Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

child?

When Celestine detonated her power armor, she instinctively closed her eyes. Now, she only felt warmth and comfort, and after hearing "auditory hallucinations", she tried to open her eyes.

?

When she opened her eyes, she found that she was lying on the peaceful lake, but she did not sink into the lake, and the sky was orange red in the evening.

Celestine sat up slowly, and found that her original power armor had been replaced by a pure white dress that was not soaked by the lake water at some point.

This is where?

Could this be the sea of ​​souls?

She looked around suspiciously, but she could only see the endless lake.

Dazed for a moment, Celestine supported the lake with her right hand so that she could turn over and stand up. As soon as she stood up, she heard the "auditory hallucination" just now:

"My child, this is not the so-called sea of ​​souls. In theory, this should be an independent space created by me."

? ? ! !

Hearing this, Celestine turned around quickly, and saw a two-meter-tall "giant" wearing a black Umbrella uniform with red and white umbrella buttons pinned to the neckline.

"Li... Chairman?!"

Seeing the giant's face clearly, Celestine was completely stunned, because the other was the Lord of Humanity whom she regarded as her father, to whom she prayed, but received no response for a long time——

Sui Bian.

"Hehe, you don't need to be so rude, child." Sui Bian smiled, then walked slowly towards Celestine, who was showing astonishment and disbelief, and raised his left hand to help the pious girl straighten her bangs, and continued Say:

"Thanks to your persistence and steadfastness, I finally heard your prayers, and it also made me notice how serious the situation in Telokle is."

"Li...Father..."

Celestine, who was abandoned by her parents since she was a child and was placed in the Umbrella Welfare Institution by those parents who have never met, has long regarded Sui Bian as her real father. Now, seeing Sui Bian appear After being "in front of her", he could no longer maintain a calm disguise, and couldn't help crying with joy:

"So... so you heard it all..."

"Of course, of course I heard everything." Sui Bian still had a kind expression on his face, and he did not forget to gently pat the pious girl's head with his left hand to comfort her mixed emotions of sadness and joy.

Celestine, on the other hand, was also enjoying the warmth that had been fantasized countless times, but couldn't believe it really came to her.

After a while.

Celestine thought of Tanya and her sisters who were still fighting, as well as all the crew on Tyroker, so she wiped away her tears with the backs of both hands, and said to Sui Bian:

"Father, please help Adams and the others, as well as the fellow human beings on Tyroker."

"This is natural." Sui Bian withdrew his left hand, put his hands behind his back, and said kindly: "Since it is your belief, you have broken through the psychic barrier of the Zerg and passed your prayer to my ears. .

So…"

Having said that, Sui Bian paused, looked at Celestine, and said with a slightly more serious tone: "Help Tanya Adams and your sisters, and save Tyroker from danger, I leave it to you, child. "

"I...?" Celestine asked worriedly.

After all, compared with her, Sergeant Ran Ze and Reserve Astarte, who are in charge of Teloker's safety, are more capable and qualified.

"Believe in yourself." Sui Bian smiled, "Don't forget, you are also my daughter, go."

"Yes... Father." Celestine nodded in agreement.

At the same time, she found that the luminosity of this space became brighter and brighter. In the end, her vision was only white.

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112th Street.

"Boom! Boom!" When the chief warrior ran, the noise was like an earthquake.

"Fuck you! Ahh! Die! Die for me!"

Tanya, who was at the end of the line, had red eyes and poured .44 caliber pulse bullets at the chief warrior with two guns.

The injector was hung on her lower back, and it seemed that she had emptied all the fuel tanks, so she had to continue attacking with secondary weapons.

The three sisters beside them, as well as the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion and Krieger, also manipulated the weapons in their hands to spit out fire snakes, trying to smash the chief warrior's biological barrier and block the soldiers and snakes that were coming.

And if you look down on the entire team from above the street, it is not difficult to find that Tan Ya and the others are already a small boat in the tide of insects, about to be swallowed and submerged.

Especially the existence of the chief warrior made it very unlikely that the team could break through the siege, because attacks including siege tanks and cold fusion overloads could not break the biological barrier.

To deal with the chief samurai, the only way for the entire team is to engage in a close confrontation with him, so...

