After praising Shinomiya Kaguya, Lin Moze came to Ogino Hikaru and picked up something from the ground.
He clearly saw that it was the photo of Kaguya Shinomiya that Yado had taken out before.
At this moment, Ogino Hikaru began to curse madly in his heart, which contained both anger at Yado's behavior and despair at his current situation.
His heart was pounding, his throat was dry, and countless thoughts were colliding wildly in his mind -
If Yado hadn't been so stupid as to take out this photo, he could have easily made up a reason without revealing the fact that Shinomiya Kaguya was the target.
However, it’s not too late to beg for mercy now!
Although he killed a team of members, those guys were obviously just survivors who had been strengthened by some means.
But he, Ogino Hikaru, is a genuine savior, and his value is much greater in comparison!
Thinking of this, he calmed his mind and forced an unnatural smile on his face.
"Well, I really want to vote..."
Before he could finish his words, Lin Moze's hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed his throat.
The force was so great that Ogino Hikaru suddenly had difficulty breathing. His eyes bulged due to suffocation. He instinctively grabbed the arm that was like a pair of iron clamps with both hands and tried in vain to break free, a "gurgling" sound coming from his throat.
Then, Lin Moze dragged him directly into an abandoned building on the side of the road.
175 Tokyo's No. Gathering Place
Lin Moze killed Ogino Hikaru directly.
The reason was simple, he was very interested in the other party's ability to turn his hand into mist.
Moreover, when he activated his ability, he did not feel any special energy fluctuations, so he could basically rule out the possibility that it was a magical type ability.
As long as it is physical ability, he can basically obtain it.
And the facts proved that his guess was correct.
What Hikaru Ogino extracted was the power of a set of character templates, specifically a character named "Death" in the game "Overwatch".
The most notable ability of this character is that he has undergone special genetic engineering modifications, which allow him to temporarily tear apart his physical form, turning into the black mist state just now.
After devouring the opponent, this ability was unsurprisingly taken into Lin Moze's hands.
Although for him who has immortality, consuming a large amount of biological energy to tear apart his own physical form to avoid enemy attacks is simply a thankless task.
However, it is a good thing to be able to master a special ability. At the very least, it can be used to enhance one's mystery and prestige.
At the same time, through Ogino Hikaru's memories, he also had a full understanding of the other party's origins.
The number one gathering place in Tokyo.
A large gathering place established by the Shinomiya Group, the Metropolitan Police Department, several large companies, and the remaining political forces that can represent the official to a certain extent.
Compared to the process of small gathering places slowly gathering survivors, this kind of force backed by large consortiums and official forces naturally attracts a large number of survivors to gather.
Moreover, with the combination of these forces, the combination of police officers, combat team members, private armed forces and other forces also provided great help in stabilizing the situation in the early days of the end of the world.
Although the sudden arrival of doomsday quickly destroyed the foundations of past civilizations, the collapse of order was not completed in an instant.
A force that is large enough may still be able to use its original strength to accomplish many things in the early stages of the apocalypse, and even accumulate enough early advantages.
For example, the Sigong Group, the third son of the former commander-in-chief, Sigong Yunying, became the savior at the beginning of the doomsday, and then decisively usurped power, controlled the power of the Sigong family, and then smoothly accumulated early advantages.
And this early advantage will become bigger and bigger like a snowball.
Not only that, in Tokyo's number one gathering place, there is a savior who can change the terrain on a large scale.
In Ogino Hikaru's memory, a large wall that surrounded a large area had already appeared, centered on the intersection of the three major areas of the central area, Kanda area, and Kaizu area.
At the same time, the clearing work in the area enclosed inside the wall has been completed.
In other words, what Lin Moze is doing now has been successfully completed by the first gathering place in Tokyo.
At this time, the number of survivors within the gathering place has reached the point where it needs to be calculated in tens of thousands.
You know, after the Watchers gathered and wiped out several surrounding forces, the total number of survivors was only a few thousand.
It is precisely because of this that Ogino Hikaru was so arrogant before.
Because in his opinion, he does have the capital to be arrogant. After all, he is a savior whose strength is judged to be three stars in the panel.
At the same time, he also joined the most powerful Sigong Group in the gathering place. Usually, he was in a high position in the gathering place, holding the power of life and death over those ordinary survivors.
