Alien Executioner

"Go down! Not up!" An Xiao yelled, grabbing the girl's hand and rushing to the bottom of the iron ladder.

She first picked up a long knife and cut her own fingers, squeezing the blood onto the iron stairs leading upwards. The smell was far less tempting to them than blood, and it could confuse their direction and delay some time.

There were no guards along the way. They seemed to be frightened by the screams of the monsters. The half-snake monsters were too bizarre as dream creatures. Each of them had S-level strength, and some were close to SS. They should have died with Deagaus, but were awakened by someone using some unknown method.

These freaks are the source of the serum. Brother once said that the technology is likely to come from the Storm Organization and the Flower Shop's laboratory, but the Storm Organization has been swallowed up by the Flower Shop, and even the Violent Society has split.

flower shop……

Suddenly, these two words along with some speculations jumped into her mind. Although she had not seen anyone from the flower shop, she felt that the Tananiya family and the Xinmin Cannibal Eternal Cult were both related to the flower shop.

She believed in Gu Zhilan. The black-haired girl might not be able to lead a large organization, but she would never allow the organization to harm the world.

There was a loud stampede from above, and the monsters tried to chase after it, but the sound was getting farther and farther away, and they were indeed attracted upwards.

They walked out of the iron ladder. The ground floor was not connected to the first floor, but led to the underground. There was still an iron door at the entrance, but it was obviously much stronger.

An Xiao signaled Xiao Meiye not to speak, and he stood at the door listening to the sounds inside. He could vaguely hear some conversations, both men and women. There didn't seem to be any danger, but there was a sense of anxiety.

She pulled out a pistol and handed it to Akemi: "Can you shoot?"

The girl shook her head like a rattlesnake, her eyes filled with worry.

An Xiao took off the safety of the gun, taught the girl how to hold the gun with both hands correctly, and asked her to aim inside the door.

"The gun's safety was off. If your hands were shaking, it could easily go off accidentally, but I trusted you. I wasn't sure who was inside. It could be your colleagues or some bad guys. When I knocked on the door and went in, you were behind them, using the gun to intimidate them. I wasn't worried that you would accidentally fire and hit me because I trusted you."

She said "I believe you" twice in a row. Akeno had never been told "I believe you" in her life.

The meteorite in An Xiao's hand condensed into a whip shape, which was the longest-range form. Its lethality was far less than that of a spear or a sword, but it should be enough to deal with the armed guards.

As the iron door was knocked, the movement inside suddenly froze.

A terrified voice came from inside: "Is there anyone there?"

"Executive." An Xiao didn't mind revealing her identity. If there were really guards inside, she would have been exposed before.

The door slowly opened, and inside was an archive room. The breath of life filled the air. A group of female employees in white shirts stood up, and the first man to open the door was a fat man who looked honest and simple.

An Xiao walked in, took a quick look and determined that this was a safe house.

Then it was Akeno who walked in. She was holding the gun nervously. When she saw that they were all colleagues, she became obviously panicked and wanted to hide the gun, but she was still discovered. The men deliberately kept their distance and the female colleagues didn't want to even look at her.

An Xiao found a corner where they would not be disturbed and asked Xiao Meiye to stay there. She turned around and found the man. She glanced at the name tag on his chest and knew it was the manager.

"Phone." She said forcefully.

Her cell phone was lost when she threw her windbreaker, and she had been chased by the Crow People so she had no time to contact her family and the Countermeasures Bureau.

"There is a phone, but there is no signal here." The fat manager took out the phone respectfully, not doubting the identity of the girl in front of him at all. The blood-stained Devouring Weapon and the obvious roar of the monster above said it all.

An Xiao opened the SMS interface to edit it. He first entered the code of the AI ​​Zero Countermeasures Bureau in the recipient column, and then entered the SMS content into the activation command.

Almost instantly, an unknown text message appeared.

[68001: Please be prepared. You have thirty seconds. Zero will take over the mobile phone control. The satellite signal has been switched to establish a temporary regional network.]

An Xiao repeated it silently in his mind for thirty seconds. The manager was watching very carefully and then he recognized that the girl seemed to be the third daughter of the An family.

