Abyssal Wanderer.

When his consciousness returned to his body in basic reality, the time remaining on Booker's wrist was less than 16 seconds.

That feeling of anxiety once again filled his heart, but when Booker saw that Hecate was still beside him after receiving flesh, he immediately relaxed.

Since Mr. "Paradox" had previously promised, he would free the Nord settlement area from the company's control, make Liao Qi's last battle a legend, and make the struggle of the Icarus Liberation Front a legend like a beacon.Then, that existence would not let this resettlement area come to an end in such a funny way.

As he expected, when there were 14 seconds left on the clock, a notice stamped with the electronic official seals of six Olympus companies was sent through Icarus's public channel.

Minerva, Venus, Neptune, Apollo, Vulcan, and Pluto; the above six Olympian gods unanimously agreed that out of consideration for the safety of millions of people in the Nord settlement area, They will be willing to accept any "reasonable" demands from the Icarus Liberation Front.

These include withdrawing the company's armed forces within one month, not interfering with the government operations of the Nord resettlement area, recognizing the legal status of the Icarus Liberation Front, fulfilling the terms of ensuring the basic survival of the resettlement area in accordance with the contract during the coalition government period, and compensating for damage to the underground foundation Repair costs, provide low-interest loan assistance for equipment renovation in the resettlement area, strictly implement the "Biological Rights and Interests Protection Act", invite the Human Intelligence Ethics Supervision Committee to settle in...

In other words, the Nord settlements would break free from the chains that the Olympian gods had bound them.As the resettlement area was originally designed, it became a gathering place where humans can survive safely in this crazy world after the "post-Great Impact Era".

Six Olympus companies jointly stated that they were willing to compromise with the threats of an unknown civil organization. This is definitely something that is enough to shatter the views of the vast majority of the people.

Those "city of one man" with the "King of Mercenaries" sitting in command cannot obtain such good conditions. What is the background of the Icarus Liberation Front?Or are they kidnapping the biological mothers of those company directors—if they have them and still care about them—to threaten them into making such a decision?

In the future, after this announcement was made public, thoughts similar to this appeared in the minds of the vast majority of netizens watching.

The speculation, doubts, and conspiracy theories brought about by this will be as intense in the future as the resistance inspired by this incident.And it has brought countless undercurrents and conflicts around the world, on the World Wide Web, and even in some corners of the abyss and dark web.

But at this moment, when Booker saw this announcement, he just breathed a long sigh of relief - the lives of millions of people hung on his fingertips, and the previous heavy moral pressure almost threatened to crush him. The spirit was completely crushed.

Just when he was about to make a public announcement immediately and confirm his acceptance as the leader of Icarus, Hecate on the side stretched out her hand to stop him.

There were only ten seconds left before the explosion.

"why?"

Booker raised his head and asked urgently.

"The third to last article, 'Since the contract takes effect, all conflicts between the company's armed forces and the residents of the resettlement area will cease. If a conflict occurs, it will be deemed as the full responsibility of the initiating party.' This article needs to be revised."

Hecate did not look at Booker, but cast her gaze towards the dome in the distance that was damaged by the battle and flashed with mosaic stripes.

She looked at a few small black dots there.

"Liao Qi's last battle is not over yet."

"Then now I..."

Booker looked at the countdown number on the watch, which slowly changed from 7 to 6, and asked immediately.

"Add an additional note that this clause will not be fulfilled until the Wolfsbane team is completely wiped out... They will agree."

Hecate said this, and Booker typed and sent those words almost instinctively.

Four, three, two...

When the countdown jumped to "two", a notice with the logo of Pluto Deep Diving Company popped up.

In accordance with the company's employee rules, they terminated the employment relationship with everyone in the Wolfsbane team.

In other words, the last three remaining were all fired.What happens to them afterwards has nothing to do with the company.

Booker turned off the explosion program before the number jumped to "one", and at the same time, published a company announcement with an electronic official seal on the official channel of the Icarus Liberation Front.

"call……"

Looking at the bloody number, Booker let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's finally over..."

Although his whole body had been transformed into a prosthetic body, Booker felt so exhausted that he wanted to sit down against the wall.

"Do not."

Hecate said from the side.

She raised her hand slightly as she spoke, and the holographic projector beside her lit up.

Images from the Icarus Liberation Front's propaganda channel "Nord Voice of Justice" were projected onto the aerosol curtain.

"It's just the beginning."

Under the lead gray shattered dome, Liao Qi, whose wings were also shattered behind him, was fighting the final battle of his life.

…………

After struggling to stop the bleeding with the "sewing claw" in the medical kit, Bai Dong leaned on the half-collapsed sofa, waiting for rescue to arrive.

She had contacted the hospital a total of thirteen times before, and the line was busy twelve times.After finally getting through, the other party also said that the hospital has no manpower at all - several high-level adjusters started fighting in the city, and the number of casualties caused by the aftermath of their battle has now exceeded Two thousand, there are really no resources to allocate to someone like her who may not die for a while.

