19 Facelings (xvi)
Seeing this scene, I immediately understood: maybe this room really stored precious materials, but now these materials have been removed, and the room itself has been transformed into a trap space. That being said, if you just leave an empty room and stuff a pair of ill-looking ambushers into the room, the prey will certainly not enter easily. So they set up illusions here—not hallucinations acting on spirits, but illusions like holographic projections, like placing a piece of fragrant meat in front of a hungry beast. In this way, our prey will come in obediently.
They succeeded, because we did come in.
But they also encountered surprises, because the trap was not for "me and Adam", but for "Hasegawa and the reporter".
Journalist – undoubtedly referring to "Chloe. XXXXX" (I forgot what her last name was) is the same person as Adam, but the man and woman in front of him are not recognized. In other words, the fact that Adam was Adam has not yet been revealed.
This is actually a bit weird, but what exactly is weird, I will put it aside for the time being.
The immediate must first focus on dealing with the man and woman.
Both men and women wore black suits that looked like rich bodyguards, and both were over thirty-five years old, with a lean atmosphere that would sting your eyes just by looking at them. At this time, although his attitude was a little surprised, he still reacted quickly.
The man said, "In any case, since you can find out that this room is special, it means that they should all be psykers; And since the fingerprint lock has been unlocked, it means that he is a thief who has come to find out the secrets of Beaver Pharmaceutical. There is no need for mercy, so kill them all. ”
"Beware of making too much noise, although this room is soundproofed, your fighting style is still too rough." The woman turned to him.
Hearing this, I also turned to Adam and said, "Do you hear that?" This room is soundproofed. ”
"I hear you." She held the revolver with both hands, and her spirit seemed to change from an ethereal gas to a solid liquid, and her eyes did not panic, but became calm.
"We have about fifteen minutes to go, and we have to do it quickly." I said, tossing aside the night vision helmet I was carrying.
"If you didn't knock out your supporters before, you can take as much time as you need now." She smiled and sarcastically mocked me.
At this time, the man heard the conversation on our side and said in a striking: "Do you think you have a chance of winning? ”
As he spoke, he lifted his right heel and struck the floor with the tip of his shoe.
Dense blue lines instantly appeared on the floor, covering all the floors of the room, which was obviously some kind of psionic rune. At first, I was very wary, and then I looked down, but after distinguishing the origin of the rune, I couldn't help but feel stunned. Because the effect of this rune has nothing to do with Adam - it is a psionic rune that brings "illusions", and it is by no means unpopular, I have seen it in books a few times before. The specific effect of the rune array is that it can make the psionic person who enters the range of the rune circle have the illusion that they can't feel their own psionic energy, and then make them unable to drive psionic energy.
Although this kind of talisman array has limited effectiveness and cannot deal with overly powerful psionics, it is more than enough to deal with psionics of Hasegawa's level.
And they must have made preparations in advance to exempt themselves from the effectiveness of the rune array.
In other words, their original plan should have been: first use this runic array to deprive Hasegawa of his combat power, and then quickly defeat him; Then the two worked together to clean up the "reporter Chloe" who had evidence of division.
But, again, no matter how beautiful the plan is, it is common for it to fail to catch up with the changes. This kind of psionic rune is like throwing tear gas at a dummy model for me, an "ordinary person", and there is no need to discuss it until I discuss whether it is useful or not.
At this moment, Adam suddenly raised the muzzle of his gun, pulled the trigger, and attacked first.
The two on the opposite side immediately avoided her firing trajectory, which was to guard against the attack of the Soul Bullet. Of course, they didn't know that Adam had bought the Soul Bullet, but as long as they hadn't forgotten their minds on their pillows, they would be wary of this possibility.
As the gunshots rang out, the bullet hit the floor, creating a small crater.
The woman seemed to see something from this trace, then turned her head and smiled disdainfully, "Ordinary warhead? As soon as she finished speaking, her smile suddenly turned hideous, and she rushed towards Adam.
Adam's first shot fired just ordinary bullets, perhaps to paralyze the opponent's consciousness. I thought as I simply bypassed the woman and rushed towards the man. I'm going to try to deal with the man first, and then go back to the woman in the back. It is best for Adam to hold on during this period with the evidence of division, and if she can't hold on, it can only be a pity that she is not strong.
As brutal as this is, I also have the possibility of dying in this battle - I am indeed a Faceling who has killed many psionics, but I am also just a mortal, and I still have a natural disadvantage compared to psionics, even if I have won many times in the past, it is not a guarantee that I will win this time.