"Executive Officer An Xiao, you have been connected to the Countermeasures Bureau's communications system." Zero's voice came from the phone, attracting everyone's attention.

An Xiao glanced at the other employees, and in order to avoid disturbing them, he took his phone and went to the corner next to Xiao Mino. The manager was also tactful and did not follow him.

"Zero, I am now inside the Tananya family, the affairs building, and I need a detailed map."

She did not intend to escape, but to kill the Crow Man. But before that, she would send Akeno out first and then find a way to contact her elder sister.

The elder sister sent her here, not to die, but to provide some help. As long as the crow man was not dead, the matter would not end, and she had no reason to leave.

Then, she tried to call her elder sister.

The call was connected. An Xiao was very happy and said slowly, "Sister..."

She was stunned for a moment. There was a humming sound like wind chimes coming from the other end of the phone, like a girl humming leisurely, but there was a pungent smell of blood... How could a cell phone call smell of blood? The smell of blood was mixed with fragrance, as if it was... the blood of my elder sister!

After the phone was hung up, An Xiao stood up suddenly and everything disappeared, as if it was just an illusion. He lowered his head and saw An Ya squatting on the ground looking at him.

"Sister...Mister?"

"Ms. Executive, did I scare you?" Akeno was startled by her reaction and helped pick up the phone from the ground.

An Xiao seemed a little absent-minded. She didn't know what was going on with the phone call. She herself didn't know what was going on. It was like a dream.

Yes, it was a dream. An Xiao suddenly realized that he had just fallen into a dream, a strange and inexplicable dream.

"Thank you." She took the phone from Akemi Nozomi. Her elder sister's phone was turned off and she could not be contacted for the time being.

At this moment, the phone suddenly rang. It was the housekeeper: "Miss San, is that you? Where are you?"

"Sister Ling?" An Xiao was not surprised. The family had been paying attention to her and would not watch her lose contact. The moment she contacted Ling, the family would be able to find her.

"I understand your current situation. You are still in the building, right? The family has sent reinforcements, and they should be here soon."

"It won't be the waiters again, I don't think they are very reliable..."

"It's a very high-end one." Ling said.

Chapter 105: The Wrath of the Shoggoth (XI)

After hanging up the phone, An Xiao lowered his head and breathed a sigh of relief, his solemn expression relaxed.

Xiao Meiye stared at her with wide eyes: "Support... Miss An Xiao, don't you plan to leave this place?"

"I want to leave, but there are some things I have to do." An Xiao said vaguely, not wanting her to know too much.

"You should know what happened at the Koster Theater. I am one of the participants. I am here for some unspeakable reasons."

"Yeah, I heard that a lot of aliens gathered at the Coster Theater tonight, so the city is temporarily blocked and the Countermeasures Bureau is conducting a cleanup operation. I can see the theater across from my desk. It's brightly lit every night. I've always wanted to go, but I never had the chance."

Xiao Meiye felt very sorry. She had only been in this city for a few months and had not been to many places. At first, even having enough food was a problem. So she must have been depressed when talking about the Coster Theater. An Xiao thought that this was probably the most beautiful place that Xiao Meiye considered.

The Koster Theater is always bright at night.

"You... are still working so late at night?" An Xiao asked tentatively. The Tananiya family was too dishonest.

"No, sometimes there are emergencies that need our help. The Tananya family is a large family with many family businesses. In fact, there are also some shameful gray industries, such as smuggling swallowing weapons and selling firearms. My floor is 'Transmission', which is responsible for transferring files."

Akeno answered softly and secretly glanced at the fat manager, who was sitting on the other side drinking heavily and looked a little drunk. Everyone stayed in the safe house and did not leave. There must be no way to leave. They were trapped here.

"You're so young and you're working in there, aren't you scared?"

"I was scared at first because no one liked me, as if I was an outlier." Akemi shook her head and smiled sweetly for the first time, "But later I got used to it. Apart from my sister, I have always been alone. There is nothing wrong with being alone."

"You still look like a student. Why did you come to District 1?"

"Because...my sister."

Xiao Meiye's eyes dimmed:

"She was sick, a very serious illness, she had it since she was a child, and the cause had never been found. My parents divorced when I was born, and my father raised us all the time. He was a serious alcoholic, often drunk, and could never find his way home. One day, my father suddenly had a car accident in the early morning..."

