Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

Isabella tried her best to twist her body, but her strength was bound, sticky, entangled and dissolved like a stone sinking into the sea. Her twisting didn't look like a struggle, but like a lover acting coquettishly. If it weren't for the ferocious expression on his face and the blood-red eyeballs that almost popped out of his sockets, Morgana might have misunderstood him.

asshole! asshole! asshole! Isabella cursed in her mind, but she did not fall into useless anger. At this moment, she was extremely calm. She knew very well that she was in huge trouble. She underestimated the weirdness of the mercenary in front of her and encountered weird technology that she had never seen in the tactical reserve. At this time, what she needs to do most is to search for a solution. If she can't find something targeted, then everyone will downgrade together and return to the level of combat where they can only use primitive means.

Promotion and downgrade are internal terms within the company. Upgrading refers to "using higher-level shadow follower items, techniques and abilities to fight, and using as much shadow follower energy and firepower as possible"; downgrading is the opposite, using less or no shadow follower related techniques and using the most basic of kinematics, physics, and simple chemistry to solve problems.

The two states each play important roles in different environments. Isabella is good at "upgrade" fights, but she's also good at "downgrade" fights. This benefits from her relatively low implant replacement rate, which is the so-called "body does not expand". Even if she completely loses her shadow skills, her body parts can still function normally.

She is a cautious person - just like Zhuang Xuteng - even if she cannot do her best in any situation, she must first be able to fight in any situation. Among the augmented people she is familiar with, she is the one who pays the most attention to basic physical fitness, basic martial arts and basic shooting training. She is also the one who most often turns off implant assistance to complete daily tasks. So at this moment, she decided to activate the war shackles again.

This is already Isabella's trump card. She believes that with the passive protection ability of her armored skin and her solid basic training level, she can defeat Nike without any shadow energy assistance. She originally planned to use this move to deal with those guys in the company who had higher levels of enhancement, but the current situation forced her to deal with Naike who had lower levels of enhancement.

"Shame..." Isabella gritted her teeth and ordered the shock wave to be activated a second time.

If it were Zhuang Xuteng at another time, he would have gone through an emotional transformation process from shock and anxiety to acceptance and tension. The Eye of Kaho can only emit a shock wave once when it is fully charged, but this does not mean that all implants have the same specifications. Isabella specially found a special eyeball implant of excellent quality, and asked the engineering department to modify it slightly to increase the energy storage limit so that it could launch two shock waves.

It became a racing game at this moment to see whether the sick lady fired faster or the second shock wave occurred earlier. Both need to accumulate power, and there is a time lag from activation to launch - they both count down desperately, but the quality of the implant produced by the company is better, and in the end it is a step faster than the sick lady, and first releases two vertical three halos. .

A shock wave surged through, and this time even the sick lady was affected. She is composed of resentment and mana kneaded by shadow energy. She has the characteristics of necromancy and shadow magic. In addition, she also has intelligence. It can be regarded as a kind of nerve-controlled shadow effect, and is within the scope of the shock wave. As soon as the shock wave was generated, the sick lady felt as if she was being illuminated by the sun. The terrifying "active" energy was the nemesis of the "dead". She screamed in "fright". The resentment that was originally kneaded and formed burst out with a scream, and this formed a banshee howl.

The first war shackles are two shock waves, and the second war shackles are a shock wave and the Banshee's Wail. This time the howl erupted inside Isabella, and she bore the brunt. The death aura formed by the resentment collided in her body, and every organ was severely hit. It was equivalent to being infected by various diseases, toxins and curses at the same time. It could be said that there was no good place left.

Isabella was seen bleeding from all her orifices, her blood vessels were purple and protruding, and a light yellow grease-like liquid was flowing out from the damaged areas of her armored skin. There were uncontrollable bubbling sounds in her throat, "gurgling, gurgling, gurgling, gurgling", and she felt like every breath was a huge challenge. The auxiliary motion implant system, which was completely wiped out by the second shock wave, began to work randomly. The airflow spurted out of the thin tube was like an old lady's cough with thick phlegm, which was the absolute opposite of "refreshing".

Contrary to her original expectation, Isabella completely lost control of her body, and there was no subsequent demotion battle at all. At this moment, she was unconscious, her consciousness was trapped in an endless cycle of nightmares, and her body could only swing with the random airflow. If Zhuang Xuteng hadn't entangled and supported her, she would have fallen long ago.

Why does Zhuang Xuteng continue to support and pester Isabella? Because he himself was also feeling uncomfortable and was in a semi-conscious state. The shock wave hitting him again won't actually have a big impact on him, but it will only make the implant more painful and make it more difficult to move. But the Banshee's Howl was too cruel. Even if Isabella blocked a lot of its power, the rest would still be unbearable.

