Chapter 235: Old Tricks Repeated

The next day, on the central avenue of De Moana Chino, people seemed to have forgotten the bloody scene of yesterday and gathered together again without regard for their lives.

Their expressions became more and more ferocious, even not like humans - it was not just because of the horror of their expressions. People had loose hair, red eyes, and their skin aged rapidly, showing a wrinkled blue-gray color. At first glance, they thought they had regressed to apes.

Amid their calls, a shaved-headed woman climbed onto the roof of a car.

This time, there was no square, podium, microphone or speech. She just mechanically raised her fists over her head over and over again, and people followed her and shouted at the top of their lungs:

"For freedom!"

"For freedom!"

"For humanity!"

"For humanity!"

"Come and fight for honor!"

"Come and fight for honor!"

"..."

Mikael leaned on the railing on the roof and looked at the street in the distance. The so-called central avenue was hundreds of meters wide and had eighteen lanes, but it was packed with people. Many people had no place to stay, so they uprooted the shrubs and other green plants in the green belts beside the road and threw them into the air. On the one hand, it satisfied their violent needs, and on the other hand, it did make room.

He turned his head and glanced at Ying, and it was not difficult to see a trace of worry in her eyes.

"Although the coalition government did not open fire yesterday, according to rough statistics, at least 2,800 people died from trampling and suffocation, and more than 13,000 were seriously injured. Because the hospital was shut down, most people were unable to..."

Ying seemed to have misunderstood what Mikael meant, and reported the casualty data. Then she became more worried-today's streets are more crowded than yesterday. In just a few dozen minutes, she had seen hundreds of people drowned in the sea of ​​people, and they were still extremely excited before they died.

But they couldn't take any action, just to-in the name of saving more people.

"Abonya."

Mikael called Abonya's name seemingly calmly, but in fact he was urging her.

Aponia, who had been standing on the rooftop, clasped his hands and bowed his head in prayer, opened his indifferent eyes, stretched out a single index finger, and drew a red line on the satellite map displayed on the tablet held by Sakura.

"Alicia, Kevin, how is the situation over there?"

Mikael was not asking about the riot.

"Wait a moment! Give Desdobia some time, okay?"

Mikael's mouth twitched, fortunately Kevin was done.

"I'm Hen, I'm drawing a route on the map."

Mikael looked at the map, and there was indeed a blue line on it.

Half a minute later, the golden line symbolizing Desdobia's detection results also appeared on the map. Three lines of different colors started and extended from three different points in De Moana Chino City, and formed three intersections.

If the three spiritual perception fusion warriors explore in the direction of Honkai energy interference without error, the last three lines will converge at one point, which is the location of the Honkai beast or Herrscher behind the scenes. But reality is naturally impossible without errors, which is why the three lines give three intersections.

In other words, the three lines inevitably enclose a small triangle, and according to the previous deduction, the Honkai beast or Herrscher behind the scenes is obviously hiding in this triangular area formed by the error.

Such a big fuss is actually a helpless move. No matter whether the opponent is a Honkai beast or a Herrscher, there will not be a strong Honkai energy reaction before using all their strength. In addition, the concentration of global Honkai energy continues to increase, and even the emperor-level Honkai beasts cannot be directly identified by the reaction level...

"Okay, Kevin from the north, Alicia from the south, and Sakura from the east. Don't fight to the death when you find the target, and try to drive the opponent to the western coastal beach."

"Understood."

Not to mention Kevin and Ali responded, Sakura glanced at the still restless crowd, then glanced at Apolonia, and finally nodded to Mikael:

"I'll go first."

Mikael bit his lip, not looking at Sakura's receding back, but staring at Apolonia again Nia:

"Can you cut off her mental connection?"

Aponia shook her head, "It's easy to cut off everything, but it's almost impossible to achieve the effect you want... Besides, doing so will alert the enemy."

Mikael said no more, he turned the communication channel and asked:

"Pado, are the armed forces of the United Government taking any action?"

"Four helicopters are preparing to take off and rush to... Wait a minute, I, I'll look through my notes, um! It will take about 290 seconds to reach the destination."

It's 260 seconds - Mikael corrected silently in his heart. Two hundred and ninety seconds is the distance from the helicopter starting to the sky above Mikael's position. According to the sound of the helicopter rotor turning in the communication from Paduo, it has been started for a while. In addition, the helicopter does not need to fly over the target. It can use machine guns and rockets to forcibly suppress it from hundreds of meters or even one or two kilometers away...

"Hua, snipe that woman to death."

"Bang!"

Before he finished speaking, gunshots rang out, and the woman's bald head was blown into pieces in the reverberating sound, and the screams of the crowd stopped at this moment.