An Xiao listened very carefully. She couldn't help but want to get to know the girl's heart better. It turned out that this was the life of ordinary people.

Akemi continued:

"After my father passed away, my sister and I were left alone. My sister was very good to me, but her health was getting worse and worse. One day, a young aunt suddenly came to our house. She claimed to be from a charity foundation and wanted to send my sister to District 1 for treatment. So I dropped out of school and followed her. My sister is my only relative, and I must stay by her side, otherwise she will be very lonely."

An Xiao's heart was slightly moved. Xiao Meiye just said that she was used to being isolated by her colleagues and felt that there was nothing wrong with being alone, but she was afraid that her sister would lie alone in the hospital bed. Was she really just a girl in her teens? She clearly knew what loneliness was.

You can't get used to loneliness, you can only accept it. Acceptance does not mean getting used to it. People who enjoy loneliness always have a weak barrier under their closed hearts waiting to be broken. That is the place where the lonely dead child looks up at all day long. There is a hint of warmth when they look outside the dark barrier.

"So you came to the Tananiya family's affairs building as a temporary worker to make up for living expenses." An Xiao looked at her head, "That woman, I mean the one who claimed to be a charity foundation, just sent your sister to the hospital?"

"And they covered all the expenses. I am very grateful."

Akemi Nono says:

"That kind-hearted man also gave me living expenses, but I only took the first installment and rejected all the rest. I have hands and feet and I can't always rely on others. I plan to earn enough money to buy a house. The salary offered by the Tananya family when they hired me was high, higher than that of the manager. I think this is why they hate me, even though I am just a temporary worker."

"Wait, what did you say?" An Xiao grasped the point.

"Did the Tananya family take the initiative to find you?"

Akemi hesitated for a moment. "Yes, I was working in a convenience store at the time. A man in red who claimed to be from the Tananiya family gave me a business card and said that the family was short of manpower recently and hoped to get some help. The pay was good. I was in urgent need of money at the time. I owed a month's rent for the house I rented, so I came here."

"Did they really not ask you to do anything else? For example...unspoken rules, some shameful things." An Xiao tried to put it tactfully.

She did not say anything about freaks and aliens, or anything related to the serum experiment. Akeno was not an insider, and she didn't even know what happened in the building. She was just a girl who wanted to make money and live with her sister after she recovered. Even if she was isolated by everyone in the building, she pretended not to care.

In fact, Akemi Nozomi is really a very smart person. She almost deceived An Xiao. She clearly knew that she was isolated by her manager and colleagues, but she pretended to be ignorant. People who are accompanied by loneliness always don't care, because these people really care about so many things.

When An Xiao was born, she was the brightest star in the An family. Almost all the elders were so excited that they danced with joy. A large banquet was held for two consecutive months. So she lived a life like a princess since she was a child. She enjoyed all kinds of praises. She always got what she wanted and was always the focus of every occasion.

But in her memory, she was also a lonely person, out of tune with everyone, as if she was too special in the family, even more special than her brothers and elder sister. It was also because of this specialness that she felt that everyone at the banquet was wearing a fake smile mask. An Xiao always liked to hide and observe those human skin masks, guessing what kind of face was behind them. No one really liked her, just because she was a special Miss An.

In fact, the first person who was unhappy was not An Ran, but An Xiao. She was only six years old at that time, but she had a look that showed she hated everything. She hated everyone. She felt that she was too special and being surrounded by people was no different from being isolated. She couldn't fit in with the family and was like a walking giant panda all day long.

The turning point that changed everything was the sudden appearance of my elder brother. When I woke up in the morning, the boy who looked like my elder sister and no different from a girl was sitting by my bed. He was as quiet as an elf from a fairy tale. He had learned to lower his eyelids at such a young age, and his pupils were deep.

"Are you my sister? We haven't talked much. Do you know me?" The boy started talking in a relaxed tone.

"You are my brother, but I don't think so. You all are the same." Six-year-old An Xiao said coldly.

"You said I was your brother, so you know." The boy was very happy. "Whether you think so or not is not important. Let's go play together."

