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second part of the story timeline begins one week after the incident of Flight 753, about the fall of Manhattan, New York. Occasion. However, at the beginning of the second part, it did not directly enter the real world, but told an ancient story.
At the end of the first part, after the death squad defeated the boss for the first time, at the beginning of the second part, it revealed a weapon that might save mankind and kill the boss-an ancient book handed down since ancient times. The content of the ancient book comes from the text engraved on a clay slab of the Mesopotamian civilization. In 1508, it was discovered in a cave. Later the board was bought by a Renaissance merchant and brought back to Europe. This antiquities seemed to carry an unknown curse, the merchant's house was ruined, and the whereabouts of the board was unknown.
A few years later, the board was obtained by the British Queen Elizabeth's astrologer John Dee. With the help of his assistant, the astrologer attempted to decipher the above text. Later, the assistant mysteriously disappeared and the astrologer hid the board. After the astrologer died, the board was sold by his daughter to a Jewish rabbi (a figure such as a scholar and wizard among the Jews), and this board finally waited for someone who could decipher it. The Jewish rabbi spent decades deciphering and transcribing the content on a volume of manuscript called Occido Lumen (Latin, literal translation kills the light).
Later, the rabbi presented the board and the manuscript as a gift to King Louis XIV. Unexpectedly, Louis immediately imprisoned the rabbi and ordered the board to be destroyed and the manuscript burned. However, the manuscript was kept by the king's mistress because she was a fan of occultism. The manuscript is kept by the mistress's nurse, who is also a witch. Later, the nursing mother was implicated in the poisoning incident, and the whereabouts of the manuscript were again unknown. However, there are some clues that most of those who have owned or searched for the manuscript have died.
Later, the manuscript was said to have been collected in a monastery in London, England, but before long, the tower of the monastery collapsed and the manuscript was destroyed. But in 1911, the manuscript surfaced again and appeared at an auction in Marseille. Unfortunately, before the content of the manuscript was made public, the auction was cancelled due to a mysterious urban riot (really an ominous thing...).
After World War II, Abraham came to Vienna and made a living by buying and refurbishing old furniture. Later he met a philosophy professor and began to learn by borrowing his collection. In the early 1950s, Abraham finally succeeded in his studies and became an associate professor at the University of Vienna. That is, while teaching at the University of Vienna, the professor got the help of the fund supported by the Stone Heart Group and began to search for antiquities related to mysticism, as well as the big boss (the vampire lodged on the body of the giant noble boy). Soon, the professor realized that the old man Shi Xin was deliberately unpredictable, and his true purpose was to use vampires to gain immortality, so he broke off the relationship with Shi Xin. Sure enough, Shi Xin was good at using rumors to create public opinion since he was young. After the professor left, he began to spread rumors about the relationship between the professor and the female student, driving the professor away from the university and ruining his future.
Who knows that the rumors are true. One of the professor’s female students suffered from polio since childhood. The girl’s father asked the professor to be her personal teacher to attend classes at home. Later, the two married secretly, and the girl's Christian family opposed her marrying a Jew and broke with her. In the following decades, the professor and his wife lived in poverty, but the wife was very kind and considerate, making the poor life full of joy.
In 1967, the professor heard the news of the Nazi concentration camp commander (the professor used to make a carved coffin for the commander in the concentration camp, which is the one lying in the big boss...It is really impermanent...) , So the professor tracked him to Albania, hoping to find the big boss through him. Because of her wife's inconvenience, the professor placed her in the village and went to find the Nazi commander alone. He finally pursued an ancient castle, found an underground tunnel leading to the castle, and met a large number of vampires. At that time the professor was still young, so he escaped after a fight. When he returned to the village, several days had passed. When I got home, I found my wife was missing, and the neighbor also said that he hadn't seen her for a few days. When I saw my wife again, she had completely mutated into a vampire. The professor knew that it was the Nazi commanders who did it, so he had to kill his wife and save the heart as a memorial.
