Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 98 Marina, just a minion (6k)

Five hours ago, at Millie's house.

"——Can you please tell me where Marina is now?"

The dangerous man in front of him came for Marina.

Millie didn't speak for the time being. She was looking at Arakawa Raizo's appearance and dress, which would help her better discern the other party's purpose and consider her own words.

First, she had to determine the other party’s attitude toward “Marina.”

His shoulders were unusually broad, no doubt due to the many prosthetic parts he had stuffed into his body.

He wore a jacket made of fine fabric and shiny pointed leather shoes, but no tie, and his flared pants were casual.

——Company dog?

Millie quickly dismissed the idea.

No, maybe it's even higher than this level.

In other words, the other party is most likely a high-level thug that no ordinary company can afford to hire.

Transformers, psychics, and genetically awakened ones.

Why would such a person find Marina and seem to know her?

Millie quickly analyzed the current situation in her mind and thought about what she should say, but her thoughts were cut in half by a wooden chopstick.

Amid the whistling sound of the chopsticks cutting through the air, it brushed past Millie's ear, leaving a streak of bright red blood on the side of her cheek.

The latter half sank into the cement wall.

"You are watching me."

Raizo Arakawa propped his chin with his hand, picked up another chopstick and pointed it at Millie's face, grinning: "Next time, don't aim at the wall behind you."

In an instant, Millie could feel the world go quiet. She grasped the side of her apron stiffly, not daring to look up at Arakawa Raizo again.

This man will definitely do what he says.

will die.

If you delay like this any longer, you will die.

——Say Marina went to the doctor's office in the morning.

The idea of ​​directly telling Marina where she was went flashed through Millie's mind.

She had almost said it.

But when the words came to her mouth, Millie froze again.

Faced with such a cruel "elite corporate thug", can she survive even if she obediently tells Marina's location?
There is a high probability that he will be killed directly.

and many more……

The company's thugs have already come to her house. Don't they know about her, Marina's connection with the doctor?

It seems unlikely.

Therefore, she could think of only one reason——

Anyway, let's try it first.

"Marina went out this morning."

Millie lowered her head, her body trembling, and said in a trembling voice: "She was there... She went to an underground prosthetics clinic... She said she was going to buy a new type of brain chip."

This is the truth.

First tell the truth that the other person probably already knows, in order to enhance your own "credibility" and delay enough time for yourself to think about what to say next.

At the same time, Millie was trying to call Marina's number to ask her for help.

Fortunately, the communication was able to go through.

These corporate lackeys are not doing signal blocking around them.

——Millie didn’t intend to trick Marina into falling into her trap, using her as a token of her loyalty so as not to be killed by the company dogs in front of her.

She is not yet so cold-blooded.

Millie just wanted to inform Marina, who was able to fight the Uzumaki Gang alone, so that she could see a hope of survival.

——Because Millie is also afraid of death, just like the vast majority of the natural people in the City of Sun who have undergone low transformation.

How many people are not afraid of death like Marina before their nerves are overly stressed by machines?

At least, not Millie.

But Marina didn't answer.

The monotonous beeping sound of no one answering the call echoed in Millie's head, and she hung up the phone silently.

You can only rely on yourself.

Millie said in her heart.

Raizo Arakawa ignored Millie's little action and looked at the shadow behind him with a little confusion. After getting a positive answer, he nodded in understanding.

Millie didn't understand why he was suddenly spinning around.

"There's no one in that underground clinic right now." Raizo Arakawa took out a dagger that flashed with cold light from somewhere and used it to pick his nails: "I just went there."

He raised his head and twitched the corners of his mouth twice with a fake smile: "Although it is useless information, I like honest children."

Before Millie could blink, the other chopstick rubbed her scalp and drove deeply into the concrete wall behind her.

The whole root is immersed.

Millie was stunned for a moment, her legs went limp and she sat on the ground. It took her a long time to regain consciousness.

not dead.

She lowered her head, exhaled in shock, her heart pounding wildly, and she almost thought she had died here.

I almost peed...

Millie finally stopped her trembling legs, and then she heard Arakawa Raizo continue to say: "In view of your performance just now, I believe what you said and am willing to spare your life, as long as you tell me..."

"——Where is Marina now?"

Arakawa Raizo did not seem to be in a hurry. During the leisure time of waiting, he even had the mind to play with the tiny pieces of lightning in his palms to train his control over spiritual energy.

"Sun, the north of the Sun City. I only know that she went there."

In fact, Millie had no idea where Marina ran to. She only knew that the doctor's clinic was in the south direction, so she pointed in the opposite direction of "north", which was definitely the right direction.

