The only remaining walls in the ruins of the tall building eventually collapsed, but before they landed, they turned into tiny fragments and gathered into the "giant snake". The sound of muffled thunder rolling across the sky rumbled, and the long gray-black dragon was quickly covered by condensed water vapor because it was under extremely low temperatures and turned into crystal white.

An Ruosu stared at the ruins with expressionless expression until he saw a little red light—

The moment the frost giant snake passed over a ruined wall, a red light flashed and disappeared under the soil layer.

So the giant snake hovering in the air suddenly raised its head - as if it was really a snake, trying to choose someone and eat it.

There was only a street between them, so she could see it quite clearly - it was Dai Bingcheng's shadow. He seemed to have been seriously injured, just like a disrepaired puppet. The bright red copper film around his body fell off as he moved quickly, and blue smoke splashed on the ground, just like the golden powder on the puppet's body.

So An Ruosu took a deep breath, raised his hand high like a conductor in a music hall, his wrist slightly drooped and his fingertips were facing down, ready to send a fatal blow.

...But suddenly a sharp sound of breaking through the air came.

It only took a moment from the sound that appeared in the sky to the time when she noticed the air in her ears vibrated wildly. At this moment, she had only had time to fly back and take two steps away-

With a loud bang, the roof of the tall building where she was originally standing was neatly peeled off like a huge piece of tofu.

The soil and rocks collapsed with a bang, and smoke filled the air. She subconsciously looked at the bottom of the building - a metal dining plate inserted into the street. It turned bright red because of the high-speed friction between the air, melting a large area of ​​ice and snow around it, and steaming up the misty water vapor.

Then she raised her head and saw Li Zhen in the air.

He came with the wings of the flames, and a spear shining with a strange red light trembled slightly in his palm, as if he was eager to drink blood.

He slowly landed in the air and turned his head expressionlessly: "Miss An."

An Ruosu frowned suddenly and cages his fingers—

So there was a burst of crisp sound, and the tip of the frost giant snake aimed at Dai Bingcheng's hiding place.

"I want to kill him, you can't save him." She said in a deep voice.

"I want to save him. You can't kill her." Li Zhen smiled and his expression became serious, "You can try it."

An Ruosu looked at him for a second. Then Li Zhen suddenly waved his hand, and the lightning burst out, hitting a window of another tall building a hundred meters away. The burst sound was heard along with the sound of pain. Longines' body was shaken out of the window by the waves of air generated during the explosion. He climbed the window frame at the critical moment.

"Has that person not taught you that it is useless to me?" He turned to look at the ruins again and asked loudly, "Old Dai, how about it?"

After a while, the soil layer trembled slightly, and Dai Bingcheng's body crawled out of the surface with the scorched smoke emitted from the soil. He leaned against a piece of gravel and sat on the cold ground. He waved weakly.

The tip of the ice snake was less than two meters above his head. The tiny fragments trembled slightly, and there was a rustling of ice and snow falling down.

A ruthless look flashed through An Ruosu's eyes, and she clenched her hand tightly.

The frost snake slammed away.

But she still couldn't see Dai Bingcheng being crushed to pieces as she wished - because just after she held her hands tightly, she found that there was one more person in front of her eyes and a hot spear between her neck.

So the broken bricks and tiles that were originally suspended on Dai Bingcheng's head immediately lost their vitality. The huge ice snake disintegrated in the air, as if a dense and huge hail was falling. She saw a copper shield on Dai Bingcheng's head through Li Zhen's face, and then she was completely buried by the earth and stones.

She sighed in her heart, pursed her lips, and turned to look into Li Zhen's eyes.

Compared with that one, these eyes do seem to be different. Although they also have a cruel and cold smell, they are clean and pure, without any impurities.

It's like it's made of two pieces of ice.

"You were a child when I first met you." She smiled in her helmet and said, "Tell your dad that you are an adult."