After his wife's death, in order to continue searching for the manuscript and hunting vampires, the professor spread rumors that he had the antiquities in his hands, so a wealthy Dutch bookseller found the old professor through an agent. This bookseller was the chief Nazi military doctor during World War II. Like Japan 731, he conducted human experiments and killed many Jews. The old professor came to the bookseller’s house, took out the fake manuscript, and pretended to hand it to the bookseller. As a result, the bookseller insisted that he put the book on the table. The big boss was found in the concentration camp, and he became a servant of the big boss with the commander. He used the coffin to store the boss and replenish nutrients through the soil, and was later mutated by the big boss to become a vampire). There is a secret room at the bookseller’s house, which is a solution room. Later, the old professor broke the bookseller down there (this matter was mentioned in the second episode of the drama, when a noseless vampire visited the old professor in the detention center), Then it was put into the sarcophagus and sealed with lead, and finally the sarcophagus was sunk to the distant North Sea, where the vampire could not reach the enemy.
After that, the manuscript became a legend until today, when the kinship story took place, it appeared on the list of Sotheby's New York auction house again, with an estimated value of between 1,500 and 25 million US dollars. Through the mouth of the old professor, I learned that the manuscript was wrapped in silver, so the vampires had no way to reach it. They had to approach the manuscript through their human agents.
Do you remember the man who carried the coffin in the first part? In the cartoon, the coffin carrier killed a vampire in the street to save people. He was arrested by the sb government and locked up in a detention center with the old professor. At that time, he heard the old professor talk about vampires and was later transported to prison. On the way, other people in the car mutated and the car overturned. He killed the vampire and escaped. So, he basically understood vampires and the trick to kill vampires (headshot + see the light).
After Yun Coffin escaped, he returned home and found that his younger brother had also mutated, so he killed his brother, and later found that his mother had also mutated and collapsed. It was collapsing, someone in the darkness called his name. At first glance, there were six red eyes staring at him. It turned out to be three people in robes. They are actually three vampires.
Here we need to tell the story of the vampire. Legend has it that before the birth of mankind, there were vampires. There were a total of 7 vampires in the ancient times, 6 of which were pure bloodlines, low-key for ghosts, and reached an agreement with humans not to interfere with each other. Later, three of the six ancestors of vampires stayed in the old world (Europe) and three came to the new world (Americas), but they still maintained the agreement of non-interference. But who knows, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of ghosts. The seventh ancestor of the vampire is a different kind (that is, the big boss). So a few good ancestors planned to stop him. They picked the one who carried the coffin as their sun warrior (or day warrior or something). At the same time, the good ancestors also gave him a guy named Quinlan, who was very good at fighting, and his identity was unknown (I guess it should be a killer of the righteous vampire family...)
So the coffin was transported together with Quinlan. Find gang partners on the street, give them large sums of dollars and silver weapons, and organize armed counterattacks. Later his team will join the professor's death squad and continue to fight back.
At the old professor's house, the professor was thinking about how to pool money to bid for the manuscript. The rodent control expert and the male lead returned to the ground floor of the World Trade Center again, planning to destroy the coffin first. As a result, two people found that the coffin was missing, but a hexagonal symbol was found on the wall of the subway. The rodent control expert photographed the symbol and took it back to the old professor for study. What's more amusing is that the rodenticide expert is still writing blogs during the process of killing ghosts. He puts what he has seen and heard on his blog, hoping to let more people see it.
The rodent and the male protagonist continued to explore the depths of the subway, and found that the vampire used the subway to get out of the river (the vampire was afraid of water) and ran to various parts of the United States to suck people. The male protagonist said in a chat with the rodent exterminator that the old man Shi Xin is not dead yet, it must be because he is still useful to the big boss, so he thinks Shi Xin is a key figure. This view of the male protagonist determines an important next step for him, which will be detailed later, and is also a climax chapter in the second part.
After returning to the pawnshop, the professor studied the symbols they photographed and found that the big boss may be the angel of death described in ancient documents. It has countless eyes and tongues, and can spread and multiply like a virus. The old professor also believed that one of the seven vampires had been killed in the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The professor believes that nuclear bombs are like the sun and should be able to kill big bosses, but nuclear bombs do too much damage to the earth, so the professor pined his hopes on the manuscript. In addition, the old professor also suggested that the subway out of the city should be blown up to prevent more vampires from going out.
Exterminator discovered that vampires never vomit, and got inspiration from the professor's hemostatic coagulant. The two developed a new type of weapon, which will be used by the end of the second part.
