chsdbacks Chapter 20: The strongest defensive measure was lost.
Chapter 20: The strongest defensive measure was lost.
Luo Tian immediately recognized it as the blood sample that Tachibana Misaki had taken at the scene of Sharon's attack, and a guess immediately formed in his mind.
Mika dripped blood onto the old map, and soon the blood completely blended into the map, gradually revealing the topography of Beika Town.
Seeing Luo Tian's curious gaze, Mika smiled and explained, "Surprised, aren't you?"
"A little." Although Luo Tian was surprised, he guessed that this was an abyss tool used to track Sharon.
"This is a level 1 Abyss item, the Blood Map, and one of the few tracking items available to SDS. It's also the safest one we have," Mika continued. "The only cost to use it is that it provides a detailed map of the current city every week, and the target being tracked requires fresh blood within half an hour, making it very convenient to use."
Maki Shiro, who was standing to the side, already knew about the existence of this map, but he still couldn't help but feel envious: "Mr. Mika, sometimes I really envy you SDS. You always have all sorts of useful items to deal with different situations."
"Come on, maintaining these props is incredibly expensive; SDS spends over 60% of its budget on them."
"But the head of the department is always thinking about acquiring new collectibles. Can't he be a little more considerate of the logistics department?" Mika muttered a complaint, then pressed her earpiece, glanced at the marker on the map, and reported to Tachibana Kirika, "The target is in an unfinished apartment building in the third district of Beika Town. That's her temporary hideout, and there's a high probability that it contains a large number of heavy weapons."
"Roger that." Tachibana Kirika responded and immediately gave the order, "Maki, you're with Mika, right? Immediately notify the special operations team to surround the target location. If necessary, allow the use of mortars in the city."
"Yes!" Maki Shiro immediately straightened up and began to give orders to the special operations team in front of Luo Tian.
Hearing that even mortars would be used, Luo Tian couldn't help but feel worried for Sharon.
Luo Tian felt a chill run down his spine, especially when Maki Shiro arranged for his team to inspect equipment such as the Type 01 anti-tank missile, rocket launcher, and M24 bolt-action sniper rifle.
With that kind of firepower, not even a tank could withstand it, let alone a Sharan.
Moreover, Sharon's headscarf has been taken away by Luo Tian, which means she has lost her strongest defensive measure.
The thought that this was a resource that only Tachibana Misaki could mobilize made Luo Tian fall silent.
"Don't worry, Luo Tian, this will be over soon." Mika noticed that Luo Tian was a little nervous, so she patted his shoulder to comfort him. "The biggest advantage of those secret organizations is their secrecy and lack of public knowledge. When they operate in the shadows, it is very difficult for us to catch them. We can only use professional forces to fight professional forces."
"But once they come out of the shadows, we have plenty of ways to deal with them."
So there's no need to worry about Chief Tachibana and the others. Even without the special operations team's fire support, the item Chief Tachibana brought is enough to guarantee the operation's complete success.
Although Maki Shiro was present, Mika didn't explicitly say what "that thing" was, but Luo Tian knew perfectly well that it referred to the Kusanagi sword.
Luo Tian recalled the information he had obtained using the system when he touched the Kusanagi Sword:
[Item: Tentatively named "Kusanagi Sword" (Demigod Rank)]
[A demigod-level artifact containing a massive amount of demon-sealing power; the demon-sealing power it contains is enough to temporarily seal the divinity of a demigod.]
【Main Function: Activates the demon-sealing power within the sword, forcibly causing abyss items and sorcerers within a certain range to temporarily lose their abilities】
【Main Function 2: ? ? ? ? ? (Requires unlocking)】
[Side effects: 1. The user must be female and maintain a pure mind and body; 2. A pure user can only activate the demon-sealing power for 15 minutes. After that time, she will be sealed into the sword and become a soul servant; 3. The divine sword will remain dormant at sub-zero temperatures. After 30 minutes of temperature adaptation, it will awaken and form a demon-sealing field within a 30-meter radius, indiscriminately sealing all items within the range except for ice.]
Thinking of this information, Luo Tian couldn't help but complain about what Tachibana Misaki had said about "tentatively being classified as level three".
This is clearly a level four item, but it was deliberately reported as a level three item for ease of use. Tachibana Misaki definitely concealed this information on purpose.
Knowing that Tachibana Misty Flower had used such a powerful weapon, Luo Tian basically didn't think Sharon had any chance of escaping.
With the Abyss artifacts sealed and his own abilities suppressed, he could only rely on his physical body to fight against modern weapons, which was a dead end.
Even if she attacks randomly, she can still win, since Sharon's physical body isn't strong enough to ignore bullets and mortars.
The tricky part is that Sharon and Luo Tian have signed a demon contract, and Sharon knows many of Luo Tian's secrets.
Should he silence them outright, or recruit them for his own use? Luo Tian's eyes instantly deepened.
Inside an unfinished apartment building in Beika-cho 3-cho, encased in a green building safety net.
This apartment building was specially designed by Yukinoshita Construction, a well-known builder in Chiba City, to enter the Toto Market. The main structure and interior walls are now complete, and the overall progress has reached 80%.
Construction on this apartment building was forced to temporarily halt due to behind-the-scenes business maneuvering within the construction industry.
Sharon HollyGreel seized this opportunity and converted a room in her apartment into her temporary base.
At this moment, Sharon leaned against the corner of the wall, took off the clothes she had taken from a resident's house, and treated her wounds with gauze and medicine.
Exhausted, she opened the medicine box next to her.
With a click, the medicine box opened, revealing twenty test tubes containing liquids of different colors neatly arranged inside.
She drank the medicine one dose after another, and after the medicine entered her stomach, the gunshot wounds on her body healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
These potions have different effects: some heal injuries, some restore physical strength, and some remove mental abnormalities. They are all extremely effective and are alchemical potions specially crafted by Demon Hunter leaders.
Not long after, apart from still being a little pale, Sharon's bandaged wounds had completely healed, and she had regained about 80% of her strength.
The cost was that half of the medicine stock was used up, and the special gauze used to wrap the wounds changed from pure white to light gray.
"Hmph, these apothecaries' skills are passable." Sharon stretched her arms to make sure she had basically regained her fighting ability.
She took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, leaned against the wall, looked up at the ceiling, and reviewed the battle: "That man is definitely not an ordinary person."
Recalling the seemingly naive and student-like "police officer" in the villa, Sharon felt a surge of resentment, but also sensed something strange about him.
"He has never been exposed to demonic spells before, yet he can use them immediately; and his inexplicable predictive abilities are just too abnormal."
Sharon carefully recalled the details of their fight. Putting aside the strangeness of her opponent's instant mastery of demonic spells, her opponent's actions of repeatedly shooting at her companions to force them out of range when she activated her Eye of the Mist were completely illogical.
She was certain that the information about the Eye of the Mist had not been leaked, so how did Luo Tian know its scope of influence? Also, after entering the villa, Luo Tian, who was originally heading towards the living room, suddenly turned back and found the hidden demonic incantation in the shoe cabinet in the entryway. This behavior was incredibly strange.
"It's almost like he can see the future..." A sorcerer with the ability to foresee the future? Although it's hard to believe, Sharon could only speculate that way based on his previous behavior.