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The warehouse remained empty; apart from the sound of the wind, no footsteps could be heard.
Su Chen, the so-called prey, never showed up.
"Boss, why hasn't that guy arrived yet?"
A suppressed, impatient whisper came from behind. "227."
The locust woman didn't turn around, but the confidence in her heart had begun to crack.
She raised her wrist, and the fluorescent pointer pointed to 12:10.
A chill, unrelated to the sea breeze, slowly crept up her spine.
The information is wrong?
This is impossible.
The plan provided by Saeko Sonozaki was precise down to the second in every detail.
Then... that's another possibility.
A possibility that made her blood run cold.
I was fooled.
The thought had barely crossed her mind when her pupils suddenly contracted.
"withdraw……"
The order to retreat was given in just one word.
"Boom——!"
A deafening roar interrupted her.
The heavy iron door, which served as the only exit, was slammed shut from the outside by an overwhelming force.
Then came the despairing "click" of the metal bolt falling.
They were locked up.
Before they could even react to this mutation...
"Clap! Clap! Clap!"
A series of crisp popping sounds.
Dozens of searchlights hanging from the top of the warehouse suddenly lit up at the same time.
The blinding white light, like a sharp sword, instantly dispelled all darkness, illuminating the entire space as bright as day.
The light burned their retinas, leaving them nowhere to hide.
Those shadows that once provided cover for them now become a backdrop mocking their foolishness.
"No! We fell into a trap!"
The locust woman's heart pounded; this realization chilled her to the bone.
She and her men instinctively formed a circle back to back, adopting a fighting stance, and warily scanned their empty surroundings.
The trap has been set, so the person who set it should reveal themselves.
"Tack, tick, tick..."
A crisp sound came from the metal platform on the second floor.
It was the sound of high heels tapping on the metal floor, unhurried and with an elegant rhythm that seemed to control everything, each tap resonating in everyone's hearts.
"Hehehe..."
Accompanying the footsteps was a cold, mocking laugh, full of undisguised ridicule.
"Looks like you're not so stupid after all."
This voice!
The locust woman suddenly looked up, her gaze fixed on the second-floor platform.
Su Chen wasn't there.
There was no prey she was determined to have tonight.
Instead, she saw two figures that froze her blood.
On the left is Sonosaki Saeko, dressed in a tight black leather outfit. Her long, wavy hair is draped over her shoulders and gleams alluringly in the bright light, but her eyes are sharper and colder than the cold wind of the dock.
It was she who personally built this "perfect" tomb for herself.
And to her right stood her younger sister, Sonozaki Wakana.
Her pure white and lovely dress looked completely out of place amidst the ruins.
Her face, which should have been innocent and naive, now bore a strange, cold smile, as if she were watching an interesting drama unfold.
"Saeko Sonozaki!"
"Wakana Sonozaki!"
The locust woman's teeth chattered as she finally pieced everything together.
The so-called perfect plan was nothing more than bait to lure her into the slaughterhouse.
"It's you!"
Her fingers trembled violently with anger as she pointed directly at Saeko on the second floor.
"You betrayed me! Why did you do this?!"
Her roar echoed through the empty warehouse, filled with the madness and bewilderment of betrayal.
"sell?"
Saeko looked down at her as if she were listening to a huge joke.
There was no anger or smugness in her eyes, only a superior pity, like a god looking down on ants.
"No, this is not betrayal."
"I'm just... cleaning house."
Saeko's voice was soft, yet it was like a poisoned knife, piercing the heart of the locust woman with pinpoint accuracy.
"A good-for-nothing like you who only knows how to fawn over his father."
"I am no longer qualified to stay at the Sonozaki family."
"Clean house? You two pampered young ladies?!"
The words, like poisoned knives, were squeezed out from between the locust woman's teeth.
The humiliation of discovering that she had been completely fooled exploded in her chest, turning into an even more frenzied rage than before.
After a brief moment of shock, her crimson compound eyes were fixed on the two figures on the second-floor platform.
In her view, even if she really fell into the trap, there was absolutely no way she could lose to these two "pretty faces" that she had always looked down on.
They were nothing more than canaries in the ornate birdcage of the Sonozaki family, good for nothing except their faces and their surnames.
"Since you're so eager to die, I'll deal with you two reckless traitors first, and then I'll go and claim credit with the family head!"
The locust woman let out a beast-like roar, the sound echoing through the empty warehouse and stirring up a cloud of dust.
She no longer hesitated.
She suddenly pulled out the "locust" memory that represented the source of her power from her pocket.
The dark green shell gleamed with an ominous sheen under the dim light.
Without even looking, she used an almost self-destructive force to forcefully insert it into the bio-interface on her arm!
【Hopper!】
The piercing electronic sound effects tore through the air!
Her body began to undergo rapid and terrifying changes.
His skin cracked inch by inch, and a hard, green carapace grotesquely bulged out from beneath his flesh, covering his entire body.
Behind her, enormous insect limbs suddenly ripped through her clothes, spreading out ominously.
Her eyes had completely lost their human emotion, replaced by a bloodthirsty crimson unique to insects.
A powerful locust hybrid made its appearance amidst a tooth-grinding, bone-crackling sound!
She stomped her foot hard on the ground, and the concrete beneath her feet instantly cracked like a spider web.
He shot into the sky like a green cannonball, clearing a vertical distance of more than ten meters, and landed violently on the second-floor platform.
A gleaming claw tore through the air with a sharp whistling sound, viciously grabbing at the sisters' throats.
However, faced with this sudden, devastating attack capable of tearing through steel, neither Saeko nor Wakana Sonozaki showed the slightest sign of panic.
They remained standing quietly in the same spot.
Not even the hem of her clothes fluttered.
They simply stared indifferently at the claws that were rapidly enlarging in their pupils, with a cold, piercing gaze, as if looking at a dead person.
Just as the claws of the locust hybrids were about to touch their fair necks.
The two sisters finally made a move.
They were unhurried, their movements as elegant as the opening of a stage play.
The two simultaneously pulled out two oddly shaped drivers, full of unknown technological features, from under their respective trench coats.
One, entirely purplish-black, with sharp lines, as if formed from the purest poison and the aura of death—the Extinction Driver.
The other one is a blend of bright yellow and black, full of streamlined speed and dynamism – Lightning Driver.
"what?!"
When the locust hybrid saw the two drivers she had never seen before, her heart skipped a beat amidst the ferocious attack.
An extremely ominous premonition, like a cold, venomous snake, instantly coiled around her heart.
However, it was too late.