Chapter 188: Deathly Encounter with Gastello (Part )

His eyes turned to the girl who was pushing the wheelchair slowly towards him. The thoughts that extended from his brain suddenly became as chaotic as snow, causing Ke Mingye to be stunned for a moment.

"Gastro actually used her real body to meet me, is that true? Isn't she worried about being double-teamed by players, or... is this body not her real body at all?"

Thinking of this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and looked more closely at the girl in the wheelchair.

The girl in front of me was about 1.6 meters tall, wearing a shoulder-baring suspender dress, the hem of which covered her legs completely.

The most striking thing is her red hair and the teardrop mole at the corner of her eye. The teardrop mole adorns a pair of eyes that are as blazing as fire, as if they can see through people's hearts.

"Except for your hair, you seem to look different from the last time I saw you?" Gastro pushed the wheelchair to the table and turned to look at Ke Mingye.

"Aren't we the same?" Ke Mingye sighed, "You talk as if you are the same person as the last time you saw me."

The reason why he didn't use the face he usually used in front of other players was to prevent his second brother from taking a picture of this face.

After getting the photo, we can use the authority of the Big Brother's control bureau to find the images where this face has appeared from the surveillance cameras throughout Beijing, and then we can quickly find out the player's whereabouts.

After all, no matter how secretive the actions of him and Anti-Dog and others were, given the density of surveillance cameras around Beijing, there was a certain chance that they would be captured by the surveillance cameras on the way to the next copy.

"It looks like you're wearing a human face mask?" Gastro asked curiously.

"Yes." Ke Mingye nodded and explained nonchalantly, "Because you said you would bring some vampire hunters with you. I'm sorry that I don't trust them very much..." As he said that, he turned his head and looked around. Apart from him and Gastro, there were no other guests in the cafe. "Where are they?"

"They haven't come yet."

After saying that, Gastello held his face with both hands, rested his elbows on the armrests of the wheelchair, and stared at Ke Mingye motionlessly, "I'm curious, what exactly is your purpose?"

"What do you mean?" Ke Mingye asked.

"You should have passed on what I told you to other players." Gastro said, "and they reached a consensus with you and decided to hide for the time being, so I saw you again in this 'player meeting', but I didn't see anyone else."

"It's not that they don't want to see you, they just don't trust you enough." Ke Mingye said, "I think I said that we need to get to know the vampire hunter behind you to make sure you are harmless to us."

He paused and said, "Take a step back and think about it. If those vampire hunters control your body and threaten you to contact me, and lure out other players to catch them all, then we are done for, right?"

"You think it's really careful."

"So, is this your true form?" Ke Mingye asked tentatively.

"That's right." Gastro nodded, "This is my real body."

Ke Mingye shrugged: "Then can I send you a friend request?"

"of course."

Ke Mingye was slightly stunned when he heard this, and he was at a loss as to what to do.

He thought that his current situation was unexpectedly awkward. Players could only add each other as friends when they met in person. The Trickery Dolls could not add friends, and neither could Gastro's puppets.

Saying that you cannot add someone as a friend is like saying that you are just a puppet.

In fact, taking a step back, he could have his real body put on a night-time belt and quickly approach the cafe, adding the wheelchair girl as his friend outside the window.

But Ke Xiaomo had received information from the dice monster, who was lurking near the cafe. How could such a big movement be hidden from his eyes?
To sum up, if he was caught by his second brother, the loss would outweigh the gain, so Ke Mingye would never do that.

"Why don't you send me a friend request yourself to prove your innocence?" he asked this question.

Upon hearing this, Gastello teased him calmly.

“Answer one: As a girl, I prefer boys to take the initiative;

"Answer two, I actually added you, but failed. You didn't come here in person, but controlled others to be your puppet. Or maybe you are not Spider-Man at all, but a puppet hired by Spider-Man. After all, your face has changed. Who knows if you are really wearing a human mask?"

Hearing this, Ke Mingye took the lemonade handed over by the waiter, took a sip of it, and then said, "You are really good at distorting the facts. I just tried it, and it showed that I failed when adding you. I just wanted to see how long you can pretend."

"That's funny. Since neither of us is willing to believe that what the other person says is true, then maybe both of us are fakes, testing each other out of thin air?"

