The track of dawn in the world of American manga

Chapter 164 47. This is your war

At the place where the underground cave is connected to the underground river, the direction of the coast can be vaguely seen from the rift above here, and the starlight in a doomsday place is not too bright, so it should not be able to see through the occlusion of the night.

But tonight is an exception.

The towering Osborne Tower was burning like a torch, and the light it emitted illuminated the entire coast like daytime, like a lighthouse guiding the armed soldiers' targets.

A large group of lizardmen carried the armed residents of the refuge along the icy underground river and disappeared into the shadowy darkness ahead. Although Captain Jack instigated everyone with the help of Mary Jane and Jameson, but Not everyone is suitable for the battlefield.

The women and children remained in the underground people's caves, and some skinny lizardmen children were not allowed to follow their parents into the desolate and dangerous night.

Dr. Otto was there to comfort them, but someone else was in charge of protecting the elderly, women and children.

Demon Knight Jason Bullard is now standing on a raised stone in an underground cave.

His exquisite and old-fashioned dress was incompatible with the surrounding environment, but he didn't care about this strange contrast, but looked at the direction of Osborne Tower with his calm eyes.

As an old knight who has lived for more than 1000 years and experienced countless conflicts and wars, he has enough tactical literacy to distinguish what kind of threats and dilemmas these rebels will encounter tonight.

"They are destined to be mere supporting actors! If that Mason Cooper had any common sense, these 'armed farmers' should not have been sent into the frontal battle.

Or maybe it's a cold-blooded bastard who doesn't care about sacrifices, and wants to use the lives of these poor people to pave the way for their victory. "

The voice of the demon Itleygen echoed in Jason's heart, and it said to the old knight in the malicious and cold tone that a hell creature should have:

"Although we haven't seen those scavengers with our own eyes, if those mad dogs are one-tenth as powerful as the rumors say, they can set off a post-apocalyptic massacre tonight.

Do you still want to look at me like this?Jason, you and I both know what Mason is waiting for. "

The demon let out a low laugh.

it says:

"He is using this method to urge you to appear on the stage. He knows that only we can become the core force that will determine the outcome tonight. Maybe when he and Constantine, who should go to hell but dare not go to hell, lure us into this world, He had already made up his mind.

Well, look at this feeling of being expected, as dazzling as the red-hot coals of the Nine Hells.

Do you want to wait until the finale debut? "

The old knight made no answer.

His gaze stayed on the burning night sky of Osborne Tower, and a rainstorm seemed to be brewing in the gloomy clouds, and in the gap between the dark clouds and mist, he could clearly see the planes that the clearers were riding on. The troop carrier flew through the darkness, and that huge weapon like a floating island and a giant beast hovered in the open sea and sky.

It was the mothership of the Cleaners, like a strange black fish from hell.

Judging from its size alone, once that thing flies over the Osborne Tower, perhaps only one round of fire salvo is enough to solve all the problems on the ground.

It was the occupier's stronghold in this post-apocalyptic world, and a testament to the mad dogs' show of force.

"This is not my war."

Jason Bullard finally withdrew his gaze, and quietly said to the restless demon in his body:

"I do not represent myself, and I swore to the world at the meeting table of the Mystery Room that I would never compromise with these villains among the stars.

The truce with Mason was as far as I could go. "

"Hypocrisy! Hehe, you are not a guy who can be bound by an oath, otherwise you would not have betrayed your King Arthur back then."

Itlegan sneered:
"You duplicitous old man, you and I both knew you'd be involved, it was only a matter of time. Well, look, your little protector seems to be planning something dangerous."

On the other side, Little May Parker, who was wearing a black spider suit, also sneaked into the crowd. This daring and surprisingly little girl was happily planning to follow her uncles and aunts to Osborne Tower for a walk.

In addition to worrying about her mother, she also wanted to see her father's heroic appearance after becoming a superhero again.

After all, she grew up listening to Spider-Man stories.

"Where are you going?"

Just when Little May Parker was about to sneak into the weapon box pulled by several lizardmen, a deep voice suddenly sounded beside her, which startled the little girl.

When she looked up, she saw Uncle Demon Knight holding a cup of coffee, looking at her expressionlessly with one hand in his pocket.

"I"

The little girl trusted the uncle who saved her.

She wanted to make up a story, but Jason Bullard didn't give her this chance. He reached out and picked up Xiaomei's collar with two fingers and lifted her from the box back to the river bank.

