Chapter 388
: Puppet Attack
Chapter 388: Puppet Attack
"Boom."
A cup of coffee was placed on the table, and the rich aroma spread with the hot steam.
"Upton, your coffee."
"Thank you."
The man with glasses quickly took it and took a sip, then continued typing on the keyboard.
"Here, Zeke."
Veronica, the woman in red, handed another cup of coffee to the man with the ponytail.
The ponytailed man, Zeke, took the coffee and frowned, asking, "Haven't you found that woman yet?"
Veronica shook her head. "No. We have checked the forest five times. The sensors on the beach and in the shallow sea have not been triggered. We have searched all possible hiding places in the factory."
"Where's the sausage production workshop?"
"I've looked for it."
"cell?"
"I checked that, too."
"Is there any place on the island that we haven't mastered? A secret room? A cave? A dungeon?"
The man's voice became louder and louder, and no one in the room dared to speak for a moment.
No one knows the layout of this island better than the ponytailed man Zeke.
Their surveillance is spread across the entire island - except for everyone's dormitory and bathroom, which still barely retain personal privacy, all other accessible places are under surveillance.
But the fact that an adult woman who didn't look very smart just disappeared from the island without leaving any trace was as incredible as her sudden appearance.
The ponytailed man, Qi Ke, squinted his eyes and glanced around, his voice seemed to be mixed with ice.
"Could it be... that someone is secretly helping her? Hmm?"
He looked at the people around him one by one.
Veronica is also a woman, and sometimes she sympathizes with the children on the island and secretly gives them some candies.
Upton, the man with glasses, is short, fat, and cowardly, and no woman likes him...and although the blonde woman is stupid, she looks really good.
What about the other people on the island? Are they undercover agents sent by the wizard? Or are they controlled by the wizard's magic?
I heard there is a kind of love potion that can make people fall in love so much that they can even abandon their own family...
Those who were stared at with his suspicious eyes shuddered unconsciously, fearing that they would be taken away for interrogation the next moment.
There are too many things on this island that make life worse than death.
Veronica quickly said, “Actually, I’ve always wondered, is that woman really still on the island?”
Facing the man's cold gaze, she gritted her teeth and said, "Maybe she has escaped... After all, wizards can fly, become invisible, or turn into mermaids and leave the sea..."
Zeke stared at her with flickering eyes, and a layer of cold sweat gradually appeared on Veronica's forehead.
Upton, the man with glasses, suddenly saw that the images from several surveillance cameras were blurred. He couldn't help but leaned forward to take a look, and the images soon returned to normal.
——Maybe the camera was shaken by a bird?
He checked the signal transmitted by the sensor again. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the signal in some places was higher than usual... probably about 10% higher...
He opened his mouth to speak, but sensing the tense atmosphere behind him, Upton wisely closed his mouth.
If Qike found everything was normal after checking, then the one who would be in trouble would be himself who lied about military intelligence.
Zeke didn't notice Upton was hesitant to speak. He frowned and said, "Then how do you explain the news in the friend's account?"
Hearing this, Veronica knew that he had the same guess as her. She breathed a sigh of relief and picked up a blank piece of paper from the table.
"The Book of Friends - it is a wizard's invention after all. The imitation products controlled by the alchemists are very similar to the original, but not exactly the same."
"What if the trick has been discovered? Then the message she sent would be a complete joke on us."
"Let's think she's still on the island and concentrate our search efforts, which will give her a chance to escape..."
Veronica had a soft voice and a charming smile. Upton unconsciously admired Veronica's curvy figure through the reflection of the screen.
As he was watching, he suddenly felt something move out of the corner of his eye, and Upton glanced at it -
It turned out to be a tabby cat fiddling with the camera.
——It’s a cat!
Upton looked away with confidence, then stared for another two seconds. His heart skipped a beat, as if he had stepped on empty air.
——On the island, Veronica was the only one who had a white cat as a pet. Where was the tabby cat?
He turned his head suddenly and found that the tabby cat had disappeared from the screen. Upton quickly called up all the cameras in the nearby area and finally found the tabby cat again.