"Aw!"

The elite captain roared, and adsorbed the commander-type plasma rifle to his back, took off the two hilts hanging from his waist, flicked it left and right, unfolded the double-edged sword hilt emitting light blue light, and then faced the team in the opposite direction. Charge in the direction, and ordered:

"Next, Second Lieutenant Yakeha (Iron Blood Company Commander) will temporarily take over the command, everyone, good luck!"

As he said that, the elite captain passed by the end of the line, passing Tanya who was reloading.

! !

Seeing that the captain who usually looks strict, but actually takes good care of their trainee sisters, also chooses to commit suicide and attack, Tan Ya is even more heartbroken.

But she did not act impulsively, so she could only silently bless the captain in her heart, and continued to escort the civilians in the armored personnel carrier to evacuate.

On the other hand, Captain Elite...

"Buzz~! Buzz!" The whistling of the sword blade.

"Bah! Stab!" The high-temperature blade easily cut through the carapace and flesh.

I saw that the seventy-year-old captain who belonged to the best of the elite family rushed into the sea of ​​insects like a whirlwind, and those soldiers and snakes without biological barriers had no way to do anything in a short time.

"Roar!!"

Sensing that the elite captain seemed to be launching a challenge, the chief samurai who had a certain degree of self-awareness roared angrily, and immediately swung a long bone blade and threw it at the elite captain.

But the elite captain, who had been watching the movement of the chief samurai, jumped to the left when the opponent swung the bone blade, onto one of the abandoned buses, and avoided the attack.

"Pfft!!"

The bone blade, which weighed several tons, cracked the road surface and "exploded" countless bugs at the same time.

Taking advantage of this emptiness, the elite captain made another jump, quickly sprinting towards the head of the chief warrior through the joints connected to the bone blade.

Seeing the double-edged energy sword, when he could have "intimate contact" with the chief warrior, the other party opened his mouth full of sharp teeth and stench.

"Roar!!"

Accompanied by the roar, a ball of bio-plasma emitting green light spewed out from the mouth of the chief warrior, hitting the elite captain who was about to succeed.

"Buzz!"

The energy shield helped the captain barely block the attack.

"Aw...~!"

However, the strong momentum of the plasma sent the captain flying, and finally fell heavily to the ground.

The elite captain didn't have time to calm down for a few seconds, so he immediately stood up and swung the double-edged energy sword to kill several soldiers and insects that surrounded him, but seeing that the chief samurai was only a few meters away, the captain knew , his raid ended in failure.

Just when he was about to raise his arms and try to use the double-edged energy sword to block another smashing blow from the chief warrior...

"boom!!!"

A violent psychic impact interrupted the chief warrior's smashing action, and even lifted the hundred-ton chief warrior into the air, and then hit the building on the right side of the street.

As for the "little guys" like soldiers and snakes, they were "blown away" the moment they were impacted by psychic energy, and the flying ash was annihilated, leaving no residue.

The 112th Street became empty in an instant, and the fast-moving teams did not need to confront and break through violently.

"One-click clear screen" is nothing more than that.

And a burst of golden light quickly flooded and enveloped the 112th Street at the moment when the psionic shock erupted.

"Oh...?"

The elite captain who stood there in a daze and put the double-edged energy sword in the shape of an "X" was very confused.

? ? ! !

Even Tanya and the others who were on the way to retreat were a little confused by the sudden situation. They all stopped moving forward and put on a defensive posture. Many soldiers quickly left the front line and hurried to their captain. .

"Golden...spiritual power..." Tanya stared at the dazzling center of the light, seemed to find a figure, and couldn't help muttering: "Is...father?"

"Roar!!"

At this moment, the chief warrior's roar brought everyone back to reality.

"Aww! Everyone focus fire on me! Get rid of this big guy!"

The elite captain, who was also relieved, waved his hand to the chief samurai and shouted orders.

"yes!!"

This time, everyone's morale was boosted, and they no longer cared about the stock of ammunition, and poured ammunition and artillery fire at the chief warrior who was still unwilling to give up and wanted to continue chasing.

However, the focused fire attack of the crowd was still the helpless chief warrior who seemed to have endless physical strength and endurance.

"Huh~huh!"

