Anomaly

"Fuck!" Hearing the other party say that, Sun Jack put on a transparent raincoat and quickly followed.

"Hey, where are you going?" Song 6PUS's voice sounded in Sun Jack's Nervous System.

"I'll keep an eye on her from a distance! That way, at least it's safer!" Sun Jack looked at AA in the heavy rain in the distance.

"Is a decoy worth all this?"

"Fuck off! That's a living person! Taipai, beat him up!"

AA walked forward silently along the route in the system, while Sun Jack secretly followed from a distance.

Sun Jack didn't know if his actions would make the situation any better, but he really couldn't stand by and do nothing.

Seeing Sun Jack's persistence, the others didn't say anything more.

Gradually, as time passed, the lights in the surrounding buildings went out one by one, and the entire street became very dark.

Looking at the brightly lit C2 Zone in the distance, Sun Jack asked on the Team Channel, "Why is this place so dark? It's different from other areas?"

"Because the companies in this area have good benefits and can get off work at night."

"..." Sun Jack was speechless.

Looking at the slender figure of the girl in the rain in the distance, Sun Jack said through the Nervous System, "Don't be nervous, AA, relax, I'm fifty meters behind you, just walk normally. If anything happens, I can get there in time."

"Mhm, I got it, Jack." AA gently shook the Neon Umbrella in her hand to express her calmness.

As it got later and later, more and more companies in the tall buildings on both sides got off work, and the entire C3 Zone became even darker.

"Night Vision activated." As a faint green light emanated from the Cybernetic Eye behind the Yellow Projection Lens, AA's blurry figure in the distance became clear again.

As she kept circling, perhaps because there were too few people, AA, who was constantly circling, seemed a bit conspicuous.

"This won't work. As long as that person isn't an idiot, they'll definitely see that AA is acting strange," Sun Jack thought to himself.

"AA, don't just keep circling in this area. Go to another area for a while, and then pretend to casually pass by C3 Zone."

AA silently nodded and walked out of the dark C3 Zone. She wandered outside for half an hour and then walked back in. This was much more reasonable.

Time passed bit by bit. By 3 AM, Sun Jack's spirit gradually shifted from tense to numb. This stakeout job was truly not for humans. No wonder Lesson 6 outsourced this task to them.

At this moment, his boots and socks were completely wet, sticking to the ground, making him very uncomfortable.

Tapping his numb knees with his hand, Sun Jack looked at AA, who was still moving in the distance. Sun Jack marveled at AA's professionalism. "Doesn't this girl's legs hurt? Or are her legs modified?"

After staring for so long, Sun Jack's eyes were sore. He took off the Yellow System Frame from his face and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand.

Just as Sun Jack was about to put his glasses back on, he saw on his left, a guy in a trench coat dragging a wriggling bag towards a distant corner.

Sun Jack had seen so many strange people in Metropolis that he was used to it, as long as they didn't get in the way of his commission.

Sun Jack glanced at AA in the distance and was about to continue following when he noticed AA's body turn into a phantom, like a ghost.

"Huh?! What's going on?" By the time Sun Jack put his glasses back on, AA in the distance had returned to normal.

"Strange... Is my cybernetic eye malfunctioning? Is the stuff from Vajra faulty?" Sun Jack decided to settle the score with him after the mission.

He put on his system glasses and continued to follow, but after only a few steps, a terrifying thought suddenly popped into his mind.

Sun Jack's expression instantly turned extremely grim. He quickly took off his glasses, covering his cybernetic eye with his hand, and looked at AA in the distance with only his naked eyes.

Immediately, a miraculous scene unfolded: AA in the distance actually vanished into thin air.

"This... How is this possible?!"

Sensing something was wrong, Sun Jack quickly put his glasses back on and rushed over. Under the projection lens, AA was still there, holding an umbrella and walking unhurriedly.

But when Sun Jack took off his glasses and covered his cybernetic eye, AA instantly disappeared, leaving Sun Jack alone on the completely dark street.

In almost an instant, Sun Jack understood what was happening. "Not good! Someone hacked my system and cybernetics! This projection is meant to deceive me!"

When Sun Jack reached out and passed through AA's body, his suspicion was further confirmed.

Suddenly, he understood and immediately turned to charge at the Trench Coat Black Shadow from before. "That person is carrying AA!"

"Assemble! Assemble! AA has been taken hostage!" Sun Jack quickly called out on the team channel while sending out his synchronized location.

When he quickly reached the corner and peeked, he found the alley empty, with no one in sight under the heavy rain.

Sun Jack, burning with anxiety, was about to chase elsewhere when he suddenly stopped. Feeling uneasy, he took off his glasses and covered his cybernetic eye again.

On the street that had been empty moments ago, a Trench Coat Man suddenly appeared. He was kneeling on one knee, his hands plunged into AA's abdomen, as if unzipping her body and opening it!

"Fuck Me! What are you doing!" Sun Jack flung himself forward, charging at the Trench Coat Man with his extended Arc Blade.

The Trench Coat Man clearly hadn't expected Sun Jack to be able to see him and was momentarily stunned.

By the time he reacted, Sun Jack was already 5 meters away.

Facing Sun Jack's charge, the Trench Coat Man gripped AA's spine with the hands buried in her body and threw her forcefully towards Sun Jack.

As Sun Jack was forced to catch AA, the man seized the opportunity to quickly disappear into the Rain Curtain, his trench coat rapidly blending with the surroundings – it was Mimic Camouflage.

Just then, Sun Jack saw Si Ai's Drone approaching from above. He said to the sky, "Si Ai! Heal AA quickly, I'm going after him!"

With that, Sun Jack placed AA, whom he was holding, on the ground and chased in the direction the Trench Coat Man had fled.

At that moment, AA tightly grabbed Sun Jack's collar, her face pale, and said intermittently, "I... I put... a tracking ball... on his clothes..."

As she spoke, she sent a tracking software to Sun Jack's system. When Sun Jack opened it, a red dot was flashing on the map.

"Jack, am I... am I doing a good job?" AA managed a difficult smile.

"You're doing great, you're doing a great job! Now lie still, someone will be here to save you soon. Lie still." Sun Jack wiped the rain from his face forcefully and followed the tracker.