Cyber ​​Ghost Record

Chapter 65, Section Sixty-Four: Conflict
Blood splattered onto Suger's shoes, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

The deceased's body was still twitching slightly; his metal fingers were inside his clothes, knuckles resting on the gun. Suger recognized the gun—the same standard-issue pistol issued by the Security Bureau as Yang Guan's.

People from the Security Bureau.

Su Ge vaguely understood the current situation—the security bureau was arresting the shop owner, and he, as Yang Guan's informant, had also been dragged into it.

The problem is that, given this coincidence, it's impossible for the other party to believe it's a misunderstanding.

The shop owner shoved him again and pointed a gun at the back of his head.

Suger was pushed through several shops in the business district.

Leaving through the emergency exit on the west side of the building, the sky plaza was pitch black, with only the streetlights occasionally flickering and making crackling sounds. Some "passersby" lay collapsed at street corners and beside cars, and the shop owner's heavy breathing exhaled white vapor in the night.

"How many of you are there?"

"More than twenty."

Sog turned his head and answered in a low voice. The shop owner was ruthless; he killed the investigator but spared Sog. Sog understood why.

The hibernator posed no threat; the other party didn't even care about the weapons on his body.

He is now a hostage and a participant in the capture plan, and the premise for him to deal with the other side is to always make himself "valuable".

"Are there any military personnel among them?" the shop owner pressed.

military?

Now Suger understood why this guy was able to make such a big commotion.

"Have."

"How many."

"I don't have the necessary permissions."

A clanging sound came from the darkness, and the shop owner suddenly raised his gun and fired at the source of the sound.

With a bang, no one was hit. The sound came from a vending machine affected by an electromagnetic pulse. It had just dispensed a bottle of cola when the shot completely destroyed its structure. With a series of clanging sounds, bottles of drinks were spat out and rolled onto the wet street.

The shop owner's hand, which was raising the gun, froze for a moment.

Suger breathed a sigh of relief.

call out!
With a barely perceptible whooshing sound, a bullet shot out from the darkness. The shopkeeper turned his head, and the bullet grazed his face. The bullet, which missed its target, exploded near his ear, releasing a flash and a loud bang.

Electromagnetic pulse bullets.

The shop owner only flinched in surprise, and in an instant, his prosthetic eye traced the trajectory of the bullet in the darkness. He flicked his gun and fired into the darkness at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

A muffled groan, a flash of light, blood splattering—an investigator at the alley entrance had his neck shattered and was swallowed by darkness.

The shock of the shot seemed to provoke the shop owner, who roared in anger, and gunshots rang out in succession.

A chill ran down Suger's spine. Perhaps his decision was wrong. If he had controlled his suicide from the beginning, so many people wouldn't have died. But at the same time, a doubt rose in his heart: perhaps all of this was an illusion from his vision. He subconsciously touched his temple and found that he had indeed removed his vision. But this doubt still lingered. He suspected that the investigation into the Spiritual Society and the sudden incident before him were all a setup, and that these investigators were just robots, their purpose to lure him into using his abilities.

In the instant that Suger hesitated, the shop owner shot and killed all the passersby who had fallen to the ground, regardless of whether they were from the security bureau or not.

The next moment, the shop owner, panting, pointed his gun at Suger.

Suger raised his hands, the fine beads of sweat on his forehead reflecting the dim flashes of the neon lights.

Click!

A neon sign lit up; it wasn't completely damaged, and its functions were restored, emitting a stable, low-color-temperature pink light.

This seemed to be a signal; electronic devices began to operate again after the attack, lights gradually illuminated the rows of buildings, vending machines stopped dispensing goods, and holographic projections of folding fan dancers wandered above the street corner, like ghosts emerging from corpses.

Suge discovered that the Gu Diao's combat mode could be activated, perhaps indicating that a nearby backup signal base station had been put into operation.

A large number of armed drones and twelve airships surged toward the outskirts of the city.

Suger and the shop owner looked up at the same time, then looked down at each other.

"go!"