All these circumstances combined to make him swell into his current personality.
According to the memory of Devour, at the moment before Lin Moze killed him, Ogino Hikaru was actually quite confident that he could survive.
Ogino Hikaru felt that since he had betrayed and surrendered so easily, given his value, Lin Moze would never kill him like that.
The only thing you need to worry about is what kind of revenge and punishment you will suffer, and whether you will live in humiliation afterwards.
So, with this confident mentality, he was stabbed by Lin Moze without any hesitation.
As Lin Moze further read and understood Ogino Hikaru's memories, he also learned some things about Shinomiya Kaguya.
Combined with his understanding of Kaguya Shinomiya, he basically deduced the whole story of how Kaguya Shinomiya was attacked.
In short, at the beginning of the doomsday, Kaguya Shinomiya reunited with the forces of her main family under the escort of a special helicopter.
Later, when she revealed her identity as a savior, she received even stricter and more thorough "protection".
Of course, this so-called protection is nothing more than a more euphemistic form of surveillance.
This is the kind of life that Kaguya Shinomiya has been living since she was a child.
Because of her mother's shabby background, her identity as the eldest daughter seemed extremely glamorous to outsiders, but within the Four Dukes' family, she had always been despised.
In addition, her three brothers have been engaged in open and covert struggles for power.
In this way, Kaguya Shinomiya, who is a legitimate daughter but has no foundation or support, naturally becomes a better chess piece in the eyes of the three.
Perhaps because of her understanding of her own environment, Kaguya Shinomiya did not reveal her true abilities to others at the beginning.
She simply claimed that she had the power to heal others, disguising herself as a nanny.
According to her inference, her third brother Sigong Yunying would definitely treat her as some kind of secret bargaining chip instead of letting her heal ordinary survivors.
This is indeed the case. Kaguya's third brother blocked the news of her healing power and used it as a condition to win people's hearts and exchange interests.
The reason why Ogino Hikaru knew all this was because he had joined the Shinomiya family early on and demonstrated enough value, so the relevant information was revealed.
Then, Kaguya Shinomiya began her process of "soul sharing".
This can be inferred based on some clues in Ogino Hikaru's memory.
In the early stages, she had been able to control the process of soul fragments eroding others relatively well, and there were no large-scale deaths.
According to Lin Moze's guess, only when these unlucky guys who were treated by Kaguya were fighting monsters, would the girl secretly do something and cause some of them to die suddenly.
If no one understood the power of the "Blood of Annihilation" and took precautions against it, no one would notice anything wrong with this kind of thing.
It was under such circumstances that Kaguya Shinomiya completed her initial accumulation of strength.
Then, she also began to actively practice some weapon usage techniques.
Especially when it comes to Kyudo, which she is very good at, she seems to be particularly concerned about it.
To outsiders, this should be a reflection of Miss Kaguya's lack of security.
But in fact, Kaguya Shinomiya should have been practicing and developing the Quincy's moves during this period.
176 Mutation
Logically speaking, the next script should be that Miss Kaguya endures and does not speak out, and finally stages a slap in the face and revenge drama of "The three-year period has been reached, please welcome the Dragon King back to his throne."
Unfortunately, the arrival of a piece of news disrupted this process.
Her third brother, after using a large number of monster corpses for transformation for a long time, finally obtained some key props and began to seek to break through the four-star limit.
Ogino Hikaru was not clear about what happened next.
He only knew that late at night the next day, the private armed forces of the Shinomiya family began to die in large numbers, and then a battle seemed to have broken out in the gathering place.
The next day, the Shinomiya family announced that Shinomiya Kaguya had launched a surprise attack to usurp power, and then was seriously injured and fled and disappeared.
It's a bit funny to say that the news that Shinomiya Yunying was preparing to break through to the four-star level was originally kept secret, but Ogino Hikaru couldn't help but let it slip when he was mocking Shinomiya Kaguya's attendant.
If this news reached the ears of Shigong Yunying, Ogino Hikaru might not even have the chance to come out and carry out the tracking mission.
In addition to the relevant information about Shinomiya Kaguya, what attracted Lin Moze's attention more was Shinomiya Yunying, who was suspected to have advanced to a four-star level.
