"What's going on? Why is it suddenly so cold?"
A dancer near the edge suddenly shivered, but her professionalism prevented her from stopping; instead, she writhed even more energetically. Those who made it this far had all undergone rigorous selection; a single mistake would not only cost her her job but also her luxurious prosthetic body.
But the chilling coldness, like an ever-present shadow, gradually seeped into the depths of her flesh and blood from her prosthetic body, constantly corroding her soul and bringing uncontrollable panic.
Suddenly, she seemed to see an incongruous presence, standing in a forgotten corner, head bowed, appearing and disappearing among the moving crowd.
What is that...?
The dancer's body trembled uncontrollably, and her swaying figure instantly lost its beauty, causing the executives watching her to show expressions of disgust.
The management immediately intervened and activated the forced control program in the dancers' brains. However, before the more unrestrained dance could continue for long, the other dancers also experienced problems, causing the ambiguous and romantic atmosphere of the party to lose its luster.
Just then, a scream rang out in the arena. A dancer pointed at a dark figure in a floor-to-ceiling window and fell off her stage in fear.
Everyone looked in the direction she was pointing, but there was nothing there.
But soon another dancer screamed and pointed to another spot not far from the French windows, behind a servant.
The servant hadn't felt anything at first, but when he was pointed at like that, he suddenly felt a chill behind him, as if something had appeared, which startled him so much that he jumped and dodged away.
Then one after another, the dancers began to scream, and the puzzled people seemed to see a blurry, constantly appearing dark shadow approaching them from one direction.
"What is that? Did you see it?"
"I don't know... Security, security!"
"No virus was detected, so it's not a visual intrusion..."
The security guards approached one by one, seemingly trying to surround the approaching shadowy figures, but then the next dancer pointed behind them and screamed, "There! Behind you!!"
Upon hearing this, the security team members broke out in a cold sweat. Their hearts felt as if they were being squeezed and pulled upwards, and they all turned away in fright, keeping a distance.
A sense of terror spread again, and they began to tremble uncontrollably; even the prosthetic control components could not suppress this mental tendency.
"What exactly is that...?"
"Captain...Captain..., it looks like an electronic ghost..."
"How...could that be? Isn't that just a trick to scare...children?"
The security captain's trembling voice fully demonstrated his lack of confidence. The tricks he used to scare children were just as effective at frightening adults, making them forget to draw their guns.
At that moment, the restless NCPD director trembled as he stood up, pushed away the two dolls beside him, and gripped the pistol at his waist tightly with both hands, but found no sense of security.
As fear reached its peak during the flickering shadows, the chief rushed out of his seat and knocked over a stunned attendant: "Damn it...it's a ghost, a ghost! Why is there a ghost here!"
At that very moment, the red veil jumped out of the chief's psychic eye, and the red, elusive figure became clear. Like a fleeting gust of wind, it suddenly stopped, raised its eyes to meet the chief's gaze: "Damn it, damn it, she saw me!"
In his panic, the bureau chief knocked down several people. Without even regaining his footing, he ran frantically in the opposite direction.
"Chief..." The female executive from Arasaka, who was following closely behind, was not as flustered as expected. She gently supported the staggering chief, her eyes constantly scanning Arasaka's special agent team.
The female executive who was able to hand over the reins to the director had already come into contact with Night City's core secrets. She was unaware of the matter of the electronic ghosts, but she had personally experienced the details of the ghost case from many years ago.
Unlike the single-pixel red lens circulating in the outside world, they have achieved a more direct observation method, using a prosthetic eye to detect ghosts from all angles by scanning free energy.
In her eyes, the Red Spirit was a dark, humanoid energy ball that rapidly closed the distance between them with each bizarre maneuver.
We can't let anything happen to the bureau chief!
The female executive was extremely anxious. If something happened to the director, all her projects in cooperation with NCPD would have to be put on hold, and her current status would be downgraded.
"Special Agent Team..." The female executive decisively shut down the internal communication system, which was filled with static, and quickly looked around, spotting a personal terminal with its screen lit up behind a counter.
Hope immediately arose, and the female executive grabbed the bureau chief, who was a head taller than her, and ran behind the counter.
As they approached the counter, several trembling servants, realizing that the shadowy figures were turning in their direction, jumped off the counter one by one and scrambled to the place where the others were hiding.
Lin Feng, who was hiding on the other side, stared indifferently. He saw the female executive's actions clearly. The floating red ghost immediately accelerated and condensed a pair of ghost hands, grabbing at the other party out of thin air.
The female executive, who had just connected to the brain-computer interface, was knocked down by the bureau chief in a panic before she could even operate it, severing the connection and falling into the cabinet full of liquor.
The counter shattered, the drinks spilled, and Hong Linggui grasped at nothing. She stiffly pulled herself up little by little, and in the flickering light, her eerie figure gradually became visible.
"A ghost!!"
A scream suddenly rang out, and Hong Linggui rushed across the counter, fiercely reaching out to grab the female executive who had been kicked in.
Immediately afterwards, the female executive was thrown aside, and the bureau chief, who was being targeted again, sat on the ground, pushing his body repeatedly with his hands.
The female executive, who had just gotten up from a pile of clutter, glanced at the broken connector in her hand and angrily lunged toward another counter. At this moment, she no longer cared about the safety of the director; she just wanted to summon the special agent team as soon as possible.
The bureau chief backed away little by little, inwardly cursing himself for turning on single-pixel mode and for wanting to see ghosts. Wouldn't it have been better to just stay in the crowd and behave himself?
However, just as he approached a corner, Hong Linggui cast a terror spell. In the instant his brain went blank, Lin Feng, who had been waiting for a long time, was knocked down by the director and secretly inserted the chip into the interface on the director's neck.
success...
Lin Feng silently withdrew his hand, and Hong Linggui just then reached out her ghostly hand again, grabbed the bureau chief, let out a series of terrifying screams, and threw him into a group of trembling dancers nearby.
Knock knock!
The Taoist priest forcefully pressed the earpiece, and Lin Feng followed the sound, immediately spotting the female executive the Taoist priest was pointing to.
The other party had already made the call, their eyes shining brightly.
withdraw.
Lin Feng sent a command to Hong Linggui, and the flickering ghostly figure appeared clearly in front of everyone. As the terror spell was cast in a targeted manner, the surroundings quickly became even more chaotic.
He and the Taoist priest lowered their heads and blended into the crowd. In the instant the ghostly figure continued to flicker, they ran out of the party hall with a group of people, crashed into the crowded elevator, and sped away downstairs.
As they arrived downstairs, the NCPD squad happened to arrive at that moment. Looking at the rows of heavily armed police officers and several huge weapons that released energy waves, the two lowered their heads and remained silent. They dispersed into the crowd, dodging the faint scans, and walked out of the party.
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