I write obituaries for the gods

All he could do was point his gun at his teammates.

This feeling... is awful.

But it had to be done.

As the elevator ascended to the 25th floor, a glint of dark blue suddenly flashed in Li Zhanyi's eyes.

"So sudden?" she whispered. "An attack in ten seconds!"

Lin Chen looked at the transparent window behind the elevator and gazed at the street outside.

A quadruped mech slowly stepped onto the street, its cannons on its back aimed at the ascending elevator.

"Damn it," Lin Chen cursed in a low voice.

"Bang!"

A shell came hurtling in, heading straight for the Bureau of Investigation building!

Lin Chen suddenly stretched out his hands, a ghostly blue light flashing in his eyes—

"Buzz!"

Under the influence of the magnetic force, the missile's speed decreased, and its trajectory deflected slightly.

"boom!!!"

But it still hit the elevator shaft!

The violent shaking made the two of them almost lose their footing, and the elevator began to tilt with a teeth-grinding scraping sound.

One by one, the cables holding the elevator snapped, each time the steel cable whistled as it shot out and struck the elevator shaft with a metallic clanging sound.

Just as Lin Chen was pondering what to do, a familiar voice came through his earpiece:

"Hey! Godfather, are you guys in the elevator?"

It's that kid with the bronze mask!

"Godson, you haven't betrayed us?" Lin Chen shouted.

"What are you saying to me? I'm not stupid enough to not be able to tell right from wrong?" The bronze mask sounded hurt. "But I did curse you a few times along with them, don't mind it, that way I can stay hidden here properly."

At that moment, the elevator shook violently again, looking as if it might fall at any moment.

"Stop being so cheeky," Lin Chen said, helping Li Zhanyi up. "Can you send an elevator up?"

"I can do it, I can do it, I'm with Xiao Hei."

A few seconds later, in the elevator shaft next door, an elevator slid down from a height.

Almost simultaneously, the elevator cables began to tremble violently.

Lin Chen raised his shotgun and fired at the glass wall of the elevator:

"boom!"

"Jump!" He grabbed Li Zhanyi's hand, and the two rushed towards the shattered glass wall together—

"Pfft!"

The moment he jumped into the adjacent elevator, the steel cable finally gave way and snapped with a metallic crack, sending the elevator car plummeting downwards.

As soon as he stood still, Lin Chen pressed the button for the 50th floor, sending the elevator up.

"Buzzing..."

"So, what exactly is going on?"

Lin Chen pressed the headset and looked down at the four-legged mech—the thing's elevation angle seemed insufficient, and it was adjusting its posture.

"I don't know. The director's office suddenly issued a document that described a very evil plan and pointed to Director Hua Molan and the First Rapid Response Division," said the bronze mask.

“They mentioned the ‘historical collapse plan,’” Lin Chen said. “What does that mean?”

"You really don't know, godfather?"

"You brat, why would I ask you if I already know!" Lin Chen snapped. "Speak up, I need information!"

"Okay, okay, so it basically means... I didn't quite understand it either. It means they want to blow up the subspace, causing the entire history of the real world to fall into the subspace, thus ending human history? The document also provides some evidence, such as that Water City is an experiment by the Secret Party, a rain city in a mirror."

"What kind of nonsense is this? Do they really believe this?" Lin Chen frowned.

“Who knows? They believed it all so easily. I really don’t understand why,” the bronze mask sighed. “To be honest, I also find it absurd. Even if this thing is real, it shouldn’t cause the entire armed forces to rebel so quickly… I really don’t get it…”

"There's something fishy going on," Li Zhanyi sensed.

At that moment, a glint of dark blue flashed in the girl's eyes as she looked down: the quadruped mech seemed to be adjusting its angle soon.

"Brother Lin, ten seconds left!"

"We're running out of time," Lin Chen said, glancing at the elevator floors. "Let's get off early!"

He decisively snapped up a picture of the 49th floor – the executive lounge.

"Ding!"

As soon as the elevator doors opened, Lin Chen and Li Zhanyi rushed out together. Almost simultaneously, the second shell hit the elevator—

"boom!"

Lin Chen grabbed Li Zhanyi and the force of the missile threw them away, landing behind the bar.

"Brother Lin, are you alright?" Li Zhanyi exclaimed in surprise.

"It's alright, I'm very resilient."

Lin Chen gently tidied Li Zhanyi's hair, then stood up and leaned over the bar.

