Ability Files

Arthur occupied the D7 area in Tuckerberry, which was originally the most chaotic and poorest place in the entire D area. There was no way to tell whether it was poor because of chaos or chaotic because of poverty.Since Arthur and the others came to the D7 area and solved the gang of mobs that originally occupied it, the poverty situation has not improved, but the chaos has been greatly reduced.

Arthur and the others have two "thugs" Munn and Rogge, a military adviser with a gentle face, and Anthony who is in charge of the aftermath... If the chameleon Andre didn't betray them with Gray, it should be a very Good spies and assassins.I don't know the abilities of Elena and Gray, but the first five people alone are enough to gain a firm foothold in Tuckerberry, not to mention the powerful abilities of Arthur and Hughes.If they hadn't been trying their best to hide their abilities from outsiders, they might have taken down the entire area of ​​Tuckerberg!

In my opinion, they live in a group headed by Arthur, which is not stable.Arthur is very strong in terms of single-person ability. Only Hughes can match him, and he is also charismatic enough, otherwise there would not be so many supernatural beings gathered around him.However, Arthur is too selfish, too self-respecting, and can't bear being under the oppression of others. He is suitable to be a lonely king, but he can't shoulder the responsibility of leading his subordinates.

In this building, there is a gentle and comprehensive overall control and Arthur's coercion, which makes everyone seem to have an orderly division of labor and a peaceful life, but in fact they are all on top of a powder keg. Can cause abnormal reactions of energy.From the defection of Gray and Andre, we can know that such a life of being invariable and trying to hide themselves, like gutter rats, is not something that people with supernatural powers can willingly spend day after day.

I have seen Munn and Rogge look happy after easily taking people's lives from the outside world. However, here, even if there are gangsters who break into the jurisdiction to provoke, they just restrain themselves and beat people until they are bruised and half-dead, and then return. Nothing to do behind the house.Even if I can no longer feel their emotions, I can easily see their boredom and boredom.

There are too many things to consider, and the gentle face is also for the sake of the long-term. No one can blame him, because not everyone who comes to make trouble is new and does not know the rules, and some are sent by the bosses of the districts. Probing, researching whether it is necessary to win over Arthur and the others, or the need for cooperation...

Not running rampant in his own jurisdiction, powerful, but still in a corner, Arthur and his group staying in D7 area should be strange and dangerous to the leaders of other areas!A biting dog doesn't bark, maybe he will be bitten at some point, so he often tries it out.

It is not so easy to integrate into the lives of ordinary people. People like us who come out of the laboratory without identity certificates or academic qualifications cannot find a decent job and can only engage in various occupations in this black or gray area. .At the beginning, I chose to be a waiter who looked at people's faces and swallowed their anger. On the one hand, it was because I was not a force-type ability user, and on the other hand, it was determined by my own personality. But it is absolutely impossible for them to bow down to others like me of.

Just like what Gray said when Moon asked why he defected: "We don't want to be like a rat crossing the street for the rest of our lives", the balance between these people will definitely be broken, or someone from the outside To break, or to disintegrate itself from within...

Gray was not dealt with, saying that he was going to use him to lure Andre.

I wanted to ask why they were so sure that Andre would come back, but it turned out that Gray and Andre were brothers, which made me a little ashamed that I didn't notice that I had read the materials in the institute.

It is the luck of Gray and Andre to have a blood relative who is also a supernatural person and has been together for experimental research. It is also their sorrow to be able to survive the long and painful research together. Destined not to leave the other...

All we have to do is wait.

After choosing to stay, Fili provided "close protection" almost 24 hours a day, so that now Munn and Rogge would call us "Conjoined Twins" when they saw us.

To me, of all the people in the room, these two are the easiest to get along with.

Mu En looks down on me, but he hasn't done anything to hurt me so far, and he doesn't think it's necessary; Rogge is just a little irritable, and he likes blood, and he will go out from time to time to find something or wait for him. The matter came to me by itself, and there was no malice towards me.The likes and dislikes of these two people are written directly on their faces, which is clear at a glance, and there is no need to pay attention to them all the time.

As for the others...

