Ark Heroine Development Plan

"Yes, really."

Her team member nodded with a pale face and a forced smile, the veins bulging on his hand gripping the knife handle.

When the mission order was first issued, everyone thought it was an exaggeration. Whether it was the number of people dispatched or the scope of dispersing idle personnel, its scale was already close to a large war.

But it turns out that whether it was just a lucky coincidence or they were truly far-sighted, their decision to go all out this time was not wrong.

Even more, he underestimated the danger of the other party.

I haven't even seen the other person's face and it's already like this. If I fight him face to face... how chaotic will it be?

“＆*……￥%＃”

Xingxiong paused.

A faint whisper coming from a very far away place suddenly sounded in her ears.

"Who! Who is it!"

Compared to Xingxiong's reaction, her teammate who was in a bad state from the beginning was not so calm. He screamed nervously and suddenly drew out his long sword.

"Throw! Hold him down and use medicine!"

Xingxiong rushed up to the man without hesitation and punched him in the stomach. His teammates reacted as if awakened from a dream and immediately restrained his arms. The remaining man injected the potion into his body with cold sweat on his forehead.

After four or five seconds, he finally calmed down from his constant convulsions. Xingxiong half-knelt in front of him and asked in a low voice:

"Are you ok?"

"It's, it's okay." He said with a bitter face, "It's just that your punch was a bit hard, Xing Sir."

"You can still joke. This medicine is quite effective."

Xingxiong raised an eyebrow: "Still feeling weird?"

"Gone."

The team member shook his head. He stared at his hands, open and clenched, feeling full of power.

"Fuck those charlatans." He spat, his face full of anger, "I'm going to blow those guys' heads off!"

"It really needs to be faster."

Xingxiong nodded and decided to join up with other teams as soon as possible to launch a general attack. A quick victory was the best option. If she continued to wander around in this damn place, even she would not be able to bear it.

“@￥@＃@￥＆……*”

The gradually louder but increasingly noisy whispers made Xingxiong's eyes twitch. She turned around to look at her teammates. Except for the one who had just taken the medicine, their expressions were not very good, but it seemed that they could still hold on for quite some time.

"Let's go. After going through two small passages, we should be able to reach our target location."

Xingxiong waved his hand, signaling his teammates to follow.

However, just as she looked towards the next corner, a mass of unknown substance, accompanied by sharp blades of wind, suddenly pierced Xingxiong's head from the shadow of the wall!

Bang!

The slender white palm tightly grasped the squirming piece of flesh, and the tip of the sharp tentacle was only inches away from Xingxiong's eyes.

"Is this... what Xiao Chen was talking about?"

Xingxiong frowned slightly, exerted force with her palm again, and directly crushed half of the tentacle. The strange touch from her hand made her feel uncomfortable.

"According to Xiao Chen's description, doesn't this thing require a painting as a medium to appear? Is this a trap... or have we been discovered?"

Xingxiong raised Prajna, took two steps back, and whispered:

"Everyone, be on alert! We might have to engage in combat early. Remember to use medicine at all times. Don't..."

The cold wind blew slowly with a mocking look.

At this moment, a bone-chilling chill ran through Xingxiong's entire spine, making her head cold.

She didn't know when it started, maybe the moment she stepped into the corner, but her teammates... disappeared.

Looking up, the paint mixed with countless colors dripped into the ink again, and the colors that spread in every direction were so gorgeous and so... terrifying.

It squirmed, spread, and entangled, spreading across the sky and from the sky to the ground, assimilating the entire world and punishing everyone who tried to provoke it tonight.

……

Chen sadly discovered that the monster that emerged from the canal, with dozens of tentacles more than ten meters high, was not all that was happening tonight.

As long as this guy has a physical body, the elites of the Guard Bureau gathered together are definitely capable of blowing him into pieces, but the problem is, before that... something even more terrifying happened.

Guards, all members, all killed.

This incident happened so suddenly that Chen didn't know what to do.

On her way to support the Guards, she used a telescope to observe the battle situation again, but the situation was... nothing happened.

The twenty or so cult members were still carrying out strange prayers and gatherings. The behemoth in the Longmen Canal was becoming more and more agitated, and there was a tendency for it to crawl onto the land. However, none of the Guards officers who were supposed to stand up to stop all this showed up.

Chen Buxi directly opened the public channel to speak, but all he got was dead silence.

No one responded to me.

Chen, who was climbing over the roof of the factory building, suddenly felt a shudder in his heart.

If, if so, this is just if.

What if not everyone else was killed... but only I was affected?

Once this thought came into her mind, it spread wildly in her heart like an ineradicable plague.

Chen gritted her teeth, climbed to a higher place, and took out the telescope again to observe the situation of those religious lunatics.

This time, things have changed, but not for the better.

She saw the officers of the Royal Guard Bureau walking one after another from all directions like zombies towards the center of the circle formed by the cult members. There were too many familiar faces among them, even... Xingxiong!

Is this real? Is this really what she saw, what was actually happening, and not just an illusion caused by a distorted will?

In just a second, Chen swept away all the hesitation and indecision in his heart.

That night, she paid a price that she would remember for the rest of her life because of a moment of hesitation.

So now, there was only one thing she had to do.

Cut the fuck off!

Chapter 102: Even if you can beat them, you can still shake them.

The only thing to be thankful for amidst all the misfortunes is that, although we don’t know what methods these guys are using, for now, their impact on Chen is very limited.

