Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 670 Chapter 666 Death's Farewell
Morgana gradually developed a special ability: she could accurately know whether she was in a dream, and then control the dream and distort it into what she wanted.

Under the technical control of the company, she always dreams of Zhuang Xuteng. The image of Zhuang Xuteng in her dreams is always vague and hazy. Only when she recalls carefully can she make the image of Zhuang Xuteng in her dreams clear. At first, she would act according to her heart, make the image of Zhuang Xuteng clear and complete, and then live with him. But she soon realized the problem and understood that all this was a conspiracy of the company, so she began to distort her dreams to protect the secret of Zhuang Xuteng deep in her mind and destroy the company's action plan.

Being able to mess around was nice, but Morgana had no control over when she woke up. She was pretty sure the company was using drugs and devices to artificially prolong her dreams, injecting nutritional supplements to suppress her body's needs such as hunger, keeping her indoors at all times, frequently changing medical staff, and taking away all clocks, making it impossible for her to track the passage of time.

She was captured before the two battles in the capital Constitution City, and she didn't know that Zhuang Xuteng and Anzu had fought. She could only guess from the fact that she had not been rescued that Zhuang Xuteng might have been in trouble, and it was probably a bad time... If Zhuang Xuteng was really dead, she would rather see him more in her dreams. But before that, the priority was to escape from here.

When you feel you wake up from a dream, don't open your eyes first. Use your ears to listen to get a general idea of ​​the situation around you. Then quietly open your eyes a crack to adjust to the light outside and to be aware of any dangers around you.

The situation today was a little different. The doctors untied the buckles that bound her hands and feet, and turned the bed to 45 degrees. Looking at the pair of cotton slippers placed in front of her, plus a reinforced warrior on each side, it was clear that she was allowed to walk, but she was not allowed to make trouble.

"Morgana, you have been specially approved to go outside and breathe some fresh air. If you behave well, you can live in a well-equipped studio apartment and meet your parents and relatives." A doctor with an air filter mask covering his face said, "Two security guards and a medical staff will be watching you at all times. They will not answer any of your questions except asking what you can and cannot do. If you make any trouble or violate any rules, you will be subdued immediately and sent back here for anesthesia. You may only have this one chance, so it is in your best interest to cooperate well."

"I have a chance to see my family?" Morgana was a little incredulous. She asked, "Why didn't they rescue me? How did you convince them?"

"You suffer from an extremely serious mental illness, and Zhuang Xuteng should bear the main responsibility. Even if they know there is a problem, they must accept this excuse, otherwise there will be greater losses."

"What a bastard!" Morgana glared at him and asked, "How is Zhuang Xuteng?"

"If you behave well, someone will be there to answer your questions. It's great that you can meet Anzu."

Although she had guessed Zhuang Xuteng's fate from these few words, Morgana still had a little hope deep in her heart. She controlled her emotions and tried to regain a calm tone: "Can I leave the bed now?"

"Sure. Pay attention to your balance and hold onto the edge of the bed. You will feel dizzy at first, and your legs will lack strength, so it's best to use crutches with both hands." The doctor said to the two enhanced humans, "I'll leave her to you. Take good care of her!"

Despite her many physical discomforts, especially the weakness in her legs which limited her mobility, Morgana gritted her teeth and insisted on going out for a walk, as this was a rare opportunity. If she wanted to escape, she had to recover her physical condition as soon as possible, especially her legs and hands, which required exercise. From starting with crutches to being able to walk on her own, she endured the numbness and pain and moved to the "outdoor area" little by little.

The sky can be seen above the head, and the sun shines through the gloomy clouds to the continuous mountains behind. The activity area is only the size of a basketball court, and it is surrounded by tall transparent glass, as if it is a hamster activity box. Outside the glass wall is a steep cliff. At the foot of the mountain is a small town surrounded by swamps. There is only one road leading to the distance, and it eventually disappears behind the rolling hills.

There was another familiar person in the courtyard: Ge Gongdao. Because he was more dangerous, there were four guards and two medical staff. Morgana could still walk with crutches, but Ge Gongdao could only sit in a wheelchair. Only his body and head were his own, and all his limbs were replaced with the most basic prosthetics, which only had support capabilities and could only move slowly under the drive of an external power supply.

Morgana was very excited and hurriedly accelerated forward, but stumbled and fell to the ground. The sound caught the attention of Ge Gongdao. He turned his head, moved his lips, and began to turn the wheelchair with great effort to get closer to Morgana. When the two were only five meters away, the security personnel pulled the wheelchair and stopped Morgana. "You just stop here. If you get any closer, it will be against the rules."

Isn't the so-called rule just a company's mouth? Morgana didn't have time to discuss this issue with the company's lackeys, and quickly asked Ge Gong: "Long time no see! How are you...are you okay?"