Gastello said with a smile.

"If you think it's fun, just keep pretending."

Ke Mingye did not respond to her, but made a cold sarcastic remark and put down the water glass.

Although the girl in front of him was very similar to Gastro in the brain imaging image, this did not mean that she was definitely Gastro. Perhaps Gastro was testing her.

By dressing a puppet to look like himself, letting the puppet sit in a wheelchair pretending to be disabled and wearing a human face mask, and finally controlling the puppet to meet Ke Mingye, he tests whether he has somehow glimpsed her true appearance by Ke Mingye's reaction during the meeting.

But in other words, if the person sitting here was really Gastello, then she could just send a friend request and find out that the person sitting opposite her was not Ke Mingye himself.

If their meeting was the same as before, still a fake meeting of fakes, then the nature of this conversation was like two people with black cloths on their eyes, using words to test whether the other could see things.

One tried hard to test, "I see you have a cloth over your eyes, you can't see me";
Another one replied, "I just noticed that you have a cloth over your eyes. How can you see me with a cloth over your eyes? You are totally talking nonsense."

But in fact, neither of them could see each other's true face, and they could only test each other with words through a layer of black cloth. No one believed the other.

Last time, because the Black Judge was there, Gastro didn't dare to act rashly, so Ke Mingye was able to let Paranoia send a friend request to Gastro on his behalf to confirm whether she was the real person;
This meeting was a matter of life and death. If he became paranoid, he would most likely be arrested and tortured, so he had to do it himself.

"You know, you can't wake up someone who's pretending to be asleep. Let's not discuss the question of who is the fake for now."

As she spoke, she lowered her eyes and looked at the names of the coffee on the menu while continuing.

"I should have told you that I wanted you to work with me to find the player who had a vampire hidden in his house, but you hid the information of other players from me and even didn't want me to meet them. What's the reason?"

She paused and said, "Didn't you say you also wanted to know the details of the player called 'Anti-Dog'? But your actions seem to contradict your words."

"Originally, I wanted to trick him into coming to see you, but he has been missing for a few days and I can't contact him," Ke Mingye explained.

"Why?" Gastello said, "Did Paranoia eavesdrop on our conversation and secretly tell him our conversation? After all, apart from you and me, there was only Paranoia there at that time, even though you let him go first."

"That's possible," Ke Mingye said, "but what's more likely is that you revealed in the discussion group that you were hanging out with the blood hunters, looking for a white-haired vampire." He paused, "Fanquan felt guilty, so he didn't come to meet you, and he's been hiding from other players for some time."

"Okay." Gastro still held his chin with both hands, and spoke in a calm voice, "Then let's change the angle. How can I be sure that you didn't contact Fanquan privately and tip him off to stay away from Huanjing?"

"You're right. I can't prove it." Ke Mingye said, "But..."

Before he could finish his words, he heard a sharp explosion in his ears, as if the air was being torn apart.

Immediately afterwards, an arrow came from nowhere and pierced through the glass of the cafe. Like a streak of light, it instantly pierced through Ke Mingye's shoulder and nailed him to the ground.

Then a tingling sensation spread, starting from the arrow that pierced his body, as if a giant earthworm was drilling in and out of his body, making his whole body soft and unable to move.

poisoned.

Ke Mingye came to this conclusion instantly.

The trickster puppet's body was lying on the ground, twitching slightly. It opened its mouth slightly and said hoarsely to Gastro in the wheelchair: "You're trying to trick me?"

"Don't you want me to bring a vampire hunter?"

Gastello looked down at him from his wheelchair and said jokingly like a little girl, "Well... they are coming now."

"You're right... but I don't want to meet them this way."

Ke Mingye joked but thought in his heart: He couldn't let the puppet die here, otherwise if the puppet's body exploded and the eerie laughter was heard in the cafe, it would not only alert Gastro but also make his second brother suspicious.

Gastello said: "This arrow carries a toxin that even vampires cannot resist. After being shot by the arrow, you will be unconscious for a long time and unable to move. So I suggest you don't even think about resisting and have a good sleep. I will talk to you slowly later to see if you are the one who is related to vampires..."