His physical fitness developed through folk methods - mainly in terms of shadow endurance - was far inferior to Isabella's, so it can be said that the Banshee's Wail hit both of them equally. Zhuang Xuteng's consciousness was directly knocked out by the sick lady's shout, but he did not fall into an infinite nightmare. He had already entered a state of wandering and not knowing his last name. He also lost control of his body, but his body was not out of control. Supercomputing martial arts made his nervous system strong and tough, and he rebuilt the conditioned reflex training process twice, giving his body the ability to control movement with ganglia just like lower creatures such as insects and amphibians.

The subjective consciousness of the brain was offline, but other parts of the nervous system still maintained the super-computing martial arts skills, and they were still in the eight-dodge state. Therefore, he still hugged Isabella and countered her random movements of hands and feet. Although the two of them were swaying and in weird postures, they finally maintained a fragile balance.

Another race begins, this time the competition is about who can regain consciousness first. Since the main cause of the loss of consciousness was the howl of the banshee, and Zhuang Xuteng had learned necromancy but Isabella had not, the advantage was on Zhuang Xuteng's side. Although Isabella's physical fitness is better, the breaking point of Banshee's Wail is within her body, so the two aspects can be evenly matched. After the two of them hugged each other and swayed for about a minute, Zhuang Xuteng was the first to regain some consciousness.

At this time, although he had not figured out what exactly happened, he made a key decision: to use dormant martial arts to transfer all his pain to the surroundings. Whoever gets close will be unlucky.

When the resentment, pain and fatigue began to shift towards Isabella, the balance of victory and defeat in this battle had completely shifted. It is more difficult for Isabella to recover from the coma, while Zhuang Xuteng's condition continues to improve. After several bouts of coma and awakening, Zhuang Xuteng finally fully regained consciousness and could observe his surroundings, analyze the situation, and make decisions completely, continuously, and coherently.

"Why are you being hugged by this woman? Does she want to pinch me to death?" At this moment, Zhuang Xuteng was still a little dizzy, and he couldn't recall all the memories of the previous battle. He thought for a moment, then immediately pressed the palm of his left hand on Isabella's forehead, activated the dormant martial arts with all his strength, and directly transferred the damage through the wraith magic circle in his palm. At the same time, he summoned and stretched out a vengeful tentacle to retrieve the armor-piercing hammer that fell on the ground.

Using all his strength, the armor-breaking hammer hit Isabella hard at the junction of the neck bone and skull, causing a comminuted fracture here. The breath of life immediately disappeared from Isabella's body, and the resentment of the dead rose and gathered, becoming extremely thick. Zhuang Xuteng still didn't dare to let go of his left hand, he just pulled Isabella's limbs apart, put her down, and squatted down. Then, he used the armor-breaking hammer again and kept hitting, finally shattering the head and brain and completing the last hit.

At this moment, he collapsed on the ground, panting hard, almost crying. It's not that I don't want to control it, but I just came back from the edge of life and death, and the stimulation is too great. The Banshee's howl nearly killed him. If it weren't for Isabella, who dared to block the knife, in front of him, and if the sick lady's resentment had the same root as his, thus reducing accidental injuries, he would not be alive today.

The near-death experience was not good at all, which strengthened Zhuang Xuteng's belief that he must live. After taking a few breaths, the memory of the battle came to mind as he thought about "what exactly happened". Zhuang Xuteng was finally able to review and analyze his progress.

The super-calculated martial arts finally broke through to eight dodges, completing the progress of "the enemy and we are one body". In fact, starting from the seventh flash, Zhuang Xuteng has embarked on a different path from his master, the Famine Stranger. The seven flash memories formed are different, and by the eighth flash, the difference is even more obvious. Stranger from Famine defines eight-step as "knowing your enemy." He said that in the eight-step state, he can predict the enemy's opportunities and complete at least three levels of thinking before the opponent.

A level here is not "a" subsequent change, but a "step" subsequent change. Each step will have multiple possibilities, and each possibility will lead to a new level of multiple possibilities. The Famine Stranger says he can see three levels and choose which one is most beneficial to him at the same time, tricking his enemies into doing what he wants and thus manipulating the tide of battle. However, he also said that for many powerful enemies, especially enemies of the company, many of their action choices will be unbearable. They often see ten possibilities, and they will suffer losses in all ten. In this case, the biggest role of the Eight Flashes is to start escaping three steps before the enemy takes action, thereby ensuring your own safety.

Zhuang Xuteng's Eight Flashes cannot be used to escape. He is more confident in defeating the company's powerful enemies, so his Eight Flashes will allow him to stick up for extremely close combat. His "unity between ourselves and the enemy" is not based on prediction, but uses his powerful nervous system to directly receive the enemy's neural signals. It's like Zhuang Xuteng copied all the enemy's commands to control the body, and then used the processing power of peripheral nerves to directly make conditioned reflex-level responses without going through the brain.

