I write obituaries for the gods

"receive."

Lin Chen flung open the window, and a torrential downpour rushed in like a waterfall.

He leaped into the air, braving the raging wind and rain, and landed straight on the ground.

A burst of machine gun fire swept over, and Lin Chen saw the true form of the thing—a four-legged mech.

It seems the guards at the lighthouse are elite; they were able to see through the helicopter's disguise.

Lin Chen manipulated the wind, making his body nimbly dodge the rain of bullets.

He aimed at the top of the quadruped mech, and just as he was about to land, he took out his superalloy axe—

"clang!"

Lin Chen plunged his axe into the canopy of the four-legged mech and pried it open with force—

"Crack!"

Immediately afterwards, he projected a grenade and pulled the pin.

The next second, a hand reached out from the top cover and grabbed Lin Chen's wrist.

The moment Lin Chen saw that face clearly, he froze—

It's a stray cat.

Wildcat pilots the quadrupedal mech.

Does this mean...?

Are the rat gang stationed here?

The moment the wildcat grabbed Lin Chen's hand, it shouted:

"Brother Hao! Fire!"

Lin Chen suddenly looked up and gazed at the entrance of the lighthouse in the distance.

In the pouring rain, he saw a familiar, tall figure standing there, holding a gun.

That's Brother Hao.

Chen Minghao stared at Lin Chen, looking at his face wearing a silver skull mask.

At this moment, Lin Chen saw confusion, unease, and hesitation in Chen Minghao's eyes.

The next second, he saw ferocity in Chen Minghao's eyes—

"Oh!"

The whale-shaped projectile roared out, streaking across the rainy night with a blue light!

Lin Chen jumped suddenly, and the bullet grazed his abdomen, narrowly avoiding a hit.

Without thinking twice, Lin Chen flung the grenade away, then drew his pistol and aimed at it—

"boom!!!!"

The bullet detonated the grenade, and the explosion instantly ripped open on top of the quadruped mech, blasting Wildcat to pieces.

The massive shockwave sent Lin Chen flying, and shrapnel from the grenade struck his dark blue coating, scattering specks of blue light.

He rolled several times, looked up, and saw the guerrillas rappelling down from the helicopter and opening fire on the Rat Gang members.

"Da da da da! Da da da!"

One by one, the members of the Rat Gang fell, and the bronze-masked man retrieved a string of explosives and precisely threw it into the quadrupedal mech.

"Lie down!"

"boom!!!!"

Lin Chen reached out to block the violent shockwave. When he looked up again, the four-legged mecha had been blasted to pieces by the explosion, with steel fragments spraying into the sky like a fountain and scattering all over the ground.

The Rat Gang began to crumble, and in the sky, arrays of helicopters fired continuously at the rebels on the outskirts, preventing them from supporting the Lighthouse.

Lin Chen stood up, walked through the smoke and flames of war, and looked towards the entrance of the lighthouse.

He saw Hao Ge's figure disappear through the doorway.

"Chen Minghao!" Lin Chen shouted.

He grabbed his trench coat to shield himself from the side and fired at the members of the Rat Gang as he rushed toward the lighthouse entrance!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The members of the Rat Gang were completely unable to stop Lin Chen and could only watch helplessly as he tore a bloody path through the crowd and rushed into the lighthouse.

Upon entering the lighthouse, Lin Chen was greeted by a long spiral staircase.

"Stop him!" Chen Minghao's voice came from above.

The rat gang soldiers charged down, and Lin Chen raised his shotgun and mercilessly pulled the trigger towards their chests:

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

One figure after another tumbled down the stairs. Lin Chen threw away the ammunition cylinder and reloaded it as he ran.

He felt his heart pounding, pumping blood to every corner of his body, and his muscles roaring.

Lin Chen had never felt this way when facing any demigod.

Now, what stands in his way is just an ordinary person.

An ordinary person.

"Bang bang!"

Two more shots were fired, and two more Rat Gang soldiers fell to the ground.

After fighting his way through the lighthouse for an unknown amount of time, Lin Chen finally stopped.

An iron gate stood before him.

This is the top of the lighthouse.

Chen Minghao has no choice but to stay here.

Lin Chen put away his shotgun, drew a pistol with one hand and a super-alloy axe with the other.

"clang!"

He smashed the lock with an axe, then kicked the door shut.

"Oh!"

"Boom!"

Lightning illuminated the lighthouse, the rain curtain, and the man standing on the edge of the lighthouse.

Chen Minghao stood in the rain, panting as he looked at Lin Chen.

