Chapter Twenty-Three: Phantoms
"Where's Amiko?"
Zhou Zhi lay on the ground exhausted, subduing Solomon with all his strength, and a hellish Karl appeared for no reason, so that he didn't even see Amiko's shadow until now.
"Get up, I'll take you to her."
Karl held out his hand to him, and Zhou Zhi grabbed his hand and dragged him to his feet.
Karl crouched down in the creek and washed his hands, then pulled out a handkerchief to dry his hands before getting up and walking downstream.
"I'm watching him here."
Zhong Xiaoguang also sat up with his rifle and pointed to Solomon beside him, Zhou Zhen nodded, made a gesture secretly, and then followed Carl's footsteps.
After walking downstream for about half an hour, Carl stopped, pointed to the side of the stream, and Zhou Zhen stepped forward quickly.
The creek bank here is slightly higher than the terrain on both sides, there is a bamboo lying on the bank, the stream is slowly flowing into the bamboo tube, the end of the bamboo is connected to another bamboo, along the bamboo to go forward, another one, Zhou Zhen looked up, found that the water pipe connected by the bamboo is 100 meters long, has been leading to the depths of the dense forest.
"What do you mean?" Zhou Zhen had an ominous premonition and ran forward along the bamboo pipe.
At the end of the water pipe is a big pit, Zhou Zhen is from the Orion family, is very familiar with this kind of big pit, the bottom of the pit is inserted with sharpened bamboo, and the top of the pit is covered with dead branches and leaves, it becomes a trap.
His heart tightened, and he walked to the edge of the pit and looked down, Amiko was looking at him in a panic at the bottom of the pit, her mouth was covered with adhesive tape, her hands and feet were shackled, and a trickle flowed down the bamboo hose into the pit.
For five or six hours, she was obviously imprisoned here, the water in the pit was already chest-deep, through the clear stream, Zhou Zhen saw the sharpened bamboo at the bottom of the pit, Amiko was standing between the gaps in the bamboo, the buoyancy was getting bigger and bigger, her toes were already difficult to touch the ground, and she might accidentally step on the sharp bamboo tips at any time.
"Amiko, use your saber to cut off the shackles and bamboo!"
Zhou Zhen reminded Amiko loudly, but Amiko just kept shaking her head, and two strings of tears flowed from her eyes and merged into the stream in the pit.
Zhou Zhen didn't have time to think about the reason why she didn't use a saber, and raised her foot to kick the bamboo hose, but before her toes fell, Karl had already flashed in front of him, stretching out his palms to push him away.
"Are you some kind of psychopath? What about a girl? ”
Zhou Zhen drew his gun and shot at Carl, the hammer made a clicking sound, he remembered that the bullet had been withdrawn by Carl, so he had to angrily smash the pistol at Carl.
As the pistol flew in front of Karl, he suddenly vanished ghostly, just as he had appeared, silently and without warning, and the pistol landed in a parabola in the grass in the distance.
Zhou Zhen was in a hurry and took the opportunity to rush to the bamboo water pipe again, but the result was still the same, Carl flashed again and pushed him away again.
"Hehe, this is the traditional punishment of my hometown, waterboarding, you can't forget your roots, Amiko only has two choices today, either hand over the saber parasitic system, or die in this pit."
Carl bowed deeply as he spoke, his arms resting on his abdomen, his palms pointing to an open suitcase on the edge of the pit.
"I would like to introduce to you that the new product launched by the Mayyaz company last month, the parasitic system collection device, as the name suggests, the role of this device is to seize the parasitic system, for example, if Miss Amiko activates the saber system, once the parasitic robot leaves her body, it will be immediately captured by the magnetic field of the storage device, I have tested it on myself, and I can definitely use it with confidence."
Zhou Zhen was engrossed in the pit just now, but he didn't find this suitcase, the suitcase contained some test tube-shaped electronic devices, and there was an LED display on the inside of the top of the box, which displayed: Saber parasitic system, collection progress 18%.
It seems that Amiko has already lost some parasitic robots in the previous battle.
"Why?" Zhou grabbed Carl's shirt collar.
This time Carl didn't disappear suddenly, and replied with a smile: "Don't get excited, because she is fornicating with bandits, according to the regulations of the enterprise alliance, this is a major violation that can be executed on the spot, but I am very kind and give her a chance to choose, if she takes the initiative to hand over the parasitic system, I will spare her life." ”
"Amiko's fornication gang? She didn't even set foot in the bandits' sphere of influence. Zhou Zhen retorted angrily, and his hand tightened.
"You are the evidence of her fornication with the bandits, you don't have an ID chip, you took refuge in the bandits, and you got a weapon from the gangsters barracks to save him, isn't this an fornication gang?"
Karl coughed a few times by the collar, and after squeezing through the strong accusations, he shrank his head and arms in, and then squatted down, and actually emerged from his shirt like a loach.
"I'm a little bit of a cleanliness fetish, so keep this shirt if you like."
He squatted naked to the edge of the pit, took a few drops of the stream flowing from the bamboo with the palm of his hand, and wiped his rib protruding chest: "Help me persuade Miss Amiko, otherwise I will regret not killing you just now." ”
Zhou Zhen only understood the reason why they were following all the way at this moment, in fact, the purpose of Carl and Solomon was just a saber parasitic system, and Amiko's life was worthless to them, but Amiko's identity was still a cadre of the Shennong Group, and a legitimate reason was needed to lynch her.
Karl rubbed his chest red, and was about to reach out to catch the water again, when the bamboo hose suddenly burst, and the sound of gunfire followed, splashing him with bamboo chips, water droplets and dirt.
