Overturned Tower

"Are you okay?"

Delphinium watched Russell float in like a ghost, drank a sip of coffee, and asked worriedly: "Are you tired?

"Dealing with those reporters is really exhausting... There is nothing to do here, you can go back and have a rest in the afternoon."

"I'll go back after dinner."

Russell lay face down on the sofa, and said in a muffled voice, "It would be too bad not to eat from the company... I will try my best to eat from the poor company!"

Chapter 24 We are Accomplices

After filling his stomach, Russell did not go home.

He randomly found an unsurveilled alley, and after entering, he put on the mask of a blue robin and transformed into a cheerful young man with a long blue ponytail.

During the physical examination this month, Russell's psychic power had already reached red three blue five.

After dealing with Xiao Liuli's incident, Russell's redshift and blueshift both increased by one level.

According to Russell's test, his transformation is now the same as when he was in two levels of redshift, and the maximum limit is still two hours.

The cooldown time has been shortened from two hours to one hour.His threshold for receiving damage is also slightly higher than that of the second-level redshift.

According to Russell's surreptitious testing of his psychic powers this month, he has a strange weakness in his psychic powers.

That is, he cannot admit that he is Russell in the transformed state...or in other words, Russell cannot take the initiative to claim that he is "just playing" this role.

It's the same even if you just say it to the mirror or to the air.Otherwise, the transformation status will be lifted immediately.

...But it doesn't matter.

Russell is still a little confident in his acting skills.

Based on this characteristic, Russell also roughly guessed the nature of his psionic ability... at least it should be related to "acting".

In the case of not transforming, you can use the "Invisible Device" and "Caged Bird", which are equivalent to two levels of redshift, and after transforming, you can use the original three-level redshift spiritual power, and your personality and habits will become Corresponds to the target, but can no longer use the power of other avatars.

And this cooling time is shared between different incarnations.

That is to say, after Russell turns into a Blue Robin, if he cancels his transformation half an hour later, he will not be able to turn into a Blue Robin or Alice in the next half hour.

Because this transformation does not happen once a day.

Russell can find a place to cancel the transformation and re-transform at any time, so as to complete the reset of the remaining time.

This also gave Russell the courage to enter the downtown area as a "blue robin".

There are many, many pathways to Lower Town.Only the Tianen District, which is the core area, does not exist... In other areas, each residential area has two channels for discharging garbage and sewage, and the commercial area needs more.

However, the alternate channel is generally used for traffic instead—it is much cleaner than the normal channel.

Criminal organizations and mercenaries in the lower city did not block most of the alternate passages in order to reach the upper city.

As for the executive department in the upper city, in order not to be guarded by the lower city in advance...so many passages were left on purpose to confuse the public.

The result is that neither side can defend the other's actions—after all, even if everything can be blocked, the garbage and sewage channels that must be kept can still be passed.

But that would be making things difficult for me for no reason.

However, the specific locations of these alternate channels are kept secret.Especially in the lower city... Every hidden passage means the possibility of escaping after being chased once.

And because of the convenience of his work, Russell has already collected many well-disguised secret passage locations.

— not to enter the Lower Town.Just in case, I ran away from the lower city.

Thinking about how to escape in advance is a very high tactical quality!

When Russell, feeling apprehensive, excited and uneasy, arrived at the lower city through the alternate passage...

His first feeling is:

"It's so dark..."

Russell couldn't help but whispered.

The gravity of the Lower City is inverted, which means that they are almost completely lost in darkness.

The "sky" above the head is actually an upside-down dark blue sea-although I have known it for a long time, but I still can't help being afraid when I see this scene.

The sky is so close that it is constantly fluctuating and making a never-ending sound of waves.

And the only light source is those huge roaring machines.

They flashed red, yellow, or green light, and when they reached Russell, there was only a faint light that could not even illuminate the road.

But fortunately, Russell was prepared.

He put on night vision goggles that looked like sunglasses.After starting up, the green screen displayed the surrounding environment in Russell's eyes.

In the transformation form, the functions of the Russell chip cannot be mobilized or used.

But it doesn't matter if there is no automatic navigation... He has already memorized the map of the lower city by heart.

The brain is easy to use and can do whatever it wants.

The road pointed to by "Strangle" to Russell is Road 302 in Regeneration Area F.And when Russell landed, he had already arrived at the G area of ​​the regeneration factory, and the regeneration F area was next door... and the 302nd road was close to the G area.Even if you walk, you don't have to go too far.