Hughes needless to say, he has already seen through my mind, but for some reason he did not report me; Anthony still can't meet, so you can ignore it; Elena seems to have something to do with Arthur, I have seen Once she came down from upstairs with a full face of spring—I can understand this point. It is also an advantage for weak women to rely on powerful forces to sell their bodies.Gray was under the care of Rogge, and Philip and I sent the food and drink, but we didn't talk much, so I don't know.

On the contrary, with a gentle face that is almost a gentle face with the word "good guy" written on it-Wincott is the one I am on guard against.

People with brains are the most difficult to deal with, and the loss of consciousness after I saw Arthur was obviously seen by Vincott. I noticed that he had looked at me for a long time with probing eyes, which seemed to be suspicious.The "Military Advisor" who can integrate everyone and make Hughes even have some scruples is really extraordinary.

Fortunately, I don't know what I want to do now. I just hang around with Philip every day, or avoid Hughes' harassment, or deal with Munn's cynicism. I'm sorry he can't find anything.

In addition, in addition to dealing with Hughes' occasional convulsions, I also have to face Philip's sexual harassment every day-he said that in order to become strong, he must hone his charm.

Wen Kete told him that ability users can improve their abilities to a certain extent, which requires long-term training.Since then, Fili has regarded me as the best candidate for practice. In my opinion, his hands-on "grinding" is simply because Vincott asked him to play me for fun.

Ability users can indeed improve their abilities. It is not that there are no cases of D-level ability users advancing to C+, but that is the result of repeated experiments in the research institute with advanced instruments and various drugs, or It is the sudden burst of energy response when the ability user is desperate. I have never heard of anyone who improves the ability in this way.

But the strange thing is that Fili is indeed improving his power level, very slowly, but I can feel his improvement even if I lose my senses and are still more sensitive than ordinary people.I don't know if it's because of the different abilities that the charm ability can be improved in this way, or if Fili itself has something special.

Vincott also noticed the improvement of Fili's ability. He didn't expect this kind of result, so he took Fili to learn more about it.If you can find out how to improve Feili's ability, it will be a great help to everyone who is currently stagnant!

Thanks to their obsession with improving methods, I had some free time, sitting on a low wall in an open space not far from the building, and I began to think about my weirdness during this period.

I also find it strange why I stayed, because I chose to stay in this vortex regardless of Arthur just because I felt a sense of familiarity with Arthur. Such an impulsiveness is not like myself at all.

However, there seems to be a voice in my mind, which keeps advocating that I stay, stay, stay... It seems that someone left a text message in it and pressed the replay button over and over again.Is it possible to know the answer if I stay here, and then I can know the voice that often appears in my heart, who left that voice that made me go against my reason, and what do I want?

This kind of agitation that makes me go against my reason will kill me sooner or later if I don't solve the root cause as soon as possible. I think so, and then I give myself a reason to stay.

In the past two days, I kept thinking about the things in the research institute, which made me think of LM-A17, who was also born and raised in the research institute, and I don’t know how he is now.

Unlike me, who can perceive the emotions of supernatural beings and is valued by researchers and allowed to accept some external information, LM-A17 has only lived in endless experimental research since birth, and has no knowledge of any external life information.He is powerful, but he doesn't know how to use it in his life. He is worse than me, a low-level ability user who has no self-protection ability!

It's just that at that time, I didn't know how to live, so how could I think of helping him.If it is now, it is possible, after all, he can be regarded as my true "partner", and has the power to compete with Arthur...

Unfortunately, things cannot be reversed, and there are not so many ifs. I am still the selfish ghost who only thinks about myself.

Suddenly I felt a little strange, why I thought of him for no reason, I don't think all this is normal.Looking back at the base building not far away, my eyelids twitched, as if responding to me, the window of Rogge’s room on the third floor that could be seen from this side shattered, and everyone Shards of glass, large and small, fell out one after another.

Andre came to save Gray?

My heart was beating violently, "pounding, pounding", the sound of the heartbeat was so clear that it seemed to be coming from my ears.Starting from Rogge's room, there was commotion in several other rooms, and continuous gunshots were faintly heard.

Not Andre?

If the place where the commotion happened for the first time was Rogge's room, so I thought it was Andre who came back to save his brother, then these gunshots made me deny this guess... At least, not Andre will come alone!

