Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 200: The Six Shadow Warriors
"..." Ke Lan didn't say much, but directly picked up Kleber, aimed at the graceful figure, and pulled the trigger without saying a word!
“Bang!”
Kreber roared like thunder. The heavy armor-piercing projectile, which was as thick as a thumb, was accelerated by the electromagnetic track, dragging a faint blue arc of light, and instantly crossed a distance of hundreds of meters.
But Arasaka Yui on the opposite side of the square seemed to have sensed the danger . She jumped off the mutant's body the moment Ke Lan pulled the trigger. There was only a loud bang, and the heavy armor-piercing bullet only made a hole the size of a washbasin in the mutant's metal helmet and did not hurt her.
"Hurry, take this opportunity and rush over!" Ke Lan shouted to Major Ashkani and Alyosha, while he grabbed the sniper rifle and quickly climbed onto the nearest Bloodhound mecha.
In Victoria's absence, Alyosha and Ashkani naturally became the commanders of this reconnaissance team. They also understood that this was the best time to launch an attack, and they rushed out of the alley with their men without hesitation!
The rebels of the "Ranger" security company had become scattered in the previous chaos. Even though the mutants had been dealt with by Arasaka Yui, they still did not return to their original defensive positions. The reconnaissance team had passed through the fan-shaped square with almost no attack.
"Did anyone of you notice where the woman in the black combat uniform ran to?" Ke Lan half-crouched on the back of the mecha, holding the Kreber sniper rifle under his armpit, and asked Alyosha and others while holding the Gauss rifle and shooting at the fleeing rebels in the distance.
"That woman...is the leader of these rebels?" Ashkani asked.
Ke Lan replied: "I don't know if he is the leader, but he is definitely a crucial role..."
"I compared the pictures taken by the telescope with the database, and I can basically confirm the identity of that person." Alyosha added, "Her name is Arasaka Yui, and she is a spy planted by the Arasaka Group in the Soma Group. She was the leader of the attack on the Soma Group's mining base, and indirectly caused the outbreak of the Leviathan incident... In addition, she was also involved in the assassination of the Leviathan survivors... According to the investigation of the Security Bureau, the real identity of this person should be the 'Shadow Six Samurai - Hatsume' among the 'Six Samurai'."
"Aren't there only six people in the Six Samurai? What does this Shadow Six Samurai mean?" Ke Lan asked.
"The Shadow Six Samurai is a secret group within the Six Samurai. All of its members are ninjas, not samurai. They are responsible for carrying out assassination or espionage missions," Alyosha explained.
"Since you already have her information, I don't need to explain her importance... She must know the plans of the Arasaka Group and the heretic sect. As long as we can catch her..." Ke Lan said, "Speaking of interrogation and torture, you should all be professionals, right?"
"It's very difficult... The ninjas under the Six Samurai have poison hidden in their molars for suicide, so it's very difficult to capture them alive." Alyosha shook his head, "And these ninjas have undergone special training and are highly resistant to drugs such as muscle relaxants. Even if we use anesthetic bullets, we can't stop them from committing suicide by taking poison."
"As far as I know, there is no poison in Arasaka Yui's molars." Ke Lan suddenly retorted.
"Uh...how did you know that?" Alyosha was slightly stunned, and a strange look suddenly flashed in his eyes. "Oh, by the way, she was your secretary before. Even if you asked her to do that kind of thing, she probably wouldn't refuse."
"What are you talking about? I mean, I've read her pre-employment physical examination report. Isn't dental examination a very basic item? She has neither had her teeth filled nor had dentures implanted... and now it's been less than three days since she defected. Judging from the time, the possibility of her having a 'fang' implanted is very small." Ke Lan said seriously.
"...Oh." Alyosha nodded awkwardly, "That's good, as long as we can capture Arasaka Yui alive, our mission will be half completed..."
At this moment, Ashkani suddenly exclaimed: "She is just--"
But he couldn't finish his sentence as a cross dart had already embedded itself into the gap of his neck guard at a tricky angle, sealing the remaining half of his sentence forever in Major Ashkani's throat.
Alyosha only glanced at the cross dart, then pushed Ke Lan to the ground and kicked Ashkani's body out at the same time.
"boom!!"
The cross dart with a small bomb inside exploded. As the world spun around, Ke Lan felt something hot and sticky pouring down his face. He subconsciously licked the corner of his mouth, and a sweet and fishy taste similar to copper rust immediately came from the tip of his tongue...
It's blood.
With the buzzing sound still echoing in his ears, Ke Lan sat up with difficulty using his elbows to support himself, and then patted his dizzy head vigorously.
Ashkani was dead. The bomb in the cross dart cut him in two. His entire upper body was blown to pieces. His severely deformed helmet was spinning on the ground in the distance, and no one knew where his head had flown to.
Alyosha was lying on the ground, his life or death unknown, with bright red blood gradually spreading under his body. As for his right leg, the part below the knee had disappeared, and the white bone stump at the broken end and the charred flesh around it formed a very obvious color difference.
The surrounding agents and garrison officers also fell down, some were still groaning in pain, while others were silent.
Ke Lan turned her head and saw Arasaka Yui, who was wearing a black tight combat uniform, running past two security agents. She was holding two short knives shaped like "wakizashi". When she passed by the two agents, the blades of the short knives had already cut into their abdomens.
