Chapter 529 Actions before seven o'clock
01:45PM.
Change of residence.
In an inconspicuous corner of 52nd Street and 10th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen, there is a complex of buildings known only to shapeshifters.
These buildings are so cleverly blended into their surroundings that ordinary people would not pay any attention even if they passed by.
This concealment is carefully engineered through advanced magic and shape-shifting technology, and is one of the favorite safe houses for shape-shifters.
Sierra Change drove his car along a familiar route to the Change Residence - a secret place known to only a few people.
As the Many-Faced Man and the Illusionist, Serra possesses the unique ability to change his appearance and identity, making him a natural at carrying out his missions.
He is the family's market intelligence collection expert. He is good at transforming into various identities and sneaking into different social levels to collect information and provide data support for the family's business decisions.
At the same time, he is also a member of the Esoteric Cult and the Emetics. He has participated in the development of a variety of banned drugs circulating on the market, and has profound pharmacological knowledge and magical application capabilities.
He is also a radical conservative. Faced with the family's decision to cut off the secret medicine industry, he showed extreme opposition and dissatisfaction, believing that this was an act that deviated from family interests and traditions.
Serra is one of the most radical voices opposed to the family's rapid exit strategy. He believes that the family's business interests and traditions should be upheld and protected, even in the face of pressure from the Municipal Administration.
He tried to find support within the family to prevent a complete break with the secret medicine industry.
Today is just like usual.
Sierra stopped the car at a regular gas station to refuel.
This gas station is located on his usual route and has become an indispensable part of his itinerary, and he thinks that his itinerary is foolproof because every time he comes here, he looks different and drives a different car model. , using different genders.
Behind the counter of the gas toll booth, the familiar female waiter is still at her post. Her movements are mechanical and skillful, as if this scene has been repeated countless times in her work.
She charges Sera just like she would any ordinary customer, without any fuss.
And this is the last toll booth on the road leading to the boulevard, marking that Serra is about to leave the familiar city scene and enter a more private realm.
He stepped on the brakes lightly, and the vehicle slowly stopped in front of the counter. Then he took out the banknotes from his pocket and handed them to the other party as usual.
This simple action has become a habit for Sera. He doesn't like to pay with [debit card] because it will leave payment information, even if it is an anonymous [debit card].
On this ordinary afternoon, Serra was sitting in his Berlin Austrian car. His slightly tilted body and gently rolled up window revealed his habitual vigilance.
His eyes were fixed on the attendant at the toll booth, waiting for the change process. Although the waiter's movements were neat and skillful, Serra's vigilance did not completely relax.
However, even so, he failed to foresee what was about to happen - this moment would become the starting point of his endless regrets.
Tyra's daily life in this world is as calm as running water. Sera's past business and actions have almost always gone smoothly. This successful experience has made him lose the vigilance of always walking on thin ice to a certain extent.
He underestimated his enemies, especially the extensive and sophisticated intelligence network of the Administration, and also underestimated the decisiveness and decisiveness of their actions. At the same time, he overestimated the unity and strength within his family.
Just as he was distracted waiting for change, a rapid and sudden voice broke the afternoon tranquility.
Bang--
Didi-didi--
That was the sound of a car collision, harsh and tense.
At the same time as the collision, Sierra's peripheral vision captured the unusual scene outside the car - two cars seemed to appear out of nowhere and suddenly appeared in his sight. They were like machines performing precise operations, clamping his car between In the middle, a violent collision occurred.
He noticed that there was no driver in the two cars.
Sela Change's heart was beating like a drum, and his brain was rapidly analyzing the situation in front of him.
"A car that appeared out of thin air, driverless..."
These details quickly joined together in his mind like a puzzle, making him realize the truth almost immediately.
"Authority!!!"
Beng——
The vehicle he was in was directly attacked from the flank, and then quickly collapsed into a ball.
At the moment when the car is about to explode, Serra activates his extraordinary power of shapeshifting. His body began to change rapidly, flowing like mercury, squeezing out of the gaps in the car, trying to escape from this dangerous area as quickly as possible.
