Kill them in Cyberman!

All official newspapers selectively avoided directly reporting on the psychic beam of light that was visible to everyone.

In the absence of an official statement on the matter, most people were discussing it online.

In addition to the psychic light column, there is also a hot topic on the Internet, which is the conspiracy theory about the dignitaries who attended the banquet in Tsukuyomi Palace on the night of the accident.

At the same time, as everyone's attention was diverted, some disturbing rumors began to spread.

"Someone was brutally murdered while walking home alone at night. Both sides of his mouth were cut open with a sharp weapon. It seems that he encountered the legendary Slit-Mouth Woman..."

"A group of students died after watching an unknown video tape. It is suspected that Sadako was behind it..."

"Recently, there have been a number of murder and dismemberment cases. Rumor has it that the women whose bodies were dismembered all looked exactly the same..."

"A female student whistleblower claimed that she encountered the legendary Hanako in the women's restroom, but was defeated by her using a 100-point test paper and saved her life..."

"Someone was cut out of nowhere in the forest and insisted that he was attacked by a sickle weasel..."

"Several children discovered a creature similar to the legendary Kappa by the river..."

……

In just less than a week, the Tokyo police station's phone was flooded with calls. Various murders and disappearances occurred one after another. In addition, since many police officers sent to investigate either disappeared or died in the line of duty or became mentally ill, there was a serious shortage of manpower.

Under such circumstances, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (some officials disappeared), the Self-Defense Forces and the Shinomiya Foundation (Shinomiya Kaguya did not show up) negotiated and decided that the Shinomiya Foundation would provide funds and materials, and the Self-Defense Forces would provide personnel to assist the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in stabilizing the local situation.

The cooperation was coordinated by the Self-Defense Forces stationed in Tokyo, led by Commander-in-Chief Yamashita, who served as the general commander.

At the same time, in order to appease the public's emotions, the Shinomiya Foundation and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government jointly issued a statement that the fireworks show and celebration parade originally scheduled for mid-month will be held as scheduled, and the Self-Defense Forces will personally protect the safety of the people.

This series of events and the government's handling attitude made some sensitive people in Tokyo realize that something was wrong.

Now even Shinomiya Kaguya's life or death is in danger, yet you're still holding this birthday party as scheduled. Aren't you afraid that the happy event will turn into a sad one?

Besides, the blue beam of light is still hanging in the sky, and the government still plans to set off fireworks?

Of course, those who are used to government incompetence and corporate power will naturally understand all this as a signal sent by the Shinomiya Group.

All the messes were created by us powerful people ourselves. Everything is under control. All of you who pay taxes just stay at home and obey our orders!

After all, no matter how rampant they are, they have to pretend to be democratic and cannot let everyone die.

With this idea in mind, a large number of people have become spectators who just eat melons and drink tea. Since the situation outside is so unstable now, I will just stay at home and wait for you to come to my door and deliver the relief money.

In such a frivolous age, human hearts are absurd things. Perhaps it was because of the secret obstruction of the public relations department of the Shinomiya Group, but when everyone believes in it, even the stupidest decision will look like a wise leadership.

After the Shinomiya Group took over Tokyo's public security, murder attacks did decrease significantly.

But ironically, the reason for this result is that most of those awakened by the psychic burst are new-age urban legend-style ghosts and small old-time demons. Apart from some special abilities, their actual combat power is not strong, and it may be more than enough to deal with the police before.

Their current opponent is a special force of the Shinomiya Group that specializes in studying psychic powers.

This caused the nature of the incident to completely change, from a confrontation between humans and demons to a demon hunting operation commanded by Kaguya Shinomiya herself.

The identities of ghosts and humans are completely reversed in the face of overwhelming resources. These urban legend ghosts and monsters, which are not strong to begin with and have no relevant animal protection laws to protect, fall tragically upon Kaguya Shinomiya and are indiscriminately hunted and killed by her psychic research team, who arbitrarily conduct all kinds of shameful research on them.

In order to capture more psychic creatures within a limited time (before the psychic burst ends), the Shinomiya Group personally posted a large number of information rewards directly or indirectly on the dark web, spending huge sums of money to buy the whereabouts of ghosts and monsters.

