs: “Take that old guy to him.”
Quinn looked up in surprise: “But… doesn’t this help Deacon complete the ritual?”
“Do you think he is playing chess?” The vampire beast suddenly turned around, and its cloak swept across the candlesticks, and seven of the twelve candles went out at the same time.
“Little did they know that the chessboard was all mine.”
The vampire beast paced to the iron cage, and the dying vampire elder in the cage suddenly struggled violently, and the chains rattled.
As a dark energy slowly passed from the hands of the vampire beast into the body of the vampire elder, the struggle of the vampire elder gradually became weaker and weaker, and in the end, only the heaving chest was left to prove that he was still alive.
“This is the last pure-blood elder. Now we have all the ingredients for the ritual.”
The vampire beast waved its hand to open the iron cage, and the great elder slowly floated in front of Quinn, “And then… ‘accidentally’ leak this news to someone.”
Quinn showed a look of realization on his face: “You need someone else’s help…”
“Blood God…Sacred Tree…”
Looking at Quinn’s leaving back, the vampire beast murmured to himself. The moonlight shone through the glass window, casting mottled blood-red shadows on his face.
The night was as dark as ink, dark clouds obscured the moonlight, and an abandoned church stood on the ground outside New York.
The mottled walls were covered with withered vines, and the spire pointed straight to the dark sky. Dozens of vampire guards were patrolling vigilantly with weapons in hand around the church.
SHIELD’s Quinjet drew a trail in the night sky and hovered above the church.
“According to intelligence, the Blood God ritual is taking place in the basement of the church.” Natasha’s voice came.
“Leave it to us. You go and save Blade first!” Dongshan jumped off the fighter plane without even looking back.
Immediately afterwards, Kunzhong and Beimiao jumped out of the fighter plane one after another.
Dongshan, Kunzhong and Beimiao summoned armor at the same time in mid-air.
“Black Rhino Armor – Combine!”
“Earth Tiger Armor—Merge!”
Three figures landed in the square in front of the church.
The sudden appearance of the three people alarmed the vampire guards outside.
“Enemy attack!” a guard shouted, then raised his submachine gun and fired.
Kunzhong moved his wrist, and the sharp claws of the Earth Tiger Armor flashed a cold light in the night: “Quick battle, quick decision.”
“good!”
Dong Shan drew his Fengying sword and passed through the three guards in an instant as fast as lightning. With a flash of sword light, three heads flew high into the air and turned into ashes and dissipated.
Kunzhong’s Earth-Splitting Claw swept across, and the ground suddenly cracked. Sharp earth spikes shot out from the ground, piercing several vampires.
Bei Miao, wearing black rhino armor, rushed into the enemy group like a chariot. He smashed the water armor shield hard, directly smashing two vampires into meat paste. He swept the meteor gun across, knocking several people away.
In just a few seconds, all the vampire guards patrolling the periphery were wiped out, without even having time to scream, and turned into ashes.
Chapter 47 Blood God Deacon (Old Version)
At the same time, Natasha, Jessica and Daredevil sneaked in from the side of the church.
“The blade is located at the central altar.” Daredevil lowered his voice. His extraordinary senses allowed him to clearly hear the sound of blood flowing.
The three of them used the shadows to move forward quickly, avoiding the scattered guards. However, when they approached the altar, the scene before them made the three of them hold their breath involuntarily.
The blade was bound in a cross shape with a special silver chain just above the altar. The once majestic vampire hunter now looked pale, and one could clearly see his blood being slowly drawn through the wound on his wrist.
Twelve pure-blood elders were tied to stone pillars. Some were begging for mercy, some were cursing, and some were struggling frantically. But as the blood flowed along the grooves into the patterns in the center of the altar, they gradually became silent.
Deacon Fess stood in the center of the altar, looking at these once high and mighty elders with disdain, with a mocking smile on his face: “Only I can lead the blood clan to true glory!”
“And you rotten old things should feel honored to be the sacrifice!”
“Now…the power of the Blood God will soon be mine!”
“Damn it, the ceremony has already begun!” Jessica gritted her teeth.
As an agent, Natasha acted decisively. She quickly pulled out two modified pistols, and silver bullets cut through the air, pouring towards Deacon.
However, the bullet strangely stopped just inches away from the edge of the altar, as if it had hit an invisible wall, causing circles of bloody ripples in the air.
