Chapter 20 Chapter Nineteen

Quinn hid in the charred rubble behind a broken wall, a building in front of him that had been nearly leveled by the debris from Skynet's crash.He huddled there until the frosty dusk, watching the guns dangling by the bridge, some fleeing people avoided far away, but most of them stood there fearlessly. Tanks rumbled past him and stopped a few hundred meters away.Behind the tank, a square-like thing rose up, suddenly glowing, it was a display screen, and the flag of the Kirwan family was fluttering in the wind, and a person slowly appeared, speaking.Despite the distance, Quinn could tell who he was by his blond beard and Romanov nose.

"My fellow Earthlings—" The amplified voice reached his side at once.The sound echoed across the ruins and from the ruined wall across the river. Although the echo had changed its taste, it still had a hypnotic magic. "My fellow Earthlings, my fellow countrymen from the Sun Country of Azteca, I speak to you now. I am Jason Cowan, Admiral of Aperture Station. I have just returned home from a battle in space. We have witnessed unspeakable catastrophe and terror, but we are by no means defeated. "I myself have been struck with grief. You may not have heard the dreadful news, because a press blackout was put in place to facilitate the investigation of this case. My esteemed father, the Magnificent Ferrando, was murdered.

"The blood debt must be paid in blood. The Sun Empire Security Department has finally identified the suspects. Two men were involved, one is the terrorist Benito Baraka of the Holy Clan. Because of my father's heroic self-defense, he has already He was killed on the spot. His accomplice is still at large. "The fugitive fellow inmate is from Aperture Station and is named Quinn. His motive for the killing remains unclear. The Ministry of Security suspected that he had fled to the earth in time to hide.Information and portraits of the fugitive suspect will be played next.Welcome to report and expose important clues, there must be a big reward! "

"This is my father-killer and enemy!" Jason Cowan's voice was trembling, and seemed to be filled with infinite emotion. "I want everyone to see him for who he is, and I beg you to help me resolve this deepest crisis in human history. "Dearest brothers on Earth, I know that you have been attacked by alien races in space. This is our negligence. It is because the Sun Fleet was negligent in defending the rear when fighting against the swarming monsters in space. For your The grief and loss, I sympathize with, and I am even happier to be back among you all. "I ask to share with you my hope and firm resolve: Space aliens, though they have cost us dearly, will not yield, and they are not invincible. We fought them in space, but now we find something even more terrifying. Enemies are on Earth.

"They are the Chen family! "They betrayed the Kirwan family and the entire human race. Their ambition is to be the dictator of the universe. They categorically deny that we have enemies in space. They sent people to infiltrate the Sun Fleet and the Ministry of Security to destroy the evidence of our space operations .Their wolfish ambition is to betray and weaken our power to protect you.” However, their wishful thinking failed, and we finally won the victory of this space war.We use laser weapons to sink the cowardly invaders in the Pacific Ocean.We are confident that other intruders will not dare to get too close to us.

"My dearest brothers on Earth, our first priority is to restore what the space aliens and the Chen family have destroyed. I will share your breath and fate with you. My dearest brothers, we are in a new era of human greatness .Skynet has crashed; the heart of the world has stopped beating; the flow of information has been cut; "Friends, these are terrible news. I am in the same pain as you. But disasters are not the whole of our future. On the contrary, we must eliminate these disasters as soon as possible and create a better future together. "Work hard with me, friends! With your confidence, belief and sweat, we will surely be able to build a new world on the ruins. We must take effective measures to eliminate looting as soon as possible, and find new energy as soon as possible to ensure You are safe and make sure the city is full of life, producing food, and running again. Skynet is down, but the Kirwan family is not. My great father is dead, but I will carry on his legacy, for your happiness and safety Struggling for a lifetime, I beg your loyalty to join me in winning great victories.

"On our scarred Earth, I would also like to remind everyone that we are facing another enemy, an enemy more evil than the Chen family, an enemy more terrible than any monster in space. This insidious and cunning enemy Call yourself a revelator! "I know many of you have heard of him, and some of you have even been deceived by his lies. "Listen, fellow Earthlings, I don't want to argue with those who call themselves Saints, I have a prophecy of my own - a prophecy that will surprise you. "There is no revealer in the world! "His so-called televised address was nothing more than a malicious sleight of hand. In the course of their investigation into my father's murderer, the Security Department of the Empire of the Sun destroyed the lair of the terrorist Benito Baraka. What they found surprised us all : The so-called self-proclaimed Revelator—the great liar who blathers on and claims to be the voice of the Trinity God—is actually a computer simulation!