He shook his head, took a sip of the strong coffee, and said:

"That's not the place you should go. If you go, you will only add to the chaos. Be good. Staying here is the greatest help to your parents."

"Oh."

Xiaomei nodded in disappointment, but then she tilted her head and looked at Jason Brad again, saying:
"Aren't you going, uncle? You're so good that you can definitely help!"

"I've fought too many battles, seen too much conflict and death, and I'm tired of the endless strife before I die the first time."

The demon knight shook his head and said softly:

"So now, I just want to quietly appreciate this scene that will surely go down in history, you are still young, you don't understand, this is your war.

It's not mine, at least not yet.

Don't be afraid, little girl.

As a knight, since I promised your parents to protect you, I will fulfill my duty to the end. "

-

On a certain floor of the honeycomb-shaped residential building on the ground of Osborne Tower, Barbara Gordon, who has quietly controlled the city's fire protection, is constantly changing the orientation of the cameras all over the city.

Er Tuan stood beside her with a weapon in his hand.

Behind the two was a middle-aged couple who were tied up, with torn socks stuffed in their mouths, and their faces were terrified.Apparently these two guys used some not-so-peaceful means to make a temporary safe house for themselves.

"Here they come, the screen is shared on your helmet."

Barbara stared at the screen of the microcomputer on her arm, and said something to the second barrel beside her. Jason Todd nodded, and the Osborne Tower appeared in the front of his red technology helmet. The picture around the black aircraft that is landing in the messy area below.

He could see a group of heavily armed soldiers jumping from the sides of the shuttle.

They formed a queue in a silent but well-trained posture. Under the protection of the gunboat hovering at high altitude responsible for fire support and transporting troops, a few guys who looked like commanders stepped out of the aircraft.

The old green goblin and his assistants who changed into a black suit were there to meet these guys.

Under the night behind them, nearly a hundred shuttle-type troop carriers were landing in every corner of the city. It was obvious that the liquidators wanted to take over the attacked city in order to protect the important resource Gravium stored there.

"These commanders are not the targets we have to worry about. The old Norman promised to solve them. We must weaken the power of this clearer as much as possible before the people of the underground enter the battlefield.

At least get rid of their air superiority. "

Mason's voice sounded in the communicator, and he began to assign tasks and said:

"Barbara, set targets for the city defense weapons, and we'll act as soon as the old Goblin starts, destroying as many of the Scavengers' gunships as possible in the first round of attack.

Leave the rest to Charles and Jarcon. "

"Mason, Norman just delegated the arsenal authority of Osborne Tower to me."

Barbara reminds:

"There are also a few special cruise missiles in this city, the ones with tactical nuclear warheads! Maybe we can use them to attack the clearer's small island station in the open sea.

There are almost 500 people guarding it, and there is that mothership floating in the sky!That thing is the big one, I detected a pretty terrible energy reaction, even a nuclear bomb may not be able to destroy it. "

"No, throwing all the fireworks on the Cleaner's Island, that war mothership is not our target. Someone will help us solve it."

Mason replied:
"Wait until the war starts here before firing the missiles. Don't startle the enemy. After the war starts, you can adjust the layout of the city defense weapons. This is the only advantage we have at hand.

Two barrels, come and join us near the gate of District C of the city, and we will start the assault from there.

The 'Lizard Riders' that Jack brought us will also enter the city from there. "

"receive."

Ertong responded, and patted Barbara on the shoulder to signal her to protect herself.

Then he jumped out of the window of this narrow and cramped hive room, and disappeared into the quiet and gloomy night in two or three clicks.

"You want to bring Jason Bradella in?"

On Mason's side, after hearing the conversation between him and Barbara, Kang Kang, who was preparing the magic materials, came over and asked in a low voice.

Mason held a military binoculars and observed the clearer gunships flying around in the sky. He said without looking back:

"It's not that I want to bring that demon knight in, but that he's already in the middle of this war, and if he's still sane, he knows that he should help us at this time.

When we're done, the Scavengers will be next for him.

He didn't want to pay the price of being contaminated with the curse of the soul and use the world gate to return to Gotham, which is equivalent to being trapped in this world.I don't know if the Demon Knight is aware of this.
His fate and the fate of this world have been bound together. "

"Good point, but I think you might be underestimating the stubbornness of a guy who's lived over 1000 years."