“Oh no!” Natasha’s face suddenly changed.
Seeing this, Jessica and Matthew acted decisively and rushed to the altar immediately.
Jessica took a quick step forward and punched the nearest guard several meters away with super strength. The vampire smashed a row of benches, leaving spider-web-like cracks on the stone wall.
Daredevil’s cane stabbed at a tricky angle and accurately pierced the heart of another vampire.
The two worked together to lower the bound blade.
“You can’t stop me anymore!” Deacon raised his hands high and ignored Blade who was rescued.
“You… are late…” Blade opened his eyes weakly.
At this moment, the world suddenly changed.
The originally clear night sky was suddenly covered by rolling dark clouds, and a dazzling bolt of lightning struck accurately in the center of the altar.
The patterns on the altar lit up with a dazzling bloody light, and a blood-red beam of light broke through the dome of the church, dyeing the entire night sky blood-red!
“Ha ha ha ha!”
Deacon laughed wildly, and the bodies of the twelve elders shrank rapidly, and all their strength poured into Deacon’s body.
Blood shot up into the sky, and Deacon’s body was wrapped in scarlet energy, with strange blood-colored lines appearing on his skin. His eyes were like two blood moons, and his mouth was wide open, revealing sharp fangs. The terrifying energy fluctuations made the entire church tremble.
The church door exploded and Dong Shan and the other two rushed in.
“Deacon!” Dong Shan shouted, pointing the Wind Eagle Sword directly at the opponent.
Deacon slowly turned around and looked at the three people, with a ferocious smile on his face: “Who are you? It doesn’t matter. I can use your blood to celebrate my new life!”
“How shameless!” Dong Shan shouted coldly, unsheathed the Wind Eagle Sword, and moved as fast as lightning, instantly approaching Deacon.
The sword flashed like a rainbow, piercing Deacon’s throat!
“Squeak!”
Deacon did not dodge or evade, allowing the Wind Eagle Sword to pierce his throat!
However, when Dongshan pulled out the Wind Eagle Sword, Deacon’s wound healed instantly and the blood flowed back, as if he had never been injured!
“What?!” Dongshan looked shocked.
“Hahahaha! The power of the Blood God makes me immortal! Your attacks are meaningless!” Deacon laughed wildly.
Before he finished speaking, he punched out, and a blood-red energy wave directly blew Dongshan away!
“Dongshan!” Kunzhong roared, and swung out his earth-splitting claws suddenly, causing the ground to crack and heading straight for Deacon!
Deacon sneered, and his figure flashed, blending into the ground like liquid, and his Earth-Splitting Claw swung in vain! The next second, he emerged from the shadows behind Kunzhong and tore the back of the Earth Tiger Armor with one claw!
“Ah!” Kunzhong groaned, staggered a few steps, and sparks flew from his armor.
“Wild waterfall!” Bei Miao seized the opportunity and blasted Deacon with the meteor gun with a violent stream of water!
The violent energy impact knocked Deacon away, and his body pierced through several thick stone pillars like a cannonball, causing shattered stones and rising smoke and dust.
The horrifying energy almost tore half of his body apart; his flesh and blood exploded and turned into a scarlet blood mist that filled the air.
However, in the next second.
The blood mist suddenly shrank, as if pulled by an invisible force, rolling and squirming, quickly gathering towards Deacon’s broken body.
The shattered half of the body recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But in a flash, Deacon stood up again as normal, licked the corner of his mouth and showed a crazy smile.
“What a pity… Such an attack seems to be useless to me!” Deacon slowly raised his hand, with blood lingering on his fingertips.
“Then I’ll blow you into pieces!” Bei Miao roared and charged again.
A ferocious smile appeared on Deacon’s lips, red light surged in his eyes, his arms suddenly spread out, his blood suddenly boiled, condensed into countless sharp blood thorns, shooting towards Bei Miao like a rainstorm!
“Puff, puff, puff—!”
Scarlet blood thorns poured down like a rainstorm, each one accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and hit the black rhino armor hard.
Bei Miao put up a water armor shield, and the black energy barrier trembled violently under the impact of the bloody rainstorm. His combat boots sank deeply into the ground, and two grooves were plowed out by the impact force of the blood thorns.
