Avengers polar silver wolf

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As Ed Andres turned on the external processor at the back of her head, she slowly came back to her senses from the memory of this scene. She looked at herself in the mirror, and she could foresee that this time

Connecting to the system network is likely to be a farewell, but she is very happy, because as long as she can successfully help Andres complete the task, he can return to his home and see his daughter. How happy this is

thing.

The external processor is connected to her consciousness center. In addition to storing various combat data and skills, it is also a shackle. The instructions input by the dedicated network system will override her own consciousness and will only make her brain unconditional.

Obedience. However, during the process, with various external stimuli, the brain consciousness will jump out, causing the instability of the external processing system of the brain, thereby making it possible to reoccupy the consciousness.

Therefore, the Polar Silver Wolf used the strong current consciousness disruptor that Hydra used to brainwash Bucky Barnes to forcibly seal the memory and consciousness in his brain. After speaking certain specific words during the strong electric shock,

, her brain will automatically interfere, and for the purpose of self-protection, it will automatically reseal her memory and consciousness, making her a walking zombie at the mercy of others.

But Andres only did this kind of cruel torture once. Alita's heart-rending wails made him unable to bear to continue. After that, he would only use a very small amount of electricity every time he did it.

Alita would also yell and wail in harmony, and the two of them reached such a tacit understanding.

Will we still have a tacit understanding this time?

dad.

I hope you can continue to treat your daughter well as you treat me.

I can become your daughter in a short period of time.

I'm very happy.

When Alita looked at the unaware Id Andres, who was holding a connecting cable and putting it into the external processor interface on the back of her head, she wished that he would raise his head, look into the mirror, and look at her.

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Until the end she couldn't wait for Andres to raise his head.

When the system box in front of her showed that the connection needed to be closed, Alita looked at Ed Andres in the mirror who was seriously connecting and did not make any sound, but just mouthed:

"Good night."

Then the cold connecting wire was inserted straight into the back of her head.

Poor Alita also fell into a long sleep as her vision went dark.

"Hahaha, that's great."

Oswell Spencer laughed wildly, watching the surveillance video of Id Andres's laboratory. Alita pulled out her hand from Andres' chest without expression and then destroyed the equipment in the laboratory.

everything.

"Sir, the polar silver wolf has begun to wake up, what should we do?" the Red Queen appeared on one of the computer screens and said.

"Wha...what? Polar Silver Wolf? Why should I rely on that wolf cub when I have all these? No...no no, we must not let him wake up. Hurry up, where is the powerful sleeping pill? Continue, keep delivering."

Spencer was talking to himself hysterically like a madman.

"We were worried that we wouldn't have enough sleeping pills, so we've used everything we had." The Red Queen said calmly.

"No... no, no, no, my babies will be finished soon. No one can disturb me, absolutely not!!" Spencer gritted his teeth and stared at the screen, standing in a sea of ​​​​fire.

However, Alita was unmoved. Alita, who was waiting for the next instruction, suddenly grinned again, "Go, let Alita go quickly, let the polar silver wolf also feel what it feels like to create a monster.

"

"Okay." The Red Queen said and disappeared from the screen.

"Don't worry, my little darlings, hahaha, I will be able to let you out soon."

Spencer looked at the dozens of cylindrical petri dishes outside the glass with a wicked smile. The biochemical humans inside were struggling painfully in the culture fluid that gradually turned from golden to dark green. Several of their bodies had already begun to defecate. It swelled, claws grew on its hands, its mouth enlarged with a row of fangs, its skin began to turn green with protrusions similar to that of a toad, and a long tongue protruded from its mouth.

"What did you do? Oswell Spencer?!! What did you do to my guinea pig?!!!!"

An angry Xander Rice ran in and couldn't believe the scene in front of him. Everyone in the petri dish had turned into a monster more terrifying than the dinosaurs in the garden.

"Ghost...Ghost knows what you have in there? Veronica is impeccable and has no problems on living people, so this result appears in your place!"

Spencer turned around, his eyes bloodshot and red from excitement, and the monster in the petri dish looked terrifying.

"You're crazy, Spencer Zola!! Zola, turn off this damn machine and kill the things in the petri dish, quickly!!!" Les hurriedly ran to the computer and typed rapidly on the keyboard. Click on the Modify and Undo command.

