Chapter 163 Painted Body Swallowing Charcoal (12)
"What do we do?" Sisi's voice came through from outside the shield, muffled, as if she were talking into a walkie-talkie: "I don't know either, she just suddenly disappeared."
Shu Ningmiao took the walkie-talkie off her ear. Although the things she was in contact with shrank along with it, these sophisticated electronic devices were clearly unable to adapt to the size change and were no longer usable.
Dust adhered to the inner wall of the pipe, leaving a clear mark of being rubbed, indicating that the other party fled towards the office.
She wasn't surprised that the other party was after Lucico.
Even inside the narrow duct, Shu Ningmiao moved extremely fast. Following the duct to the end of another fresh air inlet, she saw a figure about the size of a thumb lying on the air inlet screen, intently looking out, as if trying to squeeze its head out.
Through the mesh of the air vent, you can vaguely see two people sitting opposite each other at their desks below.
Shu Ningmiao observed for a while, and seeing that he still hadn't noticed, she suddenly spoke up: "There's a jamming device inside, you can't hear it no matter how close you are."
The sound was exceptionally clear in the silent pipe. The man was startled, turned around, saw her, a look of surprise flashed across his face, and he shouted in a bluffing manner, "You dare to follow me!"
The man was dressed in slightly loose clothes, and his eyes had a rebellious slant. Even though he was lying in the dust, he was still a very young man, not a professional assassin.
What made Shu Ningmiao's expression freeze for a moment was his face.
Half of the other person's face was covered by a bright red headscarf, leaving only their eyes visible.
He was not a Penelope.
Have the Red Sands already infiltrated Pigne to plot revenge?
It wasn't that she was being overly sensitive; at this time, it was impossible for any Pinhian to appear here wearing a headscarf symbolizing the Intori Red Sand Party.
The two faced each other. The man in the red headscarf had one advantage over her: he could freely control his size. However, the space inside the pipe was limited, so he could only maintain a thumb-sized shape. The difference in size had little impact.
Shu Ningmiao had thought it through. Without any unnecessary words, she approached him directly. The space inside the pipe was narrow, leaving almost no room to maneuver. She needed to gain the upper hand first.
When the shrunken superhuman saw her approach, his confidence suddenly waned, and in desperation, he grabbed the accumulated dust from the pipes and threw it at her face.
A cloud of murky dust billowed up, but Shu Ningmiao rushed toward him without any hindrance. Tiny particles hit her face, but although they were of little use, she felt an overwhelming urge to kill him at that moment.
She reached out and grabbed his clothes, and the moment they touched, her body began to infuriatingly shrink and grow. She raised her fist and punched him in the face, causing him to tilt his head back and bleed from his nose.
He fell to his knees with a thud, gripping the metal mesh of the air vent tightly with both hands, like a prisoner clinging to iron bars, desperately trying to squeeze out.
At this moment, the faint conversation below suddenly became much clearer, and Shu Ningmiao knew that the signal jammer in the office had been turned off.
The intruders were not caught, and she suddenly disappeared. Of course, the bald man would remind Lucico and the guests to leave.
Without the jammer, their conversation was exceptionally clear.
An unfamiliar middle-aged male voice spoke first before Lucico, presumably the ambassador Kim Chang-seo: "...As for the patients who show symptoms, I will send them back to Pinheis first."
"Don't worry." Lucicole gave a knowing smile. "We'll resolve the issue as soon as possible."
The door slammed shut, and the office fell silent once more.
She overheard their conversation, but the woman in the red headscarf wasn't listening to anyone outside. She grinned venomously at her and said, "Come here again and try. This place is so small. If I made you millions of times bigger, wouldn't your body explode in the pipes? ... Your bones and internal organs would be crushed into pieces."
Shu Ningmiao glanced at him: "Why don't we just go out?"
Before he could react, a dark figure sprang up, flashed past him, and flew out through the gap in the net. The man in the red headscarf angrily slammed the net beside him, his head throbbing, and followed her out of the new air vent.
