Mission 6: The Second Coin
Foreword:
Hope is a noose that leads many to their deaths.
[Part 1: Now it's time to take off!]
Beyond the canyon Twilight Pass, lies a vast plain.
The assault team from Guangling Zhixi split into three armored forces and set off separately towards Eureka Volcano City.
The main battle tank's electronic equipment had to withstand the test of the Lord of Cinder. It had simple radiation protection, but no mature communication methods. The crew members used different colored signal munitions and flag signals to communicate and coordinate, and they had to take down the defenders of the canyon pass within four hours.
The aerospace forces arrived in Volcano City even earlier.
--Two Mi-26 Halo helicopters bypassed the machine gun fire zone of the canyon pass and entered the Eureka city area.
The Transportation Department has declared a state of emergency in Eureka, downgrading the city to a temporary border area, codenamed [Y] Port. VIP is required to lead the assault team to re-explore this unknown territory, remove obstacles, and eliminate the enemy.
Inside the cabin of the Halo helicopter, your beloved Feng Aotian is about to arrive on the battlefield.
Su Ling looked out the observation window and saw countless Madness Butterfly rising and falling with the seabirds.
She heard the pilot in the cockpit asking anxious and urgent questions.
"Phoenix, can you jump from this height? Four hundred and eighty meters."
Su Ling: "A piece of cake."
Pilot: "Are you kidding me? If I kill you, I'll be court-martialed!"
Su Ling switched to English: "How about you find a helipad?"
Pilot: "That's why I'm making you eject! It's precisely because I can't find a suitable landing spot!"
The seaside streets were in ruins. The pilot's mission was to drop the VIPs into an area within three kilometers of the City Hall, namely the Krum District, but the streets of this affluent neighborhood were completely blocked by vehicles.
He couldn't find a suitable landing spot on the top floor of any of the nearby high-rise buildings, and he couldn't bear the responsibility if it delayed the fighter jet.
"What's the wind speed now?" Su Ling asked.
Pilot: "I can't stop! Something's following me!"
A large flock of corrupted and mutated seabirds followed the helicopter from the six o'clock position. They had begun to transform into apostles and, following the Flash Butterfly, tightly gripped the helicopter.
Su Ling then asked, "So what was the wind speed?"
The pilot looked at the instrument panel; these delicate electronic devices were already in a state of near-shutdown due to the Lord of Cinder's ravages.
"I don't know! I can't see it! Wind speed? About 200 kilometers per hour?"
Su Ling: "Open the hatch."
The pilot pulled the mechanical switch, cold-locking the hydraulic hatch.
Su Ling stuck her head out, and the strong wind immediately distorted her facial features, making her mouth gape open.
"Gurgle gurgle gurgle--"
"--A wind speed of over 260 kilometers per hour, very good, keep it up."
She returned to the cabin, tidied her hair, took off her warm cotton sweater, leaving only her close-fitting sports bra, put on her Flash Butterfly Armor, and took her full set of gear.
The pilot was a little distracted. He glanced over and saw the VIP rolling his eyes and giving the middle finger.
The pilot explained, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!"
Su Ling: "You're too nervous."
After a brief silence, the pilot flew to the designated location.
He asked, "Phoenix! The assault team won't arrive at the canyon pass for another four hours. You need to find the other members of the Nameless One's team and work with them."
Before he could finish speaking, Su Ling interrupted him.
"It's written in the mission briefing, kid."
Pilot: "I'm just reminding you, my esteemed VIP, that this is my first time on such a dangerous mission. You should be able to survive, right?"
Su Ling: "All Over The World, Belong To Queendom."
After saying that sentence in English, she jumped down. How to translate it is up to you.
Halo One, having completed its mission, continued to circle around, observing Su Ling's parachute trajectory, seemingly still concerned.
The crew cabin of Halo 2 was empty, with the helicopter's sling tethered to a massive, divine beast—the Lapis Lazuli Wolf Mother.
In order to reclaim Eureka, Ming De deployed almost all of the railway department's elite troops to the battlefield, determined to capture this bustling port. It was a bridge connecting the Shambhala continent, and as Jiang Xueming said, the future was bright.
The expedition to Niflheim is the road to the future.
Taking back Eureka Volcano City, which is controlled by the Madness Butterfly Sect, is to reclaim the historical legacy of the past.
