In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

One of the SWAT officers who remained in place told Naegi to keep watch on the other corridors without letting his guard down.

Tactical awareness that is already ingrained in their muscles.

"To die in the line of duty is the highest honor."

Seeing that no more fakes were falling for it, Miao Mu threw the half-burnt cigarette on the ground and stomped it out with his tactical boots.

"Have all the patients on this floor been evacuated?"

Miao Mu inquired over the radio.

"Sir, the third floor has been evacuated, but we have found traces of dummy activity in the second-floor area where we have set up a cordon."

"Quantity, scale?"

"Not yet determined."

"Any indication that the police are coming to provide backup?"

"...No, sir."

"If you don't have it, then you don't have it. Charlie, Delta team, come with me to the fourth floor."

With a severe shortage of manpower, we can only venture deep into enemy territory alone.

"Sir, don't go up yet, something's happened."

The leader of Charlie's squad suddenly raised his hand to stop the entire team from advancing.

Miao Mu ran her hand along the wall and realized something was wrong.

Water droplets.

They had reached the boundary between hot and cold, and in the area they had just been in... no artificial beings related to refrigeration were found.

Then that fake person might be just ahead.

The problem is that the corner ahead is where Chen Yi and Dr. Maruki fight back against the attackers.

Miao Mu looked down into the corridor and fell silent.

The hospital attack happened the day before yesterday, less than three days ago. Miao Mu couldn't possibly forget it.

"Sir, our squad will go and deal with that fake human. You take Delta squad up to evacuate the crowd."

Captain Charlie volunteered.

"...We must stop the enemy, and if necessary, prioritize ensuring our fighting force."

Miao Mu used a very euphemistic way of saying it, but everyone understood the general meaning.

If you can't win, you can run away.

Day 7: Chapter 269 Build-UP

Chapter 269

After that, we didn't encounter any more dummies or hear any gunshots.

"We've arrived."

Chen Yi opened his eyes when Lorelei slowed down.

He glanced at the time instinctively.

"2:30."

The entire journey took...40 minutes.

"I'm sorry, Commander..."

Lorelei's expression seemed somewhat guilty, but her eyes revealed an undeniable certainty.

"It's alright, just consider it as being held back by the fake man."

Chen Yi yawned. Sleeping for another ten minutes didn't seem to help him recover much, but he still appreciated Lorelei's kindness.

Looking out the car window at the ambulances driving away, Kang Chenyi slung his rifle over his shoulder, gathered his belongings, and got out of the car.

"Sorry, Chiba Municipal Hospital is currently under lockdown. Please seek medical attention at another hospital..."

The guard at the door raised his hand to stop Chen Yi, glanced at the strange setup of the three people with a robot, and said nothing.

They were all carrying guns, so they must be human.

"I'll find Officer Miao Mu and tell him that Chen Yi has arrived."

The guard hesitated visibly for a moment, then turned and discussed a few words with the other guards before extending his hand in a gesture of waiting.

"...Sorry, staff of 16LAB, we've kept you waiting. Please let us through."

The guard waved, and the gate opened a crack. Chen Yi turned his head to glance at Kroos and the other man, who were poised to attack, then cocked his rifle and went inside.

"Among the patients who were just transferred out, not many met the criteria."

Kroos said in the mental space.

"The only hope is that the other person is still in this hospital..."

Chen Yi sighed. His current goal was to try to get in touch with the seedlings first.

......

"Commander Miaomu, the hospital guards stopped a group of people at the entrance. The high school student in the lead claimed to be Chen Yi and said he knew you."

Just then, a signal came through on the radio; it was from the relay room.

“Mr. Chen?” Miao Mu was taken aback. Didn’t he say he was in Wakaba Ward?

"Can you confirm who is with him?"

"...A girl with long blue-gray hair, holding a rifle, her clothing...maybe a combat uniform? She's strapped with some tactical devices and throwables. Another is a brown-haired female sniper...carrying an anti-materiel sniper rifle, she doesn't seem to be struggling much...and a robot, holding a rifle...that's it."

"Alright, let it in."

Miao Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it's unclear where Chen Yi obtained the information about the municipal hospital... since he was carrying both a gun and a robot, it's clear he couldn't possibly be a fake.

On the other side, after entering the hospital, Chen Yi glanced at the other patients who were still waiting to be evacuated at the entrance.

