Soul of Burning Steel

Boom!

There was a deafening roar in the atmosphere, as if two huge iron blocks collided together at a rapid speed, making a huge collision sound that made people instinctively feel dangerous.

The girl named Iron Wall stood behind the tank, quietly watching this unbelievable old man with white beard and hair, but a strong physique, punching and punching all the soul puppets around him into parts all over the floor.

In the garden area, not all the soul puppets went to the front line to stop these invaders. In some important facilities, there will still be some independent guardian puppets stationed, just like the warehouse area where they are now.

After a rather long trek, the Siberian team passed through the vast breeding area and came to the garden area. This process was familiar to them, and they had done similar things many times before, but at that time they would still When attacked by some fighting soul puppets, they will also try to kill all the labor puppets around them.

Labor puppets are what the rebels call those ordinary Siberians who have no soul, no superpowers, and no wisdom. They have extremely low combat effectiveness, but there are a lot of them, and they are responsible for providing material support for the puppets. Generally speaking, when the rebels break through a soul puppet garden, they will kill all the labor puppets, so as not to be re-reasoned by other soul puppets after leaving, and quickly rebuild, and even if they do not break through, the rebels will also try to kill A large number of labor puppets make the plantation reduce production.

But this time, it was a bit different. When the light beam in the hands of the 'Magic Arrow' began to condense, the 'Chariot' as the captain interrupted her ability release. After recalling the figure of the boy sitting on the giant super puppet, Magic Arrow also obediently stopped its usual clean-up behavior, and the group ignored the workers who were still working numbly around, and went directly to the inside of the garden area.

There is no need to talk about the next thing, the Siberian rebel team quickly discovered the super-powered toddler paralyzed in the middle of the garden. After leaving the 'unlocker', 'Pegasus' and 'invisible', the remaining four A power user began to inspect all the buildings in the garden area, and began to clean up the guard puppets stationed alone.

"Captain, there are still fish that slipped through the net!"

Not far away, there was the sound of the magic arrow, followed by the low buzzing sound caused by the beam emission, and soon after, a somewhat apologetic voice sounded again: "Ah, I've solved it, Captain, you don't need to come here. "

"The ability of the magic arrow is getting stronger and stronger."

After getting rid of the surrounding guard puppets, the chariot that was about to leave stopped in place after hearing these words. He nodded slightly and said with emotion: "She has the highest potential among us. After the quarter, I'll be overtaken by her."

"Perhaps one day, she will be able to overcome that barrier and become a powerful superhuman like the leader."

Afterwards, the old man realized that Mo Mo was behind him, ready to provide an iron wall of defense. He smiled and touched the girl's head: "My dear boy, your defense ability is the most cherished. In terms of value alone, only the unlocker can protect the whole team." compared to you."

"Um."

The girl responded in a low voice, and then she looked at the boxes in the surrounding warehouse area, and said softly: "Do you need to notify the 'leader' that they will come and get these weapons and equipment?"

Located in the warehouse area behind the medical area, the gate was shattered by brute force at this time, the wreckage of several soul puppets scattered, and engine oil spilled all over the place. In the warehouse, boxes of rectangular metal iron boxes were neatly placed on the ground. In the shelf, it is clearly marked with a weapon icon.

Knives, guns, spears, axes, hammers, flails, shields... Furnace ray generators, frost ray generators, dissociation ray generators, high-energy arc generators... a large number of weapons for soul puppets are stored here .

"No, the weapons in the army are enough, but too many will make it difficult to act. We just need to destroy these weapons."

Regarding the words of the iron wall, Chariot shook his head, and he took the girl to stride deep into the warehouse area, and at the same time explained: "Of course, if there are any high-value weapons, such as the last time we broke through the '7th Mine The 'Super Power Weapon' that the leader found when he was in the garden is worth bringing back... This is a great achievement."

The two came to the center of the warehouse area, in a small room that looked like an office. After destroying the two guard puppets, the chariot searched the closely guarded room, but found nothing. Obviously, a small plantation does not have any reserves of superpower weapons, and the old man has long been mentally prepared for this. He shrugged, and then took down a sparkling silver spear from a cylindrical electronic stand at the front of the room. Hexagonal prism of blue light, put it in his arms.

"Every time the leader asks us to take this 'storage unit' back, but what is the use of this thing?"

The old man complained to himself, but he has long been used to this kind of work. After confirming that he did not miss anything, the chariot brought the iron wall, joined the magic arrow and the blaster, and prepared to completely destroy it. The warehouse of this soul puppet.

