Chapter 79: A Gambler
"Right in front of us, you can see Rusttown's famous orphanage, where the world's most dangerous animals grow up in the wild," said Ryan, who toured the area with his team, parking Plymouth near the entrance. “。
"You're exaggerating." The wardrobe smiled and looked out the window. Lunn and Sarah, along with another boy, are waiting at the entrance of the orphanage, where the children are playing with a Labradoodle. Unlike the previous cycle, "The Genius" has not yet donned her diving armor and has been wearing her brown suit and water gun.
"I think you're underestimating these creatures," Ryan argued. "They eat baby candy and listen to loud music at night."
"Why the hell are we here?" Atomic Cat asked from behind.
"Well, based on my intel on it, the Powers are planning to attack this place today," Ryan said, but he didn't mention which source it was. His words caused everyone to look at him in horror. "Unless we drive them away, they're going to kidnap the residents."
"Are they going to attack children?" The wardrobe's lovely face turned white with fright.
"I want to say I'm surprised, but I'm not surprised." Felix complained.
"Don't worry, master, we'll save them!" The panda said enthusiastically, placing one hand on his chest. "We're going to beat these baddies like ...... Like bamboo!"
"We need to practice your pun, arrogant young disciple," Ryan said as they stepped out of the car, immediately catching the children's attention.
"Oh, it's the wardrobe!" Little Sara recognized the heroine and her eyes widened. Although she is not like Wyve
So famous, but the fashion designer seems to have her fans too.
"Where, where? Another child asked, rushing out of the orphanage with the six little demons.
“Ri
i,”Le
Whispering, the children crowded around the heroes, and most of them wanted signatures for their wardrobes. Panda seems jealous of her fame, which he covets.
"Guys, this is Ryan, alias The Diver," Ryan introduced them. "She's my friend. Shorty, this is the atomic cat, my new girlfriend's closet, and the super panda. He can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes. ”
"Atomic cat, huh?" I've never heard of that, Kuaiqi. The atomic cat crossed his arms and looked at Len. Isn't she a criminal?" I heard that Vulcan hired private security to let her go. ”
Len immediately became nervous and looked at the atomic cat suspiciously. "Your big company boss is the real culprit," she replied sternly, waving her hand at Rust. "This ...... It's their job. ”
"It's indisputable." Felix admits nervously. "Are you looking after this place?"
"Somebody has to do it."
"Help, you monster!" The wardrobe glared at him as he finished writing autographs for the children. "I'm so disappointed in you."
"What?" Ryan asked, frowning.
"You can't make your friend dress like this!" The wardrobe roared as she approached Ryan, who was very surprised, and touched every part of her dress with her soft fingers. "Her costume is so ugly!"
It was clear that Ryan didn't know what to do. "I, what, what ......"
"The colors are all wrong, it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't even fit!" The wardrobe began to stroke Lunn, much to her frustration. "Look at her beautiful figure!" All the potential was wasted!"
"Don't make a fuss," Lenn pleaded, as if attacked by an overly affectionate puppy.
"I'm sorry, dear, I can't turn a blind eye." The wardrobe handle moves away from the statue of genius and strikes in a pose that reminds Ryan of Rodin's statue of The Thinker. She swallowed Len with her eyes, and the poor genius was now as red as a tomato. "We need silver and blue, scaly ......"
"What are you capable of?" Little Sara asked the panda.
"Oh, I can be the best creature in the world!" The green genome immediately took on the shape of his animal, much to the delight of the children. “Ove
pa
da overdrive!"
"It's a bear!" A little girl screams as the panda holds her on her shoulder. "It's a bear!"
"So soft and warm," said another boy, who touched the beast's fur.
"Oh!" Little Sara looked up at Felix. "Can you become a cat too?"
"No," Felix replied crudely.
"But your name—"
"I love cats, that's all."
