(sixteen)
The mansion of wealthy businessman Aldrich Harris is located in a quiet suburb. The specific address is not disclosed to the public, but Abe contacted Leake and obtained the address easily. Coming out of the pure white space where he was resting, the scene remained unchanged, and Ultra had no time to escape. He just didn't know if he asked his remaining teammate for help during the discussion round.
The people on the red side took a short rest. Since they didn't know what would be waiting for them in the unknown house, Izawa made a special trip to the black market to buy weapons that were available. They were not as good as the weapons developed by the Weapons Research Institute, but they were useful. More than enough to defend yourself. Since the last "attack" incident, the defense level of the Weapons Research Institute has skyrocketed, and internal prevention and control has become quite strict. He can only get weapons from the projects he is responsible for, but can only be disappointed with other projects.
Fortunately, they did not use much initial capital, and it was enough for each of the three of them.
As a "captive", Otto had no human rights, so he was taken away by them.
On the way to the wealthy merchant's villa, Abe kept controlling the home screen, as if he wanted to study something. Ize asked her, and she sighed: "You can't control enemy players."
It would save a lot of trouble if Otto could "voluntarily" follow them.
Ize: "...Of course not."
"Is it really not possible?" Abe discussed with Ultra seriously in front of him, "The method of operation is to create a mental link between players, which is equivalent to building a bridge between points a and b. , what if we change point b and replace it with point c?"
Ize was very interested in these and said without hesitation: "The idea is right, but there are protection programs at points a and c, especially point c that is subject to attack information. To decipher the protection program requires "tools" or time, the chess game The world is controlled by the mastermind, and it is not easy to achieve these two things.”
Speaking of the mastermind, Abe remembered a person. She said "Huh" and asked curiously: "Does every mastermind have his own ideas?"
"Yes." Izer paused, "You can think of the mastermind as the rule-maker, guardian and decision-maker in their respective regions. If humans live in a virtual world, they will be under his jurisdiction. And each decision-maker Executives also have different personalities and thoughts. If Titr Company wants to establish this kind of connection within the area of this mastermind, it actually needs to discuss it with him and it can only appear within the scope of his rules."
In the live broadcast, some people from both the red and blue sides expressed interest in this statement. The popular argument nowadays is that the "master brain" is no different from ordinary intelligence and is controlled by humans. In Izawa's discussion, the master brain is more like a palm with power and power. The independent-minded human strongman immediately seemed to some viewers to be very scary if he thought about it carefully.
Izawa seemed to know what the audience was thinking, and he continued: "But their initial data was born from human beings after all, and they themselves have many restrictions on the program. After all, they are only 'spiritual bodies' and cannot leave the virtual world and come to the real world." ." He said, adding two words, "for now."
After all, science and technology are developing at a rapid pace, and no one knows what the future will be like.
Abe nodded, with a relaxed expression, as if he didn't seem to have listened. Ize just pretended that she didn't understand and didn't say anything more. He continued to discuss the "spiritual link" with her for a while.
She is very interested in this
Interesting, seeing that Ize still couldn't achieve the effect she expected after using data calculations, she couldn't help but turned her head and asked Otto: "... He said that your ability is stronger than him, can you do it?"
What can you do? Will he teach her how to modify the system program so that she can control him
Otto sneered at her.
His smile has always been arrogant and unbridled, full of complacency and pride. A sneer like this is really unprecedented. His fans were surprised when they saw it. However, they did not expect that in the near future, they would frequently see this kind of irritated smile, as well as Ultra who lost control of his temper and collapsed and became violent.
As soon as Abe looked at his expression, she knew it was impossible. She could not achieve her goal, so she withdrew her extra eyes: "If you don't know how, then there seems to be no use keeping you." These words seemed to threaten him.
"You want to kill me?" He laughed.
According to their speculation, he is the dead stone in the chess game. If he is killed, the red side will lose. Dare she kill him
She said sweetly and lightly: "It depends on your luck."
Otto did not feel a sense of crisis about Abe's last words, otherwise he would have made a strategic retreat before stepping into Aldrich's villa.
Even the people on the red side never thought that Abe would be so "evil". She regarded Ott as a pathfinder, completely disregarding his dignity of life and death, and asked Ize to throw him into the courtyard of the villa. A foreign object invaded, and a sharp and ear-piercing alarm sounded over the courtyard. Everyone present looked at each other in shock.
"Isn't this a bit too..." Ize didn't know how to express it.
Abe pouted: "I spent so much effort to catch him, he can't be useless at all." At this time, she was like a child who simply couldn't ask for candy, which made Ize dumbfounded.
The villa's security system started to activate the moment Ott entered the red alert line.
The turf keeps collapsing in a grid shape. If earthworms turn over the soil, the damp soil will turn to the ground. There are sharp thorns piercing out from inside. With the infrared sensor, the intruder is quickly located. Following his avoidance, he wants to pierce him. . The automatic sprinkler also stopped sprinkling water and turned to aim at Ultra. The instantly frozen ice edges shot out like machine bullets. As long as he couldn't dodge, they would drive into his joints or pierce his body. brain.