Finally, the male protagonist decided to let the female assistant protect the female assistant's mother (the mother seemed to be suffering from Alzheimer's, but she was very lucky and lived until the end of the second part...) and his son fled Manhattan Island. The host escorted them to Pennsylvania Station in New York, and parted to say goodbye. The rodents went to bomb the subway exit, and the old professor went to the auction house to read the manuscript. As soon as a few people left the base camp, the vampires found it there. Fortunately, the old professor arranged a lot of organs for fluorescent bombs. Later, the team that transported the coffin also came, but missed the opportunity to meet the old professor and them.
The rodent control piled up many obstacles at the subway entrance, and then used explosives to blow up the exit, preventing vampires from entering the continental United States from Manhattan. Here, it seems that the exterminator was accidentally stained with the body fluid of a vampire, and a bug got into his arm. He used a lighter to burn the bug on his arm. . . (The rat-killing scene in the comic is very manly)
The male protagonist who said goodbye to his son and female assistant at Pennsylvania Station still continued to emphasize that Old Man Shi Xin was the key, and the female assistant saw that he seemed to be planning something silently. This matter will be discussed later.
The old professors also went to an old house, where they met 5 ancestors of vampires (6 minus Chernobyl died = 5). The old professor used to destroy the big boss and hand in the manuscript as Conditions, hope to reach a peace agreement with the ancestors (because of the return of the big boss, has broken the peace agreement between humans and vampires hundreds of years ago).
In the city, the army has not yet entered (again irony of the government's delayed response and extreme bureaucracy). The surviving humans organized into civilian armed forces to shoot vampires, but because of their lack of knowledge and experience, they were often sucked and then mutated.
The old man Shi Xin continued to help the big boss advance the cause of conquering the earth. He bought a nationwide chain meat processing factory and remodeled it. In it, like raising livestock, it stores a large number of humans for the big boss to attract. Isn't the boss injured in the first part? Now through the continuous inhalation of people, his skills have recovered. . . (Ru...)
Shi Xin has also invested in the construction of several nuclear power plants around the world. Why should they be built will be discussed in detail later.
At the same time, the old man Shi Xin often appeared on TV, pretending to be a face of the country's difficulties and responsibility, and said a lot of good deeds in support of the government to track down the virus.
In addition, Shi Xin also helped the big boss to pay for the manuscript at auction. Even more powerful, he also controlled the FBI, making them his own minions.
Haven’t all the people who sucked by the big boss mutated into vampires? It’s not that simple. Every mutation is actually a child of the big boss, and has become his eyeliner. The big boss has passed countless children, manipulated them, and passed their The eyes can see everything (so the big boss sees six directions and listens to all directions, knows everything, which is very unfavorable for the death squad), and every time he fights with a vampire, he actually faces the big boss's eyes at the same time. . .
Later, the big boss ordered the children he made to catch the death squad and kill the adults, but when he brought the children back, he was the son of the male protagonist (I don't understand that he treats that son specially for Mao).
The female assistant took her mother and the hero's son on the train, but the good times didn't last long, the vampire sent by the big boss watched them, but had to get out of the car and escape. Because it was inconvenient to take his mother, the female assistant asked her son to hide, and took her to escape by herself. During the period, she tried to kill her, but she didn't take it seriously. . .
Later, the mutant mother of the protagonist’s son took him away and offered it to the boss to suck, but the boss didn’t suck him. Instead, he cut his wrists away and let the protagonist’s son drink it. How, there is no further explanation in the second part, but even the comics are very, very disgusting. . . :(
The servant of the big boss (that is, the mutated vampire of the Nazi commander, the professor's murderous wife and enemy, the man in the second episode of the show who has no nose and only sees people through special effects makeup. He also pretended to be an old professor attorney and went to prison. Over), began to meet Shi Xin for the big boss, and promote the big boss's career. He seems to have a higher rank among vampires than ordinary ghosts.
In the second part, the boss of the protagonist, the director of disease control, has more roles, but he is not doing business and has been committed to assisting the FBI in arresting the protagonist, because at this time, the protagonist was officially promoted as a lunatic and murderer ( Frame him for killing the captain). As a result, the male protagonist took the tactics and hijacked the director and asked him to take himself to see Shi Xin.
