Chapter 377 – 377. Shanghai 2
The next day.
“Everyone. Can you help me?”
The women look curious at my request.
First, I went over to Baengnyeong Island and looked around.
Perhaps because it is an island, I was able to find it quickly. Fine nets.
After taking a small amount and spreading it out in front of the women, they seemed to be wondering why they had brought it.
“Wrap me with this.”
“Eh? Have you discovered a new hobby?”
Se-Ah looked at me strangely, and was about to hit Honey Chestnut, but held back.
Now that Se-Ah has learned Blink, it’s no longer easy for her to have honey or messy hair. Damn. Did she let me learn for no reason?
“It’s a test. A test.”
The women thought it would be fun and actively wrapped me in a net.
Hmm. Okay. That’s enough, and then…
“Blink!”
It escaped the net very easily.
The four look helpless as they escape too easily compared to what was wrapped.
“What is this? Why is it like this?”
Seunghee asked me, and I told her what I saw.
“Then, shouldn’t this be done after making it transparent?”
“What will change if we make it transparent?”
“Try it. The conditions must be the same.”
Then Seunghee grabbed the net and became invisible.
A net that has become invisible. When the four women lost sight of the net, they stretched it out with their hands for a while and eventually wrapped it around me.
“It’s not as easy as I thought.”
“That’s right. I should have just wrapped it and made it invisible.”
“Ah!”
“That’s right!”
I should have done that a long time ago! I blinked, leaving the girls cackling and laughing, wondering what was good.
Uh? But it failed?
“What are you doing? Not coming out?”
“I failed!”
“Yes?”
“Blink!”
Look. Too bad again. What? What is the problem? Wouldn’t invisibility have this effect?
I fiddle with the net that was wrapped around me and try again. There’s no way it wouldn’t work.
“Blink!”
What do you want? I got out this time. You don’t understand? What’s going on?
“Did it work this time?”
“Huh. What is it? I don’t know why? Is it a chance of failure? There’s no way that’s possible?”
The unexpected result put us in a serious mood.
There were various opinions, guesses, and hypotheses, but in the end, the exact cause could not be found.
Ah. Fuck. What is it?
Does an unrecognized object touch your body and cause interference with Blink? I don’t think so.
“Hmm. Maybe.”
Seunghee opens her mouth again after a long time.
“Anyway… Isn’t this what it is? The transparent net is blocking my brother’s view. The net has become an obstacle.”
The expressions on everyone’s faces after hearing Seunghee’s words turned into expressions of believability.
Okay. Right. You might think like that. I guess I thought it was too complicated.
I looked around for a moment. Uh. There is nothing suitable.
I brought a blanket out of the pension and told the four women to grab one corner each and put it up like a wall.
“Seunghee. Try turning invisible with the blanket.”
“Invisibility!”
The other side, which had been covered by a blanket, became visible with Seunghee becoming transparent.
Okay. I can see the other side now… There is a blanket between these. Just because you can see it doesn’t mean everything is open.
“Blink!”
Can not be done. Okay. That’s right. It was something like that.
“No?”
“Uh.”
“Wow! I got it right!”
I like Seunghee so brightly that you can tell just by her voice. And everyone envies Seunghee.
But I got goosebumps running down my spine. It’s not that simple. It’s a great discovery.
“Huh? Why? Why are you so serious?”
“Um… Seunghee, you keep holding on, and Seah, you stand there behind the blanket.”
“Huh? Me? Why?”
“Stand. Quickly.”
Se-Ah went and stood behind the blanket without knowing what was going on.
I briefly shouted to Se-Ah.
“Grow up!”
Everyone looks surprised. But nothing happened.
It’s natural. Sleep also cannot be used against an opponent if there is an obstacle in the way.
That would be the same for all skills that require setting a goal.
“What is it? Why am I not sleeping? Is this because of the blanket?”
Se-Ah, who clearly saw that I was using sleep towards her, asked me with a curious expression.
As I nod, everyone seems to be thinking about this phenomenon.
There is an obstacle, but since transparency is used, you don’t know if there is an obstacle.
It is said that one can block an opponent’s skill even without reflexes.
This is incredibly important.
In particular, it has a significant advantage in that it can block Blink.
What if you could cover your opponent with a large transparent cloth?
The opponent will fire Blink repeatedly without knowing anything, but they won’t be able to use it.
A method that can have tremendous effects depending on how you use it.
I think a little more research is needed on this.
Once you have an idea, you can come up with as many ways to utilize it.
I left the women training their skills on Baengnyeong Island and then teleported to Shanghai.
For now, you have to keep doing what you’re doing. We also have to watch the guys we saw yesterday.
However, after arriving in Shanghai, I felt something strange.
These guys… Where has everyone gone?
A lot of the guys in the hotel are gone. I can’t feel anything at all.
What? Fuck. What happened overnight?
I approached the hotel and checked to see if there was anyone left.
Doesn’t exist. Does not exist. I can’t feel it anywhere.
I went inside just in case.
There may be someone lurking, so use Phase Out to search inside the hotel.
I don’t think everyone died because of the battle. There are no personal items or anything.
It’s not organized at all, and it’s a mess, but I think I took everything I needed to pack.
This… They abandoned this place and went somewhere else. Damn.
Did you notice me following you?
Even though they noticed me by using a lot of skill range increase passives, they pretended not to notice me?
It’s not like there’s no possibility of that happening. Umm. Was I too careless?
