Chapter 572 Chapter 569 The Mysterious Killer

The helicopter was engulfed in flames and smoke, and the fire illuminated the wilderness and the damaged roadbed, dyeing the surroundings blood red. The war shackles created by Zhuang Xuteng in the air destroyed all the vehicles on the highway below the projection, and the chain rear-end collision inevitably caused congestion. The drivers and passengers who were knocked unconscious were obviously unable to use their normal thinking ability. When they saw the crashed and burning helicopter, they not only did not run away, but also dared to come forward to watch.

Zhuang Xuteng opened his ghost tentacles and reached out to each of them, using the health of those people to speed up his recovery. He just "connected" his right arm, and he could not immediately restore the broken part to its original state, so he could not rely on this arm now. He borrowed the power of the ghost servants and tentacles, pretending to raise his right hand to use the armor-breaking hammer, just to attract the attention of the meat shield man, scare him, and provide the patient lady with a chance to shoot.

The meat shield man only felt his body hot and cold - he was baked by the fire of the helicopter wreckage and was also greeted by the cold ghost in his body. Seeing that he had already lost the battle, he was ready to fight and force all the implants in his body to work at full capacity. This action directly consumed the remaining ability to withstand the side effects of the implants, directly leading to an acute attack of "Lanqi Syndrome".

A mouthful of blood rushed up, stopped in the throat, and got stuck. The meat shield man widened his eyes. He felt that every cell in his body was suffocated, as if someone had injected him with quick-drying cement. His life ended here, and the patient lady then smashed his brain with the bone spear technique - it was just destroying the corpse.

Listening carefully, there was no sound on the battlefield, but the matter was not over. Zhuang Xuteng still had to solve the problem of how to leave. When he suspected that the identity of "Sen Gang" had been exposed, Zhuang Xuteng began to use shadows to cover his face and modify the details of the appearance of his clothes, changing his appearance all the way. But the most difficult thing is not the disguise, but how to make this matter look like it has nothing to do with him.

"Take it one step at a time." Zhuang Xuteng walked towards the helicopter and hid in the visual blind spot formed by the fire and smoke (compared to the onlookers on the highway). When passing the body of the meat shield man, he did not forget to hand over the armor-piercing hammer to his left hand and hit him on the head.

On the highway, some passengers who were rear-ended took out their mobile phones - they avoided the range of war shackles, but failed to avoid traffic jams, so the mobile phones could still be used. They "enthusiastically" took pictures of the burning helicopter, especially the close-up shots of the "Dingxin Magic Creation" company logo, and some were directly uploaded to the Internet. Zhuang Xuteng could only say that these guys really don't know how to live or die. Stay away from the scene of the accident and protect your own life. Don't they understand such a simple truth? What's the point of taking those close-up photos?

Zhuang Xuteng was unceremonious and began to transfer the damage to them and use the method of necromancy to heal himself. At the same time, he created another shadow and covered it on the sick lady, faking the effect of clothes and coats similar to his own, covered the bandages on her face with a shadow "mask", and then drew two shadow black eyes.

"Show yourself." As Zhuang Xuteng disappeared into the flames, the sick lady appeared in his place. If you look closely, you will find that the sick lady is suspended in the air, and her facial features look a bit cartoony, not like a real person. Fortunately, the hot air generated by the flames makes the light appear hazy and distorted, so it is difficult to see or take pictures clearly.

"Go!" Zhuang Xuteng waved his hand and gave the sick lady an attack order. The sick lady spread her legs and pretended to take big steps forward, but in fact she was just floating forward in fits and starts. She bypassed the burning helicopter and came to everyone's mobile phone camera. She made a kicking motion and floated into the air. To be honest, she really can't act, and she didn't imitate the feeling of jumping at all.

At this time, some people had already noticed that something was wrong and turned around to run; some people still raised their mobile phones to take pictures without knowing the consequences; and some people a little further away saw a "human figure" rising into the air, and they didn't know why, so they tried to watch. At this moment, the sick lady performed the "Wail of the Banshee", and the shrill scream exploded, sweeping across the scene like a shock wave.

She released almost all the resentment she had accumulated in this battle, which was the sum of the accumulated side effects of the implants of the entire enhanced combat team.

Those who were closer seemed to have their eyeballs and brains exploded; those who were a little further away were stiff and motionless, and then they bled from all seven orifices and died. The patient turned her head left and right, as if admiring her masterpiece. She then crossed the highway and left quickly into the distance.

Soon, the "mysterious female killer" disappeared when passing through a shadow, covering up the process of disintegration.