In Ogino Hikaru's impression, Shinomiya Yunying had not taken the initiative to attack many times. The only time he fought against a powerful monster was when a gathering place was attacked by a group of protostomes in the early days.
However, although it was only such a short attack, Lin Mozeli still recognized the power possessed by Sigong Yunying.
In that memory fragment, the other person's body was covered with a strange substance that was gray-black in color and had a mucus-like texture on the surface.
While wrapping the opponent's body, this layer of material makes his height and muscle outline become extremely exaggerated. It can also proliferate and extend at will, changing into the shape of various cold weapons.
In addition, the most obvious feature is the opponent's head after the transformation.
It was a head consisting of a pair of huge, ferocious white eyes and a wide mouth full of sharp teeth.
Judging from the appearance alone, he is 70% similar to the famous anti-hero "Venom" in Lin Moze's previous superhero work.
The only difference between the two is in the outline details and color.
Therefore, the other party is most likely a member of the same species as Venom, that is, a strange creature called a symbiote.
It is able to bond with its host, forming a symbiotic relationship, covering and integrating itself into the host, granting the host superhuman strength and endurance, while also being able to heal the host's injuries.
The symbiote can even copy the host's own special abilities and pass them on to the next host.
To some extent,
Some of the forms and powers displayed by the symbiote are somewhat similar to the Blacklight virus.
However, without special circumstances and frequent changes of hosts, it would be difficult for the symbiote to directly provide the host with four-star level power enhancement.
This made Lin Moze interested in the props that Sigong Yunying obtained.
It is the number one gathering place in Tokyo, so it seems necessary to visit it.
Only, not now.
Thinking this in his mind, Lin Moze walked out of the house he was in and looked at the ruins across the street.
The "biological pulse" told him that the guy whose neck he had just broken and thrown away seemed to be undergoing some strange changes...
At this moment, from the broken holes in the walls of the houses on the street, in the shadows forgotten by the sun, a tiny and continuous sound is faintly coming out.
It was like some creature was slowly crawling in the dark, or the slight friction of the breeze blowing through scattered debris.
Although the sound was not loud, it was particularly clear in this quiet environment, revealing a hint of mystery and uneasiness, which made people feel a chill in their hearts.
On the street, everyone had obviously noticed something was wrong there and was on guard from a distance.
However, compared to the vigilance of Yoji Mototani and the others, Miku and Kaguya were relatively relaxed. With their current keen perception, it was not difficult for them to judge the degree of threat posed by the thing behind the hole in the wall.
If you really count, he is probably only at the level of "Ogino Hikaru". Not to mention Lin Moze, it would be very difficult for him to pose a threat to the two girls.
The reason why he didn't take direct action against it was because this thing might still be useful to Lin Moze.
After being together for such a long time, the fact that Lin Moze can gain power by devouring living things is no longer considered a secret that cannot be known like it was at the beginning of the apocalypse.
The girls who were close to him also knew this to some extent, and they did not think it was unacceptable.
After all, to this day, even the girls themselves have a lot of blood on their hands, whether it is from dimensional monsters or humans.
Under such circumstances, some of the previous views have naturally changed...
After seeing Lin Moze return, Sanjiu came to his side and asked softly:
"Lin, do we need to destroy it?"
Her keen senses enhanced by her spiritual power have already allowed her to basically know what she will be facing after being pulled at this moment.
"Yes, but be gentle, don't kill him directly."
As the two were talking, a giant concrete column with a diameter of several meters and seemingly unstoppable suddenly flew out of the big hole in the opposite wall with a loud bang.
At the same time, Miku shook her right hand lightly, and her Zanpakuto, flashing with cold light, came out of its sheath silently, like a flash of lightning in the air, instantly illuminating the surroundings.
Just when the concrete pillar was about to hit the two people, a soft "hum" was heard, and the air seemed to be split in two. An impact that was invisible to the naked eye suddenly spread forward with Miku as the center.
The originally unstoppable concrete column, under this impact, was like encountering an invisible huge wave, and cracks appeared in an instant.
Then, there were continuous "cracking" sounds, and the entire stone pillar seemed to be crushed by an invisible giant hand, turning into countless fragments, scattering in the air, and finally falling weakly to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.