In the garden, the unlocker whose hair was half gray wiped off the sweat dripping from her forehead. Through her own soul power, she had already calmed down the spirits of all the super children in the entire garden, making these children who seemed to have been played badly The puppet children all closed their eyes and fell asleep peacefully. Beside him, two superpowers with invisibility and flying abilities are standing guard. If something goes wrong, they will activate their abilities and take the unlocker away safely.

However, at this moment, all the members of the Siberia Super Squad felt a chilling sense of crisis.

"It's the soul radar!"

An extremely strong soul signal came from afar, sweeping the surrounding area for hundreds of miles. Sensing this, the unlocker stood up in horror, and she tremblingly said: "The army of hunters...they are here!"

"how come?!"

On the side, Pegasus and Wu Xing lost their voices, and they said in disbelief: "Haven't they been induced to go north?! The last communication also said that there will be at least three months of stability..."

"When did they come back?"

At the same time, heavy footsteps sounded from behind the three of them, and the chariot brought Iron Wall and others to join them. Everyone didn't say much, not only because of the tacit understanding, but because the current situation was really tense to everyone. People are a bit speechless.

"Go and see the situation."

Chariot, as the captain, was the first to speak. He signaled the Pegasus beside him to use his abilities, and the thin superpower user had no intention of conserving his energy at this time. With a faint green light enveloping everyone, the team of seven people hurried towards Flew off the edge of the plantation.

Soon, they came to the gap in the city wall caused by the explosion at five times the speed before, and almost here, everyone in the rebel super squad could vaguely see the dust and smoke rising from the horizon in the distance Underneath, the flickering metal cold light.

It was a smoke screen that covered the sky and covered the sun, as if supporting the sky and the earth, and there were countless puppet armies raising smoke and dust—the whole puppet army was running fast in the wasteland. Heading towards their destination, at this moment, some puppets were separated from the army, and they rushed towards the direction of the plantation. Seeing this scene, all the people floating in midair were silent, their faces and eyes were full of disbelief and panic, and after a while, Magic Arrow could be heard saying with difficulty: "My God... this amount ..."

"The past few years have not added up to this much..."

"There is still a direction."

The old man at the head gritted his teeth. He has experienced hundreds of battles and decades of fleeing, but even so, his voice was still a little trembling: "They are heading towards the big hilly area...the headquarters is stationed there now !"

The rest of the people have nothing to say... The soul hunter army is the army used by the soul puppets to exterminate their fugitives. Since the last time the rebels attacked the spiral tower in the center of the world, their vitality has been severely injured and they have lost countless Since the days of high-level ability users, it has been difficult for them to resist the attack of the hunter army head-on. The current rebel army generally uses various means to induce the hunters to go in the opposite direction, and they themselves seize the opportunity to recuperate.

But now, the induction seems to be ineffective, and even the people monitoring the direction of the hunter army have lost contact... Moreover, the size of the hunter army dispatched by the soul puppet this time is known, and the direction of search is accurate. It seems that they have really found resistance Army headquarters!

"No, we have to hurry back to the headquarters!"

The chariot turned around abruptly. He looked at the frail young man who was so frightened that he was about to bite his lip, and said in a deep voice, "Pegasus, take the magic arrow, the unlocker and the iron wall and leave, and you have to speed up and return to the headquarters if you are overloaded. , notify the leader!"

"Blast, invisible, we stay, we can't add burden to Pegasus!"

"……yes!"

A uniform answer came. After all, the Rebel Army is a military organization. Although the chariot does not seem to be majestic, when the old man who is the captain really gives the order seriously, no one else dares to refute, but accepts it happily, even if he is ordered to stay , the same is true for Explosive and Invisible, which are almost equivalent to death.

Making this series of decisions as a matter of course, Chariot watched Pegasus take the most potential and most precious three ability users up into the sky, and flew towards the big hilly area at high speed, the old man felt relieved and couldn't help sighing tone.

The army of hunters will not let go of any fleeing power users. They have already separated a large group from the army and come to hunt down their small group... This is the only solution.

At least, you can't let an old man like yourself delay the survival of other more valuable people... Invisible and explosive, let them see their luck, with the ability to be invisible, they should be able to escape the pursuit of hunters.

Thinking of this, Chariot couldn't help raising his head and looking at the sky. Today's sun is still dark, but this doesn't reduce the heat in the air... But soon, the old man was stunned because he saw a familiar figure .

The huge metal ring rotated slowly, and a black-haired boy was sitting on the shoulders of a burly puppet. That child, who was probably a self-awakened superpower, looked indifferently at the army of hunters in the distance, and had no intention of running away.

