The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

"dong dong dong..."

Silence, silence close to death.

Carly was not in a hurry, but waited quietly for a while, then knocked on the door again:

"dong dong dong..."

There was still dead silence, and no sound came from the room.

Strange...he died in his sleep?

Carly put her ear to the door and listened carefully, but heard nothing.

She moved her fingers slightly, and a few blue lights came in from under the door, but lost contact the moment they entered the room.

Something is wrong... This is definitely not right...

Carly took two steps back gently, put the pistol back to her waist, and then ejected the steam revolver.

She removed all the factor energy bullets from the revolver magazine, then took out a bullet that was flashing red light from the platform and loaded it into the magazine.

——The last [Thorn] bullet.

I have already used two of the three thorns Lian gave me. This is the last one. I shouldn't have used it so hastily...

Although the crisis has not yet manifested itself, the aura... is obvious...

"..."

After loading was complete, Carly took a deep breath and allowed the [Ice Blue Light] to accumulate power around her body.

Then, she rushed towards the door.

"Oh!"

The moment the door opened, Carly raised the steam revolver sharply, pointed it straight ahead, and was ready to pull the trigger at any time.

However, there was nothing.

"..."

Chadwick's room was empty, neatly furnished, and well-appointed, with the style of any E.T.L.

Everything on the desk was neatly placed: a computer, a few quills, a stack of notebooks, and a cup of steaming coffee, as if it had just been brought to the table.

Everything was normal except there was no one.

"..."

Carly looked around the office but couldn't find any sign of Chadwick.

It was as if...he had disappeared out of thin air...

"strangeness..."

Carly walked toward the desk cautiously. She walked around to Chadwick's wooden chair with engraved patterns and looked at everything on the desk warily.

She soon discovered the clue: a half-smoked cigar had fallen on the table, with bits of ash splattering and sparks still flashing.

That's right... Chadwick disappeared inexplicably... and he disappeared out of thin air...

How is that possible? Is it reasonable that a shadow disappears in an instant in a closed room?

"..."

Carly did not dwell on thinking about these things. She quickly released the [Little Birds], quickly connected to Chadwick's computer, and quickly started searching for information related to the [Starry Sky Ladder Project] and [Black Island].

Soon, she found the relevant files and copied them to her own database.

Now that I have the information, even if Chadwick disappears, it has nothing to do with me...

Although this matter is a bit strange, it seems that it has turned out to be a good situation for me in the end...

Carly thought so and silently put the little bird back into her sleeve.

However, as soon as this action was over, she realized something was wrong——

——The little bird was not disturbed?

I was clearly unable to enter the office during the reconnaissance just now, so why am I unable to enter the office now?

With a sense of crisis, Carly quickly left her desk and heard a creepy groan:

"...Harry...Maria...Penny..."

The low hum did not sound like it came from a human mouth, but more like the harsh frequency created by the friction of some bones that just happened to make up human language.

What horrified Carly was that the source of the sound was above her head.

——She didn't even look up.

6) Black Angel (Part 4)

The moment she heard that inhuman voice, Carly felt her body stiffen.

Why? Did I neglect it? Or...

"squeak------"

A sharp sound came from above her head, and Carly felt her legs go weak, and she fell to the ground inexplicably.

How come...

Liquid flowed down her cheek, and Carly touched her face and found that it was tears.

I don't know when it started, but before she even realized it, she started crying.

This was the body's natural reaction, which directly triggered an instinctive reaction without even passing through Carly's consciousness.

It's as if...the body and soul were separated.

"Ah...ah ah..."

Carly fell to the ground with a groan. The ominous feeling above her head became stronger and stronger, but she couldn't move at all.

Seeing that her consciousness was about to fall into darkness, Carly whispered with her last bit of strength:

"Perlis..."

The moment she said this, she shuddered as if she had woken up from a dream.

——This is the trigger word that Grace implanted for her using the [Deep Dive Cradle], which is connected with the state of "awake".

In this precious moment of wakefulness, Carly pressed a button on her waist without hesitation.

"Om-"

Dots of blue light lit up on the contours of Carly's muscles, and the ["Star Track" Current Enhancement System] injected electric current into Carly's body, making her ice-blue eyes almost glow.

At this moment, Carly felt her muscles briefly regain strength, enough for her to lunge forward.

She used all her strength to escape from the office before the terrifying pressure destroyed her sanity again.