He clearly saw that it was the photo of Kaguya Shinomiya that Yado had taken out before.
At this moment, Ogino Hikaru began to curse madly in his heart, which contained both anger at Yado's behavior and despair at his current situation.
His heart was pounding, his throat was dry, and countless thoughts were colliding wildly in his mind -
If Yado hadn't been so stupid as to take out this photo, he could have easily made up a reason without revealing the fact that Shinomiya Kaguya was the target.
However, it’s not too late to beg for mercy now!
Although he killed a team of members, those guys were obviously just survivors who had been strengthened by some means.
But he, Ogino Hikaru, is a genuine savior, and his value is much greater in comparison!
Thinking of this, he calmed his mind and forced an unnatural smile on his face.
"Well, I really want to vote..."
Before he could finish his words, Lin Moze's hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed his throat.
The force was so great that Ogino Hikaru suddenly had difficulty breathing. His eyes bulged due to suffocation. He instinctively grabbed the arm that was like a pair of iron clamps with both hands and tried in vain to break free, a "gurgling" sound coming from his throat.
Then, Lin Moze dragged him directly into an abandoned building on the side of the road.
175 Tokyo's No. Gathering Place
Lin Moze killed Ogino Hikaru directly.
The reason was simple, he was very interested in the other party's ability to turn his hand into mist.
Moreover, when he activated his ability, he did not feel any special energy fluctuations, so he could basically rule out the possibility that it was a magical type ability.
As long as it is physical ability, he can basically obtain it.
And the facts proved that his guess was correct.
What Hikaru Ogino extracted was the power of a set of character templates, specifically a character named "Death" in the game "Overwatch".
The most notable ability of this character is that he has undergone special genetic engineering modifications, which allow him to temporarily tear apart his physical form, turning into the black mist state just now.
After devouring the opponent, this ability was unsurprisingly taken into Lin Moze's hands.
Although for him who has immortality, consuming a large amount of biological energy to tear apart his own physical form to avoid enemy attacks is simply a thankless task.
However, it is a good thing to be able to master a special ability. At the very least, it can be used to enhance one's mystery and prestige.
At the same time, through Ogino Hikaru's memories, he also had a full understanding of the other party's origins.
The number one gathering place in Tokyo.
A large gathering place established by the Shinomiya Group, the Metropolitan Police Department, several large companies, and the remaining political forces that can represent the official to a certain extent.
Compared to the process of small gathering places slowly gathering survivors, this kind of force backed by large consortiums and official forces naturally attracts a large number of survivors to gather.
Moreover, with the combination of these forces, the combination of police officers, combat team members, private armed forces and other forces also provided great help in stabilizing the situation in the early days of the end of the world.
Although the sudden arrival of doomsday quickly destroyed the foundations of past civilizations, the collapse of order was not completed in an instant.
A force that is large enough may still be able to use its original strength to accomplish many things in the early stages of the apocalypse, and even accumulate enough early advantages.
For example, the Sigong Group, the third son of the former commander-in-chief, Sigong Yunying, became the savior at the beginning of the doomsday, and then decisively usurped power, controlled the power of the Sigong family, and then smoothly accumulated early advantages.
And this early advantage will become bigger and bigger like a snowball.
Not only that, in Tokyo's number one gathering place, there is a savior who can change the terrain on a large scale.
In Ogino Hikaru's memory, a large wall that surrounded a large area had already appeared, centered on the intersection of the three major areas of the central area, Kanda area, and Kaizu area.
At the same time, the clearing work in the area enclosed inside the wall has been completed.
In other words, what Lin Moze is doing now has been successfully completed by the first gathering place in Tokyo.
At this time, the number of survivors within the gathering place has reached the point where it needs to be calculated in tens of thousands.
You know, after the Watchers gathered and wiped out several surrounding forces, the total number of survivors was only a few thousand.
It is precisely because of this that Ogino Hikaru was so arrogant before.
Because in his opinion, he does have the capital to be arrogant. After all, he is a savior whose strength is judged to be three stars in the panel.
At the same time, he also joined the most powerful Sigong Group in the gathering place. Usually, he was in a high position in the gathering place, holding the power of life and death over those ordinary survivors.
