Alien Executioner

Gu Zhilan's expression gradually became solemn, and she looked at An Ran with a strange, somewhat unbelievable look.

"Damn it, you actually care about me this much."

An Ran covered his forehead.

"Because you are very important to the flower shop. As a partner of the flower shop, I can't just watch you collapse. Besides, you are Li Fei's daughter. Your identity is very special, so special that I have to worry about you."

"Thank you very much."

"You're welcome. You look unhappy." An Ran looked thoughtful.

"Anyone can say this, except you." Gu Zhilan wanted to laugh, but she held back her smile:

"Aren't you the one who looks the most depressed? Although that was in the past. Now you just look a little grim at best."

"I see hesitation and self-comfort in your eyes." An Ran suddenly said this.

Gu Zhilan responded without even thinking:

"What's wrong? Do you An family have superpowers? Can you see so many things just by looking at them?"

Maybe there should be... An Ran thought of her sister, and An Xin could read her emotions from her eyes.

He nodded slightly:

"You know best."

"Actually, a little." Gu Zhilan hesitated whether to say it out loud, and kept recalling that scene.

"Tell me, maybe I can help you."

"Help me?" Gu Zhilan's eyes turned strange again. "You are already too busy to handle it. You should figure out how to handle your own side first."

Why does it feel like something is implying about me... An Ran couldn't quite understand it, he felt like this was hinting at something.

Seeing that she was unmoved, he prepared to get in the car.

Suddenly, Gu Zhilan said again:

"I saw someone last night, someone very familiar, someone I can't forget, and I can't identify."

Chapter 239: The Struggle of Q (IX)

The cement path beside the park was overgrown with weeds, the breeze blew through the haze, and water droplets burst out from nowhere.

Gu Zhilan seemed to have been ready to speak out about this matter, but she was just sitting there waiting in hesitation.

She recalled that night, and her eyes no longer had the loneliness they once had, but now had more anticipation.

"'Silent Thorn' is very powerful. At least... it is difficult for ordinary excellent executives to be its opponent. Dr. Ned warned me that if possible, I should not display all the phagocytes in my body, as it would have unpredictable consequences. My condition was very bad at the time, so I had to do this."

"But I did it anyway and tried to kill him, and I did it, and it worked, and there were no side effects, and then those people showed up."

"Who are they?" An Ran asked simply and clearly.

"Three... people? Or two? I don't remember clearly. It was too dim at the time to tell."

Gu Zhilan shook her head, recalling the past with some reluctance.

"They were a group of executioners, wearing masks, and led by a man. When I killed the Silent Thorn, they just happened to appear, said some insignificant words, and then let me go."

"No pursuit?"

"No."

An Ran tried to search his memory for the corresponding person wearing a mask, but he had no impression of him.

In FACA, there is no explicit requirement for executive officers to maintain confidentiality during operations, so there is naturally no standard behavioral detail such as wearing masks. It all depends on the executive's willingness and he can do whatever he feels comfortable with.

So there were indeed many examples of executive officers wearing masks during crusades, but he didn't know who they were.

After all, this kind of behavior does not constitute a violation, so there is no need to write a report. Unless an operations adjutant or a team member points it out, such a thing cannot be found out at all.

An Ran thought quickly and decided that the masked executive in Gu Zhilan’s memory was worth paying attention to.

For the executive officer, the man's behavior of letting Gu Zhilan go just like that was not logical.

Unless he was also from the flower shop, knew Gu Zhilan, and was intentionally covering for her.

He is an undercover agent in the flower shop planted in the Countermeasures Bureau.

Do not……

An Ran patted his forehead, because the recent investigation of the traitor made him realize that his speculation was wrong.

Why must the executive who appeared in front of Gu Zhilan last night be the real executive?

They may have simply forged their identities and pretended to be executive officers to provide assistance to Gu Zhilan.

But doing so is also very risky and it is easy to be exposed to Zero's sight.

These are just possibilities, but no matter what, they all mean that there must be something wrong with those executives.

An Ran was only worried about the emergence of a new unknown force.

Just as he was thinking, the dignified Gu Zhilan turned her head, looked into the distance, and continued:

"But I feel like I've known him before, the man at the head."

"What does it feel like?"

"Very familiar, very familiar." Gu Zhilan answered very softly, with light in her eyes.

"I don't even dare to think too much. It's a complicated feeling. I'm afraid it's fake. I'm afraid that the familiarity has blinded me. But I just can't help but recall it. I thought of my father, but he's dead."

"Former Section Chief Gu Simiao died in District 9, and his body has not been found yet." An Ran reminded deliberately.

In memory, after Gu Simiao disappeared in District 9, he was reported dead by a group of unknown alien forces without code names. The Japanese pirates spread the news that the chief of the Operations Department of the FACA Headquarters was killed by the organization. Not long after, Zero made a judgment and finally confirmed that Chief Gu was no longer alive.

Even though he still had doubts about this, An Ran still chose to believe in the artificial intelligence Zero, and there should be nothing wrong with this matter.

Gu Zhilan has a transplant of the defective Devouring Sorrow from the fallen angel's daughter into her body. The reason she's still alive is thanks to the experiments conducted by florist Dr. Ned, which inevitably causes some defects in her body and leads to wrong judgments in her brain.

An Ran thought that she was experiencing a condition similar to bulimia that affected her mental state, which was why she could feel her father's familiar aura.

Is it because I miss you too much?

An Ran found it hard to understand, but when she saw the light in Gu Zhilan's eyes, she was slightly stunned.

