The world is broken, my Valkyrie is doubled

"Quick! Titan mech enters shield mode!"

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom!!!"

A series of explosions sounded.

Chapter 176 Breaking Out of the Hole

Me Building

At this moment, the Far East police and the Anti-Entropy members on the floor had been searching for quite a while, almost sweeping the entire floor, but still could not find any trace of the Phantom Thieves.

"Kyohei...Kyohei!" The shouts were accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps going down the stairs, and Officer Yusuke followed Kyohei Horaiji downstairs.

"Kyohei, have you discovered something? Why are you in such a hurry to go downstairs?" asked Officer Yusuke.

"Now that we have eliminated all possible places to search, there is only one place we haven't searched yet, and that's the ME Club president's office on the top floor. But as you saw just now, those guys don't intend to let us in, and even the special search team is on their side."

Kyouhei Houraiji said as he walked down the stairs.

"So what does this have to do with us running down?"

"I just got the news from Investigation Section 2. Their technicians have found out that the passage from the electrical room leads to the president's office on the top floor."

"So you are planning to go to the electrical room on the 15th floor? But this is already the 12th floor, why are you going downstairs?" Yusuke asked in confusion.

"Why go to the 15th floor? Not to mention that we have to put on professional clothes to climb up. Besides, judging from their attitude towards the Phantom Thieves just now, we might find nothing if we go to the top floor. We might even be driven out by their inner circle." said Kyohei Houraiji.

"What does it mean?"

"From just twenty minutes ago, these guys' attitudes have changed drastically. Their search is more of a pretense, for us to see. They are no longer as anxious as before. Judging from their behavior, the Phantom Thieves should have appeared."

"Appeared? But there is no movement anywhere? Could it be in the president's office?" Yusuke asked.

"No, if the Phantom Thieves are still in the office, it means they have been dealt with by the people inside, and this operation should have ended long ago."

"So where did they appear?"

"Come with me and you will know."

So the two sides did not ask any more questions. Although Officer Yusuke still had doubts, he trusted his old friend for many years and followed him down. Finally, the two came to the first floor of Me Club and walked to the venue where the restart ceremony was held.

Kyohei Horaiji brought Yusuke to a place in the middle of the venue where a new floor had been re-filled.

"This is……?"

"Remember the video that the Phantom Thieves posted on the Internet yesterday? Do you remember where those war mechas crawled out from? Yusuke." Looking at the newly paved ground under his feet, Kyohei Horaiji said slowly.

"I remember that they suddenly came out from underground...what do you mean?" At this moment, Officer Yusuke, who had many years of experience, also thought of the key point.

"The Phantom Thieves suddenly disappeared... Those mysterious guys suddenly seemed to have discovered each other's whereabouts, but they pretended to know nothing in front of us. Then the answer can only be found in one place."

Kyouhei Houraiji pointed to the ground and said slowly, "If my guess is correct, this company... has a huge space under its ground, which is very likely where those war machines are stored. And the president's office must have a passage leading directly to the underground space."

"Hiss... What on earth are you trying to do... In a country, in the underground of a city... There is actually such a secret hidden! Gongping... You'd better stop, this is completely beyond our capabilities. This is an incident that can only be solved by the national peacekeeping force... Moreover, whether the things below are instructed by the higher-ups... is still unknown."

Officer Yusuke's keen political sense has already detected what secrets are hidden underground. This mysterious organization can directly airborne the special search team and control the work of the entire Metropolitan Police Department. Such a huge power is no longer something they can contend with individually.

And Kyouhei Houraiji, who had already obtained information about the Anti-Entropy Organization from his teacher, was also silent. He knew that the darkness behind it was far more terrifying than what was now exposed to Yusuke. That was completely two different worlds of cognition.

"That's right. Even if I know the answer, what's the use of it... Everything I do is in vain... What on earth do I want to do?"

Kyohei Penglai Temple clenched his fists slightly, watching these people ignore the Far East's legal system and the safety of ordinary people and act recklessly.

There is always an unquenchable fire in Kyouhei Horaiji's heart, but can this fire tear apart this heavy and cold darkness?

Powerless... Deeply powerless, just like now, I have found the answer, but I can't go on. So, can't I break the floor to find the location of the underground space and the Phantom Thieves?

Even speaking of it... what is my attitude towards the Phantom Thieves? Do I really want to catch them? Why did I insist on catching the Phantom Thieves in the first place?

For a moment, Kyohei Horaiji felt that his heart was once again filled with confusion.

Seeing the weak words uttered by Horaiji Kyouhei, Officer Yusuke, who was an old friend and empathized with him, sighed and said:

"Forget it, Kyohei. After today, let's just call it a day. Don't think about returning to the core of the legal world, don't think about overturning a case, and don't manage the Phantom Thieves anymore. Just be an ordinary prosecutor and live your life in peace with your family."