At the same time, in order to prevent other giants from coming to compete, Kaguya Shinomiya manipulated the Shinomiya Group to bribe the government, used a lot of diplomatic means to delay, and dispatched the Self-Defense Forces to closely monitor and block Tokyo's transportation hubs, doing her best to prevent hired hunters from entering from outside.

The above is a summary of the situation in Tokyo during the next week, which can be called the week of "a hundred demons" roaming at night.

That’s right, all kinds of ghosts have appeared…

Now let us go back to the time shortly after the psychic light column erupted.

"System restart completed, consciousness awakening completed, body damage 38.65%, please repair it in time..."

Albert heard the mechanical prompt sound of Eros' artificial intelligence, and Lucy woke up slowly from her coma, and found herself in a spacious laboratory. However, the surroundings were in a mess, as if there had been an earthquake, and even the lights flickered.

"Ah, you finally woke up!"

An unknown female voice came, and Lucy reacted instantly.

"Uh uh, hurry up, let go, it's really going to kill someone..."

The pink-haired girl who was held in the air by Lucy struggled in panic.

"You are the……"

Seeing that it was someone she knew, Lucy also let go of her hand.

"Oh, it hurts so much!"

"Hello, I am the one..."

"That gift that Kaguya Shinomiya gave to Albert."

Without giving Fujiwara Chika a chance to speak, Lucy replied coldly.

"This is an underground laboratory. Did you get me in here?"

Hearing Lucy's words that seemed to define her, Fujiwara Chika was very embarrassed. She didn't want to admit it, but she had to admit that she was the gift that Shinomiya Kaguya wanted to give to Albert.

"Uh, yes, I was the one who dragged you in from outside. There was a huge earthquake outside, and when I woke up, I saw you knocked unconscious on the ground, so..."

Fujiwara Chika touched her face and smiled to express her goodwill.

"I generally understand."

"It looks like the shielding has been lifted."

While Fujiwara Chika was explaining, Lucy got a general understanding of the current situation in the outside world from the Internet.

At this time, two hours had passed since the psychic energy exploded.

"I'm leaving here now, and you have to come with me."

Lucy didn't give Fujiwara Chika a chance to choose because she would use this girl in her next plan.

"Um, sorry, I checked before, and it seems that the elevator in this laboratory is broken in the earthquake..."

"If nothing unexpected happens, we should be trapped here now."

“Wow, wow, wow, what should I do? I just escaped from the tiger’s den and now I’m trapped underground again.”

As she said this, Fujiwara Chika actually started sobbing, as if she was going to cry in front of her.

“Are you a comedian?”

Lucy instantly figured out that the other party was pretending, and then ruthlessly exposed it.

"Hey! How did you figure that out?"

Chapter 59 Little Hope

Hermes Building Office

"Well, okay, I understand. Be careful and make sure to rescue the young master."

S turned off the terminal call, her face now terribly gloomy.

"Kong!"

S finally couldn't control her emotions anymore and turned into a desk cleaning master, sweeping all the paper documents and electronic devices to the ground.

S buried his head on the cleaned tabletop, clenched his hands tightly, and kept beating them.

"Master..."

When S thought about her beloved young master falling into the hands of that woman Kaguya Shinomiya, she felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife and she was in agony. She wanted to rush to Japan to rescue her young master.

"Huh...huh..."

Gasping for breath, S tried hard to control her emotions. Before leaving, Albert told her that no matter what happened to him, S must stay in Newland and help him look after the overall situation.

As if she had thought of something, S suddenly raised her head from the table. Her face had turned red and tears were constantly flowing from the corners of her eyes.

He opened the drawer of the table, took out a small box with trembling hands, opened it, and found an injection of medicine inside.

A sedative to be exact.

"If something does happen, both the president and I hope you can control yourself."

This is what Helen said when she gave this thing to S. From the first time she met her, Helen saw the character flaws of this young woman. Although she didn't want to meddle in other people's business and would not pay attention to S's disgust towards her, as Albert's right-hand man, she still felt that she had an obligation to help deal with some problems that she was not convenient to handle personally.

As the cold medicine was injected into his body, S fell weakly on the table, his eyes looking a little empty.

"Master...you must come back safely..."