When the pressure that seemed to destroy her sanity disappeared, Carly suddenly pulled out a syringe from the platform on her waist and stabbed it into her arm.

"what...!"

The sight in front of her eyes instantly became twice as clear, and her concentration was strengthened to the extreme. Taking this opportunity, Carly opened the [Star Track] to the highest setting and ran desperately in the corridor.

She heard a deadly rustling sound behind her, as if something was following her like a shadow.

Carly didn't dare look back, her intuition told her that it wasn't even something she should see.

If you see it, you will die.

"squeak--"

After running all the way through the corridor, Carly saw a window not far away, and decisively drew the pistol from her waist and pulled the trigger repeatedly:

"Clap clap clap-"

The glass shattered, and Carly jumped up, activating the strong factor shield while floating in the air.

She fell to the ground from a height of three or four floors, rolled lightly, landed safely under the protection of the factor shield, and then escaped.

There was no time to think about anything else. Carly only had one thought in her mind:

run.

The further you run, the better.

......

"Zizi-"

In a dark alley corner, the [Steam Military Police] chased a boiling shadow and blocked it in a dead end.

However, when the shadow was in a dead end, it trembled slightly, and then turned into bubbles under the space and dissipated.

"..."

The [Steam Military Police] turned around silently. At the same time, a slightly ethereal voice came from the radio:

"Achilles, the fish are ashore (E.T.L.)"

The moment the voice of the [Church] was transmitted, the [Steam Gendarmerie] leaped up and jumped onto the red brick roof of the port area under the propulsion of steam.

He looked towards the coastline, and saw countless black shadows floating and sinking among the waves under the dark clouds, sweeping towards the shore like a swarm of fish.

If you look closely, you will see similar black shadows everywhere among the surging waves, as if the projection of the entire ocean is heading towards the coast.

The workers in the forge ran out of the factory in a panic, running around the streets of the port area. The sky above the ocean current was gradually covered by dark clouds, and a low humming sound that seemed to be contained in space was spreading along the northern coast of Hillster.

"..."

[Steam Military Police] White gas burst out from the complex armor. Seven or eight cans filled with red solution were exposed from between the gear structures, emitting white gas as if cooling down.

"Level 3 threat to the royal family, requesting reinforcements." Achilles' voice carried a heavy metal echo.

The [Holy Church] was silent for a while before a brief and indifferent reply came:

"The [Steam Gendarmerie] has entered the cloud layer (E.Tran language)."

Upon hearing this, the exposed solution tank on the body of [Steam Gendarmerie] Achilles Oldington retracted back into his body, and the gear structure changed.

Then, he leaped up, driven by a striking white steam, straight into the dark cloud-covered sky -

"boom--"

......

After stumbling away from the port area, Carly stopped in an alley near the luxury hotel, bent over and gasped.

The side effects of the [Star Track] enhancement system made her muscles twitch and ache. She quickly took out a tube of blue inhibitor from her waist, swallowed it in one gulp, and muttered softly:

"Perlis..."

As soon as the trigger word came out, her vision became much clearer. Even though her forehead was still throbbing with pain, at least she could see everything clearly.

What's that in Chadwick's office? Is that him?

Harry...Maria...Penny...These sound like the names of his relatives, could it really be him?

So why is he on the ceiling? And why...

Carly recalled how she felt at that time, her shoulders trembled slightly, and she hugged her arms involuntarily.

The rain fell through the narrow gap in the sky over the alley, dripping onto the girl's hair, then flowing down her neck into her clothes, making her feel icy cold.

People on the street were discussing something that sounded uneasy. A strange atmosphere spread across the streets of Hillster, just like the ubiquitous drizzle.

They were whispering, and their breathing seemed to be tinged with fear.

"..."

Carly gently wiped the rain off her head and took a deep breath of the humid air to calm herself down.

Anyway, now that we have received Chadwick's information, let's return to the hostel and get ready...

Thinking of this, Carly first activated the transmitters she had set up in the port area, and then carefully returned to the inn.

The waiter and the housekeeper behind the counter seemed to have received some news as well, and were talking in low voices, not even glancing at Carly. Taking this opportunity, Carly carefully climbed the stairs and came to her room door.

She didn't rush in, but first confirmed all the alarm systems that had been set up earlier: the cordon had not been breached, the camera showed that everything was normal in the room, and no one had come in during the time Carly was away.

It seems that this stronghold is still safe for the time being.