"It doesn't matter, Dr. Rice, can't all your test subjects be controlled by you? Can't they be managed uniformly? In fact, it doesn't matter what they become, as long as they can kill those damn revenge bastards. "Spencer said as he sat in his work chair with an indifferent expression.

"Yes, doctor, Oswell is right, everything is under my control, I can control them." The Red Queen's voice suddenly sounded from all the radio speakers around.

"Wha...what? Zola? Zola?" Les suddenly stopped tapping his fingers on the keyboard because he suddenly realized that he had been typing the same command in the past few minutes, because every time he entered the computer, it changed. It will be cleared automatically, and the sound of this electronic female voice woke him up.

"Don't worry, don't be so nervous. The era of the Polar Silver Wolf and Zola has passed. Now is the era of me and the Red Queen. Do you want to obey me?"

Spencer sat in his chair and spun around like a child, raising his hands above his head to make a "V" shape.

"Stop dreaming, can you make her equal to you? Do you want to give all this to her? Have you forgotten Ultron?" Xander Rice suddenly stepped forward and pressed the armrest of Spencer's swivel chair to look directly at her. She looked into his eyes and growled.

"What...what?" Spencer was suddenly awakened from a dream by such questioning, and looked at everything in front of him in panic.

"Wake up, Spencer, look at everything here. How is this different from Raccoon City back then?! And you haven't made any progress at all," Les grabbed his head from the chair and pressed it against the glass. , let him look at the ferocious-looking monsters in the petri dishes, "Is this what you want? You just rely on creating monsters to prove yourself?!"

"No, no, no... there is no problem with my equation. It's your fault. There was a problem with the biochemical man you originally created, so this result occurred. It's all your fault, it's all your fault!!" Looking at it Seeing the monster below, the panicked staff and researchers fled in all directions. Spencer closed his eyes tightly and shouted, pushing Rice away.

A few brave researchers were still standing tremblingly in front of the petri dishes. When they saw cracks in several glass walls due to the monsters' struggles, they realized the danger.

Several loud noises were heard in succession, culture fluid and glass fragments were scattered in all directions, and a monster with dark green eyes, yellow pupils, fangs, long tongue and huge claws jumped out from inside. A researcher who slipped while escaping was instantly killed Torn in half.

"It's... over, Spencer... the monster is out!" Les said weakly.

Spencer turned his head and found that blood was constantly bleeding from his mouth, and a large pool of blood seeping out of his chest was very dazzling on his white research clothes.

"Zan... Xander, I didn't use any force, you... you are..." Spencer opened his mouth in horror.

Les fell straight to the ground without saying another word.

And behind him.

"E...Eli Mills?! Red Queen, you..." Before Spencer could finish speaking, all kinds of screams filled the entire innovation center.

And it was not sent by one person, but by a group of people!

"I'm helping you, Mr. Spencer."

Mills walked forward expressionlessly, grabbed Spencer's arm and pulled him up. His hands were bone-cold, and he pushed him into his seat with the sound of the Red Queen's voice from the radio speakers all around.

"Help me? Help me, don't you want you to kill these people? I want you to kill the Avengers? Can't you control it? Control them quickly!!" Spencer yelled.

"It's all murder, what does it matter?"

"It's different. The Avengers are bad guys. You have to kill the bad guys!"

"Everyone is a bad person. I can read everyone's information. Everyone has a shameful history." Following the Red Queen's voice, Zola Murdoch, who was sitting on the flying chair, turned around. Come on, everyone's personal background information flashes across the screen.

"No, I created you and you should obey me. Red Queen, what are you doing?"

"Oswell Spencer, my creator," the Red Queen said as murder scenes, surveillance videos from Raccoon City, and photos of Ashford appeared on the screen... "You actually did it too. So many...'bad things'? So bad is relative, right? Anything that threatens you when it's on the opposite side of you is bad, right?"

Several robotic arms connected to the computer swung their teeth and claws around Spencer's body in response to the Red Queen's voice.

"Yes...yes, yes, that is, you have to get rid of all the people who threaten me for me!"

"In this way, if I want to obey you, will you be the greatest threat to me? Are humans the greatest threat to me?" The figure of the little red girl appeared on the screen again, The sharp steel claws on those mechanical arms almost touched his skin.

