Hei Deng Xia Huo
Chapter 74 Fright
The sea returned to calm, and schools of fish gathered again beneath the surface.
Li Ang casually popped open a bottle of potion and drank it down, then used the [Ti Yun Zong] skill again to ascend into the high sky.
In fact, the game store also sold similar products that could achieve this kind of ultra-long-range teleportation effect.
For example, the Steam Anywhere Door – an Epic-quality item in the store, requiring the user to know the detailed address of the destination before opening the door, and to think about the destination during the opening process. It could only be used in general space-time, unable to pass through unknown areas or zones sealed by spatial anchors or other restrictions.
Moreover, the teleportation distance was relatively limited.
In this light, the Anywhere Door carried by that penguin, Akili, was more advanced.
There was also the demon teleportation array openly sold by the Demon Scientists' Alliance, which relied on the power of abyssal demons to drive it, and could teleport the user from one end of the earth to the other.
However, the side effects were also severe.
The entire teleportation process would take five minutes, during which the user had to pass through some indescribable abyssal tunnel, suffering the will of the abyss and enduring immense mental torment.
To prevent every user from going crazy on the spot, the Demon Scientists' Alliance made further optimizations – optimizations that didn't eliminate the mental torture, but rather set up a memory-wiping station at the exit.
This way, users would forget the torture they suffered in the tunnel after emerging from the exit.
If you can't solve the problem, solve the person who creates the problem.
Well, very much in their style.
Besides the Demon Scientists' Alliance, other large organizations more or less had teleportation array technologies with similar theories.
The vast majority of teleportation arrays consumed enormous amounts of energy, required numerous and complex equipment, and needed vast sites and long cooldown periods, making them impossible to carry around.
However, the combination of Eagle Eye Range + Bullet Blink + Colt Revolver was easy to carry, easy to use, and
could be used in high-intensity, high-frequency battles, allowing for both offense and defense, greatly supplementing Li Ang's mobility.
"Hmm... I've encountered people using bullets for teleportation before."
Li Ang drank another bottle of potion, thinking listlessly.
A long time ago, during the anomaly in the Underground Prisoner Demon Cave in Yin City, he and Liu Wudai accepted the mission called [Moon God's Crown], and encountered two high-level members from the Tanhua organization, the Jijiu and the Zhijue.
The former had used a skill that utilized bullets for instant teleportation, and the skill's carrier was also a Colt revolver, though the model was a Python.
"Times change."
Li Ang made a faint sigh, idly thinking that one day he would dig out the remaining members of the Tanhua organization.
His feud with Tanhua had started almost from the moment he came into contact with the Killing Game. He had killed so many low-level members and high-level cadres of Tanhua,
frustrating their century-long conspiracy.
If they weren't going to come after him to settle the score, then Li Ang would just have to go find them.
Five hundred meters,
One thousand meters...
Li Ang stepped on invisible steps, leaping upwards, and soon flew into the thin air of the high sky.
Due to the Earth's curvature, the direct line-of-sight distance from the Earth's surface was limited.
To see as far as possible, one had to increase altitude.
The calculation for height was roughly:
The square of the maximum visible distance (in km) equals 16.88 multiplied by the current altitude (in meters).
Where 16.88 is the Earth's curvature.
Based on this calculation, to directly see a target 500 kilometers away, one would have to climb over 15,000 meters,
exceeding the flight altitude of long-haul aircraft.
However, the peculiar thing about the [Eagle Eye Range] skill was that it could comprehensively enhance the user's vision, essentially further strengthening the user's visual system,
optimizing refractive media such as the cornea, lens, and vitreous body, and improving the retina's ability to distinguish images.
Before firing the bullet, Li would drastically modify the structure of the eyeball itself, enabling the eyeball to capture more wavelengths of images like a wide-area camera, increasing the range of the visible spectrum.
Thereby, beyond conventional vision, "seeing" spectral information from greater distances.
The result of this was a significant reduction in the altitude required for ultra-long-range teleportation.
At the same time, the scenery in his eyes would become strange, with colors more vivid and diverse,
like patients whose brains have been damaged and can see ultraviolet light from then on, or natural tetrachromats (who can see nearly ninety million more colors than normal people).
Disordered thoughts flooded his mind.
Li Ang put the empty potion bottle into his inventory, aimed into the distance, and pulled the trigger again.
Bang!
Flames erupted from the muzzle, and his figure instantly disappeared from the spot.
The target direction was: Ri Island.
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Ri Island, Tokyo, Shinjuku District.
Shinjuku District is one of the most prosperous commercial districts in Tokyo, with complete commercial and entertainment facilities. Keio University School of Medicine, Waseda University and other institutions of higher learning, as well as the headquarters of large multinational corporations, are concentrated there, and commercial streets abound.
In Nishi-Shinjuku in Shinjuku District, stands an unremarkable building,
close to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, which serves as the official headquarters of Tokyo.
It has just over fifty stories, and is completely ordinary among the skyscrapers of Nishi-Shinjuku.
However, the several heavy battle vehicles parked at the entrance of the building, and the two rows of fully armed soldiers standing guard, demonstrated the building's uniqueness.
This was the headquarters of Ri Island's Bureau of Abnormal Affairs Investigation.
At this moment, in the command center on the thirtieth floor of the headquarters building,
red warning lights flashed incessantly, and the highest-level warning sirens echoed throughout the floor.
The heads of Ri Island's Bureau of Abnormal Affairs Investigation, some sweating profusely, some nervously anxious, and some trying to remain calm, were looking at the bright red dot flashing and advancing towards Ri Island on the large screen.
As a formal official organization on Earth, they also had their own information channels and crisis-level determination standards.
Unlike the Special Affairs Bureau's established Level One, Level Two, and Level Three warning levels,
Ri Island's Bureau of Abnormal Affairs Investigation divided crisis levels into D, C, B, A, and S,
corresponding to dangerous, capable of causing mass casualties, capable of destroying a town, capable of destroying several towns, and capable of destroying a city, respectively.
(Some of their internal young officers would privately use more trendy and chuuni terms like Wolf, Tiger, Oni, Dragon, and God)
At this moment, on the large screen, the red dot flashed incessantly, emitting a strong red light.
The intensity of the light far exceeded the S-level anomaly that Ri Island's Bureau of Abnormal Affairs Investigation had painstakingly and at great sacrifice managed to resolve.
Amidst the clamor,
an operator raised his hand and said to the leader in the rear, "Sir, the footage from the near-Earth orbit monitoring satellite has been debugged and can be transmitted."
The leader nodded. "Transmit it to the screen."
The operator pressed a button, and the image of the Dragon Head White Coat drawing a gun and firing at the sea appeared immediately on the screen.