So, here, the comics have spent a lot of time, showing a series of scenes:
The main screen is the separation of relatives, vampires sucking people everywhere, humans retreating steadily, and two death squads are constantly injured or dying (the team of the old professor and the team of the coffin). The voiceover is a letter written by the male lead to his son on the way to meet Shi Xin. In the letter, the male protagonist said to his son: "Zach, I am not a hero, but I want to do one thing for my faith. Being at the train station and you are the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life. You have to know, I have never chosen human beings and abandoned you. I have never put the importance of humans above you. What I want to do now is for your future. I hope that the remaining humans can benefit from what I do. Hope. In the future, you will never have to do what I do and choose between your own children and your own duties. From the moment you were born and I held you in my arms, I knew that you would be the only one in my life. My beloved, the only one who I am willing to give everything without asking for anything in return. Please understand, I can’t entrust anyone else to do this. The history of mankind over the past few centuries is mostly written by guns, and It’s those killings driven by faith or the devil in my heart. I have both. Crazy is real, whether it’s mental insanity or the cruel real world outside... Maybe I can change all of this. I will be Think of it as a criminal or a lunatic, but my hope is the future. Facts can prove my innocence, and you, my son, can put me in your heart again. Please don’t treat your father as someone who abandoned you , Or a person who often breaks contracts (the son mentioned here in the drama that his father often agrees to meet with him but often breaks the agreement in response), but a person who hopes that you can survive as a human race in this war. Please. Think about the way your mother was before her death. Our love for you will never die. You are our best gift to the world, no doubt. Your old man, Dad.” (This comic is very emotional In fact, it means that an intellectual scientist in a Western country decides to kill a bad guy. This kind of thing is in a place like the United States, where human lives are greater than the sky, so it will be a big book, which is completely understandable).
After writing this letter, the hero and the director went to the Emergency Management Bureau. It's all these days, and there are still a lot of protests at the door of the administration (I don't rush for my life...). On TV, the old man Shi Xin announced to reporters that he supported various government measures, including 300 million yuan in financial support, food and drinking water support, and so on. At the same time, through the media, he suggested that the government suspend nuclear energy legislation so that the nuclear power plants in Locust Valley can start operation and store energy to provide energy to Manhattan. (Regarding nuclear power, I will mention it later) After
entering the bureau, the male protagonist knocked out the former boss and locked him in the toilet, and then attempted to shoot Shi Xin, but was caught by several bodyguards. Later, he was sent to the FBI, and during the interrogation, he was dragged onto a helicopter. As a result, it was amazing, being pushed down from a helicopter in mid-air, and pushed to the Shixin Building all at once. As a result, the old man Shi Xin invited him to the Last Supper (囧).
During the chat, I knew that Shi Xin was the person who helped the big boss. He started to get sick decades ago and his body was very bad. He has become extremely disgusted with the human body, hoping to help the big boss in exchange for his own mutation and gain immortality. Shi Xin believes that humans and livestock are no different. They are both species downstream in the food chain. Unexpectedly, the hero's heart is super strong, and he uses chat to fight psychological warfare, stimulate Shi Xin's desperate heart, and instigate Shi Xin's suspicion of the boss. Because the big boss is the ancestor of vampires, he controls all vampires. Although there are high and low levels of vampires, even if Shixin is at the highest level, it is still lower than the big boss. To be controlled and manipulated, freedom has not been as long as a human being. The old man said he couldn't go anywhere without his boss. The male lead asked, the big boss is Mao who wants to transform you into his own blood? Speaking of this, the helicopter is here, and it's time to return to the FBI.
After returning to the FBI, the interrogation continued. As a result, the vampire ran into the FBI and sucked all the agents. Just when it was about to suck the male lead, the coffin squad arrived and saved the male lead.
While the protagonist was having dinner with Shi Xin, Sotheby's New York auction house began to auction the manuscripts. The professor and the rodent were gone. As the representative of the opposite side, I went without a nose. When the bidding finally reached 32 million U.S. dollars, he was told by the auction house that his credit was emptied. It turned out that the conversation between the male lead and Shi Xin played a role. Shi Xin called to cancel the credit, and threatened the big boss with this, so that he could transform himself as soon as possible. Who knows that the big boss is powerful, not only does it not deform, but simply twists the stone core off. In the process of threatening the big boss, the big boss said that Shi Xin was bad, and that manuscript was the last hope of human pigs.
