The ghost girl has been to many bad places, but this is the first time she has smelled such a bad smell.
The faint nightlight illuminated her, and even though she always lacked vitality, she felt closer to dead things and almost vomited at once.
This is not a dead thing, it is not even wind, but mixed with countless fine particles of industrial pollution, the extremely stench of water vapor in the river between the rolling sludge, just like the dirty, black and sticky knee-deep river water.
No matter whether you are a programmer or a person with natural talent, it is unbearable.
Due to the pollution caused by the eastern industrial zone, most of the rivers in Hexiang District have become like this.
The trees on both sides of the river are also dying, and only some weeds can still sprout in the black mud.
"Ah..." Over there, an assassin professional member of the team couldn't help but vomited out. The vomiting filled the river with new filth, making the air even worse.
When he vomited, several other personnel also couldn't help it.
"If you can't stand it, just put on a gas mask." Vic Sterling said, not wearing one himself.
"Mr. Sterling, I'm sorry..." The male assassin member was obviously very uncomfortable and his face was turning pale.
"There's no need to hold on. If you can't hold on any longer, go back. There's no need to cause unnecessary losses. Just me and the ghost girl are enough."
After Vic Sterling said this, he continued to wade through knee-deep sewage in this semi-dry river.
The riverbed mixed with sand and gravel waste below was already hardening. He held an assault rifle in both hands and walked steadily, but the thick and sticky river water stained his windbreaker and camouflage military pants.
This illegitimate son of Seth is now considered a high-ranking person, but not only does he personally lead the team, he is also in this kind of environment.
Ghost Girl has seen some young blood eaters, but this is the first time she has seen one like Vic Sterling.
She could see that Mr. Sterling was not incapable of smelling the smell, and his complexion was not very good, but he could control it.
He was not a blood-eater who grew up in a pampered environment. He had faced many harsh environments in Angel City.
He deliberately didn't wear a gas mask, maybe he was training himself.
The ghost girl also waded through the sewage to follow, and gradually the two of them walked at the front, while the other five people in the team fell behind. They were paying attention to the movements on both sides of the river as they walked. This was an assassination team.
The geographical environment of Hexiang District is complex. There are countless rivers like this, which cut the land into countless small pieces of isolated islands and rotten land, thus forming a natural barrier.
Although the Kappa Gang has a headquarters building in the town, it is mostly broken into parts. Groups of Kappa usually hide in the dense forests around these rivers, and even satellites can hardly detect their activities.
Mr. Sterling was sent by the bank to rectify the problems in the Hexiang District, and the Kappa Gang was his target.
Intelligence showed that the leader and gang of the gang that had previously robbed a freight convoy of the Eastern Ministry of Industry were probably hiding in this riverland.
Mr. Sterling decided to carry out a beheading operation to give the Kappa Gang a response and shock.
But if too many people are dispatched to cover and search from the ground, or even helicopters are dispatched, the movement will be too great. The kappas are more familiar with the river here than anyone else, and they are also more familiar with the water. They will sneak away or even escape into the wilderness.
Moreover, the entire operation would take too long, attracting other kappas from the surrounding area, leading to an escalation of the conflict, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides. This is not the result that the bank and Mr. Sterling want.
As for direct air raids and bombings, that does not apply to dealing with street gangs. This is considered a street.
That would cross the line, and instead of being a deterrent, it would inevitably cause a strong backlash on the streets.
Mr. Sterling made a decision that surprised even the ghost girl. He used an assassination team to penetrate the stinky river section that almost no one would have imagined. They quietly approached and made a sudden attack to complete the mission.
Even the kappa themselves would not set foot in this section of the river unless they were desperate to escape.
But their team of seven people first approached in a disguised small cargo boat, and then fell into the water at a suitable location. As expected, there was no warning here. The kappas would not have thought that a blood eater and a gifted person would come from the smelly river.
This is a bold plan that only a bold leader would formulate and execute.
"Mr. Sterling, are we going too fast?"
The ghost girl followed behind. Although she was not a security personnel, as a gifted person sent by the United District to assist this gentleman, she had the responsibility to protect his safety.
