Chapter 86 Bai Ye: Only the Thousand Faces, right? It’s you, Qianmian.
Bai Ye stood there, his mind full of crazy barrages of questions: "If there is a wonder here, who am I?"
He really didn't expect that one day he would find himself in such a dilemma. He could only watch his three companions suddenly become burning with fighting spirit as if they were flames doused with gasoline. Shuise was no longer afraid. He gritted his teeth and shouted "wonder" and rushed over, catching up with those law enforcers.
"Squid Detective Agency... Never mind, Wonder! Stop right there, this is your first warning!"
The leading law enforcer who was chasing in the front stopped and turned around to take a look. His long jade-colored hair was blown up, revealing a delicate and handsome face. Jade heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the new person who caught up was from the Squid Detective Agency, and continued to chase the vague shadow in front.
"What's going on! Captain Emerald?"
You Yu held down his beret which was blown up by the airflow due to his fast running. The shadow in front of him that looked like Wonder had no intention of stopping at all. He jumped lightly with the swaying starry blue, jumped lightly on a wall in front, and temporarily disappeared from everyone's sight.
The three members of the Squid Detective Agency were all running in the front as if they were injected with chicken blood. Linglan even sat on her own fork. The winding vines supported the fork to fly over the wall and also helped Shuise to gain some strength, disappearing from everyone's sight.
Feicui and the several law enforcers behind him were stunned for a second, and they were a little doubtful whether they were the law enforcers or the three in front of them were the law enforcers.
"Captain Emerald, what's going on?"
You Yu stayed behind and looked at her. His expression became serious again. "Someone ran to the law enforcer camp and tried to steal the information about the crystal skull patients! I ran into him when I was patrolling after I separated from you guys. It turned out to be this guy!"
Jade explained the current situation in a few words. She took two steps back and ran over the orange walls of Skull Town to chase after Wonder. Her speed was not much slower than that of the Squid Detective Agency.
No matter what, they are the law enforcers and they must not fall behind the Squid Detective Agency in hunting down Wonder. After all... the public opinion influence caused by Wonder in the surface world has led many people with bad intentions to say bluntly: The Phantom Thief will eventually attack the Night Tide Prison where many collections of the Ten Commandments are stored, and so far Wonder has never failed in his attempts to capture the Ten Commandments.
In addition, Wonder successfully stole the most famous jewelry necklace, the Heart of Night, which was suspected to be the token of the Ten Rings, in Night City, the headquarters of the Sun Enforcement Bureau. If this guy is not caught as soon as possible, the impact of public opinion that the Enforcement Bureau will face will increase by several levels:
The shadow of the thief rushed into the rows of residential buildings, as light as flowing moonlight. No matter how steep the terrain was, it seemed to have no effect on him. He still walked on flat ground, and his footsteps were as light as a feather.
"Stop! Cooperate with the Sun Enforcement Bureau's inspection! Second warning!"
Jade took out his soul weapon - the slender and transparent emerald key. There is no one who doesn't want to be the one who ends the myth of the phantom thief who "steals what he says" and is so arrogant that he even issues a warning letter when facing the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau. The law enforcers' obsession with Wonder is no less than that of the Squidward Detective Agency. The fall of Night City has led all the law enforcers to want to catch Wonder and avenge their previous shame.
The shadow that looked like Wonder naturally did not respond to Emerald's warning, but instead sped up. Lily of the Valley and Emerald were the fastest because of the vines and keys, and they were almost able to catch up with the shadow. The winding vines extended from all angles, covering every angle of Wonder's advance, forcing the opponent to give up and turn to another direction.
The thief stopped and turned around to rush in the opposite direction. He dodged the vines released by Lily of the Valley, but was faced with a rotating energy gate with green eye patterns.
“Click—”
The sound of a key being inserted into the keyhole and twisting was heard, and with an ethereal murmur, emerald burst out from the green pupils and the green soul particles, and the key in his hand quickly turned into a weapon and pressed directly against the thief's heart.
"This is the third warning. If you still don't cooperate, the law enforcers have the right to kill the soul tag owner on the spot."
Jade pulled her scarf which was slightly out of shape and said seriously.
"...Kill? This is really new. It's been a long time since anyone said this to me."
Wonder had no emotion at all, as if the person whose vitals were locked by the key was not him at all. He raised his head and a somewhat crazy smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. Emerald subconsciously took a step back, but still met the thief's eyes just right.
Those eyes should have been as bright as stars, but now they were like an icy abyss, filled with the breath of death.
"This is so interesting. Just the shadow of Wonder can induce you and the Squid Detective Agency to attack in full force. I have never seen such an interesting situation - hahahahaha -"
"Wonder" pushed the key out of Feicui's hand with a smile, which made everyone stunned. They subconsciously took a step closer and narrowed the encirclement around "Wonder".
