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Although Jonathan was over-stressed just now, and wanted to draw his gun at any small movement, but when the Sphinx actually appeared in front of him, he was momentarily absent-minded, as if he had forgotten that he still had a hot weapon on his waist side.

This man came alone, he seemed to be alone, without any disguise, when he stepped on the steps, there was no sound of footsteps, and the surrounding was extremely quiet.

He has an elegant and smart body, and he has an uneasy-looking, thin face. He is a white man, and his lips are so narrow that there is only a line.

"I thought he was really an Egyptian, giving himself that kind of name..." Xin Xi took a peek from the side of the stone pillar and then quickly hid back, muttering in his mouth. Probably only Zhaoxi who was also beside her could hear it.

The siren had entered the battle preparation mode as early as the moment he entered the building, and the appearance of the sword was in great contrast to Xin Xi's leisurely complaints.

This is how their team operates, much like playing a two-player competitive game, one is responsible for output and the other is responsible for behind-the-back support.Well, verbal complaints are also an aid.

The calm Sphinx had walked halfway up the stairs unknowingly, his eyes were always fixed on Jonathan, and there was an inexplicable abnormality in his persistent eyes, which made people feel hairy.

"You shouldn't go any further." Jonathan finally came back to his senses, instinctively pulled out his gun, pointed at Sphinx's head and threatened.

For some unknown reason, all the actions on the Sphinx had a strange grace, he stopped for a while, shrugged gently, and said with a smile, "What if I just want to move forward?"

"Then you've already died once." The Siren flashed in front of the Sphinx at a speed that could not be observed by the naked eye, and the punch barely passed his ear, setting off a whistling of air, and then flashed back quickly next to the box.

The whole process was quick and efficient, about the blink of an eye.

Xin Xi is very used to his behavior and style, but this is the first time Zhao Xi has seen it. She never expected that the real strength of the siren who is usually bullied by Xin Xi is so terrifying.

The siren's movement just now was inexplicably shocking in terms of speed and power. Even a blank slate like her who had never been in contact with a transcendent person of the combat department before could get specific perceptions from his aura.

Siren is like a game character with "Wu Shuang Mode" turned on, she couldn't help thinking.

However, Sphinx was not frightened by the siren's formation, he activated his ability to reciprocate, teleported close to the siren, and when he thought he was going to snatch the oil painting and focus all his attention on the box containing the painting, he had no scruples about him , gently pinched his pretty face, and said frivolously: "It's nice to meet you too, Siren."

Xin Xi witnessed everything that happened with her mouth open. Although she made a perfect prediction of the Sphinx's behavior, she really didn't have the time or opportunity to remind the Sirens—it happened in the blink of an eye. No matter how powerful she is, she can't predict it to others in advance.

Is the Sphinx actually a transcendent person with the ability to teleport?

It seems that we have to start from the aspects other than speed. After all, compared with the ever-changing speed type, the driving force of the siren is still not strong enough.

I saw that the face of the Siren pinched by the Sphinx was pale at first, and then burst into a large area of ​​pink, and finally turned into an angry livid after being ridiculed.

His face is getting darker and darker, which proves that he is going to explode at any time now.

Humiliate the sirens?It's a minefield of disco dancing.

Sphinx didn't realize what kind of terrible consequences would be brought about by his slut. He returned to the warning line that Jonathan set for him, folded his hands in front of him, and said relaxedly: "Still There are Ms. Xin and her friends waiting in the left corner, and I am also very happy that you can come today."

What he said was just like the tone of a toast that a social expert would use to start a banquet with guests from all over the world, frivolous and hypocritical.

But... It seems that he has a thorough understanding of the arrest mission set up for him today, and he is obviously prepared.

No one responded to his words.

But Siren's complexion was so dark that it couldn't get any darker, the kind of black that even light couldn't penetrate.

His dark pupils became more and more silent, as if filled with a black hole that was about to shrink and explode. Sirens really hate strangers' unreasonable physical contact, let alone being used in such a frivolous way by this guy named Sphinx Touching, he swore, today he must take down this bastard who stepped on his minefield and danced, and bet the dignity of the strongest trump card of Team Blu-ray A!

