Chapter 24: The Trap (Part II)
Newman, who has been released from physical limitations, is an exaggerated four meters tall, and his arms are more than four meters long when his arms are open, and his long legs look like stilts.
The most terrifying thing is that such a figure does not affect his speed.
In the blink of an eye, Newman bullied the hunter like a terrifying shadow, and before the latter had time to react, Newman made another move.
With his limbs, which can be bent and deformed at will, Newman can use all kinds of unbelievable locking techniques that normal people can't use; Right now, for example, his arms and legs are spring-like...... In a spiral shape, the arms and feet of the hunter were firmly entangled.
Although Hunter also tried to use brute force to break free from the other party's restraints, Newman's body was transformed to be extremely strong, and Newman could control energy to strengthen his own strength, Hunter was powerless to fight.
"Drink-" In a hurry, Hunter could only burst into a shout and hit Newman with the back of his head with a hammer.
However, Newman's limbs and torso could bend and move like an invertebrate; In the face of the Hunter's already extremely short-range attack, Newman easily dodged over.
After holding on for a few more seconds, the hunter who had been completely suppressed in terms of strength finally dispersed; Immediately afterward, his limbs were forcibly broken backwards by Newman, until they were completely broken at the joints.
Imagine when you're eating a whole chicken and you break the wings off the chicken's body against the joints...... That's what Hunter is going through right now.
"It's not like I've never met an enemy with a high resistance to 'impact' before......" After the opponent's limbs were folded behind his back and drooped down, Newman spoke again, "In my opinion, this is not a difficult ability to deal with, after all...... There are many forms of applied force. β
At this point, he suddenly let go of the arms wrapped around the arms of the hunter, and grabbed the head of the hunter with lightning speed, and then "twisted" it with force.
The idiom of "wolf care" is undoubtedly exaggerated, because if the human cervical vertebrae really turns 180 degrees without turning the body, it will definitely break, so ...... What if you turn 360 degrees, or more?
The obvious answer is that the force of the spiral tears apart the bones, muscles, and skin of the neck, eventually separating the entire head from the body, which is called "screwing the head off".
Newman's strategy was clear, he didn't speculate much about Hunter's yet-to-be-defined ability, he only focused on what he'd observed so far, namely "Rapid Self-Healing" and "Impact Nullification," and that's how he came up with it.
Twisting and detaching the head of the hunter from the body is not in the form of an "impact", but also restricts its self-healing; Even if the hunter has a head left, it will definitely take time to grow a body again, and during this time...... Newman wanted to pick at the other person's eyeballs, pour gasoline into the other person's ear, and light the fire...... There are ways to take out the hunters.
Whewββ
Three seconds later, with a strange sound similar to the sound of cracking, the head of the hunter was really screwed off.
At this moment, Newman's heart was a little determined, but a cautious person like him would not completely relax until he "did everything"; Before the blood of the hunter could spurt away, Newman held up the opponent's head with his left hand, and reached out with his right hand to pull it towards the broken neck.
According to Newman's vision, it is completely reassuring to put your hand into the hunter's skull and pinch his entire brain to explode it.
However, at the moment when his hand was about to arrive, an extremely strange scene happened......
Newman was surprised to find that what he was holding in his left hand, for some reason (he didn't look away, but couldn't explain the process of change), was no longer the head of the hunter, and became a "bomb".
Although Newman has seen a lot of bombs, he has only seen this thing in cartoons, because it is a typical "cartoon bomb"; It was a black ball with a lead extending from one end, which was still on fire.
Bang β
Although Newman's right hand had been retracted in time, the bomb exploded in the second moment he hesitated.
After the cartoon bomb exploded, a large amount of black smoke was produced, reducing the visibility of the surrounding area to zero, but the smoke came and went quickly, just like the "smoke screen transition" in the cartoon...... After the smoke cleared, Newman found that he had not suffered any substantial damage except for being blown to the ground, but the body of the hunter who had been suppressed on the ground by himself was also gone.
In the next second, Newman quickly looked up and looked around, and he quickly found the hunter who was standing a few meters away, and the hunter who should have broken his limbs...... Once again, he was unscathed.