"Uh... still alive." Gogong's voice was unusually hoarse. He tilted his neck so that Morgana could see the surgical line extending from his jaw to his belly button. "They removed my implant. The quality of the surgery was very poor. My voice became like this. Are you okay? I haven't heard from you for a long time."

"They also removed my implants, but I have fewer implants, so the impact is not significant." Morgana bit her lower lip, trying to control her emotions, and then asked: "How is Zhuang Xuteng, do you know?"

"He went to fight Anzu, and that was the last time we met. Anzu is still alive, so I'm afraid Naike didn't make it. I'm sorry to tell you this..."

"So you didn't see him killed?"

"No. In order to give Zhuang Feifei and I a chance to leave Peicheng, he went to attract the enemy's attention. The battle took place in your family's manor. We saw the fierce fighting there from afar. A tornado rose from the ground, and the power was quite scary. Then the sound of the battle suddenly disappeared, and I didn't know what happened. Alas, Zhuang Feifei and I were surrounded by the company's enhanced people, and I couldn't take her out..."

"How is Zhuang Feifei? Who else do you know about?"

Ge Gongdao sighed and said, "I also want to ask you... Have you seen anyone else here?"

Morgana shook her head. "After I was arrested, I was locked up with Prince for a week, and then I was put in solitary confinement. I don't know how long it was before I saw her once, and by then our child was gone..."

Ge Gongdao's teeth were clattering, his breathing was heavy, and his red eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. "Asshole..."

"She should still be alive, just like Zhuang Xuteng." Morgana's tone was calm, and behind this calmness was not only the result of countless times of extreme pain, torture and despair. "If Zhuang Xuteng died, we would be useless and would definitely be killed. The fact that we are not dead yet means that Zhuang Xuteng is not dead."

"I would like to think so too. How can I be so weak? If I could... Ah!!!" Ge Gongdao roared a few times and was immediately warned. If his hands and feet were intact, he would definitely pounce on them at this time. Even if he only had teeth to bite, he would bite several people to death before he would stop. "Morgana, you know a lot. Tell me why they let us dream all day long. I dream about Nike every day. I'm beginning to think I'm a pervert."

"Our dreams are obviously being controlled. They are studying Zhuang Xuteng through our dreams to find a way to deal with him." Morgana had thought about these things a long time ago, and she immediately said the conclusion that was most favorable to Zhuang Xuteng. "I think Zhuang Xuteng must be hiding, trying to improve himself and deal with the company. He poses a huge threat, and the company is not sure of winning, so they are studying our dreams to find out Zhuang Xuteng's weaknesses."

Ge Gongdao was stunned, frowned, and said, "I didn't think of this, but it is really possible..."

Just when Ge Gongdao was rekindling hope, the gate of the courtyard opened and Anzu walked in with two coughs. His forehead was dark, his eyes were dark, and he couldn't help but hunch over slightly, looking as annoying as ever. "You are wrong. I studied Zhuang Xuteng through dreams not to kill him, but to revive him."

"Who are you?" Ge Gongdao tried to turn his head to take a look at this annoying guy.

"I'm Anzu."

Morgana shook her head and said, "No. You are not! Anzu is shorter and doesn't look like this..."

"I changed my body - I was forced to - my old body was broken by Nike, and this was reassembled. Of course, Nike's fate was worse, he died." Anzu coughed twice and frowned, because he found that his health indicators were declining, and the load of implanted organs and shadow slaves was unexpectedly increasing. What happened? Could it be that the body can't bear the excessive use of superpowers? That's right, he has never used superpowers so frequently for such a long time before. He adjusted the injection of the soothing agent and sent the physical condition to the support team, asking them to prepare maintenance equipment. At the same time, the cloning center will temporarily suspend the "ripening" to reduce the pressure on his superpowers.

Ge Gongdao's implants and shadow slaves were gone, but his observation ability was still there. Anzu's condition was clearly not good, which was of course good news. He winked at Morgana, which probably meant: Looking at his appearance, it must be that the pressure caused by Naike was too great and he couldn't bear it.

An Zu snorted and said, "You can think whatever you want, but it won't change the facts. Zhuang Xuteng is no longer a threat, and the company already regards him as a valuable asset. The entire research institute is trying hard to resurrect Zhuang Xuteng - of course, under the premise that it is completely controllable... cough cough cough!"

The sudden and violent coughing forced Anzu to bend down, and he was dizzy. He covered his chest with one hand and pressed his head with the other. He suddenly couldn't see the situation around him, couldn't hear the outside world, only all the video devices on his body were alarming, and the alarm sound drowned out everything.