All these circumstances combined to make him swell into his current personality.
According to the memory of Devour, at the moment before Lin Moze killed him, Ogino Hikaru was actually quite confident that he could survive.
Ogino Hikaru felt that since he had betrayed and surrendered so easily, given his value, Lin Moze would never kill him like that.
The only thing you need to worry about is what kind of revenge and punishment you will suffer, and whether you will live in humiliation afterwards.
So, with this confident mentality, he was stabbed by Lin Moze without any hesitation.
As Lin Moze further read and understood Ogino Hikaru's memories, he also learned some things about Shinomiya Kaguya.
Combined with his understanding of Kaguya Shinomiya, he basically deduced the whole story of how Kaguya Shinomiya was attacked.
In short, at the beginning of the doomsday, Kaguya Shinomiya reunited with the forces of her main family under the escort of a special helicopter.
Later, when she revealed her identity as a savior, she received even stricter and more thorough "protection".
Of course, this so-called protection is nothing more than a more euphemistic form of surveillance.
This is the kind of life that Kaguya Shinomiya has been living since she was a child.
Because of her mother's shabby background, her identity as the eldest daughter seemed extremely glamorous to outsiders, but within the Four Dukes' family, she had always been despised.
In addition, her three brothers have been engaged in open and covert struggles for power.
In this way, Kaguya Shinomiya, who is a legitimate daughter but has no foundation or support, naturally becomes a better chess piece in the eyes of the three.
Perhaps because of her understanding of her own environment, Kaguya Shinomiya did not reveal her true abilities to others at the beginning.
She simply claimed that she had the power to heal others, disguising herself as a nanny.
According to her inference, her third brother Sigong Yunying would definitely treat her as some kind of secret bargaining chip instead of letting her heal ordinary survivors.
This is indeed the case. Kaguya's third brother blocked the news of her healing power and used it as a condition to win people's hearts and exchange interests.
The reason why Ogino Hikaru knew all this was because he had joined the Shinomiya family early on and demonstrated enough value, so the relevant information was revealed.
Then, Kaguya Shinomiya began her process of "soul sharing".
This can be inferred based on some clues in Ogino Hikaru's memory.
In the early stages, she had been able to control the process of soul fragments eroding others relatively well, and there were no large-scale deaths.
According to Lin Moze's guess, only when these unlucky guys who were treated by Kaguya were fighting monsters, would the girl secretly do something and cause some of them to die suddenly.
If no one understood the power of the "Blood of Annihilation" and took precautions against it, no one would notice anything wrong with this kind of thing.
It was under such circumstances that Kaguya Shinomiya completed her initial accumulation of strength.
Then, she also began to actively practice some weapon usage techniques.
Especially when it comes to Kyudo, which she is very good at, she seems to be particularly concerned about it.
To outsiders, this should be a reflection of Miss Kaguya's lack of security.
But in fact, Kaguya Shinomiya should have been practicing and developing the Quincy's moves during this period.
176 Mutation
Logically speaking, the next script should be that Miss Kaguya endures and does not speak out, and finally stages a slap in the face and revenge drama of "The three-year period has been reached, please welcome the Dragon King back to his throne."
Unfortunately, the arrival of a piece of news disrupted this process.
Her third brother, after using a large number of monster corpses for transformation for a long time, finally obtained some key props and began to seek to break through the four-star limit.
Ogino Hikaru was not clear about what happened next.
He only knew that late at night the next day, the private armed forces of the Shinomiya family began to die in large numbers, and then a battle seemed to have broken out in the gathering place.
The next day, the Shinomiya family announced that Shinomiya Kaguya had launched a surprise attack to usurp power, and then was seriously injured and fled and disappeared.
It's a bit funny to say that the news that Shinomiya Yunying was preparing to break through to the four-star level was originally kept secret, but Ogino Hikaru couldn't help but let it slip when he was mocking Shinomiya Kaguya's attendant.
If this news reached the ears of Shigong Yunying, Ogino Hikaru might not even have the chance to come out and carry out the tracking mission.
In addition to the relevant information about Shinomiya Kaguya, what attracted Lin Moze's attention more was Shinomiya Yunying, who was suspected to have advanced to a four-star level.
