Overturned Tower

After filling his stomach, Russell did not go home.

He randomly found an alley without surveillance, and after entering, he put on the mask of Blue Bird and transformed into a cheerful young man with a long blue ponytail.

During the physical examination this month, Russell's psychic abilities were already at red three and blue five.

After dealing with Xiao Liuli's incident, Russell's red shift and blue shift both increased by one level.

According to Russell's tests, his transformation is now the same as the two-level red shift, and the maximum limit is still two hours.

The cooldown time has been shortened from two hours to one hour. His threshold for receiving damage is also slightly higher than that of the second level red shift.

According to Russell's secret test of his psychic abilities this month, his psychic powers have a strange weakness.

That is, he cannot admit that he is Russell in the transformed state... In other words, Russell cannot actively claim that he is "just playing" this role.

Even if you just say it in front of the mirror or in the air. Otherwise, the transformation state will be released immediately.

...but that doesn't matter.

Russell is still somewhat confident in his acting skills.

Based on this trait, Russell also roughly guessed the nature of his psychic ability... at least it should be related to "acting".

Without transforming, you can use the "Immortal Weapon" and "Caged Bird" equivalent to two levels of red shift. After transforming, you can use the original level three red shift psionic energy, and your personality and habits will become Corresponds to the target, but can no longer use the power of other incarnations.

This cooling time is shared between different incarnations.

In other words, after Russell turns into Blue Songbird, if he cancels the transformation early half an hour later, he will not be able to transform into Blue Songbird or Alice in the next half hour.

Because this transformation does not happen once a day.

Russell can find a place to cancel the transformation and then re-transform at any time to complete the reset of the remaining time.

This also gave Russell the courage to enter the downtown area as "Bluebird".

There are many passages leading to the lower city. Only Tian'en District, which is the core area, does not exist... In other areas, each residential area has two channels for discharging garbage and sewage, and commercial areas have even more.

But the backup channel is generally used for traffic - it is much cleaner than the normal channel.

Criminal organizations and mercenaries in the lower city did not block most of the backup passages in order to reach the upper city more easily.

As for the execution department of Shangcheng District, in order not to be guarded by Xiacheng District in advance during the operation... so many passages were deliberately left to confuse the public.

The result is that neither side can defend the other's actions - after all, even if everything that can be blocked is blocked, the garbage channels and sewage channels that must be left can still be passed.

But that would be making it difficult for yourself for no reason.

However, the specific locations of these backup channels are secret. Especially in the lower city area... every hidden passage means the possibility of escaping after being chased.

Because of his work, Russell had already collected many well-concealed secret passage locations.

——Not to enter the Lower City. I ran away from Xiacheng District just in case.

Thinking about how to escape in advance is a very high level of tactical literacy!

When Russell, filled with anxiety, excitement and uneasiness, crossed the backup passage and arrived at the lower city...

His first feeling was:

"It's so dark..."

Russell couldn't help but whispered.

The gravity of the lower town is inverted, which means they are almost completely lost in darkness.

The "sky" above the head is actually an inverted deep blue sea - even though I have known this for a long time, I still can't help but feel fear when I actually see this scene.

The sky is so close that it is constantly undulating and making a never-ending roar.

The only light source is those huge roaring machines.

They were flashing red, yellow or green light, and when it reached Russell, there was only a faint light that could not even illuminate the road clearly.

But fortunately Russell was prepared.

He put on night vision goggles that looked like sunglasses. After starting up, the green screen showed the surrounding environment to Russell's eyes.

In the transformed form, the functions of the Russell chip cannot be mobilized or used.

But it didn't matter even if he couldn't navigate automatically... He had already memorized the map of Lower City.

If you have a good brain, you can do whatever you want.

The road "Strangler" pointed out to Russell was Road 302, Regeneration Area F. When Russell landed, he had already reached the G area of ​​the recycling factory. Next door was the recycling area F... and Road 302 was already close to the G area. Even if you walk, you don't have to walk too far.

The people in the lower city area were much sparser than in the upper city area. Russell walked for about half an hour and met only six or seven people on the road. And they all looked like civilians. Looking at Russell, who was wearing night vision goggles and a clean jacket, he either passed quickly with his head down, or turned around and ran away.

"……Huh?"

Russell couldn't help but make a sound of surprise.

Because he didn't guess at all...

——Meet a half-acquaintance.

It was the angel that Russell and the Inferior met in the "Third Hand" prosthetic shop before... a girl of only thirteen or fourteen years old with short white hair.

But unlike before, she did not wear a "halo" on her head that marked her status as an angel.

Russell reached out and pressed the night vision goggles a few times to make the distant picture clearer.

The little girl put on simple clothes that were more in line with the characteristics of Xiacheng residents.

Her pants were loose-fitting with many pockets, and she was carrying a simple small bag behind her back, and she was holding a device like an electric iron in her hand. She was having some kind of dispute with two people who were at least one or two heads taller than her, and they were having a heated argument.

But because the three people basically talked about their own things, Russell couldn't understand it at all except that the voices were mixed together and became louder and louder.

Russell could tell at a glance that the space in the small bag behind the girl was enough to accommodate the "halo".

...Shocked.

Could this be a colleague lurking in?

Although it has long been known that the halo of the Mechanical Angel is detachable. But it turns out that this is detachable to this extent - is it okay to carry it around after turning it off?