Then there were sudden screams and trampling sounds. People farther away didn't know what happened, they could only feel that the people in front were constantly pushing back.

As for the spiritual pollution hidden in the woman's voice, it disappeared without a trace the moment she died. The excitement and anger she brought to everyone turned into fear at the moment of her death.

"Aponia!"

The woman whose name was called sighed softly, and made a prayer gesture again. Her lips moved, and then she opened her arms, scattering golden light.

"Please, go home."

After saying this, Aponia let go in one breath, and her whole body was exhausted, almost falling down - fortunately, Mikael constructed a recliner behind her in time.

"Is it too much for you to give more than 200,000 commandments at one time?"

"Yes... Only when a person tries to exert his full strength... can he feel the insignificance of his own power."

"It doesn't matter. Not to mention that what you just did is like a miracle, what's more, the power of a fusion warrior is growing, and it will reach its peak two to three years after the operation as the body and the fusion factor are deeply integrated."

Feeling the real decadence from Abonya for the first time, Mikael was slightly stunned, and then whispered to comfort him.

But he seemed to have overlooked one thing.

Abonya glanced at him strangely, "Mikael, your concept of time..."

"What's wrong?"

"It's been three years since I had the super-transformation operation."

"..."

Mikael closed his mouth and turned his eyes back to the bottom. The dense crowd suddenly calmed down.

No one was noisy or afraid anymore. They just stood there in confusion.

Even those who had fallen to the ground because of trampling and squeezing before stood up with a breath of cold air.

Then, the same expression appeared on their faces - confused?

Who am I? Where am I?

Why am I here?

Before the more than 200,000 people gathered here could figure out the first question, "Who am I?", the bloody suppression scenes of the past month were almost played in everyone's mind at the same time.

No need to guide them, after the excitement aroused by mental pollution subsided, facing such a bloody scene, and hearing the roar of helicopter engines not far away, "survival", the most primitive instinct of human beings, instantly overwhelmed everything.

But just when the crowd was about to cause chaos again out of fear, two other spiritual forces swept across the scene, keeping everyone's mood at the zero point of fear but not too fearful.

Then, as the Abonya commandments said - [Please], go home.

People began to disperse in confusion. In order to prevent the previous stampede from happening again, Aponya, Hen, and Desdobia had to use their brains to bear more than 200,000 consciousnesses, so that they could maintain a neutral mental state and move towards home by instinct.

But Mikael looked up at the sky in the east. Four armed helicopters with the logo of the United Government had deployed in a battle formation. They only needed to pull the trigger, and the machine guns on the nose and the cabin were enough to wash the central avenue with blood rain.

But the leading squadron leader and the weapon operator saw the scene on the street below, looked at each other silently, and did not shoot immediately.

"Attention, all units, the people on the ground are evacuating, stay alert, don't open fire, and wait for me to ask the ground again."

In this way, four helicopters flew quickly over the street, circled a long way in the distance, and finally hovered in the air.

"Mike, what are you doing? Why don't you fire?"

"Sir, I think the onboard camera shows it clearly enough. The mob is evacuating on its own. It seems that we don't need to use force..."

"Where do you get all that nonsense! You call them a mob yourself! To deal with a mob, you should put a bullet into his anus and knock the primer, and then put their ashes into the barrel and shoot it out - what are you still hesitating about!"

"..."

Mike licked his lips, and a salty taste came from the tip of his tongue. He wiped his face, and before he knew it, he was sweating profusely.

He looked back at the weapon operator again, and this familiar partner just shook his head slightly at him.

He didn't understand, no, he couldn't accurately judge the meaning of this partner who had cooperated with him for nearly ten years shaking his head.

Was it to warn himself not to shoot at unarmed civilians?

Or was it to warn himself not to disobey the orders of his superiors and ruin his bright future.

He swallowed his saliva, and this middle-aged man, whose name was the same as Mikael in a sense, chose to refuse.

"I'm sorry, sir. I can't fire at people outside the target."

"People outside the target, where are the people outside the target? The target people are right under your feet!"

"..."

Mike took two deep breaths. He didn't want to perform this mission in the first place. It was just his squadron's turn according to the rotation system. But now he was glad that it was his turn. If it was someone else's...

"Everyone return to the base temporarily and wait for new orders."

"Okay! Mike! Captain! You're done! Your promotion next month is done! Your vacation is also done! Your pension and your brother's job are all done! And the other members of your squadron are all done! Unless you stop returning now and turn around to shoot!"

Mike closed the communication neatly and smiled apologetically at his old partner behind him.

The other party turned off the weapon sighting device, smiled bitterly, patted his shoulder, and shook his head, but then, as his head swayed and the perspective changed, his eyes became terrified--

"Mike, look at Unit 2!"

"F**king Joan, stop it!"