In Ogino Hikaru's impression, Shinomiya Yunying had not taken the initiative to attack many times. The only time he fought against a powerful monster was when a gathering place was attacked by a group of protostomes in the early days.
However, although it was only such a short attack, Lin Mozeli still recognized the power possessed by Sigong Yunying.
In that memory fragment, the other person's body was covered with a strange substance that was gray-black in color and had a mucus-like texture on the surface.
While wrapping the opponent's body, this layer of material makes his height and muscle outline become extremely exaggerated. It can also proliferate and extend at will, changing into the shape of various cold weapons.
In addition, the most obvious feature is the opponent's head after the transformation.
It was a head consisting of a pair of huge, ferocious white eyes and a wide mouth full of sharp teeth.
Judging from the appearance alone, he is 70% similar to the famous anti-hero "Venom" in Lin Moze's previous superhero work.
The only difference between the two is in the outline details and color.
Therefore, the other party is most likely a member of the same species as Venom, that is, a strange creature called a symbiote.
It is able to bond with its host, forming a symbiotic relationship, covering and integrating itself into the host, granting the host superhuman strength and endurance, while also being able to heal the host's injuries.
The symbiote can even copy the host's own special abilities and pass them on to the next host.
To some extent,
Some of the forms and powers displayed by the symbiote are somewhat similar to the Blacklight virus.
However, without special circumstances and frequent changes of hosts, it would be difficult for the symbiote to directly provide the host with four-star level power enhancement.
This made Lin Moze interested in the props that Sigong Yunying obtained.
It is the number one gathering place in Tokyo, so it seems necessary to visit it.
Only, not now.
Thinking this in his mind, Lin Moze walked out of the house he was in and looked at the ruins across the street.
The "biological pulse" told him that the guy whose neck he had just broken and thrown away seemed to be undergoing some strange changes...
At this moment, from the broken holes in the walls of the houses on the street, in the shadows forgotten by the sun, a tiny and continuous sound is faintly coming out.
It was like some creature was slowly crawling in the dark, or the slight friction of the breeze blowing through scattered debris.
Although the sound was not loud, it was particularly clear in this quiet environment, revealing a hint of mystery and uneasiness, which made people feel a chill in their hearts.
On the street, everyone had obviously noticed something was wrong there and was on guard from a distance.
However, compared to the vigilance of Yoji Mototani and the others, Miku and Kaguya were relatively relaxed. With their current keen perception, it was not difficult for them to judge the degree of threat posed by the thing behind the hole in the wall.
If you really count, he is probably only at the level of "Ogino Hikaru". Not to mention Lin Moze, it would be very difficult for him to pose a threat to the two girls.
The reason why he didn't take direct action against it was because this thing might still be useful to Lin Moze.
After being together for such a long time, the fact that Lin Moze can gain power by devouring living things is no longer considered a secret that cannot be known like it was at the beginning of the apocalypse.
The girls who were close to him also knew this to some extent, and they did not think it was unacceptable.
After all, to this day, even the girls themselves have a lot of blood on their hands, whether it is from dimensional monsters or humans.
Under such circumstances, some of the previous views have naturally changed...
After seeing Lin Moze return, Sanjiu came to his side and asked softly:
"Lin, do we need to destroy it?"
Her keen senses enhanced by her spiritual power have already allowed her to basically know what she will be facing after being pulled at this moment.
"Yes, but be gentle, don't kill him directly."
As the two were talking, a giant concrete column with a diameter of several meters and seemingly unstoppable suddenly flew out of the big hole in the opposite wall with a loud bang.
At the same time, Miku shook her right hand lightly, and her Zanpakuto, flashing with cold light, came out of its sheath silently, like a flash of lightning in the air, instantly illuminating the surroundings.
Just when the concrete pillar was about to hit the two people, a soft "hum" was heard, and the air seemed to be split in two. An impact that was invisible to the naked eye suddenly spread forward with Miku as the center.
The originally unstoppable concrete column, under this impact, was like encountering an invisible huge wave, and cracks appeared in an instant.
Then, there were continuous "cracking" sounds, and the entire stone pillar seemed to be crushed by an invisible giant hand, turning into countless fragments, scattering in the air, and finally falling weakly to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.
