Chapter 47: 047
Ep. 47
There were guys on the stairs going down to the first floor. Fortunately, neither of them showed any serious injuries.
[Zuzuz (Good job)]
｢Big baby. Pina.」
[Zuzuzu (It's okay)]
No. 26 was worried when he saw that I had holes all over my body. Aadhai reached out with his tentacle to lick my wounds, so I quickly retreated.
[Zuzu zuzuzuzu (My blood is dangerous)]
｢?｣
With the guy tilting his head in front of me, I pointed to the floor where the blood drops had fallen. The guy who saw the concrete burning with acrid smoke nodded calmly.
"I understand"
[Zuzu (yes)]
I checked my body before the enemies chased me. The tentacles are so badly damaged that it will likely take more than an hour to recover. The pierced area is also growing and filling the wound, but it will likely take about 10 minutes to completely heal.
'The injury was worse than expected, but it went well according to plan.'
The remaining enemies are 2 police officers and 1 android. Because a police officer controlled by a parasite shot his colleague, one less person was killed.
Unfortunately, Android quickly responded, so no further results could be expected.
'There are only three enemies left.'
I feel like we have three enemies, so we want to deal with them one by one, but that's not possible.
The enemies on the first floor could be defeated with a surprise attack, but the enemies are not stupid either. I'm sure you'll know by now that we're not one, but many, so we'll come prepared.
'I have the regenerative ability, but they don't.'
Unlike me, No. 26 and Aadhai cannot recover from fatal wounds. If you are hit by a bullet, it can be considered fatal and in severe cases, death.
'The Sea Demon has the upper compatibility characteristic of regenerative power….' Since
it is not possible to check whether it has the characteristic or not, you cannot hastily ask it to fight.
'Should I use the monster's tentacles?'
All enemies on the first floor have been eliminated, and the remaining enemies are concentrated on the second floor. Since the enemies can't move freely by climbing walls like I can, they will come through the hallways. If you fire psychic breath into the hallway with the monster's tentacles, the enemies will inevitably be annihilated.
'The downside is that it is impossible to respond to unexpected situations.'
After shooting the psychic breath, I become temporarily inactive. The time is approximately 3 to 5 minutes.
'The enemy must have requested reinforcements a long time ago as the war situation is unfavorable. If you take more time and the number of enemies increases, it becomes difficult.'
It is clear that the new reinforcements will be several times more numerous. It is not easy to annihilate them all with my current skills.
'Let's use the monster's tentacles.'
Coincidentally, enemies are also coming this way, following the traces of acid blood that fell on the floor.
I asked No. 26 and Adhai before greeting them.
[Zuz zuzu zu zuzu zuzu (I will be weak for a moment after this attack)]
｢?｣
[Zuz zuzu zuzuzu (Please protect me in the meantime)]
｢Big baby, is it getting bigger again?｣
[Zuz zuzuzu zu (No. This time, It's different)]
"Okay. "I will protect the older baby."
"I" "I don't understand."
"The older baby is a baby, so she takes a nap sometimes."
"I understand."
It's not a nap, but there's no need to explain.
After pushing them back, I stuck my head out into the hallway and checked for enemies. As soon as something popped out, the enemies fired penetrating bullets right away.
Thanks to the strong outer shell of the head, the head did not become a beehive, but the pain did not go away.
'…We need to come up with bulletproof measures as well.'
I can think of a few genetic essences that can be obtained in this city, but right now I'm in a battle. I erased any other thoughts and used the wall and the skin of my head as cover and fired a barrage of spines at the enemies.
"Fuck!"
"Please use me as cover and shoot."
"I know!"
As the spikes flew, the police officers swore. The android, which lost its shooting weapon, used the power bunker to lift the entire concrete wall and use it as cover.
I think it's a good idea, but the opponent is probably bad. Because cover has no meaning in the face of psychic breath.
I activated the monster's tentacles. Then the long tentacles that reached down to the shoulders moved slowly.
'omg?'
In an instant, all strength was drained from my entire body, and I almost collapsed on the spot. The previously shiny skin turned dull, and the powerful tail hung down on the floor.
'…the amount of consumption is enormous.'
It feels like all the energy flowing through my body is being sucked into the back of my head. It feels like it can gather all its strength, including the four combat-type arms with claws and tails, and even the power of the small arms on its chest.
The tentacle, which had absorbed almost all the power I had, took on a vivid purple color. Enormous psychic power was gathered at the tip of the tentacles, enough to be felt even by humans lacking the ability to detect supernatural powers.
The tentacles, which had accumulated so much energy that it made the air tremble, all ended up heading in front of me.
"Ultra high-risk psychic power detected. "Get out of here immediately."
"What?!"
A purple stream flowing from the end of a tentacle was concentrated on a certain point in the air. The enemies tried to hurriedly retreat, but it was already too late.