This way, it will take the company dog ​​longer to look for the "non-existent Marina".

——You can also have more time to escape.

Millie wouldn't be stupid enough to stay in this unknown old house after the company dog ​​let her go.

Millie made up her mind.

Wait for him to leave for five minutes and then leave immediately.

Going to the inner city is naturally the best plan. Ordinary company dogs would not dare to kill people casually on the streets of the inner city.

But with my appearance and the money in my account, I'm afraid I'll be stopped.

Then you can only go to the slums where there are no surveillance cameras.

It is best to go to a crowded place, the more people the better, so that it will make it more difficult for them to find you.

Millie thought that she was not a big fish, and the company valued Marina, so they probably wouldn't spend a lot of effort to find her.

"North of the City of Sun?"

Arakawa Raizo nodded, seemingly unsuspecting.

He stood up, took one last look at Millie, and walked out the door.

Not a word was said.

Millie sat there, staring at him as he disappeared into the house with a calm expression.

The girl was stunned for a moment.

Is this company dog ​​so stupid that he actually believed her words and just left?
Millie couldn't believe it. She sat there for almost a minute without moving.
But just as she was about to stand up...

Arakawa Raizo's head suddenly popped out from the door frame. This sudden change frightened her so much that she couldn't even speak.

——He came back to kill and silence the witnesses!

——Why didn't I escape through the window immediately? !
He looked at Millie, whose face was filled with fear and regret, and smiled: "The meal you made for lunch was delicious."

Then, without doing anything more, Raizo Arakawa disappeared from Millie's sight again.

what?
Millie froze where she was, her limbs limp and unable to move.

In a short period of time, she experienced several life and death ups and downs, and her body could no longer move.

It was not until several minutes later that Millie managed to support her body and held the stuffed bear in her arms. Then, she loaded several magazines into the gap on the back of the bear.

He opened the window, left the little bear behind, and used several hidden footholds that had already been installed to reach the outside of the first floor.

No word was spoken during the entire process.

She also deliberately avoided the surrounding cameras and took hidden routes in the dark alleys.

It seems to be very successful.

What Millie didn't notice was that the shadow behind her seemed to become deeper under the sunlight.
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Raizo Arakawa returned to Millie's house.

He looked around the now empty room and the shaking windows, then sat down on the cushion again without paying any attention.

This genetically awakened person named Marina or something... such an insignificant minion is actually not important.

It doesn't matter if he catches me one day earlier or one day later.

It doesn't matter if he dies in a corner in the morning - he's just a person with three gene awakenings. He can chop this guy into several pieces within ten strokes.

Don't bother him.

Arakawa Raizo only cares about Shirakawa Waka.

Everything else has nothing to do with him.

In the eyes of Arakawa Raizo, the value of Shirakawa Waka alone far exceeds that of all the psychics and awakeners that his father has collected in the outer ring area over the years.

My father has never actually faced Shirakawa Waka, so he doesn't know.

That woman's sword...

Arakawa Raizo's hand on the hilt of the sword couldn't help but tremble.

"There is no news about us in the company."

He asked the new Shadow Guard.

"Yes, according to your instructions, we did not reveal the news to anyone else except the Shadow Burial Guard."

"Naturally, it also prevented Manager Uchiyama from posting a 'recruitment request'."

During last night's observation, Arakawa Raizo discovered that Shirakawa Waka seemed to have a good relationship with this Marina.

He also knew that Baichuan must have planted spies in his company. Although he couldn't find them, this was a fact that needed no further inquiry.

That's why Arakawa Raizo specifically told her that "Arakawa Pharmaceutical is going to take action against Marina", and then cut off Shirakawa Wakaka's information channel.

The purpose was to make her anxious and let her be driven by the sense of unknown to contact and look for Marina.

The original plan was to use Millie to capture Marina first, and then use her to lure out Shirakawa Waka.

But now the plan can be changed.

Raizo Arakawa is not a pedantic person.

Judging from the observation that the communication signal was not blocked to allow Millie to call for help, it seems that "Marina" cannot be contacted at this point in time.

Of course, it didn't matter even if she was pretending just now. With a Shadow Burial Guard beside her, Arakawa Raizo knew everything about Millie's situation. As long as Millie dialed Marina's communication, he would receive the news.

That's just right.

Arakawa Raizo smiled and placed the sword at his waist on the round table.

Before getting definite news, let's wait here for Shirakawa Wakaka to appear.

Sit back and wait for the rabbit.

Arakawa Raizo closed his eyes and joined the thirteen Shadow Guards who were lying in ambush in the shadow of the house.

