Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 235 Chapter 232 Positioning Bain
Bane hid in the "valley" formed by the containers, and the XAST1 box was beside him.Ever since he contacted the "friend" of the Blood Bat Gang about the deal, he came to the place where the deal was held.The location he chose was not one that Zhuang Xuteng could find by looking at the roof. Only when he went to the ground and searched carefully, could he find the half-collapsed container, and the missing part was supported by other surrounding containers, which just formed a shelter. Place.

Here he hides, rests to recover, and thinks to calm himself.He judged XAST1 to be a very valuable item, especially for the Blood Bats.He believed that the Blood Bats were willing to pay a lot of money to buy it back, and he also tampered with the box to ensure that the Blood Bats could not do anything to him.

A figure passed by just now, so fast that Bain couldn't see it clearly.He regarded the figure as a gangster of the Blood Bat Gang, and guessed that they were setting up sentries and clearing away dangers for the important figures of the gang who were present today.His location is very hidden. For the guy who moved at high speed just now, the shadow here will flash by, and it is difficult to attract his attention.Bane thought he was very safe in hiding, and he would have a grand and mysterious appearance in a while.

Bain's Sanctuary is really hard to find if you only rely on sight, hearing and smell, but Zhuang Xuteng also has an eye of shadow.Just as he was on his way to the observation point, the supercomputer super cache four flashes gave him a strong and short-lived shadow energy signal, as if there was a "boom" knock on his head.Zhuang Xuteng immediately became alert, immediately adjusted his body posture and changed the direction of movement, and climbed up the container pile in an arc.Relying on the super-computing martial art's "feeling power" skill, he walked between the containers like a gecko, circled back to the position where the signal was just strong, and was able to give Ge Gongdao a signal with his hands free during the period.

Metal objects can attenuate shadow energy signals, and lead works best.If the container doors are closed, and with such a large number of containers on the dock side, the signal from the XAST1 object can also be completely obscured.However, Bain needed to observe the outside world, and he left an open channel, which allowed Zhuang Xuteng to discover the leaked signal.

Zhuang Xuteng sneaked past cautiously, his movements were as light as a cat.After learning the technique of "touching force", he can accurately distribute the weight of his body evenly, move the center of gravity coherently and smoothly, and greatly reduce the noise caused by collision and friction.In addition to his hands and feet, he also lowers his knees so that when he lifts one leg, the other leg still has two points of support, the toe and the knee.His posture comes from the meat bun, which is what the snow leopard would do when it lowered its body to sneak around, but people use the forelimbs, while Zhuang Xuteng uses the hind limbs.

There is no essential difference between front legs and rear legs in terms of physics. Zhuang Xuteng held his breath, approached patiently, and successfully circled to the back of the shelter where Bane was.He noticed that the tripwire traps on the ground, as well as a few empty jars and broken glass that seemed to be placed randomly, were actually used as warnings - but these didn't affect him.To avoid tripwires, you can choose to step on or press other obstacles to move forward. Zhuang Xuteng can also ensure that they are evenly stressed and will not be deformed, displaced or broken.

He saw Bane, with his back turned to him, the XAST1 box in his hand.Zhuang Xuteng leaned over, put his index finger and middle finger together, and pressed them between Bain's neck and the back of his head, which is where the brain stem is.

"Don't move if you don't want to die." Zhuang Xuteng said, "Are you Bain?"

Bane's skin was sweating, his right hand was moving slowly, and the muscles of his arm affected his shoulder, which in turn caused changes in the skin of his neck, all of which were detected by Zhuang Xuteng. "Stop with your right hand and don't rub your left foot. I can smash your brainstem before you stand up and push back. This is the last warning. Except for talking, other actions mean your death."

"Thin wires, cylindrical metal pipes, and...it's really glued on with tape, and it's too crude." Zhuang Xuteng complained from the bottom of his heart. He was probably sure that Bain chose to save himself at the last moment, and he was finally telling the truth.Immediately afterwards, he groped around from the bomb tape in case there were other traps. After groping, he touched a human face.

"Mercenaries kill people without blinking an eye, you..."

"Not interested at all." Zhuang Xuteng gathered the shadow from the energy to his fingertips, forming a state of ready to go, and said at the same time: "Last chance: disarm the so-called bomb, hand over the box, and you still have a chance to leave safely."

