novelraw Chapter 708 [126] Angel or Monster?
Chapter 708 [126] Angel or Monster?
Chapter 708 [126] Angel or Monster?
The company's highest level, a six-person council, led by Remiel.
He was the same kind of giant angel who had been overlooking the eastern part of the city the day before.
Although it did not grow to a gigantic size this time, the oppressive aura it exuded was still irresistible to ordinary people.
The air in the atrium suddenly became heavy, and the light from Remiel blurred the edges of all objects.
The guards' weapons slipped from their hands, striking the stone slabs with a dull thud. Someone tried to raise their gun, but their arm dropped halfway down.
They couldn't even look directly at the "angels".
Ram and Jacques knelt even earlier than the others. When they saw Remiel from afar, they quickly lowered their heads and shrank back, even deliberately keeping their breathing quiet, for fear that their presence would be too conspicuous.
Tiger clenched his teeth, took a step forward, and cracked the stone slab beneath his feet.
Who are you? What do you want?
He was much taller than Remiel, but standing in front of that white light, he looked like a bear facing a hurricane.
Suppressing the fear surging within him, a fear akin to that of a predator in the food chain, Tiger knew he was no match. He wanted to buy himself some time.
“I am Archangel Remiel, and I have come to punish you sinners.”
The sound was like a divine revelation.
Remiel took a step toward the clinic. He didn't even look at Tiger Fool. His white leather shoes pounded on the stone slabs, each step coinciding with the pauses in Tiger Fool's heartbeat.
"wishful thinking!!"
Tiger Concentrates all his inner strength, and spherical lightning explodes in his prosthetic right hand. This time, not one, but seven. Seven blue-white lightning orbs swirl around his body, gradually converging forward. The next strike will be powerful enough to pierce through the T-unit's psionic barrier.
Remiel raised a finger.
All seven lightning orbs exploded simultaneously!
Blue and white arcs of electricity swept across the entire courtyard, the guards were overturned by the shockwave, and the stone slabs shattered with the tiger's feet as the center, the cracks spreading outwards for ten meters.
Tiger held on for 5 seconds and finally flew out.
His back slammed into the exterior wall of the guesthouse, denting the wall and shattering the bricks. He became embedded in the wall, blood gushing from his mouth and nose.
A speck of dust clung to Remiel's white suit. He glanced down, flicked the dust away, and continued walking toward the clinic.
"Captain Tiger was defeated?" "How is that possible?"
The guards dared only whisper among themselves, completely losing the courage to resist under the supernatural psychological pressure.
A purplish-black rift suddenly opened up beside Remiel.
Han Tiancheng leaped out from the middle, his red-bladed crystal energy sword rising from below, stopping abruptly just before the blade reached Remier's neck.
The Crimson Blade Crystal Energy Sword was not only entangled by Remiel's white light, but it even showed signs of melting!
Han Tiancheng was startled and retreated back into the subspace, reappearing behind Remiel.
He held a sword in his left hand and a gun in his right. High-explosive bullets rained down on Remiel, but were mercilessly swallowed by the light, leaving no trace.
Han Tiancheng repeatedly fled, maneuvering against Remiel. He knew that not only was Doctor Li in the clinic, but Qin Qi's hibernation pod and the precious amethyst elixir were also in the underground research institute.
Aunt He, Gesang, Juejuezi, and others also took refuge there.
Remiel finally grew annoyed. He didn't even turn around; he simply shifted half a step to the side the instant Han Tiancheng leaped out of the subspace and precisely grabbed Han Tiancheng's hand holding the gun.
Before Han Tiancheng could even react, he was flung away by Remiel. His body tumbled two and a half times in the air before crashing down next to Hu Chi. The Crimson Blade Crystal Energy Sword broke in two, its tip embedded in the stone slab.
Blood dripped from the bottom edge of the comical ghost mask. Han Tiancheng supported himself with one hand on the broken sword and knelt on the ground.
“Idiot,” Remiel cursed. “Don’t forget that Ibash is the company’s experiment. Warp abilities are nothing but child’s play to me.”