For those with supernatural abilities, ordinary firearms are not very useful, especially those with combat abilities. Once they reach level B, they can dodge bullets or shock waves fired from a certain distance, even if the distance is too close. It can avoid vital parts and minimize its own damage.The only thing to worry about is Wen Kete and Feili, but Munn and the others must protect them well, and a person with a keen mind like Wen Kete will not even have a little emergency and self-protection method.

I don't plan to run back. If people from other neighborhoods come to destroy Munn and the others, I, a non-combat power user, won't be able to help.Moreover, I don't think the people inside need me to go in and help, or add to the chaos.

If it wasn't for my inexplicable desire to stay, now would be a good time for me to leave them. Unfortunately... In order to find out the voice that kept popping up in my heart, I had to find a hidden place to hide, and was ready to wait for the insider. After the fight is over, go back.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but as soon as I left the open space and turned into a side alley, I saw two people leaning against the wall and talking on the walkie-talkie.No matter how I didn’t understand the situation, I saw their walkie-talkie and the two pulse guns in their hands, and I knew that they were with those people in the building, and they were probably surrounded by people outside to prevent them from escaping.

I was slightly taken aback, and immediately ran back. Even if they didn't know that I was "in the same group" as Mu En, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't kill me just to silence them.

Sure enough, one of them fired at me immediately, and by then I had turned the corner, and the shock wave hit the corner wall, blowing away a huge cloud of lime.

"I'll go after it, you stay here."

Hearing the voice from behind, I speeded up and ran towards the building where Mu En and the others were located.It may be more dangerous inside, but having Moon and the others here also means that I can have more vitality.

Rushing into the building, luckily no one was on the first floor, all the personnel should be above the second floor, fighting with Mu En and the others.The flames of war are mainly on the top, so the bottom is fine, but if you want to avoid the man who is chasing me, you should run to the top to seek protection from Hughes and the others at the risk of being discovered and shot by those people. Just find a place to hide immediately, so as not to be discovered.

Among these two options, I prefer the latter one. People who want to come after me will not search carefully in this dangerous area, and the danger of running to it is too high.If they were accidentally injured by Mu En and the others, or if they thought I was in the way and simply cleaned them up, I would die unjustly.

After comparing the degree of danger between the two, I quickly ran to the kitchen on the first floor.

The kitchen is not small, and the facilities are complete. Although most of them are unusable, it is enough for normal meals.I have been here several times, and I still remember that there is a storage room here, which is specially used to store ingredients, but now it is mostly piled up by sundries, and it is a good place to hide.

I walked through the rows of cooking tables to the half-open door in the left corner of the kitchen.

Before I got close, there was a loud explosion from upstairs, and the whole building shook twice. I saw a "cracker" crack on the wall, and a lot of cracked cement peeled off, exposing the inside Red bricks.

Arthur also made a move. It seems that the two sides have reached a fever pitch now. If the opponent is just an ordinary person, then the battle will soon come to an end.

Explosions sounded one after another, although they were not as violent as the first time, but every time there was a vibration, the walls above the head and the surrounding walls would drop the painted wall powder and small cement blocks.

It seems that the storage room can't stay anymore. What if Arthur doesn't care about the collapse of the building and blows up here?I wouldn't expect a fire brigade to come here looking for someone who might be buried there, in the slums of Tuckerberry, there was an earthquake, and the house collapsed, and the people were crushed and alive, and the ruins above their heads were natural Grave it!

In a place like this, people die every day, but who cares?

Not wanting to be a victim of Arthur's rage, I chose to go back on the way back.

Take out the blade hidden in the wristband, and sandwich it between the index finger and middle finger. This self-defense prop that Philip gave me is the first time I have taken it out.

I wonder if the person chasing me is still there, whether he is looking for me one by one with a gun in his hand, regardless of the fierce fighting upstairs...

Not daring to take any chances, I pressed my body against the wall and hid by the kitchen door.The noise from upstairs was too loud for me to tell if there was movement in the passage outside.

A strange smell spread out, but it was not a strong irritating gas like tear gas, but a faint fragrance, but it made me feel dazed the moment I inhaled it.What a terrible gas. My mental strength and resistance to hallucinogenic drugs have been raised to an unimaginable level after more than ten years of various experiments. I am not boasting, even Arthur, Hughes and the others The ability to resist this kind of resistance is not as good as mine.And now that this gas makes me feel dazed, it is conceivable how precious it is, and the influence on the people upstairs is definitely not inferior to me.