Just when the chief warrior wanted to continue crushing with the biological barrier, everyone heard the sound of wings flapping.

Hearing the reputation, even the chief samurai stopped his movements and watched the "man" flapping his white wings with his pupilless eyes emitting a pale yellow light, and slowly flew over the area.

"This...? What's going on here?"

"Celestine?!"

"But how did she grow wings??"

After seeing the "person" clearly, the only three remaining sisters sighed with emotion.

"..." Tanya opened her mouth even more, not knowing what to say.

Because the friend who blew himself up to death not long ago is intact at this time, and has grown a pair of pure white wings with a wingspan of more than ten meters? ?

Look closely, Celestine's exclusive power armor has long since disappeared, leaving only the close-fitting black combat uniform. At the same time, Celestine's right hand holds a handle with a burning golden flame, which is similar in shape to the ancient Chinese horizontal knife. weapon.

Hearing the words of the sisters, Celestine lowered her head slightly, and then turned her gaze back to the chief warrior.

"Ho... ho!!"

Noticing the gaze, the chief warrior involuntarily stepped back, roaring in anger, but in fact it was more like a biological fear, and then yelled, trying to give himself more courage.

Shua~!

However, before the chief warrior could swing his bone blade or spit out bioplasma to launch an attack, Celestine turned into an afterimage and disappeared without a trace.

When Celestine reappeared, she folded her wings, stood on the street again, and walked slowly towards Tanya and the others who were still in a daze.

As for the Chief Samurai?

"Boom~!!" It means that the whole body is wrapped in golden flames, and within the blink of an eye, it is completely burned, turned into dust and blown into the air,

"Little... little old-fashioned?"

Tanya, who finally regained her strength, ran quickly in front of Celestine. After sizing her up, she still looked unbelievable, "Are you really old-fashioned??"

At the same time, the three surviving sisters, the elite captain, the iron-blooded company commander, and some soldiers of the 3rd Battalion also surrounded them, while the Kriegers standing in the distance half-kneeled on the ground, as if they were wearing helmets. Then pray silently.

"That's right, it was me." Celestine said in a slightly echoing tone, "It was my father who rescued me from danger and gave me a new life."

"Is it father?!"

"Great! With Speaker Sui watching, we can be saved!"

Knowing that it was the Lord of Humanity who personally acted, the atmosphere on the scene was immediately activated, and morale was high.

"Now is not the time to cheer." Celestine looked into the distance, "There are still many compatriots under siege, so our primary goal now is to continue to complete the evacuation task."

After finishing speaking, Celestine stretched out her wings, then jumped up while flapping, flew above the entire team, and swung forward the horizontal knife burning with golden flames.

Seeing this, everyone immediately returned to their posts, followed Celestine who was flying in mid-air, and prepared to rescue more besieged friendly troops and civilians.

And the elite captain who survived the catastrophe, because of Celestine's "resurrection", successfully escaped the catastrophe, when he put away the double-edged energy sword and held the commander-type plasma rifle...

"Eh? It seems that I am the supreme commander here." Only then did he realize that it should be him who gave the order.

Forget it, these little girls don't seem to need to worry him anymore.

Thinking of this, the elite captain shook his head and smiled, and followed the team forward.

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at the same time.

Looking at the sky over the entire metropolitan area, it can be found that except for Metropolitan Areas 01, 02, 04, 09, and 12, the energy shields in all areas were either actively shut down, or destroyed by the Zerg's orbital bombardment.

Moreover, within the area of ​​Metropolis 01 to 12, even with the "reborn" Celestine, fierce battles broke out, and hundreds of millions of humans were stranded outside the energy shield.

now.

Located in the center of District 01 of the metropolis, in the headquarters of the Tyroker Intelligence Department, which has an independent giant building, Zacks Redfield and twelve auxiliary troops are taking an elevator to keep going down.

"Ding~!"

With a reminder, the elevator stopped running, and the holographic display above the gate displayed "Intelligence Department/Chemical and Biological Weapons Cold Storage/Access requires special application."

However, since it was the personal visit of the head of the intelligence department, the gate to complete the biological scan was successfully opened, allowing Zacks and the others to reach the biological and chemical weapons cold storage.