It is unimaginable that a wealthy businessman would have weapons capable of guarding important places such as museums and research institutes.
"I just said the richest man has a problem!"
Fanny's slightly high voice immediately rose.
Ize looked at her and shook his head. He used the main control panel to access the electronic door lock and began to invade the villa's protection system. It didn't take long to change the names of these intelligently controlled institutions and stop attacking the current owner. .
After they stepped into the courtyard, they saw half-kneeling on the steps.
Otto, he covered the wound on his arm, thick blood dripping on the stone steps. The skin on his face was already pale, and now it was as white as paper, without any blood. If it weren't for the fierce and penetrating look he was staring at Abe, his face like that of a noble boy would have been a bit pitiful.
But no one dared to look down upon the terrifying aura emanating from his whole body.
Except Abby.
Abe walked past him leisurely, picked up his collar and walked forward. However, he was not strong enough, and most of Ott's body was dragged on the ground, just like a girl picking up a corpse.
The body moves forward.
She had already drained more than half of his fighting power. It turned out that the tendons that she had severed had not yet recovered, so she drained his blood again, leaving him with only one-third of his life. Otherwise, this attack would be too much for him. Bread before a meal is not enough.
But now...
Since participating in the competition, he has never experienced such an embarrassing time. Especially after his evil reputation spread throughout the arena, everyone would avoid him when they saw him. Who would be like her-
Otto just wanted to bite off a piece of flesh and blood from her body!
The protection system inside the villa and the one in the courtyard are two systems. It will take a certain amount of time for Izawa to decipher them. If he can get specific information, he can speed up the process. Of course, Abe regarded Ultra as a "human body detector" and kicked him forward to explore the way.
The mechanisms in the villa have been upgraded compared to those in the courtyard, and the level has jumped several levels. There are no fancy physical attacks, but there are white lights on the hanging paintings on both sides of the corridor. It looks ordinary, but it will radiate from the human body. The internal cell tissue begins to be destroyed. If you are not careful, you can be completely killed by the rebellious cells within the body as long as you walk this short distance.
This is the conclusion Ize came to after scanning the data changes in Ultra's body.
He admired Ultra's powerful mental strength, or willpower. His young body was obviously not strong enough to support him until now. The reason why he was able to break out many times and avoid harm in time must be the same as his real life. It is related to the developed brain neural network, and he is likely to have performed such exercises specifically. It is not difficult to understand why he has an advantage over most contestants in the virtual world.
And there is obviously another person who is stronger than Otto.
Ize looked at Abe. She was much more comfortable than Ott, and she had a lollipop in her mouth - she took it from the carved glass bowl in the entrance, which was obviously prepared by the owner for the little boy at home. She also held a newspaper in her hand. Before entering the courtyard, she suddenly took it out of the mailbox erected outside the door, seemingly to kill time.
"What's wrong?" She noticed Ize's gaze.
"… without."
He vaguely thought this was a spring outing for primary school students.
Abe was not as relaxed as Ize imagined. After all, she still had the heavy responsibility of not letting Ultra die, and at the same time, she was paying attention to whether there were other mechanisms in the house. Of course, she allowed Ultra to "break through" on his own most of the time, and only took advantage of him when he was exhausted and in a dilemma, almost automatically colliding with the intense white light, and was completely ruled out.
Otto gritted his teeth and smiled sinisterly, as if he had pinched her weak point, "It's not that you don't dare to let me die."
Ize: "Don't listen to his aggressive tactics!" He was afraid that Abe would be unhappy and really kill Otto. To be honest, he thought she could do it.
"No, it's broken and can't be used.
. "
Abe seemed to have never considered the issue of "killing him" at all, and his voice sounded almost at the same time as Ize's.
Ize breathed a sigh of relief, but Otto's expression became even more ferocious.
Abbey was caught off guard and stuffed a chocolate into Ott's mouth, and whispered concern for him: "Is it sweet? Talk less and save some energy." --
"..." Ize felt a kind of gentle cruelty. If he were Ultra, his nerves would probably be like being sawed back and forth by a saw, and Abe had driven him crazy. He looked at Otto
In the world of chess, a young boy is only as tall as his waist. He couldn't help but sigh: "It's so unbearable to treat a child like this."
Abe has never been confused by Ultra's appearance. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that she looks very petite in reality.
However, he also knew that Ultra's ability would probably suffer backlash if it was not suppressed forcefully. He just lamented that people are easily confused by the appearance of things.
Abe asked: "A kid who can kill people?"
"That's right, children don't know how to kill people." He said with a smile, but found that Abe's expression was disapproving, and he paused, "Have you ever seen a child who kills people?"
"I've seen it before." She didn't know what she thought of, and her tone seemed to be reminiscing, "I've seen it a lot."
But after saying this, she stopped talking. Ize seemed to see those gray eyes again, like the fog over the city, and like the ashes in the corner, as if they could be dispersed by blowing a breath, but they could not go away.
