I am the former civilized hero.

“Do you know how important you are?”

“I have a little feeling about it, but I haven’t thought about it.”

hiss.

Ryan retreated tactically. This Abonia was so strange that he could hardly understand her. Only her pure eyes did not show any malice.

"Do you want to know the next plan?"

“Don’t even think about it. I can’t see your fate, so I’m even more full of expectations.” Aponiya was still smiling, but she was faintly restraining Ryan’s most advanced logical thinking.

Ryan calmed down for a moment, quickly summarized the information in his hand, and glanced at the plump nun again.

Forget it, as long as it works, why think so much about it.

At least Aponia has no objection to stepping into the vortex, and does not understand the internal struggle of the Fire Moths. His eyes are already looking to the distant future.

It's quite superstitious, but it's good to make sure she is safe. Without Aponiya, the subsequent plans will be in vain.

Ryan comforted himself. In fact, he had a backup plan, which was to wait for the Herrscher of Knowledge, but who knew when this Herrscher would come or whether he would come.

There is too much uncertainty, so Aponia is more reliable.

"You two stay together tonight and hide well."

"Teacher, how can I help you?" Padu asked hesitantly, still looking like she wanted to do something but was scared to death.

"Your greatest help would be to stay with Aponya honestly."

Dusk Street will be very dangerous tonight, but Ryan still decides to trust this metaphysical duo. After all, one is a person who can see through the future, and the other is a lucky person who has not been taken away by the Ruler of Constraint.

"Roger that!"

Pado stood straight and saluted in an awkward manner. The relief on his face made people want to rub the little cowardly cat's face.

There was no safe place on Dusk Street, so it all depended on luck. Ryan was in no hurry to leave, and sipped his wine. Abonya didn't ask much, and sat next to him like a relief. If it weren't for the expectant expression on her face, she would have been like an outsider.

The ceiling fan was whirring, and Pado was very attentive in pouring wine for Ryan. She then licked it herself and immediately showed an expression of disgust.

No one spoke. Before anyone knew it, the sporadic gunshots outside the house stopped and everything became so quiet that it made people uneasy.

"The calm before the storm." The words in the book suddenly flashed through Padofils' mind and she glanced at the man secretly.

Ryan sat upright on his round face, as if in deep thought, stroking the wine glass and occasionally taking a sip, like a towering mountain, standing still even when a storm is approaching.

She was filled with admiration for this demeanor. Although she didn't know the whole plan, Padu could vaguely sense the extreme danger, as if she might be crushed to pieces if she took a wrong step. Anyway, she was scared to death.

"As expected of a teacher, she gives people a sense of security. Miss Abonya is also amazing. She remains calm. Padu, Padu, you have to stand up."

The girl encouraged herself frantically, carefully suppressing her anxiety, as if she was concentrating on her career as a maid, but at this moment.

Boom!

It was like a roar of thunder, shaking the dust from the ceiling. Padua, who had looked calm just now, suddenly shrank her head and looked around in panic.

"Has it started? Well, this feeling is Qianjie. I didn't expect that you could get him to cooperate." Aponiya finally spoke with a smile in his eyes.

"I don't have the ability to make Qianjie obey."

"Then how did he..."

"I just left him outside alone and went back to Dusk Street. You know Qianjie's character. He has always had little patience." Ryan shrugged, looking helpless.

Aponya's smile froze, and after a long while, he smiled bitterly: "It seems that you are his natural enemy."

He accurately grasped people's personalities and achieved his goals without any deception. He took advantage of Qianjie in a short period of time. He is truly a scary person.

"Don't worry, Qianjie is also very important to me. I won't send him to die." Ryan raised the wine glass and saluted from a distance, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, then stood up with a slight smell of alcohol.

"Then I'll set off too. Do you have anything else to ask?"

Abonya pursed her lips. She was in the middle of the situation and didn't really understand what was going on. She just felt like it was a melee between several parties. Originally, she didn't want to ask, she just wanted to see the result and see if there were no survivors on Dusk Street as she had expected.

But after the second contact with Ryan, he couldn't hide his interest and pondered for a while.

“Who do you represent?”

"The fire-chasing moth."

"Hmm? I heard that those people are Fire Moths, and you are some kind of Pseudo-Rulebreaker." Aponia's expression became strange. It's not that she did nothing, she had already gotten the answer from a gangster boss.

According to him, this was a military operation by the Fire Moth, and the target was a Pseudo-Hermaphrodite. She and Qianjie were among those affected, and she got the answer from Padua as to what a Pseudo-Hermaphrodite was.

"Whoever protects humanity is the fire-chasing moth, and I am not a pseudo-hermetic." Ryan held the gun in one hand, and a shadow like black mud climbed up his body, covering him completely.

Aponia was suddenly confused. The information she had was not enough to understand the whole incident. She didn't know where to start asking so many questions.

"You don't have to think so much. No matter how complicated the plan is, it all comes down to one problem." At this time, the black monster asked in a strange voice, "Let me ask you, when the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole is behind it. What is behind the oriole?"

Aponya's eyes flickered, and he subconsciously answered in an uncertain tone, "You?"

thump.

The wine glass was put back heavily on the table, causing it to crack, and the man in front of him disappeared as if blending into the air, leaving only the answer with the wind.

"Yes!"

Chapter 241 The War Begins!!!

Ignoring the ultimate goal, everything is extremely simple as far as the events on Twilight Street are concerned.