Li Zhen looked at her coldly: "I heard that you said to Dai Bingcheng and Yingran - you can't stand the actions of the Secret Service. You said that they sacrificed so many lives to conduct secret research, so you were desperate about the world. At that time, you also said that the Gate of Truth is different from them - you are using the sacrifices of a small number of people to exchange for the permanent peace and joy that will be realized in the future."

"So to this point-" he looked at the ruins around him, "Do you still insist on this?"

An Ruosu raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and showed the gentle smiles of the two of them when they first met: "Are you going to let me go?"

"I want to hear what you think now." Li Zhen replied.

An Ruosu was silent for a while and blinked: "We seem to have failed. The future is not as good as we imagined. But a person must have something that can make him spend his whole life working hard to do - at this point, I don't regret it at all."

"What's more, so what if I regret it? Do I still have to go back now?"

Li Zhen thought for a while and nodded: "I understand."

"So, goodbye."

He shrank his hand and poked out again.

The Longineus's gun was inserted into An Ruosu's left chest cavity, penetrated her body, and poked out from behind.

The high temperature burned the wound and no drop of blood was leaked.

An Ruosu sighed as thin as a gossip, and her whole body hung softly on the spear, climbing over the gun with both hands. She gritted her teeth, opened her mouth, and finally said, "...Tell Ying Jueran that I am very..."

But the last bright color in her eyes faded away. Li Zhen pulled out the gun and fell to the ground.

He leaned down and lifted An Ruosu's mask, and a layer of frost immediately climbed onto her face.

After waiting for a few seconds to confirm that the once extremely gentle Doctor An had indeed died, he turned around and pulled out a afterimage in the air - and at this time, Longinus just climbed up the window and turned over and fell into the room.

So when he looked up, he felt the feng storm and saw Li Zhen standing in front of him, gathering up a pair of flame wings behind him.

He coughed dullly twice, and his mask was covered with blood.

Li Zhen reached out and lifted his mask. The old man closed his eyes silently, waiting for the ultra-low temperature to kill him. However, he felt a warmth.

Obviously the other party did not intend to deprive him of his life immediately.

Li Zhen looked at him slightly and asked, "So you are the biggest official in the Gate of Truth - the first elder?"

Langinus tried to maintain his majesty. However, the damage caused by Dai Bingcheng and Li Zhen made him bend down in pain after thrusting his waist, and his long white beard trembled in the breeze.

Li Zhen sighed: "I always thought that the elderly are always kind, but I didn't expect you to be here. If you live a life of such a result, is what you pursue meaningful?"

Longinus leaned against the window frame and took a heavy breath before saying, "Fate wants me to be like this. Young man."

He waved his hand, wiped off the blood from the corner of his mouth, and showed a smile.

He was looking at Li Zhen—there was no despair of the dying person in this look, nor could he see deeper sadness. On the contrary, Li Zhen felt that his eyes seemed familiar—

He had seen a similar light in his proud and drastic eyes.

At that time, he shared his great unification theory with himself one afternoon - that was the look when he saw the most perfect work he had spent his whole life creating.

Li Zhen frowned.

Longineus smiled: "In the past we thought that one was the person we were looking for. But now it turns out that you are - you are the one who lives to the end. This is fate."

Li Zhen looked at him and said coldly: "You still believe in fate until now? The Holy Spirit and the so-called Lord you believed in once no longer exist-they are not gods, but real creatures-what else do you believe in now?"

Longinus shook his head tiredly: "What is fate? It is what is destined to happen in the future. You also know that there are prophets in this world - and a prophet observed something. And what's wrong with us calling it fate?"

He stopped his eyes on the gun in Li Zhen's hand and exclaimed: "Look. This thing is now in your hands... This is fate."

Li Zhen looked at him seriously. However, he thought that the old man was awake at this moment - he was definitely not crazy because of the arrival of doomsday.

So he paused: "What is the fate in your mouth? What will happen in the future? What does it have to do with me?"