For the pilots of Halo 2, to safely deliver the mother wolf to the battlefield, they had to slow down and fly at a level speed, gently and skillfully dropping the VIP onto the soft sand.
When the helicopter's speed decreased to 120 kilometers per hour and its altitude reached over 50 meters, the wolf mother was ready to land.
Just then, Kang Que Connor, who had been hiding in the shadows, made his move.
A golden arrow shot from the far distance, soaring past the Flash Butterfly and the dense swarm of seabirds, striking Halo II amidst a crimson mist.
Before it could fully land, Cupid's arrow sent the helicopter climbing again, the change in gravity catching the pilot off guard.
Radio communication was completely cut off. At this moment, Halo 2 could not send any distress signals, and the pilots could only watch helplessly as the barometer and altitude changed rapidly.
The bird with its broken wing is climbing, as if gravity has reversed, and it is falling towards the dome.
The mother wolf reacted instantly; she immediately released herself from the leash and tumbled onto the beach from a height of over eighty meters. Looking up—
--Halo 2 had already turned into a pile of scrap metal; in just a brief moment of gravitational acceleration, it crashed onto the solid rock wall and shattered into pieces.
In the blink of an eye, a fierce barrage of bullets erupted simultaneously from two tall buildings in the city.
At the top of the broadcasting tower, the Hunter King had been lying in wait for a long time. The moment Kang Que Johnny fired Cupid's arrow, she raised her Browning rifle and returned fire at the source of the shot—the M2 heavy machine gun was capable of a sniping feat at two kilometers.
On the other side is the top of the tower of the Palace of Youth Art, which is the main water supply station for Eureka Volcano City. A sculpted figure of Aristotle forms a large water tower. Katusha, holding a sniper rifle, fiercely pulls the trigger at the source of the Soul Might attack.
1,700 meters away, Kang Que Johnny was nearly paralyzed by a bullet.
Hiding in the castle of the Demon Palace, his sniping of Halo II from the machine gun firing window earned him hundreds of bullets in return. The castle's outer walls were shattered by the bullets, brick fragments tore through his body, and hot bullets severed his arms and legs.
He was almost shredded into a human stump, half of his head was blown away by the vicious M2 bullet, and his face, which had been tanned to a skull-like state by the Lord of Cinder, was now tattered and mangled.
The servants living on Zero Platform stood guard outside the door. Upon hearing the gunshot, they rushed forward one after another to bring their leader to safety. After several loyal pageboys died, they finally managed to rescue half of Kang Que Johnny's body, along with his head.
In the magical pool where White Lady's creations and the Blessed Holy Blood were mixed, Kang Que Kangque awoke in a state of shock, transformed back into a fair-skinned and handsome young man.
A portion of his brain tissue was permanently removed from him. When he finally cleared his jumbled memories and awoke from his dazed state, the sniping by the Hunter King and Katusha left him utterly powerless, extinguishing even the thought of fighting back.
He was just talking in a trance.
"Kill the gunsmith!"
Like a broken record.
"Kill the gunsmith!"
Firmly believing, they staked the future of the Madness Butterfly Sect on the assassination of the gunsmith.
"If we kill him, perhaps the others in the [Reunion] Holy Cult will be able to find a way to defeat the Nameless One!"
"If he doesn't die, I see no hope whatsoever."
Kang Que made up his mind, finding a sliver of sanity from his complete frenzy. His eyes cleared, filled with courage and determination.
He changed into quick-drying clothes and MOLLE, donned a set of warrior gear, and had only one thought in his mind.
If the Gunsmith's superpower is [Time Reversal], then he must kill the Gunsmith before Eureka Volcano City completely falls into the hands of Ming De.
--Even at the cost of my life, to perish together with the other party.
The captain, who had long held a high position and manipulated the overall situation from behind the scenes, finally stepped into the limelight.
Fully armed, Kang Que is about to join the chaotic battlefield on the ground and take the gunsmith's life.
He dashed towards the rock face, and as he rushed out of the Demon Palace, his camouflage uniform, which blended seamlessly with the mountain rocks, and the Flash Butterfly in mid-air served as his disguise. Under the protection of the Soul Power [Heaven and Earth Turning], he flew at a low speed, almost skimming the dome of the sky.
