Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

Isabella stood in the drainage channel, looking at the empty concrete tunnel and the sloping embankment, her head pounding. It was a sunny day, and the slanting sunshine was warm and bright, but it could not warm her mood; the drains were dirty, and the black and smelly sewage on the soles of her shoes could not make her feel worse. She gritted her teeth and spun around in circles, letting her eyeball implant continuously scan, search, and analyze the surrounding situation. Her intelligence analysis shadow machine was almost smoking and stopped working, and she came to the same conclusion: there were no traces of Nike's actions.

"How did he escape?" Isabella clenched her fists. When passive investigation yielded no results, she tapped her fingers on the right side of her lower jaw, separated the mandible, and opened her mouth wide. She jumped high into the air and reached a height of forty meters above the ground. At this time, her throat began to emit sharp high-frequency sound waves, which were continuously emitted from the python-like mouth, shooting in all directions.

The results of the ultrasonic investigation were still the same. There was no sign of Zhuang Xuteng, as if he had never been here. Isabella fell back to the ground, reset her chin, and then frowned tightly, becoming more and more confused as she thought about it.

It's impossible, no one can escape like this... Walking all the way from the secret passage, all traces show that Naike escaped from here. It is impossible for a person to simultaneously forge information from energy residues, traces of contact between hands and feet with the environment, traces of air dust disturbance, and heat residues. Even if you travel through the shadow realm, there will still be shadow energy signals. No, there is absolutely no path to the shadow world along the way. Naike definitely did not slip into another world by accident.

Where did he go? Hidden? But even if you use invisibility cloaks and other internal company equipment, you can't cover up the shadow energy signal! There is no oil isolation layer or safe room made of thick lead sheets, because such equipment cannot be hidden from X-ray detection and will be very conspicuous. And even if I am careless, the personal affairs assistant and intelligence analysis shadow slave will not be lazy and make mistakes, so...

None of this can be explained, but Isabella can only accept the reality. "If this matter is exposed, there is a real possibility of being laughed at...Rather than saying that Naike successfully escaped, it is better to say that I let him go and let him go back and continue to think about joining."

Isabella believed that Nike was a smart person, and even if she didn't want to join the company, she didn't dare to jump out and refute her statement. Besides, if a monk can escape, he cannot escape from the temple. There are two other people who know that interesting martial art: Gogong Dao and the Famine Stranger. This means that with the clue of Naike, she can take a three-pronged approach. As long as the end result is good, the little setbacks ahead don't matter.

"Command center, is there no news about the meeting yet? Alas, things are really delayed this time." She connected to the communication line and reported the story she made up. "The mercenary named Naike is very valuable, but he lacks patience and insists on leaving. Well, he still emphasizes that freedom. I decided to take a long-term view and let the fish jump for a few days to consume his energy. The stamina is also good. Yes, I let him go, and now he's gone. I'm pretty sure he's very valuable and can be focused on development."

In fact, Zhuang Xuteng hid aside and listened to all these words.

The location where he was hiding was very tricky, just above the outlet of the drainage channel, inside the dome of the pipe, about to leave the edge of the pipe. Zhuang Xuteng used the levitation technique, the power of his fingers, and the support rope that could be quickly fixed to fall down. The tentacles of the resentful spirit helped stabilize the invisibility cloak, and then put on the Thousand Eyes Cloak.

The invisibility cloak is responsible for optical invisibility, and the thousand-eye cloak isolates shadow signals. Subsequently, under Zhuang Xuteng's order, the sick lady possessed him and wrapped him, absorbing Zhuang Xuteng's body temperature with her cold ghost body, thus reducing the infrared signal to a level similar to that of surrounding objects.

Zhuang Xuteng used all his stealth skills and hid himself above the inside of the hole as firmly as a nail. The reason for choosing this place was that Zhuang Xuteng grasped an ideological blind spot: escape all the way to the entrance of the cave, and there is a vast world outside, and it is impossible not to continue walking no matter what. Isabella followed Zhuang Xuteng's escape traces along the way. If these traces came to the entrance of the cave, she would definitely leave the cave and continue to follow them. This is the inertia of thinking.

Sure enough, Isabella chased him out, and then began to doubt life and technical malfunctions, but she didn't expect that Zhuang Xuteng was still in the cave and hadn't come out. Only with excellent concealment skills and extremely cunning reverse thinking ability can one suppress such a bad fart.

After saying "hold it", Zhuang Xuteng kept holding his breath. He was afraid that his breathing would be heard and the diffuse heat would be discovered, so he really didn't dare to take a breath. He now relies on the oxygen-increasing medicine in the built-in injection implant to meet his body's needs. This was originally used for diving or other hypoxic environments, and it works just fine.