Let's look back. When the patient lady appeared in front of everyone, Zhuang Xuteng walked into the burning flames of the helicopter. He used the disintegration effect to protect himself from high temperature damage in a short period of time. After entering the cabin, he went straight to Dr. Egghead, whose skull was open.

This "corpse" was not ignited, it just pretended to be dead. Dr. Egghead thought he could play dead and tricked them, at least until the effect of the shock wave disappeared, but he didn't know there was such a thing as "ghost jelly".

"He's not dead. He acted very well." Zhuang Xuteng commented that the doctor's voice could not penetrate the disintegration effect and the sea of ​​fire, so he could only talk to himself. Through observation, Zhuang Xuteng believed that the "biochemical isolation suit" in front of him had an excellent protective effect and good resistance to shock waves. In the vision of the Shadow Eye, Dr. Egghead's implant was still functioning, and there were even signs of power accumulation.

It has to be said that Dr. Egghead's reaction was not slow. As soon as he saw the signs of Zhuang Xuteng's appearance, he knew that there was no problem. Either he had been exposed, or the other party had obsessive-compulsive disorder. No matter which way, the disguise was meaningless and the fight had to start immediately. !

Dr. Egghead immediately ordered the still-working implant to operate at full power. He was not good at hand-to-hand combat, but he had more than a dozen long-range attacks against other people's consciousness. Before, he judged that the incoming enemy was proficient in assassination - he did not know that the one who came to kill was Nike. After all, the ambush mode of war shackles and high-speed bursts felt too much like a corporate assassin, not the style of a mercenary at all. Assassins have extremely strong melee capabilities and powerful mid-range weapons, which are really difficult to deal with. The doctor didn't dare to go out and fight him head-on. He could have hidden himself and carried out evil attacks, but he was detained in the cabin and couldn't see the battle outside at all, so he couldn't use those attack methods that could remotely destroy the opponent's consciousness.

He tried to counterattack as quickly as possible, but unfortunately Zhuang Xuteng would not lag behind others in terms of reaction speed. Before the doctor could finish accumulating his energy, Zhuang Xuteng took action and smashed the hammer into the doctor's open skull.

"Pretending to be dead? Let you pretend! Are you really dead now?" Zhuang Xuteng looked around. Although the Wraith Jelly and Shadow Eye confirmed that there were no living people in the cabin, he still hit the target one by one: using the shadow gun to shoot from the eyeball Penetrate it and destroy the brain. Even the human shield man only has extremely strong eyelids. The eyes of enhanced humans are implants, which are mainly functional and cannot be used as protective equipment.

Considering that support might arrive at any time, and that flames and explosions destroyed most of the equipment in the cabin, Zhuang Xuteng really had no way to collect the loot. He sneaked out of the cabin, covered himself with the Thousand Eyes Cloak, and walked into the desert.

He will definitely have to return to the restaurant to create his own alibi, but stealing another car from the highway - even if the sick lady has created many unowned vehicles - will definitely be a problem with endless trouble under the surveillance camera. idea. Besides, the car's speed couldn't meet Zhuang Xuteng's requirements, and he did have a faster way to move.

He called this method "Shadow Step." During the period when he was "ignorant and fearless", he used the disintegration effect to wrap himself up and successfully "fly". This was the origin of "Shadow Step".

Zhuang Xuteng believes that high-speed and high-burst implants wrap and protect the user with a quasi-disintegration effect in the early stages of activation, protecting them from inertial (acceleration) damage. This process can be prolonged. Putting the disintegration effect in front of you as a "shield" can basically eliminate wind resistance; putting the disintegration effect under your feet, what is friction?

By setting "switches" for various external forces exerted on itself, the charging time and distance of high-speed and high-explosive attacks can be greatly extended. In the experiment in the shadow world, Zhuang Xuteng integrated levitation and other physical skills into it, and used his sensory tentacles to explore the path in front, so that he could confidently and boldly charge "Shadow Step" for 2.5 kilometers in any direction - this happened to be perception. The maximum detection range of the tentacles, and he obviously cannot charge underground.

"When I was in the Shadow Realm, I was afraid of damaging the town's facilities, so I couldn't let go of the experiment. But outside the Wall of Sighs, I was worried about the company's spies, so I didn't dare to run around. Now I just use actual combat instead of comprehensive experiments." Zhuang Xuteng rubbed Rub your hands together to encourage yourself, then carefully control the disintegration effect, detect the situation ahead, and allow the high-speed and high-explosion implant to accumulate power.

"Shadowstep!"

Zhuang Xuteng's figure suddenly disappeared, just like every high-speed and high-explosion enhanced person does when fighting. However, his charge was farther away this time, and within the first seven hundred meters, he could not be seen at all.

