Chapter 79: Fog Zone Intelligence
The moment he heard the word "fog", Mori Ougai's first reaction was that he was a person with special abilities.
Both search teams saw fog before they lost contact, and the colonel and his team also lost contact in the fog area, which means that the fog area is very likely the reason why they lost contact.
Normal heavy fog would not cause people to lose contact. The abnormal fog area affected the magnetic field of the radio and trapped the people inside, so they lost contact.
There are two speculations now. One is that the function of the fog area is to trap people inside, and other people are arranged in the fog area to carry out hunting; the other is that in addition to trapping people inside, the fog area also has other killing effects.
Moriogai didn't know whether he should hope for the former or the latter. He didn't know how the fog zone trapped people. If it was the former, they would most likely be scattered and hunted down. If it was the latter, then this ability to create the fog zone might have even more dangerous effects.
The psychic who created the fog zone is their enemy, regardless of whether it is coming for them or not. He is not a psychic from the Port Mafia, and he does not remember any psychic who can cause such an effect. Under the current circumstances where all organizations are enemies, this psychic cannot be a friend.
The functions of supernatural powers are varied. For example, his senior brother's supernatural power is specially created for leaders. If he is not a leader in a certain sense, then his supernatural power is no different from having nothing. He still doesn't know the essence of the fog-making supernatural power. In order to prevent unnecessary sacrifices, he can't send people in to explore at will.
Originally, more than half of the port mafia's operations team had already been trapped. If they randomly sent more people into the fog area, they would not have the strength to fight against the Takase Society next.
It is not a matter of whether he can fight or not. The Takase Society has already taken action against their Port Mafia. The person with special abilities that created the fog zone is most likely the hidden power of the Takase Society. If they cannot fight back strongly, they will think that the Port Mafia is powerless to compete with them. Then the Takase Society will definitely take the opportunity to launch a general offensive, trying to swallow up the Port Mafia in one fell swoop!
The Port Mafia must not make any concessions to the Takase Society!
Mori Ougai asked Ace to order everyone not to approach the fog area, but he was also very anxious.
He couldn't really ignore the colonel's side, as those were the precious property of their port mafia. However, the only one who could guarantee that he would not be affected by the superpowers was Dazai Osamu, who could make the superpowers ineffective. Although he led the team into the fog area, correspondingly, Dazai Osamu's team also lost contact after entering the fog area.
He believed that Dazai Osamu could definitely solve the problem, but the problem now was time.
While forbidding his subordinates to explore the foggy area, he also strictly ordered a blockade of the news of the combat group's loss of contact, and asked the colonel's deputy to comfort his subordinates and turn the loss of contact into a secret mission.
This excuse will not last long. It can deceive people outside for a short time, but after a long time, the clues will be discovered. Short-term weakness is called waiting for an opportunity, and long-term weakness is real weakness.
Moreover, since Dazai Osamu had lost contact, he had to make many arrangements personally.
Now that the pressure is on Mori Gugai, Ace Shogen can no longer be used as another person, and when he is online, he also slows down Mori Gugai's work efficiency. But there is no other way, Dazai Osamu's position is not for everyone, and other people who can take over part of the position have all been arranged when the tasks were assigned before, and they cannot be easily transferred, so Mori Gugai can only do it himself.
...Sigh, I hope Dazai can solve this problem quickly.
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The foggy area lasted for nearly two days before it dissipated. The intelligence team that was secretly keeping an eye on that area immediately reported the information back to the headquarters. Ozaki Kouyo sent a support team to provide support, while another team was counting the casualties.
By the time the news reached Mori Ogai, Dazai Osamu had already returned with Nakahara Chuuya to report in person.
Both were injured, but fortunately they were able to move and their injuries were not serious.
But the news we got from them was not optimistic.
Dazai Osamu first answered the question that Mori Ogai was most concerned about: "The fog area should have the ability to identify. After entering the fog area, the team I led disappeared, but after the fog area disappeared, they were still in the original fog area, and the colonel officers who had lost contact before were also there. Only people with special abilities can appear in the fog, and the fog area should also target people with special abilities. As for ordinary people who entered the fog area, they have no memory of this period of time after the fog area disappeared."
He glanced at Nakahara Chuuya as he said this: "The essence of the mist is to separate the psychic from his own psychic powers. The separated psychic will hunt down the original owner. When I found Chuuya, he was being beaten by his own psychic power and screaming. It was so noisy that it was hard not to find him."
Nakahara Chuuya, who was listening attentively to the analysis, felt as if he was kicked by a passing dog. The veins on his forehead suddenly tensed up: "Who is being beaten and screaming!?"
He was just looking for the weaknesses of the psychic while dodging, okay!?
Nakahara Chuuya is very clear about how strong his ability is. Once he is caught by the gravity ability, he will definitely not be able to fight back. Close combat is not advisable. Nakahara Chuuya's only means of attack is guns. However, the bullets will also be controlled by the opponent and shot back. Nakahara Chuuya tried to fight back several times, but in the end he could only experience the feeling of being shot by others in the past, so he could only keep dodging, which was very frustrating.
