Persona: Devil Summoner

"Wow, I'm so envious. We were all exhausted when we first awakened our personas..."

Ryuji couldn't help but sigh, and Kitagawa Yusuke nodded: "Yes, it's as if all the organs in my body have been removed, and I feel weak all over."

After thinking about it carefully, Jiang Tianwei finally figured it out. It was probably because this was not her first time awakening. The previous awakening was not complete, but this time she was in a complete state of awakening.

"I see. It's like playing a game for the first time is very strenuous, but the second time is very easy. Noir has awakened his persona before, right?"

Jiang Tianwei remembered that Morgana seemed to have mentioned this, but he couldn't remember clearly.

"Ah! I understand! The second round will indeed be much easier!"

However, the person at the center of the topic, Okumura Haru, had not yet figured out what the joke was and how he should answer it, but Sakura Futaba answered first.

It can be seen that this otaku girl is not only a super hacker in electronics, but also has many hobbies. From video games to animated movies, everything is available. It's just a pity that there is no one with similar experience in the Phantom Thieves.

This way of using video games as examples really hits Futaba's spot.

"Well, anyway, since Noir himself doesn't say there's any problem, let's go..."

Jiang Tianwei was about to take the lead and walk forward, but before he took a step, Yu Gong Lian suddenly said from behind: "It's our turn next."

"Eh? No, it's okay, I can still go on—"

"No, I think you're tired. Does Mona think so too?"

Amamiya Lian said as he patted Morgana's head. The strange black cat-like creature nodded and said, "Yeah, don't push yourself too hard. Keep up the pace. Don't get so excited just because we haven't worked together for a long time."

Jiang Tianwei could stuff an egg into his mouth: I didn't force myself, did I? I can clear this kind of palace by myself...

But, in the end, there was nothing we could do. Who decided from the beginning that the two sides would exchange explorations?

So, this time it was Amamiya Lian and the others who took the lead, with Jiang Tianwei and the others following behind.

Jiang Tianwei's face under the mask was written with boredom. Fortunately, his mask was fully covered, and the ∩-like mouth was not exposed at all.

There was only a large elevator in the direction that Kuniwa Okumura was escaping.

I thought it would be locked, but it wasn't. I guess this structure corresponds to an elevator in reality? Most people think of elevators as just opening the door and getting in. Except for elevator repairmen, probably no one would lock the elevator in their cognitive space.

Descending along the huge elevator, a picture with a sense of futuristic technology appeared before everyone.

The sky was full of bright stars, and the towering skyscrapers were flashing beautiful cold light. The top floor of each building was an arched structure similar to the top of a hamburger, making it look like a bunch of cyberburgers gathered together.

All the rooms were emitting cool green and cyan lights, except for one building in the center of the complex, which was flashing red light.

When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong. It is obvious that this must be the final destination.

Morgana sniffed the air hard and nodded confidently: "If nothing unexpected happens, that is where the secret treasure is. I can smell the scent of the secret treasure!"

It can also be seen here that Kunikazu Okumura's imagination is not very strong. Normally, there is air inside the space base, so it is OK to be able to smell the odor. But how come outside is outer space, which is a vacuum with no air, so how did the smell get here?

However, this problem is not a big deal.

Anyway, Jiang Tianwei didn't come to talk to him about the setting of science fiction novels, he came to beat him up, no, he came to change his heart. It doesn't matter whether there is oxygen or not in this space station.

However, since there is oxygen here, it is really funny that Kuniwa Okumura is wearing an oxygen helmet in his shadow.

From a distance, one could see the round patrol robots that looked like trash cans, as well as the lowest-ranking member robots, running around busily. Amamiya Ren gave her companions a look, and they dispersed in tacit understanding, hiding in the blind corners of the wall and disappearing in the shadows of the decorations.

Jiang Tianwei crossed his arms across his chest, looking forward to a good show. Just as Amamiya Ren was interested in him, he was also curious about how much Amamiya Ren had grown during this period of time.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 625 It's time to perform real stealth!

As expected, Amamiya Ren's style highlights the mysterious whereabouts of the thief, who comes and goes like the wind.