If anyone present knew necromancy, or any of the detection spells from the Shadow Realm, they would have seen the four sensory tentacles inserted into Anzu's back. The resentment had been pouring in for several days, causing Anzu to be exhausted. He asked the medical team to give him a full range of soothing and refreshing treatments. He had to admit that the company's technology and work were effective, and they kept him feeling "not bad". This paralyzed Anzu, lowered his vigilance, and could not stop the continued accumulation of resentment.

Several security guards immediately stood in front of Morgana and Gogongdao, separating Anzu. They simultaneously called the medical team and sounded the alarm. At this point, Anzu was no longer able to support himself, lying completely on the ground, vomiting pink liquid from his open mouth.

"What happened?" Morgana asked Gogong, but from his clear and innocent eyes, she could tell he knew nothing. She moved sideways and tried to get a better look, but was blocked by the security guard in front of her. She sighed, and then she saw the enhanced people in front of her also began to twitch, and there were strange gurgling sounds coming from their throats.

The gate of the courtyard opened, and four medical personnel ran in with a bed cart, followed by more enhanced people. They were all members of the Anzu logistics support team, and they took action as soon as the alarm sounded. Although they were already very fast, Zhuang Xuteng's spell began to take effect. After the person with the highest transformation rate fell, the entire spell was like a domino that pushed down the first piece, and the rest were all rapid chain reactions.

Several security guards fell headfirst, followed by the enhanced warriors who followed the doctors in. Suddenly, only Morgana, Gogongdao, and seven medical staff were left standing in the courtyard. The medical staff immediately identified Morgana as the culprit. They took out their shadow gun rings, and some picked up anesthetic injection guns. Just as Morgana shouted "I'm innocent", the doctors also began to feel dizzy and fell down after shaking for a while.

"What's going on? A new version of the dream?" Morgana closed her eyes, disassembled the monsters in the church's records in her mind, and then used their parts to piece together a few messy new monster images, and then suddenly opened her eyes. If the surrounding environment has changed drastically, especially if vague monsters in the mind appear, then this is a dream. "Hey, it hasn't changed at all, is this reality?"

She took a step forward, and Ge Gongdao suddenly called her: "Don't rush forward, avoid the traps. Use the cane in your hand to hit them from a distance. If you are good at throwing, just pick up something and throw it."

Under the heavy blows of the cane, the enhanced warriors shook violently, like fish that had just been thrown onto the shore. They could be seen bleeding from all seven orifices, and their feces and urine were flowing. The most horrifying change was in their enhanced eyes: the eyeballs melted with smoke, and the gelatinous liquid was splashed everywhere.

After two minutes of struggling, they all fell silent. Morgana bravely stepped forward to check and confirmed that they had no breath or heartbeat at all, and were completely dead. Under the command of Gogongdao, Morgana acted like a mercenary. She found a shadow gun ring and a scalpel from the doctor. She armed herself and Gogongdao with the former, and stabbed the latter into the bottom of the corpse's eyes, crushing the brain, and ensuring that these enhanced people would never wake up again.

"It must be Zhuang Xuteng, he is attacking here!" Morgana couldn't help but shed tears, and hurriedly wiped them away to avoid affecting the work at hand. When she finished off Anzu, she found that there was no space in the bottom of this guy's eyes. After trying several other angles, she still couldn't pierce his skull.

"This guy is not ordinary. His structure is completely different from others." Gongdao Ge pushed the wheelchair over and took a closer look. "Just cut around his neck. We can't stay here for long. Let's go out and see what's going on outside."

The two came to the door and found it closed. Morgana turned around to collect ID cards, weapons and any useful things from the people present, and finally used the doctor's badge to swipe the door. Before leaving, Ge Gongdao asked Morgana to move a body of a reinforced person and put it on his wheelchair. If there is a biometric authentication door in front, maybe this can come in handy.

The research center was full of dead bodies, each with blood gushing out of their seven orifices, their bodies twisted in all kinds of weird angles, their deaths were extremely miserable. The corridor was silent, the alarm had been manually shut down, leaving only the red warning light flashing. Morgana supported herself with Gogongdao's wheelchair, pushing the wheelchair forward with her legs. The two people bypassed the bodies on the ground and followed the signs on the wall.

"There must be more than just the two of us, there must be others!" Morgana kept saying to Ge Gongdao, while also cheering herself up. "Come on, such a big commotion could only have been caused by Zhuang Xuteng. He must still be working hard!"

It was indeed Zhuang Xuteng who had done it, but he was not trying hard. The "wraith avalanche" he had started occurred in all places and on all occasions, and the death toll kept rising. The white-collar worker who was overlooking the city in his office died; the president who was enjoying the pleasure of ruling the world with a sip of wine died. The city was full of people who fell to the ground and died while walking. The villages and towns were also affected a little later, and the situation did not change at all.