This sphinx, at first glance, makes people itch!

After witnessing everything, Jonathan forcibly calmed down, spoke in the silence, and said seriously: "Tell me your intentions, Sphinx."

"Mr. Jonathan, I think my email should be clear enough. Although I don't seem to be seeking fame and fortune, I am still a thief. Without exception, of course I want to get that painting."

The man was still frivolous, speaking in a cadence, twisting his arms and body, showing off so much that the public servants present felt embarrassed one by one, and it could even be said that they couldn't bear to look directly at him.

When fighting against Jonathan before, he always seemed very mysterious, never showing his face, using his abilities extremely restrained, and even his voice had to be processed by a voice changer.However, the sphinx, who is good at disguising, is uncharacteristically today. Whether it is exposing his high-profile behavior or the tone of his speech, it is arousing waves of discomfort in people.

"Why does he talk like a lunatic with a bad brain..." Xin Xi couldn't restrain his desire to complain, and continued to mutter at a volume that only his friends around him could hear.

This person is too strange, he doesn't look like a mysterious urban legend!

"You should know that you can't take it away today, and we can't let you walk out of that gate alone." When Joe spoke, his eyes were fixed on the Sphinx, and his head was slightly turned in the direction of the siren Side, this is the signal they used when they were still working together-Joe was signaling the siren to attack, and he was covering.

The siren, whose air pressure was extremely low, received the signal, rushed up without saying a word, and slashed at the back of the Sphinx's head with a knife in his hand, without mercy.It's just that the siren's speed is never as fast as the guy who can teleport. In his eyes, this sphinx is as slippery as a loach that can't be caught, and can easily avoid the siren's attack every time.

The Sirens, who were too late to catch up, were gradually at a disadvantage, and were played like monkeys by the sphinx who flashed back frantically.

The environment here is closed, coupled with the need to consider the safety of other exhibits, the siren can't use its hands and feet to use its abilities.What's more... The exoskeleton armor that he was put on was actually prepared to prevent him from using too strong an ability. This kind of "self-safety screening" in advance was the first thing Jonathan did when he was on a mission. consider.

Killing eight hundred enemies and harming one thousand, and working with a typical lawful and righteous character like Joe, the sirens will have to be consumed into losing their temper no matter how big their opinions are.

Firearms can only be used for threats, and it is not easy to catch up with the speed of the opponent in melee combat. Once he gets close to the Sphinx, the expression of ease on his face can always stimulate the restricted sirens to become more irritable.

People like fleas dare to put on a mocking expression in front of him?

It's annoying, really annoying.

Therefore, he no longer wants to let the things in the plan develop according to the original direction. Although their original intention was to let the Sphinx be arrested safely, the sirens don't think so now.

He knew that Jonathan had his own considerations, and so did the Sirens.

The Sphinx must be folded here today, no matter what the price is, it doesn't matter, the Siren is determined to win.

Both Jonathan and Xin Xi, who were watching the battle, felt the fluctuations in the siren's gradually becoming stronger. In the eyes of Xin Xi, the mycelium graphics floating around his body in the shape of "Siren Siren" became clearly visible.Based on her understanding of the siren, this guy should be unable to control his killing intent now.

You can't let the Sirens lose their minds and attack here!Indulging the killing intent in his heart would not do him any good.

No matter what the Sphinx did, his actions should be judged by the law, and he should not lose his life because of the bloodthirsty nature of the siren.

In order to avoid the thorny tragedy of the Sirens breaking through the limit and chasing down the Sphinx, they have to do something now!

immediately!

Realizing that things were going in an uncontrollable direction, Jonathan and Xin Xi immediately acted tacitly without any communication—Xin Xi concentrated on trying to predict the next ten steps of Sphinx's actions and then Find the most suitable opportunity to remind the siren, while Jonathan drives the perception ability and uses his marksman talent to try to keep up with the moment of the sphinx's appearance.