"You're so disappointing," little Sara said to the panda viciously before she was impressed by the panda's cuteness. The animal ends up lying on its back and letting the children use its belly as a trampoline.
The panda finds the true use of his powers. Funny kids.
If Ryan hadn't been distracted by something else, he would have found this scene interesting.
It's a joke Ryan tells when someone asks about the details of his power. But during the whole cycle, he didn't use it once! Someone sent it to him can only say one thing.
Somewhere, someone remembers.
No, no, he shouldn't have had much hope in case his dreams are shattered. As far as he knew, the space-time broadcast might have already broadcast that message. But in case anyone remembers, who will it be?
Ryan remembers that the sentence was used three times. Once in the early cycle of Bakuto and once in Sh
Another time Oud asks about his strength, it's with Livia. It could also be Jasmine who did it, but why did she pretend to have amnesia?
However, Livia seems to recognize Ryan's name. He was also sure that she had a second ability like her father, one that he hadn't fully understood. As far as the courier knows, it can take her memories from one cycle to another.
His ideas bring more questions than answers!
Ryan could have asked the poor kitten to confirm, but he felt it would backfire. If it was Livia, Felix would ask why the messenger had received news of Augustus' daughter; He may mistake the time traveler for a black hand and ruin everything.
The autograph-hungry kids manage to distract the wardrobe and allow Len to escape her clutches. "Riley," the genius whispered to the messenger. "Do you have a plan?"
Rya
Admitted: "My idea of dealing with Psyshock was a failure. He thought that the wardrobe could play "Cancel" to take out the body snatchers, but it was clear that this was not possible. "We're going to have to go with you."
"I hope it works," she said, holding up her water gun. "I've never tried it before."
In the previous loop, her Bubble Prison worked well against Reload, so Rya
And there is no doubt about its effectiveness. Unless, of course, Psyshock has an auto-suicide button to avoid getting caught. The madman didn't use any weapons against the "cancellation", but she was canceling his body transfer at the time.
Automatic triggers are a nuisance. The courier developed one in his early cycle, but he never found the right balance. One of his devices was supposed to protect him from mind readers, only to mistake his "preservation" for an attempt to manipulate memories. In another case, a chest bomb kept exploding at an inopportune time. Eventually, Ryan gave up on the idea altogether because he found that it caused more trouble than it was worth in theory.
Did the Sepsi come to the same conclusion? He didn't know until they crossed the bridge.
Unfortunately, it won't take that long. Rya
Noticed that Psyshock's rusty black minibus was heading towards the orphanage, followed by another one.
The Superpowers Gang brought reinforcements.
He should have expected this. Without ghouls acting as a smokescreen, the Earth may have noticed a large group of genomes around the orphanage. Hopefully, Adam will keep his right-hand man to protect the dump instead of sending them all to an orphanage.
Ryan doesn't need to fight acid rain again. Especially when they first met, she killed Felix the cat.
"It's them." Felix guessed, nervous. Meta.
"Go in now," Lunn said to the children. "Hide in the basement and come out again when I call you out."
"But Mommy—" little Sara protested.
"Do as I say." The genius raised the water gun and asked more firmly.
"Don't worry, darling," the wardrobe winked comfortingly. "Heroes are always winners."
Unless they get shot in the head, Ryan hopes things don't get to that point. The children fled to the orphanage, and the other genomes were ready to fight.
"Alright, guys, let me talk until the bullets fly." Ryan said, stealthily grabbing a device from behind his Plymouth rage and hiding it in his suit. He also took the Fist Brothers with him and decided to introduce them to Psyshock's jaw personally. "Whatever you hear, stay calm."
"Yes, master." Panda said, fidgeting in place. Despite his attempts to pretend to be brave, Ryan could see that the would-be hero had no experience.
"What is this?" Atomic Cat asked, staring at Ryan's clothes. "Some kind of ultimate weapon?"
