Chapter 624: The Past Is Like the Morning Star (Part 1)

As Angela's shout cut through the calm night sky, time froze for a moment, and then began to reverse.

Schiller, who had fallen, slowly floated up, and the broken glass fragments flew from the ground, and then formed a smooth floor-to-ceiling window again. Schiller and Batman resumed their face-to-face posture, and the others retreated from the door, went down the stairs, and returned to the room on the 4th floor.

Constantine stood in the front, facing the demon who had already taken shape. Kayla and Angela stood behind him, shooting with guns. Angela turned her head to look at Kayla and said, "If I heard it correctly, you seemed to say something in Russian..."

"You'd better hear it wrong." Kayla said expressionlessly. The gun she held was much more advanced than Angela's, with a silencer specially for agents, and there were more bullets in the magazine.

Finding that Angela's pistol had no bullets, she took out a magazine from her waist and handed it to Angela, then said: "After you get out, forget everything that happened here. This is good for both you and me."

"You are a KGB, right?" Angela took a deep breath. Originally, if she met such a spy, she would definitely find a way to arrest them, but thinking of the content of her sister's letter, she could only say: "I think I know who you are looking for. You can read this letter yourself."

She handed the envelope to Kayla, not because she agreed with the Soviet Union's ideas, but just because no matter whether it was the FBI, the CIA or the KGB, it was impossible for them to sit idly by and watch a mysterious organization that was not under their control develop. Therefore, they had a common interest in destroying this organization.

Kayla just glanced at the envelope and returned it to Angela, then held the pistol tightly and said, "Her sacrifice is worth it, and so is your sister."

"Without them, this mysterious dark organization might not know when it would show its true colors. We have organized an investigation into this mysterious force before, but they were well-informed and quickly moved, so that we failed to catch them."

"I don't care who you are." Angela said while changing the bullet, "I just want to avenge my sister."

"Me too."

After the two women reached an agreement, Kayla shouted to Constantine in front of her, "Hold on for a while, support will be here soon!"

"Don't think about any support, this thing is not something that ordinary people can deal with." Constantine took out a cross, then scratched his palm with the end of the cross, muttering something in his mouth, as if performing some ritual.

He threw the blood on his palm at the demon. The moment the blood touched the demon's body, the demon screamed, but at this moment, Constantine heard some strange sounds, a bit like the noise made by helicopter propellers.

"Get out of the way!" Kayla shouted.

The three of them ran towards the door together. Within a second of them retreating out of the door, the entire wall of the room located on the outside building exploded violently. In an instant, the four walls became three walls, and the night wind poured in from the hole in the blown-up wall.

The smoke from the explosion blocked Constantine and Angela's vision. Constantine took his arm down, coughed twice, and then looked inside the door and said, "What the hell? Why did it explode?!"

But at this time, Kayla rushed in directly. Her pistol was equipped with a laser indicator. She pointed the red dot at the demon and said, "Machine gun ready! Attack here!"

After layers of smoke, Constantine saw that a helicopter stopped in front of the hole. The helicopter's machine gun began to output at full power at the monster, and the black demon was forced to retreat step by step.

Because the firepower of the helicopter machine gun was too strong, Constantine and Angela had to continue running forward and hid at the corner. Angela shouted loudly in the noise of the strafing: "Didn't you say that ordinary weapons are useless to him?!!"

"Is this an ordinary weapon?!!!" Constantine also shouted.

Suddenly, there was a "bang", followed by "crackling" and "swooshing". Constantine and Angela blocked their ears. Constantine gritted his teeth and said, "These Russians are crazy! How dare they use heavy firepower on American territory?!"

"Why don't they dare?!" Angela shouted, "There is nothing in this world that they dare not do!"

At this moment, the wall of the entire room near the corridor was also blown down, but this gave the black demon a way out. The limbs that had just condensed had not been used for attack, but had to be used to escape first.

Constantine stretched out his bleeding palm, and a shining magic circle lit up on his palm. He stood opposite the fleeing monster and wanted to stop the monster.

However, the monster did not cause any harm to him, but the machine gun bullets that swept from behind swept him away with his head in his hands.

"Get out of the way!" Kayla and other KGB agents held big guns in their hands. They waved at Constantine and Angela symbolically, and then said, "Don't let him get away. Let's chase him!"

Constantine and Angela pressed against the wall, watching the black demon being chased by a group of KGB agents with heavy firepower through the entire corridor and then rushed up the stairs.

"Why is he running up?" Angela asked.

"How should I know? Let's catch up quickly. We can't let them make too much noise, otherwise it may cause a war!" Constantine said as he ran upstairs.

"War? Do you mean the war between the world and hell?"

"I mean the United States and the Soviet Union!"

The two chased the group of heavy firepower outputters all the way until they reached the top floor. For some reason, the demon only focused on rushing to the end of the corridor, and then rushed into the room at the end.

In the room, it was Batman and Schiller who were confronting each other.

Batman reacted quickly. Hearing the movement behind him, he rolled over and dodged, so at this time, the demon and Schiller faced each other.

This demon was very large, and there was a thick black fog around it. The KGB who also rushed into the room did not see that there was a person behind this big monster. They just wanted to win quickly.

Seeing that the monster stopped, the output of firepower became more fierce. Before, the demon had just condensed into a body that was not very stable, and it was almost disintegrated. This time, before it lasted for two seconds, the whole black body exploded.

