Arknights' Lock of Heaven

When the Black Cloaked Leader emerged from the sewers, most of the Reunion Movement members had already evacuated.

The Yeti squad, along with the Phantom Crossbowmen, formed a defensive line to cover their retreat.

The men in black stood on the rooftop, silently watching the Royal Guard's actions.

Since the original plan has been ruined and it is now impossible to completely annihilate the Reunification Movement, it is better to keep our trump cards and hold back.

All that's needed now is for the Black Cloaks to show up.

Those who want to cause trouble will know that this force still exists.

The rest is up to the Guard Bureau.

This is how Wei Yanwu issued his order.

After reporting on Xia Yu's situation, the Black Cloak Commander received this order.

To be honest, Wei Yanwu was still able to barely keep his composure when he learned that Xia Yu knew about the massacre plan.

But when he found out Chen also knew, that expression...

Tsk tsk.

The Black Cloak Commander knew why Wei Yanwu didn't allow the Black Cloaks to take action.

The chance to completely annihilate them has now been lost. If the Black Cloaks were to take action, this incident would become the one in which even the Guard Bureau and the Black Cloaks working together failed to completely wipe out the Reunion Movement trapped in Lungmen.

In order to maintain the deterrent effect of the Black Cloak, Wei Yanwu had no other choice but to do so.

It was clearly the Black Cloak side that messed up, but the Guard Bureau has to take the blame for it.

For the sake of the overall situation.

So they're just showing up now.

"Is that Rhodes Island?" Lin Yuxia looked curiously at the battlefield below. "Infected fighting against infected, huh?"

“Rhodes Island is not that simple,” Commander Black Cloak shook his head. “They’re helping us not to get anything from Lungmen.”

"It is not so much to use the power of the Dragon Gate to achieve one's own goals."

He knows a lot and sees things very clearly.

No one on this continent can ignore the name of the Tower of Babel.

The story of this legendary organization could go on for three days and three nights.

“Actually, we don’t need to fight this hard,” a member of the Yeti squad said to Huang, who was steaming from head to toe. “We’re just providing cover. You’re already destined not to keep these people here anyway, so why are you fighting so hard?”

“I’m telling you,” Huang said, glancing at him helplessly, “don’t you even look where you are…”

"There are Guards around here, and you're just saying that?"

"Just in case?" The Yeti Squad member chuckled as he dodged a crossbow bolt. "To be honest, Rhodes Island is quite to my liking. Our leader has been raving about you guys in private."

"No, you're pushing your luck, aren't you?" Huang used an Originium Arts technique, sending up a cloud of steam. "Who taught you to sow discord on the battlefield?"

She could sense that the Royal Guard agents next to her were looking at her differently.

“Look at this, look at this,” the Yeti squad member on the other side pointed at the guards who were looking wary, “I just said a few words casually, but I didn’t expect it to have such a good effect. It seems that Lungmen has never considered you as one of their own.”

"You Rhodes Island risked your lives to help them, and this is the result? Are you really satisfied?"

“There’s nothing to be unwilling about,” Amiya stepped forward, a hint of determination on her youthful face. “Rhodes Island didn’t come to Lungmen seeking their help or begging for their cooperation.”

"On the contrary, it was Lungmen that contacted us first; they needed information about our experiences in Chernobog."

"We and Lungmen just happen to have the same interests, so we stand together."

“As for the problem you mentioned,” she turned to look at the guards around her and took a deep breath, “I’ve also realized that Lungmen is not a good ally.”

"I will terminate my contract with Lungmen after this incident."

"But you, Dr. Kal'tsit, have told me too many stories about the guerrillas on the snowfields. Why have you, who once upheld justice, become like this?"

"Why?" A clear, melancholy voice rang out as Froststar slowly approached. "I want to know too."

“Why did it become like this?”

63. Blockade

"Hurry up, take them away."

"But, eldest sister, you..."

"Don't underestimate me," Frostnova said with a faint smile. "Go on, leave the rest to me."

After driving away the last Yeti that remained, Frostnova gazed silently at the other side of the passage.

Faced with the overwhelming attack from the Guard Bureau, even the Yeti Squad was outnumbered.

They had retreated to the underground passage while fighting, and fortunately, the remnants of the Reunion Movement who had previously occupied the entire underground parking lot had mostly withdrawn.

The Yetis are still being evacuated.

"Cough, cough, um..." Froststar suddenly bent over and coughed a few times, her voice filled with anguish.

The violent movement aggravated her already largely crystallized body tissues, and in an instant, her entire body was filled with pain.

When Oripathy reaches this stage, living in this world is nothing but suffering.

“But I can’t fall here,” she said, slowly straightening up against the wall. “I can’t fall here!”

"At least, at least hold on for a little longer! At least until they all leave..."

"Big sister!" The Yeti's voice was filled with excitement, "The evacuation is complete!"

"Mmm," Froststar said, trying to suppress the pain so that it wouldn't affect her voice.

"Andrei, you all go out first and go find Big Bear."

"And what about you, eldest sister?" Andrei stepped forward. "Let's go together."

"I'm going to stay and detonate those previously modified plots of land, at least to block the intersection and prevent the Lungmen people from using this route to pursue our compatriots."

"Don't worry, it's just to delay their progress."

"I'll catch up right away."

So Froststar said.

"Liar."

Froststar was stunned.

Andrei's voice choked with emotion, "Big sister, don't think I'm easy to fool just because I'm young!"

"What kind of reason is that? If it's really like you say, given your physical condition, would you even be able to walk after it explodes?"

“You’ve grown up now,” Frostnova said with a wry smile, “You’re not so easy to fool anymore…”

"It's because you guys keep lying to me that I've become so smart!"

"Listen to me, hurry up and go. Tell Big Bear to go back and find the old stubborn man directly, and not to see Talulah."

"No!" Andrei retorted, "I won't abandon my eldest sister!"

“Andrei,” Frostnova said softly, extending her hand, “look at me, look at me.”

Her hands were covered in black Originium crystals.

"I'm out of time, and I might not even make it back to Chernobog."

"You're infected too, you know what that means, right?"

"I'm dying."

"I can't leave you alone, big sister!"

Andrei continued to stubbornly refuse.

"Listen to me! Cough cough," Froststar wanted to scold him sternly, but the movement aggravated her fragile body. "Do you think you're so smart that you won't even listen to your older sister?"

“I’d rather be as stupid as I used to be,” Andrei said, looking like he was about to help her up, but then he was deterred by Frostnova’s gaze. “I don’t need to think about so many things. I just need to follow behind my older sister.”

“Andrei, you have to learn to accept it,” Frostnova said, sitting down against a pillar in the parking lot. “This is the fate of us infected.”

"Enduring torment day after day, not knowing when they will die and be swallowed by this land."

"Haven't you seen enough after all these years? I'm out of time... Let me stay here, like my comrades on the snowfield who are also in the final stages of infection, to buy you time."

"But, the eldest sister is the eldest sister..."

Although this sentence is a bit awkward, its meaning is clear.

“Big sister, we’ll all die someday too,” Froststar said with an air of detachment. “It’s just today.”

“Listen to me, you haven’t reached my point yet. One day, you will also need to make a final contribution to your compatriots in the last moments of your life, just like I am today.”

"I do not go!"

"Cough cough..."

"Andrei, be a good boy."

A steady voice came from the passage behind.