Karl screamed and slapped the dirt on his body, and looked angrily at Zhong Xiaoguang, who was aiming again in the distance.
The moment Zhong Xiaoguang shot the second shot, Carl disappeared again, and less than a second later, he flashed in front of Zhong Xiaoguang again, first punched Zhong Xiaoguang in the face, and then slashed his rifle to snatch him, Zhong Xiaoguang was prepared this time, and took a punch from him, took a step back with the rifle, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at his feet.
Carl looked down, and then was stunned, Zhong Xiaoguang stepped on the fainting Solomon, the rifle was against his temple, although the armor system has an automatic defense function, it also needs to rely on nerve reflexes to activate, at this time Solomon was covered in injuries, his clothes were rotten into strips of cloth, obviously dragged by Zhong Xiaoguang all the way, and he obviously lost the ability to mobilize the armor system.
Carl pretended to be calm and kicked Solomon: "Do you think I will care about his life?" ”
Zhong Xiaoguang rubbed the dripping nosebleed on his shoulder, and smiled reluctantly: "I don't think you care, but as soon as he dies, the armor system will lose its function forever, and I don't think you will be willing to lose a parasitic system." ”
Carl couldn't be calm anymore, he dodged behind Zhong Xiaoguang and grabbed his neck, Zhong Xiaoguang didn't look back or struggle, he smashed back across the rifle, and he disappeared the moment the butt touched Carl.
But Zhong Xiaoguang still had a back hand, and the rifle turned back, quickly pulled the trigger, and pierced Solomon's shoulder blades.
"Stop, you!"
Karl appeared beside him, leaned over to pull Solomon's pistol, heard Zhong Xiaoguang pull the bolt, he immediately stopped, and then completely fell into a dilemma.
When Zhong Xiaoguang and Carl were confronting, Zhou Zhen had already obtained the parasitic system collection device, and the Mayyaz company, as a technology giant, had outstanding design capabilities, so that the equipment used for covert operations, the interactive interface was also very close to the people, the display screen was touch, and there was a button in the lower right corner that said: Turn off the collection device.
Zhou Zhen conveniently closed the collection device, and shook the suitcase to Amiko under the pit: "The saber system is free." ”
Amiko quickly cut the shackles, and destroyed all the sharpened bamboos at the bottom of the pit, Zhou Zhi used this time to find a bamboo pole used as a water pipe, the bamboo pole was rough and awkward, Zhou Zhi tied Carl's shirt to one end of the bamboo pole, his own T-shirt tied to the other end, and then stretched the bamboo pole into the pit.
Carl came back to his senses at this time, threw down Zhong Xiaoguang and Solomon, and flashed back to the edge of the pit, but it was too late, he just appeared behind Zhou Zhen, and his chest was immediately cut by the parasitic robot of the saber system with two wounds, so he had to scream and flee incognito.
Zhou Zhi dragged the bamboo pole back to the ground, then got up to pick up the revolver, and after loading the bullets, he was about to follow the blood trail to chase Karl.
"Dad, don't bother, you can't catch up with the phantom system, the parasitic robot of this system can change the external spectrum of the human body, make the host invisible, and at the same time resist all kinds of resistance, Carl can move much faster than your legs."
Amiko said breathlessly, unbuttoning Karl's shirt from the bamboo pole and wiping the swollen hands and feet that were soaked.
"I don't think he's going to leave, he's going to parasitize the system, and we have two sets here."
Zhou Zhen carefully observed the bloodstains, the bloodstains on the edge of the pit were in the form of sprinkled spots, but the blood spots in the distance spread in sheets, apparently falling from the sky, and the bloodstains ended by a large tree.
"What kind of phantom system is this, can it make people fly?" Zhou asked Amiko in a loud voice.
"Well, the Phantom can partially cancel out gravity, which is why Carl can move silently, this system is very powerful, if you want to say the only drawback, it is that it cannot attack in stealth movement, and it cannot carry luggage." Amiko explained.
Zhou Zhen nodded, raised his hand and fired six shots at the tree, emptying the magazine.
"Brother Zhou, why do you want to kill them all?" Carl's choked voice came from the tree, dripping a string of blood with the sound.
"You know the location of the bandit camp, I can't let you go." Zhou Zhen filled the pistol with bullets.
"I'm only interested in parasitic systems, gangsters aren't my target." Karl's voice had become weak.
Zhou Zhen naturally didn't believe his words, he turned his head to look at Amiko: "Will you be logged?" ”
"Haha, of course." Amiko didn't wait for him to give an order, she had already activated her saber, and there was a slight cracking sound from the trunk of the tree, and Zhou Zhi pushed it with his hand, and the big tree slowly fell down with Carl's screams.
Karl's figure flashed into the air, dodging the toppling branches, but his body fell in a straight line, his back hitting the ground with a broken snapping sound, and he couldn't get back up again.
"I'll kill him!"
Amiko got up and staggered over, Zhou Zhi was afraid that she would use a saber, so she hurriedly shouted and gestured to her not to be impulsive.
Carl groaned, the bullet hole in his leg bleeding profusely, his biological energy was no longer enough to support the parasitic system due to blood loss.
Zhou Zhen looked at Zhong Xiaoguang: "Did you bring a first-aid kit?" ”
Zhong Xiaoguang nodded, Zhou Zhen snorted, and pointed to Carl and Solomon on the ground: "Help them deal with it, they are more useful alive than dead." ”
Zhong Xiaoguang took out the first-aid kit from his satchel, walked up to Carl, turned his head to Zhou Zhen and said, "I guess, you want to use them as weights." ”
Zhou Zhen smiled approvingly: "You guy is really too mature, I don't know you anymore." ”