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

I bent my elbow and braced it against the mattress, trying to sit up using the support. But the mattress suddenly softened, and my entire forearm sank in, causing me to lose my balance.

"?" Chen Yi asked in confusion, and tried to pull his arm out, but there was no obstruction.

This mattress feels a bit strange.

He blinked, and the soft mattress suddenly transformed into grotesque flesh and blood, with him lying in the middle, his elbow less than a centimeter from the sharp teeth.

Fear gripped his mind; Chen Yi's pupils constricted, and he grabbed the edge of the bed with both hands and rolled off.

"Ho ho..."

Chen Yi, who had fallen to the ground, tried to stand up, only to find that his lower body was gone. He tried to speak, but the sound that came out was a low growl of pain and suffocation.

I am here.

A cold, emotionless voice rang in my ears, accompanied by heavy breathing.

Whose breath is that?

Chen Yi realized that he couldn't understand the sentence, but he could understand its meaning.

“They can’t see me, and I am here,” it repeated.

The sound was coming from under the bed, and Chen Yi looked in the direction of the sound.

Red, handless people with strange, sparse hair, festering, irregular skin, and inhuman eyes and mouths so large they seemed capable of swallowing heads.

He couldn't move; at that moment, fear gripped his mind, and his heart felt like it was about to stop beating.

Summer Vacation: Chapter 111 'Crow'

"Miss Kroos, how do you use hover brake...?"

After Chen Yi fell asleep, half of the control over the two fairies patrolling outside was handed over to Mai Sakurajima. At this moment, she was asking Kroos a question with a bit of guilt.

Although she watched Chen Yi tinker with these things all day, she had never actually tried them herself. Under her control, the fairy had already hit the wall three times.

"Pull the joystick back, press to rise... You need to learn these things, you'll need them when necessary." Kroos quickly demonstrated the preset trigger animations and said to her.

"oh oh......"

A muffled thud rang out, and everyone in the Service Department looked towards Chen Yi.

Chen Yi, who was originally sitting, is now lying on the ground, apparently having fallen asleep and accidentally tripped.

"Yi-kun, are you alright?" Mai Sakurajima asked softly, instinctively sensing that something was wrong with him.

"It's nothing." Chen Yi's voice was calm as he rubbed his temples.

"How much time has passed?" he asked, quickly regaining his composure and looking up.

“Less than half an hour,” Yukinoshita replied.

"The fog seems to have thinned a bit, and the visibility has improved," Kato Megumi said to everyone as she returned from the balcony.

“It seems we were right to choose not to take the risk.” Yukinoshita nodded, somewhat relieved.

"Just get through this period and everything will be alright," Yuihama comforted everyone.

......

When Nakagawa woke up this morning, he felt that the weather was a bit unusual.

"How strange, why is there such thick fog at this time of year?" Nakagawa muttered to himself as he pushed open the balcony door of the staff dormitory.

Quickly donning his security guard uniform, Nakagawa tucked his pistol into his belt and pushed open the dormitory door.

"Tomishima, Toriyama, I'm going to the gatehouse now. Don't get up too late, or they'll dock your pay." Nakagawa called out into the house, closing the door behind him. A cool breeze brushed against his neck, and he instinctively shrank back.

Nakagawa stared blankly at the scene in the corridor.

"Tsk... Is the hotel's dehumidification and ventilation system malfunctioning? Why is there so much fog in the corridor..." Nakagawa reached out and found that his hand had become somewhat blurry.

"Making me work in this weather, the boss is so heartless..." he couldn't help but complain.

Nakagawa buttoned up the uniform jacket provided by the hotel; the jacket wasn't very warm.

After passing through the lobby on the first floor, I entered the guard room and, as usual, checked the surveillance footage first.

"Huh?" Nakagawa asked in confusion, moving the mouse across the screen to try and bring up the specific details of the surveillance footage.

The screen freezes, and a 'No Signal' indicator pops up.

Press the shortcut key to switch to the next monitoring point, which also shows 'no signal'.

Next... without exception, the surveillance signals on the first floor of all hotels were cut off.

After hesitating for a moment, Nakagawa picked up the landline phone in the reception room and pressed the call button for the security center.

"Hello?" The voice that answered the phone was somewhat unfamiliar; it might be a newly transferred agent from the Crimson Lotus Guard.

"This is Nakagawa Itsumi, from Security Team 1 of the Tsukinomori Hotel. I need to report a problem we're having with the reception area..."

"I understand. Put aside the problems at hand for now. I urgently need manpower here. Come up to the security center now." The static interrupted for a moment, and the other end cut off Nakagawa's report, issuing an ambiguous order.

"Huh?" Nakagawa was completely bewildered as he looked at the phone that had been abruptly hung up.

But there's nothing he can do. He's just a lowly salaried worker, and he still has to pay the rent for the house his wife and children live in. He can only follow orders from above... As for the hotel holding him responsible for not guarding the reception area... hopefully Honglian can help him explain.

Thinking of this, Nakagawa remembered the two dead pigs sleeping soundly in the staff dormitory and made a phone call directly.

"Dudududu..."

"Didn't answer? Those two bastards must have gone drinking again last night, damn it..." Nakagawa cursed, pressed the elevator button and waited, while searching his contact list for other colleagues to ask if anyone could cover for him.

The elevator doors opened, and Nakagawa stepped inside, pressing the button for the tenth floor.

"Boom."

As the elevator ascended, it would occasionally pause as if it had bumped into something, and Nakagawa felt a strange sense of unease. He placed his hand on the elevator car wall, feeling the vibrations.

"Something feels off all day..."

He muttered to himself.

The elevator doors opened, and Nakagawa stepped out, his body stiffening abruptly as his feet touched the soft carpet.