The cat actually stood in front of the distribution box, opened the lid somehow, and raised its soft paws towards the cables.
The kitten, as big as a ball of yarn, stood in the tall distribution box, baring its teeth and claws at the cables that were thicker than its tail. This scene should have been cute, but Upton had a bad feeling in his heart.
He couldn't help but yelled: "Stop——"
Everyone in the room looked at him, not understanding what he was shouting.
Zeke didn't do anything to Veronica, and the two of them even finally started drinking coffee.
But the tabby cat on the screen naturally heard nothing. It calmly waved its paw, and a cold light flashed - the thick cable broke into two pieces, and the cut surface was very smooth.
The screen suddenly went black.
Upton sat in his chair in a daze, unable to comprehend what he was seeing.
On the large screens around, twenty or thirty surveillance images turned black one after another, as if a piece of mosaic had been added.
"what happened?"
Zeke and the others were shocked.
In response to them, more screens suddenly turned pitch black, with only a few still working.
On the island, large areas lost their lights, the roaring machines stopped working, and the conveyor belts that were running throughout the area also stopped.
A boy who originally had a gloomy face suddenly had a ray of hope in his eyes. He made a whimpering sound and struggled desperately, but was firmly fixed to the bed by the restraints.
Several people wearing surgical protective suits nearby looked at each other.
"what happened?"
"power cut?"
"Wait a moment, maybe it's equipment maintenance."
Several people spoke in a flat voice, as if they didn't notice the boy sobbing on the hospital bed at all.
A few minutes later, the backup generator started running and the sound of metal colliding could be heard again in the room.
In another room, Haley looked up at the light that had turned back on. Her pupils shrank as if they were stabbed, and she quickly raised her hands to cover her eyes.
Next to her, there was a plump woman sitting. She smiled and said, "Maybe the circuit connection is not stable... Don't worry about it. Let's continue reading, okay?"
Hailey asked quietly, "After I finish watching, can I go back home?"
The fat woman asked curiously: "What are you going to do when you go back? Do you like the cell?" "No." Haley shook her head and said, "But Mabel is still waiting for me!"
The fat woman stroked her soft hair and said, "Mabel has her own mission, and you have your own destiny. Be obedient, Haley."
Haley's body trembled slightly and she lowered her head without saying a word.
The fat woman praised: "Good boy."
The two sat in silence for a while, the only sound in the room being the flipping of pages.
Haley was thirsty, but she looked up at the woman and didn't dare ask for a drink of water.
She lowered her head again.
The picture book in my hand tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood being eaten by the Big Bad Wolf and then rescued by the hunter.
In the corner of the picture book, someone had written a small, blurry name in pencil.
Salah.
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Haley remembered the strange child, very dark-skinned, who was in the room diagonally across from them.
Sometimes he would sing songs that no one could understand, and sometimes he would use broken English to describe to them the various animals on the grassland and the stories of how he had fought with other children for water.
It sounds like it's from another world.
Was he also brought to this place to read more than a month ago?
Suddenly, the door of the reading room was pushed open, and a woman in green clothes stood at the door.
"Bring her in."
she says.
The fat woman helped Haley stand up. She turned around blankly and saw Little Red Riding Hood in the picture book being led by the hunter and happily reunited with her grandmother.
The wind in the corridor blew the pages of the book, and with a whoosh, the scene turned into Little Red Riding Hood being swallowed by the Big Bad Wolf.
……
At this moment, most areas of the island have actually fallen into chaos.
Countless strange animals suddenly appeared. They had cute appearances, but sharp claws and fangs that did not match their appearances.
With just a flick of the sword, even thick cables and iron frames could be cut off, and the automatic machine guns mounted on the walls were cut into pieces before they could even unleash their power.
Some birds like sparrows swooped down from the sky, and their sharp beaks pierced people's thighs like bullets. The guards holding guns fell to the ground screaming.