……

At this time, Lucy and Fujiwara Chika had already escaped from the underground space and passed the blockade of the Self-Defense Forces without any danger. Now they were in a dilapidated house in an unfinished building on the outskirts of Tokyo. There were often homeless people staying overnight in such places, so they found a small shed after two days. After making some arrangements, Lucy used this place as a temporary safe house for the two of them.

"What did she say?"

Lucy actually already knew the answer, but she still couldn't help but ask.

"It's peaceful, but mostly fake."

Helen didn't waste any time and told Lucy everything about S.

"There won't be any trouble for now, but you must bring the president back before the scheduled date, otherwise we will have no reason to explain to the board of directors."

"I understand this, but rescuing Albert from Kaguya Shinomiya's territory is extremely difficult, not to mention that they have that kind of monster now."

Eros's calculation ability made Lucy realize that the success rate of any rescue plan she could complete was less than 30%, so she had to seek help from outside.

Albert must be rescued at all costs. We only have one chance. If we fail, we will die!

"Yor is already on her way to Tokyo. She should be able to arrive before Kaguya Shinomiya blocks the city."

"If nothing unexpected happens, Kaguya Shinomiya will definitely expect this."

"So she would definitely block the traffic area in advance, and the plane would not be able to land."

Lucy questioned that with Kaguya Shinomiya's intelligence, how could she not guess that Hermes Technologies would definitely send rescue personnel as soon as they learned that Albert was kidnapped by her.

"There's nothing I can do about this. It's up to Yoel to solve it herself. Can we give her some confidence?"

Helen was also troubled by her position. She was just a scientific research expert. How could she fight wits and courage with these black-hearted capitalists like she was doing now?

"Okay then. If Joel enters the Tokyo area, have her contact me immediately through this channel. I'm going to make some preparations now."

Lucy closed the encrypted communication with mixed feelings, because even if Joel joined, their chances of success would only be around 40% at most, and that was based on the highest estimate of Joel's combat ability.

"Well, it looks like you haven't come up with any solution!"

Fujiwara Chika said to Lucy at an inappropriate time.

"Oh, sorry about your family situation."

Lucy didn't blame him, she just sighed and shook her head.

Before making the call, Lucy saw the news on the Internet that the head of the Fujiwara family was arrested on suspicion of endangering public safety.

"No, no, no, you don't have to say this to me. In fact, I'm quite happy to see my damn father end up like this. It's just that Sister Fengshi has to suffer..."

When it comes to this topic, Fujiwara Chika's face is full of bitterness. She feels that the current situation of the Fujiwara family is all because of her. Because her gift has no value, she is being abandoned.

"A lot has happened tonight. You should take a good rest first. I will assign you tasks tomorrow."

"Remember, Tokyo is very dangerous right now. Don't leave here casually. I'm going to go out for a while. If anything happens, use your terminal to contact me. I have entered the encrypted number into it. Do you understand?"

He explained the situation in one breath, without caring whether Fujiwara Chika's brain had received and processed it or not, stuffed her phone back into its owner's hands, then got up and left the unfinished building.

"Hey, wait a minute..."

Looking at Lucy's disappearing back, Fujiwara Chika was bewildered, then she shrank back into the corner of the shed holding her phone. Fortunately, the weather was just starting to turn cooler and the night was not too cold, otherwise this spoiled young lady would probably have difficulty holding on.

About an hour later, just when Fujiwara Chika was about to fall asleep in a daze, the cell phone in her arms suddenly rang.

"Ahhh!"

After a flurry of activity, Fujiwara Chika finally saw the name of the caller, someone who couldn't possibly be calling at this time, her sister - Fujiwara Toyomi!

Fujiwara Chika was overjoyed and answered the phone without a second thought, "Hello, Sister Fengshi, are you okay over there? I heard that at home..."

She talked about a lot of issues, and it was obvious that Fujiwara Chika was still very worried about the situation at home.

"Chika, I'm so glad you're okay."

Instead of answering the question, Fujiwara Toyotomi simply responded warmly, with an unspeakable sadness in his words.

"What's wrong, Sister Fengshi?"

"Qianhua, my father was taken away by them, and my mother and everyone in the family were also captured. I was the only one who escaped. I am now at my father's friend's house."