Hanging upside down, holding your breath, and being possessed by a sick lady must be uncomfortable, but you can only endure it. Zhuang Xuteng concentrated on controlling his body posture and did not dare to do anything else. He even did not dare to open the Wraith Jelly in order to avoid residual shadow energy, so he used his passive enhanced hearing to eavesdrop on Isabella's call.

"Prepare to collect the team at the end, so wait for me on the other side of the blockade. Yes, I'll go back the way I came, and I'll be there in a while. There's no need for them to take a detour. This secret road is quite winding, and you have to make two turns on the bridge along the road. Circle, I don’t want to stand here stupidly. Yes, I will go back through the secret passage and let the team members wait for me at the other end. While waiting, collect the information about the Gogong Road and the Famine Stranger and prepare it for me. I’m going to study it carefully.”

After the call, Isabella sighed and took one last look at the empty river embankments and drainage channels. At this time, the sound of Peihe's rushing water seemed to be mocking her, but she knew that this was just another annoying thing that needed to adjust her mood. Dingxin Mochuang Peicheng branch has had a lot of bad things happen recently, and the authorities are very strict about it. You can completely cover it up without any subsequent problems.

Huh, the most ridiculous thing is Taff. There was trouble before he came, and there were still troubles after he left. He even became a wreck in the end. In the past, when I was joking, I would say: If you don’t work hard, you will be beaten to death! Everyone just took it as a joke. I didn't expect that beating him to death would be useless, even if he was a colonel.

Because she was thinking about something unpleasant, Isabella clenched one hand into a fist and waved it in front of her as she walked back into the passage. This was just an unintentional habit of hers and did not mean any specific meaning, but in Zhuang Xuteng's eyes, there was another explanation.

Zhuang Xuteng heard Isabella mention "Gogong Road" and "Famine Stranger" during the phone call. Now his expression was unhappy and his actions were rude, as if he was looking for someone to beat him up. Could this mean that Isabella Is this going to cause trouble for Brother Dao? And from the overheard conversation, Zhuang Xuteng guessed what Isabella wanted: He, Brother Dao, and Master Famine Stranger, the common intersection between the three of them was super-computing martial arts. It is normal for the company's senior business development manager to be tempted by his martial arts skills that are praised even by the Lich Master.

However, whether to kill Isabella is still a question that makes Zhuang Xuteng hesitate. Without him, there is no certainty of victory, and the risk is too great. Of course, if you can really kill her, you will gain a lot. In addition to the value of the corpse itself, this move will definitely reduce the trouble of being pestered for super-computing martial arts in the future. Zhuang Xuteng hid on the top of the passage and thought, unable to make up his mind. But at this moment, Isabella casually waved her fist and hit it on the cement wall.

The quality of Peicheng's municipal facilities is acceptable, but that is only a standard for dealing with general situations, and does not include withstanding the fists of the company's reinforced soldiers. In fact, nothing serious happened, just a crack. But the crack moved upward along the wall, spreading to where Zhuang Xuteng was hiding, and within the range of the invisibility cloak.

Now it's better, the cracks suddenly disappeared halfway through. Maybe Isabella was not aware of this problem, but Zhuang Xuteng didn't dare to bet. If the bet wins, although he can survive the immediate disaster safely, Isabella will find trouble with Brother Dao after leaving here, and he will also lose the one-on-one opportunity with this woman. If the bet loses, Isabella will not only discover him, but also gain the advantage of striking first. Then she will fight in a more difficult situation and will most likely lose.

You won’t make any money even if you win, and you’ll probably lose everything if you lose. It’s best not to participate in such a gambling game. So Zhuang Xuteng stopped gambling. He put away all his thoughts and went for it!

When they met on a narrow road, the brave would win. Zhuang Xuteng immediately activated the shock wave of the within-sight neural implant of the Eye of Kaho. The current situation is a sap, and the most important thing is not to let outsiders know. Shock waves can paralyze neural implants, block shadow chips, and suppress communications. This is the sap of information networks. If Isabella is seriously injured and has problems with her body movements, Zhuang Xuteng believes that he can break her into pieces with his armor-breaking hammer.

It was right not to bet, because Isabella never turned off the shadow follower for environmental analysis and enemy tracking. The crack spread upward and disappeared behind the invisibility cloak. It was indeed not caught by her eyes, but was discovered by the environmental analysis shadow slave.

This strangely disappearing crack made the Shadow Servant stunned for a moment - it couldn't figure out why. A second later, it sounded an "Unclassifiable Alert," displaying the problem in Isabella's field of vision. So the woman looked up and, with the help of low-light vision, saw the severed crack. She frowned and raised her hand to touch it. Just a dozen centimeters above her head, she touched the invisibility cloak.

"What? Who!" Although Isabella did not immediately think that it was an invisibility cloak, she was shocked and prepared to fight. At this time, due to physical contact, the shielding effect of the Thousand-Eyed Cloak was penetrated and could no longer suppress the feedback signal of the shadow energy. Therefore, Isabella immediately saw the mass of shadow energy on the top of the cave, including the special energy that was gathering in large numbers. shadow signal.