"You can say that," Ryan replied, preparing for his own performance as Meta-Ga, who parked his car in front of the orphanage
g。 "It's eavesdropping."
Psyshock got out of the car first, followed by Mo
g
el and Mosquito. Another minibus stopped nearby, and two more mentally ill people got out of the car. One is a reptilian and the other is a bipedal jaguar.
Ryan remembers both of them when he committed suicide. He ran over the lizard on his way to the bunker, and the jaguar-man rakshasa could summon elves.
The two groups are evenly matched, or at least it seems.
"Little Caesar". No matter how many loops there are, the possessiveness presented by Psyshock always makes Rya
I shuddered. "And lovely Ryan. It was truly a reunion. ”
"I told you, I smell a genome," the mosquito said, snapping his knuckles. The other superpowered person seems to be barely able to restrain himself. The mongrel dog bared its teeth, the lizardman's tail whipped the ground, and Rakshasa prepared to summon the elves to come to their aid. "I think it's time to harvest the blood."
"Yes, although we are only here for the children of that shelter, today is indeed a good day," Psyshock said.
"Then you'll have to explain that to Don Hector," Ryan lied, mimicking the arrogance of the Blackthorn Company. "He's not happy with you anymore, so I don't recommend you do it."
This sentence made Psyshock flinch.
It was an epic poker bluff, but Ryan knew he could still win with a weak hand. It's not for nothing that they call his style "loosely aggressive".
Meta glanced at their leader, who scrutinized Ryan. He sensed something was wrong, but he didn't immediately debunk the courier's bluff, which meant he hit the target.
"I didn't have the honor of meeting any Hector," Psyshock said skeptically.
"Oh, well, in that case, we'll cut off the juice." Ryan lied as easily as he breathed. "If you can't produce results quickly, you can say goodbye to your knockoffs. These crates and drones are a great investment for the big man, who does not do charity. ”
This took Psyshock by surprise because Rya
This information should not be known. He could have monitored them, but both the knockoffs and the drones were safely hidden in the bunker. Most likely, the vendor himself provided the information to Ryan, or he could travel through time and space.
Guess which is more likely?
"Why are they here?" Psyshock glanced at Ryan's team. Everyone gets nervous, and the atomic cat seems to be filled with cold rage.
"The boss is worried that you're going to lose control, and we've got to teach you a lesson." Ryan's fingers twitched dangerously. "Do we have to do this, Sepsie?"
The key to bluffing is self-confidence. You have to behave arrogantly and confidently and make your opponent doubt your judgment. Steve Jobs called it a reality-bending force field, and it wasn't.
The second-in-command of the Superpowers Gang stared at Ryan with obvious nervousness. Their respective groups are ready to fight, because now is the moment of truth. The courier stood firmly, with a kind of arrogance that believed that he would always succeed.
Thankfully, Psyshock succumbed.
"No," he said, then pointing to a spot away from the two groups. "Come, let's discuss something to keep away from unwanted ears."
Ryan glanced at his team and nodded at them. Hopefully, they will remain silent until the situation inevitably escalates.
The two rivals left their group and came to the edge of the orphanage's courtyard. "Explain yourself," Psyshock cuts straight to the point. "Mr. Manada specifically asked Adam and I not to reveal his involvement, even to our own people. What has changed? Why did he send you instead of the usual way?"
"Someone spoke," Ryan replied, feigning annoyance at the psychopath. "The old channels are no longer safe."
"It's not us," Psyshock declared. "When we found your employer, we told him that we are very careful about safety. If there is a vulnerability, it is also your own problem. ”
"Yes, of course," Ryan said, feigning strong skepticism. He noticed that Meta approached Dy first
amis, not Dy
amis approached Meta first.
"I personally changed the memory of all those involved in our operation, minimizing the risk," Psyshock insisted, forced to defend himself. "The leak didn't come from us. That's why you brought these people? So I can check their memory?"
