Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

"Just enjoy it, hey."

Luhui's expression was overshadowed, and Raphael, not knowing what she felt, immediately avoided Xiaosi's sight.

"...In fact, this is the best cover at the moment. People will subconsciously ignore such dirty and messy places. The stench will remind passers-by that there is a body buried inside, so the probability of being discovered will be very low."

“Green light…”

Raphael was very surprised and stared at Luhui's face. Maybe his growth rate was faster than everyone imagined.

"Don't get me wrong, I only think this way because I have no other choice!"

The sound of teeth grinding against each other was so loud, he was just a child, Raphael thought.

Seeing that even her ears were red, Raphael couldn't help but smiled and replied: "I know."

Lu Hui snorted in dissatisfaction, and quickly restarted and self-checked the downed part of his body.

When Raphael was about to go over and find Fei Niao, she had already completed all the work and was squatting behind the corner, kneeling on guard.

"How?" Asuka asked.

"All the electrical equipment was destroyed."

Raphael patted the LPVO fast sight mounted on the rail mirror bridge, sighed and said, "Now I can't even see the differentiation of this thing."

"My holo is still functional, but the flashlight and IR laser pointer are broken. I just don't know how long it will last."

"Luck will favor us."

"Yeah, I guess so."

Asuka shrugged, her silky hair cascading down as she moved. Her arms, exposed from her sleeves, were very slender.

"I'm so beautiful." Raphael exclaimed.

"Don't be so narcissistic. I'll stuff you into a cruiser tomorrow and make you a cyber ship girl."

"Oh...huh?"

Raphael thought about it for a moment, looked at Fei Niao, his lips slightly curved, his index finger pressed against his lips in a seductive posture, and he chuckled.

"If it's completely under my control, it's not unacceptable."

Chapter 43 Heavy losses

The impact of the electromagnetic pulse bomb was more serious than expected.

The two portable laptops connected to the detection antenna burned out, and the two NAS storage devices went offline as well.

I don’t know if the hard drive can still be salvaged, but looking at Fei Niao’s frustrated expression, it’s most likely completely gone.

"How much equipment do we have left?" Raphael asked.

"I've checked, and all the accessories that haven't been removed from the protective box are working properly." Lingyin put down the multi-function IR indicator in her hand and threw it into the trash can. "All of these on the table are broken; the satellite modem and amplifier are burned, ah... our mobile phones are broken too."

"FUCK, so miserable?"

"Yes, it's that bad."

"This is intended to disgust us, right?" This rhetorical question was actually spoken to himself.

Lingyin knew that what they lacked most now was long-distance communication equipment. Individual radios had backups, but only satellite-related equipment did not have extra copies.

"Don't worry too much, at least the Russians are gone." Raphael comforted him, "Now everyone is deaf, and no one has an easy life."

"Really? That's good."

There was a complex emotion on Lingyin's lips, an expression she rarely showed, and she blinked her long eyelashes through her glasses.

Raphael sat aside and took out the flute from the protective box. Then he took a deep breath and blew the air into the glowing flute. The warm and rich tone slowly filled the entire hiding place.

I have heard it countless times, so why is the sound so beautiful now? Lingyin surrendered herself to the slowly flowing music and closed her eyes quietly.

……

At night, Raphael squatted at the corner of the third floor of the institute, carefully observing the situation outside.

After returning from the city, this place has been ransacked more than once. All the computer cases have been pried open, the CPU and cooling fan are still there, but the expensive graphics card is gone, and the hard drive is also gone.

Taking away hard drives is understandable; there may be important information stored on them, and perhaps the people who took them thought they could recover the data from them and get what they wanted.

Some of the safes that were not taken away were all pried open, and nothing inside was left.

The office was cleaned exceptionally clean. Apart from the furniture and other items that could not be taken away, all the reference books, subscribed journals, and even third editions of magazines that were used daily were taken away.

Raphael pushed open the door of her office. Everything inside was clean, except for the six walnut chairs.

It made her scalp tingle, it was simply insane.

Fortunately, the gifts left for the unpaid assistants were taken away by them. They contained some promising directions she proposed based on their conditions and levels. However, if they had found better instructors, perhaps these gifts would not be useful.

In short, this was a gift Raphael gave them before leaving, and it was also a good fate.

Maybe one day in the future, when Raphael is in trouble, they can lend a helping hand for this matter.

"...This is too clean." Lingyin complained online: "There's not even a bench to sit on!"

"It's all over here."

"And it was quiet, uncomfortably quiet."

Raphael glared at Lingyin, then turned to Fei Niao and asked, "Can the system of the institute be used?"

"It was badly damaged, totally useless, and all the hard drives were recovered."

Asuka looked at the cabinet server cluster full of bullet holes in front of him, shook his head and replied:

"We'll meet at Exit C in the west wing. Then check the emergency generator in the basement. If it's still alive, it should save us a lot of unnecessary hiking."

"It's no use restoring the power supply," Lingyin asked in confusion.

"The Germans were very practical when they built this institute. In addition to the supercomputer built based on the neuromorphic chip, almost all the key systems were backed up. Maybe something survived the pulse?"

Asuka sounded confident, and she was indeed confident.

She did not detect any high-energy rays released by radioactive materials in the dust from the previous explosion, which meant that it was not a real nuclear weapon, but some kind of bomb that could convert the energy of the explosion into an electromagnetic pulse. It was just that the visual effect was a bit horrifying.