Before she finished speaking, a hint of surprise appeared in her eyes.

In just a second, Ke Mingye's body and the arrow suddenly disappeared from the spot.

Instead, a small blue bird-shaped machine appeared on the floor of the cafe.

"He's missing?"

Gastro was stunned for half a second, muttering to himself, then quickly raised the crutch in his right hand and pressed the bird-shaped machine that was about to spread its wings and fly to the ground.

After thinking for less than half a second, he saw it still flapping its wings and struggling, so he decisively smashed it to pieces to prevent this bird-shaped machine from hiding something and causing him trouble.

Then, amidst the broken parts and splashing arcs, the bird-shaped machine slowly lost its response, closed its eyelids, and drooped its flapping wings to the ground.

"If he's still nearby, he probably can't get far. After all, his body is poisoned."

Gastro was not panicked at all, thinking in his heart.

"Let Link help me find it."

At the same time, at Hongge Food Street.

Ke Xiaomo had carefully searched the nearby buildings not long ago, and after confirming that there were no suspicious people, he quickly disappeared into the shadows.

The shadow he transformed into was hidden on the surface of a residential building directly opposite the cafe.

At this moment, Ke Xiaomo only showed a pair of eyes from the shadow, and through the window of the cafe, he stared silently at the trickster doll and Gastro sitting by the window.

"The girl in the wheelchair is exactly the same as the girl in the photo that the dice weirdo sent me. So she is the one who spread the parasite in this city?"

He observed the red-haired girl in the wheelchair in the cafe and thought secretly.

If nothing special happens later, he will enter the cafe and capture the two players who are talking in one fell swoop. If possible, he will try to leave them alive, after all, he still has a lot to ask them.

However, matters like torture had to be left to Ke Yinzhi. Ke Xiaomo was only good at killing people, not at torturing others. He did not like to see others suffer, so most of the time he tried to kill with one blow.

But he was more cautious. Since the Dice Monster said that there might be people from the "Vampire Hunter" organization at this meeting, he couldn't take it lightly.

Maybe those vampire hunters are lurking in the cafe, or maybe they are on their way to this cafe.

Ke Xiaomo decided to take action only after knowing their full appearance. The key to being a ninja is to be patient. Before you have a good understanding of the situation, you should be patient and cautious, wait for the most appropriate time, and make sure you are 100% sure before you take down your opponent with one strike. This is the code of conduct of the ninja sect.

However, in the next moment, a beam of arrows like flowing light passed through Hongge Food Street, instantly pierced the glass of the cafe, and pierced into the body of one of the players among the glass fragments splashing like a rainstorm.

arrow?
It was coming from the six o'clock direction. Ke Xiaomo frowned, and after coming to a conclusion in his mind, he quickly retracted his exposed eyes into the shadows.

Then, it transformed into a shadow like a bird of prey and swept across the surface of the walls.

It took him only a few seconds to find the source of the arrow: it was the fifth floor of a nearby abandoned factory.

When the shadow that Ke Xiaomo transformed into flew into the factory and attached itself to an abandoned machine on the fifth floor that was swaying with mottled light and shadows.

Three figures were instantly reflected in his pupils.

On the garbage mountain made of abandoned machinery and spare parts, three figures were scattered at different heights.

Sitting at the top was a woman wearing a light green raincoat and a raincoat hat, holding a huge bow and three arrows in her hands;
The second person was a man wearing a denim jacket, suit pants, and a cowboy hat. He had long hair and a beard. He held two silver long-barreled guns in his hands.
Finally, sitting at the bottom was a man who was two meters and two centimeters tall, with black hair and black eyes, a strong body, and muscles that were almost knotted together. It was a "giant".

The giant was wearing a vest and baggy shorts. He was sitting at the bottom of the pile of spare parts with his eyes lowered, wiping a huge sword absentmindedly.

"These should be the 'blood hunters' that the dice freak mentioned. They don't look like Asians, so why did they come to this city?"

Ke Xiaomo observed the three figures and thought in his heart.

At the same time, he could intuitively judge that the archer girl and the two-meter-tall giant should not be weak, but the strength of the cowboy man was still unknown.