Kyouhei Houraiji did not refute but remained silent.

"Rumble..."

"Wait? What's that sound?" Officer Yusuke said with a frown.

"The ground is moving... Oh no! They're coming out from here again! Yusuke! Get out of here!"

The ground began to shake, and Kyouhei Horaiji immediately shouted at Yusuke to leave. Yusuke also reacted in time and ran back with Kyouhei Horaiji, leaving the center.

But not long after they ran out, a huge tremor made them unable to stand and they fell to the ground. Then a huge explosion sounded, large and small stones flew everywhere, and a huge air wave hit the two of them and sent them flying backwards.

However, Kyohei Horaiji took advantage of the impact to roll over a few times and stood up again, but Yusuke directly hit the low wall and fainted.

"Yusuke! Hold on!" Kyouhei Horaiji immediately rushed to Yusuke, dragged him behind the wall, and leaned against the low wall. Then, a series of explosions sounded, and several large holes appeared on the ground, and rocks flew everywhere. Fortunately, the two of them hid behind the low wall and temporarily avoided the rocks, and finally they were not injured.

"I didn't expect there were so many Titans that could attack... Really, the PVs are all lies. I thought I could learn a trick and destroy all these Titans. Now they blew a big hole in the ceiling, which made it easier for us to escape." A man's voice came. Kyouhei Horaiji took a look and found that it was the leader of the Phantom Thieves, the man codenamed Joker.

Apart from the man, other members of the Phantom Thieves climbed out of the cave and gathered around him. The ground was still shaking, and it seemed that something else was about to emerge.

Chapter 177 Identity Exposed

Time goes back to a while ago. After Wang Chen imitated and reproduced the classic ultimate move of a certain "voice and smile are still there" character against the Titans, he found that the opposing Titan army was not completely destroyed as imagined. Instead, he found that the Titan army had set up many shields to block most of the attacks.

Of course, Wang Chen's attack caused a lot of losses to the magnetic storm mechas and thunder protection mechas in the rear. Most of the mechas' most sophisticated launch bay equipment was basically damaged and they could no longer launch missiles. A small part of them had been destroyed and could no longer be repaired and could only be rebuilt.

The ones that suffered the heaviest losses were the self-destructive series of mechas - the Spider King and the Poison Spider mechas. Under the coverage of firepower, they eventually exploded one by one. Some of them even pulled a few Wizard mechas and Shaman mechas with them after the explosion, turning into a pile of scrap metal.

As a result, although the Titan army was not completely turned into scrap metal, at least they have temporarily lost most of their long-range firepower strike capabilities and self-destructive mecha tracking capabilities.

"The Titan mecha changes to the attack rampage mode, and the Thunder Mecha and the Magnetic Storm Mecha that can also launch missiles, aim at the guy on the ceiling. If the opponent still uses his bag to store our missiles, then detonate the missiles in advance!"

Brownie still gave orders without panic, no matter how incredible the opponent's operation was. Brownie quickly analyzed the loopholes in the previous attack and made improvements immediately.

Of course, Wang Chen did not plan to collect them this time, but chose to avoid the missiles fired at him. He also quietly used electromagnetic force to shield the missile signals, preventing them from actively detonating.

As for the reason why they chose to evade the missiles instead of collecting them this time, it was because behind Wang Chen was the ceiling that had just been repaired. After Wang Chen dodged the missiles, they continued to move forward and shot straight at the ceiling that had just been repaired. Even if the operator behind them almost broke the detonation button, he could not detonate the missiles in advance and prevent the missiles from blasting the ceiling again.

Joker: "Everyone, get ready to take off. The ceiling is about to explode. Don't get hit by rocks."

Then Wang Chen was ready to break out of the hole at any time.

"boom--"

Then there were continuous "boom" sounds. The missiles blasted out big holes one after another.

Seeing that the missile had opened up several large holes, Wang Chen was the first to take advantage of the dancer's shoes - the effect of the dance time was still there, and stepped directly on the air and flew out of the hole at high speed.

Then, we have the current scene. Wang Chen and others crawled out of the blasted hole and returned to the first floor of the Me Company. The Titan Mech was following closely behind and was about to crawl out of the hole again.

"If you really did it, I'm afraid Anti-Entropy would really go crazy. Really, it almost destroyed Judas." After Theresa climbed out, she heard Wang Chen's words that he originally planned to destroy all the Titan mechas in one go, and she immediately held her forehead and said.

In the previous operation, the reason why the missiles did not explode when they were shot into the sack was that, in addition to Wang Chen and [Raiden Mei] using electromagnetic force to block the signal, it was also thanks to Theresa's God's Key Judas. The missiles were bound in the sack space by Judas's chain, and then released by Wang Chen safely. In the end, the famous scene was reproduced.