Most patients appeared either terrified or exhausted, while a small number were so tormented by their illness that they were no longer able to react to the attacks by the fake people.

High-risk patients have already been transferred out; those still here are either hospitalized for chronic diseases or temporarily hospitalized due to accidents.

"Klukka, how can I determine who among them is in possession of the videotape?"

Chen Yi looked at the huge crowd and hesitated for a moment.

I rushed over in a moment of impulsiveness... I've arrived at the place, but how do I find the people?

"So far, none of the ambulances that have left have been attacked by the dummy figures that roam at night... It is certain that there was no one with the videotape in the vehicles that left."

Krocka analyzed.

In other words, they can monitor departing ambulances, and if one is attacked, it's highly likely to be the owner of the ambulance.

"commander!"

A patient in the crowd suddenly stood up, holding a pistol in his hand.

Lorelei threw her needle, which pierced through Lorelei's hand and gun, causing dark red blood to gush out.

The patient was quickly brought under control.

"Does this look familiar?"

Chen Yi asked Kroos, who was beside him.

“Wait a moment, let me gather some information about this patient,” Kroos replied.

"When the municipal hospital was attacked, this guy didn't leave through the evacuation route. I don't know if he hid or if it was another trap set by the tentacle pseudo-human."

"It blended into the crowd, but it didn't know I was coming... so it was waiting?"

The owner of the videotape is still upstairs.

"Commander, there's something on the surveillance cameras on the second and third floors."

After understanding, Kluke immediately shifted the focus of the monitoring from the ambulance to the hospital's monitoring system.

......

"Charlie's squad hasn't reported to the command center's intranet for a while..."

Miao Mu slowed down, her brow furrowed.

Chen Yi's arrival had distracted him, and for a moment he forgot about Charlie's team's movements.

Judging from the explosion that just came from downstairs... the chances of survival are slim.

"Sir, if Charlie's team becomes incapacitated, we'll be completely isolated at this level."

Delta's captain also realized this and said it very seriously.

Deep behind enemy lines, the difficulty of evacuating civilians increases dramatically.

"Repeat, we need squads to guard key routes, where can we send more people?"

Miao Mu inquired over the radio.

"Sir, the only squad we can spare right now is Alfa. There was just an attack in the lobby, and Bravo has been temporarily reassigned to maintain order."

"Have Alfa control the staircases in the west wing and guide the people on the fourth floor to evacuate."

Miao Mu knew without a doubt why the attack had occurred. This meant that the tentacle puppet was still there, or that the number of people controlled during the initial setup was far greater than anticipated.

"Can the Metropolitan Police Department still get more people involved?"

"There are almost no SWAT teams on standby at present."

"Go and borrow some people, quickly. Borrow some from the Metropolitan Police Department in other districts, the sooner the better."

Miao Mu directed, a glint in his eye.

"Contact the enemy!"

......

Chen Yi listened to the intermittent gunshots from upstairs and paid a little more attention.

This location... is roughly on the third floor, slightly to the west.

He's currently on the second floor, searching for the fake mannequin that appeared in the surveillance footage.

"Kroos, I don't remember Scarecrow having this ability, right?"

Chen Yi stopped at the corner, silently gazing into the darkness where the light couldn't reach.

The temperature was very low, far below the temperature of the hospital's air conditioning, and it was somewhat bone-chilling in the dimly lit environment.

"Commander, the scarecrow has been eliminated. There are no clues about a second scarecrow in the surveillance footage from different floors."

Klukka, brandishing her gun, stepped out to control the corridor, gesturing for Chen Yi to pass.

"I don't understand why some lights are off and some are on in a hospital... Has the power been cut off?"

“If we don’t underestimate the intelligence of this fake human… it certainly knows the necessity of cutting off the power,” Kluge explained.

"However, the power grid design of normal large public facilities is multi-layered. A single switch cannot completely disconnect the circuit of an entire building. There are several main switches, which control the building's power system in a crisscrossing manner, like a woven net."

This is also part of the insurance policy; if someone attempts to cut off the power, security forces can respond quickly to protect the remaining circuit breakers.

"However, this also means that if all the switches are broken, it will take much more effort to completely repair them."

Lorelei added.

I was wondering why horror games require so many machines to be repaired all the time; it turns out that's how the circuitry is designed.

Chen Yi mentally complained.

P.S.: Two typhoons coming in a row, how awful! The Pacific Ocean QAQ

Day Seven: Chapter 270 Charred Corpse