Siren is very lucky, none of his former and current partners are idiots without practical ability. On the contrary, the aloof people who can deal with them are all above B-level, and they have accumulated a lot of experience with those people.If RL has a list of auxiliary members, the professional ability of these two people should be at least among the top five.

"Cy, chase to six and three steps, Joe, down!"

"boom--"

The front and rear voices completed a duty assistance almost seamlessly - the siren reacted very quickly after hearing the Xin system's voice, and the hand knife accurately hit the back of the Sphinx's neck, and Joe's bullet hit the back of the neck at the same time. Pierced the Rogue's Knee.

Sphinx's reaction alone was not as good as that of a team. He had a face full of disbelief, and then fell down on the steps like a rag bag, completely incapacitated.

Hit it with one hit.

To avoid cheating, Siren stretched out his foot and kicked him lightly twice, and after confirming that he was unconscious, he gestured "OK" to Joe.After his ability subsided, his face gradually returned to normal. It was no longer the black face who was so irritable that he wanted to fight with others for three days and three nights.

"Suspect is contained, repeat, suspect is contained."

"receive."

After Joe notified the police ambushing outside the building by radio, he gave Xin Xi a grateful smile. Although there was only a short twitch of the corner of his mouth, Xin Xi swore!She definitely saw it!

A co-worker who almost never has a good face suddenly treats you kindly, which will make everyone feel overwhelmed.So Xiao Xin immediately looked away, and his whole body was wrapped in a weird illusion - it seems that Jonathan is not so scary!We can still get along well!

Jonathan, who had been transformed by a "iron stone blossom" smile, didn't realize that he was about to reap another unintentional friendship. Now he was thinking all over his head: How easy is it to arrest a supernatural criminal who has been at large for many years?Isn't this really a Sphinx trap?

Standing at the top of the steps, he saw the police handcuffed the fainted Sphinx and took him to the police station. He felt a sense of unreality in his heart, and more questions gradually eroded his thinking.

He was not dreaming now, he was sure.

But is it really that simple?

Is the real strength of the Sphinx so weak?

They went to the hospital together and returned to the police station after confirming that Sphinx's injuries were fine. Joe and Siren returned the exoskeleton armor to the police, and then participated in the most routine investigation and statement recording.

The handover was completed quickly, and Jonathan confirmed that he would attend the Sphinx hearing. After he woke up, that is, during the day today, they will conduct the first interrogation of him with the district attorney.

They would ask him all the relevant questions that the thief sphinx should answer, and whether he knew about the leaked information on RL's intranet.

After coming out of the police station, it was inevitable that it was early morning, and in two or three hours it would be dawn. Jonathan’s unspeakable haze for many years would finally be swept away with the rising of the sun in a new day. member's new start.

The nights in New York are bustling and depressed, perhaps because it has become an international metropolis and has been active in the eyes of the world for nearly a hundred years, so the years have endowed it with gradual replacement in technology and inevitable dilapidation in architecture. Be organized.

The word "cyberpunk", which was used to describe the near-future world 30 years ago, was vividly displayed in New York in the middle of the night with a faint mist.

Behind the four tall buildings are apartment buildings older than the four of them casually put together, and they live in New Yorkers who are eager to prove themselves in this city, and they are now sleeping peacefully.There are occasional 24-hour convenience stores on the side of the road with lights still on, and the salesperson is half awake and half asleep guarding the cash register and hot dog cabinet, and they sit up when a night cat breaks in without knowing the interest.

Going forward, it looks like a deserted private library. It is next to the road, and the temporary passageway built with scaffolding downstairs has been here since Siren can remember. It will be 29 years, and there is no need to remove it. mean.

A few people walked under the scaffolding passage, and one block ahead Jonathan was about to part ways with the others and go back to his parents' house, while Siren and the others went back to the safe house.Although both he and Siren grew up in New York, Siren's parents used most of their savings to buy a house in the suburbs and moved to the countryside to enjoy retirement and take care of themselves.