However, many weapons with heavy firepower output could not stop firing immediately, and the agents' reactions were not that fast. In addition, their sight was blocked by the black energy of the demon's disintegration. They did not take their hands off the trigger immediately, so the bullets that poured out all hit Schiller.

The moment the black fog dissipated, everyone just saw the sparks of the bullet blooming on Schiller's body, and then he fell from the ten-story window.

Constantine and Kayla, who had just caught up, immediately ran to the window. They looked down and saw Schiller falling to the ground like an ordinary person. Blood spread around his body and turned into a warm color under the street lamp.

Angela was stunned because she just saw Schiller's face one second before he fell from the building. She shouted in disbelief:

"Schiller... Schiller!!!!!!!"

After being stunned for more than ten seconds, she quickly rushed to the window and saw the figure who fell to the ground and was surrounded by blood. She screamed in despair: "No!!!!"

Twenty minutes later, outside the emergency room of Metropolitan Central Hospital, Angela covered her face with both hands, her back slowly slid down the wall, and then sat on the ground weakly. Constantine beside her was smoking a cigarette, and the smoke became thinner under the cold light of the emergency room doorplate.

"...Do you know Schiller?" Constantine asked.

Angela was silent for a long time, not knowing whether he was recalling or organizing his words. After a few minutes, he answered: "Of course, of course I know him, how could I not know him?"

"To be honest, as his friends, we don't know much about his past. Can you tell us about his story?" Constantine asked.

"About... five years ago, or six years ago, at that time, I just graduated from the police academy and came to work in the Metropolitan Police Department." Angela shook her head and said, "You should know how much discrimination women will face in this profession."

Constantine nodded. Of course, he knew that in this era, although the anti-discrimination movement has been carried out for many years, the employment rate of women has been greatly improved, but that is only in ordinary industries.

In this era, in the police, military, fire and other industries, there is still a stereotype in the internal atmosphere, that is, even if women join, they should be clerks in the office, sorting files, serving tea and water, and forget about going out on field work.

This is why Angela is so famous. She is one of the few female police officers with real skills in the East Coast and even the whole country. Everyone knows that a woman who can survive in such an environment and conditions must be extraordinary.

But as Angela told the story, Constantine realized that she did not become such a strong person as soon as she entered the industry.

"When I first joined the Metropolitan Police Department, my work for the first three days was to run up and downstairs to answer the phone, or to take files from the first floor to the chief. The chief of police at that time liked me to do this job, probably because I was prettier than other female clerks."

Angela did not brag, she was just stating a fact. Constantine stood against the wall. From his angle, he could see Angela's slightly sharp eyebrow arch and straight nose.

The appearance of this female police officer is not the kind of soft and sweet style that the public likes. Her facial features are sharp, with a wild beauty and a different kind of sexiness.

"When I was assigned to the combat team for the first time, it was no surprise that I stayed in the police station and was responsible for sorting out the files."

"File work is indeed very important. The collected evidence also needs to be analyzed, and it can also provide great help to the detectives handling cases on the front line. I tried to convince myself that there is nothing wrong with such a career."

"But I always felt that I could do more, so when I worked with the local police for the second time, I applied to the police chief for field work. He agreed, but the price was that I had to sleep with him. I slapped him, and the next day, I was assigned to the most remote police station."

"Perhaps it was because it was too remote that the murderer of a dismemberment case hid part of the body in a trash can on the street I was responsible for. Just like that, I faced a brutal criminal face to face for the first time."

"You beat him, right?" Constantine looked at Angela and asked.

To be honest, since Angela found him, the performance of this female detective can be called brave. Not only can she quickly break free from the negative emotions of sadness, but she can still have strong fighting power afterwards, which is something most people can't do.

But who knows, Angela shook her head and said: "That time I realized that what I learned in the police academy was completely different in reality. I was too nervous, so I let him go."

"After that, he not only killed an innocent person, but also killed a policeman..." Angela closed her eyes, and her tone began to tremble. She said: "Since then, I have been having nightmares..."

"In the dream, I defeated that man countless times, brought him to justice, and sent him to prison. The innocent and the police continued their peaceful lives, but every time I woke up, the facts were completely the opposite."

Angela took a deep breath and said: "I have known for a long time that my mental state is not stable, because... because of my parents..."

Angela seemed to have mustered up a lot of courage to say this. She said: "They said my sister is a monster, an incurable mental patient, and praised me as an excellent child who never let them down..."

"But I know that I am also a monster. I can see I saw those things, but I didn't say it out, or I didn't dare to say it out..."

"Because my sister behaved abnormally first, they took her to see a psychiatrist first. The psychiatrist said she had delusions, so my parents ignored her pleas and sent her to a mental hospital, and said that if she was not cured, she could not be discharged."

"I know, they just found an excuse to abandon her."

"They put all their hopes on me, and they found another expert to diagnose me."

Angela's voice was already a little crying, and her tone was full of fear. She said intermittently: "When I sat in that chair, I was trembling with fear, because I knew that I could see those things like my sister."

"At that time, I heard the door open, and I almost cried, because I felt that soon, the expert would sentence me to death."

"But the one who came in was a young intern, and he said his name was Schiller, Schiller Rodriguez."

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