Hell has invaded, but my Hextech is invincible!

"You all know what happened next," Hex said calmly.

"Everything I did, including killing Frankenstein, was in self-defense."

"After all, my enemy has never been the United Front, but the Adventists."

After these words, the reputation of the United Front, which was originally hostile, was directly raised to friendly or above by Hextech.

They were wiped out by hell, oppressed by the church, and persecuted by cults.

What impeccably righteous and righteous rebels they are!

Add to that a lone hero, fighting against an entire organization by himself!

It's perfect!

However, among a group of friendly and respectful gazes, only one remained suspicious.

Ida instinctively distrusted Hex's explanation.

It must be said that his experience has a cause and effect, a background and a root, and it does sound real, but it is only a possibility.

As a top-notch multi-faceted spy, expert in disguise and interrogation, and intelligence chief, Ada is adept at discerning whether a person is lying from their tone of voice and demeanor.

Just like back in the underground lab, she immediately noticed something was off about the guard played by Hex, which is why she put him in the car.

He only managed to escape because he was distracted by a single sentence from the other party.

But now she's a little unsure.

Whether from the perspective of intelligence or motives, Hex Horus was not lying.

But he lacks one crucial element: genuine emotion.

Whether he was talking about his parents' tragic deaths, the injustices and mistreatment he suffered in the church, or the fact that the Antioch survivors were treated as outcasts by the church, he was only feigning sadness and anger.

In his mind, it was as if he were talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

The problem is that it's impossible for someone who hasn't experienced it firsthand to understand it so clearly.

This church scandal from over a decade ago has long been completely erased from the church's physical record.

Is he a member of the church?

Only the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church could possibly know so many details.

How could an Orthodox Christian have no reaction to seeing an inverted cross?

How could someone utter such absurd words as "neither the church nor the United Front is a good thing"?

Ada felt that the mysteries surrounding him were increasing, and instead of decreasing because of this self-narration, they became even more perplexing.

"So, do I, with my status, qualify to join the United Front?" Hex asked Ada.

"Of course," Ada quickly smiled. "We warmly welcome Mr. Hex Horus to the team."

She changed the subject: "But you just said that the Adventists are going to hold a secret ceremony."

"—What kind of ceremony is it that made you chase after them all the way from Italy to the United Kingdom?"

Here it comes, the main course is finally here.

Hex straightened his back, and the smile on his face slowly faded.

"It's simple, they're going to open the gates of hell in Manchester."

Upon hearing this, everyone present was instantly stunned, their faces turning grim.

Even the smile on Ida's face vanished completely.

"The Gates of Hell?" Benev's face turned ashen. "Is the intelligence you're giving me true?"

"Are you sure you're not joking!"

"Of course it's true," Hex said.

"It seems you've all been kept in the dark, just like those church idiots."

"We haven't received any intelligence that the Adventists intend to completely destroy Manchester."

"You and the church are indeed quite similar."

Hex leaned back in his chair, having pretty much figured things out in his mind.

According to the original storyline, the United Front, including Frankenstein's laboratory, were completely unprepared for this and did not even have any evacuation plan.

Once the gates of hell opened, monsters and demons stormed the base, wiping out almost all of the Allied forces there.

Ada will not appear in the first chapter; she is only mentioned in the dialogue of a few defeated soldiers as a dangerous woman.

This means that she came to the lab this morning but didn't get what she wanted, so she will leave Manchester early.

That's why he reappears in Chapter 3, infiltrating the Manchester ruins to steal Frankenstein's experimental notes and the second-generation G matrix residue.

The protagonist, who was still quite naive at the time, was completely manipulated by her, and in the end, all the research results fell into Ada's hands.

Many netizens complained at the time that the plot of this third chapter was a blatant copy of Resident Evil.

"When do they plan to hold this vicious ritual?" Ida took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.

Hextech glanced at the clock on the wall.

"Midnight is less than eight hours from now."

As soon as the words were spoken, almost everyone went numb and couldn't help but scream.

"Mr. Horus, you're not lying, are you!"

"Less than eight hours!"

"We must leave quickly!"

"No, my wife and children are still here!"

"Stop!" Ada waved to signal everyone to calm down, then turned to look at Hextech.

"Mr. Horus, you should understand how dangerous this is."

"The last time the gates of hell opened was in Liverpool."

"The consequence of that incident was that the entire city of Liverpool disappeared and sank into the sea."

"And that was sixteen years ago."

"For sixteen years, there has not been a single Hell's Gate incident in Britain."

"So you weren't on any guard? You thought this was a peaceful place?" Hex looked at her.

"Or is it that you really haven't received even the slightest clue about the Adventists?"

Ida's pupils constricted slightly.

The United Front's intelligence system is comparable only to the royal family's MI6.

She turned to look at the stiff-faced Benev beside her, then at a thin, middle-aged man: "Do you have any relevant intelligence?"

The intelligence officer, as if waking from a dream, hurriedly searched the table: "I...I think I've seen this before..."

"Just fifteen days ago, a subordinate reported that a large number of cult members were infiltrating Manchester in batches. After that, the trail went cold, and the informant also disappeared."

"Also... this week, two new trading companies opened in the Upper District."

"It was all set up by people from other places."

Benev was immediately enraged: "Why wasn't such important intelligence reported?"

"I've already informed you," the intelligence officer said with a bitter face.

Benev swallowed the profanity that was on the tip of his tongue and gritted his teeth.

Where are those two trading companies?

"One is at 24 Narcissus Street, and the other is at 15 Cedar Street."

Benev immediately went to the Manchester city map on the wall.

One in the east, one in the west, their positions are strange.

He couldn't figure out the key point for a moment.

"Heh." Hex stood up, walked to the map, and shoved Benev aside.

"These are just two companies that have recently made their appearances."

"You don't know, they prepared for this ceremony for at least six months."

"There are four other points."

He picked up his pen and circled 24 Narcissus Street, 15 Cedar Street, 6 King Street, as well as the largest textile factory and slum center in the Lower Town.

All the members of the United Front gathered around, staring intently at the six points on the map.

These points are far apart and are clearly not strongholds for mutual support.

"Don't understand?" Hex asked. Then, he connected the points together.

Soon, a complete chaotic hexagram appeared on the map, with each point of the Adventist faction representing a corner of the hexagram.

Why is Hextech so familiar with the map and layout? Because this is the strategy guide in the game. In the original storyline, the main characters had to conquer these six nodes to have a chance to close the Gates of Hell ahead of time.

He fought tooth and nail to get that map pushed back then, and he'll never forget it.

"Now you can see it clearly, right?" Hex threw down his pen and looked at everyone.

"You are already at the devil's lips."