There was no one on the road, and Gregoa and I felt like we were abandoned in this gloomy world. The gray sky seemed to have changed a little from before, but it was impossible to say in detail. The place is so remote, compared to the number of people entering Nightmare Las Vegas, the size of the city is so large, that the electronic demon emissaries are scattered in all directions, and it is quite normal to not see a single person for a few hours. It is precisely because the area is so wide that it is impossible to actually observe the movement in every place, so what is happening in the place where you can't see? Thinking about it like this can also make people a little creepy. There will always be some hazy places in the world of consciousness that naturally make people fearful, no, or should it be said, it is itself a manifestation of fear in consciousness.

It's a very normal thing for people to see a scene where they are particularly frightened. Maybe those situations are different from my own perception on the surface, but it is likely that there is some kind of hint that makes people have a very strong sense of immediacy, awakening those things that they are not willing to face again. When walking in consciousness, the things that manifest because of the target's own fear are also extremely strange and powerful, and even the consciousness walker is unwilling to open the cage of these fear factors.

Nightmare Las Vegas is not a dream of one person, it is more like a dream shared by many people, it is like a huge plaza for everyone who dreames to log in to this place. If the ghost nightmare is full of personality, then the nightmare Las Vegas is probably a symbol of commonality, even if this symbol is actually deliberately distorted by "mystery". What everyone fears, and what individuals fear, does not even come from the dreamer himself, but for some purpose. And the horrors placed here by the Nazis and other mysterious organizations will bring harm and suffering, and even death to those who enter this conscious world.

Dying in Nightmare Las Vegas and Ghost Nightmare, will the Electro Demon Messenger really die? I've never observed the actual situation, so I'm not entirely sure, but. From past experience, it's never as easy as logging out of an online game. In any case, people's consciousness enters this nightmare of "mystery", and it is not protected by a physical shell as usual.

I didn't use a quick sweep, I just summoned the electronic demon "Silence". "Silent" is Sagawa's electronic demon, and although he is driven by me, his connection with Sagawa is deeper. I've been trying to use it to perceive Sagawa's location, but in the past. Zuo Chuan and Nightmare Las Vegas seem to have always been somewhat estranged. She told me that she couldn't log in to Nightmare Las Vegas, and that was probably different from when I wasn't able to enter Nightmare Las Vegas for a while. It's hard for me to delve into the differences, after all, there are too many unpredictable situations when it comes to "mystery". Even so, I never gave up on connecting with her in Nightmare Las Vegas.

If Sagawa enters the nightmare Las Vegas. Then, "Wuyin" must be able to contact her.

Although there has been no special change in the past. But this time, the "silent" action is slightly different.

"Is it going astray?" Gregoya asked suddenly, apparently, she also realized that Silent had a poor choice of route. In my opinion, this is a kind of calling. It was supposed to take the shortest route to the meeting place. But halfway through, he began to deviate from his destination. When I walked through the streets, because I was not familiar with the geography, in order to take a shortcut, the path I chose was very unnatural at the beginning, but. Referring to the location of the meeting place, it was already possible to determine by this time that the deviation from the route was increasing.

"What's going on?" Confused, Gregoa and I settled on the roof of a tall building. Overlooking all directions, because you can't see any people, it looks particularly empty and gloomy, especially giving people a very uncomfortable feeling.

"Silence is not my electronic demon." I said, "As I said before, I'm not an electronic demon messenger, it's something I 'borrowed'. ”

"Borrowed ......" Gregoa was dumbfounded, and only said after a while, "Can the electronic demon also lend it?" ”

"Of course. Isn't that an example of what you have in front of you? I took a closer look at my surroundings and said, "But don't ask me, 'Why?' How? I don't know, but that's the way it is. ”

"So, the current situation, can it be seen that it deliberately brought us to this place?" Gregoria glanced at "Silent" standing on the edge of the platform and asked me.