But a few minutes later, the other party took the initiative to call.He said that the best medical emergency team had been arranged, and a flying car was immediately sent to take her to the ground level, a hospital with Apollo biology background, to give her the most comprehensive treatment.

"Why did you change your mind so quickly?"

Bai Dong asked puzzledly.

The other party hesitated and said that she was not sure, but the management system of their hospital was purchased from Apollo Biotech. Maybe the signal source of her phone was reported.

When making an emergency call, the patient's location will be located directly to the hospital.

Finally, the other party asked carefully:
"Are you really in the community where 'Liao Qi' lives? Have you seen anything nearby?"

Liao Qi?How would they know?
Bai Dong expressed his doubts, and the other party said excitedly:
"Don't you know? It's all going crazy now - Liao Qi from the Icarus Liberation Front, who killed the company's elite troops like a dog, dared to play the 'coward' game with the gods of Olympus, and won at the last second .That bastard bet us all and said it's all just a personal vendetta... Fuck! Turn on the 'Noord Voice of Justice' channel, he's still making movies with company dogs!"

The man's voice was mixed with excitement and fear.

Then, the guy on the other end of the phone didn’t know what he saw, and started yelling, sporadic words like “Kill those corporate dogs,” “He’s handsome,” and “It’s so fucking cool.” passed it on.

I don’t know what his attitude is.

After a few more seconds, the talent hurriedly hung up the phone as if he remembered something.

Bai Dong was silent, activated the retina projection, and connected to the Nord Voice of Justice channel.

I don’t know what kind of professional equipment was used to shoot the scene. The picture at this moment was so clear that Bai Dong would rather it not be so clear.

Liao Qi, with electric sparks shining all over his body and prosthetics constantly falling below zero, was fighting three four-meter-tall black full-body prosthetics in the sky.

It's not like the real adjuster battle in Bai Dong's impression, but more like the adjuster battle imagined by native people in those film and television works.

There is no complex and delicate tactical game, no unexpected weapon as a trump card, and no performance competition under high-speed maneuvering.

Some are just barbaric and cruel, endless fights.

Bai Dong saw Liao Qi break through the opponent's line and chop off the arm of one of them with the giant blade in his hand.Then he pulled the opponent closer to him with a wave of his hand, and then inserted the wings flowing like mercury from behind through the opponent's fracture.

For a moment, electric light began to circulate inside the man's body, as if a metal can was placed in a microwave.

As a senior mental adjuster, Bai Dong already knew Liao Qi's state just by looking at his inhuman behavior pattern.

That is a state of no return.

I killed him.

Bai Dong thought to himself.

Even if he was not the culprit, his phone call must have accelerated his death.

She let this guilt slide into her heart like a knife's edge.

At this moment, Liao Qi in the live broadcast was throwing away the useless adjuster in his hand like garbage.

But if I had another chance, I would still tell him so.

Bai Dong suddenly thought of it.

She does not regret her choice, and she also believes that Liao Qi will not regret her choice either.

After all, Liao Qi is such a person - when faced with that insurmountable wall, some people will bypass it, some will argue that the wall must exist, and some will kneel by the wall and cry bitterly.But he will definitely choose to keep hitting this high wall with his body until his flesh and blood are bloody, until he collapses.

This world is cruel and complicated, and perhaps it is not suitable for a pure person like him.

Perhaps using all his strength to change the track and pull it back a little bit would be the best ending for him.

only……

Bai Dong sighed.

Even if he is like this, will he have anything to say at the end?

she thought sadly.

……… "Is the shooting effect so good? Isn't this a real-time composite?"

In the basement of the "Dark Blue Zone" bar ruins, Blake, who was lying on a chair, slapped his thigh and stood up with a cane.

Then, he was slapped on the back of the head by his sister White, and he was slapped back on the stool.

"Don't block my view!"

Shen Lan looked at the muscular bodyguard brother and sister who were playing tricks and silently turned the screen to the maximum.

"Can you all see it?"

she asked back.

No one answered her behind her.

Each of them stared at the screen, as if trying to imprint what was happening at this moment into their minds.

In the picture, Liao Qi's prosthetic body was broken and his whole body structure seemed to be disintegrating in the next second.After killing one of the Adjusters, who was more than three meters tall and covered in black and red mecha, he struggled in mid-air - as if the output of his anti-gravity engine at this moment was no longer enough to keep him suspended in mid-air. .

But in the next second, he swung the knife directly at himself, cutting off all the body below the legs - in the battle in the sky, the prosthetic body of the lower body was of no use, so it was better to discard them all and let the remaining energy run at full capacity. Anti-gravity engine.

In addition, many external prosthetics that were still attached to his pitifully small "Mercury Wings" were constantly detaching, peeling off, and falling down.

Liao Qi no longer had the extra energy to run them, and there were two people left in front of his eyes—they were fired by Pluto Deep Dive Company, and all the offensive prosthetic bodies on their bodies were locked.At this moment, they can only use basic mobile equipment and melee weapons that can be used without permission.