"Those two assassins—" Jason's deep voice was drowned out by the sudden sneer. "Liar!" The ragged and haggard passers-by yelled in unison: "Liar! Liar!" Long-handled laser guns dangled in front of the crowd as a threat.But no one paid any attention to it, and everyone scrambled to surround it, picking up stones and throwing them at the display screen.The screen went black in an instant, and the whole screen fell to the ground.The laser gun fired at the crowd for a while, then stopped. "—The Sun Fleet is still operating safely on the equator," Jason's voice came out again, "all our troops on Earth are also gathering. As my father's legal heir, I have the authority to command the three armies.

"I have a way to keep you alive. The crash of Skynet is a terrible loss, but I promise to find a new source of energy to turn our world around again—a new source of energy, and a better source of energy. "That's the energy from nuclear fission—" At this time, the roaring missile exploded in front of the display screen through the smoky night sky. The laser gun also burst into flames.Fight back against the burning city.The angry crowd took the opportunity to rush forward, raining stones on the laser gun, and the rattling sound stopped abruptly. Quinn shivered for a long time hiding in the rubble hundreds of meters away.He kept thinking about what he had heard.If Jason caught Thorsen again and regained the reactor, wouldn't all his hopes and efforts be in vain?But if Thorsen hadn't caught it—a glimmer of hope rekindled in his heart.He climbed over the broken wall, avoiding the panicked crowd, glanced at the ghostly city behind him, and started back on the road to Sudada Baraka.

Twilight grew heavier.Hobbling along sidewalks filled with trash and debris, he finally saw an empty car and climbed in, wishing he could drive away. With the help of the faint starlight, he could clearly see that the windshield was pierced by a bullet, and the dried black blood remained on the driver's seat. Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, the engine could not be started. He was cold, tired and hungry, huddled in a ball, tossing and tossing, thinking about the battle between Jason and the Revelator all the time.He didn't know who would be the final victor. Although Jason boasted that the Solar Fleet is still active in space, their bases and supply facilities have undoubtedly been overturned along with Skynet. It is obviously impossible to defeat the Saints only by relying on the remaining forces of the Ministry of Security on Earth. After all, the giants of the century Efforts to eliminate the Sanhedrin have made no real progress.