Since you can understand the opponent’s level to some extent just by the detection distance, their decision can be seen as wise.
It’s natural to feel scared when someone who has mastered 11 or 12 skills is following you.
My country will be like that too. If I heard that someone was watching our bunker or Baengnyeong Island from 300 meters away, my heart would flutter.
Let’s evacuate to a safe place first.
I was planning on watching them leisurely, but I felt like it was pointless because they disappeared in just one day.
Ah. Should I learn tracking or other skills like this?
But that gets erased when the area skill is invalidated. Moreover, it is not a very good skill for someone like me who uses Phase Out.
The moment you use Phase Out, everything you tracked will disappear.
A skill that is worse than not learning it at all. It would be better to physically attach something like a transmitter.
It’s a transmitter. I think I can get this if I ask Seo Min-jun to give it to me.
It’s a large company in name and appearance. I think I’m wearing one myself.
I’ll have to ask for one. I guess I can use it somehow.
Ah… But is it difficult to put it on even if there is a transmitter? Come to think of it, that’s right. How do I put it on?
Fuck. It’s full of annoying things. It’s easier if you kill it right away, but if you don’t kill it and keep it alive, it becomes this annoying. Ugh.
Anyway, there is nothing to be gained by searching through empty hotels.
If I could guess where it went, I would look for it… There is nothing like that.
Swallowing my bitter heart, I wander over Shanghai.
However… It’s too big. It’s huge, right? Even if you compare it roughly, it is similar in size to Seoul.
Fuck. So how do you find it? This is impossible. It’s a waste of time.
A little thought over Shanghai.
Where should I go? Ah. I should have watched those chicks a little more yesterday.
Should I wait a little longer instead of going? No. That’s stupid.
If I were sure I was in the city, I would search a little harder, but since I wasn’t, I would most likely be wasting my time.
Just… It’s better to leave.
Then where do you go? Should we go further down the coast?
Then I think I can go to Hong Kong. Is there any point in going?
I think it would be better to save the Three Gorges Dam while moving up the Yangtze River.
In between, we had fun enjoying the seawater of the Yangtze River.
If you decide, you have to do it. The river is not short, so it will take a while to go up the river.
Let’s get started right away.
So we head toward the Yangtze River, visible north of Shanghai.
And you can see the wall built between the river and the city.
A wall that meticulously surrounds and seals off the city. As I approached there, I felt the presence of a person.
But it seems a bit crowded? It seems like there are more people than when you enter the city?
The walls I have seen countless times while flying around China.
I’ve seen the dogs guarding them, but now they are unusually numerous.
Moreover, the movement looks unusual. That… I don’t think it’s just for surveillance?
I watch them because I’m curious. My location now. Can they detect me?
First, let’s narrow the distance little by little. I have to check that first.
If those guys are at the same or higher level as me, they will be detected from this distance.
There is no way you can stay still when a suspicious presence is caught in the air.
I look at them without letting my guard down.
This is a distance that Blink can fly to in one hit, so don’t let down your guard.
You saw it yesterday. Doing that stuff.
Of course, I also have Blink, so I can escape the net, but as I tested earlier, if the net obscures my view, I may not be able to use it right away.
It is better to prepare for risks.
Luckily, they didn’t seem to notice me.
Still, I don’t let down my guard. Because they might be acting.
My detection range is 380 meters. Even if one of them has a skill radius increase of 6, his detection range will be 310 meters.
Since we have 70 meters to spare, let’s keep an eye on them for now.
They look like they’re going to do something, so I’ll have to wait and see.
My prediction was correct. After waiting for about an hour, they started moving towards the center of Shanghai.
There seemed to be almost twenty people. Moreover, rather than flocking together, several people scatter in all directions and fly in the form of watching the surroundings.
They all have flying skills. Those scattered in all directions also used transparency.
It’s unlikely that the ones in the middle are invisible. If you move to transparency, it is difficult to check the location, so it feels like you just leave it exposed.
Moreover, they are moving in one direction without hesitation.
They say the destination is clear. What is it? I’m curious.
And I have a feeling that the reason they move around like that has something to do with those guys yesterday.
No matter how you look at it, it’s true. I feel like something is going to happen.
But yesterday the number was close to fifty.
I didn’t count the numbers properly, so there may be more.
Aren’t these guys small? Hmm… I don’t know. Are you confident?
What… Because those guys yesterday may not have been the target.
For now, let’s stay silent and watch. Where are you going?
I watch them and see if there are any who are a little faster.
Passive skill limit break 1 that I took.
Passive that increases flight speed.
If you are watching them and find someone with faster speed, that person has adopted this passive.
But for now, there is no such person.
It may be that you keep pace with the person next to you, but… It’s not that easy.
Without realizing it, I get ahead little by little. Just like me now.
Since they are heading in one direction, it is easy to specify the direction.
It seemed like it would continue to fly in this direction for a while, so I used blink in that direction several times to get ahead.
I went like that for a while and came back again and again. If I miss them, I get tired.
Did it last about 20 minutes? I blinked and looked ahead, but something caught my eye.
Oh? No way? With that in mind, I looked and saw that it was a hotel. And quite a few people get detected.
These are the guys from yesterday. I think we can know for sure. The number of people is roughly the same.
Those who started from the wall are definitely coming towards these guys.
Come to think of it, the paint guy was there yesterday too. Was that paint guy a colleague of those guys from that wall?
Ruler. The guys from the wall will be coming near this hotel any minute now. Indeed. What is going to happen?
