I write obituaries for the gods

Suddenly, gunshots rang out from the street:

"Da da da da!"

"Da da da!"

"What's going on?" Jiang Zhengge frowned.

Lin Chen was the first to walk out of the alley and onto the main street.

As soon as he stepped onto the street, he saw a Brotherhood member firing wildly into a store.

"Da da da da da!"

"Hahahaha!"

A burst of bullets grazed Lin Chen's face. He turned his head and saw a Brotherhood bandit kill several rebels with a single shot and then cut off their ears with a dagger.

Lin Chen decisively raised his shotgun and shot the bandit dead.

"Oh!"

He walked to the bandit's body, took out his walkie-talkie, and held it to his ear:

"Pakan said! There are only five evacuation slots available tonight! Five!"

"Either go back to the mountains, or kill! The top five kills can go to America with Pakan and become the elite!"

"..."

“Lavasis intends to create chaos,” Lin Chen turned to Jiang Zhengge. “He must have realized the direction of our offensive and decided to cause us some trouble.”

"What a cunning old dog," Jiang Zhengge chuckled.

“It’s always been like that,” Oswald suddenly said. “He’s good at manipulating people’s hearts.”

At this moment, the thugs on the street noticed the group of people. They shouted in Russian, which Lin Chen couldn't understand, and raised their guns to shoot.

"Boom!"

"boom!"

The three men fired their guns simultaneously, taking down several of the bandits.

“Let’s go, we have to speed things up,” Jiang Zhengge said. “To the orphanage, stop Lavasis!”

So the three of them started running through the streets of St. Peter's.

.......

"Chief, they're attacking our people!"

"Withdraw from the factory and cease hostilities."

In the factory, Louis pressed his earpiece, looking at the giant smelting furnaces in front of him.

The dark blue liquid was boiling in the furnace, like volcanic lava.

"It seems the Bureau of Investigation is moving faster than we expected..." Mr. Z's voice came through the headset.

"What should we do next?" Louis asked calmly.

“Lavasis is cooperating with us. He instigated the riots to speed up the completion of the Abyss Crystal,” Mr. Z chuckled. “In that case, let’s cooperate with him. Tonight, let’s make it rain.”

Let it rain, Louis knew what that code meant.

This means that Black Star VI will use the Abyss Crystal as an anchor coordinate to "tear apart" Yudu the instant it is completed.

The entire city will be destroyed tonight.

"Bang...bang...bang..."

The sound of power armor stepping on the metal plate grew louder as Louis looked up and saw Ms. J walking slowly towards him.

"The ghost is coming?" she murmured. "The ghost is finally coming... Johnston... Mom will avenge you tonight..."

“Ms. J, revenge is secondary,” Mr. Z’s voice came through the phone. “As long as you can protect the Abyss Crystal, we…”

"Shut up!" Ms. J suddenly yelled.

A deep blue light shone from her eyes:

“I don’t care what you do, Z! I don’t care what the Foundation does!” she cried hysterically. “I want revenge for my little Johnston! I want to kill the ghost!”

Her power armor was operating rapidly, and every now and then a can of inhibitor would spray out.

"I've had enough of cleaning up your messes for so many years! I've gotten nothing in return... You made me lose my son... and turned me into this... cough cough cough..."

Ms. J suddenly bent over and coughed up mouthfuls of blood.

She looked up and glared fiercely at Louis:

"Now, I don't care about your bullshit plans... I'm going to kill Lin Chen! Kill Lin Chen!"

Looking at the demigod before him, who had been consumed by madness, Louis swallowed hard.

The voice in my head is screaming:

"Let her stay! She's your best pawn against Lin Chen!"

Louis took a deep breath and said:

"Once the Abyss Crystal is complete... it will kill Lin Chen for you..."

Upon hearing this, Ms. J revealed a strange and terrifying smile.

“Of course…” she murmured, “I’ll stay here…hehehe…because…first Lin Chen…and then you…”

"You...all of you will pay the price for Johnston Jr.'s death..."

......

"Black Sword One, this is A-01. The location of the orphanage has been confirmed."

On the hill, under the cover of the trees, Lin Chen used binoculars to observe the orphanage below.

The orphanage was much larger than Lin Chen had imagined; its size was almost equivalent to a large hospital, and it was hard to imagine how many orphans it could accommodate.

"A quadrupedal mech...a sentry tower...and quite a few people."

Lin Chen's gaze swept across the open space in front of the orphanage. He took out a laser marker and fired a coded laser beam at the target.

“The coordinates have been marked,” Lin Chen said.