But he also could not see the dawn of victory for the soldiers and centurions of the Trinity.Perhaps they are now intoxicated by temporary victory.The prophecy of the Revelator about the catastrophe has been so miraculously verified, but for the tens of billions of people living on the earth, without food, without energy, there is no hope of victory. Will he be the winner himself?Quinn didn't have too many illusions, desperate people were always ready to betray him in order to claim credit for Jason. He finally fell asleep in a stupor, sleep fitfully, and the nightmare was endless: he and Mindy frantically escaped from the dying earth, avoiding monsters with strange wings that fell from the sky. A hoarse growl woke him up, as if someone had punched the windshield again.He lay still, listening to the sound of footsteps fading away and finally disappearing into the dark night. He was confused for a while again, the sky was getting brighter, the smoky sky hung lower, and a biting north wind blew past, scattering snowflakes. He drank all the remaining water and jumped out of the car.Only then did he notice that it was a van.The robber last night stole everything from him, leaving him not even a crumb. He was dizzy with hunger, but he still walked forward with heavy steps.There was all sorts of stuff on the road: dolls, toy space shuttles, clocks, pictures, books, tapes, and windblown scraps of paper.There was everything, but nothing he could eat. He came to a street, and not far away, he saw a gray concrete wall about three meters high. The top of the wall was covered with sharp iron points and wires were wrapped around it.There is a yellow sign on the wall: sun company Azteca Terminal Electricity Authority without the permission of the giants no trespassing He limped south along the fence for a few kilometers, and found a gate, surrounded by a large group of people, with laser guns at the gate, and the flag of the Sun Company stuck in the handle of the gun and waving in the wind.At this moment the voice from the loudspeaker silenced the whispering crowd. "Go away! Go away! Non-sun family members and company employees are not allowed to enter, they must register and check their documents... Go away! Go away—" The gathering was growing, many with staves, a few with guns, and a few of them wearing red armbands were loudly inciting the crowd. "Burn these rats to death!" A blond-haired man was yelling. "Burn these rats to death! They store a lot of grain inside the wall. We have everything we need. We must open the warehouse to release grain. Brothers, join the holy war! We are dead, and the Trinity God will bless us." Quinn skirted the crowd, slipped away, and continued south, as the avenue became more and more empty.He walked through a large garden and noticed that the trees were all bare.The building after leaving the park looks newer and taller than the previous ones. There is no wreckage of Skynet here, so there is no fire raging.The thick smoke billowing from the sky now seemed far behind him. A car came out of the corner without a sound and stopped in front of him.There was a green globe on the roof, and the driver was a black man in a green hat. "Sir, what are you doing here?" "I think—" Quinn's tiredness disappeared immediately, and he replied clearly, "I want to see Claudio Baraka." "I'm sorry, sir, you are not the only one who wants to find him, we have already taken in too many asylum seekers." "Let me—let me talk to him, please?" "Talk," said the driver tartly, honking his horn, "do you think he's talking to a dirty rat?" "You tell him—" Quinn weighed his words, trying to win him food, warmth, and a glimmer of hope, "tell him that my name is Quinn, from the Aperture Station, and I am the son of Dr. Olaf Thorsen." The driver looked at his companion. His companion shrugged, stared and asked, "Even if what you said is true, what do you think?" "Tell him I know his niece Mindy." "Mindy?" "Tell him—" Quinn stood shivering in the biting cold wind. "I know his son, Benito Baraka." "Benito?" The driver frowned, as if moved. Quinn wanted to seize his chance and said, "Tell him I saw Benito Baraka dead." "Dead?" The driver pushed his head out of the car window and stared at him closely and asked, "Where is the death?" "Kodo—Kodo," Quinn's teeth were chattering with cold, "just when the giant was assassinated." "Wait a minute, sir." The two people in the car winked at each other. "We will inform you." The driver closed the car's windows and started dialing the car's microphone.Quinn stood in the cold wind and waited for a long time shivering. "Okay, sir," the driver said in a more cautious tone, "he decided to see you." They first locked Quinn in an iron cage in the back seat of the car, and when the car stopped in front of a row of tall white pillars Just let him out.Two black men wearing cuckolds came out of the room and escorted him directly into a bedroom. "The master treats you as a guest." They stood guard by the door, as if he were a dangerous prisoner. "He will see you at his convenience." They then took him to a bath.It is a great pleasure to be showered with hot water on a cold and dirty body.They brought him a clean green spacesuit, which fitted him well, and Quinn thought it must be Benito's.After taking a bath, he ate another plate of hot food.After the meal was full, he felt very tired, so he lay on the bed and fell asleep in a daze. When they woke him up, he didn't know how long he had slept. "Get up, sir, the master wants to see you now." Quinn got up reluctantly, and followed them by elevator to a longhouse full of ancient monuments.The carved marble slabs in the room are covered with thick carpets, and on the carpets are scattered some ancient books and some old paintings that have been blackened with age.Quinn paid special attention