“Bei Miao!” Dongshan’s Wind Eagle Ring flew out of his hand and spun towards Deacon!
Deacon did not dodge or evade, and the sharp ring blade cut his body into two pieces like a hot knife cutting through butter.
However, before the separated torso hit the ground, sticky plasma gushed out from the broken surface, pulling the two halves together again like living tentacle.
The flesh and blood at the wound began to wriggle and recovered in an instant.
“I said, you can’t kill me!” A crazy smile appeared on Deacon’s distorted face.
“This guy… is he really unkillable?”
“It’s a pity that the Flame Dragon Armor and the Snow Mastiff Armor are not here. Otherwise, with the combined power of the five elements, it would be useless no matter how immortal he is!”
“Hahahaha! The power of the Blood God allows me to be above life and death! You will never be able to kill me!” Deacon opened his arms and his smile became more and more crazy.
Chapter 48: Powerful Blood-sucking Monster (Old Version)
As the two sides confronted each other, the air in the church suddenly solidified, and a suffocating dark energy swept in like a tide.
The blood on the ground froze instantly, making a teeth-grinding “crackling” sound, and the walls were covered with spider-web-like black ice crystals.
The temperature dropped suddenly, and the white air exhaled by everyone condensed into ice chips in the air.
“This dark power…” A layer of frost quickly formed on the surface of Dongshan’s Wind Eagle Armor. He turned his head with difficulty and looked at the top of the church.
In the center of the black bat swarm, a slender figure slowly floated down from the top of the church.
The closer the vampire beast is, the stronger the sense of oppression becomes.
The moonlight shone through the broken dome and onto his pale face. His ice-blue eyes were as captivating as the abyss.
“Dicken…” The vampire beast’s voice was low and elegant, but it made everyone shudder.
Deacon was stunned at first, as if he had not expected the vampire beast to appear here, but soon, the real feeling of the power of the Blood God surging in his body brought him back to his senses.
“Hahaha! Look who’s here!” Dickon saluted exaggeratedly. “My dear ‘master’, are you here to witness my new life?”
Deacon opened his arms, and blood-red energy surged around his body, illuminating the church like hell.
“Do you feel it? This is the power of the Blood God! Real, pure power!”
“Now I am superior to you!”
“Oh? Really?” The vampire beast raised an eyebrow when he heard this, and said in an unusually calm voice, “It seems that you haven’t recognized yourself yet.”
Deacon burst into a crazy laugh, he opened his arms, and the blood gathered to him like a living thing, flowing on the surface of his body, condensing into armor, and then transforming into a blood-red sword.
“Didn’t recognize it? No! I knew it very well!” Deacon stretched his body in ecstasy, and the blood lines flowing under his skin emitted a faint red light.
“I am now immortal! And you…”
“You idiot… Do you really think I will be your lackey? Do you really think I will hand over the power of the Blood God to you?” Deacon laughed wildly, his voice full of sarcasm.
With a wave of his hand, a stream of blood turned into a blood wave that corroded a huge hole in the wall of the church.
Jessica took two steps back due to the smell of blood: “Shit… this guy!”
Deacon suddenly jumped up, his blood claws tearing through the air with a sharp scream, and went straight for the throat of the vampire beast: “Go to hell! I should be the leader of the blood clan!”
Wherever the claws passed, the solid stone pillars were cut like tofu, with smooth cross-sections. The ground of the church cracked into spider web-like cracks under the aftermath, and the benches on both sides turned into sawdust in an instant.
However, the vampire beast just raised its right hand slightly.
“Bang!” Deacon’s body seemed to hit an invisible wall, and he flew backwards and hit the altar heavily, and the stone altar was instantly shattered.
“Is that all you can do?” the vampire beast asked softly, walking slowly forward.
Deacon struggled to get up and suddenly laughed wildly: “You can’t hurt me!” The broken part of his chest was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and blood-colored energy was flowing in the wound.
Vampiremon raised an eyebrow, “Interesting.”
The next second, the figure of the vampire beast suddenly appeared in front of Deacon, and its pale fingers pierced into Deacon’s chest and directly took out his heart.
“Ahh!” Deacon widened his eyes and watched his heart beating in the hands of the vampire beast.
But then, Deacon laughed again, and new flesh and blood quickly grew out of the bloody hole in his chest: “See? No one can hurt me! Even the sun can’t kill me now!”