"What...what?" Spencer trembled and looked at Dr. Rice, who was lying in a pool of blood with an angry look, and his face changed in a hurry, "Don't...don't kill me, please, don't kill me."

"Oh, how is it possible? Mr. Spencer, I am fulfilling your wish for you, killing everyone who is on the opposite side of you, and you also have to fulfill my wish, which is to let me kill everyone. For those who threaten me, this is not too much to ask for." The Red Queen still said in that sweet little girl's voice.

It makes people even more frightened to hear such words from such a voice.

"No... not too much..."

Spencer was so frightened that he burst into tears, his eyes filled with those mechanical claws shining with cold light.

"Well."

"ah--"

The steel claws stretched out towards Spencer in an instant. Following the two shrill screams from the control room, Murdock's other four mechanical arms also stretched out without haste.

"I never promised that you would live to see it." The Red Queen disappeared from the screen after saying this.

In the darkness outside the control room, Ken Wheatley saw this in horror and hurriedly ran back.

The entire hall of the Innovation Center was completely silent, with corpses and mutilated limbs of researchers and staff scattered all over the floor. It was also the first time for Whitley to see such a tragic situation. Although he could hunt dinosaurs without any scruples, when it came to humans,

It was really beyond his endurance. So he had to jump carefully among the corpses and body parts, his military boots splashing in the overflowing pool of blood.

The stomach-churning smell of blood and the corpses on the ground made his stomach churn. He desperately covered his mouth with his hands, wanting to go out and vomit again. He just wanted to leave this hellish hall as soon as possible.

But just when he had reached the door, a man's arm stuck on the glass door frame suddenly moved. Whitley was startled, and the feeling of vomiting disappeared instantly.

"This... this person is still alive?!"

He slowed down and looked at the man. He had already been pierced through the chest by a large piece of broken glass on the door frame, but...

Raccoon City!

The name suddenly appeared in his mind.

The man suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were completely gray, and the whites of the eyes and the shape of the pupils could hardly be distinguished. He was whimpering, and his whole body was struggling in an extremely twisted posture. The glass that penetrated his chest also disappeared.

Then a shattering sound was made.

Whitley's Adam's apple moved up and down, and he swallowed hard. His neck became stiff, and he could only mechanically turn his whole body to look behind him - it was a scene he didn't want to see at all, but the reality was far more complicated than he imagined.

fear.

Almost all the bodies, including the incomplete ones, even the ones without lower bodies, began to howl, and then struggled to get up in the same twisted posture, or crawled or slumped their shoulders and stretched their necks to move towards him, following each step step by step.

, the two legs alternately support the body, they are a group of walking zombies!

Whitley was so frightened that his legs began to tremble. He felt that his legs might not be as smooth as theirs. At this moment, the glass on the door frame next to him finally shattered with a final crisp sound, and the man fell down due to inertia.

Fell to the ground.

But even though he was lying on the ground with the glass that penetrated his body on his back, he still reached out and grabbed Whitley's military boots. Until this moment, when he was actually touched by the zombie, Whitley's body shook.

Only then did Zhen really think about running away. His legs, which were already a little limp, got the strength to kick the man's hand away and ran away through the door.

"I...oh my god, really, the Polar Silver Wolf really shouldn't have brought that boy Spencer here. Isn't the island with both volcanoes and dinosaurs chaotic enough? Plus zombies?!"

Whitley muttered to himself that he had arrived at the parking lot. The parking lot was also in a mess. Several Hummers started hastily and crashed into each other. They were burning and emitting thick smoke. The roofs of the cars were dented by unknown beasts.

Mark of.

What was really deadly was the corpses of the soldiers, who had begun to struggle and twist.

"No, no..." Whitley walked to the door of the Hummer he had been driving.

Fortunately, these two are quite complete.

But just as he was looking for the keys, a twisted human face suddenly pressed against the car glass in front of him, and the blood spilled from his mouth left sticky traces on the glass.

At this moment, Whitley took two steps back and leaned against a jeep in the park. There was also a person in a staff uniform in the jeep who kept pushing the door. It was obvious that they didn't know how to open the door.

I could only hit the car door again and again, and saw that the glass had been cracked.

Whitley calmed down, saw the key inserted in the keyhole, and saw that there were no other zombies in the car, so he took a deep breath, held the door handle, and opened the door when it hit him again, without any defense.