Lurking in the shadows, aiming at the enemy's carelessness, he flew up, and the red gloves were like a phantom, easily tearing off the opponent's mask!

In a panic, it is difficult for humans or other living things to make the right choice.

The mask was torn off, and the true form of the monsters revealed along with the black mud was the Mothman. According to legend, they are unknown creatures that were witnessed in the United States last century.

I don't know who started it, but it seems that a lot of "unsolved mysteries of the world" suddenly began to emerge during that period, whether it was geographical ones like the Bermuda Triangle, unknown creatures like Mothman and Chupacabra, or extraterrestrial civilizations like aliens and UFOs, as well as the legend that the Nazis searched for mysterious powers during the war, basically they all started to explode during this era. Is this also a different kind of situation that makes heroes?

Mothman looks like a human standing up, or a human in a rag doll costume, with a round head, round body, and round eyes, and a pair of eagle claws under his feet. The wings are more like eagle wings than moth wings. Legend has it that they are very sensitive to the smell of blood and will kidnap people and animals to suck their blood.

Just as the confused Mothman was about to fight back, Amamiya Ren and his friends had already made preparations - all of them took out their guns and weapons...

Amamiya Ren's pistol, Takamaki An's submachine gun, Ryuji's shotgun, Okumura Haru's grenade launcher, and Morgana's slingshot... Wait, is there something that ruins the atmosphere mixed in? Dear lady, what's the matter with that grenade launcher in your hand? ! This is too discordant! This thing can no longer be classified as a firearm, it should be considered a handheld artillery, right? !

I'd like to briefly mention a small episode here. This is because when Morgana first discovered that Okumura Haru's initial awakening was not complete and his strength was not strong enough, he was thinking of ways to strengthen him.

After all, the power of firearms does not change with the strength of your perosna, so this is the best way to quickly improve your combat effectiveness. Miss Okumura usually fiddles with crops at school, so she often carries large and small bags, so everyone is used to it.

No one would have thought that this good girl, a little sheep with no presence in school, would have such a high-precision model of a ferocious grenade launcher in her backpack!

But now that he thought about it, Jiang Tianwei finally came up with a perfect excuse to carry a gun - why not just claim to be a member of the school's "Survival Game Club"? Survival games, to put it in a way that laymen can understand the fastest, are real-life CS games. Isn't that easy enough to understand? For fans of this kind of game, it's not strange to carry a simulation model, right?

In short, now everyone's guns - and slingshots and stones - were pointed at the Mothman who was confused about the current situation. There was a burst of gunfire, and everyone consumed ammunition without mercy and without reservation, and in one breath, the Mothman was riddled with holes, and of course he was shattered into a shadow state.

This is because Mothman has no resistance to gunfire... This is probably the painful part of American weirdness... If you think about it carefully, American monsters are rarely ineffective against guns. Most of the time, they are shaped to the extent that they can be killed with guns or artillery shells.

Some people point out that this is because guns have a special status in the hearts of Americans, which is equivalent to the Chinese Tang sword.

As an American weirdo, Mothman was killed on the spot by this "American Iai"...

Around Mothman, some sweet-looking, cute-looking little demons have recovered.

They are Lilim, who are said to be the first humans, the daughters of Adam and Lilith. They inherited their mother's succubus nature and became nightmares. According to legend, they appear in men's dreams and seduce men to eat them up...

This is pure nonsense. How could such a demon exist? If it did exist, why are so many people single?

However, what is a bit counterintuitive is that Lilim herself does not have the ability to charm, but what she has is the ability to hypnotize. Several Lilims suddenly opened their mouths and sang a lullaby together like a church choir.

When Amamiya Ren saw this, she quickly covered her ears. At this moment, Ryuji was enjoying the refreshing feeling of killing the enemies with his shotgun. He turned the shotgun in his hand and was about to kill all the female fairies together, but the song reached his ears. Ryuji felt more and more tired, more and more tired... drowsy...

With a bang, he fell asleep on the ground with his butt sticking up, snoring like a cartoon, and almost snot bubbles coming out of his nose...

"Is it time to go to bed now?"

As a woman, Takamaki An was never the first choice of the lilims, and was the least affected by the lullaby. Seeing him like this, she was very angry, especially since Takamaki An and he were classmates in junior high school, so they were old acquaintances. How could she be happy to see an acquaintance behave so stupidly?