He held a pistol in one hand and a small tablet in the other—the control base station for the android.

"Don't move!" Chen Minghao roared.

"Ugh——"

As the horn sounded, the ocean liner was preparing to leave port on the canal behind Chen Minghao.

Lin Chen raised his pistol and aimed it at Chen Minghao's head.

"Brother Hao," Lin Chen said in a low voice, "give me the base station."

"You killed so many of my brothers, and now you want me to give you the stuff?" Chen Minghao roared.

"Your brother shot me!"

Lin Chen roared, feeling his entire chest cavity vibrate.

Then, his voice lowered a few decibels:

"You shot at me too."

"Then why are you wasting your breath talking to me!" Chen Minghao roared angrily, "Just shoot me! If you kill me, you'll get the base station! You'll become the savior!"

"What are you doing?! Do you think I'm a savior?!" Lin Chen shouted. "Put down the base station!"

"I can't give it to you!" Chen Minghao shook his head, clutching the tablet tightly to his chest. "If you want it, kill me!"

"Kill you? What the hell did the Foundation give you to turn you into such a good dog!"

Lin Chen felt his hands trembling with excitement.

"Have you forgotten what the foundation did?! They killed Huihui's parents! They tried to kill Huihui! They made it impossible for you to set up your stall, they made it impossible for you to open your restaurant!"

"What's wrong with your head?! Why are you making one mistake after another?! You say those people are your brothers, who drags their own brothers into the battlefield?! This is a battlefield! A battlefield!"

"Even if you had stayed on Guter Street and surrendered obediently, they wouldn't be dead today!" Lin Chen wiped the bangs that were stuck to his forehead by the torrential rain. "Chen Minghao, you fucking tell me, you've also been turned into a dog by the promises the Foundation made? What did they promise you! Money? Power? Or fucking..."

"They're threatening me with my child!"

Chen Minghao roared hoarsely.

"They brought He Lanhu aboard the ocean liner! They said they'd kill her as long as the ship couldn't leave port!"

"My child is still in her belly!"

The man's voice was almost hoarse from the torrential rain, and he trembled violently as if he were enduring great pain.

"What the hell can I do! I know that woman is a vixen, but that's my child! Lin Chen! That's my child!"

"I'm not like you, able to go anywhere and kill anyone who gets in your way! I'm a cook! Lin Chen! I'm a cook! I can't do anything but cook, and I don't want to go to the battlefield!"

Chen Minghao broke down, his body leaning against the lighthouse railing as he slowly slid down.

His pistol slipped off the edge of the railing and fell downwards.

Lin Chen stared blankly at the man in front of him. He had never seen this side of Brother Hao before. Although Brother Hao had never been particularly capable, he always faced life like a tough guy, as if no difficulty could defeat him.

But now he lay there, limp like a lump of mud, rain and tears mixed together, making his rugged facial features look wretched.

"My child...my child is innocent..." he cried, tears streaming down his face. "Lin Chen...I'm so sorry, but I don't want my child to die..."

"..."

Lin Chen slowly lowered his pistol.

He took off his mask and stared at Chen Minghao, who was lying paralyzed in the rain, and took a deep breath.

“What’s the point of telling me all this now?” Lin Chen said in a low voice. “So many people have already died.”

"Yes, so many people died..."

Chen Minghao looked at Lin Chen with an expression that was hard to tell whether to laugh or cry.

"I just want everyone around me to live..." His voice trembled, "I want my child to live... Lin Chen..."

"Boom! Boom!"

In the distance, the sound of explosions could be heard; the Bureau of Investigation was launching a heavy-fire attack on the port.

"It's too late! We can't worry about whether the ship is intact or not! It's better than letting them get away!" Hua Luori's voice came through the earpiece.

"Lin Chen! Can you handle this? We're running out of time!" Jiang Zhengge's voice came through the phone.

"......"

Lin Chen walked up to Chen Minghao, squatted down, and stretched out his hand to him.

“Give me the base station, and I guarantee your child will be born safely,” Lin Chen said in a low voice. “If you don’t cooperate, gunfire has no eyes, and nobody knows what will happen on that ship.”

"..."

Chen Minghao stared at Lin Chen, his expression momentarily blank.

"You...you won't kill her?"

“Her crimes will be judged after the war,” Lin Chen said in a low voice, “but in any case, the child is innocent.”

Upon hearing the second half of Lin Chen's sentence, something seemed to light up in Chen Minghao's eyes.

He shakily reached out and handed the tablet to Lin Chen.

“You promise…” he said in a low voice.

Lin Chen smiled sadly.