But he forgot that he had just turned off the communication.

So his words turned into a roar of incompetence and despair.

He watched the deputy squadron leader Jones command Unit 2 to make a beautiful turn, aiming the three 23mm machine guns on the course at the street below.

But one second passed, two seconds passed, three seconds passed...

The machine guns quietly pointed at the sluggish and slowly evacuating people below, and did not spit out flames.

Unnoticed by them, on the top of the building next to them, Mikael breathed a sigh of relief and dispersed the arc between his fingers-using the power of the third Herrscher to disrupt weapons that rely on electronic equipment is just a basic operation.

It was not just this point that used the power of the Third Herrscher. The conversation between the helicopter squadron leader with the same name and the ground commander was also captured by him in the form of electromagnetic waves. If not, he would have disturbed the electromagnetic field at the first time, making these helicopters unable to work.

Unit 2 turned its head and stalemated for a full half minute. Finally, it was confirmed that the weapon could not be fired. It could only turn the fuselage reluctantly and follow the formation to fly to the base - the heads of the villagers walking on the ground were not the heads of the villagers, but military merits!

Unfortunately, ill-gotten gains cannot be taken, and ill-gotten merits should not be taken.

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"If you do this, they will send a second wave of helicopter formations later."

Aponia's voice was extremely weak.

"It doesn't matter. I will stay here until all the people are evacuated."

Although Mikael's words were plain, he still raised his hand to construct three cups of steaming coffee, handed one cup to Aponia, and the other two cups were sent into the space rift and given to Hen and Desdobia.

After taking a sip, Aponya looked much better.

"You can add more sugar next time, thank you."

"... Sorry, I didn't expect you to like sweet drinks, so I deliberately didn't put sugar."

"Hehe, if it's not necessary, who would choose bitter melon juice and abandon coconut milk? Or... who would refuse the paved road and insist on walking on the thorny path?"

Hearing such weird words, Mikael turned his head away.

Since you can't tell whether it's normal words or prophecies, don't take it to heart.

Anyway, what is coming will come, and Mikael knows what may happen next.

"But are you really just waiting here? Are you so confident in leaving the Honkai beasts... or the Herrschers to Ellie, Kevin, and Sakura?"

"Why, do you think that the three of them can't deal with a Honkai beast together, or a Herrscher?"

"That's different."

Aponia shook her head, "Even if their combat power is strong, whether they can stick to their original intentions in the face of mental attacks... This is still unknown. Besides..."

Aponia didn't say the second half of the sentence - Mikael could obviously find a more comfortable posture, such as sitting like Aponia, so why should he stand with his muscles tensed? Isn't this ready to rush to help at any time?

The roar of the helicopter came again, this time, they flew directly in front of Mikael and Aponia, but they couldn't even bring up a trace of wind - with the cover of the double-layer imaginary barrier, they couldn't even detect the two from an optical perspective.

This helicopter squadron, like the previous ones, aimed their machine guns at the sparser crowd below, but unfortunately, the muzzles still could not spit out flames.

They circled over the central street for five full circles, and finally returned helplessly.

"How long will it take?"

Mikael, who was calm just now, suddenly came out to urge.

"At the current speed, it will take at least half an hour."

Mikael exhaled heavily - the armed forces of the coalition government are not fools. If they still insist on continuing the mission, they will have to change the obstruction method next time, such as the space corridor?

Also, they may use ground troops...

Of course, Mikael thinks it is unlikely. After all, these so-called "mobs" have no deep hatred with the soldiers. The only reason they opened fire is the order of their superiors.

And now that the "mobs" have clearly shown a trend of going back to their own homes, will the orders of their superiors be adjusted?

There will definitely be!

But no matter what, Mikael still has to wait here for a while, and after confirming that everything is correct, he can go to support Ellie.

He couldn't help but feel a little worried. It wasn't about their strength. As Mikael had just said, the strength of these three people was more than enough to deal with possible enemies.

Even if we take into account Aponya's worry - the enemy's mental attack.

Kevin and Sakura might have problems, but Ellie wouldn't.

Mikael was sure of this because he knew that Ellie's crystal had the function of isolating mental attacks.

So, at this time, Mikael was a little speechless - even he himself couldn't explain clearly, what exactly was his worry about?

After a while, he suddenly realized that what he was worried about was never an illusory possibility, but a fact -

Why haven't they heard any news yet? According to their speed, they should be able to find the opponent's hiding place by now.

…………

In fact, they did encounter some problems.

Kevin took a sudden step forward, and he could already see the green plants on the roof of the building not far away, as well as the very conspicuous big peacock and girl among the green plants.

There is no doubt that that is the goal of this trip, and the two of them have never concealed the Honkai energy emanating from their bodies.