Even if you hide in a safe fortress, as long as you use more than ten execution puppets as security or cleaning and maintenance personnel, you will be discovered and killed by the sensing tentacles. These tentacles can penetrate most walls and search in the soil and rocks. It can be said that unless you hide under the protection of lead plates, oil interlayers and reinforced concrete interlayers of sufficient thickness and do not come out for several days, you will not be able to avoid the search of the sensing tentacles.

With the computing network as its brain, the sensory tentacles have the ability to remember and track. Once a target is identified, it will always keep an eye on it and never let anyone escape. All people die in this order, from high to low, according to the degree of transformation. Since the importance and lethality of each person's installation of the shadow slave are different, there are differences in the speed of death and the degree of pain of death. However, as long as the transformation rate requirements are met, death is inevitable.

The whole world immediately fell into chaos, and the wave of death raised a huge resentment and rushed towards the shadow atmosphere, and the two were madly stirred together. Zhuang Xuteng could clearly feel the collision of the two energies, and felt that it was not good, because the combination of resentment and shadow energy was the basis of the magic power of the resentful spirit, wasn't it? If this created a planet-level resentful spirit, then no living person would be able to exist.

There are still people alive outside. At least for now, those with a transformation rate below 10% are still alive. Zhuang Xuteng used the vengeful spirit spell to protect Liu Xing and Dr. Sen to prevent them from being killed by mistake, while trying to control the overwhelming vengeance to prevent a world-class vengeful spirit from appearing. He kept giving orders to the vengeance, repeatedly emphasizing the functional boundaries of the spell to prevent any autonomous evolution. At this time, people with a transformation rate of 9% also began to die.

Transformation rate... The higher the transformation rate, the lower the number of people. For example, Anzu is the only one above 89%. The lower the transformation rate, the larger the total population. A transformation rate of 0% represents everyone from zero to ten years old plus the extremely poor who have no money to upgrade themselves, which accounts for at least 18% of the total population. Zhuang Xuteng's spells kept killing people, and the transformation rate kept decreasing until it basically stopped at 6%.

In addition to the collateral damage caused by the chaos, 5 billion people were wiped out by Zhuang Xuteng within three hours. Even the Lich Master would have to admire this efficiency. If the subsequent impact of the destruction of society, production, and transportation order is taken into account, the remaining population will be at least half less in a few years.

"No... the current population is too small. Unless we gather together in an organized way immediately, the decay will cover the world and people will no longer be able to get food. I will... kill the whole world." Zhuang Xuteng sighed, then shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter. The world will be destroyed in a hundred years anyway."

After the climax of the first wave of human deaths, the execution puppets set off a second wave, which also began to suffer large-scale destruction. At the same time, the concentrated use areas of Shadow Slave equipment, especially the concentrated areas of large-scale network and computing power equipment, also became targets due to their extremely active Shadow Slave energy fluctuations. This attack will eventually destroy the network, thereby curbing the spread of Zhuang Xuteng's necromancy and finally calming the world down again.

In other words, let the world fall silent.

"We have to find Anzu." Zhuang Xuteng suddenly thought of a danger: What if Anzu resurrects again? He immediately extended his sensing tentacles deep into the computing network to look for targets that were still active.

No one can stop him anymore. Lanci syndrome is incurable. Once it breaks out, there is no turning back. It will definitely end in death. The company's monitoring power on the computing power network, or any network, is in name only. Zhuang Xuteng targeted the concentrated area of ​​​​resentment, scanning one point at a time, looking for information about Anzu.

He found something unusual in a remote corner. In that place, the resentment and the energy of the shadow were very concentrated. The atmosphere of the shadow even formed a descending vortex, which stayed in a mountainside courtyard surrounded by glass walls. Zhuang Xuteng saw a monster. It was composed of various living implants and shadow devices. It had a swollen appearance and a staggering shape. Its twisted face made a hideous expression, and painful howls came from its throat and body. That was Anzu. It was finally not a dwarf, but a three-meter-tall spliced ​​zombie. Under Zhuang Xuteng's gaze, it was crushed by the resentment and turned into pieces of meat and corpse water on the ground. Then, with the help of the atmosphere of the shadow, it began to revive and self-splice again.

"It can really be resurrected. It seems that we need to use the disintegration effect to destroy all cells." Zhuang Xuteng created more sensory tentacles and began to observe the surrounding terrain to determine the location here. Suddenly, he was stunned and his heartbeat immediately jumped to more than 200.

The sensing tentacles saw Morgana and Ge Gongdao, who were trapped by the password door and could only sit down to rest because they could not get out. Zhuang Xuteng didn't understand why the two of them were still alive, but as long as they were alive, it was fine! He also saw other people, even thousands of infants and his own childhood...

Then he saw the outline of a city. Gaofeng City, he saw the campaign ads shining in the night sky of the city. Zhuang Xuteng shouted happily. Before the sound faded, he had rushed out of the clinic and flew high into the sky.