Siren didn't spend much time in this city as an adult, and the nature of his work was wandering, so even if he was familiar with all aspects of this city, he was not interested in buying his own residence here.

After a busy day, Xin Xi was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back. She urged Siren to leave quickly so that she could go back and search for the leftover ingredients in the refrigerator for supper.They were pushing and shoving as usual, and the sight was not clear in the dark, and the Siren felt as if he had tripped over something under his feet, and he staggered and rushed forward two steps, almost falling off the sidewalk.

A black Canadian hairless cat came into view. It sat calmly at the end of the scaffolding passage and in the middle of the intersection, licking its paws constantly, with an elegant and calm posture, as if it had been waiting here for a long time.

Jonathan looked expressionlessly at the two people around him who were noisy and naive, but his intuition suddenly changed, and an indescribably complicated atmosphere emerged. He turned his eyes to the cat that appeared in front of him at an unknown time, and couldn't help but stopped.

After being caught off guard for a while, the red light operator's pupils shrank suddenly, his instinct forced his perception to operate, and he felt the familiar breath-Sphinx.

A real, very restrained and camouflaged Sphinx.

The black cat stopped rubbing its paws, and sat with its front paws reserved in front of its body.He stared at Jonathan with honey-yellow eyes, opened his mouth to show his fangs, and at the same time made a human voice, he said, "Joe, long time no see."

This is a crisp timbre between a male voice and a female voice. It sounds like a boy who has not yet entered puberty. He has a mysterious calm tone that does not match the hearing, weird and leisurely.

Jonathan subconsciously felt powerless against this polarized but consistent feeling, and he finally confirmed that this is the real Sphinx—the genius thief with mysterious whereabouts and super hacker with unknown intentions.

He was not caught.

Such a weird scene made everyone at a loss, and they didn't dare to act rashly.

"Sorry, Joe."

The black hairless cat spoke again, and Jonathan was completely confused when he saw his words were serious and serious. He didn't expect that the Sphinx would apologize to him one day.The other three were completely out of the situation, silent automatically, sliding their eyes left and right to figure out what the subtle aura between humans and beasts was like.The main thing is that this beast can also speak. Rao is in the contemporary era where superpowers are common, and everyone still maintains a human form. It is unheard of for all bones and muscles to transform into animal forms.

"...What's the matter with that person?"

After a long silence, Jonathan opened his mouth. He has complicated thoughts now. One is the regret after learning that the Sphinx he has captured is actually a counterfeit, and the other is the faint feeling that the real Sphinx was not caught by him. Joyue's unexplainable joy, San... San is puzzled by the fact that she has the above two completely opposite emotions.

Jonathan, who has always been upright, was caught in this vicious circle of emotions. After thinking for a long time, he picked and asked himself the question he cared most about. Who is that inferior counterfeit that appeared in the museum?

And that question begs more questions: Is that man related to the Sphinx himself?If so, was it at the Sphinx's behest?Is this whole thing playing tricks on them?

Jonathan felt that there were about 1 other question marks gathering in his mind right now, and his mind was surging, but in the end he condensed all the restlessness into the most simple and crude sentence: "What's the matter with that person?"

"I don't know him, Joe."

The black cat tilted his head in a friendly manner, as if he was relieved, his fangs were white and sharp, but there was no trace of harshness, you could even feel that he seemed to be acting obediently.

"To be precise, I know him, but I don't. Last week I was checking...cough, looking through the emails in your mailbox, I found out about his existence and his stealing plan to imitate my behavior. After that, I spent It took me some time to identify him and find him... but for some reason it didn't work out to stop him. Joe, now you just know that he's just an insignificant impostor with nothing to do with me. OK."

"that's it?"

"Yes. I just want to tell you this, Joe." The black cat got up and was about to leave.

"Huh?" Xin Xi, who was slow in thinking, finally realized that this cat is a Sphinx!

"Wait! Wait! You say the one we caught is a fake? You are the real Sphinx?" Xiao Xin saw that he was leaving, and shouted without thinking.

The graceful black cat turned its head and wanted to answer: "Yes", but the siren couldn't help but catch him, pressed his head with one hand, and locked him between his arms.