"What's going on?" Newman was shaken, his physique would not break out in a cold sweat, but he was indeed a little panicked in his heart, "Could it be that I made a mistake from beginning to end?" In fact, his abilities are hallucinatory? That...... When did I get recruited? β
If a person is very smart but not smart enough, it is easy to think too much.
That's where Newman's panic comes from, and when he presumes Hunter's ability as a "hallucination," he begins to doubt everything; Theoretically, perhaps he had been hallucinating from the moment he began his stalking a few days ago...... Everything that happened afterwards could be fake, so that Shi Sanwen and Zhang San's escape from the mortal trap he had carefully arranged seemed to make sense.
But in fact, he naturally thought too much and thought wrong......
Hunter's current ability isn't hallucinating, it's an ability called "Cartoonish".
Under the previous round of extremely exaggerated barrage volleys, his "Death Suitability" evolved into this form.
"Cartoonization" is a "Disruption" ability, and its role in offense is basically negative, but in defense, it is arguably one of the strongest abilities.
When an "cartoonish" ability is attacked, those attacks may, but are not limited to, "being bounced off", "making ridiculous sounds and incapacitating", "wiping all edges and leaving a circle of the outline of the target's body on a wall near the target", "scorching, smashing, stabbing, punching, etc., but the target recovers and survives in a way that may not necessarily be logical".
In the same way, people who have mastered the ability of "cartoonization" can also take the initiative to play some tricks, such as "pulling out objects from behind you out of thin air", "pulling up your mouth like a zipper", "turning your heart into a chicken heart, protruding from your chest cavity and making a plopping sound", "teleporting, or even changing clothes and makeup while teleporting", and so on.
This ability is a double-edged sword, because it is very harmonious, so it is almost invincible in defense, but people who awaken this ability will also become very bad in attack, and even the attacks they inflict on others will become unable to cause due damage...... At most, it annoys the opponent.
"? How did I survive? On the other hand, at this moment, Lieba's heart was also like a mess, "What's wrong with me?" Did Shi San ask me what he did to me...... Since then, I have not only become energetic and full of energy, but I have always had an inexplicable cheerful mood, the hunger, thirst and fatigue accumulated before are gone, and I have not felt any pain at all when I have been shot, my limbs broken, and my neck twisted...... Wait, I'm not dreaming, am I? β
For Newman, it was great luck to meet a "cartoonistic" person with a weak imagination and understanding ability, and a temperament that was not harmonious, and if he was a smart person with a bad personality here, Newman would have to be played crazy.
"No matter what......" Lieba thought for a moment, but to no avail, he didn't think about it anymore, "Although he is much stronger than me, but now I don't seem to be able to kill, so I will go up and fight with him, even if it consumes him, it will kill him......"
Thinking of this, the hunter attacked and killed his opponent.
Now, Hunter Ba no longer controls the expression on his face, he shows a look full of fighting spirit, and he looks full of confidence.
And in the face of such a hunt, Newman once again made a judgment......
βBACK!β
Calm and calm, Newman made an unexpected move - he used his ability to send the hunter away.
For Newman, face didn't matter.
He will never be reckless, holding on to a fluke mentality, and fighting a one-on-one tug-of-war with a person who he can't kill, but who may kill himself......
Even if he was accused of "changing the passengers of a train, sacrificing a large number of agents, and spending a lot of money, even if he didn't even catch a fart in the end", he would not make any excuses.
Newman is the kind of person who can decisively let go of the "sunk costs", and his judgment of the present and the future will not be affected by those irretrievable costs; Moreover, he tends to plan for the worst and the most extreme in every situation.
It is because of his calmness and steadiness that he is one of the best investigators in the federal government.
In fact, if you think about it, the gains from his pursuit trip are still very large: although he did not catch or kill any targets, he obtained a lot of valuable information; Anyway, there are a lot of wanted criminals on the run, and they are not worse than these few, and while obtaining these high-end combat power information, Newman feels that he has earned it.
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Two minutes later, Newman returned to normal. The clothes on his body were made of special materials that could be extended with their changes, so they were not damaged.
After tidying up his clothes and thoughts a little, Newman adjusted his breathing, and then walked to the door on the side of the carriage, raised his voice and said: "I am Chief Newman, the operation is over, I am ready to open the door now, you pay attention to the gun and do not go off." β
He waited a few seconds as he spoke.
