Chapter 44: The Caged Bird (Thank you to the leader of the alliance for the reward of the law of heaven)
Beehive Nightclub, 18th floor.
In front of the inferior, a bunch of people had already fallen scattered.
This is not unexpected.
Ordinary people, or even non-psionic ones, have little room to resist once they are approached by the inferior.
No matter how heavy the shield is, no matter how strong the prosthetic...... Whether it's the monster-like muscles or the huge combat machines that the "pilots" control, they don't mean anything in front of the inferior.
Just touch ......
Yes, with just a light touch.
He crouched down and leaned back with great lightness, dodging an electrifying steel whip that was thrown at an angle.
It's like a boxer.
The inferior approached like lightning, unleashing a very light and fast jab.
It's like a fight between lovers, or the force of an old friend patting on the shoulder when they meet on the road - you can't even feel the pain.
But the body of the person who was attacked suddenly froze, and his body tensed as if he had felt some fear in advance.
And at this time, the inferior stretched out his hands.
His signature pair of black leather gloves had been removed at some point, revealing his long, powerful hands.
It doesn't look like the hands of someone who is constantly involved in combat.
It doesn't even have calluses for holding weapons, but it's not slim, but has a healthy shape.
In terms of appearance, it is more likely to be associated with a pianist.
But perhaps only the inferior know how many lives these hands have indirectly taken so far.
- Smack.
With a gentle high-five of the inferior.
The person who was attacked by him suddenly stiffened and fell down. The prosthetic body in his body burst into sparks, and he was already paralyzed.
And those who were paralyzed on the ground also suddenly shuddered, and the already damaged prosthetic body further cracked.
However, even so...... But someone had already gotten up again.
Coupled with the people who came one after another, the inferior frowned.
As long as these people don't pull out their long-range weapons, they don't pose any threat to the inferior. But the inferior is inconvenient to kill...... This will make these people come and interfere with him constantly.
They move very slowly. It can even be said to be leisurely...... In other words, it is deliberately walking slowly.
But the inferior can easily knock people down, but they can't knock people back and fly. They are piled up here with their bodies, and the inferior will not go anywhere.
You can't just push them away - they have high-voltage electric batons in their hands after all.
It can even be said that if they pounce directly, it will be difficult for the inferior to keep their hands...... But it is precisely because of this that he knows better that these people just want to drag themselves down.
If you continue to fight like this, it will be endless.
After all, his physical strength is not unlimited, and sooner or later his movements will start to become sluggish...... One mistake may really be caught.
However, he was not too worried.
Based on the experience of the inferior, this is probably just a boring warm-up activity. Warm-up entertainment awaits the real mastermind before it's ready.
"—I said."
The iron mask on the child's face suddenly made a dull, indistinct, voiced voice: "You really hate 'heroes', so you sent that newcomer on a mission, right?" ”
After Iron Mask spoke, the zombie-like crowd that was slowly approaching suddenly stopped.
"Oh, that's not it."
The inferior replied coldly: "Although he is also a hero, that kid is an 'unconscious hero'. He doesn't yearn for heroes, he doesn't hate heroes, this state is the safest.
"I didn't expect that this kind of thing could actually be said by you......"
"I don't believe it all, after all, it can't be ruled out that it's acting."
"So what?"
A dull, voice-changing voice came from the iron mask: "So what are you going to do?" ”
"That is...... I can play with you a little bit. But it's best not to touch him yet. ”
The inferior snapped his fingers, making a knuckle crunch.
The bottom of his pupils lit up with a light blue glow, a luster similar to aquamarine: "Now that you've started communicating with me, isn't it time for this boring farce to end?" ”
This is the third time that he and the leader of the "Curtain of Ignorance" have clashed.
For the first time, the other party kidnapped a little boy on the middle floor of the Happiness Building; The second time was in the middle of the hospital, where a girl was kidnapped.
The man was using these children to force the bad guys to play bad "games" with him.
Both times it was similar to what it is now.
Inside that iron mask, there is a very sophisticated program bomb.
If you try to take off the iron mask directly, or make the child's height rise or fall half a meter from what it is now...... This bomb will explode.
Because of the inferior's special psionic ability, if he uses his psionic energy to attack others with all his might, the mask will also explode; And if he tries to take off any of the "Follower's" masks, or ignores him and runs away, the Iron Mask will also explode remotely.
The scope of the explosion wouldn't be too high - it would just kill the kid.
This is the "forced exit punishment" provided by the other party to the inferior.
But of course the inferior will not be willing.
The mask can only be removed after the inferior has completed the opponent's "game" by following the instructions...... But it will still explode after the countdown is over.
The first game was "Peek-a-boo". The inferior must silently knock down six people who are hiding from him in the Mansion of Happiness without causing a commotion, take a letter from them, and finally spell out a secret order.
This is not difficult for the inferior. HE DID IT WITH EASE, AND THE FINAL ANSWER WAS "SHABBY...... His name.
- From that time on, the inferior realized that the other party was coming for him.
The second game is much more difficult than the first.
The game, called "Mountain Bandit", asks the inferior to crouch in the elevator, wait for the elevator to be called away, and snatch what the first person to enter the elevator is holding, and bring it to the girl - and so on until the "five materials" are gathered. If something is stolen or taken back, it doesn't count this time...... Continue to accumulate up to five.
It doesn't seem like it's going to be difficult...... But in the hands of those five people, some of them had emergency medicines, some of them had medical records and documents, some of them had crutches, and ...... There was also a wife with her child in her hand.
The inferior at that time realized.
The other party's purpose is to make him lower his bottom line step by step - let the inferior gradually do more and more excessive things.
This kind of vile and playful behavior is more like being sought for personal vendetta than "letting the symbol of the inferior be defeated". Because the other party did not even notify the reporter, and asked the inferior not to ask for help in the executive department.
In this way, even if the mask really explodes...... In fact, it has nothing to do with the inferior.
Because no one knew that it had anything to do with him.
— but the inferior will never allow themselves to escape.
Even if he escaped, no one would know, and the inferior would never want to deceive himself like this.
In that case, what's the difference with the waste?
Iron Mask let out a sharp grin, and a fifteen-minute countdown suddenly shone on his forehead:
"This time the game is very simple, there are no complicated rules...... In other words, there are no rules. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Fifteen minutes. The bomb will explode in fifteen minutes, but I'll tell you directly...... The bomb is matrix-driven, the interface protocol is T-P-T, and it is physically linked with a magnetic decoder. As long as a psionic hacker is willing to enter the mask, there is a chance that the explosion can be stopped.
"But until then, these 'staff' will be slowly moving forward and trying to attack the psionic hacker.
"And this bomb ...... The portion size will be slightly more. At least it's okay to blow everyone on this floor here. If this floor collapses...... Maybe the people above will die too. ”
The mask's voice said lightly.
“…… Are you going to blow up your own followers? ”
The inferior man grimaced and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you afraid that when they hear this, they choose to rebel?" ”
"Then guess why I'm telling you the rules of the game now?"
Under the iron mask, there was a hearty laugh that was almost crazy: "After entering the space you are in, they have suppressed their hearing to one thousandth according to the non-prosthetic and long-acting chips I provided, so that their bodies can recover quickly. While your psionic energy can still damage prosthetics, it is no longer able to inflict permanent knockdown attacks on them.
Or there is another solution. That is, kill the child directly, and the bomb countdown may stop, but the program will also collapse immediately.
This time, the game is called Caged Bird.
"The moment you open the cage, there's only freedom – or death.
"What would you choose?"