"Well, he's dead." Gu Zhilan felt a headache and touched her head, "But I don't know why I feel this way."

"This kind of thing is very strange. Sometimes I also have some illusions." An Ran tried to comfort her.

"It's like I always feel like... my sister is always watching me, no matter where I am."

Gu Zhilan suddenly fell silent and looked at his face with some contempt.

The two of them sat on the bench, enjoying the breeze, and neither of them spoke, but everyone knew what the other was thinking.

It's just about little monsters.

Gu Zhilan could not feel An Ran's gaze. She knew that the man was not looking at her. He was actually that kind of person. Even if he acted nonchalant, no one would notice him or figure him out.

The eyes never lie. This sentence seems to symbolize a truth, but the truth sometimes does not work on him. Those gloomy eyes will never retain too many emotions, and silence eats up everything.

That way, no one could use his emotions as a weapon.

It's... terrible.

Gu Zhilan began to act pretentiously, imitating An Ran's gaze, pretending to be unhappy and ready to kill someone at any time. But after half a minute, she became listless again. She really couldn't hold on any longer.

Just when she was about to say something, An Ran suddenly spoke and broke the silence.

"The smell of blood."

Blood? What blood?

Gu Zhilan was stunned. After hearing this word, she subconsciously looked at the ground, trying to find bloodstains.

"I'm getting closer to you."

An Ran spoke again. Gu Zhilan looked at him in confusion, only to find that his fingers had lightly touched the Swallowing Martial Arts bracelet. He straightened his back, which was the action for an executive officer to prepare for battle at any time while sitting.

Gu Zhilan's confusion disappeared in an instant. She understood what was going to happen. Even though this incident had not yet begun and had not appeared in front of her, it had already been anticipated by the monster in front of her.

Even though he didn't reveal his true form, he still had terrifying hearing and sense of smell.

Gu Zhilan narrowed her eyes, her gaze penetrating the traffic passing through the middle road.

Opposite is a narrow alley that is used to store external air-conditioning boxes.

About two meters away from the alley entrance, a black figure stood upright with a silver mask on his face.

At his feet, a woman in casual trousers fell down, her top completely stained red with blood.

It was impossible to see the specific condition of the body, maybe it was a laceration on the neck, or maybe it was a laceration on the chest...

Gu Zhilan became solemn and a little uneasy. She felt that the man in black was looking at her.

Suddenly, she saw the mask on the man in black's face!

The letter "Q"!

Chapter 240: Codename Q's Crusade (Ten)

The gaze lasted for a full minute, and Gu Zhilan and the man in black's eyes collided with each other through the passing convoy.

She breathed softly, afraid to disrupt the noise.

Things seemed to have quieted down. Under tension and pressure, the body selectively forgot the things around it.

At this time, a pedestrian passed by the alley, took a closer look, and screamed.

The man in black moved, and before the passerby could turn around and run away, he was strangled by the neck and his arm pierced through the chest!

The whole process takes no more than two seconds.

Amid the screams of others, it quickly attracted countless eyes.

“Damn it, this is…”

Gu Zhilan murmured softly. She noticed that An Ran stood up beside her, holding a black and red sickle in his hand.

An Ran's cold gaze fell on the man in black, swept across the mask with a Q engraved on his face, and took a step forward.

The next second, Q dropped the body of the passerby, jumped lightly, closed the distance of more than ten meters, stepped on a truck in the middle, paused for half a second, jumped up again, and landed in front of An Ran.

The moment it landed, the black and red sickle chopped towards Q's neck.

Q's tall body immediately sank, and he was forced to kneel down due to the pressure from the sickle.

Gu Zhilan looked at the hideous scars on his shoulders and felt her heart tighten inexplicably. This was the first time she had observed up close the scars caused by the Grim Reaper's search. This was an almost desperate attack that could even take his head.

The process happened so fast that Gu Zhilan didn't even have time to turn her head. When Q appeared beside her, the sickle had already fallen.

Fortunately, An Ran was on her side... Her legs were a little weak and she didn't stand up immediately.

Q slowly raised his head and looked straight into An Ran's eyes.

He stood up suddenly and tried to push him over. His nearly two-meter-tall body was brewing tremendous power. Countless phagocytes covered the surface of his body. His two arms kept swelling and stretching, reaching a full five meters in length!

An Ran grabbed Gu Zhilan's arm and stepped back to create some distance between them. He pulled back the sickle and stared at the monster in front of him.

Taking the initiative?

He made a quick judgment and confirmed that the monster in front of him was Q based on the content of the photo in his memory.

He showed up on his own initiative without waiting for me to organize a team to attack him. Did he think he had the ability to kill me who was alone?

An Ran smiled. He rarely smiled when he found something interesting. This was indeed a very rare thing.

There have only been a few instances of aliens actively attacking lone FACA executives.

What's more, the other party's target is the chief director of the Countermeasures Bureau.

The most important thing is... this is still the City of Flowers.

Is it arrogance or an ulterior motive conspiracy?

An Ran easily understood Q's thoughts. At least for him, although he was the highest director of FACA, he was ultimately just a more powerful human being. In the final analysis, he was still a flesh and blood body.

Aliens can make countless mistakes, but the executive can only make one mistake. This is because at the same level, the fragile flesh and blood of humans becomes an irreparable defect. As a suspected SS+ super alien, Q can easily succeed.

He raised his head slightly and pointed his sickle at the three-meter-tall monster in front of him.

"Immediately transformed into half-death, so neat."

I deliberately raised my voice so that Q could hear me.