As soon as Sarah ran out of the steel plant, she heard a deafening explosion behind her. (1)
Amidst the violent shaking underground, a thick flame rushed into the sky, occasionally mixed with countless garbage, gravel, and flying debris.
The heat wave formed by the shock wave scattered in all directions, turning the entire area around the steel plant into a scene of burning hell, leaving Sarah dumbfounded.
In the midst of this extreme eruption, a large iron box shot up into the sky. It turned out to be a room in the interdimensional killing array.
boom!
An iron plate suddenly flew out, danced in the air, spun and fell, hitting Sarah hard not far away, making her scream loudly.
Then I saw Hercules grabbing Akai and coming out of the room. He just jumped up and flew more than a hundred meters away, landing right next to Sarah.
"Finally I caught you." Hercules grabbed Sarah with his big hand.
"Swap!" Sarah screamed loudly.
Then Sarah's figure flashed, the original Sarah disappeared, and an identical Sarah appeared in front of Hercules.
But this Sarah looked at Hercules without any fear, and instead opened her arms to hug him.
Hercules immediately knew something was wrong and retreated quickly. At the same time, he changed his grip to a fist and punched Sarah from a distance. At this time, he had completely given up on completing the task.
boom!
As Hercules punched out, Sarah suddenly exploded in front of her, and the shock wave swept towards Hercules and Akai at the same time.
"Bastard!" Hercules yelled, but instead of dodging, he turned around to protect Ah Kai.
He wanted to exchange Akai for Meryl, so naturally he couldn't let her die so easily, so he had to sacrifice his life to protect her. Hercules felt aggrieved when he thought that he had to risk his life to protect an enemy.
The explosion had already hit Hercules. Perhaps due to the lack of blood, the explosion was not very powerful. It only slightly broke through his defense, but the damage caused was extremely limited.
But for Hercules, this was already a huge insult.
"Substitute...puppet...bastard!" Hercules clenched his fist hard. He didn't expect that Shen Yi would do anything to him in this situation.
At this moment, the intercom on Akai suddenly rang.
It was Shen Yi's voice: "Hercules, can you hear me? I want to talk to you."
Hercules had already grabbed the intercom: "I have nothing to talk to you, Shen Yi. Don't think that you can threaten me just because you captured Meryl..."
Shen Yi had interrupted Hercules: "I can see you, Hercules. If you think that pretending not to care about Meryl will give you the right to bargain with me, then you are wrong... I saw you protecting me."
Ah Kai, you want to exchange, I know this, you can't lie to me."
Hercules was startled, and then he realized that the explosion of emotions just now was a test of his reaction. It is estimated that even if he did not protect Akai, Akai would not die.
Shen Yi continued: "Stop talking nonsense, if you want Meryl to live, you must first sign a thirty-six-hour non-war agreement with us, and then exchange it."
"Don't even think about it!" Hercules roared.
The thirty-six-hour non-war agreement means that they will no longer be able to deal with Shen Yi in the next time. This request has exceeded the bottom line that Hercules can bear, and he will never accept it.
Shen Yi leisurely replied: "Meryl is your main team member, an important main assistant, and a saint of the Purgatory Sect, but Akai is not my direct subordinate. You should understand this. Just a one-for-one exchange, I would suffer too much .”
When Zhuang Yu heard this, he immediately became anxious. Just as he was about to say something, King Kong covered his mouth, indicating to him that Shen Yi only said that on purpose.
Hercules sneered: "That doesn't matter to me. This person is one-eighth of your strength, and Meryl is only one-fifteenth of our strength. In a one-to-one exchange, I still feel that I have suffered a loss. .”
"In this case, there is no need to exchange it now. Anyway, Meryl still has two armored Tyrannosaurus rexes. Without her, my Megatron can also come in handy. At worst, I can wait until the first main mission is over before I exchange them. I’m sorry you can’t change it either.”
"I still have a scroll of exile from another dimension, so I can still deal with your Megatron."
"How long can I be exiled for? Five minutes? Or ten minutes?"
"Even one minute is enough to kill you."
"It's a pity that I gave you almost an hour just now, and you haven't been able to do anything to us."
"You won't be so lucky next time."
The two men were at each other's throats, going back and forth. Although Shen Yi wanted to use Meryl to bargain and intentionally raise Meryl's value, Hercules did not show weakness. Both sides were willing to give up.
However, if Zhuang Yu was not around, maybe Shen Yizhen would keep Meryl until the end of the first main mission before considering the exchange.
The problem is that Zhuang Yu obviously cannot accept this approach now.
He was saved by A Kai at the risk of his life, and he would never accept letting A Kai stay in the opponent's hands no matter what. If Hercules knew that he couldn't kill Shen Yi, who knows how crazy he would go, and he might just give up the exchange and strike out with a sword Maybe even if A Kai is beheaded.
But Shen Yi was not willing to just let Meryl go so that Meryl could hold Megatron back.
So he could only settle for the next best thing and ask for a thirty-six-hour non-war agreement.
But he also knew that this request was something Hercules could not agree to under any circumstances.
So Shen Yi finally changed his mind: "Okay, I can relax the time limit to thirty hours, and you have the last six hours to hunt us down."
"This is impossible!" Hercules still refused: "I will give you at most twelve hours of non-combat time!"
"Hey, you can't deal with us without Meryl, right?"
