Chapter 129: Monster Consultant

Mann, that Aomo Lindun, when you hired him, he was just an academic assistant, right?

It's not employment, it's a cooperative relationship, and I'm still undercover—why are you asking me about this?

You're undercover… It's hard to imagine Mann's sturdy, bear-like figure sneaking around, and Qiwei's voice message, which looked like typing, stalled—but she immediately held back her urge to complain and continued, "This matter is very important; your contract with him should be just as a consultant, not as the main force, right?"

After she said that, she looked again into the distance where a black, long tail suddenly rose from the buildings, visible even without network-assisted vision.

Visually estimated to be several tens of meters long, the tail lashed out, retracting the black giant beast, then in the next second it shrank and coiled up.

On the other end of the channel, Da Wei and Rui Bei Ka were making strange, noisy cries.

Because the channels hadn't merged, Man En couldn't hear the commotion here, and only felt that Qi Wei's question was somewhat puzzling.

Yeah, what's up? Did that kid Aomo join the fight?

It's worse than that; your monster consultant you're cooperating with is currently fighting a monster, and for now he has the upper hand.

Wow~

"Is your reaction serious?" Qi Wei felt a bit weary.

How did things come to this?

How did it come to this? We have to start from an hour ago.

At that time, at the edge of the gang's stronghold, Da Wei still planned to say a few opening lines, asking about the client's lost item.

But because the gang's low-level thugs lacked quality, and Rui Bei Ka happened to be in a bad mood, the explosives were just set off directly.

The Blaze exceeded Da Wei's expectations; his companion's clenched hand, which resembled a large hammer-like prosthetic, when it struck a human body, was naturally ferocious and even cruel.

But compared to this force, Rui Bei Ka, positioned as a firepower suppressor, obviously wasn't relying solely on a pair of fists for support.

So, in her hands, two guns appeared as if by magic.

Crusher

tki-20 Xin Xuan

They are excellent guns, products of otherworldly adaptation to the current world; besides these, there is also a weapon worthy of being called her exclusive weapon, the Bold Courage.

A kinetic shotgun, with fast rate of fire and high damage, but its accuracy is rather pitiful.

Its power is astonishing, but its temperament, like that of its original owner, is unpredictable; nevertheless, in her hands it is fairly obedient.

When fired, it can produce flying limbs and chunks of flesh, and even more astonishing is the wielder's manic laughter.

Miss Qi Wei

Just call me Qi Wei

Qi Wei, is it okay to let Rui Bei Ka kill people like that?

"You mean these guys don't deserve to die?" "No, I have no sympathy for people who mix with black gangs in foreign lands, and her gun can't even steal souls."

But if Rui Bei Ka becomes the main attacker, Da Wei's support pressure will be great.

Take another look at Da Wei's perspective.

"That's too much for a strong person," Aomo expressed refusal.

"Although I can adapt to his speed, I always feel his camera work is regrettable."

Looking at that, if it were recorded as a video and posted online, eighty percent it would be mocked for causing 3D dizziness with its swift perspective; Aomo regretted that Da Wei's visual module recording function couldn't keep up with the crystal element acceleration function called "Si An Wei Si Tan", otherwise the synchronized view he saw should have been as smooth and slow as bullet time.

Now, such an extremely low-frame-rate video makes him feel dizzy even after watching it many times, let alone the other party's viewpoint shaking back and forth.

Aomo now knows that Da Wei occasionally makes a head‑shaking motion like a sudden playful urge during formal operations, and he doesn't know whether it was originally like that or a change brought by this world.

But when he switched to Rui Bei Ka's side, what he saw was her going all out, nothing but firing.

Gunshots, screams, splattering blood, and a somewhat manic laugh; moreover, this visual module sharing obviously had prompts, so as soon as Aomo switched the view he heard Rui Bei Ka shouting: "Come on, cover your eyes! Now watch me sweep away all this trash! Hahahaha!"

Its meaning was no less than saying "Check me out," which left Aomo silent, and then he immediately heard the other side's obviously "entering state" manic laughter.

At this moment, Qi Wei was obviously the one in charge of holding the reins and directing: "Da Wei, Rui Bei Ka has already suppressed the whole scene; go into that building."

Okay, Rui Bei Ka, watch out. Oh! Be careful on the road, I'll come back to find you.

Aomo, you're still watching, right? Of course.

Aomo really wanted to thank Da Wei for letting him discover that meditation techniques could also act as motion‑sickness medicine, but in this formal combat he should refrain from cracking jokes.

According to the initial plan, the first step was to attract attention, the second step was to use the gang's own heavy‑weapon firepower to cause destruction and chaos, and the third step was to infiltrate—or directly further destroy—the gang's headquarters to draw out the so‑called monster.

Although even now the first step has already shown some of the momentum of the second step.

But in fact, Da Wei has only just begun the second step; however, his crystal‑element type that enhances consciousness operation—as long as his body can keep up—can boost his ability, making the third step just as easy.

In terms of frontal combat, Da Wei's hard indicators are not outstanding; he hasn't even installed the implant that suppresses crystal‑element side effects, so he can't sustain acceleration for long, but if the purpose isn't combat, he is completely the best choice.

The time stop is too short to cause a massacre, and still not enough for me to steal anything?