Qianjie is the cicada in the open, he is powerful and violent, and is very suitable to attract hatred, while the Fire Moth is a mantis. Under the leadership of "Ice Breaking Fist" Andvich, he was tricked the night before yesterday and is now preparing for revenge with fire in his eyes. It can be said that Aponiya is their bait, and they are sure that Qianjie will come to fish out his companions.

But in Ryan's eyes, the Herrscher who was ready to take advantage of the mantis was the oriole, and it was this oriole that he wanted to capture.

"It's here, it's finally here."

A vague feeling emerged in Ryan's mind. He stopped on the clock tower and looked at the largely intact Dusk Street.

There were very few pedestrians on the street, most of whom were bounty hunters who were not afraid of death. The rest of the population had been evacuated to the North District because Andwich, the leader of the team, was a regular soldier and had his own set of procedures.

boom--

Muffled thunder sounded from the edge of the mountains, accompanied by the roar of machine guns, and was getting closer and closer to Dusk Street.

"You want to lure Qianjie in to fight, and then surround him with heavy troops, but do you think he is just a hot-tempered old man?" Ryan couldn't help but sneer. Qianjie was actually very shrewd in combat and had an amazing intuition.

Judging from the aftermath of the battle, Qianjie had no intention of launching an all-out attack. Instead, he focused on luring the enemy's team of fusion warriors. Even though those lower-level fusion warriors were wearing the latest combat exoskeletons, it was very difficult for them to fight Qianjie.

If it just grazed them, they would be injured; if it was hit, they would be killed. He even saw some small black dots being blasted into the sky hundreds of meters high, and alloy armor that was tens of centimeters thick was directly smashed into discus.

"He didn't take the bait, so it's time to take action."

Ryan on the clock tower was like a spectator. He waited for another two minutes, and suddenly a gorgeous red cosmos flower bloomed on the edge of the town.

From Ryan's perspective, thousands of petals bloomed like lasers, splitting everything they passed into two, no matter if it was a building, steel, or anything else.

"It's the man in red robe. Even Mei has difficulty finding information about him. Is this a cutting ability?" Ryan's pupils reflected gorgeous flowers, and he knew that the other party had to take action.

The two fusion warriors had no idea that there was a Herrscher waiting to take advantage of them. Without their subordinates' protection, it was difficult for the two of them to defeat Qianjie, not to mention that there was a Pseudo-Herrscher cooperating with them.

Andevich was still waiting, afraid that I would take the opportunity to sneak into Dusk Street. He kept thinking of ways to deal with the disadvantages. He is indeed a good fighter.

Ryan nodded slightly and once again calculated the enemy's and our own combat strength.

"Pado and Aponia can be ignored. Qianjie is already too overwhelmed and will not act according to the plan. The enemy has two high-level fusion warriors, three squads, and a number of regular troops. The most troublesome thing is that I don't know how many Herrschers and Pseudo-Herrschers have come."

There is no doubt that the combat power is at a disadvantage, but fortunately Qianjie will not run away, so he avoids being sold out by teammates.

You have to use your wits.

Ryan made up his mind, stretched out his hand, and invisible air currents gathered in front of him. The dust that was raised looked like a human figure.

The shadow quickly spread up and included the airflow, making it look like a real person, a 'person' that was not much different from Ryan's current appearance.

Black Shadow cannot simulate facial features and body details, and also needs a support, but there is nothing better than the authority of wind and pure Honkai energy in the world. As for appearance——

"Why do you think I would use a black-skinned monster like Venom as my disguise? Wouldn't it be better to be cooler?"

Ryan grinned and moved his hands, and his other self did the same thing with almost no delay. This is the characteristic of "Shadow".

Shadow Puppet.

This was Adam's proud skill back then. It was much more useful than the ability obtained from the Honkai Beast, but it consumed a lot of energy.

Ryan practiced it several times in private and realized that this thing looked good but was useless. It was OK for crushing noobs, but it would not last when facing opponents of the same level.

"But it's still useful for deceiving people. Anyway, you don't know what the real Adam is capable of."

Snapped.

With the sound of a finger snap, Ryan's body merged into the air and controlled the puppet to jump off the clock tower.

Clang clang clang.

The clock struck twelve, and a black monster more than two meters tall was running wildly on the road, heading straight for the port, leaving the bounty hunters stunned.

"The monster is coming!"

After they realized it, they fled in all directions, with no intention of stopping them, and then frantically made reward calls.

Ryan didn't bother to care about these people. He walked forward in a straight line, leaving only deep footprints on the concrete road. The fishy sea breeze blew towards him. He suddenly stopped and raised his hands.

Shadow Blade.

His arms transformed into two swords, which were swung rapidly in the air in front of him, leaving behind a series of dark sword marks.

boom--

The sound of gunfire reached my ears, and several large-caliber armor-piercing shells with speeds several times the speed of sound turned into fragments in front of me, and the flying shrapnel smashed a bunch of houses.

Sure enough, he had a backup plan.

A four-man team was right in front, wearing full sets of heavy black armor, with long trails emanating from their nozzles. They retreated while shooting.

Ta da da da...

The sound of machine guns was continuous, and then was cut into pieces by the swinging shadow knives. Ryan sprinted, and after closing the distance, he saw the four people disperse immediately.

The two flew into the sky to suppress the enemy with firepower, and the two drew out their molecular vibration knives to meet them head-on. The thick thighs stepped on the ground, and the exoskeleton superimposed the external Honkai energy.

Advance!

He accelerated in an instant, and in the blink of an eye he had covered dozens of meters. Ryan leaned back with his body almost touching the ground, watching two sword lights pass by his face, and the raised shadow knife slashed.

Click.