Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

"(This means the Stormtroopers acting as security guards were lured away, but the ghosts 'working' inside the bank were unaffected.)"

The Tale of Nirvana: Staying True to One's Heart: Chapter 51 The Classic Alarm

"(Those ghosts with Xs on their heads?)"

"(It's easy to handle, don't underestimate me.)"

Miao Meng complained unhappily.

"(I'm a professional at petty theft.)"

"(I'm glad you described yourself that way.)"

Xiangzi continued crawling forward.

"(But the trouble I'm referring to isn't your trouble.)"

"(This is my problem.)"

“(Huh?)” Meow Dream raised an eyebrow. “(What are you up to now?)”

"(It takes two people to steal Amoris's head; you can't do it alone.)"

Xiangzi climbed to the ventilation duct opening in the changing room, pulled open the grille, and jumped out of the duct.

"(Hey, hey, hey?!)" Meow Dream clung to the pipe opening, looking at her. "(What are you doing?!)"

"(You need someone to monitor the ghost's movements and tell you the safe's combination.)"

Xiangzi took a set of cleaning clothes from the changing room and put them on.

"(Perhaps it's because of my ambiguous relationship with the witch that ghosts, who are entirely composed of subconscious thoughts, see me as one of their own. So only I can do this kind of thing, but if I go too far, they'll become wary, so I can only do it secretly.)"

"(You planned to come in with me from the very beginning, it wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision, was it?)"

Miaomeng installed the fence and continued climbing forward, her mind still preoccupied with her conversation with Xiangzi.

"(Of course, saying it at that time was to prevent Chu Hua from having a chance to raise any objections.)"

"(You care less about yourself than I thought.)"

"(I'm just trying to survive. Two weeks is a short time. Three days have already passed, and today is the fourth day.)"

"(To survive, they'd take even greater risks? What kind of twisted logic is that?)"

"(It's not a matter of twisted logic, but rather that this is the only way.)"

Xiangzi changed his clothes, opened the dressing room door, and disappeared from Miaomeng's sight.

When the door opened, you could still faintly hear a loud commotion coming from outside the bank.

"(Continue walking forward, turn right at the end, and you'll see a pipe blocked by an exhaust fan. Go through that pipe to reach the vault.)"

"(I see it, that string of exhaust fans is terrifying!)"

Miaomeng reached out and tried the exhaust fan.

The high-speed rotating exhaust fan sliced ​​her fingers into tiny pieces, splattering blood and flesh onto the ventilation duct walls. The slicing was so thorough that it barely made a sound.

Miao Meng gasped as she watched her fingers regenerate.

"(You're not going to let me walk through here, are you?! I'll be turned into mincemeat!)"

"(Don't you have super regeneration?)"

"(Even super regeneration can't regenerate bits of meat!)"

"(I'll turn off the exhaust fan for you.)"

Xiangzi walked past several ghosts, turned around and opened the door of the electrical distribution box without attracting any attention.

"(But if you leave it off for too long, it will attract attention. Each fan gives you five seconds to crawl over it.)"

"(Are you ready?)"

"(etc!)"

bang.

The exhaust fan slowed down, but it didn't stop.

"(five......)"

"I go!"

Miao Meng cursed under her breath, then reached her arm into the middle of the slowing exhaust fan and blocked it with her arm. The fan blades almost sliced ​​her hand off before it stopped.

Miaomeng dragged her still-regenerating arm over the first exhaust fan, just as Xiangzi finished counting down.

"(You think you're so kind?! Can't you be a little gentler? Do you have a grudge against me?)"

Xiangzi pressed his hand on the switch for fan number two.

(Five seconds left.)

bang.

"(five......)"

"(you!)"

Miao Meng had no choice but to use the same method to stop the fan blades, and her arm, which had just regenerated and was still pink and tender, was cut open by the fan blades again.

Luckily, she had turned off all her pain receptors, otherwise she would have screamed in pain.

"(I'll definitely find a way to get rid of you after I get out!)" Meow Dream gritted her teeth.

"(Directly below you is the laser corridor, the only way to the vault. Without me, you'd have to go down there.)" Xiangzi said calmly. "(It seems you'd rather take the laser corridor.)"

"(I'm really *￥＆%……￥)"

"(Ready for the next one?)"

"(ha?!)"

bang.

"(five......)"

"(Toyokawa Shoko, I'm not done with you yet!)"

