The Spirit of the Owl, with its many compound effects, was indeed excellent and well suited to Eileen's role as an archer. But when using its "Vision Sync" effect, there were some necessary procedures that could be considered weaknesses.
Only by actively activating Vision Sync could Eileen receive the owl's field of view. It was not like the God's Perspective in an RTS game. At the same time, however, whatever the owl saw would directly overlap with the caster's own vision—Eileen's vision—which could overwhelm her visual nerves and brain, causing intense dizziness.
So Eileen had to close her own eyes and block out her vision before she could focus on processing the owl's visual information.
And if Eileen wanted to further interfere with the owl's movements at that point, her physical movements had to be synchronized with the owl's as much as possible. The higher the synchronization rate, the more precise her control would be.
This had also been recorded in Dungeon Meshi.
Eileen had an excellent memory. She had already memorized every facial feature of those two women. As long as they had not temporarily altered their appearances with skills or items, and entered the owl's field of view, she would be able to identify them immediately.
In Chosen Space, people could spend money to freely alter their appearance, gender, or even race, but those were merely false shells. In gaming terms, they were just equipping a skin MOD; it would not affect a person's original model. If there was actual physical contact, that disguise would be useless. It could not truly give someone an extra dick, a few more arms, or an extra 801 mouth or something.
There were similar options before entering an instance space. Players could pay in advance for a one-time disguise effective only within that space, but there was no such function once inside the instance.
There was another point worth noting: most Players carried an air that clashed with their surroundings. After all, regardless of their strength, they were all part of the Fourth Calamity in the broad sense.
Those in the Player Community who could maintain a healthy mindset as their strength gradually increased were already quite exceptional. But the largest proportion of the group inevitably developed an attitude of being superior to others.
Only after being beaten flat on the spot by stronger Players, NPCs, or monster BOSSES might they rein themselves in, come to their senses... or simply ascend to heaven.
Only Players with relatively high Charm, who were skilled at communicating with local NPCs and specialized in developing and digging into instance plots, could completely erase that distinctive air about themselves, even disguising themselves as local NPCs to swindle other Players.
At any rate, based on Eileen's observations, the two women in her field of view were definitely not the acting-type, Charm-based Players.
Of course, there was another reason they had been so easy to spot—
Twins were conspicuous anywhere. It was just unclear whether their twin appearances were real or part of their character settings.
That said, in theory, synchronizing her vision with the owl was when Eileen herself was at her most vulnerable. She should not have casually used it in front of someone like Cheng Tian, whom she had known for less than an hour in total, even if they were bound by a Gray Contract that could be torn up with money.
Of course, Cheng Tian only had a two-digit number of Chosen Coins. He could not even afford the penalty fee...
Yet Eileen had used it openly, with no reservations at all, as though she had not held even the slightest extra wariness toward him.
Was it trust? Or a test? In any case, no one but she herself knew.
"All right. I hereby unilaterally declare that the accuracy of your guess has risen to eighty percent."
Having already cut off her connection with the owl, Eileen lifted her hat brim again and gave Cheng Tian a thumbs-up.
"How so?"
"If I saw correctly, they used a biological item called 'scoutflies.' That thing can track traces left by specific targets. Judging from their current movements... there's an eighty percent chance they're coming for you. The odds of them going after Batman are less than twenty percent."
As Eileen spoke, her gaze remained fixed on Cheng Tian's face. She wanted to see what kind of expression this Scallop Warrior would make.
Instead, she saw the corners of Cheng Tian's seemingly expressionless mouth slowly, uncontrollably curl upward, revealing a nearly imperceptible but genuine smile.
Of course Cheng Tian knew about scoutflies. They were the route-guidance system in Monster Hunter: World, and in certain fixed quests, they were also those glowing fireflies that forcibly shifted the camera so drastically that they twisted the controlled character's neck to the right. Especially when he was already locked onto another wyvern, having the scoutflies forcibly redirect the camera was incredibly infuriating. An enraged monster could directly tear his asshole apart.
In theory, as long as enough details were gathered—footprint traces, bodily fluid residue, remnants of battle, and so on—the target's actual location could gradually be pieced together.
But Cheng Tian had always used scoutflies to find wyverns. This was the first time someone had used them to find him. He was clearly being treated as prey.
Cheng Tian did not know who was on the other side, how strong they were, how malicious they truly were toward him, or whether he could beat them.
He only knew that any being who treated others as prey, without being prepared to become prey themselves, was far too boring...
"The footprints are gone." "They're ahead."
The two people in black women's coats walked without hesitation into the alley that ordinary people would have avoided at all costs.
This showed their considerable confidence in their own strength. They were confident enough that, no matter which gang's non-BOSS combat units they encountered, they could deal with them quickly. They had no fear of Gotham City's Talented People and Beautiful Land.
Very quickly, the two women's breathing became noticeably rapid, because they had already spotted Cheng Tian standing in a Nio stance not far away, neither dodging nor evading. At the same time, their fluorescent green scoutflies had stopped glowing and all returned to their little jar, indicating that the target they were seeking had appeared within their field of view.
With a sharp swish, the two flung off their coats, revealing purple cybernetic bodysuits colored like Evangelion Unit-01, along with the very full curves outlined beneath the tight fabric.
The archer hiding in a high-rise building instinctively clicked her tongue at the sight.
Then the two twin-like women, moving with the extraordinarily nimble, near-Mirror Image-synchronized agility of the trained Unit-01 and Unit-02 when fighting the Seventh Angel Music Angel, darted and leaped about before decisively charging Cheng Tian at high speed!
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