The shop owner kicked Suger in the shin and entered the escape route of the building across the street.

Footsteps hurried down the stairs, one after the other. A drone swept past between ventilation ducts and overhead rails.

In the corridor, the shop owner crouched down and hid behind the wall.

"Go to the Six Desires Heaven." He lowered his voice. "If you run into the Security Bureau on the way, you'll die before me, understand? You don't need to work for the Security Bureau." He then pressed the gun against Sug's back again. "Lead the way!"

Sog glanced back at the shop owner, realizing the man had no intention of keeping him alive. However, he decided to do as the owner said. The Six Desire Realms were abandoned by religion and beyond government control, practically unregulated. The owner needed to hide there, and Sog also needed a place where he could use his abilities without being detected.

……

On a high floor of Rongxing Building, in the embryo development center, the in vitro uterine device was damaged by an electromagnetic pulse attack. The temperature in the transparent culture chamber rose sharply, and the excessive release of nutrients enveloped hundreds of already formed embryos in murky water.

[Thus it should be known that all beings entering the womb... thirty-eight or seven days... the seventh day... the fetus resides in the mother's womb...]

The electronic audio of "Buddha and Ananda's Discourse on Entering the Womb" was played intermittently.

Three drones flew past the window one after another as Su Ge and Yue Guocheng walked down the corridor. Just then, the soundproof door beside them opened. Yue Guocheng was filled with shock and anger. He suddenly raised his gun and pointed it at the person who opened the door, but stopped just before pulling the trigger.

The girl who opened the door was about thirteen or fourteen years old. The light shone from behind her, casting a shadow on Yue Guocheng's blood-stained face, half in the light and half in the shadow.

It happened so fast that Sog didn't even have time to react.

A group of teenagers, mostly around thirteen or fourteen years old, were gathered in the room. These children from the public orphanage were not yet of suitable age for brain-computer interface transplants, and naturally, they were not affected by the electromagnetic pulse. They had come to visit the embryo development center when their teacher collapsed. Some were terrified, while others were excited, their chattering echoing through the room.

The girl's scream drowned out all other sounds.

"Shut up!"

Yue Guocheng glared angrily, pointing his gun at the girl.

The screams stopped abruptly, and the girl, pale-faced, collapsed to the ground.

"I said shut up!"

"Shut up!"

Yue Guocheng swept his gun across the crowd, and the children fell silent in fear.

Su Ge calmly placed his hand on the holster at his waist. Yue Guocheng hadn't fired at the girl, but the man was already in a bloodthirsty rage, and Su Ge couldn't predict what other heinous things he might do.

"They're just a bunch of kids, they're no threat to you."

"You shut up too." Yue Guocheng coldly swept his gaze over the crowd. "Stay here, no one is allowed to leave. Anyone who dares to utter a sound..."

boom!
With a muffled gunshot, the white mug on the table shattered.

Someone in the crowd burst into tears, but no one stood up to protect them; the teacher remained lying unconscious on the ground.

Yue Guocheng glanced at the crowd, then suppressed his sobs, leaving only intermittent choking.

Yue Guocheng turned around.

Just as he turned his back to the room, a boy quietly grabbed the teacher's gun and, trembling, aimed it at Yue Guocheng.

Upon witnessing this scene, Socrates' pupils contracted.

"Don't!"

Yue Guocheng suddenly turned around, and as he moved his gun, Su Ge also drew his own gun.

boom!
boom!
Click.

The Gu Diao combat mode was activated. Su Ge shot Yue Guocheng's wrist, but the huge kinetic energy only knocked Yue Guocheng's hand off course. However, it also caused Yue Guocheng's shot to go astray, and the bird specimens on the table turned into scattered feathers.

The boy pulled the trigger after those two shots; he did not have the authority to fire.

Screams and cries filled the air as boys and girls stumbled and fled in all directions.

Outside the building, a swarm of drones arrived.

boom!
Open the bow without turning back the arrow.

Suger fired a second shot.

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(End of this chapter)