Earthquakes happen very quickly and kill people, while poisonous gas can kill people silently. Moreover, the scope of the two countermeasures is huge, and both are possible means.

Sherlock shook his head.

He did prepare various disaster photos collected from all over the world, but in terms of poison gas warfare, the "ruined streets" are restored based on visual phenomena, and it is impossible to reproduce completely colorless and invisible things. Will be noticed by the opponent and get into a different space.

As for the earthquake, Sherlock did prepare photos related to large-scale earthquakes, and even kept a relatively complete earthquake-resistant building in the photos, which was reserved for the substitute messenger himself to take refuge.

But the richer he is, the more he will spare his life. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Sherlock does not intend to let himself take the risk himself.

Moreover, no matter how fast the earthquake is, it mainly relies on the collapse of buildings and ground to kill people. Since the other party has the ability to open up a different space, it is very likely that they will successfully sneak into the safe space before being buried.

Only time, the ability of steel chain fingers is enough to restrain most of the photos that Sherlock prepared.

"It's really not good, it's okay to trap them!"

Balko shared a detail he discovered: when the Bugarati team appeared from that different space, they seemed to be carrying devices such as oxygen cylinders.

If they still need to rely on oxygen cylinders to maintain breathing while being in a different space, then they only need to block their way to other places through the zipper, and the opponent can be exhausted.

Although he doesn't know all the abilities of the steel chain fingers, if this is all he needs to do, Sherlock has also used his brains that are good at deceiving people: it seems that there is a way to do it.

So, before the Bugarati team had gone far, he picked out a set of large-scale fires and a set of photos of flooded sewers...

023. Street of Ruins Part [-]

"Don't stay here for long!"

This is the replay of the melancholic blues, after hearing the conversation between Sherlock and Balko, the Bugarati team reached a consensus.

They didn't choose to get in the car, but moved their legs and ran in the opposite direction, trying to get out of the range of the trap secretly set by the other party.

But before they ran far, the team members felt that the surrounding air suddenly seemed to be scorching hot.

"The enemy set fire to it?"

"The enemy threw incendiary bombs?"

"The enemy's substitute ability is related to flame or temperature?"

Various thoughts flooded into the brains of the team members immediately, and they looked around vigilantly, and what they saw was a dense forest scene.

Looking at the past, there are dead and yellow trees with serious water loss everywhere, which is obviously a feature of the transition season of autumn and summer.

But first, there is a problem: it is spring now!

Then, the bigger problem is that their location is indeed in the outskirts of the mountainous area, but after all, it is a road section transformed by humans, but what is presented in front of them is a pure wild forest, and...

This forest is burning!

The trees in the dry season acted as the best igniters, and the rolled up flames and heat surrounded the group of people.

……

"Five years ago, in 1993, there was a wildfire in Southern California."

Sherlock, who was far away from the scene of the fire in the car after setting the fire with a substitute, said to himself.

The word combination of California wildfires is no stranger to Buccarati from the 21st century. After all, since 17, California has been in the news almost every year because of record-breaking fires, basically every time it is "xx years One encounter".

However, California, which has a dry climate and a large forest area, is one of the most fire-intensive areas in the world. In 2020, the most serious year, as of September, more than 8000 fires have been counted. It can only be said that the fire is flourishing.

After all, the laws of the United States, which advocates freedom, encourage buying land and building houses by themselves. Americans are keen to live in the forest, and they usually love all kinds of camping and outdoor sports.

Although it is a good thing to be close to nature, they often ignore the reserved isolation zone due to too free site selection. The young people who camp are not as civic as described by the public, but frequently become fire makers.

As the global temperature continues to rise, there are more and more fires like this. However, the scale of the Southern California fire in 1993 was not inferior to that of the younger generations more than 20 years later, so Sherlock specially collected photos and used them as a double attack The way.

Sherlock's stand-in has a certain attack range, and he probably moved the fire scene tens of meters to this road,

In order to ensure that he would not be affected, the fire photo chosen by Sherlock also deliberately included a river that could avoid the fire - when he activated his substitute ability, he would set the position of the river at his feet.

However, there is also a large amount of vegetation around the road, which can further expand the burning range and block all the escape space of the Bugarati team on the ground.

Therefore, even if the forest disappears due to the range of the stand-in, the fire scene has been completed, so Sherlock can escape without worrying about getting into the river.

The large amount of carbon dioxide caused by the fire can also interfere with Aerosmith's perception. Even if he starts the vehicle to escape at this moment, he doesn't have to worry about being tracked.

"It's a perfect plan! But it's still one step away from the real victory!"

Staring at the intensifying fire in the distance, Sherlock was very clear: his opponent was not simple, and after realizing the scale of the fire, there was a high probability that he had already hid in a different space at this moment.

