Shadow of the Beautiful World

In the dark night, the New York Heroes Association is still coordinating with the authorities on the details of the clean-up operation that will start at 8:00 am, while others with the same purpose have already started a silent operation.

6 o'clock in the morning, the dark hour before dawn.

Assassin Victoria walked lightly in the dark alleys of Queens District. She was wearing a white assassin robe and a hood, covering most of her face.

There are two swords on his back, daggers are stuck in the belt around his waist, a box is held in his left hand, and his right hand hangs down in the wide cuff, ready to launch a thunderous attack at any time.

And beside her, there are several companions walking together.

We are all old friends.

Tell me, why did the master suddenly issue an attack order for the opponent's guild?

Assassin Leila Hassan said softly:

Is it because their activities in New York made Master feel threatened?

Threats? Just them?

Miles, who was following the two ladies, shook his head, looked around, and said:

They are not a threat at all. They have just arrived in New York and have not done anything to disrupt social order. Most of them are fighting with some local gangsters in the dark.

But to be honest, they are indeed a threat. If they are allowed to continue to move freely, the security situation in this city will gradually improve, and it will be dragged back to the original situation.

Myers said:

Judging from the master's orders in the past, he is a person who doesn't like to see order disturbed. I occasionally feel that the master is more like a Templar than an assassin.

No, order and freedom do not conflict.

The fourth person who had been silent all this time, an assassin with a black one-handed axe, John Wick, who didn't talk too much, suddenly said:

Absolute freedom and absolute order are both sources of disaster. The master's idea is to maintain the balance between the two, just like our ancestors.

Called by freedom to become an assassin, but will never take the initiative to destroy the order that protects the majority of people.

I'm just talking casually.

Miles shrugged and said:

I also know that chasing freedom cannot be at the cost of disturbing the world. Speaking of which, Victoria and Layla, you two have been tracking the missing 'Golden Apple' on the east coast recently, any news?

No.

Leila said unhappily:

That thing seems to have disappeared completely. We have captured a few remnants of the Templars before, but they don't know where the golden apple was taken.

Focus on the mission, everyone.

Victoria made a gesture, and the four assassins stopped moving, and they quickly jumped onto the wall.

At the end of the street in front of them was an unremarkable sewage treatment plant, but according to Master's information, it was another stronghold of the Hand.

The three assassins except Victoria opened up their eagle-eyed senses, and quickly locked onto the moving people in the building.

a large amount.

And they have all been trained, their steps are light when they move, and they have a special way of breathing, which makes their hearts beat slower than ordinary people.

It's not easy to deal with.

Leila held the broken spear behind her back, she wiped the edge of the broken spear, she said:

A bunch of real ninjas like the ones we saw at the Nandarbat training camp.

Speaking of Nandarbat

Myers said:

Don't you think that the Hand seems to have some relationship with the League of Assassins? I heard that the League of Assassins also issued a reward order just now, and the target is also the Hand.

Did you nap when we were training with those ninjas, Miles?

Victoria said coldly:

The Hand was an ally of the League of Assassins a long time ago, but it was later abandoned. The dead ninja master Lars Al Ghul got the ninja inheritance from the Hand, and let it be in the League of Assassins. Take root and sprout”

It can be said that these two organizations are originally one.

Then why do they want civil war?

Miles asked like a curious baby:

It's still at this time.

Grandmaster!

Silent John said:

As the only remaining master of the Brotherhood, he must have some relationship with the League of Assassins. After all, the League of Assassins is also a branch of the Brotherhood.

so

Layla and Victoria beside her looked at each other, and she said:

The master didn't mean to strike the hand, he did

Exterminate it!

Victoria was the only one among the crowd who knew Merlin's true identity. She knew very well how terrifying the resources Master Merlin could mobilize in light and darkness.

She shook her head and said to her companions:

Apparently the Master doesn't want to see the Hand in the world anymore. They must have really pissed him off.

Victoria sensed the activity in the sewage treatment plant ahead with the perception of a witcher. There was a trace of pity in her eyes, but it was fleeting.

She said to the other three:

These people are doomed, they can't escape the wrath of the master. Focus on the task, everyone, find that 'letter', and bring back his head!

Take action!

In Victoria's voice, the three assassins around her all retreated into the shadows, and even John Wick, who always liked to be tough on the front, completely eliminated his aura at this moment.

It's not that this berserker-like assassin can't sneak.

In fact, his stealth skills are one of the best in the Brotherhood right now, he just doesn't like to sneak.

Why spend time sneaking when you can easily kill someone head-on?

click

Victoria opened the box in her hand, and as her fingers fluttered, she assembled a black, futuristic-style sniper rifle.

The assassin lady observed the layout of the sewage treatment plant in front of her, then ran silently on the wall like a monkey, and finally found a perfect sniper point.

She set up the gun and hung the communicator by her ear. As a demon hunter with super vision, she didn't need a scope. She looked at the situation in the factory and said softly:

I saw you, everyone act!

Puff puff

As soon as Victoria's voice fell, three shadows rushed out from various places in the factory, killing five ninjas in just an instant.

In the silent assassination technique that has been practiced to the extreme, the three assassins are like the most industrious cleaners, clearing them from the periphery of the factory all the way to the inside.

Victoria, who was in charge of support, also turned the gun and pulled the trigger from time to time.

The sniper rifle in her hand used a bit of Cybertronian engineering technology. After adding a special silencer, the bullets fired were completely silent in the dark.

We're going down, Victoria, keep an eye out.

Miles' voice sounded through the communicator, and Victoria aimed her gun at the passage leading from the ground to the ground, like a hunter waiting for her prey.

But after a few minutes, things changed.

Noisy voices rang through the communicator, mixed with Leila's horrified shouts.