The people in the lower city were much sparser than that in the upper city. Russell walked for about half an hour, and met a total of six or seven people on the road.And they all seemed to be dressed as civilians. Looking at Russell, who was wearing night vision goggles and a clean jacket, he either passed quickly with his head down, or turned his head and ran away.

"……what?"

Russell couldn't help making a sound of surprise.

Because, he hadn't guessed it at all...

—Meet a half acquaintance.

It was the angel that Russell and the inferior met at the "Third Hand" prosthetic body shop... a girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old and had short white hair.

But unlike before, she does not wear a "halo" that marks her angel status.

Russell reached out and pressed the night vision goggles a few times to make the distant picture clearer.

The little girl changed into a simple outfit that was more in line with the characteristics of the residents of the lower city.

Her trousers were loose-fitting with many pockets, and she was carrying a simple small bag behind her, and she was holding a device like an electric iron in her hand.There was some kind of dispute with two people who were at least a head or two taller than her, and they were arguing fiercely.

But because the three people were basically speaking independently, the voices were mixed together, and Russell couldn't understand at all except that it was getting louder.

Russell could tell at a glance that the space behind the girl was enough to accommodate the "halo".

...Surprised.

Could this be a colleague lurking in?

Although it has long been known that the mechanical angel's halo is detachable.But it turns out that this detachability is to such a degree-is it possible to carry it on the back after shutting down?

There is one thing to say, the dependence of this halo may not be as high as that of mobile phones...

"What are you arguing about?"

Seeing that the little angel's face became embarrassed, he was forced to take two steps back by the other party - and the other party's expression became smug.

Holding the idea of ​​"angels are allies for now", Russell, who was still far away, couldn't help saying: "What happened?"

He was still thinking that maybe he had misunderstood or something.

But Russell didn't expect it at all.

Just after he spoke, the two men drew their weapons without hesitation.

One of them pulled out a pistol, while the other held a mechanical crossbow.

Russell's expression immediately turned cold.

All right, no need to ask.

The situation has become obvious - even if there is no code, there is absolutely no innocent person who can draw out a hot weapon without hesitation.

He reached out to touch the beheaded saint in his arms, and after a moment of hesitation, he still held the shotgun with his backhand.

"I said, how many..."

Russell's shoulders were relaxed, he walked forward smoothly, and said in a high voice.

The other two men immediately threatened Russell:

"Don't come over, stand where you are!"

"Put your hands up!"

"Okay, okay," Russell responded readily, "I'm just passing by, can you explain to me..."

In the middle of Russell's words, gunshots rang out without warning.

He fired as he drew his shotgun.

——just one shot.

The head of the fat man who was far away from the little angel was directly blasted to pieces, and the shoulder of the other man's arm holding the gun was also injured by the bullet.

The moment he held his shoulder in pain, the little angel directly threw a fine net from his arms.

After the net was thrown, the opponent was wrapped up.

Then, a bluish-white electric light visible to the naked eye lit up for a moment——the electric light stunned the man into a faint.

……what?

Russell hesitated.

A technology that has never been seen... Could it be the technology of the church?

"thank you, sir……"

The little angel looked warily at Russell, who was slowly pacing in the distance, and even took half a step back.

"What happened?"

There was a flash of red light from the surrounding factories, passing by the two of them.

And the girl also saw clearly the bird feathers on Russell's head, as well as his kind and cheerful face.

She hesitated for a moment.

But she still tried to explain, with a very angry look on her face: "I saw someone lying on the side of the road, looking very painful... like a heart attack.

"But after I took the medicine and cured him, this person suddenly jumped up from the ground and wanted to snatch my bag. Then another person came out and wanted to take me away!"

...Sister, you still don't understand how you feel.

Russell's expression was a little subtle.

But fortunately, I left a mouth alive.

Russell walked over and stepped on the man's shoulder.Pain woke him up, howling and cursing.

Then Russell's "Peacemaker" rested on his forehead.

He stopped whining immediately.

"What did you catch her for?"

"Didn't catch her! We didn't want to catch her!"

The man who took the ape as his soul relative did everything without hesitation: "It's none of my business, I'm here to deliver medicine to my brother...he has a heart attack!

"We just... want to take away all her medicine. That medicine is quite expensive...it's true!"

"—bullshit."

Russell whispered: "If you want to grab the medicine, what are you doing taking him away?"

The other party was at a loss for words.

"I want to sell him together."

Russell stared at the other party's eyes, and made a cold voice: "Or do you want to torture other property locations?

"Or... both?"

The man faltered and couldn't say anything.

"I understand."

Russell nodded, and put away the shotgun, which still had one bullet.