Three Enter the Alley, Only One Emerges

The Owl Spirit, with its multiple composite effects, was indeed excellent and well-suited to Erin's Archer class. However, there was a necessary operation, which could be considered a weakness, that occurred when using the "Vision Sync" effect.

Only when Erin actively activated Vision Sync could she receive the Owl Spirit's vision, unlike the God-like perspective in RTS games. At the same time, what the Owl Spirit saw would directly overlap with the caster's own vision, Erin's. This would overwhelm her visual nerves and brain, leading to severe dizziness.

Therefore, Erin had to close her eyes and block her vision to focus on processing the Owl Spirit's visual information.

At this point, if Erin wanted to further interfere with the Owl Spirit's actions, she would need to synchronize her physical movements as much as possible with the Owl Spirit's. The higher the synchronization rate, the more precise her interference would be.

This matter was also recorded in Dungeon Meshi.

Erin had a good memory and had already memorized the physical characteristics of those two women. As long as these two hadn't used skills or items to temporarily alter their appearance and were within the Owl Spirit's observation range, she could identify them immediately.

Although one could spend money in the Chosen Evolution Space to change their appearance, gender, or even race, it was merely a superficial change, a "skin MOD" in game terms. It wouldn't affect the character's original model. If there was real contact, such disguises would be useless; it couldn't actually make someone grow an extra penis, an extra arm, or an 801, etc.

There was a similar option when entering instance dungeons. Players could pay in advance for a disguise that would only be effective once within the instance. This function was not available inside the dungeon itself.

Another point worth noting was that most players possessed an aura that made them seem out of place, as they were, in a broad sense, the Fourth Cataclysm, regardless of their strength.

Among players, those who could maintain a good mindset while their strength steadily increased were already exceptional. However, the largest proportion of players inevitably developed a sense of superiority.

Only when they were decisively defeated by stronger players, NPCs, or BOSS monsters would they possibly restrain themselves, come to their senses... or simply meet their end.

Only players with higher Charm attributes, who were skilled at interacting with native NPCs and specialized in developing and exploring dungeon plots, could completely erase that special aura and even disguise themselves as native NPCs to trick other players.

In any case, based on Erin's observation, the two women in her vision were definitely not the acting-type, charm-focused players.

Of course, there was another reason they were easily discovered—

Twins were conspicuous anywhere, though it was unclear if their twin appearance was real or just part of their persona.

However, theoretically, when Erin synchronized her vision with the Owl Spirit's, she was at her most vulnerable. Therefore, she shouldn't have casually used it in front of Cheng Tian, whom she had met for less than an hour, even with the Gray Contract that could be broken with money.

Of course, Cheng Tian only had two-digit Heaven's Chosen Coins, not enough to even pay a fine...

Yet, Erin used it openly, with no reservations and no extra vigilance.

Was it trust? Or a test? No one knew except herself.

"Alright, I'm unilaterally declaring your prediction accuracy has risen to eighty percent."

Erin, having broken contact with the Owl Spirit and raised her hood again, gave Cheng Tian a thumbs-up.

"How so?"

"If I'm not mistaken, they should be using a biological item called 'Guide Bugs.' Those things can track the traces left by specific targets. Looking at their current movement... there's an eighty percent chance they're coming for you, and less than a twenty percent chance they're after Batman."

As Erin spoke, her gaze remained fixed on Cheng Tian's face. She wanted to see what expression this Scallop Warrior would have.

To her surprise, she saw Cheng Tian's seemingly expressionless lips uncontrollably curve upwards, revealing a subtle but definite smile.

Cheng Tian was certainly familiar with Guide Bugs. They were the route guidance system in Monster Hunter: World, and also the flashing fireflies in certain fixed quests that caused forced camera shifts, so extreme that they could twist a character's neck. Experiencing a forced perspective shift from a Guide Bug while already locked onto another monster's vision was incredibly frustrating; a furious monster could easily rip you a new one.

Theoretically, with enough collected details like footprints, bodily fluids, or combat traces, one could gradually piece together the target's exact location.

However, Cheng Tian, who had always used Guide Bugs to find monsters, was being tracked by them for the first time. He was clearly being treated as prey.

Cheng Tian didn't know who was on the other side, their strength, how much malice they held towards him, or if he could defeat them.

All he knew was that any being who treated others as prey, without the awareness that they themselves might become prey, was simply too boring...

"The footprints are gone." "The person is ahead."

The two figures, clad in long black women's coats, walked without hesitation into an alley that ordinary people would avoid at all costs.

This was a demonstration of their considerable confidence in their own strength, so much so that they believed they could quickly deal with any non-BOSS combat unit from any gang, fearing no one in Gotham City.

Soon, the breathing of the two women became noticeably rapid. They had already spotted Cheng Tian standing not far away in a "King's Stance," neither dodging nor evading. Simultaneously, their glowing green Guide Bugs had stopped emitting light and had all returned to their small jars, indicating that their target had appeared within their line of sight.

With a swish, the two women flung off their coats, revealing matching purple cybernetic bodysuits, colored like Evangelion Unit-01, that hugged their very full figures.

From their vantage point in the tall buildings, a certain Archer instinctively let out a impressed sound.

Then, the two women, like twins, moved with incredibly agile, synchronized leaps and bounds, reminiscent of Unit-01 and Unit-02 after training to fight the Seventh Angel Music Angel, and swiftly charged towards Cheng Tian!