A third-order psychic, a person who has three gene awakenings... these are ordinary opponents for Arakawa Raizo, but there are four words behind these titles.

——【Shirakawa Waka】.

These four words, in the eyes of Arakawa Raizo, represent insurmountable talent, and are also the inner demon that has been lingering in his heart for a long time.

So he wanted to defeat her and make her his woman, no matter what means he used.

Arakawa Raizo breathed heavily like thunder and entered a shallow meditation, gradually adjusting his state to the best, ready to deal with Shirakawa Waka who might appear at any time.

Where is Shirakawa Waka at this moment?

——Shirakawa Waka is at the door.

She stood alone at the door, and her skillful use of her psychic power [Elemental Perception] was able to eliminate all noises she made in nature.

——Such a powerful psychic power that can call upon all known natural elements cannot be exposed in front of "Marina" who is on par with him in perception.

It's too risky to say that I have three kinds of spiritual powers.
Baichuan Ruoxia was not so bold as to reveal the trump card in her hand in front of a strong man she just met.

[Water Element Manipulation] This psychic power is rare and powerful enough, and it can also explain the means she displayed at that time.

Shirakawa Wakaka looked at Arakawa Raizo who was sitting in the room, and suddenly felt that this face was indescribably familiar, but she couldn't think of when she had seen it before.

She was actually standing within the range of the Shadow Burial Guard's infrared, thermal imaging and other detection equipment.

However, [Electric Current Drive] can make almost all the detection methods of the prosthesis ineffective against her.

The simple combination of the two spiritual powers can transform Shirakawa Waka into a top assassin who is almost undetectable.

——As for what was said in the hovercraft about "releasing lightning at a speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per second", it was of course just to fool "Marina".

It's called [Static Discharge], a psychic power left over from when she was 8 years old.

How could it be powered by electric current and have only this ridiculous function?

Shirakawa Wakaka can use the effect of electric current to simulate artificial eyes to work, so she can naturally become a hacker and hack into the chip behind other people's brains at will.

If ordinary hackers need to break through various firewalls to successfully attack, then she only needs to punch out and smash everything into pieces.

Not only that……

The [sixth sense] in her heart was still telling Shirakawa Waka that there was more than just Arakawa Raizo in the room.

A conservative estimate is more than ten people.

Since he is Arakawa’s man, he should be the famous Shadow Burial Guard.

——But who is he?
Shirakawa Wakaka stood at the door and pondered for a while, but she couldn't recognize Arakawa Raizo who had changed a lot.

give up.

In fact, this is normal. The number of people she defeated with the sword in the past is countless. Only geniuses are qualified to wield the sword against her. She is called a monster and countless people have been defeated by her.

Arakawa Raizo is just an extremely mediocre one among them. How could he be remembered by the "youngest swordsman in the City of the Sun"?
"Marina's not here, the communication is not working...even the little cook from yesterday wasn't in the room."

"If Marina is really in their hands, it will be difficult to take action."

Shirakawa Wakaka was thinking, and since she didn't smell any blood, she decided to talk to this guy who was most likely in a high position in Arakawa Pharmaceutical.

Then, she swaggered past the detection of the Shadow Burial Guards and sat cross-legged in front of Arakawa Raizo, who had maximized his perception.

"Who are you waiting for?"

Shirakawa Wakaka gave up her greatest advantage, removed all disguises in an instant, pressed down the hand of Arakawa Raizo that was already on the hilt of the sword, and asked in a cold voice:

"Wait for me?"

Arakawa Raizo opened his eyes and stared at the beautiful face in front of him, which he hated and would never forget.

Deathly silence, sudden.

——When was it?
From beginning to end, he did not notice anyone entering the room.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Because the woman had appeared before his eyes.

"Shirakawa Waka——!"

Arakawa Raizo roared.

Back in time to the present.

After hearing the long time of "twelve hours", Marina stretched out a little bored - after all, she was in a public place where Lana could see her for such a long time.

Even though Marina doesn't care much about privacy, she doesn't like to show her contrasting side to people she doesn't know well.

She turned her gaze again and saw the scarred guy who was still in deep thought.

What's more, there is Old Wolf.

God knows how Old Wolf will laugh at her when he sees this... Although she is not afraid of being laughed at, it would still be very strange if there was a guy like Old Wolf watching her.

And even if she was willing, Xiao Yuan would not agree to such a thing.

His relationship with Lao Lang is not that good.

In that case, she might as well browse her phone. She was fascinated by the bizarre information on the Internet and the knowledge that could not be learned in real life.

Marina took out the small brick that Shirakawa Wakaxia bought for Yuan Qingzhuo from her pocket and happily opened a push notification website.