"Its owner is also an electronic demon messenger who can't log in to Nightmare Las Vegas, but I'm a little different - I've always tried to use it to sense if the other party is online." I said, "However, this is the first time this has happened, and I am not sure if the silent movement is due to the owner's online appearance." ”

"The current atmosphere doesn't feel like an old friend meeting at all, right?" Although Gregoria teased like this, her expression immediately became stern, "Although this place is still some distance from the meeting place, until I come out, it is still the active area of the black smoke face. After breaching the three meeting places, the face of black smoke seemed to enclose the remaining assembly area. But when we came, we didn't see any of them. Even if you stand at such a high place, you can't see them at all. ”

"Maybe it's been recalled." I say. Although Area 51 chose a good time to surprise multiple meeting places when those who were able to acquiesce or fail to make a move, it would definitely be a joke to say that they dared to let the Black Smoke Face form a blockade. When the other occult organizations come to their senses, there will surely be many people who are deeply dissatisfied with what has happened and the current state of affairs. Even within the NOG, the people who agree with this surprise attack in Area 51 will probably not be all. I think that the NOG is the party that acquiesces in the action of Area 51, and even then, when deciding this attitude, it will definitely not be voted on by all members. It is impossible for District 51 not to know this, and it should also understand what kind of impact its actions will cause before making a decision to act, and such actions cannot last long.

Follow my thoughts. It makes no sense for District 51 to continue to lock down meeting places. Moreover, it is impossible for them to take advantage of the success of this operation to prepare for all the next battles at once. Of course, they will distinguish between enemies, intermediaries and friends, and deal with them with a poor attitude and strategy, when the most direct opponent is locked in as the Nazis. No matter how cautious, it is not superfluous.

I think that after causing such a big movement, the possibility of District 51 taking advantage of the victory is very small, and their victory is not because of how strong they are. What's more, their actions in the reality of the repeater also mean that they need a certain amount of time to digest the results achieved. Pave the way for the next move.

In this way, it is only natural that such a powerful mysterious product as the Black Smoke Face will be recalled. It would not be surprising to say that by this time, the members of District 51 had completely withdrawn from Nightmare Las Vegas and disappeared for some time afterward.

However, Gregaya, who had personally experienced the Black Smoke Face surprise attack, obviously couldn't think so easily.

"Maybe something more troublesome has happened." "There could be something more terrifying or circumstance that makes Black Smoke Face completely inaccessible to this area," she said. ”

Her voice hadn't fallen yet. As if to prove her right, an explosion rang out in the street on the left. It's as if the square building is bursting from within. The ceiling was completely torn apart, and in the dust and smoke, four more explosions rang out. The five compact explosions were as if marking the diversion of the point of the incident - the person or non-person who caused the explosion crossed a dozen stores in just five seconds.

Hiding in the smoke, the fast-moving figure could only see an outline. Suddenly, like a sharp arrow, it disappeared into the shadows behind the building. On the other side, it was as if something was moving, as if it were an illusion. The movements of both anomalies change so rapidly that the naked eye cannot keep up with their movements. And as they moved, more than a dozen black pillars of smoke rose up like dragons. Tumbling and weaving through the streets, the concrete pavement on the surface was lifted in an instant, and the stones hit the walls with a fierce and dull sound.

"There it is!" It was as if Gregia had seen something terrible, "The face of black smoke! And there are thirteen of them. There must be people from Area 51 here, and the Black Smoke Face is a little more chaotic when he is acting alone. Who are they chasing? ”

"It's a friend." In the chain judgment I unfolded, I locked on two figures, who were still a hundred meters away a few breaths ago.

Gregoria seemed to feel it, too, and when she turned her head, the two figures had already entered the building, and in a breath of time, they appeared from the staircase of the rooftop.

"John Bull?" Gregoa was a little surprised, but then turned her attention to the other woman beside her—she was dressed in a black corset, only the chest was adorned with fishnets, and the face below the eyes was obscured by a strange mask with a pattern full of oriental mystery, but she couldn't tell what it was, and the pattern was constantly changing like flowing ink.