Although he wasn't carrying heavy firepower, this gang's stronghold itself never lacks heavy weapons or other kinds of energy weapons; borrowing them can cause enough exaggerated destruction, even able to rival the simultaneous building fire.

But is it really necessary to race against time in this situation?

Aomo, I have a question—I haven't seen anything like a monster‑breeding device.

I haven't seen it either—do you have any strange feeling?

"Are you talking about crystal‑element load? I think it's fine; actually, after coming to this world my tolerance has even improved——" "I'm asking about a feeling akin to suppression, heart‑season, heaviness—not just simple breathlessness, fatigue, and accelerated heartbeat."

"But the strange feeling you mention, I often get it too when I overuse my crystal element." "It's troublesome just because it's easy to confuse."

Aomo? Qi Wei suddenly noticed that Aomo's coordinate signal began to move.

At this moment, Aomo was "walking" along the path Da Wei had taken, kicking off walls, climbing over the barbed‑wire fence, passing through the battlefield where Rui Bei Ka had wreaked havoc, but his gaze did not linger on those corpses, or even on the blood that had spread to his feet.

He merely stared at the distant building that was neither tall nor short, about ten meters high, one hand naturally hanging down, the other shoved into his pocket.

The card case in his pocket was vibrating urgently, and even when his index finger pressed it there was no end to it; the violent feedback and fierce fighting urge far surpassed the shadow he had once seen.

Facing a real monster would be like this… he thought.

On my side I have something like a monster detector that's reacting, ready to retreat at any moment; Da Wei, the monster opposite probably doesn't belong to the realm of conventional biological cultivation.

"Can't you say it more clearly?"

Just outside the building entrance a hundred meters away, she shot down the mechanical guard that popped up in front of her, and Ruibeika continued her work.

As the enemies around her grew more numerous and gradually ceased to be flesh and blood, she began to visibly struggle; her pair of large hands bore many bullet pits, and her black assault jacket was also dotted with bullet holes and scorch marks.

After complaining, she saw Aomo appear in her view; Ruibeika immediately rushed over, her face full of the exasperated 'Advisor, how'd you get to the front line, damn it!'—she wanted to drag him out of the fire zone, but seeing Aomo raise his hand before his forehead and make a sword‑finger gesture, a linear beam of light shot forth, dark red at both ends and bright green in the middle.

And as he slightly turned his head, the uninterrupted beam swept across an umbrella surface.

It happened to be just enough to melt all the bullets together with the mechanical guard.

【Emerium Ray】

Originally the head ray of Ultraman Sevin, it was modified by the Ultraseven Killer, and now it has been modified again by Aomo, who holds the Ultraseven Killer card.

Its power is naturally much weaker, since it doesn't fully release the power of the Beta Magic Blade, and the pure card output is further discounted, yet it's still enough to deal with the current situation.

To Ruibeika, this was nothing short of shocking.

Although knowing this guy had turned into a monster before, but also having info that he never used his original card combination and hasn't turned into a monster even once so far, Dawei had said that Aomo would have a pretty cool demon form, but that sounded like an actively released skill.

Thus, seeing this guy walking over in human form, Ruibeika's attitude was as if she saw a Duìyou trying to give away his head.

Then that Duìyou, right before her eyes, instantly killed all the enemies.

With a very nonchalant posture.

Turning what should have been a two‑handed motion forming a telekinetic suggestion into a pose, because he needed to make contact with the card and could only use one hand.

Consequently it became a sword‑finger correction.

Even to save energy he chose not to fire multiple times but to snap his head once; Aomo's whole set is actually quite awkward, the relaxed, carefree posture being pure misunderstanding, but at this moment he didn't have time to worry about Ruibeika's shocked 'We said I'd cover him, but I got covered instead,' and without having a chance to say anything to her he urgently spoke into the team comms:

【Dawei! Are you out?! I'm not sure if that thing is a monster, but it's getting more active! Pull back first】

"Hey—!" Ruibeika, still standing in place, watched Aomo dive headfirst into the building and heard the words over the team channel crystal‑clear.

Dawei…

【Ruibeika, you retreat first】

Qiwei's words are always calm, whether in this world or the original Night City.

But it's exactly this calmness that has constantly annoyed her, let alone the fact that later even more infuriating things occurred.

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But she now clearly sees that this is essentially different from the beginning.

Her heart thinking of her companions is utterly sincere, but who isn't?

Without responding to the words in her ear, Ruibeika rushed in right after him, and five minutes later Qiwei saw, via an uninterrupted visual‑module link:

Dawei was being chased by a monster.

The monster was only a few meters tall, but its size kept expanding as it ran.

More importantly, it had long ears like a horse's, just as the intel said.

What was even clearer was its pitch‑black exterior, covered in a scale‑like shell, and…… contrary to expectation, its body was somewhat small.

Even that somewhat small body gradually grew huge as it ran, bringing an inexplicable chill that made Qiwei hard to see.

It seemed lonely, seemed aloof, wrapped in thick loneliness.

Seeing its black eyes, it was as if they reflected her own past in Night City.

It exuded obvious sorrow.

It chased Dawei, but those black eyes were clearly utterly empty.

Such emptiness persisted until its black tail whipped it, whereupon it suddenly gained focus.

That was the Advisor, the monster Advisor.

Compared to the opposite side, his form also resembled a monster.