Zha Kang exhaled the smoke ring, curled his lips and said:
"Jason Brad is a character as hard as a rock in a cesspit. No one can force him to do what he doesn't want to do. In fact, I don't think even 1000 years have changed his character.

He is still the Holy Grail Knight who seeks redemption, misses Camelot who can never go back, and pays attention to some exaggerated etiquette.

The most important thing is that he has power, so he has the freedom to choose. He can wait until our entire army is wiped out before choosing to descend from the sky.

You should at least send someone to invite, I mean persuade.

You have to give others a step down.

After all, in theory, we are still hostile to him, and now it's just a truce. "

"Don't worry, he will come."

Mason put down the binoculars, pulled out the Widowmaker rifle from behind, curled his lips and said to Zha Kang:

"The righteous knight will not sit back and watch the weak be slaughtered, and the vicious devil does not want to miss the fun of making a scene. He has enough reasons to convince himself.

All we have to do is wait until he shines. "

"boom"

After the beeping gunshot under the action of the silencer, a row of clearer soldiers patrolling close to this side were knocked down by a single bullet, and at the same time, they turned their guns from a high place to aim at the clearer here to snipe His hand was also pierced through his chest by a golden long sword.

The four-member patrol team was wiped out in an instant, and the female pirate Angelina and Old Peter quickly dragged the corpses over. Mason and the others checked the conditions of these little soldiers while pulling out their clothes and changing them.

"Such obvious traces of transformation, part of the internal organs were removed to suppress their physiological needs, and some strange things were implanted to change their brain secretion.

Look, they put something in these guys' spines. "

Mason half-kneeled next to a corpse, frowning with medical gloves on, looking at the transformed unrecognizable soldier in front of him.

The eyes of the latter had been replaced with permeable electronic prosthetic eyes, there were rough stitches on the chest and arms, and the stitches of some kind of black implant along the spine in the back, like a twisted centipede.

This scene made the members of the K team beside them frown. They doubted whether these guys could still be called "human beings" under this degree of transformation.

"Just like the 'demon-like' army under Darkseid's command, the physical fitness of these mad dogs has been raised to an exaggerated level. One hit ten is a bit of a stretch, and one hit five should not be a big problem."

Zha Kang also had a cigarette in his mouth and smeared some kind of liquid medicine on the arm muscles of the corpse. He looked at the spots left by the medicine penetration, checked it with some very magical means, and said:
"Although there are still souls left, but basically no emotional fluctuations, just like a robot, hey, what is this thing?"

He stretched out his hand and pushed the corpse's head that had been smashed by Mason out, and holding back his nausea, he took out something like a blood-stained silver circuit board in the bloody mess.

"Let me see."

Mason took it and took it in his hand, and the information label popped up immediately:

Submissive personality replacement insert chip

Quality: standard engineering, precision manufacturing, standard craftsmanship
Item utility: Implanted into the brain slot to complete personality replacement and data learning, cancel emotional fluctuations, activate the combat prosthetic body when receiving orders, and stimulate the secretion of adrenaline to make the host enter the [Rage] state.

Producer: Cleaner Legion Logistics Department No.30 Seventh Precision Object Manufacturing Workshop

Item description: If you can upload a [self-destruction] virus into their chips, you can make them dance while blowing their own heads.

"It is the black technology of the 2077 world."

Mason crushed the thing in his hand and said to his teammates:
"The afterlife team should be very familiar with these things. They are used to mass-produce company dogs and thugs who will not resist in Night City. I guess these soldiers are recruited in batches from other worlds.

It doesn't matter what they were before, the Scavengers have a way of turning them into deadly fighters anyway. "

He turned his head to look at the silent old spider, and asked softly:

"Did some of the heroes who participated in the doomsday battle with you at that time be captured?"

Peter nodded grimly.

After witnessing the control chips inside the minds of the Scavengers, Spider-Man has begun to mourn the fate of his captive friends.

But at the same time, there was an even more angry flame burning in his heart. He stretched his fingers and looked at the city that was being taken over by the clearers under the night.

He no longer refused the shotgun offered by Mason, and threw the cigarette butt at the corner of his mouth on the ground, saying:
"Go ahead, Mason."

Mason stood up, stretched his neck, and said to everyone around him:
"Squad K declares that it will never become a hound that is cast aside. We claim that we are good people and should do something different from the bad guys. This war is indeed not in our interests, but it's time to go, fuck the interests Bar.

Come on guys.

Let's burn these mad dogs to ashes! "

(End of this chapter)