"I know my opponent." Vic Sterling said, without slowing down. "The Street Dogs are not an elite unit. There are no traces of scavenging on this river. No one usually comes. Besides, in a place like this,
The elite troops cannot remain alert, and no one wants to stay in this mud for more than a minute."
The ghost girl doesn't talk much. It's not that she doesn't like to talk, but that there aren't many people and things that can arouse her interest.
It was just that the tall, mature, blue-eyed man in front of her made her want to speak.
"You seem to be able to stay for more than a day." The ghost girl said while continuing to pay attention to her surroundings.
Her sense of hearing, vision or smell is not particularly sensitive, but she has a sense of the breath of life, especially for the extraordinary beings of the First Su Kuisu, whether they are the main doll type or the side sect.
But now, she only felt that there was dead silence all around, and it seemed that even alien species could not survive in this extremely smelly sludge.
"Why not." Vic Sterling responded, "This is the living environment of a blood-eater throughout his life."
He seemed to be making a joke, and he seemed to be talking about some idea.
The ghost girl couldn't hear it, so she returned to silence.
The sewage poured into her leather shoes, making her steps more difficult. Her nostrils, which had started to sting before, were a little clogged, forcing her to open her mouth slightly to breathe.
In this kind of place, it is impossible to see a single fish. Some are the remains of wild beasts, as well as corpses that floated from unknown places and stranded here.
The stench of the night wind contained the smell of corpses.
But the night sky above our heads was still dotted with stars.
"Why did you come in person?" After a while, the ghost girl asked. This was a question that rarely interested her.
Even his sister, the disabled Elizabeth Sterling, would probably find it difficult to get involved in this mud.
"If you think I should hide in the back, leave it all to you."
Vic Sterling responded, his tone still calm, "That's because you don't understand how a businessman starts a business and how a gang is established. The bank is a giant gang, so I am here."
"You want to prove yourself." The ghost girl said, because you are an illegitimate child who has been despised?
The river below her feet began to become difficult to walk, the water level became deeper, and some parts of the river bed broke or slipped in as soon as she stepped on it. She almost fell. If she fell head-on into this sticky, black and smelly area,
In the mud with all kinds of tiny foreign objects floating in it, even she might collapse.
"I've proven myself." Vic Sterling said, "I'm just being myself."
They walked in silence for a while, and gradually there was faint chatter and laughter, and there was still a little fire and light in the dense forest beside the river.
Vic Sterling raised an arm to tell everyone in the team to stop and make no more noise. He gestured to the people behind the team not to move forward, and just waved to the ghost woman to follow her.
The ghost girl was slightly startled. He seemed really prepared to complete the raid with her alone.
Intelligence shows that there are fifteen to thirty people in this group. The members of the Kappa Gang are mainly extraordinary people of the "Kappa Professional System", but there will also be other extraordinary people mixed in. Although the opponent is defenseless at this time, it cannot be underestimated.
"Activating genius requires effort and maintenance just like extraordinary procedures." She stepped forward and said to Mr. Sterling in a very low voice, "It is especially used for group attacks. After a long time, my counterattack will become weak.
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"Ten seconds, okay?" Vic Sterling asked.
"Okay." Ghost Girl replied, "But I'm afraid the battle won't be resolved within ten seconds. The opponent has firearms."
"That's not a problem." He said, "Just follow the previous battle plan."
Mr. Sterling made a decision, and the ghost girl had no choice but to obey his orders.
The two of them waded through the sewage and slowly approached the direction of the sound by the river. The ghost girl did feel the strong breath of life, which was drifting in with the foul-smelling river wind.
Not long after, they bent over and stepped onto a piece of muddy ground on the bank of the river. Their feet were covered with stinky mud.
By now they were very close, and both of them could clearly hear the conversation and laughter of the Kappa gang members.
Several people were talking about how much money they had after selling their goods and what they wanted to buy. Some people were joking loudly: "We have to add a big bathtub here. The river stinks so much that we can only swim in the bathtub."
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"You have a bathtub, but you also need water. Why don't you go ask the municipal government to provide us with running water here?"
"Haha, just use my urine. My urine is cleaner than the river water here!"