"How did you do it?" Zhuang Xuteng once again approached himself to the eight-dodge state, and then suddenly realized. At that time, he focused all his attention on the enemy and retracted the Wraith Jelly, but the Wraith Jelly did not completely disappear. The combination of the extremely compressed Wraith Jelly and the withdrawn attention created a nervous system-like bridge between Isabella and him.

"The skin is not connected, the flesh is not connected, but the nervous system is connected. What the hell... does it feel like I used an information probe to probe her?" Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that was the case. thing. Is it possible that after getting so familiar with shooting stars, nightingales, and rock sparrows, my daily admiration entered my subconscious and turned into my own skills?

It was my first time to enter the Eight Flashes, and I was generally very unskilled, so I focused all my energy on the Eight Flashes, and even my subjective thinking was suspended. But with experience in the future, if you practice more and adapt more, you will definitely be able to allow both eight-dodge and subjective thinking to coexist. This way, you will have more tactical options, right?

Zhuang Xuteng was just happy when his throat suddenly felt hot and itchy, then he opened his mouth and spit out blood with a loud sound. It seemed that the internal organs were injured, on the one hand it was the sick lady howling, and on the other hand it was Isabella squeezing. The various parts of that woman's body were like iron pliers and hydraulic presses, twisting and turning to kill people! Fortunately, Ba Shan was able to control her at that time, otherwise he would have broken her waist if he hugged her, and his head would have been broken if he twisted her neck! This time, it has to be taken care of, but it’s better to dispose of Isabella’s body first.

Zhuang Xuteng put his hands on the ground, stood up slowly, and took out an instant energy bar from his pocket to replenish his energy. The energy bar was completely squeezed into powder, and you could only pour it into your mouth little by little, swallowing it while holding back the coughing. His body greedily absorbs sugar, generates heat, and creates nerve-soothing signals, which can relieve the constant pain and fatigue throughout his body.

"Eye of Shadow," Zhuang Xuteng knew that information at this moment was the truth of life, and immediately used the Eye of Shadow to check the remnants of Isabella's shadow energy. After checking back and forth three times, he was basically relieved: Isabella was indeed dead, and all the shadow equipment on her body had been turned off, and no shadow energy signals were sent, received or generated.

"It can basically be considered that no one knows about Isabella's death for the time being." Zhuang Xuteng made a judgment. He chose to fight in the sewers, mainly because of the architectural structure here. In order to reduce the trouble of disassembly and repair, Peicheng's sewer pipes are pre-assembled and spliced, with stable quality control and good sealing structure. When walking inside, forget about mobile phone signals. Only a few high-power signal transmitting stations can penetrate it. Coupled with a total of three shock wave sweeps before and after, there is absolutely no usable signal transceiver device near the battlefield, and Isabella will be unable to communicate with Dingxin Magic.

Next, just like before, we must cover up her body and create solid alibi for ourselves. Cleaning the battlefield is the first step, especially blood stains and other things that contain biometric information... Wait, what's that sound?

Zhuang Xuteng pricked up his ears and listened carefully. The sound came from deep in the passage and kept getting closer. Since the enhanced hearing implant had not yet recovered, Zhuang Xuteng still looked at the slowly increasing water flow under his feet before he figured out what it was: the municipal government opened the gate to release the water, discharged the treated sewage into the Pei River, and washed the walls of the drainage channel by the way.

He quickly took out the folded body bag from his pocket, quickly unfolded it and stuffed Isabella into it, tied the mouth tightly, and then ran away with her on his shoulders. After a while, the water rushed in, rushing all the traces of the battlefield into the Peihe River. Zhuang Xuteng carried the body and stood above the drainage channel to observe with Wraith Jelly, and was quite satisfied with the flushing effect of the water flow.

Despite the fierce fight between the two, judging from the time, the total time before and after was less than ten minutes, which was not enough for Isabella to walk back to the artist's studio through the secret passage! Zhuang Xuteng thought for a while, planned the course of action in his mind, and then left the drainage ditch with the body bag. He first found some debris from the nearest trash can and wrapped it in a black bag. Then he put on a disguise and stole a homeless man's shopping cart in the park next to the river embankment. He put Isabella in it and took it with him. He ran away with a loud splash all the way.

As the hearing-enhancing implants gradually recovered, Zhuang Xuteng heard the homeless man cursing from behind him. "Who! Who stole my car! Bastard, what a bastard! How can I live without a car..."

He felt guilty for bullying those who were weaker than him, but Zhuang Xuteng really didn't dare to stop at this moment.