"So you're hiding here!" Isabella gritted her teeth. Just as she was about to grab Naike, she received constant alarms from the battlefield analysis shadow slave. This time, the alert was categorized as: "War Shackles Emergency Alert!"

Isabella grabbed Zhuang Xuteng with both hands. Zhuang Xuteng threw away his invisibility cloak, unleashed his long-prepared strength with his legs, and hurriedly left his previous position. He used super-calculated martial arts and levitation to control his body, bouncing back and forth on the cave ceiling, ground, and walls like a spring. He avoided Isabella's scratching and grappling four times in a row, and took the time to hold the armor-piercing hammer in his hand.

Although it sounds complicated, in fact, this round of confrontation lasted only one second, and it was completed in the blink of an eye. Isabella only managed five claw strikes in one second, and then she had to deal with the emergency alarm.

"War shackles system?! It turns out to be you...you are really looking for death!" Isabella gritted her teeth, the nails on her hands stretched out, the surface glowed with metallic luster, and there was also electric current surrounding it. "How dare you use something belonging to a dead person? It belongs to the company, not you!"

Okay, this woman reacts very quickly and can immediately think of Kaho who has disappeared without a trace. However, her "seeking death" did not mean that it was Zhuang Xuteng who killed Kahuo, but she lamented that "dead people's implants have extremely side effects and can kill people." Her logic chain has always been very clear: just because the dead person's eyeballs were with Zhuang Xuteng, it does not mean that Zhuang Xuteng killed the person; suspicion is just suspicion, and suspicion cannot be equal to evidence.

"Since there are war shackles, then there are war shackles!" Isabella suddenly stopped attacking, immediately squatted down, hugged her knees with her hands, and curled up as much as possible. At the same time, her eyeballs also erupted with an astonishing shadow energy reaction, exactly the same as the Eye of Kaho.

Anyone else would probably not be able to understand what was going on. Fortunately, Zhuang Xuteng had the Eye of Shadow. The same energy signature pattern, it must be the same attack. Shock wave versus shock wave, Isabella used the same trick on Zhuang Xuteng.

"Fuck!" Zhuang Xuteng cursed in his heart. He only knew that the shock wave he sent out would not accidentally hurt him, but he did not know how much impact it would have on him. I just thought that if I could successfully control Isabella, I would win the battle directly, but I never thought that if the guys from the "Nine Thousand Nine Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Ten Thousands" company would serve me this dish, what would the result be? How.

This is a loss of information. The neural implant shock wave is a powerful group control weapon that is only harmless to the user and has an impact on others. There is no absolute defense against this kind of weapon. Everyone will be affected to a greater or lesser extent, and equipment with antenna functions will inevitably be unable to be used. This is unavoidable. Most implants and most slave devices must rely on non-manual control as their functional complexity increases. Whether it is an external nervous system or other transaction processing and control implants or shadow slaves, this can be regarded as a communication link connection, which is within the inevitable range of the shock wave.

After calculating factors such as the charge of the shock wave weapon, the time of the attack, and the range and speed of the impact, it is generally believed that running away is a poor choice. Even if you have accumulated enough power for high-speed and high-explosion in advance, there is a 78% chance of being affected. If it happens to be at high speed at that time, the loss of control of the slave equipment and implant may directly lead to a deceleration accident, which is fatal!

As long as you start to accumulate power, even if you break the eyeball, the accumulated part will burst out. At this time, the attacker is very close to the broken eyeball, and will suffer a great loss if the front is affected. If this punch fails to kill someone, it means losing the whole game, which is also not a good choice.

All things considered, the best way is to attack each other. You give me one, and I'll give you one. Anyway, the launch system of the shock wave is not afraid of the shock wave, and the second mover is not afraid of being interrupted by the first mover. After both sides have taken the shock wave, it depends on their endurance, recovery ability and basic combat effectiveness. Both sides will not hold back anymore and will definitely try their best to kill the other side first.

When one side activates the shock wave, the other side will also activate it. The two sides are like being locked together with handcuffs, and are about to start a fierce battle. This kind of scene is called war shackles within the company, and it is strictly forbidden to be used outside the company's war. Shock wave weapons are strictly limited to be used against civilians, police forces, and constitutional forces outside the company. People within the company also know that this thing has side effects, so in order to avoid misunderstandings, they don't use it easily. Kahuo didn't use the shock wave until he was killed by Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao. On the one hand, it was habit and on the other hand, he was arrogant.

Zhuang Xuteng didn't know these twists and turns. In order to win, in order to defeat the strong with the weak, it is the most reasonable choice to use big moves from the beginning. When he saw Isabella curled up and squatting, he immediately followed her example and squatted down opposite her. Zhuang Xuteng smiled very politely at Isabella, and Isabella gritted her teeth at him.