The group laughed again, completely unaware that danger was approaching.
Under the darkness of night, the ghost girl was like nothing, and Vic Sterling was invisible and stalking like an assassin.
The two of them walked through the woods on the shore without making a single sound. It was just as Vic had judged, the side facing the smelly river was completely unguarded, and there seemed to be no patrols in the entire muddy land.
When they walked around, they saw some tents set up on the muddy ground in the forest. Many members of the Kappa Gang were sitting around there, drinking wine and chatting, illuminated by candles and flashlights.
They were all young men and women. Even street dogs didn't live long. One group died after another, and those people were the new group.
"What we are doing is quite big, but it is not as majestic as the wilderness." A boy of about eighteen or nineteen years old sighed, "It would be great if we could go blow up the railway sometime."
"To go to the railway is to land on land. We are kappas. If we leave the water, we will lose half of our abilities."
The ghost girl saw the main target of the assassination team, the leader of this group, a strong man "Salmon" about twenty-five years old. The man had dyed green hair, and his hairstyle was that of a typical kappa in Hexiang District.
head.
These people all have similar hairstyles, their clothes are thin, they look like they are about to get into the water at any time, and they all have many tattoos on their bodies.
Salmon was hugging a young woman with colorful hair, who might be his girlfriend. He smiled at his subordinates and said: "In a few days, instead of grabbing things on the ground, we will find a small cargo ship to grab them.
Everything that could not be taken away was lost in the river."
"Then our rivers will have more garbage."
"Any rubbish is valuable. Let it sink there first. If the bank dog can't salvage anything that can't be taken away, pick it up later."
There was some disagreement between them, laughing and scolding. Some wanted to rob the railway, while others agreed to rob the ship.
The ghost girl had learned beforehand that the idea of the Kappa Gang was somewhat similar to that of the Bone and Blood Zone. It was to drive away the polluting factories, to prevent the eastern industrial zone from discharging waste randomly, and to make the mother river like them clear.
One fact is that the environment in Hexiang District has only become worse and worse over the years.
The residents are suffering from strange diseases, and the former fishermen have disappeared, either working in factories or becoming refugees.
The freshwater fishery in Flowing Light City ceased to exist many years ago. Except for the local fish in the Eden Lake area that are specially supplied to the upper class, the freshwater fish eaten by people in the city are all imported from the bank's "big fishery".
The Big Fishing Ground is an extremely huge fishing ground, as well as related freight areas, supplying goods to various Free States in Anzhou.
Hexiang District experienced an economic collapse in the early years, which was caused by dumping from large fishing grounds, and then there were factories.
At this time, the ghost girl saw Mr. Sterling waving to her and made a gesture to launch a surprise attack. This was indeed a good opportunity. The kappas were completely unprepared and only talked and laughed. They even threw their firearms beside them and did not pick them up.
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She didn't know why, she didn't particularly want to do this, but she could only obey orders.
The ghost girl quietly took a step and passed through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the forest. Like a ghost, she activated her talent.
Level K, the first star of Kuisu: Anubis
The stinking wind suddenly stagnated, and a black jackal-headed phantom burst out behind her. There seemed to be a wolf howl in the dark night. The phantom expanded rapidly, shrouding the sky above the forest camp like a holographic image.
At the same time, the salmon and others over there were stunned, and they immediately realized that someone was attacking!
But they didn't know what it was, and they didn't know that one of their opponents had a genius, so they all wanted to launch the J-level program "Kappaization" of the Kappa professional system.
This program allows them to acquire the physical fitness of a variety of beasts, so that they can respond more quickly whether they are jumping up trees, running into rivers, or fighting invading enemies.
At the same time, they were all picking up the firearms nearby and were about to fire into the surrounding woods.
"Why..." However, Salmon and others found that the program could not be started, and their bodies seemed to have lost their extraordinary strength. They could only sit stiffly on the ground, barely having the strength to stand up.
This body that can swim all day long without getting tired seems to have no vitality in it.
It was at this time that Vic Sterling launched the program.
