Garden of Eden || Apocalypse Paradise #2 [Complete]

150: St. Peter Isn't the only Sage

When Aliba saw the row of heads on his screen, he couldn't restrain his delight and finally burst into laughter. He never imagined that the bloodied severed heads of his hated enemies, who impeded him at every opportunity all these years, could be such a pleasing sight to behold.

"How many more targets are there?" He rapped his table, turning to his pale and nervous vice-chief, "Not many, right?"

The vice chief hastily pulled out a list and whispered a few words to him.

On the other end of the screen, the posthumans stood covered in blood. There was a heavy atmosphere in the air, and when they occasionally looked at each other, they would notice the anxiety on each other's faces.

The posthumans had already been re-dispatched multiple times, and the number of heads on the floor kept increasing. When a team reassembled in the city hall again, the screen lit up with a new list of missions from Aliba. The women did not want to submit to Aliba's deployments willingly. Still, quite a few of their wounded and incapacitated companions were now hostages of the Military and Police Department, so they simply had no choice but to fulfill the new mission.

"Let's go." Bai Xiaoke stood up. Her male escort stood up at the same with Xueqin on his back. "It's stifling here. I'd rather go outside," she commented unhappily.

The other two team members followed behind her wordlessly as they went to receive their next assignment.

The location of their new target was near Guang Zhu's residence, the place they illegally occupied for a night. The assassination target, the Head of the Technology Department, had probably noticed the fishy ongoings, so he set up many defense mechanisms and traps—many of which were products developed by the Garden of Eden Laboratories. It took a considerable amount of effort before they got their hands on the man's severed head.

Xueqin looked out from the dead man's bedroom window and saw his servant screaming and stumbling as he ran far away. After seeing that, she lowered her eyes with a bland expression. She didn't care if that escapee alerted the authorities or anyone else. After all, these were all Aliba's future problems.

Meanwhile, Dong Haohao and the others searched the rooms in the mansion. Usually, people who held power with their high posts in the government had their stash of Special Items. Those would be helpful to them, as they didn't have any items on them.

Bai Xiaoke held a baton after she messed up the entire cloakroom. She walked out, sighing exasperatedly, "This guy has too few Special Items. He only has all these useless creations from the Garden of Eden Laboratories.

The products from the laboratories weren't all that bad. They gave their team a hard time just now, and they were quite effective. Unfortunately, most of the items that belonged to that official were too large to carry around.

"It'd be great if Xiao Jiu was around; she would be able to store everything," Bai Xiaoke said dejectedly. When she thought of Lin Sanjiu, she couldn't help feeling worried. She placed her baton down and tried calling Li Tao again.

When the others heard the ringing sounds from the communicator, they looked over at her. But, when no one picked up even after a few rings, they focused back on their scavenging. Not even they could tell if they were disappointed or already numbed.

"Damn. Forget it," Bai Xiaoke swore quietly, reaching out to cut the call.

But the second before she touched the button, the ringing from the communicator stopped. Bai Xiaoke was stunned momentarily, and Li Tao's face suddenly appeared on the screen. Li Tao smiled, showing no unusual behavior or expression.

"Oh, it's you. How are things there?

'She looks different.' A fleeting thought surfaced in Bai Xiaoke's mind, but it faded to the back of her mind and was quickly forgotten. Right now, she was excited and surprised, "You finally picked up! What happened? Where are you? Did you manage to find Xiao Jiu?"