I wasn't sure when I saw it from a distance before, but when I was close to it, I recognized it at once: "Zuo Chuan." ”

"Master." Sagawa bowed, her movements became more and more respectful, although when it was manufactured, the blueprint was the old cultural specialty "ninja" of the Central Principality Japan Special Zone, but when I first met her, the taste of ninja was not as strong as it is now. However, because the so-called "ninja" is already a very entertaining image, it is completely uncertain whether she is a ninja in the real sense of the word, but it is quite in line with contemporary aesthetics.

"Silence" has melted into the shadows at some point. I can't feel it at all, and I should have been recalled by Zuo Chuan.

"What the hell is ......" Gregoya couldn't finish her sentence, and black smoke began to rise from all sides below the building, as if the beacon had been lit, and the column of smoke rose to a position roughly level with the roof of the building, and immediately transformed into human faces with painful expressions.

"What a hornet's nest." I can't help but say. Because, the thirteen black smoke faces observed before have increased to about fifty at this moment. Excluding the combat intelligence, the "mystery" of the Black Smoke Face itself is even higher than that of electronic demon messengers like Gregoa, their abilities are extremely adaptable to consciousness, so they can exert stronger power than usual in Nightmare Las Vegas, otherwise, Area 51 would not have deliberately cultivated it.

"Mr. Takakawa, you easily killed one before, right? So. The current number is fine, right? Gregoya looked around, swallowed, and said a little dryly. I remember that when I first met her, she almost died at the hands of these weird people. Later, when he raided the Black Smoke Face Manufacturing Workshop in Area 51, it seems that he also suffered some small losses.

"Yes, no problem. But why such a large number? "I asked, the KY3000 in the form of a suitcase was already in my hand.

"They're working with the people of Shinrikyo at the end of the world." John Bull said calmly that "they" naturally referred to the people of District 51.

"This is not a reason to dispatch so many black smoke faces, this number, it is estimated that there is one-third of the reserve, right?" I say.

However, although we were already surrounded by the face of black smoke, the other party had no intention of attacking immediately. It's just a column of smoke suspended in mid-air, such an eye-catching momentum. You'll notice it even from farther away, right? Even if they want to stall for time, reinforcements from John Bull's side should be in action, and if Area 51 really wants to take advantage of this opportunity to defeat us completely, it should indeed do it immediately. However, there is one thing, and Gregoya is right, these black smoke faces are controlled by people, and they are controlled by people. It should be nearby.

"Undetectable." As if knowing my thoughts, Zuo Chuan said, "I can't find that person here...... No. I think it's those people. ”

Is there a counter-detection capability? With this in mind, I caused the Moquark to emerge from the shadows, flapping its wings and flying high into the air, using it to relay, and the range of chain judgments was further expanded. Quarks are like satellites. Hovering over this area, the places it passed, the outline of the scene in a radius of fifty meters centered on it, were stitched together in my mind one by one. The world of consciousness that I feel is losing its color. Like perspective imaging, and like a complete line drawing, the three-dimensional structure begins to shrink after losing the obscuration of the plane.

The panorama that can be observed by the chain judgment is understood as a map imaged in a three-dimensional mode, and the outline of the representative figure is further reduced to a cognitive point.

"Locked up three people." I said, "It looks like a combination." ”

"Only three of them?" John Bull asked.

"And that's not all." I looked at the faces of the black smoke suspended in mid-air, "Some of them were not observed, and it may be an illusion." "Yes, the dynamics of these black smoke faces are extremely striking, and yet two-thirds of the number of black smoke faces are not seen in chain observations. The difference between the observation of the naked eye and the observation of chain judgment makes one suspicious.

"Fox fake tiger might?" John Niu was also a little surprised, after all, the formation of fifty black smoke faces in front of him was really amazing.

"It's time to attack!" I noticed that one of the three people hiding in the shadows was starting to move, and in order to expand the search area, Quark didn't go directly to the location of the three. We were nearly 800 meters away from each other, but we were still in effective range. I lifted the suitcase and there was an immediate impact on the surface. The first sniper, the target was me.

Immediately afterwards, John Niu and Zuo Chuan also jumped to the sides, and the place where they were originally standing was pulled out of a hole with a big head.

"Attack Pattern Confirmed." I asked the two of them, "Have you ever had this kind of sniping before?" ”

"Nope." John Bull said.