Blood Eater Career System, Overdrive, Q-Level Program: Brain Slave Call
The ghost girl couldn't help but be slightly surprised. She thought she saw a strange figure of a brain slave, but the data flow phantoms that burst out from Mr. Sterling almost instantly were several giant ferocious beasts.
Some of them resemble pioneer species, while others resemble rudimentary species, with weird shapes, full of edges and corners, and indescribable in the dark.
These creations that did not belong to the human world rushed towards the camp in the forest like huge waves. They were completely devouring people with the momentum of giant beasts. In an instant, they entangled and suppressed the dozen or so Kappa gang members.
Whether it was a kappa or other extraordinary beings, they all screamed in panic, but they could not stop their personality data from being invaded and sucked away.
Mr. Sterling, his brain slaves are all high-level mutants.
Ordinary people are brain slaves, even if they are all talented people with superior brain power, they simply do not have this kind of fighting ability.
Bang, bang, bang!
Mr. Sterling did not give anyone a chance to fight back. He held the assault rifle firmly with both hands and pulled the trigger. With precise shooting, he swept away the kappas who were immobilized and unable to move in a few strokes.
The silencer reduces the noise of the gunshot to a minimum.
The kappas who were laughing and laughing just now were all dead and injured, with blood and wine flowing all over the floor.
Some hearts have stopped functioning as the body was headshot. The pressure on the ghost girl dropped sharply, and the natural power doubled on the undead people. The salmon's girlfriend died, but the salmon fell to the ground.
The ground is not dead yet.
"Ah..." The salmon screamed in a mixture of fear, anger, and complete incomprehension. Looking at the dead companions around it, it let out a heart-rending howl...
He didn't understand why he suddenly lost his extraordinary power and was suddenly in danger.
Bang, bang, the salmon's hands were shot again, and he could no longer hold the gun.
At this time, Vic Sterling walked out of the dense forest, and those huge shadows of alien brain slaves were still suppressing and wandering together with the jackal-headed phantoms, but there were no other kappas around.
The salmon raised his head with difficulty and looked at the tall man in a trench coat with short blond hair and blue eyes.
At first glance, he looks like a bank dog.
"Haha..." The salmon understood now and laughed strangely: "In order to kill us river dogs, I deigned to let you come from the smelly river. It really made your hands dirty..."
Salmon actually agrees to buy a bathtub. He has never owned a bathtub, nor has he swam in a clear river. Ever since he was a child, the river has been getting dirtier and slimier...
"Bank dog." He cursed again, "Fuck you..."
Vic Sterling stretched out his right hand towards the salmon, and the blood-thread was suddenly released, sucking the opponent's scalp.
"Ah..." The salmon immediately let out another sharp cry, the muscles on its face became distorted, and the veins and eyeballs protruded.
His program data is being sucked away entirely, and his brain becomes blank...
The overdrive gear takes only a very short time.
Bang bang, the salmon fell on the camp, no longer breathing.
Bang, there was another gunshot, and Vic Sterling shot the Kappa gang leader in the head.
Then, without looking much at the camp, he turned around and walked back into the woods again.
The ghost girl never came out of the woods, she always stood on the edge and watched. All Mr. Sterling's actions were so crisp and neat, which made her feel slightly dazed after having completed so many assassination missions.
"Is that it?" she asked, always feeling as if something was not finished yet, as if something was left here.
"Our work is done." Vic Sterling strode over, "Leave the rest of the work to the rest of the team and do something for them. That would be better."
The ghost girl turned around and followed him again, heading towards the smelly river together, preparing to turn back the same way they came. There would be a disguised small cargo boat picking them up in a more open section of the river outside.
All these things will be silent this night, until other members of the Kappa Gang discover the destruction here.
At that time, Mr. Sterling will start the next step of work.
"Mr. Sterling, aren't you afraid that something unexpected happened just now?"
The ghost girl was really curious about this man. She didn't always have this kind of emotion. She wanted to understand.
Under the dark night, Vic Sterling stepped into the dirty river again. The stirred river water stirred up a stronger stench, which made the ghost woman unbearable again. He waded away, and she heard him
said:
"Those who eat blood are not afraid of death, but those who are afraid of death are the children of those who eat blood."