As a result, the book fell into the hands of the justice team, and the professor photographed the manuscript with the money given by the five good ancestors. When taking the book from the auction house, a large number of vampires arrived, so the professor and the mouse began to fight the vampires. Later, the coffin and the male lead arrived. A group of people escaped, ran on a boat, and sailed off the shore. Side, cut off from the vampire. It was only then that troops began to be stationed on Manhattan Island, bombarding vampires with heavy fire.
After boarding the ship, the professor began to decipher the manuscript and found that there was a lot of map-like information in the book. He concluded that the way to kill the ancestors of vampires was to blow up the birthplace of each ancestor with nuclear energy, but the time was too short to study the big boss. The birthplace of, and the professor's heart is getting worse and worse, so he handed over the book to the rodent and the male protagonist to let them continue to study. At this time, there was news that large-scale power outages began on the west coast, and troops and militias began to station in large cities to maintain order. There is also news that an accident occurred at a nuclear power plant in China. At the same time, the nuclear power plants owned by Shixin Group were destroyed by explosions one after another.
The death squad quickly disembarked and rushed to the old house, hoping to remind the ancestors that the boss is using the nuclear power plant built in Shixin to eliminate the ancestors. It's a pity that the good ancestors don't know the birthplace of the big boss, and it hasn't been long before the good ancestors turned to ashes one by one (that is, the nuclear power plants on the ground exploded one by one). Before he died, the ancestor told the death squad that the only thing that could be done was to save all their remains in a sacred vessel made of silver and white oak.
So at this time, the death squad split into two teams and set off again. The professor and the coffin transport team went to the nuclear power plant owned by Shi Xin. At the power station, first kill a group of vampires, and then the professor asks Yun's coffin to leave, go to meet the male protagonist and the rat-killing, and then walk into the depths of the power plant alone. The coffin transporter watched the old man walk into the darkness. . .
The professor walked into the power plant and found that the big boss and Shi Xin were not there, but his servant was there. The vengeance of killing his wife came to my heart. The servant told the professor that the original concentration camp was just a place where he and the Nazi military doctors provided nourishment for the big boss. In addition, he was sent by the big boss to the professor for mutation processing. So the two began to fight. As a result, the professor had a flying sword that hit the servant's chest. Just at the stall where the professor was about to take medicine, it seemed that the big boss came and knocked the professor away with one hand. At this time, a death squadmate rushed in to support him and gave the professor some time to take medicine (an anticoagulant, vampire) Because they can’t vomit like a mouse, they’re dead when they are diluted after sucking full blood), the teammate is quickly turned around by the boss, then the boss sucks the professor, and then rushes out of the power plant with a poisoned expression. Later, when the big boss was poisoned and was about to die, it transferred its mental thoughts to the rock star, replaced it with a new body, and then harmed the society. . . (Wipe...)
There is also a short paragraph in the second part mentioning the International Space Station, where a female astronaut was notified that there was a virus and riots on the ground, and she needed to stay in the sky for a while. Later, the female astronaut mentioned that she had a nightmare, and then later, the comics were full of blood, and I don't know what happened. . . It will be revealed in the third part.
At the end, I quoted a diary of the male lead:
The day before the collapse of the nuclear power plant, politicians of various countries began to officially use words such as plague and vampire. Beginning in the Middle East, it seemed that the big boss was behind the scenes. Pakistan and Iran carried out nuclear weapons strikes against Israel, and then Israel immediately carried out nuclear retaliation. India began to send troops to Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea to cross the 38th parallel, and China to look for conflicts in all directions, and invoked security and its own gods to declare world hegemony. Russia has its own ideas, and it is rumored that more nuclear bombs will be dropped. Severely radiated smoke and dust spread on the surface of the earth, absorbing 70 to 80% of the sunlight, and hordes of vampires rose from the ground to announce their rule. The remaining humans hid underground, licked their wounds, and mourned the dead relatives. The world is no longer ours, and it looks like it will never be ours. . . (You can see it, the third world war begins...but how does this ending look a bit like a zombie world war...)
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