"Okay, we're still within control. It's time for us to leave. We're only one step away from final victory." Wang Chen signaled everyone to retreat, and everyone prepared to leave.

At this time, the "boom" sound was heard again. The Titans had caught up, also broke out of the hole, and attacked Wang Chen and others directly.

"Is this the Phantom Thieves and... those war machines? Only after arriving at the scene in person... did I realize how terrifying they are..." Kyohei Horaiji climbed out of the low wall and looked at the Phantom Thieves who had already begun to dodge the Titans' grasp in the center. Looking at the roar and destructive power of those machines, Kyohei Horaiji realized for the first time how insignificant he was.

"Wait! Damn!" Suddenly, Kyohei Houraiji noticed that one of the Phantom Thieves was running towards him, and it seemed that he was going to escape from the exhibition hall through his exit. However, there were several Titans following behind him, and they were also rushing towards him. If those Titans rushed over without any eyes, he and Yusuke, who were unable to move, would definitely be affected by them.

"Yusuke!" Kyohei Horaiji wanted to wake up Yusuke immediately, but found that Yusuke could not wake up, so he had to grit his teeth, carry Yusuke on his back, and flee towards the exit.

At this moment, the Phantom Thief girl climbed over the low wall and bumped into the two of them.

"Eh...?" The Phantom Thief Girl was stunned when she saw the two of them.

"Titan Sweep!" At this time, the Titan mecha faced the low wall, without even looking at it, and stretched out its giant fist, sweeping from left to right to flatten it. And the direction of the path just happened to hit Kyouhei and Yusuke, who had no time to escape, first, and then the thief girl.

"Be careful!! Soul explosion!" Without thinking, the purple-haired girl jumped directly and came behind Kyouhei and Yusuke of Houraiji. Purple flames ignited from her hands, and then she crossed her hands to block the attack.

"Bang!!" The purple-haired girl obviously couldn't completely withstand the attack. Her back hit Kyouhei Houraiji and Yusuke, and the three of them were knocked away together.

"Hikari!" Wang Chen naturally noticed the movement here, and immediately flashed over, threw out the hook, entangled Titan's hand, and then released the current. The strong current paralyzed Titan, and the control temporarily failed, and it could no longer be pushed forward, preventing Titan from further damage.

"Are you okay?" Wang Chen hurried to the place where the three people were flying backwards, and immediately began to use the Phantom Thief's item - Lover's Bandage on the three people and started to treat them.

Kyouhei and Yusuke were fine, because the purple-haired girl, Kyushu of Horaiji, acted as a buffer, and they only suffered from the impact and fall damage, and were not seriously injured. But Kyushu's injury was a little more serious, and it was clear from her painful expression. She tried her best to resist this attack.

"It hurts so much... What is going on?" After the shock, Yusuke finally woke up and said as he looked at the mess around him.

"You two should leave here quickly. Those war machines are just mad lunatics who don't care about other people's lives at all. I will cover you, you should leave here quickly!" As he said that, Wang Chen carried Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple on his back, and then spoke to the two ordinary people who suddenly appeared in the venue.

Of course, Wang Chen knew the other party's identity, and that was why he didn't want anything to happen to the two of them, otherwise Jiu Xiao would be in even more pain than he was now. Physical injuries can be easily healed with tools, but once there is trauma to the spirit and soul, it is difficult to eliminate.

"Wait a minute!" Suddenly, Kyohei Penglaiji's voice sounded a little trembling, but his tone was very serious and firm.

"Who is this girl you are carrying? Why did she shout out such a slogan... and why does she have this thing?" Penglai Temple Gongping stretched out his hand, holding a cross ornament. Wang Chen was silent, he knew that it was the gift that Jiuxiao had shown off to him and others not long ago, and that his father had just given him.

Chapter 178 Father's Intuition

"Mom and Dad, look, I learned a new move!" The tender little girl with purple hair and a ponytail is now imitating the moves of the hero Hoola, the little friend of Hoola in the Hoola Adventure on TV.

"Hey! Summon, Houla flame! Fight against evil!" The girl imitated Houla's movements in the animation and imagined summoning the flame.

"Ah, why is there no flame coming out? The movements are obviously the same." After trying several times, no flame came out from her hands, and the little girl looked like she was about to cry.

"Jiuxiao, Jiuxiao... come to your mother." Lan Wenhe took the little girl's hand, stroked her head, pointed at the cartoon characters on TV, and said:

"Look, Jiuxiao, just like in the anime, Hero Homu's move is called Bullet Cannon, Hoola's move is Hoola Flame. Homei's is Heart Blast. Everyone's powers are different, and they all have their own unique abilities."

"Therefore, imitating them will not allow you to learn their unique abilities. Just like the Hero of Homu cannot use the Hoora flames."