As the seconds passed, a trace of fear began to creep through his heart, because ...... Outside the door, not only did no one respond to him, but there was not even the slightest human voice.
Feeling unusual, Newman didn't repeat Fang Cai's words, and he directly opened the electronic door that separated the two carriages.
As a result, behind the door appeared a corpse and a man standing in the middle of the aisle, silently smoking a cigarette.
Today, Jack is still wearing a black suit, and the conspicuous scar on his face has not ruined his elegant, deep temperament when he smokes.
"Killed so many people so close to me without a word, and besides, I didn't get a drop of blood on my body except for the soles ......of my shoes," Newman said coldly, looking at him with his lifeless face, "Huh...... This demeanor is worthy of being a man known as the 'God of Killing'. β
Newman's "praise" is actually a demonstration, and the implication is that I know who you are, but I'm not afraid of you.
"Uh-" But Jack, however, didn't react much, he just took a puff on his cigarette and replied in an absent-minded tone, "I have something to tell him, I'm not interested in talking to you." β
When Newman heard this, he realized it and turned back suddenly...... Only then did he realize that within seconds of his confrontation with Jack, the door on the other end of the carriage had also opened, and there was no doubt that the federal agents on that side had also been killed.
And the "he" in Jack's mouth has also come to a place about five meters behind Newman at this time.
It was a smiling young man, a face that Newman didn't recognize.
"So......" In order to buy more time for himself to analyze the situation, Newman deliberately slowed down his speech when he said this, "You two are also accomplices of Hunting? β
Zilin didn't answer this knowingly question, but continued: "The praying mantis catches cicadas, and the yellow finch is behind, which probably describes the current situation." β
"Oh?" Newman said, "What do you mean...... You two are actually here for me? β
"On the day Hunter arrived in Cairo, at the time and place when he and Lao Shi met, there happened to be a guard officer nearby, do you think this is really just a coincidence?" Zilin responded to the other party's question with a question.
Newman didn't speak, but began to look back on his experiences these days in light of the investigative information he had, and thought eagerly.
"There aren't many people who are qualified to be sent to investigate the death of a guard officer, and you're one of them, but you'...... Not the guy I thought was going to come at first. Seeing that the other party didn't answer, Zilin continued, "I originally thought that it would be the guy who 'can easily kill him only on the Orient Express', so I decided the game early, but unfortunately it was you who came...... To be honest, if I want to kill you, I can do it anywhere, but ...... Forget it, our itinerary is arranged anyway, and you are one of the people who must be eliminated, so ......"
βBACKοΌβ Newman didn't listen to him anymore, because Newman had already guessed who the other party said was "the person who can only be easily killed on the Orient Express", and if the other party did have the combat power to kill that person, then Newman would definitely not have any advantage in the head-on confrontation, so Newman used "BACK" on Zilin and Jack very decisively.
The two men disappeared abruptly the moment he used his powers, but ......
"Didn't I already tell you......" Two seconds later, Zilin's voice sounded again, only this time, his figure appeared on the second floor of this carriage, "I've already laid out the game, when I learned that the person who was 'fished' out by the hunter was you, I had plenty of time to prepare...... to cope with your abilities. β
Not only Zilin, but at this time, Jack also appeared on the second floor of this carriage, and he stood beside Zilin, looking condescendingly at Newman standing on the first floor.
"You ...... This time yesterday, I was also on this Orient Express. Newman's mind was not slow, and he immediately understood the meaning of the other party's words.
"yes." Zilin continued, "I think you also know very well that this Orient Express runs a round trip every day, and the departure and travel times of the back and forth are fixed; Yesterday's train from Istanbul to Paris was on time, and we bought tickets for this parking compartment at that time, so today...... Thanks to you, we also started on time and not bad for a second, so after we were 'BACK' by you, we are naturally still here. β
"Looks like you know my abilities well......" Newman knew that the situation was not good, but he still tried to say something tentative and thought of a way to get out.
"Just know that you can't BACK twice on the same person in 24 hours, and you can't use it on yourself...... That's enough. Zilin shrugged his shoulders and showed an insincere, "regretful" expression, "All in all...... I'm sorry, Mr. Newman, but I can't let you go back alive to report on the results of this operation. β