"Da da da—"

He had barely peeked out when a burst of bullets swept over him, and he immediately ducked back.

"They're quite wary," Lin Chen muttered. "Come on, let's have another match."

"Click." Li Zhanyi pulled the safety off his rifle.

The two leaned out from behind the bar—Li Zhanyi used prophecy, and Lin Chen used "Mirage City," both firing preemptively at the target in the hall!

"Da da da da da da—"

After two rounds of combat, they accurately hit almost all of the enemy's firing positions.

Immediately afterwards, a burst of machine gun fire swept over—

"Da da da da da da!"

Again, those damned heavily armored soldiers! But this time, it's not bulletproof armor, it's deep-sea armor!

Soldiers from the Second Deep-Sea Diving Division, armed with heavy weapons, fired wildly at the bar. Bottles on the bar exploded one after another, and the strong smell of alcohol immediately filled the air.

Lin Chen and Li Zhanyi frowned immediately after being drenched in wine.

"Old Jiang doesn't allow me to drink!" Li Zhanyi complained, "He especially told me not to go out drinking with other men!"

“Looks like our first bar date was a bit too intense, but unfortunately, it was intense in the wrong direction,” Lin Chen casually grabbed a bottle of liquor from the bar. “Ah… whiskey, I quite like it.”

He opened the bottle, grabbed a handkerchief from the bar, stuffed it into the bottle opening, and lit it—

"Fuck!"

An improvised incendiary bomb flew from behind the bar and struck the wooden roof of the lounge.

"boom!!!"

Lin Chen threw out several incendiary bombs in succession, and the fire became more and more raging. The fire spread along the roof, and the heat wave forced the deep-sea armored vehicles to retreat repeatedly.

Their vision was obstructed by the smoke from the fire.

Hey! Where are they?!

"I can't see it!"

The head of the second section searched around but couldn't find any trace of Lin Chen and Li Zhanyi.

At this moment, black smoke billowed up—

"Om-"

A streak of silver light burst through the smoke—it was a super alloy axe!

"Crack!"

The axe chopped straight into the section chief's helmet, causing him to collapse to his knees.

Lin Chen grabbed the captain's shoulder and hid behind the armor—

"Da da da da da!"

The officers all fired at Lin Chen, but their shots were all blocked by the captain's deep-sea armor.

Immediately afterwards, .338 super alloy armor-piercing rounds pierced through the smoke—

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

Every time a bullet pierced the smoke, a deep-sea armored soldier fell to the ground.

Once the smoke had mostly dissipated, all the deep-sea armored vehicles lay motionless on the ground.

"Smoke screen followed by direct penetration, that's too despicable." Li Zhanyi emerged from the smoke, carrying a sniper rifle.

Lin Chen released the captain's body and casually pulled off his dog tag.

“This guy… isn’t the original head of the Second Section,” Lin Chen said in a low voice, “has he been replaced?”

“We don’t know Zhao Tianmu either,” Li Zhanyi shook his head. “Judging from the way he gives orders, he seems like a section chief. Where is Wang Panren?”

The two exchanged a glance, their brows furrowed.

“It seems that not everyone believed the defectors’ story,” Lin Chen said in a low voice, “and those who didn’t believe it… have probably been replaced.”

Lin Chen pressed the earpiece:

"Bronze mask, can you hear me?"

There was no response from the other end.

“There’s signal interference,” Li Zhanyi glanced at his phone. “The interference level in the director’s office is at maximum.”

“I feel guilty,” Lin Chen said. “Come on.”

He walked to the glass and swung the axe—

"Oh!"

As the glass shattered, Lin Chen reached out his hand towards Li Zhanyi:

"I should be able to fly up to such a short distance."

"it is good."

Li Zhanyi checked the magazine and then took Lin Chen's hand.

Lin Chen closed his eyes, feeling the breeze outside the window, and controlling their trajectory...

Seizing the opportune moment, he grabbed Li Zhanyi's hand and leaped into the air, stepping onto the raging wind—

"boom!"

The wind carried the two upwards, directly towards the floor-to-ceiling window of the bureau chief's office—

"Pfft!"

Lin Chen smashed the French window with an axe, and he and Li Zhanyi landed on the ground, rolling to dissipate the force.

As he looked up, applause came from not far away:

"Not bad, not bad, as expected of you, you came up very quickly."

A figure in a black coat emerged from the shadows, facing Lin Chen and Li Zhanyi.