His first afterimage appeared at about 700 meters, and the next one was around 1,200 meters away. Then the afterimages became more and more dense, until they were connected in a line at the last 100 meters or so. The reason why "Shadow Step" has the word "step" is mainly because as long as he doesn't want to turn into a rolling ball, he can't completely wrap himself with the disintegration effect. The gravity that is not completely eliminated will still accumulate and change the trajectory of his actions. It was drawn into an arc, so he had to take a step at a certain distance to get his body off the ground. Of course, you cannot step on the ground during this step. You must step on the sole platform formed by the disintegration effect. It feels like stepping on your own shadow, so it is named Shadow Step. Zhuang Xuteng tried stepping on the ground. In addition to the disintegration effect on the ground, a crater was blasted out. He also immediately lost his balance and fell out with a groan.

Two thousand five hundred meters was approaching in an instant, and Zhuang Xuteng had already begun to accumulate energy for the next high-speed burst. This forward "floating and sliding" movement method is mainly maintained by the disintegration effect and does not require the maximum power accumulation of the implant. Therefore, it can continuously perform lower power accumulation in a short period of time to continue moving forward.

At present, Shadowstep's driving efficiency is mainly limited by the maximum detection distance of the sensing tentacles, which is 2.5 kilometers. After using Shadow Step, Zhuang Xuteng moved too fast to maintain the sensing tentacles, and would directly "crowd" them. And unless he is in a completely flat environment, Zhuang Xuteng must clearly know what is on the way forward, and plan every step before starting the shadow step, and there must be no mistakes at all.

"Piu~" Zhuang Xuteng, who had grasped the situation ahead, used Shadow Step again and moved forward with the afterimage. This way of walking consumes a lot of mana and stamina, but it is really fast. Including the time to re-expand the sensing tentacles and detect the road conditions ahead, each 2.5 kilometers only takes about 20 seconds. If he ignores the risk of rollover and completely ignores the accumulation of side effects, Zhuang Xuteng can do a "shadow step" as fast as five seconds.

The instantaneous speed of this method of movement is faster, completely exceeding the first cosmic speed when rushing upwards, but it does not last long enough to truly leave the planet. Some enhanced people use this ability to take off first, and then use the abilities of other implants or shadow slaves to glide or fly after reaching the air, which is more convenient than helicopters. The only thing that limits enhanced people from doing this is the side effects of implants, and Zhuang Xuteng took advantage of this. He had already thought of a way to glide using levitation, but today he needed speed, not flying ability.

It disappears every 20 seconds and "flashes" to a distance of 2,500 meters. This is extremely fast and incredible to anyone. Zhuang Xuteng also knew that he was very fast, but in his heart, the object of comparison was Master Lich's teleportation. "That's called traveling thousands of miles in an instant. What does this mean to me? It's just a poor imitation at most."

In fact, the speed of long-distance movement on the ground is beyond common sense, even in the company's concept of strengthening people.

Zhuang Xuteng returned to the rest stop from the direction of Shaoyuan, using stealth for the last distance. He also tidied up his clothes and makeup to remove the bloody traces of fireworks and battles. He rubbed his belly and took a walk, opened the door of the cafe with a relaxed expression, and waved to Officer Malov with a smile.

"Where did you go for a walk? Little Mary thought you were going to skip the bill."

"Just looking around." Zhuang Xuteng yawned and said, "By the way, I just saw a fire in the distance, and then a black smoke column rose. I didn't know what happened, so I looked at it for a while."

"Oh? Which direction?"

Zhuang Xuteng pretended to look at the sun outside, and gestured with his hands: "It should be in the northeast, right?"

"As long as it's not in the direction of the town." Officer Malov waved his hand to his partner and said: "We don't need to worry about such noisy matters. There is a clear notice from above, so we can just continue to rest. If necessary, the above will naturally... …”

Perhaps to prove that Officer Malov has the potential to become a crow's mouth - before he finished speaking, the walkie-talkie rang, and then there was a new order: "All police officers report their positions immediately. Ten kilometers away from the 4A78 overpass On-duty police officers immediately gathered along the highway toward Peicheng, east of the overpass. The on-duty police officers immediately returned to duty and became the reserve team. Repeat..."

Officer Malov was stunned for a moment, then stood up immediately. His partner yawned and stood up a little slowly before receiving a gentle slap from him. Zhuang Xuteng put on the expression of a curious baby and asked what happened.

"It probably has something to do with the fire and the smoke column, or maybe... uh..." Officer Malov thought for a while and said, "Don't ask about this matter, we didn't say anything, do you understand?"

"Uh, I don't quite understand, but I don't think you said anything." Zhuang Xuteng smiled. Officer Malov patted him on the shoulder as he passed by, as if he had a tacit understanding.