He pinched the microphone on his collar. Before launching an attack, he should report to his superiors and inform his cooperating comrades. Kevin was already familiar with these rules.

But in the end, his action couldn't go as expected - the collar he pinched was empty, where was the microphone?

Wait a moment……

Kevin blinked and seemed to feel dizzy just now?

His hand that stopped in mid-air naturally straightened his collar, making the already straight collar of his school uniform even more straight.

And as he moved like this, a series of girl's screams suddenly sounded in his ears.

He looked around for a moment at the excited classmates. He was in the center of the field and he was very familiar with this. He was so familiar that it couldn't even distract him in the slightest.

It's natural that his body is a little tired, after all, he had been fighting fiercely for so long - Kevin thought to himself.

"Kevin!"

Suddenly, a familiar call came from the right side - it was familiar, but it was indeed very familiar, but Kevin couldn't immediately identify the name of the person who made the sound.

He stretched out his arm to the right. Rather than consciously catching the ball, he felt that his actions at this moment were more like an instinctive reaction by his body.

When I put the basketball in my hands, my fingertips immediately felt the hardness of the shell and the slipperiness of sweat into my central nervous system - "When did my hands become so sensitive?"

He stepped forward, but there was a slight sense of unfamiliarity, as if he had not touched a basketball for many years, but this was impossible. From his own feeling, his skills had obviously improved, and he connected with four people in just two or three seconds. , rushed into the penalty area and faced the opponent's last line of defense - a black man who was a full head taller than him.

"Big shark?"

The man's nickname popped up in Kevin's mind. For some reason, in such a simple nickname, he actually got a sense of the vicissitudes of time.

It's like the two have been going head-to-head on the court a long time ago - wait, have they? No?

Have you ever?

No?

When Kevin's mind was still filled with these contradictory questions, his body reacted first again - a fake move, and then instantly twisted his waist and scored a layup.

The moment the ball entered the frame, the whistle sounded to stop the game. The sharp sound pierced Kevin's brain and made him freeze on the spot.

"Kevin! Kevin!"

Along with the shouting, a group of familiar and unfamiliar people gathered around Kevin.

They hugged him one by one, although his own reaction was very dull - these people in front of him looked so familiar... He could easily recall their names now.

But... they were obviously classmates and teammates, but Kevin suddenly felt that he was alienated from these people, unilaterally alienated.

In short, there is an indescribable feeling of strangeness.

But just when he was about to make some kind of resistance, the classmates and teammates around him retreated to both sides like separate waves.

So Kevin naturally turned his attention to the straight line they gave way to.

I also saw the girl who looked a little hesitant...

"plum!"

At this moment, any sense of disharmony and strangeness were all forgotten by Kevin.

All he wanted now was to step forward and hold Mei in his arms.

But Mei retreated slightly with a hint of greenness, then stretched out her hands and handed a bottle of soda to him.

"I bought this..."

Kevin took the soda without hesitation and drank it in one gulp.

A smile soon filled Mei's face, and Kevin stared at her blankly, somehow being pulled out of the gym by her.

"By the way...Kevin, I often see you playing basketball, but I rarely see you playing baseball, but why do you always carry a baseball bat?"

Facing Mei's curious gaze, Kevin felt a little embarrassed. He couldn't say that his baseball bat was actually used for...

At this time, his eyes caught a glimpse of a gray figure.

"Su!"

He waved, but Su smiled and shook his head, retreating into the sea of ​​people - he didn't want to be a light bulb.

"What's wrong?"

May followed Kevin's gaze curiously.

"Ah...ah! That's the Su Ma I always mentioned to you before."

Kevin scratched his head. His muscles relaxed and his tone became natural, as if he was intoxicated by this...

He enjoyed everything now. He could no longer distinguish between enjoyment and nostalgia, but he still had a strange feeling in his heart, as if something important would happen soon.

"By the way Mei...you pulled me out because..."

He suddenly remembered that he should be celebrating with his teammates now.

"Ah - I'm sorry, it's mainly because the teacher asked me to receive two transfer students...I, I thought I'm alone...it's better for us to be together..."

Mei turned her head away like a little girl, but the corners of Kevin's mouth turned up.

"Okay, okay!"

He waved his hand.

"What are the names of the two transfer students?"

"One boy and one girl, with very interesting names, one is called Mikael and the other is called Alicia."

"Wait!"

Kevin paused.

"Mikael... Alicia..."

He muttered the two names, holding his head in pain and squatting down.

It was precisely because he was holding his head that he didn't notice that everything around him, including the campus and Mei, had become a phantom of nothingness.

Before he raised his head and realized all this, he suddenly began to fall, falling into another world.

I'm a little stuck, so I'll write some dreams these two days.