Chapter 273, This Makes Sense
A flying bird leaped out of the rain curtain and flew high outward.
Although he knew it was unlikely, Ilan Bird still had a little hope.
It would be great if this summoned psychic pigeon could fly out and bring out the information.
This is exactly why they wanted to send Tim Vent into Blackbird City. With this ability, it is much easier to transmit intelligence.
But obviously, it can't be that easy.
According to Vent, he had tried it before, but not only did he fail, he was also exposed and attracted an attack from Blackbird Heavy Industries.
And the result this time was exactly the same, not surprisingly.
Not long after the bird flew out, a red beam flashed across the sky. The bird made of psychic energy was blown up in mid-air.
Elan Bird sighed slightly.
Although it was expected, it was still a bit disappointing.
Besides disappointment, there is sadness.
He heard some noise and some guards were rushing towards the place where the bird came from.
There, there was only a demon hunter named Oga who had lost his ability to move and even consciousness and was waiting to die.
Perhaps the people from Blackbird Heavy Industries will capture him alive and then treat him, hoping to get some information from him in return.
In order to prevent this from happening, before the action, Vent had already done some things to him to ensure that his life, which was already short-lived, would end quickly after falling into the hands of the enemy and there was no possibility of resuscitation.
It was painful for Elan Bird to do this to his comrades, but he had to do it.
And Vent, who did the job, was also in a position of sacrifice.
After a considerable number of guards were attracted to the place where the birds were released, Vent also appeared.
He attacked the convoy directly on the street.
The convoy below was in chaos, but Ilan Bird couldn't bear to watch it any longer.
Every member of the Demon Hunter team is an elite. Each of them is not only a well-trained warrior, but also possesses special super powers.
But even so, it is still a fight that cannot be won.
First, it was a situation of being outnumbered, with Wente fighting alone;
Secondly, there was a lack of weapons and equipment. When they entered Blackbird City, they were able to bring their own self-defense weapons with them, which showed that they were very good at hiding. Forget about bringing heavy weapons, not even a bomb.
Moreover, the Alliance has no local base in Blackbird City. The highly controlled environment here does not allow for the existence of any opposition organizations, and it is equally impossible to obtain powerful weapons from the environment.
The only thing Vent could use was a short laser pistol whose ammunition was almost used up.
Secondly, his extraordinary ability - flying bird, is an ability used to transmit information and does not have any combat effect.
But despite this, he still went out, fighting with the belief that he would die.
Moreover, what he wanted to do was by no means as simple as going up to die. Although he knew that he would be dead if he took action, he still wanted to make the biggest noise possible in this dead end situation to attract the most attention.
You can't just rush out and die.
He had to kill people, and he had to be calm and smart enough to deal with the enemy, delaying the enemy long enough to attract enough attention...
That way, Elan Bird would have a chance.
Oga is already dead, and Vent is about to die, just to give him the last chance to get out alive.
And now this opportunity really appeared before our eyes!
Vent did a good enough job.
The gun in his hand caught him off guard and killed a driver and a guard who was accompanying him. Then, facing many sieges, he calmly hid in a building and exchanged fire with the enemy.
When the mechanical guard and the mechanical dog rushed into the building, Vent had already moved through the window into another building and opened fire again.
In the span of more than ten minutes, the guards of Blackbird Heavy Industry not only failed to arrest him, but he made them run around in circles, so they had to deploy more manpower, and even the convoy on the street that was originally going to leave the city to absorb people into Blackbird City had to stop. Many guards in the cars got out and went to help...
That’s the chance Bird is going to get.
He took little Si Ni, the child left behind by the family that took in and housed his comrades, and slipped out of the room to the door on the first floor.
Bird opened the door a little and looked around. With his innate psychic power, he could sense the mental targets around him. No one should be paying attention here.
This is a good time to get going.
He turned around and emphasized to Xiao Si Ni again, "Next, you must be obedient. If I don't allow you, you can't make any sound. You have to do whatever I tell you to do. Do you understand?"
"I know." Little Si Ni nodded a little nervously, "Brother Wente told me before."
"Well, then follow me."
When Vent and Bird were discussing the action plan, they certainly didn't want to bring a little burden with them. Although, when Xiao Si Ni's parents helped Vent and Oga hide, they didn't betray them. They also made a promise to Xiao Si Ni's parents that they would help their son escape if they had the chance, but...
In the current situation, even his teammates have to be silenced and the last moment of his life has to be used to attract the enemy. Vent himself has to risk his life to use the tactic of feinting to the east and attacking in the west. If it is not necessary, why would he let Bird be a burden?
The reason for this is that it is not a burden.
Little Si Ni was very obedient. His body had undergone preliminary mechanical transformation, and his mobility was stronger than that of an average child. The main purpose of bringing him along was to cover up his identity when necessary. Little Si Ni was a legitimate resident of Blackbird City, and his father also had one. These real documents were also brought by Bird.
In even worse situations, he could lure Xiao Si Ni out to attract the target, so that Bird could see if there was still a chance of survival at the critical moment...
I hope the last situation will not happen.
With little Si Ni in tow, Bird crouched down and came to the side of a black car.
Through the car window, he saw a driver inside, who was peeking out from the window at the other end, paying attention to the battle situation outside, which was separated by two buildings.
The drivers of this kind of "pick-up" Blackbird fleet are generally not modified servitors or human automatons, but are more like normal humans. Otherwise, when absorbing people outside, it is easy to cause trouble.
Bird didn't hesitate. He pulled out his pistol and shot the driver through the car window, shooting through the driver's head.