A soft purple glow descended in the dark hallway, and the energy gathered in the air was finally fired.
A heat ray of pure supernatural energy swept through the hallway. The concrete wall that covered half of my body disappeared without leaving a trace, and all the places that were hit by the heat rays looked the same.
There was no sound. Because psychic power doesn't make noise. It was just the remains of the destroyed hallway collapsing later, making noise.
There was nothing left where the purple storm passed.
The android literally turned to dust along with the wall it was holding, and one police officer who belatedly activated his shield collapsed with half of his body missing.
However, the police officer standing by the outer wall in the hallway did not die because he was thrown out of the apartment while blocking the attack with his shield.
"Ugh!"
He fell from the second floor, but thanks to the reinforcement effect, the police quickly got up. I wanted to chase after him as he ran away, but my body wouldn't listen.
｢Me｣｢Admiration｣｢Great young one!｣
Listening to Adhai's thoughts of admiration for the majesty of the psychic brass, I literally lost my mind.
–
"Damn the rain! Damn it! This is ridiculous! "That doesn't make sense!"
William, who was running away with a half-broken leg, kept repeating the same thing. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't come to my senses because of the impossible reality.
'army! 'We need an army!'
This guy is a new weapon.
What a ridiculous thought. What an arrogant judgment.
This guy is a devil. A devil who will burn this city to ashes.
Instead of carefreely preparing for a board meeting, the entire defense fleet had to be deployed to the residential district.
'The crazy Eugene family controls such monsters?'
He completely misjudged. Sander had no dealings with that monster.
Probably he is a slave. It must have been caused by the parasites that ruled the police.
"It doesn't matter how many victims there are! "I have to kill him!"
William, who was completely out of his mind, let out an extreme sound that he would never have thought of normally.
Although he has always been rational, the human mind has its limits. Everything is useless in front of something that cannot be handled.
As he ran away limping, he saw a police bus coming from afar.
'Six? 'He's not something I can stop with those numbers!'
Six buses carrying armed police would be an enormous force, comparable to a platoon of regular troops, but William, who had already fought against the bastard, thought it was out of the question.
"stop!"
A police bus stopped when a man wearing a reinforced suit jumped out in the middle of the road. An android got off the bus and helped him up.
"I will verify your identity. "Are you William, the head of the detective team?"
"You can't go! "You must never go!"
"Check for confusion. "It is judged difficult to continue the battle, so we will transfer you to the hospital."
"Listen to me! If this continues, everything will fall apart!"
The android struck the man's neck with his hand as he repeated the words, "I'm going to die." The bus departed again carrying the fainted William.
When they arrived at the apartment, their target was nowhere to be seen.
All that remained there were the remains of broken androids, human fragments, a dead police officer with a hole in his abdomen, and a police officer lying unconscious.
–
"Are you conscious?"
"…This place?"
William opened his eyes and looked around.
He was in a medical capsule. Beyond the translucent glass of the capsule, a medical android bowed politely to him.
Behind the android, various electronic devices were glowing, and nurses and androids were seen running in the hallway outside the room.
"…It's a hospital."
"you're right."
"What happened to the others? What is the operation? "Is everyone okay?"
"When reinforcements entered Apartment 3 in Complex C, the target had already fled. So there were no additional casualties."
William felt dizzy at the android's words.
"…Missing him was a mistake that cannot be described in words."
"You don't have to worry. The androids' secondary memory storage devices have already been collected. The district general security team will soon find the target. Please rest assured."
"…."
Despite the android's words, William did not feel reassured.
As expected, M01, which stored all of its memories, evaporated without leaving a trace due to the enemy's terrible psychic attack.
The memories of the other androids are fragmentary, so I don't know if the higher-ups will be able to properly understand the danger he poses.
In that case, the only person who retained intact memories was William himself.
"I have something to tell my superiors right now!"
"I'm in the middle of treatment. "Discharge is not possible."
"shit! "It's urgent!"
"It's impossible. "You need to rest at least until tomorrow."
"hey! hey!"
After saying that, the android operated the device next to the capsule. Then, the drug was automatically injected through the injection tube connected to William's arm.
William tried to pull out the injection, but he lost consciousness again due to the rapid fatigue caused by the drug.
How much time has passed like that? William suddenly woke up.
"omg!"
The hospital room was dark because it was night.
There were other people besides him in the dark hospital room.
When he pressed the button on the device, the capsule lid opened with the sound of air being released.
"What about you?"
"I'm calling from above. "I need to go report to you right away. Do you mind?"
"No problem."
The person who woke William up and opened the capsule was a police officer. He was wearing a police uniform and there was nothing unusual about him other than a bandage around his neck.
'huh? 'I think I've seen it somewhere.'
Since William worked in the detective team, he had an excellent memory for people. I wasn't sure about the other person's face, but their physique looked familiar.