So, it's a brutal and primal fight.

"I'll help him."

Among the crowd in the basement, a boy who looked childish took out his weapon and stood up.

He is a member of the Icarus Liberation Front Operations Group and a Depth 1 moderator with no upgrade path.

In fact, the more than 20 people in the basement of the "Deep Blue Zone" bar are all members of Icarus - they were protected by Deep Blue using their own connections during the previous arrest operation carried out by the resettlement area government in cooperation with the company. People coming down.

"Sit down."

The leader of the crowd said:

"From minus one to minus seven, everything will be over by the time you get there."

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the big screen again.

"All we can do now is witness his end."

The boy who took up the weapon stood still, clenched his teeth tightly.After a while, he sat down again without saying a word.

Apart from this brief conversation, the more than 20 members of Icarus remained silent.

Deep Blue felt a deafening silence.

Unable to bear such a solemn atmosphere, Shenlan forced herself to focus on the screen again.

Looking at the nearly fragmented and crazy adjuster, Shen Lan found it difficult to connect Liao Qi at this moment with the young man who had talked so much about his aesthetics when they first met.

Recalling the "open-mindedness" when the other party took off his hat when they first met, Shenlan suddenly couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Her laughter was particularly harsh in the solemn atmosphere of the basement.

"Sister Shenlan, what's wrong?"

White on the side asked nervously, and then gestured for her to stop laughing.

Although they were the ones who saved these Icarus members, the current atmosphere was so funny that White was worried that these members of the organization, filled with grief and anger, would do something impulsive.

Shenlan covered her mouth and "giggled" for a while, before finally stopping her own laughter.

She wiped the tears from her eyes and said:
"Nothing, I just remembered some things from the past."

Then she looked at the screen again, where Liao Qi was dismantling the second company dog ​​with a high-frequency vibrating knife.

"Now, I can't find the person responsible for my membership being canceled by 'Theseus Cargo'."

she said softly.

Then she added:
“It has been the honor of my life to have worked with you.”

…………

Those idiots warned Christie three times in a row, but in the end she chose to show her middle finger in the channel and cut off the communication directly.

Then, she continued to use high-standard filming equipment to live broadcast this not-so-high-standard battle to the world.

How could those smart fools end up like this if they didn't do as many things as they did?

It has also broken through the limit of human intelligence, something that can't be clear in the mind.

At this moment, Liao Qi was fighting with the last member of the Wolfsbane team.

Aconite-1 is said to be the prototype of the "Aconite" series of natural adjusters, with enough combat experience to fill a box of "tactical memory."

Even if all the offensive prosthetics in his body were locked up, he could barely resist the fight with Liao Qi, who was now exhausted.

He just needs to keep dragging on until the other party can't support it.

Of course, he didn't know that even if he dragged Liao Qi to death, Christie, who was live broadcasting on the side, would crush him to death.

However, although it is difficult, it is best to let Liao Qi kill his enemies personally.

Christy thought.

Then, Liao Qi gave her one last surprise - at the last moment when the prosthetic body was about to disintegrate, he rushed directly towards Wutou-1.Then he pulled out the corona hearth from his chest and stuffed it into a penetrating wound on the opponent.

Before the explosion, Liao Qi said something that was quickly swallowed up by the flames and sound waves.

Christie used the equipment of "strong observer's vision" to observe and restore, and then recorded it.

"I have to say, he's extremely handsome."

Christie murmured as she bowed her head to the fire.

Then, she posted that sentence through the "Nord Voice of Justice" channel.

…………

Falcon was panting and staring at the last enemy in the sky.

At this moment, he was falling downwards.

The feathers on the wings are peeling off, and the body is becoming heavier.

The last enemy, the enemy that he couldn't let go, was getting farther and farther away from him.

He yelled unwillingly, but it was of no use. Falling was his fate.

"it is ready."

Once again, the voice of the mysterious girl "Xiao" appeared in his ears.

"You've done enough."

The girl's figure appeared next to him like a ghost.

"not enough……"

Falcon murmured.

"Xiao" didn't say anything, just nodded.Then, she ignited the remaining wings for him with her own hands, so that he could fly the last journey.

"Is there anything else you want to say before you die?"

After doing all this, "Xiao"... No, Hecate looked at him calmly and asked - she was the one who guided Liao Qi after he fell into the uncanny valley of his mind.

Flames and air waves were spreading around. In this dazed moment, it was unclear whether it was fantasy or reality. The man, who was not sure whether it was Liao Qi or Falcon Man, looked at the sky and slowly said like a chant:
"If anyone asked me how I felt before I died..."

He remembered that this was a poem he had heard when he was a child (note*), but he didn't quite know how he heard it... Maybe his father read it to him in his arms?

In the explosion, Liao Qi's last roar echoed through Christie's record and echoed over the entire Nord settlement area.

"Tell them, I'm still angry!" (End of Chapter)