His transformation ability was brought to its extreme at this moment, trying to turn into a light bird, quickly lift into the air, and leave the impending disaster.
However, at the moment when he almost succeeded in escaping.
Boom——
A loud bang like thunder erupted behind him.
A huge air wave swept all around. This force was so powerful that even Sera, who was transforming in the air, could not resist it. His flight path was suddenly overturned, and his body rolled uncontrollably.
The power of this explosion far exceeded Sera's expectations. Obviously, this was not an ordinary vehicle explosion. Efficient explosives must have been placed on the vehicle.
All this points to the fact that the Administration not only used the intelligence network to conduct a precise ambush on him, but also intended to remove him in one fell swoop.
Sera, who was struggling in the air, was shocked and frightened. The directness and ruthlessness of this attack exceeded his expectations. They had become accustomed to the Honkai Administration Bureau that had just been established a few months ago. Powerless.
As the sixth core organization of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Administration is weak and weak. Everyone regards this organization that attracts a large number of disabled secular people as a charity established by the Kingdom of Heaven in an attempt to secularize it, and as a soft persimmon that has not yet developed.
The reason why the Authority can become the three giants of the New World and the New Alliance is entirely because its father is the Kingdom of Heaven, so it treats all the forces of the New World in the Authority in a positive and negative way.
This situation did not improve slightly until the fourth sword holder of the Kingdom of Heaven announced that he would settle in the headquarters of the Administration and become the director of the Administration.
Everyone knows that this newly ascended supernova of the Kingdom of Heaven will definitely carry out drastic reforms in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Authority, and he will definitely try to implement the Kingdom of Heaven's 'human supremacy' in the new world.
So many people in Hell's Kitchen have gradually become honest, but they are just afraid of the holders of great power.
It’s just that they are afraid of that great power. No one from foreign races, or even from other worlds, will willingly succumb to the devil and the abyss.
How can angels decide what we should do with our lives? Decide how to distribute the benefits that already belong to us?
Are you kidding? The Kingdom of Heaven is powerful but not invincible!
This is what most young aliens, including Sera Change, think.
In the prediction, the adult of the Management Bureau will have to endure for at least a few months to stabilize his power before taking action against Hell's Kitchen and the Hub District. And he believed that he could use his own ability and wisdom during this period to maintain the cooperative relationship with the Secret Cult and the Emetics without violating the interests of the family. Then they would join forces to win over the people of Hell's Kitchen. All the hub forces and alien races, followed by the twenty-five alien states, the merchant associations in the border areas, and the golden royal courts of the various circles behind the hub chaebol...
Leveraging the general trend to manage Pressure the bureau to make the authorities of the bureau compromise!
His idea is very good, most young people are like this, and this idea is not wishful thinking.
The people of the entire federation were only afraid that the angels of heaven would go crazy collectively, so they allowed the administration and the fourth sword holder of heaven to settle in Edici.
Isolationism is a politically correct behavior in the new world in the Federation, and everyone will try to put pressure on the Authority and the person behind it.
This is a silent game, and the most wrong thing Serra did in this game was that he overestimated himself.
In the eyes of the administration, he was just a "gift list" that the adult casually crossed off.
At this moment, the hot pain caused by the explosion from behind burned Sera's back like thousands of needles piercing it. His attempt to transform into a flying bird was ruthlessly interrupted at this moment.
Under the pain, he was unable to maintain any form and turned into a pool of amorphous green liquid, dripping on the ground.
This kind of extreme pain and physical loss of control is something Sera has rarely experienced. He has always been able to control the transformation technique with ease, but now he is forced into such an unbearable situation.
Just as he was struggling to regroup his body, Sera caught a glimpse of several burly people wearing masks with weird emoji characters walking slowly towards him.
The expressions on these masks are distorted and ironic, making people shudder at first sight.
Especially two of them, wearing special finger tigers that shine with a faint light on their hands.
When these people approached, without any hesitation or pause, they used the sealed finger tigers in their hands to hit Sera's liquid form.
Touch——
The moment Zhihu touched Sera, a sharp pain more intense than the pain caused by the explosion penetrated every inch of his "muscles", intense The pain instantly swept through Sera's entire existence. This kind of pain was far more than the physical injury, and it hit the depths of the soul.