to whether there was a monitor, but he didn't see it. There is no one in the room, there is a large square table in the middle, surrounded by chairs.Through the big window of the room, you can see the heavy snow falling outside.A vast expanse of whiteness, Quinn thought, the earth is so clean!For a moment, he suddenly felt that this was his island of refuge, and he finally crossed the sea of ​​fear and death and successfully landed. "Sir, please come in." The escort made a gesture. He entered the longhouse, and through a side archway came a small room.Claudio Baraka removed his headphones from his head and stood up from behind a pile of computer dashboards.Although he was thin, he was very strong, with a black face and a stern look, and a pair of black eyes flashed with the light of a shooting star that was about to burn out. "You said you killed the giant, didn't you?" Claudio's cold eyes and his icy voice shattered Quinn's short-lived illusion of having just survived the robbery.He suddenly felt his limbs were cold and weak, as if he had a serious illness.He was terrified of making some stupid mistake and ruining his last hope. "I'm Quinn," he was already numb and confused, and he couldn't think of any clever moves to get away with it, so he had to say honestly, "accused of murdering the giant." Claudio nodded expressionlessly and said, "I've already heard Jason's televised speech." "I was indeed at the scene of the murder." Quinn made up his mind not to flinch from those ruthless eyes, and said, "I saw who was the real murderer, the murderer, but unfortunately he died." He After a pause, he continued: "He is Benito." "My son." Although Claudio's black face remained calm, his cold eyes clearly shone with the light of a beast, "he is our hero." Quinn involuntarily took two steps back.He said as calmly as he could: "I've come back to see Dr. Olaf Thorsen. My dead mother—" "Tell me first how you got here," interrupted Claudio, "and how you escaped from Codo." "I'm lucky." Quinn thought, what could warm his dead fish eyes! "After Benito sneaked into the secret passage, he forgot to close the entrance door, so I escaped from there and hid in Thorsen's laboratory. When Kodo crashed, I escaped in the spaceship that Thorsen built for Benito. Life." "Benito's spaceship?" Claudio asked in surprise, "Where is the spaceship now?" "Stop where I stopped." Facing Claudio's aggressive questioning, Quinn was very nervous, "I came from Jannot, hoping to get Dr. Thorson's help. At the aperture station, we need the engine he designed to continue. stay alive." "Huh?" Crowdy asked mockingly, "Why are you looking for me again?" "Because—because we're fighting space aliens." Quinn was silent for a while and continued: "I am not alone and helpless. Lu Ensang—the Skyfish my mother used for experiments—is on the spaceship with me. If I don't send it back to the environment where it adapts place, it must die there. They have a weapon in their hands that can be used against monsters that destroy Skynet." "What weapon? Where is it?" "It's on a floating spaceship. Jason has knocked the spaceship out of combat. Fortunately—" Claudio scoffed at what he said. "Luensang—" Quinn said confidently, "Luensang said that with that kind of weapon, the enemy can be completely wiped out. She called the enemy the searchers, and they are breeding, and they are on the Trojan asteroid. She said that they will reappear Kill it back." Claudio froze there, sparks flashed in his dead fish-like eyes. He suddenly asked in a sharp voice to himself: "Skynet is destroyed, the giant is dead, what else should we worry about?" Quinn turned his head to look at the wildly dancing snowflakes outside the window.After a while, he asked nervously, "Can I see Dr. Thorson?" "It's a pity that you are too late." The crazy spark in Claudio's eyes gradually extinguished, and there was a vicious look inadvertently. "He left two days ago, with his engine." "Do you know where he went?" "Go ask my niece," he chuckled, and said bitterly, "Just Mindy, your first love, I already knew all about it, didn't I?" "I love her," Quinn murmured, "I loved her." "Everyone loves her." Claudio's eyes lit up again. "She captivated Benito. She lived here after her parents died and I thought of her as my own daughter. We all trusted her - too much." Quinn didn't know what to say, so he remained silent. "This vixen, playing poor Benito around!" Claudio suddenly became furious. "Her devil face! Her yellow marks! Her sun blood! We should have suspected her long ago, but we never did." He suppressed the anger in his chest. "The cunning little bitch," he squealed, "our double agent in the security service—gave us out long ago. She cunningly let Thorson go, and let him take the engine. She cunningly escaped when the ore rained down from the sky." "Where did they go?" "Do you think I'll tell you?" Claudio said contemptuously. "You're nothing more than a smokescreen from a giant. I know who you are, you fool. Want to come undercover? Want to claim a reward? Even if you give Beto Leaving a way out is not out of love for our cause." Claudio was silent for a while, as if adjusting his emotions, his dead fish-like eyes became very cold again. "Clay McLean? It's your stepfather, isn't it?" Quinn nodded.Claudine's voice was not as sharp as before, but rather low and gentle, and Quinn relaxed a little. "I knew him. It was a long time ago. He was still a child, only eight years old. Quinn, he is much better than you. When he was eight years old, he would use a toy car to deliver information to us." Quinn stared closely at Claudio and asked, "Are you Sandysimo's spy, codenamed Saladin?" "That was a long time ago," Claudio shrugged. "McLean worked for us, but now the old score is written off." The gentleness in his deep voice disappeared suddenly. "I