'I'm not someone who works in the port district. Where did I see you?'
It was clearly someone I met recently.
"I have a car waiting outside. "Please follow me."
"Just pack your bags."
Anyway, since he had to report to his superiors in a hurry, William packed only light luggage and followed him.
They were stopped by medical androids on night shift, but nothing significant happened. This was because the person guiding William took out a police electronic badge and authenticated it.
Arriving at the parking lot outside the hospital, the police keyed the car. The car with its headlights flashing in the distance was a regular car.
"Let's get in."
The police officer who sat in the driver's seat first said nothing more.
'I'm going to report to my superiors, but it's not a police car?'
Are you saying you are not carrying out official duties? William was confused.
The other person was staring straight ahead with an expressionless face. The attitude was that if the other person had bad feelings and was trying to deceive him, he was not too interested.
William stroked the laser pistol in his arms.
'If you look at the badge I took out earlier, I'm a member of the district general security team.'
The electronic badge that the other party showed to the android was in a different format, but William also had it.
As it is an electronic badge used by the police, a symbol of public power, it is an item with a unique ID and pattern recorded on it, so duplication or counterfeiting was impossible. Also, if someone else tried to authenticate with the badge, an alarm would sound immediately, making it impossible to steal and use it.
Although his behavior was strange, since he had a badge, it was clear that the person he was dealing with was a police officer.
After thinking for a while, he eventually got into the car. The police car carrying him left the dark parking lot. Leaving behind the hospital, whose exterior was decorated with bright lights, the car drove down the road in the middle of the night.
The inside of the running car was quiet. The police just looked ahead and drove, and William kept thinking about who the other person was.
'If it's someone I saw recently in the district general security team… is it by any chance an armed police officer?'
"You…"
"We have arrived."
William then remembered something and was about to ask, but the car stopped. When I looked outside, I saw that the place they were in was not an administrative district.
Quiet streets and dark alleys with not a single person in sight, and a manhole visible nearby.
'This is the border between Earths, right?'
It was a place that William knew as the border between the residential district and the port district. Since it was a border crossing between two districts, the security teams in each district passed responsibility to each other, so ironically, the police did not go there. Moreover, because there were no cameras or street lights, it was a place where forgettable robberies occurred.
"Get off."
"What is this?"
William quickly pulled out his laser pistol and aimed it at the policeman's temple.
Now I remembered. The other person was an armed police officer who had gone to Apartment No. 3 in Complex C with him to catch the monster. I remembered it now because I couldn't see his face properly because he was wearing a helmet and mask at the time.
"You'll know everything when you get off."
"What?"
"…."
The other person, number 103, did not offer any resistance. He just kept repeating that everything would be known when he got off.
'no way?'
William saw what happened to number 103. He was manipulated by an unidentified parasite and shot his colleague.
"…sorry. manager."
"what?"
"It's already too late."
Inside the dark car, he turned his head towards William and grinned. Number 103 was looking at William's face, or more accurately, behind him.
'back?'
I tried to look back, but it was too late. With the sound of the passenger window breaking, something sharp stabbed the back of William's neck.
As soon as he felt the tingling pain, he felt his entire body paralyzed. It was as if someone had put a lock on the part of my brain responsible for body movement, and I couldn't move at all. Even though I strained my fingers to fire the laser pistol, it didn't budge.
Then, a strong force pulled him out of the car. I was thrown hard on the floor, but there was no pain.
And finally William encountered "it".
At first glance, it looked like four thick toes with inverted joints that looked like hooves, and its legs, which were completely different from those of humans, were surrounded by layers of muscles to support the heavy body.
A long, thick tail that seemed to be twice the size of its body was extended from its buttocks.
Above the legs, except for part of the abdomen, an armor-like shell covered the chest. Small arms sprouted from the chest area of the outer skin that covered the chest.
That wasn't the only arm. In human terms, there were two pairs of arms located at the shoulders and armpits.
It looked similar to a small arm, but was much larger in size. Of the arms, only the lower left arm looked different, with a long stick-like thing replacing the hand.
The rest of the arms had four fingers at the end, and the claws looked large and sharp like hooks, making them very threatening.
Up to this point, it looked like something out of a nightmare, but what made William even more terrified was its head.
The head was reminiscent of a reptile-type animal, but looking at the bundle of tentacles on the back of the head, which covered the entire head as if it were wearing a two-horned helmet, it could not be considered a typical animal.
Number 103 got out of the car and kneeled in front of the monster.
"I brought you as you ordered."
The monster glanced at him and then glared at William again.
The monster opened its mouth and revealed its sharp teeth.
"I don't miss my food."
The voice that came out of the monster's mouth was surprisingly familiar. It was the voice of police number 112, who had entered the building together during the operation.
William screamed as the creature's head approached.
No one could hear the screams but himself.
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