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

"That's one way to understand it."

She didn't ask any more questions after that.

"Chen Jun? You're here. Come and help me..." A familiar voice came from the thick fog, and the two men froze.

......

After the explosion, they seemed to be out of danger. The dummy outside the door didn't knock again; it was quiet, and it was unclear whether it had left or was holding back something.

Yotsuya Miko listlessly opened the magazine, then closed it again, repeating this process.

"Yotsuya-kun, Hiratsuka-sensei said he's coming to meet us." Kasumigaoka, who had been chatting with people in the group chat, received the message and attracted the attention of Yotsuya Miko, who was leaning against the wall.

"Hiratsuka-sensei said he's coming? Why?" Yotsuya Miko asked, puzzled.

"Yukinoshita said they've already reunited, and we're the only two missing," Kasumigaoka replied.

"That......"

"Yotsuya-kun, Kasumigaoka-kun, open the door and come out, I've arrived."

It's Hiratsuka-sensei's voice.

"..." The two fell silent, neither of them speaking.

No sooner had they finished speaking than they arrived. Now even Kasumigaoka no longer trusted the fake man's ability to disguise himself.

......

Thinking the imposter was in the fog, Hiratsuka Shizuka immediately raised her gun and fired two quick shots in the direction of the sound, but she did not hit the flesh.

Chen Yi remained silent; in the fused scene, there was nothing in the direction from which the sound came.

"Chen, do you feel a little cold right now?" Hiratsuka Shizuka asked abruptly.

"Klukka, am I being affected mentally?" Chen Yi was taken aback for a moment, then quickly calmed down and tried to analyze the situation.

"Commander, I haven't detected any mental interference directly affecting you yet."

"In other words, it's not a mental interference ability like the one in the rain..."

Chen Yi placed his hand on the side button of the VR device and brought up and checked the data that he didn't usually need.

"Temperature abnormality, below room temperature..."

The UI displays the collected real-time temperature data, which is four degrees lower than half an hour ago.

"Thermal imaging cannot see it, but it can affect room temperature and interfere with temperature difference sensing."

"Even with low-light night vision devices... we can't see anything; it's all thick fog here."

He's achieved dual-band stealth... Chen Yi began to suspect that something was preparing a countermeasure against him based on the equipment he possessed.

“The temperature is dropping little by little, which means we may now be in their territory,” Hiratsuka Shizuka analyzed.

"Commander, there's another way," Kluge's voice rang out.

"..."

By the way, VR devices are much more than just that.

Chen Yi raised his hand and pressed the button on the side. The screen went black, then a few green pixels lit up again, outlining a human figure.

Does it seem to be coming from the wrong direction? The thought popped into my head and then vanished in an instant.

Without hesitation, Chen Yi opened fire instantly, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

"...How did you find out?" Hiratsuka Shizuka fell silent. From her perspective, Chen Yi first indicated that he had no way to do it, and then abruptly opened fire and killed the other party.

"Radar, an incredible piece of technology from Futaba," Chen Yi boasted.

"Let's keep going."

......

Clearly, this time the fake manipulator seems to be planning to force its way in.

"Thump, thump, click—"

The wooden door couldn't hold up anymore.

The instant the door was breached, Yotsuya raised his RSH-12 and opened fire.

The RSH-12 fires 12.7 caliber bullets with a remarkably penetrating sound, as do the bullets themselves.

The bullet instantly tore the dummy's limbs apart, causing it to fall uncontrollably to one side, crash to the ground, and then struggle to get up again.

"Bang, bang!"

Despite her numb wrist, Yotsuya Miko fired two shots, pinning the fake mannequin to the ground.

"Hoo..." After waiting for a while, the other person didn't get up again. Just as she slightly lowered her outstretched hand and opened the magazine to pry out the empty cartridge cases...

"Roar--!"

"Yotsuya-kun!" Kasumigaoka raised his gun and fired, the bullets flying like water towards the long black figure at the door.

However, the results were minimal, as Kasumigaoka was too tense and only a few bullets hit the opponent.

At the critical moment, two distinct gunshots rang out one after the other.

Summer Vacation: Chapter 108 The Return Journey

"Shooting in a narrow corridor really hurts your ears, damn it..." Chen Yi's head was buzzing from the sound of the M1A, and he shook his head and complained.

“Why didn’t you find it noisy before?” Hiratsuka Shizuka replied.

"You didn't shoot right next to my ear before, what if I went deaf?"

"I'll pay for the medical expenses, okay?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Kasumigaoka relaxed, and tears streamed down her face.

"Why is it you again?" Chen Yi looked at the long black shadow on the floor, fired two more shots, and only felt relieved after completely smashing its head.

"Have you encountered this before?" Hiratsuka Shizuka tilted her head.

"Guess where the first explosion came from?"

"Oh, I see." Hiratsuka Shizuka remembered and replied casually.

"Aren't you two coming out yet? It's getting dangerous, we'd better get out of here." Chen Yi shouted into the house, his gaze never leaving the long, black figure.

The wound from the shooting was slowly corroding, and upon closer inspection, the details were even more gruesome.