The question "Really?" came to his lips, but he couldn't ask it, as if it was not an easy question to answer.
The villa was quiet, as if no one was living there. I don't know if the owner of the house had gone out, or if he heard the siren and was waiting for it. They slowly approached the master bedroom on the third floor. According to Izer's analysis and the information revealed by Leake, Aldrich Harris lived here. And when they approached the master bedroom on the map and opened its door, they heard the sound of the shower, the passionate symphony broke through the cage, and the sound waves full of destiny washed their eardrums.
In the room, the communicator kept flashing red light, giving a warning that someone had invaded the house, but no one paid attention.
Several people looked at each other.
This is too much luck? What is the difference between it and a trap
Fanny glanced at Ott suspiciously, worried that someone from the blue party had set up a dragnet. Otto didn't even bother to snort.
Just when they were hesitating, Abe took the lead and entered the bedroom before Ize could reach out to stop him. Fortunately, there were no traps in the bedroom and she was not attacked. She did not stop until she reached the closet.
She stood motionless in front of the closet, her expression seemed to be thinking.
"What do you want to do?" Ize, who followed, asked her with a mouth gesture.
Abe reached out and opened the closet.
The sounds in the bathroom stopped and the room became quiet.
A man walked out in a bathrobe. He went to get a glass of warm water first, and then he noticed the communicator at the end of the bed flashing. When he walked towards the communicator and passed the closet, suddenly, a shallow gap opened in the closet—
A white and delicate hand stretched out from inside, and with a flash of cold light, it suddenly touched his neck.
He fell to the ground and everything seemed to be over.
But the chess game is still in motion.
The room was still silent.
Ize walked out of the hiding place and said with certainty: "Still alive." He could also detect the breathing of the wealthy businessman. --
He turns people over. This is a somewhat fair and fat man, with very shallow wrinkles on his forehead and a little deep nasolabial folds. He seems to smile often. b Most people who do business are kind-hearted, so it’s not surprising to have such a face. b At this moment, he looked at the intruders with horror in his eyes, and wanted to make a sound, but because his throat was cut, he could only make a short breath, "Ah."
Everyone else came out too. Otto and Abe were hiding in the same closet. When Abe came out, he opened the door of the cabinet on Ott's side. The young man leaned against the cabinet wall indifferently, half-bending one leg and resting his hand on it. No information could be read from his expression.
Fanny frowned: "I said, you don't just have to follow the prompts to kill."
"How will you know if you don't try."
"What happens after you try it?"
Abe tilted his head and observed the richest man: "It's really useless. But at least he didn't guess that I would kill him in this way, right?"
“…”
Fanny was almost furious with her.
Seeing that Aldrich could not die, Abe lifted him up, held his neck, and cut a deep gash in his neck like he was bleeding a cock, but the blood flowed very slowly, as if it were being drained by grease. It was blocked, and only a few drops of blood mixed with yellow grease fell.
Fanny almost vomited.
"The defense layer was not broken, the blood was too thick."
After a brief observation, Ize gave a more vivid explanation of the game terms. Otherwise, it really cannot explain why a normal person would die without blood loss in such a situation.
From the beginning, Izawa mentioned the internal data principle of PC chess, which is like the distribution of bonus points in a holographic online game. If a wealthy businessman is a player, then obviously his attack power will not be increased much, but his physical defense points will be at the highest level.
No wonder Otto was so calm, not afraid of them killing him. Apart from basic villa mechanisms, he didn't even do the simplest defense.
"This is the meaning of special weapons! I've said it a long time ago, without special weapons, you can't kill him. I admit that you are very good at killing people, but this is not a simple task that can be achieved with a high force value. What to do now depends on Bleed him drop by drop?"
Fanny saw that she became irritable and began to pace back and forth in the room, and her tone was not good.
She looked like she was very troubled by the red side's victory. In fact, both her pacing movements and the content of her words clearly reminded the audience that the "rich businessman" was her calculated target. And she had anticipated how things would develop.
The weapons that could not achieve victory were consumed by Abe early.
Abe let go of Aldrich's neck, raised her eyes and asked her: "Have you forgotten, who is the master chess player in this round?" Her hand moved in the void, as if opening the master chess player. The player's interface. And Fanny knew everything about the authority there.
She can use it for others without any burden, but she never wants to experience the experience that that authority brings.
Fear welled up in her and she took a step back.
Abe was smiling all the way, making people feel like a cute little girl on a spring outing. Now her eyes suddenly changed, calm and calm, making people feel trembling for no reason.
"I've already made arrangements, you just need to... wait quietly." She asked, "Is that okay?"
Fanny suppressed the chill on her neck and did not dare to speak. She just nodded her head "quietly" twice.
At this moment, Otto, who had been ignored by no one after being stuffed into the closet, let out a low laugh. --
His mouth was split, and the corners of his mouth were torn because of the flesh, making the arc of his smile become wider. There was a strange and panicky feeling: "What are you waiting for? That rabbit?"
"Sorry, I got this chess piece first."