At the corner of the street, Bai Ye, who had been chasing after his friend at the same speed as when he ran 1000 meters in school, finally arrived. As soon as he stood still, he saw another himself "wonder" standing not far away, with a wild laugh on his face that he would never show.
The voice was exactly the same as the one he and the Squid Detective Agency heard from the demon apostle disguised as You Yu that he encountered in Miteklan in the Dionysus space.
Apparently, the demon apostle Thousand Faces just couldn't stop and had a bad taste for watching fun. Even when the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau sent the two leaders of Spades and Clubs to station in Ink City, for the sake of the so-called "fun", he still suddenly appeared with completely unnecessary enthusiasm, turned into Wonder and started to play tricks on the law enforcers and detective agency members gathered here.
"…I knew it…it's you again, Qianmian."
Bai Ye held his forehead, wonder himself is himself, so the "wonder" that appears now must be a fake, and he is strongly related to the two Ten Commandments tokens of Ink City, and he has a bad taste of pretending to be someone else... The only candidate is the demon apostle Thousand Faces.
"This is so funny, hahaha. Are you serious about taking a half step back? Let me think, let me think, what did Wonder do in this situation before? Oh, right! Playing cards and snapping fingers!"
"Wonder" laughed so hard that he could hardly stand. Feicui could no longer bear it and wanted to stab the key in her hand directly to make a "keyhole" in the other person's body. After all, only a wanted criminal who is completely under control is a good wanted criminal. She has always been too lazy to talk to those who disrupt the order of the surface world.
"wait--"
You Yu subconsciously stretched out his hand to stop him, but then realized that the person in front of him was obviously not Wonder, and withdrew his hand awkwardly. Unfortunately, neither Wonder nor the guy disguised as Wonder were the kind of people who would put themselves in desperate situations. "Wonder" just snapped his fingers lightly, and his body instantly shattered into countless floating playing cards, raising a gust of wind made of playing cards on the spot.
"What kind of ability is this...? Wonder's weird ability has a second one?"
Shuise watched helplessly as the person in front of him, who was not Wonder, used a skill that looked like Wonder's, his eyes widening in disbelief.
"This guy's ability is replication. He is a Thousand Faces?!"
Linglan and Youyu glanced at Shuise with a helpless look of "you just realized". Shuise, who was blinded by wonder, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and while sensing the information about the surrounding environment, he felt that he should really find time to relax as Bai Ye said, otherwise sooner or later he would fall into some kind of mental illness vortex because of chasing wonder.
"He's not here, he's over there!"
Water-colored ripples spread across the surface of the ground, as if a continuous, invisible energy rain was falling all around. The water suddenly turned around and pointed in another direction. The faint black and white soul particles were pieced together again, and like a puzzle, they solidified into a new human form without any gaps - a young figure wearing a black robe as the "uniform" of a demon apostle was squatting on the wall leisurely, and he laughed again.
"Your expressions are very good now, very good! Keep it up! It's so funny, you law enforcers are simply being controlled by your superiors! It's really pleasing to the eye!"
Qianmian clapped his hands. Feicui was too lazy to talk to him, so he opened the space gate again on the spot and teleported himself behind Qianmian.
But this time, she learned from the last lesson and did not give Qianmian any chance to resist or talk too much. She directly pierced his chest with the end of the key.
"What--?"
Feicui's voice was blocked by the violent surge of black and white soul particles. Qianmian smiled confidently and pulled out the key that had pierced his chest, leaving a terrifying hole in his body. However, there was no blood on the wound. Instead, there were countless scattered black and white particles that formed a puzzle-like pattern.
"Oh, oh, how rude, Miss Hisui, your style is still as direct as ever, completely different from those detective agencies over there... If I really just came here for fun, I'm afraid I would be very distressed because of you."
Qianmian held the end of Feicui's key with no intention of letting go. His voice suddenly became light and gentle, as if he was not some evil apostle of the devil, but the big brother next door who watched Feicui grow up.
"pity……"
Qianmian lowered his head, Shuise and Baiye's eyes were stern, and they shouted in unison: "Be careful!"
Feicui and the others subconsciously bent down to dodge, only to see Thousand Faces' body suddenly swell up dramatically and gradually twist into an inhuman shape, like the balloons sold to children on the street during the Ink City's Day of the Dead parade, getting bigger and bigger, and finally exploded violently under the weight.
"I'm not Wonder. I like to leave without anyone noticing. Even if you're a clown in a circus, your exit should be grand and spectacular. Don't you agree?"
Before it exploded completely, Qianmian cast his gaze towards the farthest Bai Ye, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
The next second, the body of the demon apostle split into countless black and white particles, which rushed towards the surroundings at an explosive speed, and then slowly rose into the sky with the help of an unknown wind from an unknown source. The black and white particles twisted and spliced together, and finally outlined a huge shadow in the sky of the entire Skeleton Town.
A huge cage shaped like a birdcage.
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