"Klukka, do you think I can control the rate of corrosion?" Chen Yi suddenly had a thought.

“Commander, you just need to focus,” Kluka replied.

Hearing this, Chen Yi blinked and stared intently at the wound. He slowly realized that the pseudo-human's skin was indeed festering much faster. In less than ten seconds, the bone under the head muscles was eroded through.

"I feel a bit drained." Rubbing his eyelids, Chen Yi pulled his attention away and took out two fairy items from his waist belt, placing them in the hands of Yotsuya Miko and Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"Let's go back first, and we'll talk about it later."

"Your superpower...can I learn it?" Hiratsuka Shizuka, who had been watching Chen Yi's actions, asked cautiously with a hint of excitement.

"I don't know, I don't even know where it came from," Chen Yi replied evasively.

"Alright." Hiratsuka Shizuka didn't ask any further questions and walked back the way she came.

"Commander, did you destroy all the surveillance cameras on the way here?" Kroos suddenly asked.

"...You mean to say?"

......

"Hey, Yukinoshita, we're back."

Hiratsuka Shizuka's voice came from outside the door.

"Don't you guys think this mimicry is sometimes pretty stupid?" Yuihama asked softly to Kato Megumi and Yukinoshita beside her.

"Same old wine in new bottles." Yukinoshita nodded, picking up the pistol on the table to prevent the other party from breaking down the door.

Mai Sakurajima watched their interaction, then sat alone by her guitar case, glancing towards the door. She held a rifle in one hand and Chen Yi's phone tightly in the other, turning on the control panel.

Speaking of which...

She remembered that Chen Yi had always controlled the fairies and messengers with his mobile phone, so she opened her phone to see if she could connect to the fairies next to Chen Yi.

It seems like it could work?

The screen switched to a scene called 'Fairy Number One,' which was in a thick fog and had no sound.

"Ms. Sakurajima?"

A line of text appears on the screen.

?

Is this Ms. Kroos? How should I reply?

Sakurajima Mai looked at the simple UI but couldn't find the button to input information.

"Chen Yi didn't set up any specific text command input. Just bring up the main console and press the direction keys. Next, I'm going to ask you some questions. If you know the answer, press up; if not, press down. If you don't know, don't press anything. Understand?"

Kroos immediately thought of exchanging information.

Mai Sakurajima brought up the main console and pressed the up button.

"You've encountered fake humans over there?"

Kruka's first question went straight to the heart of the matter.

'Yes.'

"It's everywhere." Kroos frowned, as if she had discovered some pattern.

"Has it been there for more than five minutes?"

'no.'

In other words, it appeared after they left and went to Yotsuya's place, and they are on their way back now.

Could it be that they've been monitoring this pattern all along?

Kroos immediately realized that there was far more than one surveillance dummy.

So she quickly relayed the information to Chen Yi.

After sorting out all his thoughts, Chen Yi remained silent for a moment before decisively activating thermal fusion to penetrate all the surveillance cameras in his field of vision.

How come I didn't realize that before...?

It is still difficult for people to quickly adapt to drastically different environments, especially when the danger comes from ordinary objects that are closely related to their daily lives.

"What is this?" As she walked around the corner, Hiratsuka Shizuka stared at the security camera on the ground, where black liquid was slowly flowing out, and paused for a moment.

"How was it discovered?"

"We discovered it before; the fake people disguised as us are recording us through them." Chen Yi kicked it away, and the metal shell hit the wall with a crisp sound.

"If we encounter surveillance cameras later, we should kill the wrong one rather than let the right one go, because we have no idea whether it is a surveillance camera or not," Chen Yi instructed the two people behind him.

"Mmm." Yotsuya Miko nodded.

Returning to the fork in the road, following the direction they came from, Chen Yi and the others quickly returned to Hiratsuka Shizuka's guest room... or so they thought.

"Wrong way?"

Chen Yi looked at the fairy hovering in mid-air. Logically speaking, since the task of drawing the map was given to Kroos, it was even less likely that something would go wrong.

"That doesn't make sense. How could the two of us get lost together? Is there some kind of pseudo-human that affects our sense of direction?" Hiratsuka Shizuka said, slightly annoyed.

"You know, if the surveillance cameras are fake people, the bed is fake people, the radio is fake people... is it possible that the walls could also be fake people?" Kasumigaoka's novelist mind posed a terrifying conjecture.

Everyone held their breath.

Chen Yi raised his gun and fired at the hollow wooden wall next to him, then focused on corroding the bullet hole to enlarge it.

“Commander, these are two thin wooden boards with a hollow space in between. This means that something can indeed live here and might even be able to move the wall.” Kroos circled the gap twice, confirming Kasumigaoka’s guess.

"Senior, maybe you really are a genius." Chen Yi got goosebumps and quickly fired a few shots, corroding a hole about the height of a person so that the group could cross directly to the other side.

"Klukka, can we fly in and explore inside?" Chen Yi looked at the hollow space between the wooden planks, placed his palm horizontally on it to measure, and it was about five or six centimeters.