now want you to hand over Benito's spaceship, the treasure you stole—" At this time, the computer made a creaking sound, and Claudio looked down to see what information came. "You are a spy for Sandissimo!" Quinn exclaimed in despair, "you are finished! Admiral Kirwan says your revelators are a hoax. " "Damn Kirvan!" Claudio turned around sharply, staring at Quinn and said word by word, "I know who is the divine revealer, and I will follow him into heaven." He spoke categorically, and there was a shadow of madness in his black eyes, just like the eyes of the computer-simulated old man with white beard that Quinn saw on the monitor. "We shall build an Eden of the Holy Trinity, which shall be an eternal paradise for those who engage in our cause. We shall build Eden upon the dry bones of those who blaspheme, where there shall be no pestilence, hunger, and death, and those who died for the cause people will live forever there.” The computer squeaked incessantly. "Our people will definitely find out where you put Benito's spaceship," Claudio roared frantically, "If you don't open your mouth, you will find that there is no place in the Garden of Eden for a man who was born Bastards going to hell." He turned sharply to look at the computer that was beeping non-stop.A black man in a cuckold enters the house and takes Quinn back to his original room.Quinn begged the guards for food and blankets to warm them up, but they just stared at him blankly.He paced up and down the room to keep himself warm.He wondered if it was Claudio who made a computer-simulated revelator.He was getting more and more tired, and finally just fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep. About the first year of freshman year, Jason led people to attack. Estrena Rafaro was a beauty, with long black hair, brilliant, intelligent, and of her own accord.She was born in Ingama Leka, her mother was from Earth, and she used to be the chief engineer of the surface power network.The surface power grid provides electricity to one-third of the South American continent from its gravitational terminals in the Pampas. Her biological father is McMillan Chen, an expert at the Sun Company.During the construction of the surface power network, he and Estrena's mother worked together, and fell in love with each other for a long time, and the bead tires were secretly knotted.After the surface power network was completed, he was promoted due to his meritorious service and returned to Kodo. With McMillan gone forever, Estrena's mother swallowed the bitter pill and went on to design a new power grid at Sai River.She ended up marrying a Saudi banker who wouldn't let his wife bring in his ex-husband's whimpering daughter. In this way, Estrena was sent to the convent of Fatima to be raised.The fanatical nuns in the monastery tried to instill in her the belief in destroying the Kirvan family and the Empire of the Sun, but with little success.She despised them very much, and often stood in front of the window of her hut during midnight prayers, looking up at Skynet in a trance. The arc-shaped skynet traverses the night sky in the northern hemisphere, shining brightly.There are colorful signal lights on it, and there are space beacons shining like pearls.In her imagination, Skynet is a wonderful and infinite kingdom ruled by gods and men.Jason Cowan is her idol.She secretly hid his portrait under the mat, quietly dreaming a dream: Jason brought her into the starry world.She studied hard to realize this dream, and finally won a scholarship to study at the Coban Academy in Azteca, specializing in space medicine. After graduating with honors, she applied to join the Solar Family and work in space.However, her application was rejected on the grounds that the quota for Earthlings had been exhausted years ago, and she was not even eligible to be interviewed for employment in space because she had no registered immediate family members of the Sun. She finally emerged as a slim beauty.During this time, she turned down a marriage proposal from the general manager of San Fel's Corporation, who, despite being handsome and a millionaire, had no sunmark.She works as a temporary medical worker in the Azteca City Hospital, silently hoping that her dream of happiness will come true soon. When the Seekers destroyed the world of her dreams, she didn't run around like a refugee. She still walked steadily through the devastated streets to the hospital, and worked 30 hours straight to treat patients.One of these patients was Jason Cowan! He was sunk while cruising, and Estrena led a rescue team to free him from the wreckage of the ship.Fortunately, he was not seriously injured.Handsome and charming Jason rekindles Estrena's dream.She ended up lying on Jason's bed, suddenly aware that her broken dream had been repaired.If the space aliens were unable to crush the Solar Empire, the Kirwan family would never die, and the power generated by the fission engine would undoubtedly make Jason's fledgling empire even more prosperous. Then she will become Jason's princess! Armageddon: The final battle between the Holy Trinity, who believe in a triune God, and the Satanic space-bred Suns.There were hints of this war as early as in ancient books, and it became a widely circulated prophecy through the mouth of the revealer, and it was verified after the crash of Skynet.This war has its evil historical background: the sun family stipulates that people without the sun mark are not allowed to do business; at this time, the saints are about to harvest, and when someone squeezes the grape juice, all the blood is squeezed out; God expelled the sun family from heaven.Disaster, death, howling, famine, and fire finally fell on the heads of the Sun Clan. This war was recorded in the chronicles written by the Saint Clan and the Sun Clan.