"Hey - let's go!"

Because of the flying horse's departure, the old man who landed on the ground immediately shouted to the sky: "Leave quickly, there is an army of hunters who hunt and kill awakened superpowers like us!"

"Since you can fly, don't stay, leave quickly! The farther you run, the better!"

But neither the boy nor the puppet paid any attention to his intentions. They were suspended in the sky, waiting quietly, seemingly lost in thought and memory.

Through the turbid and hot air, Joshua looked into the distance from a high altitude, watching the puppet army rushing rapidly in the distance. He could see that the observation mirror of the puppet body was focused, and the boy's eyes became deeper and farther away.

The familiar air and the familiar environment are like going back in time. He seems to have returned to the days when he was still on the earth and on the battlefield of World War III a long, long time ago.

How many years ago was that? Joshua asked himself. The time of the full-dive game is not synchronized with the real time, and coupled with the memory fusion brought about by time travel, he himself has no way of determining how long it has passed, but no matter how long it has been in the past, it is the same, and he will never forget what he saw at that time , everything that has been experienced.

A series of memories that seemed to be buried deep in the wind and sand emerged, and Joshua silently recalled them.

It was the darkest period of mankind since modern times. Ruthless wars swept the entire world. No country could escape. Human beings threw their own weapons at will at other people's homes, destroying cities and villages, and flattening farmland and pastures. , roaring missiles and even nuclear bombs flew by, most of them were intercepted by the defense system, but some of them still reached their destinations—so the smoke filled the air, and the mushroom cloud slowly rose, and millions of people were thus killed.

At that time, the scorching wind swept across the fields, the turbid smoke and dust drifted with the clouds, and the smog enveloped the earth. Sometimes severe cold and sometimes scorching hot weather happened alternately on the small planet, and the army that was disrupted and the same chaos The enemy is confronting each other on the battlefield-the strong electromagnetic disturbance caused by the abuse of super weapons makes the command fail when it fails, and the melee caused by the overly powerful transportation capacity makes everything a mess. You can spend a day in Asia Engage enemy forces from three different nations, and run into a fleeing squad of civilians from five nations on Europa.

The air at that time, just like the world of Siberia now, was cloudy, hot, and full of dirty dust.

A boy grew up in such an environment. He traveled around with the army with his parents who were soldiers. During this period, he saw all the good things: exiles in the last days helped each other friendly, and established in the mountains. A self-sufficient gathering place, patriotic civilians spontaneously providing supplies, wanting to help the army, and even admirable presence among the enemy, they maintain order, call for a stop, want to make the crazy high-level stop this meaningless attacking each other.

However, he has also seen all the ugly things: in order to compete for supplies, friends who have been with each other for many years turned against each other, through the chaos of the disorderly era, ordinary bullies and hooligans controlled a large group of civilians, vented their desires on them wantonly, and raped them at will , beating, even massacre, cannibalism... In the era of end-time wars where there is no law, kindness will become extremely precious, but malicious will be magnified by hundreds, especially in the territory of other countries, in the homeland of the enemy , Once the ugliness is magnified, it will become incurable.

The massacre of civilians is such a thing.

The enemy's army marched past, and there were no survivors in the villages and towns along the way. The boy in the past walked along with the army. In the silence of the soldiers around him suppressing the rage, the boy saw corpses everywhere, and blood spilled everywhere. Hei, seeing the remains and minced meat hanging on the ruins of the house, he saw the corpses of men and women were punched with blood holes, and the organs of different colors flowed out from the wounds of the wreckage, giving off a disgusting smell.

Wolf dogs and scavengers gnawed at the mutilated corpses, there were no survivors, no living people, maggots squirmed in the stinking sewage, pus grew in the rotting tissues, and the pregnant women who were about to give birth had their stomachs cut open and already formed The baby fell from it, and its body was crushed, as if someone had stepped on it carelessly.

He has never opened his eyes and seen the world - which has to be said to be a blessing.

The memory dissipated like smoke, and Joshua's eyes refocused.

He heard the voice of the Siberian rebel squad behind him, and knew their actions, but the soldiers didn't care. He stared at the Siberian world in front of him, at the puppet army that was attacking rapidly, and Joshua felt no wavering in his heart. He just let out a soft sigh.

He didn't like the massacre of civilians, he disagreed with it no matter what, and he could never accept it. This was the disgust engraved in his soul. He doesn't like the strong bullying the weak, and he doesn't like violence against the weak who have no resistance. As long as he can, he will never allow this kind of thing to happen.