Saira felt his entire hit part spasm and twitch, and what was even more horrifying was that he found that his shape was forcibly fixed amidst the unbearable pain. The effect of the sealing finger tiger is undoubtedly obvious, fixing his originally flowing liquid body into an undeformable "humanoid" green object.
As his last consciousness was about to fade away, his eyes were fixed on the leading masked man. The man was tall and tall, with two eye-catching horns on his head. This feature was particularly prominent in Sera's blurred vision, and he realized that this figure was not an ordinary character.
Just as Sera was trying to gather the last of her consciousness to analyze the situation in front of her, the other party clapped her hands lightly, as if this action was some kind of signal.
Immediately, invisible ripples appeared in the air, like throwing a stone into still water, and the ripples scattered in all directions.
As the ripples spread, a weapon appeared that was both familiar and unfamiliar to Sera—the Bolter of the Authority.
The tense atmosphere reached its peak.
Everyone in the circle of people around them holds a bolt gun in their hands. This high-tech weapon looks particularly threatening in the dark night.
Their target is the amorphous, jelly-like "humanoid" creature in front of them. He is unable to complete the transformation under the influence of the sealing finger tiger. At this moment, he can only face the upcoming attack in this helpless form. .
“Do it.”
With the order, everyone pulled the trigger almost at the same time, and the bolt gun began to show its power.
Pengpengpeng——
Pengpengpeng——
The fire bloomed in the air, like fireworks, but it carried the meaning of destruction.
The bolt exploded on the "humanoid" creature, sparks flying and the sound deafening.
The attack lasted for nearly a minute. During the entire process, Sera, who was fixed in form, could not escape and could only wait for the end in pain.
The leader of the horn masked man looked unusually calm in this violent scene. He looked down at his watch and seemed to be counting the time.
Then, he looked up at Sera who "died unexpectedly", the expression on his face was difficult to discern.
He gently motioned to the surrounding men to take action, and the surrounding operators immediately understood his intention.
They walked towards the ruined vehicle that had been affected by the explosion, leaving only the flames burning in the frame. This vehicle had witnessed the brutality of the attack, and now it would become Serra's final resting place.
The operators did not hesitate to carefully place Sera, who was full of bullet marks and no longer showed any signs of life, in the car, as if performing a ridiculous funeral.
In the ruins illuminated by the fire, a violent scene unfolded quietly.
In the blazing vehicle, the man known as the "accidental man" was placed on the driver's seat. His body was unrecognizable, leaving only his outline swallowed by the flames.
Flames licked at his remains, and everything around him was steeped in the catastrophic tragedy.
The entire car was completely engulfed in flames, becoming the brightest focus in the ruins.
The blazing fire jumped, dyeing everything around it with an orange-red glow.
Black smoke rises, intertwining with the night to form a doomsday-like scene.
The flames licked every corner, destroying every part of the vehicle mercilessly. The glass windows had burst, the paint surface of the car body was burned black, and the original color and shape were unrecognizable.
The firelight reflected on the faces of the people around, casting dancing shadows, adding a sense of weirdness and terror to this sudden disaster
At this moment, Special Operator Qingniu stood not far away. I looked at my watch again, time seemed to become extremely heavy at this moment.
He said in a deep voice: "There are 17 more. This operation must be completed before seven o'clock."
Although his voice was calm, every word seemed to be heavy. Like a hammer.
Qingniu glanced at the surrounding team members and continued: "The Bright Moon Rabbit will be responsible for the aftermath. They will curb the spread of intelligence, and we only need to complete the work before seven o'clock."
The aftermath work that Bright Moon Rabbit and his team are responsible for not only needs to deal with the traces on the scene, but also ensures that the operation does not attract too much attention from the outside world.
This is the first operation of the Authority's task force, so every detail cannot go wrong.
Qing Niu and his team members, as the direct executors of this operation, must accurately attack the remaining targets within the specified time to ensure the smooth progress of the entire operation.
This is the first gift given by the Administration to a "friend" and requires extremely grand treatment.