I deliberately rushed out at a speed that was only a little faster than the average person, and when the man saw this, he seemed to be more convinced that I was a "psionic who could not drive power because of the effect of the rune array", and then raised his arm for a long time and sneered: "I didn't sit still, it is commendable, I am a man." But you still have to die here today, don't blame me! ”
After saying that, he seemed to use his arm as a long whip and swung it at me.
Of course, his arms did not grow longer or become whips, and the distance between me and him was a full seven or eight meters, and his arms were far beyond my reach.
But there must be something to this action, and I can't see it at a glance.
I had to assume that "he will definitely hit me if he does this", and I lowered my body at this moment. At that moment, I felt like a transparent train was suddenly passing above my head, and no one could see it. At the same time, there was a sound behind me of a huge opening in the wall, and the whole room shook.
He'll use spells that turn limb attacks into long-range attacks—I confirmed that right away.
"I've told you all, don't make such a big fuss!" The woman not far away let out an irritated shout.
The man was about to say something, but I dodged the attack and came to him, punching at the same time.
His face froze, and although he seemed convinced that I couldn't power the psionic energy, he didn't let me touch his intentions, and immediately retreated at a fairly fast pace, and then tried to strike the attack again. But at that moment, I immediately exploded and rushed to him again first, and landed a solid fist right in the chest.
The attack power of this punch is even higher than the last fight.
Many martial artists hope that through the power of emotional bursts, they can easily break through the safe limits of the brain on the muscles. However, for a martial artist like me, the outburst of emotions has a higher meaning. That is, a large amount of hormones are secreted in an instant, and more dense and violent nerve electrical signals are driven, forcing the muscles to respond excessively, so as to exert the power beyond the limit.
Even the last time I fought that "supporter" cop, I wasn't prepared to kill him, at best trying to stun him.
But this man in front of me is different, since he wants to kill me, then don't blame me for being ruthless.
If you want to hate, hate yourself as my enemy—if I had the chance to speak to him, I'd say it in "the usual tone of a Faceling."
And I have to admit that although I also feel that when I play the image of a cold and strong person, I occasionally use too much force, so that even I am so hot that I can't even sleep well, but the feeling of saying this "cold line" is indeed not bad.
My fist landed on his psionic armor, and the power pierced through the armor and muscles, smashing vital internal organs inside him and cutting off all life from him.
His body flew upside down and slammed into the wall, which caved and cracked around it.
The woman on the other side, who was grappling with Adam, suddenly let out a scream. said that it was a grappling, but it was nothing more than Adam using the evidence of differentiation to separate the phantoms, swapping positions while escaping everywhere, and you chasing after me. At this time, when the woman saw that her companion had been killed by me, she immediately abandoned Adam and rushed towards me with a furious face.
Adam in the rear, and Adam Phantom a few meters away, quietly turned the magazine of the revolver at the same time, aiming the muzzle at the woman.
She was going to use a bullet - I could see that, and the woman seemed to have eyes on the back of her head, and at the same time that Adam pulled the trigger, she didn't let her guard down at all because Adam had only used a normal bullet before, and suddenly deviated from the shooting trajectory of Adam and his phantom.
But in the next second, with the sound of gunshots, the woman's head suddenly burst open.
In the corner of the room, the third Adam held a revolver without saying a word, the muzzle of which was still smoking.
She slowly lowered her revolver, and the other two Adams vanished on the spot like birthday cake candles that had been blown out suddenly.
The battle is over.
*
I glanced at the woman's corpse and asked Adam, "So your evidence of differentiation can distinguish more than one apparition?" ”
"I'm going to keep a hand, too." She tucked the revolver into a holster strapped to her waist, rubbing her face with both hands, dissipating the tension of the battle while adjusting her breathing rate.
Then he lowered his hands, smiled, and said, "I, Adam, can trust you Faceling, but you Facelings may not trust me, the 'bad woman' who betrayed your partner, right?" In case you suddenly recall your previous experience at a critical moment, and then you feel that 'this Adam looks so unpleasant', and you want to eat black and eat black, then I also need a hole card to protect myself. ”
"And yet you showed your cards at such a time?" I asked rhetorically.
"If there is some reservation when fighting side by side, and even in the end it leads to bad consequences, it is a problem of my personality." She said this very seriously, and then deliberately showed an unfathomable smile, "And how do you know if I have a second hole card?" ”
As she spoke, she walked to the door and pushed, but the door panel didn't move, and then she glanced at the card reader next to the door.
It looks like a key card is necessary to get through this door.
