Asura in Arknights

"Hmm? Could it be that Wu Zhou... and his men have caught up with us?"

Aivona, the Kuranta girl, immediately became nervous.

"Not those people."

Sona shook her head. "It's those guys who were causing trouble a while ago. They somehow managed to recruit a group of workers and even brought in some crude weapons. They look like they're here to cause trouble."

Just as Sona finished speaking, a loud bang came from outside, and they all felt the ground tremble slightly.

The bakery's glass shattered instantly, scattering across the floor with a crash.

"Have they gone mad? What place did they blow up?"

Another light brown-haired Zalak girl looked incredulous.

"Who knows... Judging from the noise, could they have blown up the factory?"

Sona's face showed obvious annoyance, then she turned to the Liberian girl on the other side and asked, "Justina, did you hear something?"

The girl named Justina shook her head and said, "It's a mess, they seem to be smashing something."

The safe house was well soundproofed; they could only hear a muffled commotion from the street outside and couldn't figure out what was happening.

“Those people are vandalizing the shops on this street.”

Li Ang suddenly spoke up, and naturally, he attracted everyone's attention: "They vandalized public facilities on the street, smashed open shop doors, and took everything they could from the shops."

"How did you know? How could you know what's happening outside?" Sona asked in surprise.

Pointing to his head, Li Ang said, "I can use a detection spell to roughly know what's happening outside."

“Your cash register has been smashed open. Not only Mark, but all the bread has been taken.”

Li Ang shrugged. "And the things I just bought too."

I was hoping to try these young girls' cooking skills, but someone else snatched them away... It's really speechless.

"By the way, the people outside are preparing to smash down the kitchen door."

As Li Ang finished speaking, a loud banging sound came from the door, startling the boy named Fei Lin who was leaning against it.

However, this kind of pure metal door is not something that can be easily destroyed. After trying a few more times, the people outside found that they had only broken through the disguise on the door without leaving a single mark, so they left disappointed.

"Those bastards!"

Upon hearing Li Ang mention that their day's revenue had been stolen, Aivona jumped up, pulled out a long spear from somewhere, and was ready to fight the people outside to the death.

"I'm going to teach those bastards a lesson they won't forget!! This is money we worked so hard to earn!"

“Fool,” Granati said slowly, “what’s the point of rushing in now? To kill those people?”

Evonna's face flushed red instantly, and she shouted angrily, "Grenati, you bastard! I just wanted to teach them a lesson!"

With just a few casual words from Granati, Evona was immediately enraged, and the two of them forgot about what was happening outside and started arguing.

It seems this kind of thing has happened quite often before.

At the same time, Li Ang's senses were also clearly capturing everything happening outside.

This is a riot, a riot by the infected.

These infected people... I really don't know what got into them. They picked up a bunch of steel bars, iron rods, and crude knives, and then rushed into the streets, vandalizing the surrounding public facilities.

Some people were shouting that they needed the same working conditions as ordinary people, while quickly stuffing Mark into their pockets.

Some people shouted, "The lives of the infected are lives too!", yet they didn't hesitate to knock down their infected compatriots and snatch the keys from their hands.

Some people... simply laughed out loud, venting their emotions on everything around them.

The streets outside had completely turned into a frenzy of free shopping, and the infected people nearby, seeing this, also had inappropriate thoughts and joined in the revelry.

After telling everyone what he had observed, Li Ang asked Sona, "Does this kind of thing happen often on this plot of land?"

"how is this possible?"

Sona shook her head repeatedly, "We've lived here for over three months and nothing like this has ever happened before."

More than three months? It's much earlier than Li Ang had imagined.

They should be among the earliest patients received in this area. I didn't expect that they didn't escape when the Unarmored Alliance was wiped out. It seems that the boy Philin wasn't just making things up as the 'leader'. Could it be that they have really secretly formed an Infected Knights Order?

Li Ang was somewhat surprised.

However, what annoys him even more now is the group of infected people outside.

Are these people's brains filled with idiots? We finally gave them a chance, and they did something so stupid, further damaging the image of infected people in the eyes of ordinary people... They're hopeless!

He lowered his head and typed a text message to Hintraya, asking her to contact Rose Newspapers to cover up the news. He also sent a message to Shining, asking her to bring people to handle the scene.

After doing all this, Li Ang turned his attention back to the girls.

They clearly knew a lot of inside information.

Chapter Sixteen: Actually, I'm a Detective

"Are we really not going out to do anything?" Evona said anxiously.

This feeling of being stuck in a safe house and unable to do anything is absolutely awful.

“No,” Justina said calmly. “We don’t need to do anything outside.”

"That's right, the knights on duty have arrived."

Even the most inexperienced apprentice knight wears armor made of metal and hard leather, wields swords produced by the armory, and has received formal knight training. He could easily defeat a thug wielding a club.

This is what angered Li Ang: these idiots did nothing but ruin the efforts of other infected people over the past few months.

After looting the shops, how could they possibly escape from Plot Zero? This isn't an old town with complex terrain due to multiple expansions, where you can easily see where people are going.

The infected people who make a living on this street are in trouble; they will have to bear all the losses caused by these rioters themselves.

Not everyone deserves to be saved, and Li Ang is very clear about that.

However... after the screening process, it's perfectly normal for one or two unruly scumbags to occasionally emerge, but it's a bit strange for such a large number to suddenly appear.

However, Li Ang did not find any traces of Originium Arts on these thugs, which puzzled him.

I sensed that Shining had personally arrived here, and the Knight and Rhodes Island operators worked together to suppress the group of thugs.