The smell of blood was too strong, and it was too quiet.

Something's wrong; there's danger here.

Nakagawa instinctively took a step back and turned to enter the elevator.

—A huge, petal-shaped mouth was slowly descending from the top of the elevator car.

"Fake...!" Nakagawa took off running, heading towards the security center's office.

He pulled the pistol from his belt, cocked it, and fired wildly behind him without even aiming.

Gunshots echoed through the narrow corridor, with only Nakagawa's own panting and footsteps.

"They didn't chase after us...?" Nakagawa gasped for breath, feeling a little dizzy. He quickly checked his bearings and then hurried toward the security center.

"The hotel has been hacked? How come we didn't receive any notification... Where is the management?" Nakagawa pondered as he walked.

Arrived.

Nakagawa abruptly stopped in front of the door.

He didn't push the door open, because it was already ajar.

The smell of blood is strongest here.

Nakagawa believes he has already earned his salary.

So he turned and ran toward the fire escape, pushed open the fire door, and staggered downstairs.

Ninth floor, eighth floor...

Stopping in the stairwell on the seventh floor, Nakagawa slowed his pace and couldn't help but pant heavily.

With a loud bang, he instinctively turned around and saw that the fire door on the seventh floor had been smashed open by a long, black shadow, which was now staring straight at him.

Nakagawa drew his gun and fired at the fake man, but the man was faster. His powerful forelimbs slammed Nakagawa against the wall, leaving him dazed and confused.

Just before he lost consciousness, he saw a small aircraft fly in through the gap between the deformed fire doors.

......

The fog eventually dissipated to the point where the street below could be seen clearly.

Faintly, the sound of sirens could already be heard, growing louder as they approached.

"Help! The rescue team is here! Run!" someone shouted in the corridor, and the noisy footsteps from upstairs and downstairs began to grow louder.

"Shall we go down too?" Yuihama urged, packing her luggage.

Pulling open a crack in the door, Chen Yi looked out and saw travelers in various clothes crowded in the corridor, each with a look of joy at surviving a disaster.

Some doors showed no signs of being opened, while others had been forcibly broken open, obscuring the interior and suggesting that the victims had likely perished.

Summer Vacation: Chapter 112 Dawn (Bonus Chapter)

Chapter 112

“We… escaped…” Standing in the plaza outside the hotel, Yuihama looked somewhat dazed.

Looking around from the snow, there were ambulances and volunteers everywhere, carrying stretchers out one by one.

The rescuers ignored the unharmed members of the Service Department, or rather, they were eager for the uninjured crowd to leave as soon as possible, because there might still be injured people inside waiting for rescue.

Several black armored vehicles pulled up one after another in the hotel square. They seemed to be the experts who had come to a complete stop. Before the vehicles had even come to a complete stop, special forces soldiers wearing chemical protective suits jumped out of the vehicles and quickly formed a line and rushed into the hotel building.

"Never mind them, let's go." Hiratsuka Shizuka twirled the car keys in her hand twice, waking up the group who were generally in a bad mood.

"Get some rest and don't think about this."

After loading the items into the car, Chen Yi looked at the half-empty trunk and put his suitcase in it.

Apart from Hiratsuka-sensei and Kato Megumi, who were already in the guest room, and Chen Yi, who had mixed up all sorts of equipment and clothes, the others were too busy escaping to bring any luggage. It's safe to say that their trip to Izu is going to end prematurely.

No, even if I didn't lose any luggage, after a day like this, I probably wouldn't be in the mood to continue traveling.

After closing the trunk door, Chen Yi opened the car door and sat in the last seat, closing his eyes and silently taking stock of the losses from this incident.

Two fairies were blown up, and at the same time, no one was injured in half a day, which was a very lucky ending.

"It's about 1:30 now... We'll get back around 4 or 5. Okay, get in the car, we can go home tonight." Hiratsuka Shizuka tapped the steering wheel, calling to the others.

"Ugh... I can finally go back..." Yui sat down, relaxed, glanced at the others, and then turned away to secretly wipe her tears.

The exhausted crowd had no desire to communicate and sat silently in their seats, closing their eyes for a short rest.

"Yi-kun, let me sleep on your shoulder for a while." Mai Sakurajima went to the back seat with practiced ease, sat by the window, and leaned against him without fastening her seatbelt.

"..." Chen Yi was too lazy to say anything. Just like when he came, he reached over the other person, grabbed the seat belt on the side of the window, pulled it over, and fastened it in the buckle.

Mai Sakurajima stared straight at him, her eyes unblinking.

"Thank you." After Chen Yi was settled, she leaned close to his ear and blew air into his ear.

“...Come by yourself next time.” She tilted her head to the side, subtly rejecting Mai Sakurajima’s teasing.

Chen Yi's phone vibrated, and when he turned on the screen, he saw that it was a message from Kato Megumi.

'That Ms. X from before, right? Was she injured?'

How could Kato still remember?

A hint of doubt flashed across Chen Yi's face, but he quickly replied to her with his fingers.

No, thank you for your concern.

"Oh, I'll thank Ms. X on behalf of everyone this time," said Kato Megumi.

In her eyes, Miss X's presence was already quite obvious, especially when Chen Jun went to find Yotsuya and Kasumigaoka. He deliberately left the guitar case and rifle in the guest room, which was a backup plan for Miss X.

She had also looked at the contents of the guitar case; most of the items were not things that one could immediately master, so it was quite obvious who it was intended for.

Therefore, Kato Megumi was genuinely grateful to Ms. X for protecting them.

"Kato Megumi said she appreciates your protection of them," Chen Yi said to Sakurajima Mai, who was still awake.

"No..." Sakurajima Mai turned her head slightly away, preventing Chen Yi from seeing her expression.