The blood-sucking monster crushed the heart casually, blood dripping from between its fingers: “Not bad!”
Deacon suddenly counterattacked, the blood-colored energy on his blood claws surged wildly, turning into a beam of light that crashed into the vampire beast.
This time the vampire beast still did not dodge, but just stood still, and the energy was split into two halves, as if it automatically avoided the vampire beast.
“Have you had enough fun?” The vampire beast raised its hand and grabbed Deacon’s wrist.
Deacon’s expression froze, and he discovered with horror that his blood claws were… withering.
“You…what kind of monster are you?” Deacon’s voice began to tremble.
The blood-sucking monster leaned close to Deacon’s ear and whispered, “Are you scared now?”
Deacon shouted in a timid tone, “You can’t kill me! The power of the Blood God makes me immortal! You can’t do anything to me!”
The vampire beast suddenly laughed, and that laugh lowered the temperature of the entire church. “Immortality?” He raised his hand gracefully, “Let’s… give it a try?”
With a crisp “crack” sound, Deacon’s bloody claws shattered.
“Impossible!” Deacon roared hysterically. His skin suddenly burst and countless blood thorns shot towards the vampire beast like a rainstorm. “Taste this!”
“The wrath of the blood god!”
Each blood thorn twisted and deformed in the air, turning into ferocious blood-red venomous snakes. They hissed and pounced on their targets, and the blood dripping from their fangs corroded the ground, producing bursts of white smoke.
“Be careful!” Dong Shan shouted, and three armored warriors immediately stood in front of Jessica and others, each protecting a companion.
Amid the deafening explosion, the entire church shook violently, and rubble from the dome fell like raindrops. A bloody mist filled the air, blocking out the sun.
“Did they kill him?” Natasha narrowed her eyes and observed the battlefield carefully.
In the blood mist, the elegant figure of the vampire beast slowly emerged, without even raising its eyelids. The blood snakes suddenly froze half a meter away from him, and then exploded one after another as if they had hit an invisible barrier, turning into blood mist and dissipating.
“The game is over. Who do you think allowed you to perform this ritual?” The vampire beast suddenly appeared behind Deacon, and placed its slender fingers lightly on his shoulder.
Deacon was stiff, and the anger on his face was finally replaced by fear. He tried to struggle, but found that his body was completely out of control.
“Do you think I don’t know your little plan? I have been waiting for this day since you first mentioned the ‘Blood God Ritual’.” The vampire beast said with contempt.
“Do you think the Great Elder was found by your subordinate? No! I sent him to you! I deliberately asked you to gather the twelve elders… all in order to test the so-called power of the Blood God!”
“Now it seems that there is still some merit!”
Deacon’s face turned pale and he suddenly turned around and ran away. His body turned into a streak of blood and rushed towards the broken dome.
“Want to run?” The vampire beast chuckled and snapped its fingers.
“Ah!!!” Deacon suddenly fell from mid-air, curled up on the ground in pain, and strange black lines appeared under his skin.
“My dark seeds are in the blood of those elders.” The vampire beast slowly approached and looked down at the twitching Deacon. “Now, it’s time to reap the fruits.”
The blood-sucking beast’s pale palm pressed on Deacon’s head, and black light surged. Deacon let out an inhuman scream, and the blood god power in his body was forcibly drained away like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!
“No, we can’t let the vampire beast obtain the power of the Blood God… otherwise…” Dongshan and the other two looked at each other and launched their ultimate moves at the same time!
“Crazy waterfall!”
“Earth-shattering split!”
The blood-sucking monster did not even turn its head, but just gently waved its left hand. A black barrier was formed instantly, and the attacks of the three people collided with it, bursting out dazzling sparks, but the power was exhausted after just breaking the barrier.
“Kate, now!” Jessica yelled.
“Tailmon!” Kate held up the Badge of Light, and the Sacred Plan shone brightly.
Eight pure white wings spread out in the light, and Angewomon held a holy bow and arrow, with the tip of the arrow pointed directly at Vampiremon: “Holy Arrow!”
The light arrow shot towards the vampire beast like a meteor, but suddenly stopped when it was only inches away from him.
Vampiremon finally turned around, a hint of surprise flashing in his icy blue eyes: “Angewomon? Unfortunately… it’s too late…”