Chapter 578 – Secret Attack
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The police investigator who waited until dusk did not arrive.
If this happens, the original schedule will be disrupted.
Although the distance from the Laut River to this place is quite long, it is a distance that can be covered in half a day, assuming you don’t get lost.
A murder occurred.
I don’t understand why it came so late.
I visited the villa where Sarah and her group live to talk about this matter.
They had set up a tent around a small bonfire in the living room of the villa, setting up a decent camp.
The number of people that used to be 7 has now been reduced to just 3, Sarah, Fallon… And a woman named Jenny.
“What do you think when the investigator doesn’t come?”
“Maybe I’m lost…”
Fallon notices my question and answers carefully.
“… You said you put a mark? Was that guy called Unas so stupid that he couldn’t come here?”
“That’s probably not true.”
“Are you sure you reported it to the Public Safety Office?”
“Yes, Unas was supposed to wait for the investigators by the river and guide them.”
Let’s say that guy named Unas is a bit stupid and can’t find the way… Even if it wasn’t for his guidance, if he was an investigator at Trancon’s security office, wouldn’t he know the existence of this lake?
I’ve never heard of a dangerous beast in this area… I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s clear that something is wrong.
Actually, that wasn’t important.
“We will leave here tomorrow.”
I had come to tell this story to Sarah and the others.
“Yes? Where…”
Fallon asked.
“I’m thinking of going to the village somewhere. I was originally planning to leave today, but if the investigator doesn’t come, there’s nothing I can do.”
If we had not known who the culprit was, it would not have been easy to make this decision. If we disappeared in that situation and the investigators arrived late, it would have been quite a difficult situation.
But the culprit has already been caught.
Although I was killed by Fallon.
“What are you going to do?”
“That’s…”
“If you want to wait for the investigators, then do whatever you want. We plan to settle down in a hotel near the Trancon police headquarters. If the investigators come, we’ll tell them we’re there.”
In my story, Sarah and her group looked at each other’s faces and looked worried.
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A deep dark night when everyone was asleep.
-Tuk-tuk.
Celestia tapped my shoulder to wake me up and sent me a raid message.
「Celestia: It looks like someone came.」
“…?”
Someone came?
Are you talking about Sarah and her group?
Before my doubts could disappear, the door of the camping car opened quietly.
And then three or four things that look like iron balls come rolling in.
-Push type…
And the iron ball began to emit an unidentified gas.
The smell was close to odorless.
“…”
Of course, the gas had no effect on us.
Needless to say, I have a body that can withstand even if I fall into lava or go into space.
Celestia is the great devil.
Sunni… A spirit?
And Herenia is Android.
In such a situation, I don’t know what effect this smoke, which has no effect on us at all, has.
「Herenia: It seems like a gas that has a powerful hypnotic anesthetic effect on living things.」
New raid member Herenia analyzed the composition of the gas and informed us of its effects.
That aside… Why is something like this rolling in?
As if to explain the reason, the assailants began entering the camping car.
I couldn’t see them.
It seems like they are using something similar to a hiding place.
However, even if you cannot see it, a lot of information others than vision enters your head.
Subtle distortion of space.
The amount of magical power they have.
The shaking of the air.
I had a picture in my head of where they were and what they were like.
The guys who came into the camping car without hesitation were shocked when they saw us sitting quietly.
“I don’t think he’s an investigator from the Public Safety Agency…”
They seemed a little confused by my muttering and quickly shot something.
A bullet comes out in the empty air.
It is a bullet carrying a strong electric current.
I think I used a weapon similar to the non-lethal Gauss gun I used in Rebellion.
But the bullet stopped in midair before it reached us.
I stopped the bullet with my telekinesis.
“No… ?!』
The bullet that had stopped returned to the guys.
-Passy!
『Big!』
Those hit by the returned bullets appear to have suffered a brief convulsion, but somehow endured it. It seems like the suits they were wearing absorbed the shock.
I didn’t want the camper to become a mess due to the battle with them.
When I waved my hand, they came to a screeching halt and were dragged out of the car as if they were being sucked into a vacuum cleaner.
『Woah!』
『This is a person with psychic abilities!!』
Psychic is mental energy.