“Sizzle—”
The sharp blade passed through the gap in the armor, and after a brief pause, blood gushed out - the two agents continued to run forward for several steps due to the inertia of their bodies before falling face down on the ground.
"...Stinking bitch." Ke Lan cursed in a low voice, pulled out a pistol from the holster, and fired repeatedly at Arasaka Yui who was rushing towards him, but the other party had already dodged behind a public data terminal made of alloy before him. The bullets fired by Ke Lan did not achieve any substantial results except smashing the screen of the data terminal into pieces.
But this at least bought him a few seconds. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ke Lan limped back to the back of a "Bloodhound" and pulled out a rugged "Mastiff" shotgun from the equipment box on the mecha's back.
The surviving Security Bureau agents and garrison officers quickly gathered together. They assigned several people to gather together the injured who were still breathing. The rest of the people, together with Ke Lan and the mechas, rushed towards the data terminal where Arasaka Yui was hiding.
This public data terminal is actually just a metal pillar with a diameter of more than two meters and several screens inlaid on it. There is not much space to hide behind the pillar, but given that the opponent has extremely fast speed and ghostly body movements, Ke Lan also specially selected a shotgun as his weapon in order to maximize the probability of hitting the target.
"You're surrounded...ah!" A sergeant of the garrison unit habitually wanted to persuade them to surrender, but was shot in the cheek by Arasaka Yui who suddenly appeared, and fell to the ground with a scream.
She put the pair of wakizashi-like short swords back into the scabbards behind her, and changed the weapon in her hand to a black pistol - fortunately, the power of this gun was not very great, at least the sergeant who was hit could still scream now, instead of his entire head exploding like a watermelon hit by a hammer.
"Fire!" Without Ke Lan's order, everyone pulled the trigger at the same time. A dense rain of bullets immediately covered Arasaka Yui, while she lowered her body and flashed to the side in a strange posture almost close to the ground.
Although Arasaka Yui dodged quickly, several bullets still hit her. She groaned, but her speed did not slow down at all. In a blink of an eye, she ran to another shelter - behind a paralyzed light hovercraft.
"Don't worry, she's hurt."
Ke Lan raised her hand, signaling everyone to continue approaching the hovercraft, and she shouted loudly: "Arasaka Yui... I have something to ask you!"
The other party did not answer. At this time, everyone was less than fifteen meters away from the paralyzed hovercraft.
"I know you can recognize my voice. To be honest, I kind of regret why I didn't choose to ravage you a few times when you came to me - it would be better to just kill you alive, then there wouldn't be all those troubles later." Ke Lan continued. He tried to provoke the other party - even though the other party didn't respond at all, as long as the other party was affected by it even a little, it would be a sure win for him.
It's just a few words of trash talk. You don't have to waste a single bullet and you can still enjoy yourself by cursing.
"I'm actually quite curious. You served several 'masters' before me, and played all those tricks... For spies like you who rely on your beauty to obtain information, your bodies should be very cheap, right? Just like stray dogs... Oh, no, there are no stray dogs in the new era... Does that mean you are even worse than dogs?"
While cursing, Ke Lan made a few gestures to the agents beside him, asking them to surround the hovercraft from both sides.
"I know what you want to ask." At this time, Yui Arasaka's voice suddenly came from behind the hovercraft. Judging from her tone, she didn't seem angry, and... she also had the tone unique to a winner.
"What you want to ask is the whereabouts of your companion who stayed outside the mine, right? He was indeed captured by us, but unfortunately, you arrived a step too late."
As Arasaka Yui spoke, she suddenly walked out from behind the hovercraft and exposed herself to the guns of the reconnaissance team.
"He has been used as experimental material. I thought that such a special physique could give birth to a brand new mutant, but in the end, not even a dregs were left. A high-quality seed was wasted in vain. What a pity." Arasaka Yui sneered, and she took off her weapons one by one and threw them on the ground...
"...Are you planning to surrender?" Ke Lan asked. Although he wanted to shoot this woman immediately, in addition to Liao Zilang's whereabouts, this woman had more important information. The importance of this information was even higher than the life of anyone present.
"Surrender? Hahahahaha..." Arasaka Yui suddenly laughed wildly, her tone full of madness, "Why should I surrender? We have obtained the holy objects bestowed by God, and the great ceremony has been completed. You have already lost. Why should I surrender to the loser? Hahahaha..."
"The great ritual...what exactly does it mean?" Ke Lan asked with a cold face. His patience had reached its limit. He decided in his heart: If this woman continued to delay time with her next sentence, he would pull the trigger of the "Mastiff" shotgun and send this bitch directly to see their "god".
"Why should I tell you? But you'll soon know--"
“Bang!”
Before she could utter the word "know", the gun in Ke Lan's hand went off. The huge kinetic energy directly blew Arasaka Yui's petite body away, and blood splattered all over the ground.
“…Hehe…” Although her chest and abdomen were already a bloody mess, Arasaka Yui had not yet died. She used her hands and feet to crawl up from the ground, and said to Ke Lan with a strange smile: “But before that, I can let you see what the final result of the experiment that consumed your friend looks like…Hehe…”