Shet! These guys are weird, they can't be killed!

There are still many children imprisoned here, be careful!

boom

An explosion from the ground made Victoria's eyes widen, and the rising flames spurted out from the passage from the ground to the ground.

While the fire was burning, several figures rushed out from the ground.

boom

With an inaudible sound, one of the people's head exploded.

Miss Assassin quickly unloaded and reloaded, then fired a second shot, and a third shot.

A few seconds later, the rest of the people scrambled and rushed into the shooting blind spot.

Victoria left the gun in place, pulled out the silver sword behind her back, and poured a mouthful of high-level thunder potion. With the veins on her face bulging, Miss Assassin jumped up from her hiding place, like a white cloud Like a shadow, it rushed into the battle zone quickly.

boom

Victoria, holding a sharp sword, stood in front of the fugitive Hand Association leader. The Japanese man named Xin held a sword in his hand, and his clothes still had marks of punctures.

You can't kill me!

Xin yelled in a strange accent and rushed towards Victoria, while Miss Assassin waved his sword to meet her without fear, and the deadly sword dance erupted in the dark night where the flames splattered.

Victoria! Don't worry about the bastard who can't be killed, come and help, these children can't hold on!

The call for help rang in Miss Assassin's ears. She glanced at the weird Japanese man who had been impaled three times but couldn't be killed, and then looked at the flames that were constantly being detonated in the factory area.

A moment later, she put away her long sword, pinched the Kunin seal, and rushed into the fire behind her.

A trace of bewilderment and resentment flashed across Xin's distorted face.

He looked left and right, and there was only a lonely mess around him, which made Xin's eyes full of sadness. He hesitated for a moment, then quickly disappeared into the darkness with the knife in hand.

His escape means nothing, and nothing can be saved. The sudden death and extinction of the Hand can no longer be stopped.

Here is the Daily Planet broadcasting live for you. I am investigative reporter Eddie Brock.

At 7:15 in the morning, Eddie, wearing a black leather jacket, rode a motorcycle and appeared outside the sewage treatment plant in Queens, New York.

Behind him, the New York police officers had pulled up their seat belts, and in that building, there were still unextinguished flames burning from time to time.

There are broken bricks and stones everywhere on the ground, and blood that has not yet dried up. The scene looks very hot.

Eddie, who was back in business, straightened his hair, then stood in front of the camera, pointed to the picture behind him, and said to the camera:

As you can see, I'm at the site of the blast right now in Queens.

In the early hours of this morning, there was a battle between the gang members and the superheroes of the Heroes Association, and there was a violent explosion. Look at the blood under my feet. Audience friends, this is enough to prove how chaotic the early morning firefight was. .”

However, the action this time is different. At first, like everyone else, I thought it was just a purely just action to maintain social order.

Eddie glanced at the notebook in his hand, and said to the camera with a serious expression:

But just now, at the scene of the explosion, the police discovered a very serious situation!

Eddie made a gesture, and the camera immediately turned to the direction of the brigade of ambulances parked on the other side. After the camera lens zoomed in, the audience could clearly see the patients who were being sent into the ambulance.

They're all underage kids.

Some children looked only 7 or 8 years old, but they were all in a scrawny and extremely unhealthy state.

Police found the children at the site of the bombing, who had been missing in the city for the past few months.

They were imprisoned under this factory, had their blood drawn, and performed some sort of nefarious ritual sacrifice for a suspected cultist group called The Hand.

The anger on Eddie's face was undisguised, especially when he saw the equipment the police had collected from the blast site for the cult's rituals.

When there was also a strange jar that was once used to hold blood, Eddie even had a flash of murderous intent in his eyes.

He disclosed those cruel details in the news report, and this time the report went surprisingly smoothly.

The too dark details that were not allowed to be disclosed in the past have all been magnified the scale of review this time.

Eddie's report was released almost unedited for a second, and it immediately caused a big sensation in the early morning.

In any era, using children as sacrifices is an absolutely evil act.

And the instinct of protecting young children in human genes makes every viewer who reads the report full of disgust for this damn Hand.

At the end of the scene report, Eddie stood at the entrance of the bombed underground factory, and he said to the camera:

As you all know, I'm not a big fan of the superheroes that pop up all over New York City, but this time around, I'm really grateful for the unsung heroes who saved these kids from something horrible.

Without their intervention, these children would have had a very tragic end

Before Eddie finished speaking, his garrison handed him a note. Eddie glanced at it, his expression changed, he raised his head, and said to the camera:

I just got the news that n.y.p.d. and the New York Heroes Association have reached an agreement. They will launch a round of strikes and arrests against the cult group 'The Hand' within the scope of the New York City area in one hour.

I have to say that the official response, which is always slow to respond, is surprisingly quick this time, but it is indeed very satisfying.

But I hope that the audience friends will protect themselves and not be involved in this large-scale operation against evil.

Eddie raised his fist in a striking motion and said:

Okay, here is Eddie Brock's live broadcast. See you tomorrow.

The moment the camera was turned off, Eddie's expression became a little ugly. The symbiote in his body felt the host's emotional changes, and it asked:

Eddie, you're in a bad mood, why?

Because we were played, Venom.

Eddie quickly left the ruins of the explosion, and he said to Venom:

I just said how the report went so smoothly today. The action against the Hand must have been planned long ago, and our report is pushing that organization into the abyss of hatred by the people.

Although these bastards who use children as sacrifices do deserve to die

Eddie got on the motorcycle, looked back at the debris being cleared behind him, and said:

But there must be someone who hates them very much. While eradicating them, they must use this method of closing the coffin to prevent all possibilities of their recurrence

It's like driving a nail into a coffin and pouring cement into a grave

The Hand, it's all over.