First, let’s talk about the archer girl, who actually shot the player in the cafe from a distance of a hundred meters; then let’s talk about the giant, from his appearance you can tell how abnormal his strength is.

At this moment, the giant said in English: "What's going on, Link?"

"Hit it." The raincoat archer named "Link" also replied in English, "The player that Stello met didn't seem to have much ability. I shot the arrow slowly enough, and in order to save his life, I didn't use my full strength."

"The next step is to lure that player back?" asked the cowboy.

"Yes, Howard, go and take a look at the situation." said the giant.

The cowboy named "Howard" touched his head and complained, "What a hassle, Flinks, why don't you go by yourself?"

"Stop talking so much nonsense," said Flinks.

"Speaking of which, did you feel something was wrong? It seemed like something had entered the factory just now." Link paused, then changed the subject: "It's near us."

Ke Xiaomo was slightly startled when he heard this, and thought to himself: "I was discovered?"

"Of course I noticed it. I wanted to give him a surprise. It wouldn't be fun if you told me so."

As he spoke, the cowboy suddenly lowered the brim of his hat, raised his silver gun, and fired a bullet with faint blue flames at an abandoned machine inside the factory.

In a flash, Ke Xiaomo's figure shot out from the shadows, avoiding the incoming blue bullet.

The moment the bullet hit the abandoned machine, violent blue flames rose up like a demon with bared fangs, engulfing the equipment in an instant and leaving a charred mark on the ground.

"They actually found me. They are really strong. Should I try to fight them for a few rounds?"

Ke Xiaomo leaned forward slightly, ready to slip into the shadows and escape from the ground at any time.

Flinks, Link, and Howard all looked at the uninvited guest who was wearing a black ninja suit and a metal ninja mask on his face.

"Ninja?" Howard lowered the brim of his hat and said with interest.

"A superhuman race I've never seen before." Link said, already putting an arrow on the bowstring.

"If they come for us, we'll kill them." Flinks said calmly, slowly picked up the giant sword, and stood up from the pile of parts.

"No, my target is the player named 'Gastro'. If I capture that player, I can get information about the three vampire hunters from her. It would be too reckless to fight them without knowing their details..."

As Ke Xiaomo thought this, he somersaulted backwards and landed on the wall of the factory.

At this moment, Howard raised his silver spear and pulled the trigger, and blue bullets burst out;

At the same time, Link raised the bow, released the bowstring, and the arrow, as fast as an afterimage, shot towards Ke Xiaomo's landing point.

However, the moment Ke Xiaomo's feet stepped on the wall, his body instantly turned into a bird-of-prey-like shadow and merged into the wall. It flapped its wings and shot down, leaving the factory in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, the bird of prey shot wildly towards the cafe.

The moment he entered the cafe, Ke Xiaomo quickly emerged from the shadows and appeared silently behind the wheelchair girl. He slashed at her neck with a knife and quickly knocked her out.

Immediately afterwards, Ke Xiaomo and Gastro slowly merged into the shadows under their feet and entered an independent space woven by shadows, where he could eliminate all interference from the outside world.

"Shadow Space", he was the only one in the entire Kageji Ninja Sect who successfully learned this trick, even the previous sect leader was no exception.

The disadvantage of this move is that it takes too long. It takes three seconds to drag the enemy or yourself into the shadow space. It cannot be used at all when facing a slightly stronger opponent.

"Something seems wrong..."

In the dark space, Ke Xiaomo suddenly felt something was wrong: when he struck with the knife just now, the girl clearly fainted, but her body was still twitching slowly.

The next moment, she turned around with empty eyes, raised her crutch and swung it towards Ke Xiaomo's face.

However, Ke Xiaomo easily cut off Gastly's crutch with the shadow sword and restrained her body from behind with one arm.

He saw that this was a sign of being controlled by parasites.

"Is the information that the dice monster gave me wrong, or is this not Gastro's true form?"

Thinking this, Ke Xiaomo reached out his other hand to the girl's face. Soon, he tore off a very thin human face mask from her face.

"As expected...she is just an ordinary person controlled by Gastro."

As Ke Xiaomo thought about this, he thrust his right palm towards the girl's chest with a burst of internal energy. The parasite wrapped around her heart instantly roared and crawled out of her throat.