As soon as he landed and found no one in the office, he immediately reverted to his normal human form, raised his foot and stomped in Shu Ningmiao's direction: "Haha, do you think you're so smart? Do you know that once you leave that place, you're just an ant that I can crush at any moment?"
The size difference of hundreds of times is difficult to offset without special abilities. He had just witnessed the power of Shu Ningmiao's punch and was certain that her ability was to enhance strength. In this way, he would have the advantage outside!
It was infuriating that this woman was so fast. He wanted to stomp on her, but it was like frantically chasing a cunning flying insect in a field, and his shoe didn't even land on her for ages.
He simply made his body even bigger, his enormous body taking up the entire office. He half-squatted in the office, and one hand could easily cover the entire floor.
The enormous hand pressed the ground down firmly, leaving the tiny figure with nowhere to escape. The man in the red turban finally breathed a sigh of relief, clasped his hands together, and smiled.
He clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth, saying, "You bitch, I'm going to crush you to death."
There was no response from his palm, but he could feel the flea-sized thing struggling on his skin. However, it was all in vain; the difference in size was insurmountable. A bee's sting, delivered with all its might, would only result in a red, swollen bump to a human.
His palm seemed to have been stung as well, a tingling and numb sensation. The man in the red headscarf twitched his wrist slightly and jolted.
He turned his hand over, and half of the bloodstained sword tip protruded from the back of his hand, having pierced through a bloody hole with such force.
He screamed in pain, but his mind was still sharp. He quickly slapped his other hand on the back of his hand and pinched the tiny figure, no bigger than a sesame seed, between two fingers.
The man didn't rush to strangle her. Instead, he impatiently pushed aside the other documents on the desk, grabbed the transparent glass vase on top, poured everything out, and threw her in.
He crumpled up some paper and stuffed it into the bottle opening, his eyes close to the glass: "I've changed my mind. I'm going to take you back."
"Should I put some insects or animals in there to keep you company, or fill the bottle with water and let you die in agony?" The red-turbaned man laughed twice: "Don't blame me, you started it. You Phineans are all so disgusting... despicable."
Shu Ningmiao sat in the glass bottle with no interest, showing no sign of fear. If she really wanted to kill him, she would have done so long ago: "Do you remember what you came here for?"
“Shut up, you’re nothing but Lucico’s dog!” Reminded by her, he became even more agitated: “I know, you just want to stall for time and wait for those people to come, don’t you?”
She never expected to hear those words from someone else, and paused to think for a moment.
"Ha, don't even think about catching me." The man in the red turban sneered, "As long as I can find a place to shrink, you won't be able to find me no matter what high-tech equipment you use."
His special ability is naturally suited for infiltration and assassination, and he has never been caught. Although he failed to assassinate Lucico this time, it is not bad to capture his close henchman.
As he spoke, his body slowly shrank, gradually returning to a normal human size, still tightly holding the glass bottle containing her in his hand.
Shu Ning guessed that his next step would be to shrink back to his previous size and use the same trick to slip away through various pipes that normal human bodies could not enter.
pity.
Before he could gloat for more than two seconds, the man in the red headscarf stiffened and slowly knelt on the ground, his hands limply outstretched.
The glass bottle containing her rolled off the carpet by itself.
The hand with the bloody hole in it hung motionless on the floor, blood still seeping from the wound.
Muscle relaxants and similar anesthetic drugs are standard supplies for security personnel. She injected a muscle relaxant into his wound. When he was enlarged, this dosage was not enough, but when he shrank, the concentration in his blood increased sharply, and the effect was even more significant than usual.
She ignored the angry glare from the man in the red headscarf and made no attempt to climb out of the glass vase, remaining quietly inside.
After a long while, the office door was reopened, but the bottle she was in had rolled to a tricky angle, obscuring the view behind it.
Sisi's voice rang out: "Is this a confession?"
Lucico chuckled: "Unfortunately, surrendering didn't reduce my sentence."
The man in the red headscarf tried to open his mouth in anger, but the drug prevented him from uttering a single word.
One hand picked up the glass vase lying on the floor. Shu Ningmiao sat in the vase and looked up to see Lucico's smiling face. Xixi leaned over, and the two faces were reflected on the glass, one on the left and one on the right.