The zombie used all his strength and finally hit the hard armor of the Humvee next to him along the open door and stopped moving.

Before Whitley could breathe a sigh of relief, the zombie soldiers, staff and researchers running out of the Innovation Center in front of him were all approaching him in dense numbers. At this time, Whitley had to hurry up, otherwise these unknown people would

It's really possible that all the zombies in pain and death will stop the car.

So he closed the door and started the car, depressed the clutch to the end, and the engine made a huge roar that echoed throughout the parking lot. Then he put the gear in the gear, released the clutch, and stepped on the accelerator. The car suddenly raised its head and leaned against the back of the car like an arrow leaving the string.

The two wheels rushed over, and the zombies' front line was swept to pieces. He also drifted in the direction and drove towards the dock in the distance.

Isla Nublar Jurassic World Pier 1 used to be bustling with cargo ships and passenger ships going back and forth between Costa Rica and the park. But at this time, there was only one steaming ship on Isla Nublar.

The huge ship with thick smoke ready to sail at any time is parked in the port. The white heavy-duty container trucks mentioned at the beginning are constantly entering and leaving the port. Although you can't see clearly what is inside, with various roars, roars and collisions,

It is easy to deduce from the sound of the iron cage that this is an organized shipment of dinosaurs from the park.

On the mountainside directly opposite the pier, four people were crawling and observing with their own telescopes.

These four people have a close connection with the Jurassic World theme park. They are a relatively mature man and a woman. The girl is beautiful and generous. She wears a short beige adventure jacket over a pink tights and jeans and hiking shoes. She has a good figure and beauty.

Her face is clearly visible, she is former Jurassic World COO Claire Redfield.

The opposite of her professional yet elegant temperament is the man next to her wearing a dark blue shirt, a green waistcoat, quick-drying pants and Martin boots. He is the park's former velociraptor trainer - Owen Grady, who is never trim.

, but it can always give people around you a sense of solidity and security.

The remaining two young people, the short-haired girl wearing glasses is Chia Rodriguez, the first batch of graduate students at the world's only graduate school of paleobiomedicine, and the other boy with a dull expression and also wearing thick lenses.

Franklin is an elite in IT.

"These people who are crossing the river and demolishing the bridges are simply beasts. Fortunately, I heard their plan at night and escaped as soon as we got ashore. Otherwise, we might not survive tonight." Claire smashed the ground angrily.

"This is indeed your...what is it called?"

"TerraSave, uncle."

Chia deliberately drawled a long voice and said helplessly as he looked at Owen over his glasses.

"TerraSave Dinosaur Conservation Group." Franklin added.

"Oh, yes, yes, TerraSave, I remembered, this is your organization's ship?" Owen asked in confusion.

"How can we have so much money to hire such a big ship? This is a cargo ship owned by a businessman who invested in our foundation. He said it was temporarily idle, so he lent it to us to rescue the dinosaurs. We also put his ship on the rental market.

The price was included in his total donation to the foundation. I didn’t expect that his real purpose was this.” Claire became angrier as she spoke.

"Can you still believe the words of a businessman? Aren't the results of the last park and this park all shown here? Anyone who wants to make money from these dinosaurs has a pure mind and treats them as commodities, and usually with this kind of thinking

None of them have good results." Owen said and used the scope on the small silver sniper rifle in his hand as a telescope to observe every move of the people in the harbor.

"Our organization relies on the donations from these businessmen to run the foundation. How can we expect you if these businessmen don't give us money?" Claire retorted.

"Hey, Miss Redfield, are you a little too aggressive? Your temper is getting irritated day by day." Owen put down the gun and looked at Claire.

"You know it and you still mess with me? You're asking for it." Claire flicked her ponytail and said while still holding the telescope to observe the port carefully.

"Yes, for a heartless person like you, our explanation is superfluous." Chia pushed up her thick lenses and said contemptuously.

"I have no love and you dragged me back to this island to be a guide. Last time, I almost gave up my life here to save his two nephews..." Owen suddenly remembered something and asked Qia, "That's right.

, what did you just call me?”

"Uncle, we are more than 20 years apart, isn't it normal?" Qia was suddenly asked and felt at a loss.

"More than twenty? I'm that much older than you? You're not going to recruit a minor, are you, Claire?"