"No, they don't like that, but they're going to keep their mouths shut," Ryan lied. "Why did the big boss generously pay you to go to an orphanage?" Don't tell me that fat guy wants chicken nuggets for dinner?"
Hannibal Lecter is cunning, and in the previous rounds, he was tight-lipped in his words, at least until he blew up the city. The courier feels that Psyshock will not be as self-controlled as his boss. He was too arrogant and confident in his immortality.
"We intend to use these goblins as soldiers against Augustus." "I assure you that we are making progress. We kicked them out of the area and started cracking down on their suppliers—"
"The bartender and
o
mies,”Rya
Replied contemptuously. "Where's the A-grade material?" Seven killers? Pluto, Neptune? It looks like you're not doing well, and if the company's department doesn't have performance, you're going to be made redundant. ”
Well, maybe he used too many corporate metaphors, but it seems to work. Psyshock vs. Mech
o
The bunker lies also means Hecto
Ma
ADA probably doesn't know.
The more Ryan listened, the more he could see the game. Adam somehow learns about this bunker and comes to Rusttown to dig it. But since he needed time to do it quietly, the leader of Mehta approached Hector Manada and demanded that he provide counterfeit elixirs and appease his addicts. Adam promised to attack the Augustus in the name of power, but never intended to deliver on it.
These lunatics planned from the very beginning to overthrow their "employers".
"It's like I told Ma
Mr. ada, we don't have enough numbers to act at will," Psyshock defended, trying to salvage the connection with the knock-off product. The Powers may be expected to take a few weeks before they fully take over the bunker, and they can't jeopardize their juice supply until then. "We need to gather more information before we can take strategic action."
Ryan held up three fingers. "Three days," he said. "You have three days to produce results."
"Three days?" The surprise shattered Psyshock's nonchalant tone. "It's too short."
"You have three days to deliver," Ryan boldly repeated, "or the deal is canceled." ”
Right now, he's playing Psychoshock most of the time, but he hopes to get him to panic enough to blurt out one last interesting piece of information. He guessed right.
"I've made considerable progress on another project," Psyshock said. "If Mr. Manada is willing to extend this period, I can let him see."
The second project? Now, Ryan can't be sure, but he can deduce its properties from the various elements compiled from the previous loop. "Brain scan?" The messenger asked, hoping he guessed correctly.
"Your technique, though primitive, is compatible with my abilities." Psyshock said, regaining his composure. "I can easily copy a person's thoughts from one brain to another, as long as they are closely related."
As Ryan thought. He wanted to know why, Dy
The amis/Meta alliance would have quickly collapsed with the death of Psyshock in previous cycles, but now he understood. With the defeat of Augustus by the Superpowers and the death of the Brain Manipulator, Hector Manada may have thought that he should abandon the Alliance and cover his tracks. "How close?"
"Cloning is the best, but we can work with close relatives. Siblings, children ......" Psyshock marks a brief pause. "Even the genome."
"Be careful," Ryan said, but he'd be sure to let Enrique know about it. "Your hints may be misunderstood."
"I'm just saying it's an option if your employer is willing to consider it."
And just like that, Psyshock gave the messenger everything he needed.
Ryan looked at the sky, hoping to see the flying armor. Now it's Vulca
It's time to show up and turn it into an MSAM
age -à-t
ois。 Anytime. Now it's ready to ......
Damn, could it be more genomes that made Jasmine change his mind? At the very least, Ryan was pretty sure he could rely on someone else.
"Is that enough for you, Mr. Windshield?" Ryan said, glancing at the empty seat.
Mental shock froze in confusion until a voice came out of nowhere: "Yes."
"Oh, okay." Ryan said, glancing back at Psyshock, he began to realize that he had been scammed. "You may not remember, madman, but the last time we met, I promised you one thing. And Quicksave always does that. ”
Ryan unexpectedly slammed Psyshock's jaw, and all the windows in the area were blown to pieces.