Chapter 440: Team Battle Mission, Cruel World

"Damn it, what on earth is wrong with this world..."

The woman had long pink hair and wore a pair of rather cartoonish headphones; she was currently standing at the top of Tokyo Tower, with one hand and one foot seemingly adhered to the tower's structure, allowing the other half of her body to move freely.

The woman with the codename 【Lingling】 used an optical instrument to clearly observe the most prosperous district of Tokyo below.

What should have been the most bustling urban scenery in Asia was now like a nightmare.

Countless ghouls, their bodies twisting as they crazily attacked humans, were present in numbers beyond estimation, and ordinary humans had completely become prey.

More crucially, she saw two tall monsters with icy blue light shining in their eyes standing in a street filled with corpses; with a single lift of a hand, all the corpses would eerily rise at once, transforming into new ghouls.

The good news was that the Japan government had dispatched the Self-Defense Force to establish a cordon in the direction of Shibuya, and creatures like ghouls, no different from zombies, could not cross the iron torrent of modern weaponry.

"Lingling reporting, observed two ghosts, coordinates in the district 2 kilometers north of Tokyo Tower;"

Zzz~

There was only the sound of static in the headset; no one replied.

Lingling felt even more uneasy; her 【Explosive Drumbeat】 squad, totaling 7 people, was the third team to enter in this team battle mission, and theoretically, they should be a team with relatively strong strength as judged by the space.

But after entering this world, they had not found any hostile Reincarnator squads at all.

Upon completing deployment and entering Tokyo, they discovered that a large number of ghouls had begun to appear in the Tokyo area.

Captain 【Andrei】 judged that among the two Reincarnator teams that had entered earlier, someone had released a virus or created these monsters.

There were two people in their team who had broken through the Extreme Value to enter the Second Tier, so the ghouls could not cause too much trouble.

Zzz~

The sound of static continued to ring out, and the unease in Lingling's heart reached its peak; she prepared to leave this high vantage point and return to her teammates' side.

【Team member tr13566690 has died, Team Battle Point -1, current: -1】

【Team member bx54134479 has died, Team Battle Point -1, current: -2】

【Team member ds71300144 has died, Team Battle Point -1, current: -3】

A chill rose from her tailbone, and Lingling subconsciously dispelled the Magic that connected her to Tokyo Tower, falling from the air.

The next moment, Boom!

A distorted explosion suddenly erupted from the place where she had just been standing; if she hadn't left that spot, she would have been caught in the blast by now.

Lingling had excellent perception; she looked down and indeed saw a man wearing a special black tight-fitting suit, holding a long gun with a strong sense of technology in both hands, the blue-white light at the muzzle lighting up once again.

Lingling touched the tower body with her arm again, and a row of Thaumaturgy patterns appeared from her arm; the woman's downward momentum was instantly canceled, and with a sweep of her right hand, she had already circled behind the tower to hide.

Her heart was cold; the Captain's guess was correct—the Reincarnators who entered this Gantz World first were highly likely to be arranged as members of the Tokyo Black Ball Squad.

Having Gantz's technological equipment would greatly increase the combat power of this squad; therefore, they should not fight the other party directly, but should find a way to join forces with the Japan government and the chaebols.

She didn't even have time to think about who the three dead people were, and began a high-altitude rapid descent from the outside of the other side of Tokyo Tower.

For the Tokyo Tower, which had a total height of over three hundred meters, the woman landed in less than ten seconds, and then with a forceful sweep of her right hand, the massive Tokyo Tower let out a terrifying creak and began to tilt to one side.

She could change the properties of herself and the matter she touched; although she could not cast very powerful Magic due to her low energy attribute, for this kind of metal tower, simply changing the properties of local materials was enough to completely destroy its stability.

The Tokyo Tower, like a landmark of Tokyo, began to collapse amidst a terrifying sound; the man standing on the Tokyo Tower observation deck, wearing the black Gantz Reinforced Suit, also had his expression change, and patterns like meridians immediately appeared on the Reinforced Suit.

His entire body's attributes were enhanced, and he immediately ran from the tilting Tokyo Tower.

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!

The metal torrent exploded at this moment, and the Heavy Machine Gun began to fire indiscriminately in the city; Lingling heard the sound and felt a surge of joy—this was the signature firepower output of the man with the codename 【Hot】 in her team.

She immediately moved toward that direction; amidst the terrifying roar behind her, Tokyo Tower crashed down, completely destroying an entire district.

The thick smell of blood even overwhelmed the rising dust; it was unknown how many humans and ghouls had died before this strike.

Swish, swish, swish.

A slight sound of breaking air rang out, and then the roaring Heavy Machine Gun went silent; the next moment, a black shadow broke through the air, and Lingling raised her hand, but a cold sensation brushed across her throat.

Pfft!

Fresh blood sprayed upward, and her consciousness quickly began to turn black.

Lingling clutched her throat and turned around, seeing a petite woman who was not wearing the black Reinforced Suit, but instead had dense fur growing all over her body, with two cat ears exposed on her head.

What made Lingling even more desperate was that the head of the silver-haired middle-aged man was being held in this woman's hand.

"Andrei... Captain..."

The petite woman licked the fur on her right hand, blue-white static flickering within the fur; her eyes emitted a ghostly green light as she swayed toward Lingling.

"Sorry, we are the type of team that... concentrates combat power on a few members."

"I am stronger than him."

Lingling's eyes blinked, and then she felt her body become light; in her rapidly darkening vision, only her own headless corpse slowly falling remained.

"Captain Bonnie, please hurry to Shibuya immediately; our plan in Osaka has likely failed, and the strength of that last team to enter, the 【White Temple】 squad, is somewhat abnormal; the Hundred Ghost Night Parade did not wipe them out."

The petite woman called Bonnie heard her teammate's call, placed the two Reincarnators' heads in front of her, and then pressed her palms together and bowed piously; this was her unique ritual—she was merciless in battle, but she had no grudge against these two.

"I killed you, but I still hope you can be reborn."

The next moment, two Scarlet Drop Cards condensed and appeared; Bonnie put them into her Backpack, took a step, and her figure jumped twice on the ruins of the collapsed Tokyo Tower like a Cat, disappearing from sight.

In a collapsed corner, a boy covered in blood covered a girl's mouth, the two hiding by the entrance of a building that had collapsed on one side.

"Brother, who are they? I'm so scared..."

"Where is Mom? Where is Dad?"

"I want Mom, I want Dad!"

The girl was crying, and the boy also sat slumped on the ground; he just instinctively gripped his sister's hand tightly to keep her from getting lost, as there were those monsters everywhere outside.

As for Mom and Dad, the corner of his eye caught a severed hand reaching out from the ruins, and that hand was still wearing a red toy watch; he remembered clearly that it was what his sister had begged Dad to put on for her that afternoon.

After the disaster broke out, Dad had clearly said that as long as they hid in this most prosperous place with everyone else, someone would definitely come to save them...

"Liars..."

The boy's eyes were also full of fear and tears, but listening to the wails that occasionally rang out from the ruins, he still stood up and squeezed a smile for his sister.

"Hanako, let's go find Mom."

He saw in the distant Heaven, a giant flying dragon streak across the night sky, flying toward the direction of Shibuya.

In the boy's eyes, fear and Hatred were intertwined.

"Those guys wearing black clothes... are also liars."

"All of... you... go to hell."

(End of chapter)