"Do you want to kill those three?" I said, "I mean, it's better to be thorough." With that, he pulled Gregya and lifted the suitcase in front of her, and another shock came to her wrist. A sniper of this intensity, although it can blow people's heads, it is impossible to destroy KY3000 at all. KY3000 In this state of consciousness, following my perception of the apocalyptic illusion, the state of the suitcase, may have the worst attack power, but in the defense against direct attacks, it has an unexpected level.

In other words, when I face the current situation alone, when I confirm that the other party is moving, I will simultaneously launch a quick sweep and counterattack. However, listening to John Bull, it seems that these people are targeting her, and we are just being hit by the pond fish. I don't think John Bull is very wolf in dealing with such a situation, but I think that maybe she has some idea that will lead to retreat in a wandering way.

Since it is her goal, then, in the case of ease, it is not impossible to ask her plan in detail. Moreover, the Black Smoke Face acting as the front line does not make any movements, but instead refers to the messenger sniping from a distance, which is indeed a bit strange.

"No, I don't." John Bull's answer surprised Gregaea, but it didn't surprise me, "If you take them out here, some plans will need to find the right person again." ”

"What are you talking about?" Gregoa yelled, "They want to kill us now!" Do you still want them to do things for you? ”

John Bull glanced at Gregia, smiled meaningfully, and said to me, "If I have to kill them, I hope I can keep one too." Remember the commission that went off the rails? You need to take care of the child of destiny called Novsky. ”

"He's in the midst of all three?" I asked. Although I have an impression in my mind, I really can't remember what the man named Novsky looked like.

"Male, no, now it's supposed to be female." John Bull wasn't so sure, and I thought there was something wrong with her description.

"It seems that there is a lot of information that I need to re-understand." I said this to her and activated the KY3000 Rubik's Cube system. The trunk began to disintegrate, rotate and reassemble in a square fashion, and when further unfolded, it was a 10-meter-long cannon-like body that was attached to the right arm, and in order to effectively counteract the recoil, two brackets popped out of the tail of the cannon and nailed through the floor of the roof. The time for this reassembly was only a few seconds, and the three who failed in the sniper attempt had already begun to flee from the same place - they had already decided to evacuate before I could deploy KY3000.

In terms of pure mobility, their speed is not fast, it's just that, before me, neither John Niu nor Zuo Jiang can lock their position.

I glanced at the face of the black smoke, which was still hovering in mid-air, with a terrifying momentum, but had not moved for a long time, and put my finger on the trigger.

As the quark swept over the fugitive, a huge shelling sounded, and palm-length shells splashed from the shell opening, making the drop in temperature clearly perceptible when it came into contact with the air.

This is no ordinary bullet. A kind of special effect projectile for the network ball S mechanism, which is used against the gray fog demon and some specialized defense supers, the projectile body and internal medicine have been preprocessed, and then the guòS mechanism is used to carry out a "mysterious" amplification, which can only be fired one at a time, and the interval between each launch is one minute. With such limitations, it was more powerful than normal limiting weapons, very close to critical weapons—I hadn't actually used this kind of ammunition in my past Doomsday Vision. Today's ammunition is only a "conception out of thin air".

However, I still feel that in this nightmare Las Vegas, I can "make" it temporarily.

The use of such ammunition at this time was entirely intuitive.

The target of the attack was not the route that the three of them had arrived at immediately, but the place above their heads, where there was nothing.

The special effect bullet squeezes the air, and in the chain judgment, the ballistic marks seem to be deeply imprinted in the air. It first struck a black smoke face in its way, like tearing a ball of fluffy cotton, and after the smoke that made up the black smoke face cleared, there was no trace. Then, passing through the middle of the two black smoke faces, it was just a wave of qi, as if with a mysterious power, directly tearing off a piece of their smoke-like bodies.

Eventually, layers of hexagonal spots of light appeared in the sky above what it hit, where there seemed to be nothing.

When the light flows, it seems to paint a spherical outline, and the hexagon is the blocky unit that stitches this outline together.

-- It's a protective cover.

"Wizard?" John Bull frowned. (To be continued......)