Rhodes Island operators might show mercy because they are also infected, but the knights who hate infected don't have so many concerns. If they resist even slightly, they will end up with a bloody wound.

Infected individuals are dangerous; even those who have only activated the most rudimentary Originium Arts possess the ability to kill others instantly.

Being rudimentary doesn't mean it's ineffective; even slightly thinner metal armor might not be able to withstand that kind of pure energy release.

In less than ten minutes, hundreds of rioters were completely suppressed. The injured were sent to the Central Hospital for treatment, while the uninjured were thrown into prison.

This news will be covered up no matter what. Most of the council's directors had a hand in the Infected Persons Act, and they had no reason to report it and risk offending themselves.

“Everyone has left, you can go out now,” Li Ang said.

Sona frowned and glanced at him, then stepped forward and opened the kitchen door.

What they saw was a messy bakery.

The cash register was smashed to pieces, the Mark inside had been looted, the floor was covered with shards of glass, and even the cabinets had been deliberately pushed over, with the pastries that were originally inside scattered all over the floor, leaving countless black footprints.

Blood was scattered on the street, and a strong smell of blood filled the air, completely overpowering the original aroma in the bakery.

"That's so unfair..."

Seeing this scene, Adele's eyes were filled with sympathy.

"Damn bastard!"

Seeing her hard work ruined like this, the impulsive Evona wanted nothing more than to fight those guys for three hundred rounds.

Granati, who usually didn't get along with her, didn't cause any trouble for Evona this time. She pursed her lips tightly, and her eyes gradually turned cold.

After scanning the scene with his senses, Li Ang still couldn't find any evidence that the rioters were under control.

Anyone with a modicum of sense who did this wouldn't have mingled with those thugs.

As Li Ang pondered this question, he felt something sharp and pointed pressing against his lower back.

Sona also took out her weapon from the safe house, a rather rare single-edged sword, and quietly crept up behind Li Ang.

Leon felt no tension whatsoever and calmly asked, "Miss Sona, what are you planning to do?"

"Don't move! I can't guarantee my hands won't shake... and neither can yours!"

Sona coldly warned Leon and Adele, then asked, "Who exactly are you?"

Not only her, but the other three also took out their weapons, while only little Felin looked on in bewilderment at the situation.

"I'm just an ordinary infected person. I heard that Oripathy can be treated here, so I came to check it out."

Do you think I'd believe that?

He pushed the blade forward half a centimeter, and the tip of the sword pierced through the T-shirt, leaving a small dent in the skin on Li Ang's back.

Inserting the sword tip half a centimeter into the skin won't cause much damage, but the icy, bone-chilling sensation is enough to make the other person tell her everything she wants to know.

The idea was good, but Sona's sword didn't even break the skin.

This force, combined with ordinary mass-produced weapons, was not enough to break through Li Ang's body defenses.

Sona was unaware of this; in her mind, there was no skin tough enough to withstand a sword's edge.

"Tell me your identity honestly. The magic you just used... is not something an ordinary person can possess."

Having survived the brutal knightly competition, Sona is no longer the clueless country girl she once was.

Detection spells... are extremely rare, no matter where they are.

"Okay, okay, I surrender."

Li Ang raised his hands, feigning helplessness, and said, "Actually, you should know that I didn't mean any harm."

“State your identity and purpose.”

Sona's tone remained cold, but she subtly withdrew her single-edged sword slightly.

Indeed, she could not sense any malice from the two people's actions.

Sona was just being overly sensitive and paranoid because she was being chased by the Unarmored Alliance.

"Actually, I'm a detective, and that's my wife and assistant over there."

When fabricating this lie, Li Ang didn't even blink. "We came to Plot Zero to investigate some things, and we found out that your situation was purely coincidental."

The identities of detective and reporter are incredibly useful; even if others have doubts, they simply won't bother to verify them.

"Although you disguised yourselves very well, there are still many differences between trained people and ordinary people in some details of daily life, such as the way they walk and the way they move their arms. You'd better pay attention if you observe carefully."

"...What do you want to know?"

Feeling the single-edged sword that had been pressed against his lower back being withdrawn, a smile appeared on Li Ang's face.

"For example, the inside story of that riot just now."

“I think…this must be related to what I’m investigating.”

Chapter Seventeen: Flame Tail

"How will you prove you're not an assassin sent by the Unarmored Alliance?"

Faced with Sona's question, Li Ang feigned surprise and replied,

"Don't you know? The Unarmored Alliance was completely eradicated by the Supervisory Board a few months ago. Even if the Federation wants to find a new black glove, three months is far from enough."

"Infected knights who ran away on their own... If you hadn't run away back then, you might have been recruited to form a new Unarmored Alliance by now."

Is there a more convenient tool than the infected? Their identities are clandestine, and their strength is quite considerable; many members of the Unarmored Alliance were previously infected.

The four girls looked at each other in bewilderment.

After some persuasion, Li Ang had initially gained the trust of Sona and the others.

Yes, Adele, their beautiful assistant, really made a good impression on them.

Without exception, they were all unlucky souls who were tricked by the federation into signing decades-long contracts.

If nothing unexpected happens, their final fate will likely be endless exploitation, and they will eventually die in some illegal competition due to an accident.

However, the natural disaster more than three months ago gave them an opportunity. Taking advantage of the chaos at the beginning of the lockdown, these courageous girls seized the opportunity, successfully killed those unscrupulous bosses, and escaped from the arena.

At that time, the Unarmored Alliance was locked in a fierce battle with the Conquering Knights and had no time to pay attention to these few minor characters who had fled.