Sisi rubbed her face with her fingertips: "No wonder I couldn't find you. Did he do this to you?"
Shu Ningmiao briefly described the red-turbaned man's supernatural abilities to her.
She didn't state her judgment, but Lucicolai must have already figured out that this person came from the Intoli Red Sand Party.
There are generally only two ways to remove this type of supernatural ability: either actively remove it or the other party dies.
Lucico would certainly not kill a hard-won Intori alive just to get her back in shape. She deliberately maintained her condition to test if they had any other options.
Sisi clearly knew how to remove the added superpowers, and without showing any doubt, she reached into her pocket, pulled out a gun, and pointed it at the red-turbaned man's chest. The muzzle gleamed with a faint blue light.
The man's pupils constricted, and beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
Shu Ning glanced at Lucico out of the corner of her eye. He was calm and composed, showing no intention of stopping Sisi. Seeing this, she did not show any unusual expression.
With two muffled thuds, the man in the red headscarf collapsed to the ground.
Sisi put away her gun and held up the glass bottle containing her: "It'll be fine in a moment. I'll pour you out first, so you don't regenerate in the bottle later."
Lucicole lightly tapped the bottle with his fingertip: "It looks pretty good this way too."
Things that pose no threat are always lovely.
Shu Ningmiao had just seen it clearly: one bullet hit the man's abdomen and the other hit above his collarbone. Neither was a fatal wound. At least with the physique of a superhuman, the man wouldn't die anytime soon.
"Can it really turn back?" Shu Ningmiao frowned, deliberately emphasizing her doubt.
"Don't worry." Sisi patted the gun at her waist: "The Stone Bullet will temporarily block the Pandora within the body, thus temporarily suppressing superpowers. Are you regretting it? It's not too late to apply for a gun from the monk now."
The pull on her body was disappearing. She knelt on the carpet, her body gradually returning to its original size. The man in the red headscarf raised his eyelids and looked at her unwillingly. Blood flowed from under him, meandering on the floor.
Shu Ningmiao lowered her eyes.
Lucico is using an internal phone to notify others to come and handle the scene, to properly deal with this rare Intori who has been captured alive. An Intori who assassinated a representative of the Pigne council would become a powerful moral pretext for Pigne.
Only from her angle could she see what the man lying on the ground was clutching tightly in his hand, and perhaps only she could figure out what it was.
A greyish-white, round-handled cross pendant, the "symbol of life" of Prometheus.
Two bullets were lodged in his body, and blood continued to flow out, gradually easing the effects of the anesthesia.
His fingers twitched slightly as he grasped the grayish-white pendant.
This subtle movement did not escape her notice.
However, she remained silent.
Flames suddenly shot up from the floor, enveloping the man in the red turban. The flames spread out like a fan in the room. The people behind him reacted quickly and immediately retreated from the room.
The sudden fire did not last long and vanished instantly.
In the blink of an eye, only a winding dark red bloodstain remained on the original carpet, and the man in the red headscarf had vanished.
The smoke-triggered alarm rang for a long time inside the building.
The fire that suddenly appeared and then disappeared had a different meaning for Pinheis.
The terror that once ruled Pines.
That monster, Achini.
Finally, Yu Lu arrived. The police department had dealt with countless cases of people disappearing into thin air like this. He frowned at the mess at the scene and spoke after a long while, seemingly to someone else: "...Do you believe in resurrection?"
None of the staff around dared to respond to that.
He turned to look at Shu Ningmiao, who had remained silent.
Shu Ningmiao stood in the most inconspicuous corner, her gaze fixed on a point in the air, motionless and lost in thought.
However, her pupils reflected shadows that no one else could see.
A black-haired man appeared in the crowd, standing motionless in the center like a puppet, as if he had been standing there for a hundred years. He was like the shadow of a low building, and even though he was some distance away from her, the cold, deathly aura he exuded made the surrounding air difficult to breathe.
Wei Shengqianheng's lifeless eyes pierced through everyone as he met her gaze: "I believe you."
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