"Then... does Jiuxiao also have unique abilities?" Little Jiuxiao looked at his mother with expectant eyes and asked happily.

"Of course there is. It's just that you have to slowly search for it yourself... slowly search for it. When you grow up and learn a lot of skills, Jiuxiao, you will find that unique ability."

Lan said with a warm smile.

"Okay! Jiuxiao will find his own unique ability! Since it is unique, I will give it a resounding name... I will call it... woooo... call it..."

Xiao Jiuxiao was a little at a loss for a moment, and after thinking for a long time he still couldn't come up with a nice name.

Looking at the confused Xiao Jiuxiao, Lan smiled and patted Xiao Jiuxiao on the back, pointed at Penglai Temple Gongping who was pretending to read a newspaper in his seat but paying attention to the interaction between the two from time to time, and said:

"Go find dad and ask him to help Jiu Xiao-chan come up with a nice name."

"Ah?" Penglai Temple Gongping was stunned, and then he saw little Jiuxiao quickly ran to Penglai Temple Gongping, put his hands on Penglai Temple Gongping's knees, smiled happily and asked: "Dad, dad, help Jiuxiao's ability give it a name, the loudest one."

"Hmm... Let me see..." Kyohei Penglaiji subconsciously began to search for words that could match the resounding title. Then, Kyohei Penglaiji saw some headlines in the newspaper. In order to pursue gimmicks, some big words and formats were deliberately used to catch people's attention, such as "Soul-burning Moment" and "Explosive News". Of course, Kyohei Penglaiji didn't really like these gossips. He started reading this newspaper because it recently published a number of incidents of gathering to preach evil cults.

"Burning soul... burning soul... gathering... no. Gathering... exploding?" Penglai Temple Kyohei subconsciously looked at the entries in the newspaper, muttering one after another, as if he couldn't think of any good name.

"Hey...Soul Burning Implosion! What a cool name!! Thank you, Dad!" However, little Jiuxiao, who had been listening carefully, now had starry eyes, as if he had really found the name of his own unique ability. Little Jiuxiao jumped and shouted, "Oh~oh~ Jiuxiao's superpower, from today on, will be called Soul Burning Implosion! Come out quickly, come out quickly! I want to be the first to perform for Mom and Dad!"

Penglai Temple Kyohei smiled helplessly and shook his head, watching Xiao Jiuxiao showing off the name of his newly found move.

But why, when I heard this name, it felt so familiar? So familiar...? As if I had heard it not long ago?

Suddenly, Kyohei Houraiji found that he was not in the home he had eight years ago. The warm hall in front of him was no longer there. There was no Lan and Xiao Jiuxiao... There was only Yusuke on his back, a huge purple mechanical arm, and... a purple-haired phantom thief girl who he had "never met before".

"Soul Implosion!" the girl shouted, and purple flames emerged from her hands in a cross shape, blocking behind herself to resist the sweeping mechanical arm.

"boom--"

A huge impact came from behind. How could human power fight against machinery? For a moment, Kyohei Hōraiji felt his head spinning. At this moment, Kyohei Hōraiji remembered that his thoughts had been running backwards. At the moment when his brain felt dizzy due to the impact from behind, the slogan that the girl just shouted... suddenly brought Kyohei Hōraiji back to the memory illusion of eight years ago.

"Jiuxiao?" After saying these two words, Penglai Temple Kyouhei suddenly felt that another clue that he had ignored for a long time was connected at this moment. But... this was the truth that Penglai Temple Kyouhei had never wanted to confirm, the truth that he had always deliberately ignored.

His own daughter...Hōraiji Kūsō...is a member of the Phantom Thieves.

……

Later, Penglai Temple Kyouhei found a cross with a broken chain from where he fell. This cross was the gift he had given to his daughter Penglai Temple Jiuxiao not long ago. Everything was self-evident.

Kyouhei Horaiji finally understood now. Even though Yusuke had been telling him to put down the case, not to get involved in things beyond his ability, and to care more about his family, and even though he had gotten the answer from his teacher and knew he had no ability to change the status quo, why did he still subconsciously push himself to pursue the pace of the Phantom Thieves?

Perhaps, as early as the first Phantom Thieves incident, when I saw the photo of the purple-haired girl with twin ponytails flying in the wind... my intuition as a father had already told me the answer to everything in my subconscious. But I was as stubborn as a rock and wanted to prove that she was not her.

But, the result is...she is her, she is my daughter - Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple.

……

"Who is this girl you are carrying? Why is she shouting slogans like that... and why does she have this thing?"

Extending his hand and showing the item, Penglai Temple Kyohei smiled self-deprecatingly. What's the point of asking for confirmation? Didn't he already know the answer? Penglai Temple, Penglai Temple, how long do you want to escape? Do you have to wait for the other party's confirmation, just like waiting for the judge to knock out the final "guilty declaration"? It's too ugly.