"Why should I go play with you?" The girl was very unhappy. She just couldn't stand seeing people laughing around her. She had no good feelings towards all the family members. She hated everyone equally and thought that they were all the same. She was the only one who was different.

"Because I want to play with you, I just want to play with you. If you don't want to, I'll beg you." The boy said with a smile, and it was like he was acting like a spoiled child. "You are my sister, is it wrong to play games with your brother? Or are you not really my sister? I don't like a sister who always has a cold face and ignores people. I feel like I'm being hated.")

At that moment, An Xiao was stunned. It was the first time she heard someone say that the reason for keeping a cold face was to tell everyone that she didn't like them. But even so, everyone still smiled as usual and praised her for always keeping a cold face and she must be a leader in the future.

No matter what she did, no matter how she embarrassed everyone, she could never get the desired effect, but the result was reflected on her brother.

At that moment she suddenly realized that she was actually cared for.

So An Xiao made a decision that was both happy and regretful that day. She stood in the utility room with a shotgun, confused... and played house with her brother at a doll party.

"Brother..." She said these two words with difficulty while playing the role of Little Bear's sister.

"No." The boy An Ran looked at her in a daze, "My sister isn't that hard to approach. It's better for her to be more lively."

"No." Xiao Meiye's voice suddenly woke her up, and she shook her head and said, "There are no hidden rules or anything like that. I just do some errands."

An Xiao was stunned.

Are her memories really that long? It feels like time is going slower and slower.

Chapter 106: The Wrath of the Shoggoth (XII)

The sounds of wild beasts came from above, like packs of wolves hunting, silent and desolate in the dusk light.

Lalo shuddered and looked back. Apart from the unconscious girl dragged on his back, there were no pursuers following him.

At this moment, he took Gu Zhilan and sneaked out along the stairs. The robot calling itself Xiaoqi exploded and destroyed the entire underground theater. The neurotic and terrifyingly strong woman was buried inside, along with Gu Zhilan's florist companion.

Due to his limited strength, Lalo only dug out the dying Gu Zhilan, who was still breathing weakly when he found her.

He was not sure what was going on with this girl. She looked like a high-ranking official in the flower shop organization and had a white sickle that was an exact replica of An Ran's Death God's. She was so young yet showed strength that was close to that of a super alien, which was completely different from his previous impression.

This was the fourth time they had met. She was the man's daughter, and La Luo was always grateful to him, so no matter what happened, he had to take Gu Zhilan away.

Fortunately, the amoeba body that was wrapped around his waist and looked like a queen bee's tail was successfully detached. He finally didn't have to crawl like a monster. This made Lalo breathe a sigh of relief. An inexplicable power supported his body. He carried the girl on his hunchback and climbed the stairs two steps at a time.

The strange roar of wild beasts came again from the distance.

Lalo stopped vigilantly and looked around. He always felt that something was wrong with this place. He did succeed in leaving the underground, but came to another unfamiliar place.

The original elevator collapsed due to the robot's self-explosion, leaving only the old antique elevator. Fortunately, it was still working. Lalo took Gu Zhilan to the ground from this elevator, and when they came out, they were in the safe corridor. Now it seems that they have arrived at the office building next to the Coster Theater.

He went deeper into the office building, feeling more and more uneasy that something was wrong. No matter how he turned, he couldn't get out. He turned back and was stunned. The door that originally led out of the security passage disappeared and turned into a white wall with children's graffiti on it.

Lalo swallowed, suppressed his panic, and comforted himself that he just went to the wrong place.

He found another door deeper inside. He opened it and saw the familiar staircase, and his tense mood relaxed.

Fortunately, it’s not a ghost wall.

La Luo didn't notice that the girl behind him opened her eyes. Gu Zhilan woke up and made a weak sound:

"Devouring Wu..."

"Your Devouring Weapon is in your arms. I'll take it for you." Lalo pouted and suddenly felt like a brother.

Gu Zhilan is the daughter of that man, and I can be considered as half of that man’s godson, so it seems to be true.

He placed Gu Zhilan against the wall, pointed at her abdomen, indicated that the Devouring Martial Arts bracelet was stuffed there, and lied naturally:

"You finally woke up. All your companions are dead, but you are the only one alive."