Then he quickly reached in through the broken window, opened the car door, and dragged the body to the position under the driver's seat.
Little Si Ni also quickly got in the car and stood beside him, helping him to pull down the driver's coat so that Bird could change into it faster.
When Bird was getting dressed, little Sini was there to help clean up the blood, but Bird held him down with one hand.
The signs of fighting outside stopped.
From this perspective, Vent is probably dead.
After a while, the guards gradually came back.
The team is about to set off again.
Before setting off, the guards checked the condition of the vehicles one by one.
This is the biggest test for Bird.
Taking advantage of the chaos and when no one is paying attention, I can assassinate a driver and change into his clothes. What's so difficult about that?
The difficult part is how to accurately replace its identity.
He has too many flaws here.
The bullet hole on the car window could be said to be an accidental hit in the previous battle; what about the blood-stained work clothes? Injured? If the guard asked him to get out of the car to check, the body in the car would be exposed. Not to mention, if the guard knew the original driver of his car, his face would be instantly recognized...
In other words, these things cannot actually be said to be flaws. Anyone with a normal mind will realize the problem.
All of this requires his mind tampering with his innate ability to cover it up.
But... he's just a demon hunter, he's not a psyker.
If he had the legendary Governor-General's power, what would be so difficult? Not to mention covering up a few flaws, even if he could completely change the other person's mind, turn him into his most loyal subordinate, make him risk his life for him, or even kill himself, it would be a piece of cake.
But Elan Bird is far from that level.
The more perfect the opponent's mind is and the stronger his will is, the greater the possibility that the mind tampering will fail; the greater the difference between the mind tampering and the opponent's cognition, the greater the possibility of failure will increase exponentially...
Everything he did now, pretending to be a driver, wearing the driver's clothes, and wiping off blood stains as much as possible, was to reduce the rejection when his mind was tampered with.
It is possible to succeed.
But the premise is that the fewer loopholes the better.
He couldn't let anyone see the corpse, otherwise it would be impossible to tamper with the other party's will and make them turn a blind eye to the corpse; he had to pray that the other party didn't recognize his face, otherwise the tampering would probably fail; when he tampered with the words, he had to make sure there were no mistakes or omissions, and explain the abnormal situations as much as possible, such as bloodstains and bullet holes. The more real and credible the excuse was, the higher the possibility that he could tamper with the other party's mind and make them believe it and not conduct further inspections...
He was thinking about this as the inspecting guards came closer.
In an instant, cold sweat broke out on Bird's forehead.
This guard coming over here...is not a human!
The face beneath the hat is a mechanical skull, completely devoid of the organizational structure of a human brain.
What should I do about this?
Mind tampering is effective on living beings, but Bird is not sure whether it will work on servitors. And right now, this may be a robot that has been transformed even further than a servitor!
After all, the robot servant only removed and changed a part of the brain, and the part that exerted its instinctive movement effect still belonged to the "human" part; a pure robot...
That……
Can mind tampering still be effective?
But does he have any other options?
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue with his original plan.
When the guard reached the car window, he paused, and indeed he noticed the bullet hole on the window.
Bird pretended to be relaxed and said, "Did you catch that guy? He broke my car window!"
As the words are spoken, the ability to tamper with the mind is quietly activated.
He captured the other person's mind.
Do robots have minds? This question, which he was completely unsure of before, now had an answer:
Yes, there is.
But the feeling is completely different from 'people'.
The cold touch made him shiver, as if he was immersed in ice water.
In this cold sea of mind, Bird did not find any human "emotions". All he could find here were cold "instructions" and "logics".
Is this good news or bad news?
The bad news is that much of Bird's past experience with his mind-tampering abilities is no longer useful.
He had most of his experience in interrogating intelligence, and the best trick was to combine normal interrogation methods with further "amplifying certain emotions," such as panic, pain, and fear, to crush a person's mind.
This trick doesn't work.
Mechanical creatures have no emotions at all, just use a big hammer.
But the good news is that mind tampering can still be used. However, the target of his tampering has changed from emotions and memories to distorted instructions and logic.
The former is impossible, at least he doesn't have the ability to distort any instructions written into the mechanical biological computing chip.
But it is possible to twist the logic.
And, it's surprisingly easy.
The red light in the guard's eyes flickered for a moment.
When he saw the bullet holes, his logic was twisted into that they were accidental impacts of the previous battle, which was reasonable;
Seeing the blood on the car window and the driver's clothes, the logic was twisted into bullet wounds, which was reasonable;
The traces of blood splattering were from the inside to the outside, which was inconsistent with the location where the bullet came from. It was unreasonable... Ignore it and judge it to be reasonable.
This person's face has never been seen, but because the driver was injured and had blood on his face, it looked different from the recorded footage, which is unreasonable... Ignore it and the judgment is reasonable.
Everything is fine, no need to check further.
The guard walked away.
The smile on Bird's face faded only after he saw in the rearview mirror that the guard's attention was no longer here.
He held the steering wheel with both hands, gasping for breath, his head splitting, his arms shaking...
This is not only due to tension, but also due to huge spiritual exhaustion.
But there was still a smile on his face.
At least, in the early stages, the most difficult stage has been passed.
The radio in the car gave the order to set off, and Bird started the vehicle.
This again presents a number of difficulties.
The way and feel of driving the vehicle were different from those of the Alliance's vehicles; having an extra corpse under his feet was very, very troublesome, pressing on the soles of his feet, making it very difficult for him to control it.
But fortunately, he didn't need to drive fast or show too much skills. He just did his best to keep the car steady and move forward.
(End of this chapter)
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