The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 179 - 148: Shrimp and Pig’s Heart, Oh Fox
Chapter 179: Chapter 148: Shrimp and Pig’s Heart, Oh FoxJiang Shu ducked behind cover, using the footage returned by Xiao Yi to observe the situation outside.

A one-way hail of gunfire surged like a tide toward the mechanical disciples outside the corridor’s defense line, but without exception, all the bullets were intercepted by a transparent shield a meter in front of the mechanical disciples.

It was just like a commonly seen scene in movies, where high-speed bullets could only hit the transparent shield, creating ripples like those on water before disappearing without a trace as if they had entered water.

And behind the glass barrier, the mechanical disciples just stood there, staring at the officers behind the cover with stagnant eyes, as if they were waiting for something, but doing nothing else.

”Kirie, what’s going on? Is this some kind of black tech?” Jiang Shu pointed to the transparent shield and asked Kirie, who was lying beside him.

”I don’t know.” Kirie silently watched the footage on the screen of the small armor and did not say much, only giving Jiang Shu a meaningful glance.

Jiang Shu: ”???”

”Glass Fortress?” At that moment, Wolf suddenly interjected with a question, ”Doesn’t this thing resemble the ’Glass Fortress’ showcased by the Deception Group before?”

”It merely resembles it,” replied Jiang Shu, who had also seen that performance video. In the video, the Glass Fortress withstood the blast wave of an explosion, while at this moment, the transparent shield simply swallowed the bullets.

”Indeed, this thing...” Wolf hesitated for a moment, then suddenly looked toward Kirie, ”See, I told you there’s a Dimension Gate, and you didn’t believe me!”

”...” Kirie gave him a flat look and abnormally said nothing.

Because she suspected witchcraft.

That’s right, the Deception Group and such were definitely another witchcraft organization hostile to Lord Jiang.

Therefore, she said nothing about the shield; she just wanted to let Jiang Shu take the lead.

There? I’m waiting for your deception.

However, much to Kirie’s disappointment, Jiang Shu also looked just as curious, not fabricating a scientific explanation for the phenomenon.

Could it be that he couldn’t think of a good enough story to fool Wolf?

That shouldn’t be the case; when it came to Wolf... wouldn’t he believe anything Jiang Shu said?

If she stepped in to help maintain the deception...

There would be absolutely no problem at all.

”Why would mechanical disciples appear here? Didn’t Tang Hexun say that the mechanical disciples had been wiped out?” Wolf was quite puzzled, as these mechanical disciples always seemed to trouble their Seventh District.

”Wiped out? Tell me, what’s going on?” Although he had been part of it, Jiang Shu first heard about this from Wolf and wanted to know how much the police knew of the insider’s story.

Anyway, there was no way they could suspect him.

After all, he had been using the Paper Card Technique to repeatedly travel between the Seventh and Thirteen Districts, how could a normal person make the trip between these two districts in a few hours? And he had also been very careful to avoid being recognized by any person or camera.

”Tang Hexun didn’t mention the specifics, but according to some of the information records, it seems there was an internal conflict among the mechanical disciples. A huge amount of explosives was detonated on-site, blasting all the disciples to pieces. They found the corpses on-site, including the remains of the Disciple Leader and Black Shark,” Wolf responded, then hesitated a bit before concluding, ”No one survived.”

”Everyone died? No winners in the infighting?” Jiang Shu followed up with a question.

”Yes, but we suspect the involvement of a third party,” Wolf nodded and replied, ”Some of the bodies on-site exhibited signs of being constricted and strangled. It’s inferred that it was done by a python with a length between six to nine meters. They found scrape marks on metal walls at the scene, but there was no shedding of skin scales or debris, so they surmise the python’s skin was extremely tough.”

”Python?”

”Yes, python, it’s very puzzling,” Wolf shook his head, ”And the snake’s strength is much greater than that of wild pythons of the same size. The official explanation from the Thirteen District is that it’s a mechanically-created python. We’ve seen mechanical creatures used as weapons before. But as for a python, it’s even more perplexing why they didn’t create smaller snakes to use their venom instead?”

”Maybe it’s because... a substantial part of the mechanical disciples’ bodies are mechanical, making it not so easy to inject venom?” Jiang Shu offered a possible answer.

”Perhaps, that’s the only way we can see it,” shrugged Wolf, conceding the point, ”But if that’s the case, it seems like this python was naturally meant to strangle those implanted with Internal Armor.”

”Who knows,” shrugged Jiang Shu.

Anyway, he was very clear that, given the Xiu Snake’s body structure and the unique ambush trait of snakes, once it focused on a target...

The outcome would be frightful.

It was just unknown, the combat power that the ”Tiānshū” external Armor he had seen in the Thirteen District could muster against the Xiu Snake.

Kirie, who was standing aside, also looked blankly at Jiang Shu. She normally didn’t care too much about police station affairs, let alone those of the Thirteen District Police Station, so she only knew the mechanical disciples were gone and was not aware of the python.

Now hearing Wolf mention it...

Python? Six to nine meters? Does it also have large claws?

This topic was familiar!

It had to be that monster that was taken to heaven, right?