"Megatron alone can't scare me!"
"You're so damn stubborn." Everyone scolded them together.
Shen Yi looked at the impatient Zhuang Yu and shook his head helplessly: "Okay, 24-hour non-war agreement, I will give you 12 hours to chase us, and I will never give in again. If you don't agree, then you can do it now Ah Kai, please kill him!"
Zhuang Yu was so anxious that he almost jumped up. It took two people, Hong Lang Jingang and Hong Lang Jingang, to hold him down, one holding his head and the other holding his feet, almost strangling him to death.
Hercules took a long breath: "24 hours... okay, I agree."
"Okay then, come to the small jungle behind the steel factory. Remember, you are the only one!"
After saying this, Shen Yi turned around and said to everyone: "He agreed to the 24-hour non-war agreement."
Everyone let out a sigh of relief, especially Zhuang Yu, who finally calmed down after hearing that A Kai could survive.
Instead, Hong Lang looked at Meryl on the ground and said regretfully: "Let her go just like that? What a pity. She is a beauty after all."
Wen Wen glared at him angrily: "You don't want to rape her again, do you?"
Hong Lang replied seriously: "How is that possible? We will never do such a thing."
Everyone was wondering how this guy changed his gender. Hong Lang already answered: "I will give her some aphrodisiacs first and let her beg me to have sex with her. That won't be considered rape."
Everyone: "..."
Not long after, Hercules appeared in the small jungle.
He looked at Shen Yi, then at Wen Wen, Zhuang Yu and others, as if they wanted to take a closer look at everyone's faces, and then showed his coat of arms to Shen Yi, revealing the contents of the agreement.
Shen Yi read the content carefully and made sure that there were no problems or flaws in the text. Then he nodded and issued a request to accept the agreement.
After completing the agreement, the two placed Akai and Meryl on the ground at the same time, and then each snatched their own person back as quickly as possible while looking at the other side carefully.
After making sure that the other party was not up to something, they started to check on their own people at the same time.
Hercules patted Meryl a few times and found a micro-signal transmitter from Meryl's hair. He sneered: "You want to be so cunning with me?"
Shen Yi took out a similar signal transmitter from Akai's wound and said with a smile: "We are each other."
A group of people looked at each other, speechless.
Hong Lang said directly: "I originally thought that only a guy like Shen Yi would do such a shameless thing, but I didn't expect that your thick-browed Hercules would be so mean."
Wen Wenwen gave Hong Lang a look: "If you don't say a few words, you won't die. You're gone."
Everyone left cheering, and Heracles watched them leave and roared fiercely to the sky. The roar was shrill and majestic, as if thousands of troops were galloping past, and it lasted continuously.
Hercules seemed to want to vent his endless resentment through this howl.
Then he punched the ground suddenly, concentrating all his power into this punch, stirring up a large amount of energy to sweep through everything around him, sweeping away all the nearby trees, and in front of Hercules, a figure appeared A huge pit with a diameter of tens of meters was formed.
Hong Lang looked back and was startled by the big pit: "I said, brother, why are you doing this? The earth is innocent."
King Kong strangled his neck and moved forward: "Shut up!"
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After a battle, six people were killed on the West Side side, including two heavyweights, Claudia and Ibby Acheson, while Old Jack, Ethan and Bei Ming were killed on Shen Yi's side.
From an absolute value point of view, Shen Yi and the others made a profit. From a proportional point of view, one lost a quarter and the other lost a fifth. Shen Yi made a small profit, but the advantage was not obvious.
After this battle, they successively consumed two Rallying Orders, a teleportation talisman, a stand-in puppet and a nuclear bomb, and the trump card was consumed more. Now the Broken Blade team itself only has one team rallying order to use, Hegrid. However, he failed to force out Si's piece, so in terms of team teleportation, Hercules regained some lost ground.
Of course, due to the death of three members of the team and the capture of Meryl, some of Shen Yi's cards that were originally targeted were released, and Thor's war hammer could finally be used. Although the Terminator Army did not have the restraint of the Alien Army, it still had It has the control of emp impact bombs, but this high-tech energy weapon only has one chance to be used. Unless the Terminator becomes an army, it is impossible for Hercules to use it, so there is no problem in using the Terminator on a small scale.
Finally, Bumblebee and Hera were liberated, and everyone got two strong reinforcements. Megatron's target restrictions were also loosened by capturing an armored Tyrannosaurus Rex. If they were to be released now, Hercules and the others would have to survive forty minutes. I'm afraid it won't be easy.
Overall, this battle allowed the Broken Blade team to get closer to the enemy's strength, but it was still impossible to defeat the opponent in a hard fight unless they could once again weaken the opponent's strength.
In this regard, Shen Yida is full of confidence.
In this battle, the most profitable thing for him was not killing a few people on the other side and obtaining a few trophies, but the 24-hour non-combat agreement, which bought him a lot of strategic buffer time.
At least now, everyone can walk leisurely on the road without worrying about being chased by the Ashes Chariot.
But at this moment, Shen Yi suddenly noticed something, stopped and looked towards the other side of the jungle.
"What happened?" Wenrou noticed Shen Yi's strange behavior and asked with concern.
Shen Yi looked at the jungle over there and said slowly: "It's okay, it's just an old friend here. I'll go meet him. You guys wait here for me for a while."
As he spoke, he walked towards the jungle over there.