Chapter 629: Past Events Like Morning Stars (Part 1)

Following Angela's shout piercing the calm night sky, in an instant, time froze, and then began to reverse.

The Schiller who had already fallen floated up slowly, the shattered glass shards flew up from the ground, and then once again formed the clean floor-to-ceiling window. Schiller and Batman returned to the posture of facing each other, others retreated from the door, went all the way down the stairs, and returned to the room on the 4th floor.

Constantine stood at the very front, facing the demon that had already shaped its physical form. Kayla and Angela stood behind him, raising their guns to shoot. Angela turned to look at Kayla and said: "If I didn't hear wrong just now, you seemed to say a sentence in Russian..."

"You had better have heard wrong." Kayla said expressionlessly. The gun she was holding was much more advanced than Angela's, equipped with a special silencer for agents, and the magazine also had more bullets.

Discovering that Angela's pistol had no bullets, she took a magazine from her waist and handed it to Angela, then said: "After going 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 encountered such a spy, she would definitely find a way to arrest them, but thinking of the content in her sister's letter, she could only say: "I think I know who you are looking for. Read this letter yourself."

She handed the envelope to Kayla. This was not because she identified with the Soviet philosophy, but only because, whether it was the FBI, the CIA, or the KGB, it was impossible to sit idly by and watch a mysterious organization not under their control develop. Therefore, in the matter of eliminating this organization, they had common interests.

Kayla just glanced at the envelope roughly, then returned the letter to Angela, then gripped the pistol tightly and said: "Her sacrifice is worth it, and so is your sister's."

"If it weren't for them, this mysterious dark organization might not have shown its flaws for who knows how long. We had organized a search for this mysterious force before, but their news was very well-informed, and they transferred quickly, so we couldn't catch their tail."

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

"Me too."

After the two women reached an agreement, Kayla shouted to Constantine in front: "You hold on a little longer, support will arrive soon!"

"Don't think about any support. This thing is simply not something ordinary people can deal with." Constantine took out a cross, then used the tail of the cross to cut his palm, chanting words in his mouth, seemingly performing some rituals.

He threw the blood on his palm toward the demon. The moment the blood touched the demon's corpse, the demon let out a scream, but just then, Constantine heard some strange sounds, a bit like the noise made by a helicopter propeller.

"Dodge!" Kayla shouted.

The three ran toward the door together. Within one second of them retreating outside the door, the entire wall of this room located on the external building exploded violently. Instantly, four walls became three, and the night wind poured in from the hole in the wall that had been blown up.

The smoke rising from the explosion blocked the sight of Constantine and Angela. Constantine took his arm down, coughed twice, then looked into 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 red dot sight. She pointed at the demon with the red dot and said: "Machine gun ready! Attack here!"

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

Because the helicopter's machine gun firepower was too fierce, 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 ordinary weapons were useless against him?!"

"Is this an ordinary weapon?!"

Constantine also shouted.

Suddenly, a 'Bang!' came, followed by 'Pitter-patter', 'Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh' sounds. Constantine and Angela both covered their ears. Constantine gritted his teeth and said: "These Russian old men are crazy! How dare they use heavy firepower on American territory?!"

"How dare they not?!" Angela shouted: "There is nothing in this world they dare not do!"

Just then, the wall of the entire room near the corridor was also blown down. However, this gave the black demon a way to survive. The limbs that had just condensed hadn't been used to attack yet, and they had to be used to escape first.

Constantine stretched out his bleeding palm, a shining magic circle lit up on his palm. He stood opposite the monster that was escaping, wanting to stop the monster.

However, the monster didn't cause him any harm, but the machine gun bullets strafing from behind made him scurry for cover.

"Dodge!" Kayla and other KGB agents each held a big gun. They waved their hands symbolically at Constantine and Angela, then said: "Don't let him run, let's chase!"

Constantine and Angela stuck to the wall, watching helplessly as the black demon was chased by a group of KGB agents holding heavy firepower, running through the entire corridor, and then rushed up the stairs.

"Why does he want to run up?" Angela asked.

"How would I know? Let's chase up quickly. Don't let them make too much noise, otherwise it might cause a war!" Constantine said while running upstairs.

"War? Are you talking about the war between the human world and hell?"

"I'm talking about the United States and the Soviet Union!"

The two chased this group of heavy firepower outputters all the way to the top floor. The demon, for some reason, only buried its head and rushed to the end of the corridor, and then rushed into the room at the end.

And in the room, it was exactly Batman and Schiller in a standoff.

Batman's reaction was very fast. Hearing movement behind him, he rolled directly to dodge. Thus, at this time, it became the demon and Schiller face to face.

This demon was very large in volume, and there was very thick black mist around it. The KGB agents who also rushed into the room didn't see that there was a person behind this big monster. They only sought a quick victory.