Under the gravitational pull of the lead and gold arrows, he traveled more than 4,000 meters in just a few minutes, returning to the industrial park of Eureka Volcano City, and disembarking from the chemical plant at the sea dike.
[Part ② The Tower]
Meanwhile, Jason Megan continued his battle on the water tower, guarding the narrow steps of the tower statue in order to create a good shooting space for the waiter.
The Flash Butterfly, having already caught a whiff of the two psionicists' fresh flesh and blood, followed them.
--The monster's body resembled a giant mouth. It had already devoured a great deal of flesh and blood, but it did not want to create any more apostles. Instead, it tried to maintain a low-carbon, environmentally friendly, sterile way of life, wanting to send all the fresh essence into its belly.
Jason looked out of the platform and saw that the gaping maw of the abyss that led up the Aristotle statue had grown even larger.
It wanted to devour the water tower, the entire statue, and the two psionicists on the tower.
Jason was covered in cold sweat. Hearing a whooshing sound in mid-air, he slammed a flashbang against the wall.
The bomb bounced and exploded in mid-air above the tower, followed by a scattering of blood-red birds.
Jason covered his eyes and howled, "I'm blind! I'm fucking blind!"
He simply glanced back, following the trajectory of the flashbang.
Wendy's laughter came through the radio.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Jason: "Shut up! This is the flash I bought myself! Why can't I eat it!"
Katusha: "Hahahahahahahaha!"
Jason: "Wendy! Do something about her! Why is she laughing at me too? It's one thing for you to laugh at me, but why her?"
That's what they say, but Ms. Wendy is very busy.
At the very bottom of the tower, layers upon layers of fleshy growths formed the enormous body that Flash Butterfly.
Ms. Wendy has shed her mortal form; her golden and blue, glass-like spirit body floats in mid-air, constantly tapping against her Flash Butterfly physical body.
The windmill's divine power bombarded the tens of tons of flesh and blood aggregate. When the special ability was activated, hundreds of square pieces of flesh and blood were splashed out. The semen and tumors inside the flesh and blood tissue lost the support of the skin and rolled outward, flooding the street.
This will only delay its actions. If it cannot find the Flash Butterfly's true form, destroy those crimson wings, and destroy the source of its evil eye— Jason and Katusha trapped on the water tower—it will only be a matter of time before they are eaten by this lump of rotten flesh.
It's so big, so incredibly big.
From the street, the skin and fleshy growth alone appear to be over fifty meters wide and twenty meters high. Its gourd-shaped throat is climbing upwards, with rings of sharp teeth trying to gnaw through the hard stone statue.
Half an hour ago, Jason tried to deal with this thing using machine gun bullets and grenades. The result was like performing surgery on a clump of cancer cells. The M2 bullet was like a scalpel, cutting it open, but the tumors healed and regenerated rapidly in a very short time.
"Sir!" Little Katusha cried into the radio, "He's gone! He only shot one arrow! And he hasn't dared to show his face since!"
The "he" in this context refers to Kang Que.
The waiter's phantom sniper rifle has to contend with gravity and the raging sea winds when dealing with high-altitude targets; a missed shot would mean no chance of killing the bandit leader from a distance. The most important thing right now is to escape from the terrifying, Flash Butterfly maw beneath his feet.
However, the road below was blocked, and the two had nowhere to escape.
"Wendy! Do you have a way?" Jason looked at the spirit power more than fifty meters below. Perhaps this spirit had enough power to bring strong winds and allow the two of them to land safely.
"I'm not Peter Pan," Wendy replied to Jason. "Your spirit's destructive power is [D] level. I can only hold a 130-pound weight and float up like in a martial arts movie, kicking with my left foot and then my right. That's probably very difficult, and I can't control my landing point. Want to try?"
Jason looked at the tumors all over the ground and the sludge on the street, and gave up the bold idea. Once he fell into the flesh and blood of the Flash Butterfly, the fragile Homo sapiens body would be assimilated instantly.
At that moment, a pickup truck drove up from the seaside road.
--It was 9527 who arrived with the RPG.
With a sudden stop, she slammed on the brakes, leaped out of the driver's seat, and onto the street, gazing from over fifty meters away at the Flash Butterfly that was about to transform into a colossal tower of flesh and blood.