Today's A2S team also tacitly played stable.

"Then how can you come and go whenever you want!" Xiao Xin's cunning and villainous face could not help but emerge again, her eyebrows were raised, her eyes were narrowed, and she looked subtle and malicious.

So you good-looking people like to use your face casually, don't you?Although Zhaoxi has long been used to the exaggerated and dramatic expressions of her friends, she still takes the trouble to complain silently in her heart every time.

The black cat didn't struggle, because he could feel that the man who caught him was not rude or overly hostile.But if he didn't know how to escape, then obviously, he would not be as measured as he is now.

Sphinx looked at Jonathan and waited for him to speak. The other party responded flatly, and only said: "We have some questions to ask you, and he will naturally let you go after you answer."

"I know everything."

"Although I also want to invite you to our room, but since you seem to be in a hurry, then we will ask here." Xin Xi continued, and at the same time signaled the siren to relax to give him some trust.

The siren made him settle comfortably on his arm, and the sphinx rested its front paws on his elbow, resting its lower body on his other hand, its tail tucked between its hind legs.

"Just ask."

"Do you know Evan Lee Gray or Clara Sheen?"

"know."

"How? I mean, through what? For what reason?"

"One is the only heir of the chaebol family, a real person is right in front of my eyes, yes, I know you, and I understand you very well. Esphinx, that is, my ability, I don't think it's strange for me to know you , even if I'm not interested in you at all."

"You didn't answer my question directly."

The black cat's eyes were half-closed. After a pause, he said: "Miss Clara, I think this is the highest limit I can answer. I need to survive. Even in places where the light does not reach, we have rules."

Xin Xi smiled lightly, and asked back, "Can they threaten you?"

"It's not like that, but, be careful when sailing for ten thousand years, isn't it?"

"Okay, then I don't have anything to ask." Xin Xi pouted her lips in frustration, her whole face was full of disappointment, she was not good at extorting confessions by words and deeds.

The siren received the signal, and the breath of death exuded from all over his body became more intense. As a beast-shaped Sphinx, he was more sensitive to this breath than a human-shaped one.Not only are his limbs numb now, Sphinx gradually felt the horror surging from his spine to his brain controlling his nerves, and his stomach also began to convulse.

No matter what kind of creature is transformed into, when death is shrouded, all principles have to stand aside.

"Miss Clara," Sphinx could only force his voice to become softer, trying to make her feel his sincerity and kindness, without much expression on the cat's face, he said: "You will listen Opera? An aria is really a very elegant voice."

Where are young people willing to listen to traditional things like opera nowadays...

etc!This sphinx is playing riddles with her? !

Xin Xi's eyes lit up when he realized this, and the sly expression disappeared for a moment, and then he continued to pretend to be disappointed and said: "I don't know what you are talking about. But since you have answered my question honestly, maybe we have to Keep the agreement, now it's time to let you go."

Xin Xi nodded to the siren, he removed the aura of death that made his legs feel weak, put the Sphinx on the ground, and returned to Xin Xi and Zhaoxi.

"Thank you."

Sphinx finally breathed a sigh of relief, thanked him and turned to leave, but stopped when he heard Jonathan's voice.

"Sphinx! Answer my last question, have you ever killed anyone?"

"I never kill, Joe."

Jonathan's undisguised deep exhalation could be heard in the cool wind, and his body, which had been tense since realizing that the cat in front of him was the Sphynx, finally relaxed.

"See you later, Joe."

The black cat kept its back to them and quickly ran and disappeared into the alley in front of it, so Jonathan had no chance to see his head lowered because of shyness, and he couldn't guess whether the corner of his mouth that he couldn't help but grinned was Not because of being happy.

"See you later." Joe murmured in a low voice, and the words of farewell floated in the wind, and in a blink of an eye she disappeared into the night following the whirling of the ghostly black cat.

This twisted cat-and-mouse game may have developed an unspoken understanding that makes it impossible to tell who is the prey that falls into the net.