Chapter 946: The Importance of Maintaining Distance
“Assassinate… Wuming?” Hearing that name, Hu Feng Toumi raised an eyebrow, a dangerous expression crossing her face. “Are you sure?”
As she spoke, Hu Feng Toumi looked up at the corner where Black Night Sea Bird had appeared—if she wasn’t mistaken, there should have been others there until the fight began, right?
The culprits who had coerced, tracked, and monitored Black Night Sea Bird.
—If I go after them now, I wonder if it’s still not too late…
“Of course I’m sure!” Black Night Sea Bird said, but noticing the malicious aura emanating from the girl in front of her, she thought for a moment and added, “But I can’t Mind Read, so if those guys were lying to me, there’s nothing I can do.”
Hu Feng Toumi narrowed her eyes, scrutinizing the girl in front of her, then looked at the corner not far away.
—They’re gone. If the enemy isn’t too stupid, they must have already fled, right?
Since that’s the case, all she could do now was gather as much information as possible.
Thus, Hu Feng Toumi refocused her attention on Black Night Sea Bird.
The latter shivered instantly: “Hu… Hu Feng Senior?”
“I’m going to inform Wuming about what happened here,” Hu Feng Toumi said. “Before that, you have five minutes to explain everything you know clearly.”
Under duress, Black Night Sea Bird had no power to resist, so she could only honestly explain the situation.
However, the information she knew wasn’t much.
Because the assassination attempt used an electronic virus, Black Night Sea Bird was completely unaware until the virus took effect.
Her left arm was completely out of control, and even most of her body fell into a strange state of stiffness and numbness—it was only then that the enemy leisurely appeared.
Black Night Sea Bird had thought about resisting, but unfortunately, control of her body wasn’t in her hands. Even if she wanted to activate “Nitrogen Burst Lance,” she sadly discovered that her left hand was completely controlled by the enemy.
This also meant that at least half of her “Nitrogen Burst Lance” firepower was under enemy control!
In desperation, she had no choice but to temporarily compromise and agree to work for the enemy.
Then, through subtle probing, Black Night Sea Bird discovered the enemy’s objective—to assassinate Lin Wuming.
More precisely, it was to “assassinate Board of Directors members”—excluding Chairman Aleister, who was the most difficult target, all other Directors were their targets.
Among all these potential targets, Lin Wuming was the first to be targeted.
It wasn’t that these “Anti-Academy City Forces Alliance” members didn’t know the power of Level 5s, which ultimately led them to underestimate Lin Wuming.
It was simply that after evaluation, they judged Lin Wuming to be the easiest target to get close to.
Compared to other Directors, at least Lin Wuming’s whereabouts were publicly traceable, making him easy to find.
Moreover, Lin Wuming was not an official Toku Ko Ri Shi, so he didn’t have such strict security measures around him, making it easier to approach him.
But on the other hand, Lin Wuming’s reputation and influence far exceeded that of official Toku Ko Ri Shi. In fact, in the impression of most citizens, when the Board of Directors was mentioned, Chairman Aleister was the first to come to mind, followed by the “Nameless Board Member” in second place.
In summary, the enemy’s choice of Lin Wuming as the first assassination target was not without reason.
The only problem was that as opponents of Academy City, while they knew about the existence of esper ability Levels, they couldn’t form an intuitive understanding of different Levels of esper ability.
In other words—they only knew Level 5s were strong, but they didn’t know what kind of monsters Level 5s truly were.
Of course, after Black Night Sea Bird realized this, she didn’t correct their mistaken perception.
To save herself, Black Night Sea Bird instead volunteered to personally assassinate Lin Wuming…
Because Black Night Sea Bird believed that even if she actively attacked, Lin Wuming wouldn’t indiscriminately kill her.
At that time—as long as Lin Wuming noticed her predicament, she would definitely be saved.
Therefore, when Black Night Sea Bird discovered that Hu Feng Toumi was acting alone and was not, as usual, inseparable from Lin Wuming, she felt as if the sky was about to collapse!
One must know, Hu Feng Toumi was a woman no less crazy than herself… no, she was even crazier than herself!
Asking her for help…
Even so, with the arrow already on the string, Black Night Sea Bird ultimately bit the bullet and launched an attack on Hu Feng Toumi.
“Actually, I sent you a signal during the fight just now,” Black Night Sea Bird explained, “right when I launched my attack.”
“I know,” Hu Feng Toumi said calmly. “You used attack frequency to send Morse code, transmitting a signal to me.”
This time, it was Black Night Sea Bird’s turn to be stunned: “You found out? I thought I was just doing something useless!”
“Of course, how could such an obvious signal go unnoticed?” Hu Feng Toumi had a matter-of-fact expression.
Because during the battle, Hu Feng Toumi quickly discovered that Black Night Sea Bird had no clear ill will towards her.
—Black Night Sea Bird’s attack accuracy was too low!
While Hu Feng Toumi could dodge the enemy’s attacks, the actual feeling was even easier than expected.
It was as if… the enemy was cooperating with her in an exhibition match.
Therefore, Hu Feng Toumi knew that Black Night Sea Bird was holding back.
Precisely because their attack characteristics were very similar, and their personalities and temperaments also had many similarities, they could, in turn, understand each other in some subtle ways.
For example, Black Night Sea Bird’s operation of using attack frequency to send Morse code…
In fact, even Black Night Sea Bird hadn’t expected the other side to truly understand her thinking; this was just a desperate, haphazard method she came up with in a moment of panic.
Who knew, Hu Feng Toumi actually understood it one hundred percent…
“Then why didn’t you respond to me?” After confirming this, Black Night Sea Bird became even angrier. “Your interpretation was correct, so why did your offensive become even more ferocious and sharp?!”
“Because you kept calling ‘Wuming,’ ‘Wuming,’ which was annoying,” Hu Feng Toumi said. “You have nothing to do with Wuming…”
Black Night Sea Bird could no longer hold back: “Don’t you understand? I was deliberately keeping my distance! It’s beneficial for both sides to maintain distance, like Xiao Lin Gege and I do! See, someone has already targeted this weakness, haven’t they?”
Black Night Sea Bird snorted coldly: “I’m fine, after all, my bad relationship with Xiao Lin Gege isn’t a secret, so the enemy wouldn’t think of using me to threaten Xiao Lin Gege—I was just caught in the crossfire this time—the real trouble is the other survivors of Black May, and that Kihara Saiai guy!”
