This section of Akiye Street is located next to an elevated railway bridge, and from time to time subways roar past in the rainy night.
The street is not wide. There is a row of vehicles parked on the edge of the elevated railway bridge. Raindrops splash on the roofs of the vehicles. The windows reflect the foggy light. On the other side are some shops that are hosting night markets. The overhead wires are messy and neon lights are there.
The signboard shines.
This small street on a rainy night is not quiet. People of all kinds come and go, holding various umbrellas.
Crowds of people, streets, high-rise buildings and railways all become increasingly blurry in the distance, gradually disappearing into the distant rainy night.
At this time, a red and black heavy-duty off-road vehicle parked on the side of the street, right behind an old van.
Two people got off the off-road vehicle, Lorna and Gu He.
Her needle-like black hair is mixed with wires and silicon strips. She wears a red leather jacket and black leather trousers, which outlines her tall figure. She wears a prosthetic exoskeleton on her right hand and holds a red-handled samurai sword, ready for battle.
Prepare.
As for him, he was still wearing a colorful jacket and jeans, without the red scarf, and he was holding a thermos cup in his hand.
"Lorna, be careful."
"Stop being so nagging, walk faster, don't let that idiot get away."
"No, while there is still time, why don't we go to the cinema and watch a movie..."
Gu He followed Lorna and persuaded her again.
He couldn't leave her in the fish pond, so he had to follow her.
But he knew more than she did. Pandora involved a major secret, and Lorna should know about it, but he couldn't tell her, and he was afraid that if she found out, the situation would get out of control.
Rawdon Ludd, the leader of the Bone and Blood Movement and Lorna's father, can be said to be "not dead yet."
At that time, his personality data was stored in a read-only box by the executioner who executed him in collusion with a group of people. The box was randomly uploaded to an unknown location on the psychic network.
This location can only be restored by a key program that randomly generates the location.
The program was never opened and was divided into 12 program segments by the team and kept by different people.
The androgynous guy named "Pandora" somehow got hold of the program segment numbered 8. In the last two months, he not only sold it to Yakuza, but also invited Ayako and others to assassinate and capture Lorna.
Gu He guessed that it was possible that Lorna also had clues about program segments or valuable raw materials in her mind...
And in his mind, he made an unknown copy of the key program segment numbered 8.
"I heard that a new film shot by Miss Chiba has been released recently." Gu He continued.
Lorna glanced back at him and rolled her light green eyes, "After this is done, if everything goes well, I'll watch it again. Instead of watching Chiba's film, I'll watch something else. The midnight movie will be interesting."
Gu He scratched his head, he really couldn't persuade Luo Zi, so he could only adapt to circumstances.
The intelligence obtained by Lorna showed that Pandora has been active in this area for the past few days. She was discovered by the bone-blooded man tonight and is now being watched. The two of them had not gone far when they saw the bone-blooded man gesturing towards a shop.
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Because the man was not an extraordinary person, he left after the surveillance and did not participate in any possible fight.
Gu He looked around and saw that it was an old two-story shop squeezed between the streets. The lantern at the door read "Tempura".
There are rows of curtains on the eaves and lintels, and a long silver square smoke pipe extends from the side of the second floor to the roof. This is the case in crowded Kabukicho, and the smoke pipe can only be installed on the facade.
On the walls on both sides of the door, there are some posters, paper cuts and photos hanging, all saying that this store is old.
Some famous figures in Yakuza have eaten tempura rice bowl here.
"Lorna, is that Miss Ayane?" Gu He saw one of the photos, and the person in it seemed to be Kumiko Ayane when she was nineteen or twenty years old.
In the old photo, the girl is wearing Yakuza's silver-black bat-sleeved trench coat, with simple short colored hair. She looks really cold as ice, with murderous eyes in her eyes, completely different from the current Miss Ayane.
"Yes." Lorna glanced at it and said, "Didn't you see that word, Qingyan? It's obvious."
Gu He now knew that this "Meita Tempura" obviously existed with the same qualifications as Kitano Butcher Shop. Pandora dared to appear openly here because she was sure that others would not dare to cause trouble here.
But Lorna didn't care now and walked straight into the store from the door. Gu He could only follow.
The so-called tempura is a variety of dishes made of fish, shrimp and vegetables mixed with batter and deep-fried.