Seeing the monster stop, the output firepower became even fiercer. Along the way, the demon's body, which had just condensed and was not very stable, was beaten until it was almost about to collapse. This time, it didn't even last two seconds, and the entire black body exploded.

However, many heavy firepower output weapons couldn't stop firing immediately. The agents' reactions weren't that fast either, and plus the sight was blocked by the black energy of the demon's collapse, their fingers on the triggers didn't move away in the first time. Thus, the bullets poured out, all hitting Schiller's body.

The moment the black mist dissipated, everyone happened to see the sparks of the bullets blooming on Schiller's body, and then he fell from the window ten stories high.

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 spreading from around his body, turning into a warm color under the illumination of the streetlights.

Angela froze in place because she happened to see Schiller's face one second before falling from the building. She let out an unbelievable cry:

"Schiller... Schiller!"

"!"

After being stunned for more than ten seconds, she rushed to the window quickly, saw the figure falling to the ground, surrounded by blood, and she let out a desperate scream: "No!"

Twenty minutes later, outside the emergency ward of the Metropolis Central Hospital, Angela covered her face with both hands, her back slid slowly along the wall, and then she sat on the ground powerlessly. Constantine beside her was smoking, the smoke becoming thinner and thinner under the cold light of the emergency room door sign.

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

Angela was silent for a long time, not knowing whether she was recalling or organizing language. A few minutes later, she answered: "Of course, of course I know him. How could I not know him?"

"Seriously, as his friend, we don't know much about his past. Can you tell us some stories about him?" Constantine asked.

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

Constantine nodded. Of course he knew. In this era, although the anti-discrimination movement had been carried out for many years and the female employment rate had been greatly improved, that was only in ordinary industries.

In this era, in industries such as police, military, fire fighting, etc., there was still a stereotype in the internal atmosphere, that is, even if women joined, they should be clerks in the office, organizing files, serving tea and water. Forget about field work.

This was also why Angela's fame was very great. She was one of the few female police officers on the East Coast and even the whole country who had real skills. Everyone knew that a woman who could kill her way out in such an environment and conditions was definitely not simple.

However, along with Angela's narration, Constantine only then knew that she didn't become such a tough person as soon as she entered the industry.

"When I first entered the Metropolis Police Department, the work for the first three days was running up and down to answer the phone, or taking files from the first floor to the police chief. The police chief at that time liked to let me do this work, maybe because I was prettier than other female clerks."

Angela didn't boast. She was just stating a fact. Constantine stood leaning against the wall. From his angle, he could see Angela's slightly sharp brow bone and straight nose bridge.

This policewoman's appearance was not the soft and sweet style that the public liked. Her facial features all carried a sharp temperament, having a kind of wild beauty and a different kind of sexiness.

"When the combat team was assigned for the first time, it was no surprise that I stayed in the police department, responsible for organizing files."

"File work is indeed very important, and the collected evidence also needs to be analyzed, which can also provide great help to the detectives handling cases on the front line. I tried hard to convince myself that such a career was not bad."

"But I always felt that I could do more. So, during the second joint case with the local police department, I applied to the police chief for field work. He agreed, but the price was for me to sleep with him. I gave him a slap, and the next day, I was sent to the most remote branch."

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

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

To be honest, since Angela found him, this female detective's performance could be called brave. Not only could she quickly break free from the negative emotions of grief, but she could still possess strong combat effectiveness afterward. This was something most people couldn't do.

But who knew, Angela shook her head and said: "That time I only then knew that what I learned in the police academy was completely not the case when brought to reality. I was too nervous, so I let him run away."

"After that, he not only killed an innocent person but also caused the death of a police officer..." Angela closed her eyes, her tone began to become shaky, she said: "Since then, I began to have nightmares constantly..."

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"In the dream, I defeated that person countless times, brought him to justice, and sent him to prison. That innocent person and that police officer continued their calm lives. But every time I woke up, the facts were the exact opposite."

Angela took a deep breath and said: "I had long known that my mental state was not very stable because... because my parents..."

Angela seemed to have summoned great courage to be able to say these words. She said: "They said my sister was a monster, an incurable mental patient, praised me for being an excellent child, and never let them down..."

"But I knew that I was also a monster. I could see those things, but I didn't say it, or rather, I didn't dare to say it..."

"Because my sister showed abnormality first, they took her to see a psychologist first. The psychologist said she had delusions, so my parents ignored her begging, sent her to a psychiatric hospital, and said that if she wasn't cured, she couldn't be discharged."

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

"They pinned all their hopes on me. They found another expert to diagnose me."

Angela's voice already carried a hint of crying. Her tone revealed fear. She said intermittently: "When I sat in that chair, I was shaking all over with fear because I knew that I was the same as my sister, and I could also see those things."

"At that time, I heard the door ring, and I almost cried out because I felt that soon, that expert would pronounce my death sentence."

"But the one who came in was a young intern doctor. He said his name was Schiller, Schiller Rodriguez." ===== CHAPTER 630 =====