Let’s talk about it. The degree of dependence on this halo may not be as high as that of mobile phones...

"What are you arguing about?"

Seeing that the little angel's face became embarrassed, he was forced to take two steps back by the other party - and the other party's expression became proud.

Holding the thought that "the angels are friendly forces for the time being", Russell, who was still far away, couldn't help but said: "What happened?"

He was still thinking that maybe there was a misunderstanding or something.

But Russell didn't expect that at all.

As soon as he spoke, the two men drew their weapons without hesitation.

One of them took out a pistol, while the other held a mechanical crossbow.

Russell's expression suddenly turned cold.

Okay, no need to ask.

The situation has become obvious - even if it is an uncoded person, there is absolutely no innocent person who can take out a thermal weapon without hesitation.

He reached out to touch the saint's decapitation in his arms. After a slight hesitation, he still held the shotgun in his backhand.

"I said, how many..."

Russell relaxed his shoulders, walked forward slowly, and spoke in a high-pitched voice.

The two people on the other side immediately threatened Russell:

"Don't come over here, just stay where you are!"

"Put your hands up!"

"Okay, okay," Russell responded cheerfully, "I'm just passing by, can you explain it to me..."

Halfway through Russell's words, gunfire rang out without warning.

He drew his shotgun and fired.

——Just one shot.

The fat man's head that was far away from the little angel was directly blown to pieces, and the shoulder of the other person's gun-holding arm was also injured by the projectile.

The moment he held his shoulder in pain, the little angel threw the fine net directly from his arms.

After the net is thrown, the opponent is picked up.

Then, a blue-white electric light visible to the naked eye lit up for a moment - the electric light shocked the man until he fainted.

……Huh?

Russell hesitated.

A technology I have never seen before... could it be the technology of the church?

"thank you, sir……"

The little angel first looked at Russell who was walking slowly in the distance with some vigilance, and even took half a step back.

"What happened?"

There was a flash of red light from the surrounding factories, passing over the two of them.

The girl also saw clearly the bird feathers on Russell's head and his kind and cheerful face.

She hesitated for a moment.

But she still tried to explain, with a very angry look on her face: "I saw someone lying on the roadside, looking very painful... like he was having a heart attack.

"But after I took the medicine out and cured him, this man suddenly jumped up from the ground and tried to snatch my bag. Another man came out and wanted to take me away with him!"

...Sister, you still haven’t explained your feelings clearly.

Russell's expression was a little subtle.

Fortunately, he was left alive.

Russell walked over and stepped on the man's shoulder. The pain roused him to howls and curses.

Russell's "Peacemaker" was then pressed against his forehead.

He immediately stopped wailing.

"What did you catch her for?"

"We didn't catch her! We didn't want to catch her!"

The man with an ape as his spiritual kin took action without hesitation: "It's none of my business, I'm here to deliver medicine to my brother... He has a heart disease!

"We just...want to take away all her medicine. That medicine is quite expensive...it's true!"

"—Nonsense."

Russell whispered: "If you want to snatch medicine, why are you taking people away?"

The other party was speechless for a moment.

"I think I want to sell him together."

Russell stared at the other person's eyes and made a cold voice: "Or do you want to torture out the location of other properties?

"Or... both?"

The man hesitated and couldn't say anything.

"I see."

Russell nodded and put away the shotgun with one bullet left.

Then, under the confused and relaxed gaze of the man in the net, he picked up the pistol on the ground, turned around and handed it to the girl.

"You know what I want you to do."

Russell's tone was calm and low.

There is an aura of mystery surrounding the man with a dark blue ponytail and night vision goggles.

"……I see."

Without hesitation, the girl raised her pistol in a very standard posture and fired three shots at the man in the net. Two were shot in the chest and abdomen, and the remaining shot penetrated the head.

"Is that okay? I'll kill him, so we are accomplices."

Under Russell's silent gaze, she dropped the gun and kicked him lightly.

Then he raised his hand towards Russell and whispered obediently: "I put down the weapon, sir."

Russell raised his eyebrows and realized the reason for her move:

"You know the Peacemaker?"

"Well, it still has one more bullet."

The girl said calmly: "At this distance, I can't hide. Your shooting skills are very good, sir."

"May I have your name?"

Russell's tone was still so calm.

"Paradise Bird."

The angel without a halo replied.

It's really a code name that fits the habits of an angel.

Russell nodded.

Still holding the gun in his right hand, he stretched out his left hand: "Let me meet you, my name is the barber.

"The sound of gunfire may attract someone, you follow me first. Let's get out of here quickly."

He couldn't leave an ignorant young angel alone in the downtown area.

Although he is now playing the role of a cruel and decisive "barber" who pretends to be kind and kind...but even a killer may not be that cold, let alone a barber with a razor.

"...You better hold the gun, Mr. Barber."

The bird of paradise and the barber shook hands gently.

She glanced at the gun on the ground and sighed helplessly: "This way you will feel more at ease with me."

The barber nodded and picked up the pistol on the ground unceremoniously.

He wiped the dust off and pinned it to his waist.

"Also, remember to load the Peacemaker, Mr. Barber," the Paradise Bird made a brisk voice, seeming to be very relieved of this "Mr. Barber", "otherwise if someone comes again, it will only be able to fire one shot." Shot."

"Long-winded."

Mr. Barber replied coldly.

——And Russell started to like this kid a little bit.

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