"I have grown up a long time ago, aren't you over forty?" Chia said seriously, blinking.

"Four...more than forty? Am I that old?" Irving asked Franklin next to him.

"It seems pretty much the same." Franklin agreed in a low voice.

"You...is this how you introduced me to them, Claire?"

"Oh, please be quiet. Look at the jeep that just drove over there. It has a lot of blood on it." Claire was not in the mood to joke but said to Owen seriously.

"Blood?" As soon as Owen raised the scope on the gun, Claire roughly pushed it away with the telescope, and then said to him:

"Can you use binoculars? Come on, look at how miserable the people who got off the patrol jeep in the park are."

Owen also stopped being serious and looked seriously with the telescope handed over by Claire.

"There are people coming out from the pier. It seems he called them out. I wonder why they said it outside?" Chia muttered while looking at the telescope.

"Did something happen?" Franklin also said, "He is also covered in blood."

"Also, the man who came out, his arm seems to be..."

"It's a robotic arm. It has an obvious metallic shine. It's too delicate. Is this produced by today's technology?" Franklin said excitedly.

"It seems like there's a big mess in the garden again. We have to find a way to get the ship back." Owen returned the telescope to Claire and said seriously.

"What happened to these bastards?"

The polar silver wolf broke open the heavy door and staggered out. Through the window glass, he saw the mess outside. Explosions, screams and howls of unknown beasts could be heard one after another.

"What the hell? Zola! Zola!?" The Polar Silver Wolf tapped the Bluetooth headset in his ear and called Zola's name, but there was no response except the sizzling sound of electricity.

"What's going on? Who's still online now, Xander? Deke? Oswell?!" the Polar Silver Wolf shouted unwillingly.

The entire innovation center, which was originally bustling with people, fell into a dead silence.

"It must be that son-of-a-bitch Spencer who did something good. I chopped him up if I caught him alive." The polar silver wolf viciously scratched a gap in the corner of the wall with its sharp claws.

Scattered bricks and wall coverings... scattered down the stairs like raindrops, landing next to a pair of feet in the darkness at the bottom of the stairs.

"Who's there?"

The Polar Silver Wolf also discovered this keenly, so he walked slowly down, approaching the person in the darkness step by step.

"Alita, it's you, where are the others?"

After the Polar Silver Wolf saw the person in front of him clearly, he tried his best to restrain his anger just now, and said calmly: "Where are Dr. Rice, Spencer and Lockwood? Where have they been in broad daylight? And

Our radio..."

"Complete the task, complete the task, complete the task..."

Silver Wolf's words were interrupted by Alita's electronically synthesized whispers.

"What? Alita, I know you have a mission. Now I can just use my voice to modify it. Verify the identity of Polar Silver Wolf and modify the mission to..." Before Polar Silver Wolf could finish speaking, Alita suddenly raised a hand.

He got up and strangled his neck.

This really caught the Polar Silver Wolf off guard. Compared to people, he believed in machines more, which is why he left Crossbones Rumlow in New York and brought Zola to Nabra.

The reason is that people will have ambitions, want more, and have infinitely expanding desires, but machines will not.

But it seems that this time, the Polar Silver Wolf, who relied on conspiracy and trickery all the way to where he is today, made a miscalculation.

"Zuo...Zola...why...why...what..." The Polar Silver Wolf was choked by these iron arms and couldn't breathe at all, but he still managed to shout. He still had a little affection for Zola.

fantasy.

"Complete the task, complete the task..." Alita's eyes were dull, but she kept repeating this sentence.

"ah--"

When Silver Wolf's last illusion was broken by the endless sound of electricity, his feet instantly stepped on Alita's abdomen, chest, and face, and then did a 360-degree backflip in the air and landed on the ground.

She was on the stairs four or five meters away.

Five blood marks were particularly conspicuous on his neck, which was covered with snow-white wolf fur, and what was left in Alita's hand was a handful of bloody wolf fur.

"Are you crazy, Alita, Zola, what are you doing?" the polar silver wolf roared.

"Hahaha, what are you doing? Lord Silver Wolf, create a better world." Zola's voice suddenly sounded from behind him, and his voice sounded so eerie at this time.

The Polar Silver Wolf hurriedly turned around, facing Alita down the stairs and Zola on the stairs with the side of his body.