"Received, the package will arrive soon!"

A faint humming sound came from the distant sky.

On the plains, the members of the Black Pine Brotherhood anxiously looked up at the sky—they were frustrated by their inability to go into town to kill and their forced stay here.

“Pakan said someone will attack this place soon, that we’ll get enough kill quota!” a Brotherhood thug muttered. “Damn it…when exactly…”

"Put yourself in their shoes..." a bandit sitting on a quadrupedal mech sharpening his knife said in a low voice, "When those brothers who have killed enough people come back, you can kill them all and still meet your quota, right?"

"Hehehe... How come I didn't think of that? You're so smart..."

The two thugs stared at each other and chuckled, their gazes gradually becoming unsettling.

They wanted to chat a little longer, but the next second, a sonic boom came from overhead—

"boom!!!!!"

Lin Chen put down his binoculars and saw a violent fireball explode and surge into the sky, tearing everything on the plain into pieces.

“Precise hit,” Lin Chen pressed his earpiece. “Well done, Black Sword One.”

"I didn't blow that up, you should thank the old captain!" Hua Luori said cheerfully.

The sound of propellers approached, and Lin Chen looked up to see a formation of helicopters drawing near the orphanage.

"It's time to go," Jiang Zhengge, standing next to Lin Chen, quickly checked the magazines. "Make sure the landing point is safe, then bring them down."

"Ah."

Lin Chen grabbed the night vision goggles above his head and pulled them down—

"drop!"

The descent down the hill was smooth, but when they reached the plains, all they saw was a sea of ​​fire and corpses.

The old captain's bombing was thorough, leaving no survivors.

After confirming that the orphanage entrance was safe, Lin Chen looked up and pressed the button on his headset:

"The area is safe; you may airdrop."

"receive."

The transport plane slowly approached overhead, the cabin door opened, and figures descended by rope.

When Lucy landed on the ground, she seemed a little dazed. She appeared more taciturn than usual and was somewhat absent-minded while checking the weapons.

A figure quietly stood beside her and gently patted her shoulder.

Lucy looked up and saw Oswald.

"It's been a long time since I've been back," she said.

“Hmm.” Oswald nodded.

The two men, with perfect understanding, raised their guns together and headed towards the huge orphanage.

The group quickly cleared the front courtyard and arrived at the main entrance of the orphanage.

“Retina recognition,” Lin Chen examined the panel beside the door, “It’s a pity we didn’t leave any survivors…”

Just as he was about to force his way in, Lucy stopped him:

"I'll do it."

She stood on tiptoe, her eyes close to the panel—

"drop!"

Identification successful.

The gate slowly opened, revealing a dark porch.

"Senior Lucy used to be..." Lin Chen was taken aback.

“A member of the orphanage,” Lucy said, “or rather, a prisoner.”

She turned her head and looked at the corner of the porch: there were still traces of fire on the wall, which the administrators had not covered up during the reconstruction, as if to remember something.

“The emergency exit from the classrooms on the first floor leads directly to the laboratory on the third floor,” Lucy said, “provided, of course, that it’s not blocked.”

“Lavasis’s office is on the fifth floor, and the emergency exit will allow you to bypass the troops stationed on the stairs,” Oswald said. “There are still people guarding outside, which means he hasn’t left yet.”

“He can’t escape. Our people are watching him from the sky,” Jiang Zhengge said in a low voice.

“Lead the way, Sister Lucy,” Li Zhanyi said.

Lucy nodded, then raised her machine gun and led the way.

Fortunately, there seemed to be no military presence in the orphanage, and the path from the porch to the classroom was quite clear.

Soon, the group arrived at a classroom, led by Lucy.

The classroom looked dilapidated and showed no signs of maintenance. Lucy and Oswald were stunned at the same time when they saw this.

"This place...is it really suitable for teaching?" Lin Chen pinched his nose. "Why does it smell like something burning?"

“He didn’t rebuild the classroom,” Oswald said softly. “He preserved it.”

"Keep a classroom that was burned down in the fire?" Li Zhanyi asked, puzzled.

Lucy silently walked to the wall next to the podium and gently pulled up a worn-out sketch covered in dust.

In the picture, two girls, one tall and one short, are holding hands and walking together by the river.

Oswald stood beside Lucy, looking at the simple drawing with her.

"Let's go, the emergency exit is over here."

Lucy turned around, rummaged through the bookshelf next to the blackboard, and pulled hard—

"Buzzing..."

The bookshelf slowly opened, revealing a dark passageway from which dust spewed out, causing everyone to cover their noses.