Longinus slid against the wall and sat down on the ground, lifting a hand to stop him: "The gun in your hand is called the gun of Langinus. My last name is Longinus - but more than two thousand years ago... or two thousand twenty years ago, it was just a name."

"Young man, my ancestors were Romans. This is his former name."

Li Zhen took a breath. He had such doubts before - the elder of the Gate of Truth was named Longinus, and the gun was first in their hands...

What is the relationship between the two?

Longines' life was obviously about to be exhausted, but he seemed to be eager to say something out. Therefore, before Li Zhen asked him again, he smiled and said like a preacher: "Lucifer should have explained everything to you - about the great master, about his two successors. You are the blood of Huangdi..."

"But do you know that I am also his bloodline."

Li Zhen was slightly surprised. However, he shook his head: "You are a white person."

"But my ancestors were not thousands of years ago." Longineus said tiredly, "I will tell you everything - as compensation for the part of our way."

"You know that the great master left two clones when he was about to die. One was the heir who later was named Huangdi, and the other, mostly inherited his evil - or all his sorrow, despair, and hesitation."

"You also know that Huangdi suppressed other species and also suppressed the other half of his clone. However, that was ultimately suppressing, not eliminating. The other half was not an ordinary species. The ancestor we shared did not know when it would awaken. So, according to our words today, he left a security."

"You mean, he left this gun." Li Zhen said in a deep voice.

"That's right." Longinus smiled weakly, "Lucifer can give your child power to become a disciple, so Huangdi can do this, and do better than it. He created a disciple and handed the gun to him before he fell asleep."

"The disciple left by our ancestors gave birth to descendants and passed on the secret. The other half did sleep for a long time--even the power of the disciple gradually weakened due to the dilution of blood. However, just before that powerful ability completely disappeared, it awakened."

"You mean..." Li Zhen pondered and hesitated for a moment. "The one who was crucified."

"Yes. It calls itself a Son - from a certain perspective, it is true."

Li Zhen frowned: "But it is said that - even if it is just a legend, I don't think the difference between it and the facts is too big - that one is a pretty kind person."

"What it wants to do requires it to do so. And what it wants to do at that time is the same thing as what we wanted to do before - it just didn't have time." Longinus shook his head slowly. "It has not been completely awakened, its power is not strong yet - it is not enough to fight against even the military power at that time. So it chose a gentler way."

"But it did not expect that humans had become so arrogant that they could ignore all authority. The rulers at that time could not tolerate such a 'man' appearing on their land. The details of this can be found in history books. It is indeed true. The cause of the matter was because the human rulers were worried about losing their power. The one who ended that thing... was my ancestor named Longineus."

"It attempts to show a miracle like 'resurrection' to achieve its purpose, but it did not expect a Roman soldier named Longineus to have that deadly weapon in his hands."

"My ancestor stabbed it with this gun in your hand. However, the initial power was diluted by generations of human blood, and he did not do well enough - it suffered heavy damage. But it was still 'resurrected'. It was only after the resurrection that it quickly returned to its original form and fell into dormant - you've seen that core in the Philippines."

Li Zhen pondered for a while and shook his head: "Then your ancestors did what I want to do now, and what you want to do is what it was going to do at the beginning. How did you jump from one camp to another?"

Longineus' expression became serious: "Because my ancestors finally listened to its teachings-he understood the good intentions of that person. But that era was not the best era, and there were too few human beings. Now, it is our golden age."

He sighed, "Although I may not be able to see that day come, there is you. As I said before, this gun is in your hands. My ancestors used it to stop a wrong decision, and today you will use it to carry out the will of that person."

"Does all mankind be destroyed? Nonsense." Li Zhen sneered, "This is just a tool, but I still have a brain."

"Also... you still think I am that master. But now you have seen my position and I have no interest in turning people in the world into alien species. You say you are also descendants of Huangdi - then maybe you don't regard yourself as a human being, but as a kind of race."
To be continued...