I don't know where she took out a huge paper fan, which is the magical weapon used to complain in those funny animations, and slapped it hard on Long Si's head...

Snapped! ! ! ! ! !

“It hurts so much—!!!!”

Two consecutive explosions that resounded through the sky immediately diluted Lilim's lullaby. To be able to make such a howl, he is worthy of being Ryuji! This must be his ingenious strategy to cleverly resolve the enemy's formula! Too strong Ryuji!

This magical sound was diluted, and Morgana shook his head quickly. It seemed that although he looked like a cat, his gender, or rather, his self-identified gender, was male.

"Zorro, don't give them a chance!"

With the appearance of the huge persona, a strong wind whistled out. In the wind, these little devils with cute and sexy looks all found it difficult to maintain their flying posture and fell to the ground.

Come to think of it, since their core attack method is to sneak into dreams, they naturally don’t pay too much attention to physical exercise! As a result, this small body will fall down when the wind blows! You see, this is the harm of excessive weight loss!

"Milady! Give them a fatal blow!"

Although Okumura Haru is new, he is very collaborative.

This was mainly because she was not the type to show off her personality. She was not ostentatious and was very good at matching the atmosphere. So, when she saw the atmosphere was here, she immediately seized the opportunity. Persona Milady behind her opened the gorgeous fan in her hand with a snap, and suddenly countless small balls appeared in the air, each of which was a wonderful purple, and yellow, green, black, white... ribbons of color fluctuated on the small balls like ripples!

Following Okumura Haru's command, these small balls bombarded the Lilims on the ground...

This scene is just like...

Jiang Tianwei couldn't help himself - he knew that he shouldn't joke in such a serious occasion, but he couldn't help but want to make a joke: "Isn't this the Prince's Battle Method? I've seen it in Dragon Ball! The degree of restoration is really high!"

"Ah! It does look like it!"

Sakura Futaba also expressed her approval again. It seems that these two people get along very well. There are thousands of otaku friends in this world, but it is very rare to meet otaku friends who get along well with you in the three-dimensional world. It is a rare resource!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 626: A Real Sweatshop

"You guys are embarrassing me, Captain Kidd! Give them some tough time!"

Long Si covered his head with both hands. Being hit on the head by the paper fan was just a little painful, but being seen by Jiang Tianwei was really embarrassing. Captain Kidd was driving the ship that was not proportional to his physique, with his pirate hat raised high, and saw a bolt of lightning falling from the sky!

This attack was originally intended to vent his anger at the Lilims who were suppressed by the light ball released by Okumura Haru, but before the lightning could hit them, a blue-black bird flew over from the sky as if faster than lightning.

It looks like a mechanical structure, and it is covered with electric light. This is a monster called the Lightning Bird, which originated from the mythology of the North American natives and is said to be a spiritual bird in heaven. As the name suggests, it is definitely not called the Lightning Bird because it is afraid of lightning.

Long Si's lightning was intercepted in mid-air by the swift bird. The rumbling lightning accurately hit the streamlined appearance of the Zapdos. The lightning was lightly absorbed into the body of the Zapdos like water hitting a sponge.

"You rotten bird!"

Long Si got anxious and raised his shotgun to fire two rounds at him, but...

"persona! Anubis!"

Amamiya Ren summoned Perosna first, and the jackal-headed guardian god of ancient Egypt appeared again. The last time they met, they were enemies, but this time they were companions.

As difficult as an enemy is, as reliable as an ally is. Usually in games, enemies are severely weakened when they join the protagonist's side, but at least this is not the case with personas.

The jackal-headed guardian raised the scale in his hand, with a holy white light coming out from one end and a red light symbolizing the curse at the other end. Then, the red light suddenly became brighter, and the scale tilted towards the red side.

Just below the Zapdos, the red cursed energy was stirring like a quagmire, and countless evil spirits that looked like skulls rose into the sky, grabbing towards the Zapdos like hands!

The lightning bird tried its best to fly, but the ghost was faster. Countless light red ghost shadows grabbed it at once and dragged it to the ground!