More importantly, Fei Niao suspected that the explosion was just a cover-up because she saw with her own eyes a dazzling blue light flashing in the air.

This can be confirmed by Raphael and Luhui.

If there is a problem with one person's main monitor, it is impossible for all three to have abnormalities.

What's more, the model of Greenhui's right-eye main camera lens is better than others, so it is impossible for them to fail at the same time.

The self-examination results also confirmed her inference.

The power of non-nuclear electromagnetic pulses is not as strong as the dense gamma rays produced by a nuclear bomb explosion. The excess photons in such rays can knock out a large number of electrons, freeing them from the oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere.

The large number of electrons that have been freed interact with the Earth's magnetic field, generating constantly changing electric currents, which in turn generate a strong magnetic field.

The resulting electromagnetic pulse will generate induced currents in conductive materials over a wide area, thereby burning out a large number of electronic devices.

However, the power of non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse bombs is not so terrible.

Its impact range and lethality are much smaller.

It took the U.S. military 80 years from observing the phenomenon to obtaining the finished product, and its combat effectiveness is still controversial.

There was no point in just coming up with assumptions and guesses without verifying them, so she planned to go into the basement and manually activate the generator.

"This is Raphael and Lingyin. We are passing through the suspended corridor. ETA is 1 minute."

"One minute. Got it."

Asuka and Luhui looked at each other, left the control room of the institute, and took control of the indoor corridors on both sides of the stairs.

The subtle footsteps were just on the roof, and the two men put their hands on the holsters on their waists tacitly.

"Rafael is getting ready to go downstairs, don't shoot at us."

"I heard your footsteps, come down quickly."

Really cautious! Luhui glanced at Raphael stealthily, his eyes were clear and transparent, as clean as gems.

While knowing that he had companions to cover him below, he still held the gun steadily and moved down little by little, being extremely careful and cautious.

If it were her, she would have rushed forward immediately after knowing that there were companions.

"Is it necessary to be so careful?" The curiosity that rushed to her throat suddenly became timid and fled back into her mind. Luhui stopped talking and quietly turned her head to look in the direction she should be alert.

The air was chilly at night, and the quiet space coupled with the pale moonlight was refreshing. The crescent moon hanging high outside the window was moving away step by step, tiptoeing away quietly.

Fei Niao glanced at Xiao Si, who was in a state of confusion, without saying anything to explain.

"Let's go."

"Ah."

Chapter 44 The worst plan

"It looks like the generator can't start. That's tragic."

Lingyin watched Asuka turn around to check and evaluate the status of the generator, and lowered her voice to Raphael and said:

"If I can open it, I will admit that I am a fool."

"Don't be such an idiot."

Raphael closed his eyes and showed an expression of watching a good show on his face.

The casings of the two generator sets were covered with rust, making it hard to believe that they could start normally.

It would be exciting to see the emergency motors start up, and she believed that if the power could be restored, the remaining equipment that had not been moved or damaged would be of great help to them.

However, although she believed that Fei Niao could activate it, it was too extreme to pin all her hopes on this thing.

So Raphael opened the map of Main Frankfurt in her mind. She had to plan carefully what to do best if power could not be restored.

The environment in the basement was suffocating. After losing its popularity, it became dilapidated and damp, with water dripping down the walls.

She stood up, turned on the tactical flashlight and shone it around, seeing broken glass lenses everywhere.

Raphael picked up a larger lens, but he lost his grip and the glass lens fell to the ground and broke.

"Breaking a mirror is said to be a bad omen of disaster." Lingyin joked.

Raphael smiled along. In fact, this was the case right now, and all the bad omens and nightmares were coming true.

Every day brings one misfortune or disaster after another. It is not difficult to become superstitious in such an environment.

For those who know how to calculate probabilities, metaphysics and superstition are just good helpers to adjust the atmosphere and mood.

Raphael unwrapped the chocolate energy bar, bit off a small piece and handed it to Lingyin's mouth.

"It's been a hard time."

"Ugh... it tastes terrible."

“How can a chocolate bar that provides calories be delicious?”

Raphael observed Lingyin chewing with a smile. The taste was very bitter, not sweet at all. But Lingyin ate it all.

"Xiao Si, do you want a bite? Ah..."

It seemed as if Raphael intended to let all his sisters have a bite. Before Luhui could refuse, the dark chocolate was already at her mouth. Luhui realized that she seemed to have no room for refusal, so she opened her mouth with tears in her eyes and bit off a small piece.

“…Hmm?…Hmm?” She tasted it and said seriously, “It tastes pretty good.”

After that, she smiled and handed the energy bar to Asuka, "Chocolate."

"Where's the chocolate?"

Fei Niao looked at Lu Hui suspiciously and reached out to take it. But he didn't expect Lu Hui to say, "Open your mouth, ah——"

"No, forget it."

Seeing Luhui's smile, Fei Niao immediately became alert. Could it be a prank? Could it be chocolate rations covered with spicy seasoning or other prank seasoning?

Thinking of the slightly tense relationship between them, Fei Niao's first reaction was to play a prank, so she planned to refuse Luhui's feeding.

She turned back to continue the inspection, but Fei Niao looked at her again. The watery and aggrieved look in her eyes made her hold her breath and her eyes fell to her feet.

The trouser legs were covered with dust and dirt, making it difficult to see the lines on them, and there were many scratches on the knees above.