Three People Entered the Alley, but Only One Could Come Out

The Owl Spirit, with its many compound effects, was indeed excellent and highly compatible with Erin's archer role. However, when using the "vision synchronization" effect, it had one necessary operation that could be considered a weakness.

Only when she actively activated vision synchronization could Erin receive the owl's field of vision. It was not like the God's-eye view in an RTS game. At the same time, however, whatever the owl was seeing would directly overlap with the caster's own vision—in other words, Erin's. This caused her visual nerves and brain to overload, triggering intense dizziness.

Therefore, Erin had to close her eyes and block her own vision so she could focus on processing the visual information from the owl's side.

At that point, if Erin wanted to interfere further with the owl's movements, she had to make her body's movements synchronize with the owl's as much as possible. The higher the synchronization rate, the more precisely she could interfere.

This had also been recorded in Delicious in Dungeon.

Erin had an excellent memory. She had already memorized the appearances of those two women in detail, so long as they had not temporarily changed their appearances with skills or items and came within the owl's field of view, she could identify them immediately.

Within Chosen Evolution Space, one could spend money to freely change one's appearance, gender, and even race, but that was merely a false outer shell. In gaming terms, it was like equipping a skin MOD. It would not affect the character's original model. If one came into genuine physical contact with someone, that disguise would become useless. It could not really make you grow an extra dick, sprout several more arms, or gain another 801 mouth or anything like that.

There was also a similar option when entering a dungeon space. Players could pay in advance to apply a disguise that would work only once within that space, but there was no such function inside the dungeon itself.

Another point worth noting was that, as long as someone was a player, they would generally possess an aura that felt out of place among those around them. After all, regardless of their strength, they were all Fourth Cataclysms in the broad sense.

Among the player community, anyone who could maintain a good attitude while steadily growing stronger was already exceptionally outstanding. However, the largest portion of the group consisted of people who would inevitably develop a sense of superiority.

Only after being beaten flat on the spot by other, stronger players, NPCs, or monster bosses would they possibly restrain themselves and come to their senses... or simply ascend to heaven.

Only players with relatively high Charm attributes, who were skilled at communicating with local NPCs and specialized in developing and exploring dungeon plots, had any chance of completely erasing that special aura from themselves. Some could even disguise themselves as local NPCs and trick other players.

In any case, based on Erin's observations, those two women in her field of vision were definitely not the acting-oriented, high-Charm type of players.

Of course, there was another reason they were easy to spot—

A pair of twins was conspicuous anywhere. Erin just could not tell whether their twin-like appearance was genuine or part of their personas.

That said, in theory, synchronizing her vision with the owl was when Erin was at her most vulnerable. She should not have used it so casually in front of someone like Cheng, whom she had known for less than an hour in total, even if she was bound by a Gray Contract that could be torn away with enough money.

Of course, Cheng only had two-digit Heaven's Chosen Coins. He could not even afford to pay the fine...

Yet Erin had used it openly anyway, and she had done so without reservation, as if she had not maintained even the slightest additional vigilance.

Was it trust? Or a test? In any case, no one but her knew.

"All right. I hereby announce that the accuracy of your speculation has risen to eighty percent."

Erin had already severed her connection with the owl and raised the brim of her hat again. She gave Cheng a thumbs-up.

"How so?"

"If I didn't see wrong, they should have used a biological item called Guide Bugs. Those things can track traces left behind by a specific target. Judging from the way they're moving now... there's an eighty percent chance they're after you. The probability that they're after Batman is less than twenty percent."

As Erin spoke, her eyes remained fixed on Cheng's face. She wanted to see what kind of expression this Scallop Warrior would make.

Instead, she saw the corners of Cheng's seemingly expressionless mouth slowly lift against his will, revealing a nearly imperceptible but unmistakably smiling expression.

Cheng naturally knew about Guide Bugs. They were the route-guidance system from Monster Hunter: World, and also the glowing Fireflies that forcibly shifted the camera in certain fixed quests, sometimes so violently that the hunter's neck ended up twisted to the right. Especially when he was already locked onto another wyvern's position, being forced to shift his view by Guide Bugs was unbelievably aggravating. An enraged monster could easily tear his asshole apart.

In theory, as long as enough traces were collected—footprints, bodily fluids, signs of battle, and other such details—it was possible to gradually piece together the target's actual location.

But Cheng had always used Guide Bugs to find wyverns. This was the first time someone had used Guide Bugs to find him. Clearly, he was being treated as prey.

Cheng did not know who was on the other side, how strong they were, how malicious they were toward him, or whether he could defeat them.

He only knew that any existence that treated others as prey without realizing that they, too, could become someone else's prey would be terribly boring...

"The footprints are gone." "They're up ahead."

The two people in black women's coats entered without hesitation into the narrow alley that ordinary people would have gone out of their way to avoid.

This demonstrated their considerable confidence in their own strength. They were so confident that they believed they could quickly deal with any non-boss combat unit from any gang, completely unafraid of the outstanding people and dangerous terrain of Gotham City.

Soon, the two women's breathing became noticeably rapid, because they had already seen Cheng standing upright in a dignified stance in the distance, neither dodging nor evading. At the same time, their own glowing green Guide Bugs had stopped shining and all returned to their little jars, which meant their search target had entered their field of vision.

With a whoosh, the two women flung off their coats, revealing purple cyber bodysuits colored like Evangelion Unit-01, along with extremely full and shapely curves wrapped tightly beneath the suits.

A certain archer hidden in a high-rise building instinctively clicked his tongue.

Then, moving with the agile, almost mirror-synchronized acrobatics of Evangelion Units 01 and 02 after their training to fight the Seventh Angel Music Angel, the twin-like women decisively charged toward Cheng at high speed!