"Now let's see where you run!"

Long Si had been ready for a long time! He held the shotgun on his back, grasped the mace in both hands, and rushed forward with a quick step. With the power of his body sprinting and jumping, the weapon hit the lightning bird's forehead hard.

This time, Long Si's arm strength played a huge role. He easily smashed through the scalp of the Zapdos, and the sharp spikes on the hammer head made a deep hole.

"As expected of the Phantom Thieves! They work together so well!"

Akechi Goro in the back sighed with emotion. Jiang Tianwei stared at him silently. He seemed to notice that he had said something wrong and quickly added, "Of course, we are stronger here."

Only then did Jiang Tianwei feel satisfied.

The two teams switch alternately, which can give the people behind enough time to recuperate and recharge their batteries, thus greatly saving the number of rest times during palace exploration.

However, this point is not particularly evident in the Okumura Palace.

Because… there are a lot of complicated puzzles here.

Jiang Tianwei had only seen people say on the Internet that Japan has a serious social inequality, but he didn't really feel it and just took it as a joke. Unless you are really studying sociology or really working as a social slave in a big company, you will deeply understand this strict hierarchy.

For example, now, everyone’s goal is of course to find a way to where the secret treasure is. According to speculation, if nothing unexpected happens, the place where the secret treasure is located is Kunikazu Okumura’s office.

But, he is Kuniwa Okumura, the president of a big company, a super rich man, how can you meet him just by saying so? If you want to meet Kuniwa Okumura, you need to get a minister-level pass first, and if you want to meet the minister, you need to get a section chief's pass first. It's not that easy to meet the section chief. You need to find ordinary members, directors and section chiefs first, and then find out from their conversations who is the real section chief, section chief, minister... and you will soon find that all this is useless, because these messy positions are so hard to remember...

This is like one of those old-school RPG games, where you have to go to B to find C to get D in order to get A, then go to E to exchange information, and finally defeat the boss to get the key item, and then you have to go back to get A again to continue to move forward smoothly.

Jiang Tianwei really wanted to kick Amamiya Ren out of the position of the group leader. If it were him, looking for someone?! Listening for clues?! I'll just beat you all up, won't that be enough? You solve your sister's mystery! I'm here to change my heart, not to participate in the strongest brain, just see if my fist is hard enough, see if I beat you up or not, and that's it!

Jiang Tianwei simply didn't follow them and just watched Yu Gonglian and the others running around at the elevator entrance... He now understood more and more why so many people liked to watch others play games rather than playing the games themselves. Because these annoying running away relieved, someone was carrying the burden for you!

About thirty minutes later, Amamiya Ren finally came back, panting heavily, holding a ministerial-level pass in her hand...

Seeing how tired he was, Jiang Tianwei sighed, took out a pack of tissues from his arms and threw it to him.

Strictly speaking, this trip was not physically tiring, but it was mentally torturous!

Amamiya Lian took it and wiped his sweat without hesitation. While he was catching his breath, Jiang Tianwei had already used the pass to open the blocked door, and what was presented to everyone was the sin of capital.

"This, this is... the production line of our factory..."

Okumura Haru lowered his head.

As the president's daughter, she had inspected the factory several times, although not many times, so she would not make a mistake.

Inside and outside the door are almost two different worlds.

On one side is the future high-tech elite office building, clean, tidy and refreshing under cold light.

On one side is a sweatshop that is bustling with activity, emitting heat and the stench of heavy metals.

From a distance, you can see the huge conveyor belts in operation, and the employee robots are wandering on the narrow and dirty floor, operating huge robotic arms to process products.

Even in the form of robots, everyone can still clearly see the tired expressions on each robot's face.

Even as everyone was watching, a member robot was covered in black smoke and collapsed to the ground. Two member robots came over immediately, picked it up, and threw it onto another conveyor belt as if it were cargo.

Although no one knew where the conveyor belt led to, judging from the scene at the end of the conveyor belt where the high-temperature gas distorted the light, it was probably a high-temperature abandoned garbage dump.

The member who threw his companion onto the tracks seemed to be brainwashed. Without any sorrow or pain, he mechanically repeated: "Abandoned employees, turned into fuel for the company! Keep working!"