But just as she was about to start browsing, Marina suddenly saw a bunch of small red call icons stacked up in the upper left corner of the phone.

She clicked several times in confusion before finally clicking in.

Then I saw a lot of missed calls.

They are all marked with a two-word prefix.

——"Millie."

Marina suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart...but she and Yuan Qingzhuo had only been away for a few hours?
Why did such a big thing happen?
She stared at the bright red missed call prompts, subconsciously exuding a cold majesty, attracting the attention of Yuan Qingzhuo and Lana.

Marina silently prepared to call back to see if she could still get through to Millie.

When the time reaches the hour again, the bright red missed call page turns into an incoming call interface.

Marina's finger happened to press directly on the answer button.

Tick.

The call was answered.

"Marina?"

It was not Millie's voice, but a male voice with obvious anger coming out of it.

"it's me."

Marina responded quickly, and then asked, "Where's Millie herself?"

Suddenly, the male voice on the other end of the line sneered twice, and then a dull knocking sound came: "I heard that you are her good friend, why haven't you answered the call?"

"You are such a forgetful person."

Marina heard it clearly. After the hitting sound, there was a faint groaning sound.

So what just happened is self-evident.

Yuan Qingzhuo walked to Marina's side with a frown on his face, looking at her hand with veins bulging as she held the phone.

But Marina's tone was unexpectedly calm:
"Millie is still alive."

As if he hadn't expected Marina to be so calm, the man on the other side laughed twice: "Alive! Of course she's alive! If she wasn't alive, how could we use her to lure you out!"

"Come on! Miss Millie, who cooks delicious food, come talk to Marina across the street."

After a moment of silence, there was a slight and intermittent murmur: "Don't come... Marina... It's Arakawa... Run..."

Millie's whisper was interrupted by a heavy thump, replaced by the man's angry roar: "You damn thing, don't you want to live? You can't even speak when I tell you to?! Ah? How dare you expose my identity!"

After another round of continuous hitting sounds, the man spoke again: "I will always be called Arakawa Raizo! The next chairman of Arakawa Pharmaceutical!

"——Get to the iron smelting factory next to Red Maple Street within 8 hours!"

"Otherwise..." Arakawa Raizo sneered and sighed in disappointment: "I will have to cut Miss Millie into slices and use them as my dinner."

After that, the call was disconnected without waiting for Marina to reply.

beep - beep - beep -

The shrill hang-up sound echoed in the laboratory. Marina raised her hand and gently pressed the hang-up button to stop the shrill sound.

Yuan Qingzhuo looked at her.

Generally speaking, at this time, Marina, who has already undergone genetic awakening, should say that she wants to beat him to death. If she is even angrier, she should say to kill him.

But surprisingly, the dog did not lose his temper, nor did he throw the phone on the ground in frustration.

He just saw Marina give him a faint smile, then pointed at the phone and said, "Xiao Yuan, you heard it too, this guy kidnapped Millie who said she would cook for me."

Marina thought for a moment and said,

"Also, this guy named Arakawa Raizo seems to have eaten the lunch that Millie made for me."

Yuan Qingzhuo swallowed his saliva...his tone didn't sound angry at all.

No, Marina's condition seems to be a little off.

Marina grabbed her hair and sighed, "Think about it, Millie was so kind when she first saw me and saved my life, and later she even agreed to be our cook."

She put her phone back in her pocket and suddenly said to Yuan Qingzhuo, "I want to go to the place he mentioned."

"This is obviously a trap, waiting for you to jump in."

After hearing what Yuan Qingzhuo said, Gouzi nodded and said,

"I know, it's so obvious, I'm not that stupid."

"Then why are you still going..."

Marina covered Yuan Qingzhuo's mouth with her hand: "They have kidnapped our cook. Isn't this just a blatant obstruction to our happiness?"

"Then I'll go with you."

"No, that's not necessary. If you leave too... Lana might lose her body if she runs away." Marina pointed at the old wolf: "Old Wolf, just follow me."

Yuan Qingzhuo could tell that the so-called "death body" was just Marina's excuse.

——This time, she didn’t want to go with them, nor did she want to log in and play for them.

It was obvious that Marina didn't want to get involved.

Now she does have the capital to say this.

What's more, there is Laolang to back him up.

Let her be a little willful for once.

Yuan Qingzhuo was silent for a few seconds, then said helplessly: "Then be careful."

"Well, don't worry."

Marina turned back and kissed the corner of his lips, then she and Yuan Qingzhuo leaned their foreheads against each other and whispered softly,

"I will kill all of those guys without leaving a single one alive."

(End of this chapter)