Chapter 435: Team Battle Mission, Cruel World
"Damn it, what the hell is happening to this world..."
A woman with pink long hair, wearing a pair of quite cartoonish headphones, stood at the top of Tokyo Tower at this moment. One hand and one foot seemed to be attached to the tower body, allowing the other half of her body to move freely.
The woman codenamed [Lingling] used optical instruments to clearly see the busiest area of Tokyo below.
The scenery of what should have been the most prosperous urban area in Asia was now like a nightmare.
Corpses with twisted bodies attacking humans frantically, the number uncountable. Ordinary humans had completely become prey.
More critically, she saw two tall monsters with eyes emitting icy blue luster standing in the corpse-filled neighborhood. Raising one hand, all corpses strangely stood up simultaneously, turning into new ghouls.
The good news was that the Japanese government had dispatched the Self-Defense Forces to set up a quarantine zone in the direction of Shibuya. Ghouls, creatures no different from zombies, couldn't pass through the steel torrent of modern weapons.
"Lingling reporting. Observed two Ghouls. Coordinates are in the neighborhood 2 kilometers north of Tokyo Tower;"
Zzz~
Only static noise appeared in the earpiece; no one replied.
Lingling felt more uneasy. Her [Whiplash] squad had a total of 7 people. In this team battle mission, as the third team to enter, theoretically, they should be a team judged by the Space to be stronger.
But after entering this world, they hadn't found any hostile Reincarnator squad at all.
After deployment was completed and they entered Tokyo, they found a large number of ghouls appearing in the Tokyo area.
Captain [Andrei] judged that among the two Reincarnator teams that entered earlier, someone released a virus or created these monsters.
Two people in their team had broken through the extreme value and entered the Second Ladder. Ghouls couldn't cause too much trouble.
Zzz~
Static noise continued. Lingling's uneasiness reached the peak. She prepared to leave this commanding height and return to her teammates.
[Team Member TR13566690 has died. Team Battle Points -1. Current: -1]
[Team Member BX54134479 has died. Team Battle Points -1. Current: -2]
[Team Member DS71300144 has died. Team Battle Points -1. Current: -3]
A chill rose from her tailbone. Lingling subconsciously released the magic connecting herself to Tokyo Tower, falling from the air.
In the next moment, Boom!
A twisted explosion suddenly erupted from where she stood just now. If she hadn't left that place, she would have been affected by the explosion at this moment.
Lingling had excellent perception. Looking down, she indeed saw a man wearing a special black tight suit, holding a spear full of technological sense in both hands. The blue-white light at the muzzle lit up again at this time.
Lingling touched the tower body with her arm again. A row of magic patterns appeared from her arm. The woman's falling momentum was canceled instantly. Swiping her right hand, she already went around the tower body to hide behind it.
Her heart was cold. The captain's guess was correct. Reincarnators who entered this Gantz world earliest would most likely be arranged to become members of the Tokyo Gantz Team.
With Gantz's technological equipment, this team's combat power would be enhanced significantly. Therefore, they shouldn't fight the opponent directly, but should find a way to join forces with the Japanese government and chaebols.
At this time, she didn't even have time to think about who exactly the three dead people were, starting high-altitude rappelling from the outside of the other side of Tokyo Tower.
For Tokyo Tower with a total height of over three hundred meters, the woman landed in less than ten seconds. Then swiping her right hand forcefully, the huge Tokyo Tower emitted a terrible creaking sound, starting to tilt to one side.
She could change the properties of herself and contacted matter. Although due to low energy attribute, she couldn't cast very powerful magic, for this kind of metal tower body, just changing the properties of local materials was enough to completely destroy its stability.
Tokyo Tower, like a Tokyo landmark, began to topple amidst terrible noise. The man standing on the Tokyo Tower observation deck, wearing a black Gantz Suit, also changed his expression. Meridian-like patterns appeared immediately on the suit.
All attributes of his body were enhanced. He immediately ran from the tilting Tokyo Tower.
Da da da da da!
Metal torrent exploded at this moment. Heavy machine guns began to strafe indiscriminately in the urban area. Hearing the sound, Lingling was delighted. This was the signature firepower output of the man codenamed [HOT] in the team.
She immediately approached that direction. Amidst the terrible roar behind her, Tokyo Tower smashed down with a crash, completely destroying an entire neighborhood.
The heavy smell of blood even covered the rising dust. Unknown how many humans and ghouls died before this blow.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Slight sounds of breaking through the air rang out. Then that roaring heavy machine gun went silent. In the next moment, a black shadow broke through the air. Lingling raised her hand, but a cold touch wiped across her throat.
Splurt!
Blood sprayed up. Consciousness began to turn black rapidly.
Lingling clutched her throat, turning around, seeing a petite woman not wearing a black suit, but growing thick fur all over her body. On her hair, two cat ears were exposed.
What made Lingling even more desperate was that the head of a silver-haired middle-aged man was held in this woman's hand.
"Andrei... Captain..."
The petite woman licked the fur on her right hand. Blue-white static electricity flashed in the fur. Her eyes emitted a ghostly green light as she swayed towards Lingling.
"Sorry, we are that kind of... team concentrating combat power on a few members."
"I am stronger than him."
Lingling blinked her eyes. Then she felt her body become light. In the rapidly darkening vision, only her headless corpse slowly falling down remained.
"Captain [Bonnie], please rush to Shibuya immediately. Our plan in Osaka probably failed. The strength of that [White Temple] squad entered last is somewhat abnormal. Hyakki Yagyo (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) didn't wipe them out."
The petite woman called Bonnie heard the member's call, placed two Reincarnator heads in front of her, then put her palms together and bowed piously. This was her unique ritual. She was merciless in battle, but had no enmity with these two.
"I killed you, but still hope you can move on to the next life."
In the next moment, two Scarlet Drop Cards condensed and appeared. Bonnie put them into her backpack, stepped with her feet, and her figure jumped twice on the ruins of the collapsed Tokyo Tower like a civet cat, disappearing.
In a collapsed corner, a boy with a face full of blood covered a girl's mouth. The two hid by the door of a building with a collapsed corner.
"Brother, who are they? I'm so scared..."
"Where is mom, where is dad?"
"I want mom, I want dad!"
The girl was crying. The boy also sat dejectedly on the ground. He just instinctively held his sister's hand tight, not letting her get lost. Outside was full of those monsters.
As for mom and dad, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a severed hand sticking out from the ruins. That severed hand was wearing a red toy watch. He remembered clearly that it was put on dad by his sister acting coquettishly in the afternoon.
After the disaster broke out, dad clearly said as long as everyone hid in this busiest place together, someone would definitely come to save us...
"Liar..."
The boy's eyes were also full of fear and tears, but hearing the occasional wails from the ruins, he still stood up and squeezed out a smile to his sister.
"Hanako, let's go find mom."
He saw a huge flying dragon streaking across the night sky in the distance, flying towards Shibuya.
Fear and hatred mixed in the boy's eyes.
"Those guys wearing black clothes... are also liars."
"All... go to hell..."
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