"What the hell is this thing?"
She saw the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) signal of the Flash Butterfly Armor Suit on Aristotle's head at the top of the tower and made a decision immediately. This place was only one street away from the Beibu Bay Area Wharf, and the port was less than a hundred meters away.
If the angle is right.
"If the angle is right, they can land on the floating dock of that ship repair yard along the stone statue." Teacher Su Ling descended from the sky, discarding her parachute.
Student Xiao Qi pulled a rocket launcher from the back seat, and with a tacit understanding between him and teacher A Ling, screwed on the fuse and propellant to the thermobaric bomb.
Jason: "NONONONONONONO!!!"
Xiao Qi: "You're not ready?"
Su Ling: "It's always a little nerve-wracking the first time."
Jason: "No! You want to blow up this tower?"
Xiao Qi: "I've found the right angle."
Su Ling took out a signal flare and fired two shots at the two locations where the giant mouth Flash Butterfly.
"My apprentice loves to talk nonsense, and now we've finally found the right angle."
Jason: "No! Are you sure my waiter and I will survive?"
Xiao Qi: "You can question my physics grades, but you can't question my combat skills."
Su Ling: "That makes sense."
Katusha hurriedly ran down the steps and pulled her employer to the platform behind Aristotle's head, where the two clung tightly to the railing.
The RPG-7 unleashed a dragon's breath from its tail, and Wendy quickly dodged the earth-shattering rocket.
--The fragile spirit was affected by the intense light and sound, and she quickly returned to Jason's side.
The bomb struck the bright red signal detonation point, and the thick blood sprayed out, instantly evaporated by the high temperature, turning into a powerful shock wave, like the fist of a god slamming into the flesh of this giant mass of blood and flesh.
It was blown to pieces, with stone fragments flying everywhere. Aristotle's fingernail flew more than fifty meters away and smashed the signboard facing the street.
Su Ling's eyes flashed with the [Phoenix] UI display. "Damn, so much blood!"
At that precise moment, Xiao Qi launched the second thermobaric missile.
--The shockwave from the explosion shattered all the windows on the street, leaving not a single intact pane of glass. A mass of collapsing lime gushed out from the blast site, transforming into countless sharp blades that slashed open the Flash Butterfly's throat, splitting it into several large pieces and revealing densely packed wing veins.
With quick reflexes, Su Ling unleashed a full pack of anti-armor missiles from the Pikart.
The rocket's warhead and fuse are separate components. The Phoenix transformed into a pair of skillful hands, working in unison with A Ling to quickly screw the propellant onto the warhead and return it to its position, ready to fire.
In the blink of an eye, dragon breath erupted again from the rocket launch site, and the warhead exploded as soon as the second stage rocket began to operate.
The moment its Flash Butterfly form was exposed, its Gate of Death, and the exploding warhead turned into thousands of metal fragments, completely tearing it apart and sending this frail carbon-based life form back into the embrace of Mother Earth.
Jason felt a sudden lightness throughout his body as the stone statue began to tip over towards the seaside.
Fresh water gushed from the inner layer of the water tower, flooding the streets. Teacher A Ling pulled her students into the car and, without the slightest hesitation, immediately drove away.
The over 80-meter-tall Aristotle slowly collapsed, about to be shattered into pieces by the collapse of the heavens and the earth.
As the angle increased, Katusha gripped the platform railing tightly with both hands and, together with Jason, flipped onto the back of the stone sculpture's head. Then, they saw the head tilt downwards and crash rapidly towards the dock of Beibu Gulf Port.
Jason Megan felt like he was on a one-way elevator ride to hell, plummeting from the height of a twenty-story building—the stones smashed through the soft slabs of the dock's ground leveling project and into the underground water system. He felt his legs go numb, and his whole body was thrown out by the enormous inertia!
He hugged the little waiter, intending only to provide Katusha with a human cushion, but instead landed precisely in the fishing boat's large net. When he opened his eyes, he still saw Wendy holding both of them—
--Dust billowed from the distant city roads, and the driftwood in the floating dock was riddled with holes by falling pebbles.
At one corner of the water tower building, the enormous change in water pressure created a torrent of clear water that washed the road clean.
As for Flash Butterfly?
It's completely dead!