Seeing this, Ke Xiaomo hugged the completely unconscious girl in his arms, raised the shadow sword and cut the parasite in half.

With a "hiss" sound, dirty blood splashed in the shadow space.

Ke Xiaomo put the girl on the ground and carefully checked her legs, confirming that her legs were in normal condition and that she was not even disabled.

He just sits in a wheelchair and pretends to be disabled.

If Gastro's true identity is really the wheelchair girl in the photo, then she stuffed the parasite into the body of an ordinary girl and let that girl disguise herself as her to meet another player.

"But what's the intention? Where is the other player who was shot by the arrow just now?"

Ke Xiaomo couldn't figure it out, so he left the girl in the shadow space for the time being, and returned to reality, leaving Hongge Commercial Street as quickly as possible.

On the other side, in an alley of Hongge Food Street.

【Hint: The "Bluebird Reconnaissance Aircraft" has been destroyed. 】

Before entering the cafe, Ke Mingye controlled the trick puppet to release the Bluebird reconnaissance plane and hid it in a nearby alley so that he could switch places with it and escape.

At this moment, the trickster puppet with an arrow in its shoulder was lying on the ground in the alley.

Under the effect of the poison, its body was still unable to move, so it had no choice but to use its skills and quickly released the second trick puppet in the alley.

The second puppet hugged the first puppet that was shot by an arrow in his arms, put on a night belt from his bag, turned on the "invisibility function", and quickly evacuated Hongge Commercial Street.

Finally, on a nearby beach, the second puppet released its invisibility, hugged the first puppet, and dived into the sea, slowly sinking.

Then it exploded on the seabed, and the eerie laughter did not reach the surface of the sea.

Ke Mingye did this to prevent Gastro from associating him with the Dice Monster.

After all, it is well known on the Internet that the Dice Monster makes a strange laugh when it explodes, and many people have seen the video.

If his puppet exploded in front of Gastro, Gastro would immediately know that the Dice Monster was him.

When his family catches Gastro and Gastro confesses the fact that "the dice monster is actually a player", it will be nonsense for him to cooperate with his family from then on.

Everyone knows that no matter what tricks you play, the ultimate goal is to "exterminate superhumans", so who would cooperate with you? It's all bullshit to listen to your words.

At this moment, as the two dolls exploded on the seabed, in one of the bedrooms in Bo Ke's house.

Ke Ming was thinking ambitiously that his second brother should have held back those vampire hunters, otherwise his deception puppet would most likely not be able to escape from Hongge Commercial Street, and at worst would self-destruct in front of those vampire hunters.

He breathed a sigh of relief, took out his spare phone and sent an email to Ke Xiaomo.

[Mr. Strange Thing: What's going on, Mr. Ninja? ]

[Mo: I met three very strong people. Are they the vampire hunters you mentioned?]

[Mr. Strange Thing: That's right. But shouldn't the focus be on the two players who met in the cafe? The one in the wheelchair is the player "Gastro" who spread the parasites in the city.]

[Mr. Weird Thing: Uh, it seems that you didn't catch either Gastro or the player she met? ]

[Mo: No, I caught the "Gastro" you mentioned.]

[Mo: But she is a fake. She seems to be sitting in a wheelchair and her appearance is consistent with the photo you gave her, but she is actually an ordinary person controlled by a parasite. She has normal legs and wears a human face mask.]

[Mo: Are you sure that the photo of "Gastro" you gave is of her, not a puppet she controls? ]

[Mr. Weird Thing: I'm sure it was her. She used a cane to spread the parasites, not spit them out of her mouth, so it must be her.]

[Mr. Strange Thing: It seems that Gastro did not come to the appointment in his real body, but used a puppet to disguise himself. ]

【Mo: Why did she do this? 】

[Mr. Weird Thing: Who knows? Maybe it's to test whether the other player knows her appearance. If they know, they will be shocked. After all, this girl likes to use puppets to play tricks on others.]

After typing this line, Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief.

"According to what my second brother said, there were three vampire hunters he met..." He thought, "I still haven't gotten more detailed information. I don't know how Gastro will act after this meeting. Let's just take it one step at a time."

(End of this chapter)