The door to the clinic suddenly opened.
Dr. Li stood inside the door, his white coat fluttering in the night wind, his glasses reflecting the unnatural white light emanating from Remier.
He held a vacuum tube horizontally in his right hand, the purple liquid inside slowly undulating, like a nebula compressed to its limit.
Amethyst Elixir! "Headquarters can't be defended. Staying here is just suicide."
Dr. Li approached Han Tiancheng. His voice was not loud, but in the silence brought by Remier, everyone could hear him clearly.
"If you want to make a comeback, take me into the warp immediately..."
Remiel raised his right hand. Blazing white lightning rapidly condensed at his fingertips, but seemingly worried about detonating the amethyst elixir, he slowed his movements by a beat.
"Alright, let's take another gamble!"
Han Tiancheng dropped the broken sword and used his last bit of strength to crash into Doctor Li.
The purplish-black particles engulfed the two people. Lightning struck the spot, vaporizing the stone slab and leaving a dark, charred hole.
Han Tiancheng and Dr. Li did not appear anywhere. They seemed to have vanished.
Remiel withdrew his finger and shifted his gaze from the clinic's entrance. The white light following his movement illuminated the clinic's exterior walls, turning them a ghastly white.
He had a vague feeling that there was some kind of trap beneath the clinic.
Qin Qi has not yet appeared, and the intelligence reports that he is seriously ill may be true.
We cannot let this excellent opportunity to eliminate Qin Qi slip by. Moreover, Remiel can detect that there are other amethyst liquids in the basement of the clinic that Doctor Li did not bring out.
Suddenly, a loudspeaker's electrical noise filled the air, sharp and piercing, as if someone had shoved a microphone into a speaker.
"Don't come any closer!!"
A huge, iron-gray humanoid object fell from the sky.
It was a battered and tattered exoskeleton robot, heavily pieced together. Inside the spherical, semi-transparent cockpit at the top, a girl with pink bun hair, her face smeared with engine oil, held a control lever in each hand and slammed her combat boots onto the accelerator pedal.
"Aunt He! You all need to run now!"
Those who had taken refuge in the clinic included Aunt He and her maids (such as Cuihua), as well as the shaman doctor Gesang. When they saw Linlin standing in front of Remiel, they all looked worried.
The robot's right fist slammed towards Remiel's head. Remiel dodged to the side, the fist grazing his left shoulder, leaving a crease on the shoulder pad of his white suit.
Remiel glanced at the crease. His expression was obscured, but the pulsating frequency of the six wings of light behind him noticeably increased.
Linlin yanked the control stick in the cockpit, and the robot staggered and turned around, the combustion furnace emitting a coughing, explosive sound.
She stared at the dazzling white light through the reinforced glass—she was the only one unaffected by cognitive shielding.
"Don't be afraid of him!"
The guard lying in the corner looked up and saw the 15-year-old girl in the cockpit push the control lever all the way down.
The robot's chest sprang open a row of firing ports, unleashing a barrage of grenades and Molotov cocktails at Remiel.
"This guy isn't an angel at all! He's just an ugly, slimy squid monster! You've been hit by the company's cognitive shield!"
The moment she shouted the truth into the megaphone, a flash of white light appeared on Remiel's body.
The guards rubbed their eyes and saw that there was indeed a wet, wriggling outline at the edge of the white light.
“It really doesn’t seem to be an angel…” a guard muttered to himself. His hands were still trembling, but he had already picked up the charge rifle at his feet.
He pulled the trigger.
The charge bomb exploded on Remiel's back. It didn't penetrate the white light, but it created a visible ripple of energy.
More guards stood up.
Submachine guns, electric rifles, ninja shuriken picked up, even half a brick on the ground—everything that could be picked up was thrown at Remiel at the same moment.
Bullets and debris still couldn't penetrate his defenses, but each hit forced him back a little.
After Linlin exposed the truth, his white light gradually lost its sacredness.
The tiger, which had been embedded in the wall, struggled free, wiped the blood from the corner of its mouth, and prepared to attack again.
(End of this chapter)