If it were to be changed to another place, it would still allow Adam to use the Evidence of Differentiation and move outside to unlock the door with his fingerprint, but this is a room where psionic energy is isolated, and the phantom of the Evidence of Differentiation cannot penetrate the door panel.
I walked over to the man's body and groped for it, and since the man and woman were ambushing here, they should have a keycard to get out of here.
Suddenly, I remembered something, and then pretended not to know her real identity and asked, "Your real identity turned out to be a reporter?" But they only seem to know who you really are, but they can't recognize your identity as an informant; Hasegawa seems to have been convinced that the mysterious organization knows all your identities and will come to attack you as an informant. ”
"For the sake of safety, I've always been acting on the premise that the mysterious organization knows all my identities, and that's what I told Hasegawa." As Adam answered, he groped for the woman's body.
As the conversation ensued, I quickly completed the fumbling process, and instead of finding the keycard, I found two strange items: one was a clear glass box containing a short silver needle; The other is a swarthy black wooden face statue that looks like a stone sculpture from Easter Island in a previous life, with some cracks on the surface.
Is this the so-called "murder and treasure grabbing"? I half-jokingly commented on my actions, but the problem was that I couldn't see the way out of either object - no, I had some speculation about the latter.
The crack on the surface of the latter is quite new, it must have just been cracked, and it certainly wasn't from my fist; And the pair of men and women just now, no one has ever demonstrated the ability to create illusions, and the spiritual energy rune array on the ground has nothing to do with it. In other words, the statue in my hand should be the psionic item used by the pair of men and women to create illusions, and the reason why it cracked is probably because it is disposable.
I looked at the corpses on the ground again, and if I could, I would have liked to have wounded and not killed, and to take the blood sacrifice, but: first, the occasion was not appropriate at the moment; Second, I can't deal with the side effects of the Blood Sacrifice Ritual for the time being.
Before, just a blood sacrifice to a sheepskin killer almost made me unrecoverable; And if the blood sacrifice is a real psychic, the end can be imagined.
On the other hand, Adam also ended her search quite quickly, and she also found two objects: a stone with strange runes painted on the surface, small enough to hold directly in the palm of her hand; The other is a silver key card.
At this moment, the horn in the corner of the room suddenly sounded the alarm.
"The movement of the battle here is too big, and it has been noticed." She quickly stood up and opened the door with a key card.
I followed her out of the room, picking up my helmet and putting it on, suggesting, "You retreat by yourself first, I'll sneak into the security guards and leave." ”
She was able to replace her position with the Phantom with the evidence of differentiation and quickly evacuated, but I couldn't follow the same route. She understood this, too, and immediately reported a meeting point, and disappeared in front of me.
I immediately turned around and ran down the hallway.
Just then, another security guard walked across the hallway—possibly a police officer pretending to be a security guard.
He suddenly reached out to stop me, and then let out a faintly familiar voice from his helmet, "There shouldn't be anyone patrolling here, right, what are you doing here?" ”
"My partner just said he was going to come in and go to the bathroom, and then he never came back." I immediately told the lie.
"But it's the fourth floor." He said as he took off his helmet.
The face that was revealed was Xu Shengxing!
It's so good that I don't die, and I actually met him here.
He is a super-grade psionic who specializes in manipulating flames to launch large-scale, ranged offensives, and can easily turn an area into a sea of fire. Both for me and for Adam, it's a nemesis.
More importantly, he's a very important person to me. Whether or not I can catch his flaws, even if I can, I can't really kill him.
And if I didn't do my best, I would have lost.
You have to devise a tactic, an "what if, fall into the worst" tactic!
His eyes were sharp at me—or the helmet and visor I was wearing—and I could only continue: "I've searched the first to the third floor, but I can't find it." But the man in charge of the gate said that no one had left, so I had to go up to the fourth floor to look for it. ”
"Hmph...... Indeed, when I came in just now, the doorkeeper told me that someone came in to go to the toilet, but they didn't come out for a long time, and it seemed that they were lazy......" He seemed to agree with me, "It's Adelaide again, right, are you teaming up with him?" When I go back, I'll have to criticize him severely, and you can tell me about it. ”
"I will."
"Let's go, the alarm is still ringing. I'll just be alone here, and you can search somewhere else. He waved his hand.
I nodded and ran in the direction of the staircase.
At the same time, my vigilance climbed to the limit.
And just as I had only run a distance of about six or seven meters, a strong killing force suddenly rose from behind, and an incomparably hot force rushed over like a cannon.