Warriors with swords strode forward, women who looked like housekeepers swung pruning shears to break the arms of guards, and there were also small figures with arms as long as short, and even puppets as big as fists, shouting and charging forward, with enough strength to knock adults away.
The most bizarre thing is that there were brooms and dustpans attacking the base together——
The slender broom was obviously not being operated by anyone, but it was spinning wildly, knocking out both the weapons and the people.
The dustpan hit like a hammer, making the soldiers run away in panic.
Someone had not been attacked for the time being and decisively picked up a gun to fight back. The sound of gunfire rang out one after another.
The kitten with one leg broken can still jump and pounce nimbly with its remaining three legs.
Even if the other people or objects were hit by bullets, they seemed to feel no pain at all. They would just pause for a moment and then continue attacking.
Only a very small number of them would suddenly stop moving, fall down with a thud, and never make any sound again.
"Hit the heads! Hit the heads of these monsters!"
Someone successfully "killed" a leopard and hurriedly shared his experience loudly with others.
The soldier, trying not to be thrown out by the spinning broom, cried out, "Where is the head of this thing? Tell me where it is?"
Those thin branches on the broom head don't look like they will be harmful at all.
The next second, the soldier left an arc of oblique motion in the air.
But not everyone is as unlucky as him. Most attackers have a "head" body part.
So the originally scattered bullets were immediately concentrated on the head, and the head of the maid in the front was almost shot into a sieve.
The soldier in front of it smiled with joy and shouted, "Die, monster!"
Then he was hit hard in the face and was almost embedded in the ground.
There was silence all around.
As everyone watched in horror, the headless maid reached out and touched the half of her head that was left. She suddenly went into berserk mode and began to attack the soldiers around her frantically.
Everyone was almost scared to death. They screamed, dropped their guns and ran away.
The maid roared and chased after him, followed by all kinds of strange attackers.
A group of hunting dogs that had just been released saw the headless maid running towards them. They whimpered in fear, turned around and ran with their tails between their legs, leaving behind miserable cries along the way.
The crowd had no time to fight back and only regretted that they had not been born with two more legs.
"Om——"
The buzzing sound on the island suddenly sounded.
Everyone knows that when this sound is heard, it means that a strong magnetic field is activated on the island. Most people will stay quietly in the room at this time, and those who need to go out on patrol will also wear anti-radiation clothing.
As they were running, they suddenly realized that the shouting and screaming behind them had become much less frequent.
They stopped hesitantly and turned around, only to see that the attackers who had been so arrogant just now were all lying on the ground, like scrap metal. Only a few of them were still able to make a dying struggle.
The soldiers were stunned for a moment, then they all cheered, and some of them jumped over and stepped on the attackers and bounced twice.
They knew that strong magnetic fields would also harm their bodies, but so what? It was better than being killed by monsters.
At this time, while the puppets had dispersed the people in the base, Wade and Dumbledore, who had already sneaked into the base, also heard the sound.
One of them held onto the table, the other leaned against the wall, gritting their teeth and enduring in silence.
The concrete walls and shielding suits had blocked most of the damage for them, but even if there was only a small impact, the feeling of being pricked by needles all over the body, including the internal organs, was definitely not pleasant.
Wade noticed that the principal's arms were also shaking slightly, and he considerately turned his eyes away.
It has nothing to do with how strong the magic power is. In fact, the stronger the magic power is and the sharper the perception is, the more uncomfortable it will be at this moment.
They couldn't even use spells like Shield Charm or Barrier Charm to resist - any magic that left the body would be disrupted.
After two or three seconds, the buzzing sound finally stopped.
After a long while, Wade managed to stand firmly, and by this time cold sweat had soaked his back.
"That's amazing!" He couldn't help but say, unbuttoning his shielding suit and saying, "It will take at least half an hour for the machine to cool down. This is our chance."
"Don't take off your cloak." Dumbledore stopped him and said, "Perhaps they have similar weapons."
"...Yes." Wade put on his protective suit again, and then suddenly asked: "Professor, do you think... we still need to hold back on these people?"
On the table next to him were bloody photos.
(End of this chapter)