Of course, this was not some time-erasing Stand ability, but the brain's self-protection mechanism automatically deleting those twenty minutes of memories.
Zhao Bai knew nothing.
He only saw that Bronya's cheeks were slightly red.
"Get out."
Zhao Bai obediently got out of the car.
This was a small city, the kind without an airport.
Its permanent population was barely three hundred thousand. There was only one relatively large downtown area, and not even a so-called second ring road.
Bronya parked the car on the surrounding hills.
Zhao Bai activated optical camouflage.
Leaving the car on the mountain, they entered the city and began searching for traces of the Honkai Beast.
It was eleven thirty in the morning.
The area was incredibly vague. There was not even a sighting location, and the only clue was a single offhand complaint.
They could only investigate first and narrow down the area.
Even a small city had its bustle. Everywhere they looked, traffic and pedestrians flowed endlessly.
Though not many, there were still a full three hundred thousand residents.
It felt like they had no leads at all.
"Do you have any secret weapon?"
"Yes, but it would harm the town's residents. Unless we are truly out of options, we absolutely cannot use it."
Zhao Bai looked at Bronya suspiciously.
Was she talking about the last-resort plan of carpet-bombing the area...?
Better not, then.
"We need to find a group that is numerous, not overly wary, and will not dismiss unknown things out of hand."
"Any ideas?"
What Zhao Bai thought of, Bronya had thought of as well.
Students. Underage boys and girls were the most imaginative people.
No matter what they saw, someone would always believe it.
"But it's summer vacation now. The students have just gotten out of school, so we have