The same thing happened in the church. The person behind the scenes took advantage of Chen's psychological loopholes to break down her defenses. If Chen had remained highly vigilant, this strange method would at most cause her some interference, and she would not have turned into an idiot silently like other Guards officers.

Chen had already informed the headquarters about the sudden situation during the mission, but if they had to wait here for support to arrive, those who were affected would probably be dead.

Once again fighting alone, once again becoming a "hero"... or a martyr.

It had not been a year since Chen returned to Longmen from Victoria and joined the Royal Guards, but he had already encountered something that most Royal Guards officers would never encounter in their entire lives, something they might not even survive.

Chen neither felt unlucky nor excited about it. The girl running in the dark had only one thing in mind - to chop the guy who caused this incident to death with two knives.

"What the hell..."

Chen rushed to the scene of the strange ceremony and crawled on the roof of a warehouse, taking in the scene at the dock.

A total of twenty-two cult lunatics in black robes formed a large circle. The strange patterns painted in dark black and dark blue inside the circle glowed eerily in the moonlight.

Chen Ping took a deep breath and placed her hand on Chi Xiao. Her domineering will drove away the whispers that lingered in her ears. She stared at the pattern in the center and found that the faint blue light slowly spread and grew along the painted lines from the inside to the outside, along the twisted lines that extended in all directions.

It's like that bunch of... tentacles that seem to be crawling out of the canal.

"Summoning... ritual?"

The overly surreal scene made Chen think of something equally surreal. Right now, these religious elements should be performing a terrible ritual similar to the one in movies and games that summoned demons. Theoretically, as long as they could destroy this ritual, even if they couldn't put the thing back in, they could still stop it from growing bigger.

She needed an opportunity, a flaw, perfect timing.

After Chen's day and night training, the maximum distance of Chixiao's sword drawing has reached ten meters, barely touching the threshold of "inhuman", but it is far from enough to deal with the current situation.

"It will be discovered before it reaches killing distance. That thing..."

Chen glanced at the cluster of tentacles leaning against the dock, his eyes cold as he slammed his tentacles against it.

"That thing won't give me a second chance, so this one strike... must kill at least half of them!"

According to the research of the Guard Bureau, victims under mental control will slowly recover even without treatment. The most typical example is the victims in the church that night. After the priest died, it only took them half a night to successfully regain their consciousness.

As for the elites of the Guards, if they can deal with these guys, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to get themselves back.

"Opportunity...Opportunity..."

The red crystal-like eyes swept over the puppet-like police officers of the Guard Bureau. If even one of them could buy himself a second, the deadlock could be broken.

She decided to take a gamble.

After climbing down from the roof and hiding behind the wall, Chen turned on the intercom and said:

"I'm Chen Huijie, who broke away from Team B-3 and is acting on my own. I don't know how many people in this channel are still maintaining their composure. If you're pretending to be bewitched in order to fight to the death, please lend me a hand. Five seconds from now, buy me at least one second."

All members of the task force wore headsets, so there was no need to worry about their communications being overheard by those cryptic figures. The real concern...was whether anyone was truly uncontrolled, or, as Chen suspected, pretending to be controlled while the majority were, in a desperate attempt.

But there is no time for Chen to think now, but she doesn't need to think about it, because taking this action is equivalent to making a decision for Chen.

She counted the hours silently.

three seconds.

Climb up the wall and jump onto the roof.

two seconds.

He jumped off the roof and ran away.

one second.

Ten meters away, so close.

The crimson blade is already in his hand.

Then, at this moment, five people suddenly jumped up from the team that was marching like puppets without any warning!

They attacked in five different directions in perfect coordination, and the green-haired woman wielding a huge shield was among them.

Although he was very confused, this did not affect Chen's instinct to blast out the sword energy that was still accumulated in Chi Xiao!

"Cough, cough, cough..."

In the smoke and dust, Xingxiong waved his hand to brush off the dust and said with a smile: "Xiao Chen, your knife is powerful enough!"

Chen Ze stood there in a daze. She watched the smoke and dust dissipate, and the five elite members of the Guards Bureau stood there intact, while the twenty-two religious elements fell to the ground in a bloody mess.

"Well done, you're brave - although I don't know why you left the team without permission." A muscular senior inspector of the Guard Bureau said to Chen in a muffled voice.

"Although I think you played well, I would like to remind you that you haven't yet—"

boom!

The frenzied cluster of tentacles slammed down a giant tentacle that was nearly twenty meters long.

The Guards officer, who wasn't actually being controlled, shrugged. "It's not over yet?"

"This thing is the real deal... Tsk, it's so big! Should we wait for fire support? Officer Chen should have already notified headquarters, right?"

When dealing with such a large creature, explosions are a hundred times more effective than hand-to-hand combat.

"That's not impossible." Xingxiong frowned and stared at the frantic cluster of tentacles. "Let's take the team members who haven't woken up yet to the back and wait for support from headquarters. Xiao Chen, you come with me... Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen?"

Xingxiong looked at Chen, who had been silent since a while ago. Her reaction was a little strange.

"What's wrong with your face..." Xingxiong immediately walked towards Chen, "Oh right... I don't have any medicine. Is it too difficult for you to withstand that kind of mental pollution? Come here, don't force yourself."

"Grass!"

Chen cursed with his eyes blazing, and actually rushed towards the tentacles that seemed to want to tear the moon off with a knife!

Xingxiong was stunned for less than half a second, then immediately picked up his shield and followed behind Chen, shouting, "Chen Huijie, what are you crazy about!"

"It's not over yet!"

Chen roared without turning back, "That ritual is still going on... It's getting faster! We must kill this thing before it's finished!"