Chapter 435 Chain Reaction
“As expected, one should not underestimate anyone.”
In Hades City, covered in frost, the young girl sat on the Bone Throne in the graveyard hall, resting one hand on her chin, and finally sighed leisurely.
Kazumi now truly understood Igarashi Aya’s true intentions behind her actions. In fact, if the two had swapped positions and were in the situation at that time, the girl believed it would have been difficult for her to come up with such a clever method in such a short period.
Initially, the girl believed that Igarashi Aya’s role as the team’s strategist was primarily due to her specialized capabilities and relatively more refined management skills. However, looking at the excellent decision-making ability displayed now, she indeed qualified to be a trusted executive of an organization.
The situation at that time was undoubtedly a dead end. Andre, as the team’s highest combat power, was held up, and the situation faced was inevitable exposure and a continuous stream of enemy reinforcements. Moreover, the mission at hand was an excellent opportunity that the organization had spent a large amount of resources to create.
Whether to abandon the mission and flee or to forcibly break through with her subordinates were both foreseeable bad endings. Even Kazumi at the time felt that there was no turning point and planned to escape. And yet, that young girl managed to find this only glimmer of hope in such circumstances.
Yes, that’s right, the only glimmer of hope. Even Kazumi, who now understood most of the plan, only grasped the other party’s intentions after some deduction. And considering the entire event and the problems faced, this could be said to be the only perfect solution to break through the predicament without other reinforcements from the organization.
Directly abandoning the target that had been rescued with great effort, the entire team split up and fled, while simultaneously carrying a humanoid object that could effectively confuse the enemy.
If Kazumi had not personally experienced all of this, she probably would not have been able to figure out, even with all her efforts, that this group of enemies who had worked so hard to rescue hostages, did not bring the person with them during their escape. The real hostage was still left in the original cage.
“But this also requires certain conditions, is it trust… or a gamble?”
Playing with the Frost Giant core in her hand, Kazumi continued to ponder.
The first step of the escape was indeed very clever, but in the young girl’s opinion, all of this was also based on several very stringent prerequisites.
First and foremost, the most crucial condition for being able to do this was that the Heroes pursuing them also could not observe the interior of the cage. This requires sufficiently powerful intelligence capabilities to know that the Heroes could not grasp the situation inside the cage, or if even their own professional personnel could not enter the interior, then the other party would have no reason to be confident enough to achieve this.
However, Kazumi did not think this point was that absolute. Even if there were methods later, such as her own abilities, to understand the situation inside, as long as the Heroes could not immediately distinguish whether there were hostages in the cage, they would definitely continue this pursuit with Igarashi Aya.
The second point of trust lay in the trust of Andre’s strength. Only by believing that Andre could win in a battle of that level would Igarashi Aya’s actions be meaningful.
In order to pursue the escaped prisoner, the Heroes would definitely disperse their forces. Even if there were guards or escorts for the cage, it would be difficult for them to have anyone with strength comparable to Andre’s. In such a case, it would be equivalent to temporarily depositing the prisoner in the hands of the Heroes, and then retrieving them after Andre finished dealing with matters at hand.
“Even the [Four Seasons Envoy] couldn’t cause him trouble?”
Although the Four Seasons Envoy did not have a hero ranking, as a hero with the power to protect a certain area, her strength was always evaluated as relatively high in the outside world, and now it was the “summer” season when she possessed her strongest attacking capabilities.
Facing such an enemy, Igarashi Aya could still make such a decision, and Kazumi was more willing to believe that this was a trust in her partner’s abilities.
What truly made Kazumi admire her, or rather, left her with no room for refusal, was that Igarashi Aya’s so-called plan was also beneficial to her.
With dozens of people escaping in different directions, both the targets and the pursuers would be forced to separate. This not only created a safer escape opportunity for the team members, whose capabilities were not bad to begin with, but also completely muddled the entire situation.
In such a chaotic situation, it was undoubtedly the best opportunity for the young girl to escape as well. Igarashi Aya did not expect Kazumi to share a target point, and was even willing to help her create an escape opportunity. It had to be said that for Kazumi, who was originally an outsider, this was already the utmost kindness.
“That’s why it’s called formidable decision-making ability…”
Shaking her head helplessly, the young girl watched her exhaled breath slowly condense into frost in the low temperature of her territory. In her heart, however, she felt an unceasing admiration for that intelligent young girl.
Even after reviewing it like this for a while, Kazumi still felt that there were some aspects she had not noticed. This gap in thinking made the young girl, who considered herself a mage, feel a touch of frustration in her heart.
Slightly clearing her mood, Kazumi refocused her attention on her abilities, controlling the external [Black Coffin] to move underground towards the west.
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“Whoosh whoosh whoosh—” “Rumble rumble—”
The huge wind sound, accompanied by the roaring of engines, gradually swept away the yellow gas in the forest. Before the gas had completely dissipated, a small team of fully armed police officers cautiously advanced to the center of the dense fog.
“Chief Kawakawa, there are no signs of life. The person has escaped, leaving only this cage here.”
A police officer with a special viewer carefully examined the surroundings, then turned to the tall police chief at the forefront of the team and reported in a muffled voice from beneath his protective suit.
“There’s no one left…” “All units, maintain vigilance, deploy equipment! Tell the logistics team to increase exhaust efficiency, and the third squad to rendezvous at our position.”
The chief’s gloved finger tapped on the thick metal outer wall. Looking at the completely normal environment under the faint mist surrounding them, he finally nodded and gave his orders.
The other police officers, well-trained, executed their superior’s commands. Several of them, holding firearms, kept watch on the surroundings, while the remaining ones took out specialized instruments from their backpacks and began placing them on the ground and the metal cage.
“Director, we have reached the crash site. There are no other traces of anyone currently. We need to request aerial information support…”
As his subordinates busied themselves with their tasks, the leading chief pressed the intercom on the side of his helmet and reported to the director of the higher-level police station.
However, before receiving a reply from the other end of the intercom, two rapidly approaching figures in the distance attracted the attention of everyone present.
“Chief Kawakawa, people from the Association have arrived. They are the advance troops sent to help us.”
A fully armed police officer, sitting on someone’s shoulder, waved to the chief in the distance. And the one carrying an adult in equipment on his shoulder and walking on level ground as if it were nothing, was an extraordinarily strong, golden-haired giant. His coiled muscles were like a thick layer of armor, contracting and expanding with terrifying power and oppressive aura.
The giant strode two steps forward to the approaching police team, carefully placed the police officer on his shoulder, and then respectfully took a certificate out of his pocket and presented it to Chief Kawakawa, speaking in a spirited tone that did not quite match his imposing physique.
“Heroes Association, [Takeru Kamikami]. Sent by the Association to assist.”