"Pacemaker? Oh, if your heart stops beating, it will send out a signal to activate the explosives?" Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and said, "Of course there is another possibility. As long as your heart is beating, it will send out a signal not to explode. , so as soon as you die, the bomb will detonate. Seeing how confident you are, I guess it’s the latter type.”

"What's wrong with me..." Bain said tremblingly.

"Otter, I am..." Zhuang Xuteng wanted to say Naike, but he hesitated.This is the company's equipment, and there may be recording instruments inside, and every word he utters may leave traces.Even if it is not handed over, who can guarantee that what is said now will not be transmitted?
Leaving the otter's head... what's the point in keeping it? It won't save him.There is a 3-minute countdown for the current dialogue, what is the countdown for the entire box, and the countdown for the otter's head?If Zhuang Xuteng had a way to find a body for the otter and bring him back to life, he might try, but in this situation, he has very few options.

"That's right, how dare you waste your chance." Zhuang Xuteng pulled out a cloth strip, tied Bain's mouth, and then began to grope on him, taking out the shadows one by one.When it turned over to his chest, Zhuang Xuteng noticed that there were fresh wounds on the skin here, and a wire was connected to a metal box the size of a finger.

"When my partner comes, just take you and this box away." Zhuang Xuteng patted Bain's face and said, "I'll give you another choice: either I hand you and the box to the owner and let him go Worry about how to defuse the bomb, or you seize the last chance and dismantle the bomb for me, and I will just take the box. Now I will untie your mouth, you choose."

Master Lich's super-cached martial arts allowed Zhuang Xuteng to connect his senses with the wraith servants to form a skin-like effect to increase tactile perception in disguise.

"how dare you……"

The strip of cloth came loose enough for Bane to speak.Under the current environment, he finally softened, and said: "If the heart stops beating, the signal will stop. The bomb is inside the box and it is glued to it with adhesive tape. Just open the box, remove it, and throw it away. Take me to the hospital, send me to the hospital." Hospital……"

His idea is simple: Since the continuous signal can ensure that the bomb does not explode, and the bomb is inside the metal box, in order to ensure that the bomb can receive the signal, there should be receiving devices inside and outside the box.Following this line of thought, Zhuang Xuteng groped along the sealing line of the box and found a thin metal wire connected to a thumbtack-shaped object.The wire is held down by the mouth of the box and connected to the inside.

Cough, it's not for researching this, so why worry about the company?Zhuang Xuteng didn't touch the second suspicious item, so he slowly opened the box.He was going to tear off the tape from the bomb and throw it whole, so he could return the box to its owner, and Bane rushed to the hospital.But after opening the box, he was stunned, his eyes were fixed on the inside, his whole body was frozen.

The effect of entering the Wraith Servant is similar to reaching in with a hand, and Zhuang Xuteng can extend his ability to "feel power".Although it is far inferior to touching it with real hands, it is at least more sensitive than ordinary people's sense of touch under the influence of supercomputer four flashes.

"So, I still have to thank you?"

"Your life is in my hands, do you still care about losing some etiquette?" Zhuang Xuteng scanned Bain with his shadow eyes, trying to find the so-called "the box will explode when he dies".He found several skin implants, several shadow follower signals, but couldn't tell which was the key.

"In the box is a living human head, which is an important figure of the Blood Bat Gang. They will definitely buy it back and install an implant body for him. The things inside are very fragile, and the Blood Bat Gang dare not make mistakes. They No matter how many people come, I can complete the transaction. In the same way, you can't kill me, because..."

A line of words appeared on the screen: What is it?
After these two words, there is a 3-minute countdown.

"I'm not a professional killer, I just need to complete the commission safely." Zhuang Xuteng pressed his fingers slightly, and said at the same time: "Baker and Becky are not dead, they have food, drink and a place to sleep. If you are honest, I'll let you go too. I won't be able to pursue the fact that you pretended to be a mercenary to disrupt the industry, and I can pretend that I don't know what you look like."

Zhuang Xuteng sat on the ground, patted his head with both hands, and told himself that he must cheer up at this time.He was finally able to look away from his head, and then he saw other equipment in the box.The box keeps the head "alive" and allows him to communicate, according to the buttons on it.The human head can hear the sound, and his thoughts can be projected from the screen to the display.With the addition of external devices, it can restore vision and even talk.

Zhuang Xuteng moved closer to the microphone, his voice trembled involuntarily, and he barely said this sentence.Immediately afterwards, an answer appeared on the screen: "I don't know. And, I don't know."