Joshua hated all this and would never change.

This is a personal subjective position, and it will not change due to any conditions. Even if he knows the difficulties of the Siberian rebels, he will not change his opinion because of this, and will not assist them in this regard. When he was angry, Joshua even wanted to He intends to use his own power to forcibly add his own values ​​to the Siberian rebels. He intends to use his own power to achieve his goals and spread his ideas.

But he won't do it, to be precise, he won't do it brutally. After calming down, Joshua has already thought of a series of countermeasures... He will teach the rebels the correct way to exercise their superpowers, he will improve their strength for them, and open up a way forward for them. Joshua will let them Become stronger, let everyone become strong without being influenced by 'conditions', let them have a way to strengthen themselves by awakening the puppet without killing the puppet.

The granary knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace. With enough food to survive, people have a basis for discussing etiquette, and with enough strength to survive, people will know the usefulness of morality. The reason why the resistance army in Siberia is so difficult is precisely because they are not strong enough to stop the puppet army and establish a stable base. They can only plunder the resources of the soul puppet garden from time to time, and then wander around.

In such a situation, it is impossible to develop a 'civilization', and the fugitives will always be fugitives, and they have no further possibility.

But Joshua made it possible for them.

On the ground, Invisible and Blast, who were about to hide according to the order of the chariot, stopped in place. They watched the old man striding towards the flying puppet master, and wanted to remind him to leave quickly. Regarding this, the two Can only keep up helplessly.

All the members of this Siberia superpower team were rescued from various plantations by Chariots and brought up... Chariots are relatives and fathers to them, and they can leave anyone behind and run for their lives. Only they won't leave each other behind, the two are about to stride to keep up with the old man's footsteps, and help him remind the puppeteer to leave quickly.

But halfway through, the two stopped and stared blankly at the sky.

It's not just the explosion and the invisible, the chariot in front of it, which was originally reminding loudly, also looked at the words above in a daze.

Even in the distance, under the blessing of Pegasus's ability, the magic arrow that was leaving rapidly gave a little gasp. She turned her head and looked at the plantation that was shrinking and getting farther away, with a trace of uncontrollable surprise on her worried and irritable face.

Because, they saw, that incomparably brilliant color.

Dingling bells... Accompanied by metal collisions, there was a crisp sound like a bell, and large pieces of colorful particles overflowed from all parts of the burly puppet's body, red, blue, yellow, green, black, white, silver and gold, countless complicated and gorgeous color particles It orbits in the air and floats beside the puppet.

"Super power unit!"

After a brief moment of stupefaction, Chariot exclaimed, he knew that this was the super power unit used by the super puppets, for objects of unknown material, the rebels could not destroy or use them, and they could not even touch them, so They can only be ignored-in the final analysis, the output of super puppets is not large, and only one can be loaded at a time, so there is no need to pay too much attention to them.

But now, they saw that thousands of super power units were floating around the giant puppet. They rotated in an extremely regular and natural aesthetic trajectory, like bright stars.

They saw that the tall and sturdy puppet moved. It stepped in the air and walked slowly forward. Countless super energy units—particles of steel—began to collide with each other and combine with each other, and finally formed six sparkling strange Colorful octahedral gemstones, with wonderful brilliance flowing on their surfaces, finally flew towards the steel ring behind the warrior one by one.

"I can't help doing this kind of thing...I can't just ignore it."

Under the incredible eyes of Chariot and others, Joshua walked towards the hunter army. He closed his eyes and then opened them again. The structure on the puppet body was deformed by the force of steel. , becoming smoother and more ferocious.

The soldier stared at the world in front of him, the smoke and the atmosphere, the hot wind and the army, he smelled the blood of human blood evaporated, and he also smelled the iron smell of metal.

It would be arrogant to say that.

"Arrogance is arrogance, I admit it."

Six octahedral gemstones condensed by countless steel particles are slowly inlaid on the rotating disk. The powerful authority is unified by the power from a higher level. With the injection of steel power, the rotating steel The chakra released terrifying energy fluctuations, which even shook the atmosphere, pushing away all the smoke and dust within a radius of several thousand meters, forming a vast and dust-free space.

"Super energy unit loaded——loaded successfully!" The undetectable electromagnetic signal mixed with soul fluctuations was transmitted in the atmosphere, but no one could hear it except the soldiers.

bring it on.

At the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass.

Joshua is a human being, so he naturally has past experiences, likes and dislikes, and it's normal for him to have his own thoughts.