......

Finally, with her arm regenerated more than ten times, Miaomeng successfully reached the ventilation opening directly above the vault, which was also the only ventilation opening.

"(Are you in position?)" Xiangzi asked.

At this point, she reached the main road leading to the vault.

"(Ready to go, guess what I see?)"

The light filtering through the grid cast a play of light and shadow on Miaomeng's face.

"(I guess it's a squad of enemy soldiers stationed there.)" Xiangzi walked towards the laser corridor he had just mentioned to Miaomeng. "(I'll distract them for you.)"

"(It seems you've figured this place out completely, which is completely unlike what you just said, 'Chu Hua and I accidentally wandered in once.')"

"(You lied to her, didn't you?)"

Xiangzi didn't say anything, and there was a brief silence between the two of them.

Miaomeng lay on the ventilation duct above the ceiling, chin in hand, waiting for Xiangzi's command.

"(You know what, I've started to wonder why you don't go on stage yourself.)"

"(You'll find out soon enough.)"

Xiangzi pulled a grenade from his pocket, pulled the pin, threw it into the laser corridor, and then slipped out before the door closed, as if he had practiced it countless times.

Boom!

As soon as the alarm sounded, the White Soldiers who were still stationed inside the bank and had not gone out to fight immediately sprang into action and rushed out.

Miaomeng heard the sound of the vault door closing.

"(Hey, is it really all gone? No way, that means the vault is unguarded?)"

"(They're just familiars; don't think of them as too clever.)"

Xiangzi immediately turned and ran, avoiding the gaze of the wandering ghost, and hid in the dressing room.

"(Now only you can finish this task.)"

Xiangzi said calmly.

Almost the instant she finished speaking, Miaomeng saw a white light illuminate the floor of the vault.

"(What new technology is this?)"

"(The floor has pressure detectors, and every corner of the vault also has sound detectors, airflow detectors, and temperature detectors, which automatically activate when the vault is completely empty.)"

There was the sound of soldiers running past outside the door.

It disappeared after a while.

But another group immediately came running over.

Familiars aren't very intelligent; they'll linger around the source of the sound for a while before returning to their original positions.

"(Even a single drop of water touching the ground will trigger an alarm, as will making a loud noise. Of course, an airflow exceeding the normal airflow speed will also trigger an alarm, and detecting your body temperature of 37°C will also trigger an alarm. At that point, it won't be Stormtroopers returning, but Amoris.)"

The Tale of Nirvana: Staying True to One's Heart: Chapter 52 - Caught in the Act

"(I can help you with your temperature problem.)"

"(Temperature detectors detect abnormal local temperatures, so raising the air temperature to the same level as body temperature can fool the temperature detector.)"

Xiangzi found the control panel for the central air conditioning in the electrical room and set the temperature to 37°C.

Miao Meng felt a gust of hot air coming from the ventilation duct.

"(Damn it, couldn't you at least tell me before adjusting the temperature?)"

"(I've already reminded you.)"

Xiangzi shook his collar.

The electrical distribution room is already hot, so raising the temperature will also affect her.

(Tsk.)

"(Wait a minute, I feel like something's missing.)"

Meow Dream nestled in the ventilation duct, counting on her fingers. She felt that such comprehensive security facilities seemed to be missing something.

"(There are no cameras?)"

“（......）”

Leaving the power distribution room, Xiangzi walked with his head down through the crowd of ghosts, using the corner of his eye to confirm the location of the attracted enemy soldiers, and then bypassed their route.

"(Why are you suddenly so quiet? You're not really going to tell me about something as important as the camera, are you?!)"

The cat's dream roared in Xiangzi's mind.

"(Don't rush, the temperature hasn't reached 37°C yet.)"

Xiangzi pulled the M1911 out of its holster under his arm and simultaneously took out the silencer from his pocket and screwed it on.

Looking up, the words "Monitoring Room" were displayed in witch script above a room at the end of the corridor, with a white soldier standing guard at the door.

Silently following behind a ghost that moved along a predetermined path, Xiangzi lowered his hat brim and hid the gun in his bosom.

One step, two steps, three steps, four steps...

hum-

This lowest-level familiar noticed something was wrong in the corridor.

The number of ghosts seems to have increased. [Just one at Qisan Temple.]

The person walking in front was someone I had seen before, but the one following behind was new.

something wrong.