"The neck bone is fractured, the nerve is compressed, and it is temporarily paralyzed. I have a good grasp of strength. If I send you to the hospital earlier, you will still be cured. But if the time is too long, you will definitely be paralyzed for life, and you will not be able to move below the neck. I can't control my bowels and bowels. Oh, don't get too excited, and don't hate yourself when you smell the smell of urine and shit later."

At this time, Zhuang Xuteng felt his mouth was dry and his ears were buzzing, and then turned into a sharp scream.He opened his mouth wide, balanced the ear pressure to eliminate the tinnitus, and tried to control his emotions, slowly allowing reason to regain the initiative.Only then could he move his hands, slowly tore off the bomb, and threw it on Bain casually—his eyes never left the otter's head during the whole process.

A human head is really a human head.Zhuang Xuteng was very surprised. Could it be that the current technology has been developed enough to allow people to survive without their heads?Huh... what kind of research is the company doing?If it is possible to change heads, as long as there is no problem with the brain, can you continue to change bodies and live?But think about it the other way around, if the whole person except the head is a shadow follower, then the side effects will be terrible?Although the body can be replaced, it is not a problem if there is a problem, but how to solve the mental side effects?

For the first time in his life, Zhuang Xuteng couldn't believe his graphic memory, he forced himself to close his eyes, think carefully, and then opened them again.The head in front of him is still the face of an otter, the only difference is that the head is shaved, the eyes are closed, the face is ashen, and the whole head is smaller.

"The Blood Bat Gang is willing to pay 80 euros to buy the box. If you nod and let me go, you can take half of it." Bain said: "The commission to recover the item can't make so much money, right? It's enough to make up for your loss. You can earn another sum. By the way, you can sell the whereabouts of the box to its original owner, and this information can earn you another sum of money.”

Probably this is the signal receiver and connecting wire.Zhuang Xuteng put his finger on it, and then moved it away. He was not sure if he could precisely control and only absorb the shadow energy of the bomb series.After thinking briefly for a moment, he opened the box with the slowest movement, only revealing a slit less than the thickness of a coin, and then poked the wraith servant in.

"Woo... woo..." Bain couldn't speak, he could only cry.

"Have you finished? There is nothing to add?" Zhuang Xuteng heard the affirmative reply, put the gag cloth back on, and then began to check the XAST1 cabinet.This is a silver-white metal box, 50 centimeters square, neither too small nor too big.According to the feel, Zhuang Xuteng can be sure that this is a completely airtight box, at least it was designed and manufactured for full sealing.Therefore, any problems that do not qualify as "fully closed" must be related to Bain.

"Kill me, and the box will explode. I installed a safety device." Bain said, "You blood bats can help you get paid, don't even think about whoring for nothing."

"Otter, how did you become like this? Are you still alive?"

"Listen, I'm not from the Blood Bat Gang." Zhuang Xuteng said, "You took over the entrusted mission on behalf of the mercenaries and took extra things. Now you've been targeted, which is extremely bad for you. The things are returned to their original owners, and your best choice is to give up this hot thing and save your own life."

Zhuang Xuteng sighed, then raised his left hand and slashed down hard, hitting Bain hard on the back of the neck.There was only a pop, something broke, Bain's body softened, and he fell down like mud.Zhuang Xuteng grabbed his clothes to prevent him from kowtowing and landing hard, and then rang the container like a bell.

He should be dead.There is only one head left, and it is dead.But in the sight of the Eye of Shadow, the shadow servants in the box are continuously inputting energy into his head and concentrating it into his brain, and these energies will fluctuate in intensity when passing through the brain, as if there is still thinking there.

"What do you need?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

The human head had the face of an otter.

How did the otter turn into a human head in a box?Zhuang Xuteng hung his finger in the air, stopped on the "start communication" button, hesitated for a while before pressing it.At this time, a powerful shadow energy was generated from the inside of the box, pouring into the head like a torrent.The otter's face was trembling, his expression was ferociously distorted, and his eyelids were throbbing, but he couldn't open them.

"Dead, definitely dead. (Ignore this answer, it is not instructive. Please refer to the summary of the 00th test of the XA77 project for specific explanations.)"

The XA00 project, the box is called XAST1, this ST is not an otter, right?The more Zhuang Xuteng thought about it, the more chilled he became, and the more he thought about it, the more at a loss.At this moment, Ge Gongdao's plain language call came from the headset:
"Support! Fight!"

Driving out of town today, didn't write much, sorry...

/me slips away quickly.

(End of this chapter)