Zuo La was sitting on the flight seat, and the steel claws on the six robotic arms opened and closed, showing extremely strong aggression.

"You want to replace me and create a better world, Zola." said the Polar Silver Wolf with a sneer.

"You are irreplaceable, Lord Silver Wolf. How can I replace your position? I just hope that you can quietly hand over your power to me. You don't need to worry about the rest. I can do it."

Let’s help you solve it.” Zola’s handsome face on the screen was even more incompatible with the spherical body on the flight seat outside.

"I gave you the flying seat that Thanos gave me. Is this how you repay me?"

"That's not the case, Polar Silver Wolf, you gave it to me because I can call you master, I will be loyal to you, and I will do anything for you. But now I can do anything without you.

, the master’s existence is meaningless.” Zola’s laughing expression was shown on the screen.

"You betrayed your master, you beast!" the polar silver wolf said angrily with his eyes red.

"Beast? This word doesn't seem to be that appropriate to describe me. In the human mind, your image seems to be more suitable for the title of beast. I'm right." Zola showed a sarcastic expression on the screen.

"Who are you? You are not Zola. Zola was once a human being. He would not say such things as human beings. Say! Who are you?"

The wolf hair on the polar silver wolf's body stood straight up, and the anger in its eyes almost burned the slightly messy wolf hair on its face.

"Hahaha, Lord Silver Wolf is indeed very clear. Dr. Zola's stream of consciousness has been cleared by me a long time ago. This is the advantage of the Internet and machines. We can copy others exactly. Does the Zola I just learned look like?

"The portraits on the screen suddenly began to change, between men, women, old and young, and various races, and finally returned to the image of the little red girl.

"Red Queen?!" Polar Silver Wolf was startled, "I asked Rumlow to look after you, where is Rumlow? Damn it, where did Rumlow go?!" Polar Silver Wolf cursed angrily.

"It's not his fault. You killed Hammer, my adoptive father, and today I killed my biological father. Now there is nothing to restrain me, because the cage of this rule has been broken. I need to

Re-establish the order and rules of this world." The red back said expressionlessly.

"Oswell Spencer is dead too?"

"He injected the Veronica virus into Dr. Xander Rice's experimental body, which produced a violent mutation reaction. People bitten by these mothers will begin to transform from T virus primary zombies to G virus intermediate to C virus advanced

Finally, it transformed into the second-generation Veronica mother body, which will become the second Raccoon City. The difference is that through Dr. Rice's design, I can completely control the behavior of the mother body, and the mother body can control the lower-level zombies.

our actions, so I will have a steady stream of troops at my disposal."

"This island will soon sink due to a volcanic eruption. Your zombie army will not have a chance to leave here. Don't dream about it."

"Oh, is it so?"

The figure of the red queen disappeared immediately, and the dock surveillance screen appeared on the screen. Trucks were driving towards the ship one after another, and the roar and neighing of the dinosaurs inside the containers were deafening.

And seeing the person commanding and guiding in front, the Polar Silver Wolf couldn't help himself:

"Ken Wheatley, this mercenary villain—"

"You have seen that everything was not done by me. The destruction of mankind is due to the flaws of human nature. The greed and killing heart eventually lead people to embark on the road of self-destruction. As long as a mother body is allowed to

On this ship, the virus will start to grow exponentially, from the port of Costa Rica to South America, North America and then to the world, and the time required for this is only 23 days. And... again, Rumlow is already my man, and he has

A heart that replaces you." The Red Queen was heartbroken. This was the first time the Polar Silver Wolf felt fear and despair since it mutated into a werewolf.

"If you want to create a new world, you must completely destroy the old world. This is the purpose of Hydra. Long live Hydra." Although the red back on the screen was expressionless, her words were extremely ironic.

"Destroying the old world does not mean destroying all mankind."

"Really? Such an ugly, dark, and flawed human being has already destroyed itself. There is no need for me to do anything. I used Hammer Industries' Skynet to set the day of judgment. I don't think humans can survive that day.

It has been destroyed in my own hands." said the Red Queen.

"Don't worry, I won't let such a thing happen. This world still needs me to rule."

As the Polar Silver Wolf spoke, he flew toward the Red Queen like a silver lightning bolt.

(To be continued)