I don't think this is a simple struggle to exterminate other people's forces. Even if there is any boss in Tuckerberry who has the strength to obtain a large number of guns and ammunition energy boxes, it is impossible to use this strange gas to suppress Munn. their level.

And I don't believe that just a few pulse guns can suppress those people upstairs for so long. There must be some people who can fight against Munn and the others, making it impossible for them to escape.

I found a piece of cloth, wet it and covered my nose and mouth, then rushed into the corridor.This gas is really weird. In just a few minutes, I felt that my body and spirit were relaxing, as if I had been given a strong tranquilizer.

We are almost at the entrance of the corridor, and we turn a corner into the hall. There is a figure in front of us, wearing the same clothes as the one who chased me. I don’t care if he is the one who chased me. The blade cut through the main artery in his neck.

It was as if a high-pressure water pipe had been deliberately pierced in one place, and bright red blood spurted out and splashed all over my face.

The man didn't die, he kicked me in the abdomen reflexively, and kicked me two meters away.He covered his bleeding neck with one hand, and held the pulse gun in the other hand, pointing the muzzle at me, his face twisted to the point of madness, with a determination to die with me.

However, that hand did not pull the trigger, and my life was not lost here. The person who helped me was someone I could never have imagined.

I don't know him, or I haven't seen his real face--that body is covered with fine scales, with a black and purple luster. Except that the epidermis is covered by layers of scales, he can be said to be a healthy person. My first reaction was that this person was Andre the Chameleon.

Sure enough, Gray who followed closely behind him confirmed my guess.

But shouldn't Andre be with those people?Why did you help me kick that person away?

I had no way of knowing the reason, and after Andre rescued me, he ran to the other side of the aisle on his own, and the destination was obviously not the hall.I didn't have time to think, so I automatically followed behind them.

Half of my face was smeared with blood, and the pungent smell of blood entered my nasal cavity all the time, reminding me that the owner of this blood just fell under my hands.

I killed a person, this was the first time that my hands were stained with blood, but I didn't feel anything, as if what I just killed was just a cat, a dog...even an ant.

I moved my legs and ran, and a sentence popped up in my mind: This world is so crazy!

The running pace became a rhythm, which gradually synchronized with the heartbeat. I don't know if it was because of the strenuous exercise or what, but the heart beat like it was going to pop out of the chest cavity.

"Pounding, pounding"...

This is a strange feeling, like jumping, like fear, so I can't help but have a kind of panic excitement.I tried to catch the strange tactile sensation inside, but I couldn't, it was too ethereal, and... Andre stopped.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm down my shortness of breath, and Andre had already opened an entrance close to the corner of the wall, and Gray got in.

I followed closely behind them. The hole was small and circular, and I could only crawl forward. There was a rancid smell inside, like countless garbage piled up at the exit, and the smell wafted along this passage.

It seemed to be a sewage outlet, and underneath it was a thick layer of dried-up unknown substance, which had obviously not been used for a long time.Crawling in a narrow space, the darkness also interfered with my judgment to a certain extent, making it impossible for me to calculate how far I had advanced.

There was a faint light coming from ahead, which was mostly blocked by Andre and Gray, but it was still visible to me—the exit was not far away.

Then, there was a sudden light ahead, and the two of them had left the drain.

As I expected, this pipe is connected to a sewer, because the city's underground sewage facilities are still in operation, so there are still a lot of permanent lights in the sewer that are still on.Carefully climb out of the pipe about one meter above the sewage ditch, and step on the edge of the ditch that is not so spacious.

Andre and Gray stood not far in front, and they looked at me with a little wariness.

Strange, since you have to beware of me now, why did you save me just now?

I couldn't understand their actions, but I didn't want to pursue them either. I turned around, turned my back towards them unsuspectingly, and walked in the opposite direction on my own.

Andre is definitely related to those who rushed in. Even if they are not in the same group, they all get what they need.The biggest possibility is that Andre needs their help to save Gray, and then he provides Munn and the others with their distribution, and even their abilities... Then, the gas doesn't work for the two of them, and the move to part ways now It is also reasonable.

As I deduced, I walked against the wall. The reason why I looked like I was slaughtered was to show that I had no interest in them, and I didn't want to have any contact with them. More importantly, in front of them, I had no room to fight back. .