The air in the store is filled with the aroma from the kitchen. The small store is equipped with some small tables and chairs. There is no wine bar. There is a wall-mounted TV playing programs. Customers in twos and threes are eating tempura and chatting.
Behind the cashier at the door, there was an older woman in a kimono with bunted hair, Mrs. Mida.
"Welcome." Mrs. Mei Tian called out, with a kind smile on her middle-aged and elderly face, but the silver ring on her right thumb revealed her identity as an old Yakuza, and she was a meat cutter.
Mrs. Meitian looked at Lorna's prosthetic body and samurai sword, and said in a slightly warning tone: "Girl, we only do business here."
"We are here to find someone." Lorna responded, "We won't fight here."
"Well, I'm the one responsible for persuading her..." Gu He said quickly, really afraid that the old lady would pull out the monomolecular line.
Lorna has already seen the target of this trip, Pandora.
That's right, it's that guy, sitting at a dining table in the corner, eating a plate of tempura with chopsticks.
Gu He also saw it, and now he felt that the other person was a woman.
Because Pandora's dress today is more feminine. She wears a large black round hat, colorful short hair with bangs, smoky makeup on the upper half of her face, and a metal hollow mask on the lower half of her face. Her mouth is open so that she can eat food.
She was wearing a neutral striped formal suit and carrot pants, but the decoration was obviously biased toward women.
"Oh, look who this is." Lorna strode over, "Pandora, long time no see."
Pandora stopped with the tempura wooden chopsticks in her hands, turned her head slightly and looked at the two of them, especially a deep look at Gu He. That look reminded him of Qing Yan in the photo just now, both of whom could be named.
A murderous look.
She should have realized why Lorna came to her door.
But why did Pandora take a deep look at him...
"If you want to eat tempura, I can treat you to a meal." Pandora said, "Don't mess with me about anything else."
"You must have provoked me." Lorna's voice immediately turned cold, "I, Lorna Ludd, am not someone to be bullied."
After hearing these words, Gu He thought about how Lorna had been here all these years, so he stopped trying to persuade her.
"No matter what you are referring to, some things are over after they are over." Pandora was still eating the tempura unhurriedly. "It won't do you any good if you bite on and hold on to it."
"That's not what your mother said when she bit his thing and wouldn't let it go."
Lorna pointed at Gu He next to her and sneered, "It's better to wait until I've beaten you enough."
"I'll tell you again, don't mess with me." Pandora's tone was also cold, "You will be responsible for the consequences."
She ate the entire plate of tempura slowly and slowly before she stood up and walked to the cashier to pay. Before leaving, she said to Mrs. Miada: "You saw it too. If something happens after leaving the store, it will be them."
Asked for it.”
"Haha." Mrs. Mei Tian's old face smiled and did not say anything.
At that moment, Pandora walked out of the store to the rainy night street outside, letting the rain fall on her body.
Lorna followed behind and just walked out of the store door. Suddenly, Gu Hela couldn't hold her back. She swung her samurai sword and struck Pandora in front of her. The blade broke through the rain and neon light.
If the knife was struck solidly, Pandora would be cut into two pieces in the street.
But Pandora took a quick step forward, and almost instantly rushed to the street vehicles a few steps away. She jumped onto the roof of a car, stepped on her feet, turned over and leaped back, landing behind the pursuing Lorna.
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Suddenly, tentacles of flesh and blood burst out of her hands, much thicker than blood threads, dancing wildly in the air.
Doll occupation system! Gu He's heart suddenly suddenly thought, and he was finally able to confirm it based on the other party's form and his own perception.
Pandora is also a doll, maybe a J-level container program, so he could send the encrypted data to him head-to-head. Was that the Tentacle Edge...
He wasn't sure about this, because for a doll, it could also be a modified prosthetic body.
"Fuck you!" Lorna sensed the danger behind her and swung her katana around, barely cutting off several tentacles.
At the same time, passers-by on both sides of the street ran away in a hurry, and it became more lively as they started running.
Gu He saw that the fighting was full of dangers, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He was really not suitable for fighting.
And the holy water energy has just reached 40% today, so I really don’t want to waste even a drop...
"Come and help, prick your hand!" Lorna was shouting, and she knew that the enemy's extraordinary level might be higher just by looking at her face to face.
She had already prepared for this. She felt that Li Cai was very strong last time, so she called Gu He to help tonight.