I’m talking about the power of thought, which I used instead of magical power in Panthera.
In Zephyria, people who are born with exceptionally developed mental energy and use it as their main force are said to have psychic abilities.
People with psychic abilities are rare.
However, it wasn’t like I was treated extremely well.
It is true that people with psychic abilities have a slightly superior starting point than other awakened people, but they are just a deformed form in which mental energy developed first… In the end, their limitations were clear if they did not develop magical power.
That’s why I had a hard time with Gregory in Pantera.
It is said that now that he has returned to his original body rather than an avatar, he can use a more powerful intention than Pantera, but it will be difficult to deal with even one great evil simply with the power of intention alone.
Even so.
Let alone the great evil, it is not difficult for even a C-class awakened person to deal with guys who seem easy to handle with just their will.
“Shall I handle it?”
Celestia asked.
“That’s it. I’ll handle it.”
When I came out of the camping car, they were fully prepared.
Eight gunmen in black suits were circling around, aiming at me with rifles.
Concealment seems to have been given up.
I think they thought it was meaningless as a light skirmish in a camping car.
On one side, you can see Serra and his group kneeling, bound and gagged.
They were scared.
‘What are these guys?’
My consciousness scanned the surroundings.
Other than these, no other troops are visible.
Zephyria-kun… I don’t think so.
It looks a bit sloppy for the military.
They were so shabby compared to the ones I saw at Selby’s lab. The magic power seemed to be lower than theirs overall.
We have been here less than a week.
All names are pseudonyms. If it’s not the military… There’s no reason to target us…
Is Sarah and her group the target, not us?
‘Or armed robbery?’
That doesn’t make sense either.
Why are there armed robbers in such a remote place?
While I was thinking about their identity, they mercilessly rained bullets on me.
However, the bullet was blocked in vain by my telekinesis.
『Not with guns!! Let’s engage in close combat!』
They threw away their guns and attacked me with sharp military knives.
It seems like he saw me using telekinesis and decided that I was weak in close combat.
However, it is the same as running into a tiger while avoiding a fox.
I extended my fist to the guy who was running in front.
My fist smashed the guy’s knife and landed on his helmet.
-Simplicity and honesty. Wow!!
The guy jumped away and didn’t move at all. Thick blood flowed from the miserably distorted helmet.
That thing is dead.
‘Did I hit it too hard? Well… It would be enough to leave just one person to interrogate.’
I can feel the guys getting nervous after seeing one guy die in an instant.
Being nervous didn’t change anything… Win or loss was decided anyway.
They couldn’t withstand my light blow and were shattered one by one.
『Huh, stop! If you don’t stop, we can’t guarantee the lives of these bitches!』
The two guys holding knives to Sarah and Jenny’s necks shout.
In the end, they decided that they had no chance of winning and began a sophisticated hostage-taking.
It was meaningless.
-Wood!
Their heads turned to the other side.
The biggest advantage of Uinyeom is that it is fast.
Their actions can’t be faster than I thought.
The women who were captured by the gangsters became stiff at the strange sound.
It’s convenient to have superpowers.
Even though these bastards are my opponents.
Only the leader who seemed to know the most was kept alive.
I took off his helmet.
The face of an ordinary Zephiria man was revealed.
He looks a little older, perhaps because of his bushy beard.
“What are you guys?”
I used the powerful ‘power of deception’ without thinking about the future. Because I had no intention of keeping this guy alive anyway.
“Hey, he’s a mercenary…”
“Affiliation?”
“Affiliation… Qui…”
The guy who was trying to say his affiliation suddenly vomited blood and died.
“…”
I guess there was a ban.
If you think about it, it seems like Rebellion also had something similar to a ban in case they were caught by the police.
‘Did you say it would make you lose your memory?’
I didn’t pay much attention to it because I thought it couldn’t affect me, but… Stalking like these guys may be prohibited. If that’s a pun about losing one’s memory when one dies.
“Okay, thank you.”
When I released the restraints, the three people bowed their heads to me.
“…”
No matter how much I think about it, I think it’s because of these guys…
I glance at them, and the three seem at a loss.
“Well, we did something wrong…”
Fallon asked carefully in a more polite manner than before.
“… No.”