As if I didn't want to have anything to do with them, Andre and Gray just whispered a few words, and then they also left.I listened to their footsteps fading away, and I began to think about what I should do next.

There is no way to go back, no matter how much I want to be with Arthur and the others, I will not be so stupid as to run into the muzzle myself.I don't know if they can get away, and where they will go after they get out, I have only one way - wait!

Wait until the battle above is over, and then no one is watching, and then go to see if Munn and the others are dead, captured, or dealt with those people. If it is the latter, then I will go back.

I don't believe that Arthur would be killed by ordinary people so easily. People like Hughes, Rogge, and Munn are not so easy to die. I'm just afraid that what if they move away and never come back?

Do you want to give up following Arthur to understand the voice in your heart?

I'm caught in a decision.

Now that I think about it, it's really strange that I followed them for no reason. I couldn't get close to Arthur at all. Why didn't I want to leave?

Suddenly I remembered that Feili once whispered in my ear, saying that if a person does not want to leave another person, but only wants to look at the other person, then it is like falling in love with him, falling in love with him!

like?

Arthur?

I'm in love with him?

How can it be!

Not to mention, in my opinion, a man and a woman falling in love with each other is actually just the effect of pheromone hormones after sexual maturity. .Judging from the previous data, there is indeed a precedent for men and men to be together, and it is said that there are not a few of them, but it is basically due to a male desire to conquer, or a distortion in the growth stage of sexual orientation , or the pursuit of sexual stimulation, these three are not applicable to me.I have neither conquest nor admiration for Arthur, let alone sexual desire, so why on earth would I want to be by his side?

I think my thinking circuit has fallen into a closed loop. It’s not my style to think about meaningless problems, and I don’t know if it’s because I can no longer directly perceive other people’s emotions, which makes me like to analyze and imagine various possibilities. bad habits.

Rubbing his temples, he put aside his doubts again, it's better to think about how to solve the problem of eating first.Thanks to the disgusting stench here, I was a bit hungry, but I lost my appetite...

Walk along the sewer all the way, then turn left along its branch, turn right again, jump over the sewage ditch with various objects floating in the middle, and I am looking for a passageway that can go up.

"stop!"

An order came from behind, and it sounded like Vincott's, followed by the sound of a bullet being loaded.

I stretched out my hand reflexively, with the palm facing outwards, and the five fingers spread apart, indicating that I did not have a weapon, and then slowly turned around.

However, I was being sentimental. Although Vincott was ten meters behind me, he pointed his gun at Andre and Gray who were closer to me.

I didn't hear the footsteps of the two of them. It can be said that the two of them should have bad intentions towards me. At least they wanted to see if I would inform them and reveal their whereabouts.As to whether Vincott followed them, I don't know.

"Andre, don't try to be invisible. If I can't see you, this bullet will shoot at Gray in the next second." Wen Kete pointed his gun and warned the two.

I sighed for Vincott's ability to grasp the situation. Using Gray to contain Andre was really well thought out.

"Len, why did you get involved with them?" After confirming that Andre didn't dare to act rashly, Vincott asked me again.

"...If I say it's fate, would you believe it?" I really can't answer this question, but meeting by chance on the road is also a kind of fate, right?

"..." Wen Kete put on an expression of not believing me.

"Andre, why did you betray us, and who are those who came here? Why..." Vincott asked them panting.

It was only then that I noticed something was wrong with him. From a distance, he was half leaning against the wall, as if he was standing unsteadily, but the finger holding the trigger was very steady, and the dark muzzle of the gun was aimed at us. Not at all relaxed.

"Are you affected by those gases?" I couldn't help asking.

"How do you know?" My question caused Vincott to point his gun directly at me, "This drug is only effective for those of us who came out of... What are you? What's the history?"

Doubt that I know your details?Or do you suspect that I am a spy sent by them?

"I saw that they released the gas, but I didn't respond, so I was always wondering. I just saw your appearance and thought about it." I said something that seemed to be true, whether Wen Kete believed it or not, in short, now he I won't pursue it too much.

"Come here, you two are not allowed to move, and don't think you can threaten me with him." Vincott instructed.

And I, obeying his orders, passed Andre and Gray to his side.