As for the big movements that Dazai Osamu mentioned, when he was restrained in the past, the movements were always very big. Of course, the movements of a superpower who has no sense of restraint and uses his superpowers recklessly are just as big.
Dazai Osamu did not engage in a primary school quarrel with him on this occasion, but continued: "After the superpower is separated, the "Human Disqualification" will not make the superpower disappear if it touches the owner of the superpower, but it can directly touch the superpower."
When they solved the problem of Chuuya Nakahara's psychic "The Polluted Sorrow", they used Chuuya Nakahara to attract the psychic's attention, and then Dazai Osamu, who was not affected by gravity, approached the psychic secretly and solved it.
"As for the information about the superpowers, I think Chuuya should know more about it than I do."
The question was thrown to Nakahara Chuuya, who said seriously: "After the psychic body is separated, I can no longer use my psychic ability. This psychic ability will be more dangerous to psychics with strong attack and destructive power, but it will be limited to those without direct attack power.
And I noticed that the moves used by the separated psychic were all ones I had used before, and he had the same physical strength as me, so I suspected that the separated psychic was not just controlling the psychic ability, but would copy all aspects of the psychic's abilities."
As he spoke, Mori Ougai's expression became serious.
The true nature of this ability is more dangerous than he expected. If the ability is separated and becomes just a carrier with power, then there is nothing to worry about. The biggest advantage of humans is the brain, and they can use tricks to destroy the ability body. But if the ability body separated from the owner has the same experience and skills as the owner, then the ability user who has been stripped of his ability will lose his ability and face an opponent with equal strength and one more ability.
Although it is not impossible to win, the probability is very low, especially for abilities with strong offensive power.
The casualty statistics from the colonel haven't been sent over yet, but he can almost guess what happened to the special-ability users who had lost contact with the assault team.
The news that the colonel was seriously injured had already been delivered to him first. Others could wait, but the colonel was an officer, so his news must be delivered to Mori Ougai first.
Although the colonel was still conscious when he left the fog area, he immediately fainted out of relief after seeing his own people. His injuries were far more serious than they looked, and he has now been sent to the medical department for emergency treatment.
Nakahara Chuuya was relatively lucky because he made too much noise and was discovered by Dazai Osamu. However, because he was found relatively quickly, his injuries were not that serious, he was mainly physically and mentally exhausted.
"In addition, after being injured, the alien will recover quickly in a short period of time. I am afraid that it has immortality to some extent." Nakahara Chuuya continued, "But I noticed that there is a red crystal in the center of the alien's head. I tried to attack the crystal, but the alien took protective actions against the crystal. I suspect that this will be his weakness."
After listening to it, Mori Ogai concluded: "In other words, the essence of this ability is to separate the psychics in the fog area, and then separate the psychics' abilities, so that the abilities themselves can kill the psychics. And the separated psychic is not simply separated from the abilities, but is equivalent to separating itself and having its own abilities. The weakness may be the red crystal on the head... Have you found out who the owner of this ability is?"
Nakahara Chuuya immediately turned his head to look at Dazai Osamu.
Sen Ou's expression changed slightly. Is this, any progress?
"Not really." Dazai Osamu said in a slightly cold voice, "This person with special abilities may have some connection with the authorities. After leaving the foggy area, I found people from the Special Ability Division disguised as ordinary residents around. Correspondingly, after the foggy area disappeared, only people from various underground organizations appeared in the original place, no official people."
The authorities were obviously aware of this, otherwise they would not have sent people into the fog area to investigate, but instead just observed around it.
Or in other words, surveillance.
Sen Ouwai sneered, "Maybe he was secretly trained by the government."
He underestimated the official response.
The government may follow suit to pick up the spoils of the 500 billion heritage, but it has never intervened in cases of black-on-black corruption, and this is a matter of custom. Although there are not many legal supernatural groups in Yokohama, it is not a problem for the government to intervene, but this is Yokohama!
Mori Ogai had thought that the authorities would take the opportunity to eliminate some of Yokohama's underground organizations. After all, as the power of the night decreases, the status of the day will naturally increase. However, people with special abilities are not only the treasure of every organization, but also the hidden wealth of a country!
Basically, all the officially registered supernatural beings in Japan are concentrated in Yokohama. You put such a killing weapon in Yokohama to attack indiscriminately. What do you want to do! ?
Mori Oo sighed, "I see. You guys should go and recuperate first. Dazai-kun, we need to reorganize our strategy for the new psychic. I'm sorry to see you doing this."
Dazai Osamu raised his eyelids, "Got it, Boss."
After the two left, Mori Ouwai went to the rooftop and looked down. It was actually impossible to see anything from this height, but the fog area was wantonly destroyed by various supernatural beings. Compared with other areas, there were only one or two stubborn street lights still working. The fog area was completely black, and it looked like there was a piece missing in the dark.
At this time he couldn't help but sigh: "Fortunately, that area is the territory of the Takase Society."
This is literally the only silver lining in this string of bad news.