146. Lilith
Now that she had confirmed that all she had to face were six Cyberpsychos fighting independently, what should she do next?
The answer was obvious.
"Yo, hello there."
Carl casually stepped out of the shadows. To spare the patients' feelings, she had specifically used the singular "you" in her greeting, lest the Cyberpsychos, whose cognition was already scrambled, descend even further into madness.
However, these Cyberpsychos did not seem particularly appreciative. Of course, perhaps they simply did not have Chinese language chips installed and could not understand what Carl was saying. In any case, when faced with Carl appearing before them, their first movements were all exactly the same.
Their crimson, suddenly brightened cybernetic eyes locked onto her.
"That's hardly a friendly response."
Carl muttered, just as Zariah-Hughes moved.
"Hiss—!"
With an inhuman shriek, the Mantis Blades on her arms flashed with cold light. Her Sandevistan activated in an instant, and her entire body became a bloody afterimage charging straight at Carl.
Almost simultaneously, the other five Cyberpsychos moved like killing machines whose switches had been flipped. Kerenzikov acceleration made them so fast they trailed afterimages as they lunged at Carl from different directions. One burly man equipped with Gorilla Arms even roared as he slammed a heavy fist viciously toward Carl's face.
Faced with an encirclement that would have instantly killed any ordinary mercenary, Carl merely shifted slightly to the side.
Zariah's Mantis Blade grazed past her neck by millimeters, its cutting wind sharp and fierce. In that instant too fast for ordinary people to react to, Carl's seemingly ordinary arm had already shot out like lightning and precisely seized her wrist.
A twist, a pull—crack!
The crisp sound of bones dislocating and breaking rang especially clear through the silent warehouse.
Miss Zariah's arm had clearly been