This Pandora's movements are so fast and smooth that losing a few tentacles will have no impact.
Gu He had no choice but to step forward and release the blood thread on the back of his head to connect with Lorna's prosthetic body. Brain to brain, empathy was established.
On the other side, Pandora, like a ghost, quickly changed positions on the street, and was now facing two opponents. Her eyes sharpened, and the mouth in the hollow metal mask murmured like a chant.
Voice.
Doll career system, Q-level program: Bad Luck Box
Suddenly, both Gu He and Lorna saw Pandora's striped clothes. Each stripe was moving crazily, forming layers of ever-changing matrix graphics.
Just within the circle, triangle, rhombus and other lines, countless indescribable data surged out.
"Fuck..." Lorna was also shocked. This thing is not common.
On the other side, Mrs. Meitian at the cashier counter of the store looked at the street fight and laughed again.
"Bad Luck Box" is not a common doll program. It should be said to be extremely rare. It requires high talent and corresponding personality traits to successfully install it.
It is different from programs such as Bongshen, which only receive data during rituals, but can also lead others to feel the data and fall into a transcendent experience.
The Bad Luck Box receives all kinds of indescribable data from the spiritual network through perception, and then seals these powerful data into its own container, becoming a mental virus that can be used for attacks.
When fighting, it is released explosively, without even establishing neural connections. Instead, it invades the senses, such as vision, hearing, smell, etc., and carries out a group attack like a turbulent flow of information.
The container has become demonized, just like opening Pandora's box, releasing all kinds of bad luck, disaster and pain.
These powerful data can instantly cause the enemy's personality integrity to drop significantly, until the personality collapses.
"Ah!" Lorna yelled. Her personality value had only returned to 75%, but she knew that Gu He was already at 95%.
On the way here, they talked about how to fight, and already had some experience in fighting together.
At this moment, of course it is Gu He who is blocking it.
Ordinary people watching the excitement on the roadside could not see much, but the two of them saw more and more graphics and phantoms, as if they had fallen into a spiritual network. The streets on rainy nights were becoming grid lines. This was a sign that their senses were severely affected.
Lorna immediately activated the Q-level program information turbulence and directed the mental garbage to his container.
"Oh my god...!" Gu He suddenly had a splitting headache and was overwhelmed by an indescribable force. The whole figure was continuously pulled and deformed, sometimes turning into a two-dimensional figure, and sometimes turning back into a three-dimensional creature.
As I said a long time ago, this Pandora is not easy to mess with...
There are many kinds of dolls, Qingyan can be beaten, and so can Pandora.
He could feel that between the pulls, his personality integrity was rapidly declining, 90%, 85%, 75%, 70%, 69%...
Even he is like this. If it were anyone else, he could really turn into a ghost in an instant.
In addition, for hunters like Lorna who rely on establishing neural connections and then launching information attacks, Pandora is difficult to defeat, because once brain-to-brain contact occurs, it will be delivered to the door itself.
Not from the senses, but directly from the nerves... Pandora's box.
"I asked you not to mess with me." Pandora's voice was steady, and it was obvious that the situation was easy for her.
She was twisting the street into an abyss full of virulent viruses. While both of them were sinking, she suddenly activated her tentacles and stabbed them quickly, trying to stab them in the abdomen.
However, with an unexpected snap, her tentacle was suddenly severed by a huge tentacle that appeared quickly.
Tentacle's Edge?
Pandora's eyes narrowed slightly, her steps stopped quickly, and she did not attack rashly.
The cowherd whom she had just seen Li Cai burst out with a bunch of blood threads from his right hand, directly breaking through the sleeves of his jacket. Those blood threads quickly grew into fleshy tentacles full of thorns.
"Your mother, I'm very angry." Gu He was angry, really angry. It was you, Pandora, who found someone to kill Lorna first.
Doll career system, Q-level program: Holy Grail, attack state!
[Holy water energy: 35%, ↓5%]
Bang bang, the tentacles spread out from his right hand merged and merged, forming a big stick of flesh and blood that was two meters long.
He held the thermos cup as the handle of the stick, and while the tentacle stick continued to grow, he violently whipped Pandora over there.
"Haha." Lorna laughed, feeling his anger and determination...
With the collapse of personality integrity, that handsome angel is here again.