"But this step is the lore!"

He took out a new set of photos, which were reflected in the filter eyeballs of "Ruin Street" one by one.

The photo shows floods caused by heavy rain hitting cities in the central United States.

As the saying goes: Drought dies, flood dies. Unlike California, which has a dry climate, the central and southern regions have frequent floods due to the many rivers passing by, and even the sewer systems of developed countries cannot withstand it.

A well-known public intellectual once said: The sewer is the conscience of the city. This kind of system cannot show political achievements, but can actually benefit every citizen. Therefore, only developed democratic countries will build it with care.And some superficial developing countries will not put their money in these places.

There is indeed a phenomenon of waterlogging in the central cities of China, which seems to be in line with the well-known theory of "what's wrong with this country, and the general public".

But in fact, as the global sea level rises year by year, the scale of floods is getting bigger and bigger, and the news of the flooding of American cities in the central region is not uncommon, and even the White House in the capital is inevitably leaking.

If you use your brain a little bit, you will know that although the founding of the United States is short, the central region is basically a traditional old city. The general framework of the sewer system adopts the standard of 200 years ago, and subsequent renovations cannot solve all problems.

Under the underworld filter of the "ruined street", the torrential rain with a radius of tens of meters poured down around Sherlock, and wherever the car drove, the rain followed.

Together with Sherlock, there are also the modernized streets of the central city.

Under the torrential rain, Sherlock asked Balco to start the sports car and rush back to the previous range, and the unstoppable wildfire was extinguished by the rain.

The road section where the Bugarati team was previously located has also been replaced by city streets.

At this time, Bugarati was relying on the ability of the steel chain fingers to hit the tunnel.

Referring to the battle with the oasis, if Bugarati wants to rely on the ability of the steel chain fingers to move underground, he must constantly unzip the zipper to travel between reality and different spaces.

The principle is roughly: the steel chain finger opens the zipper on an object to enter the interior. If the displacement distance exceeds the limit of the object, it must go out of the zipper space and open a new zipper.

And this object can't be too big: Just like Yoshikage Kira couldn't blow up the earth upside down, it's impossible for the steel chain fingers to regard the whole land as an object and move in the zipper space all the way.

His current idea is to stay away from the fire range and then drill out of the ground, so he keeps opening zippers under the ground to travel through.

Everyone who has seen the photos of the road collapse site knows that the road is not all airtight soil, the city will hollow out the ground to lay pipes, and there will be naturally formed holes under the road in the mountainous area, so that the Bugarati can continue. Find the gap.

But just as he opened the next zipper, what appeared in front of him was a slightly spacious sewer space and a large amount of sewage overflowing, which was about to engulf everyone in the zipper space...

024. Street of Ruins Part [-]

Bucciarati has never been so grateful that his stand-in has A-rated speed.

Just as he opened the new zipper and was about to move from one crack in the ground to another, a scalp-tingling smell was like an open can of herring in a confined space. Fortunately, the whole team was using oxygen cylinders Keep breathing, otherwise you may die on the spot.

The second volume of photos for "Streets of Ruin" has the road track replaced by a residential area in a torrential rain, with the foundations below turned into flooded sewers.

In the outside world, the entire street is filled with enough rainwater to submerge an adult, and the sewers are naturally filled with water, mixed with the original domestic garbage and waste water, forming a thorn in the side of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nasal sewage, and the opening opened by the steel chain fingers provided them with a flood outlet.

"Shut it off! Shut it off now! Sticky Fingers!"

Even if you can't smell the smell, you can tell from the turbid color of the liquid and the sundries floating in it that the person is not good.

Bugarati quickly forced the stand-in to close the zipper, but a large puddle of sewage still flowed in and submerged near the ankles, so all the team members who were a little bit of a cleanliness tap danced one after another.

Not only the psychological shock, this wastewater also contains a huge number of bacteria.

"Gold experience!"

With a roar, Giorno used his stand-in ability to turn the golden beetle on his clothes into spores of some kind of plant and fell into the water.

The spores quickly germinated and formed in the water, and finally aggregated into clusters of complexes, absorbing the sewage at an astonishing speed, winning a space where the team could still stand.

Thanks to his biological knowledge driven by interest, Giorno can always think of animals and plants to deal with the current predicament.

This plant, called peat moss, grows in swampy areas or forest depressions and can absorb 10-25 times its own body weight in water, making it the most water-absorbing plant known.

The trouble at the foot has been solved, but everyone has already guessed: the opponent's substitute seems to be able to control the disaster phenomenon, and outside the pure land of the zipper space, it may have been surrounded by sewage.

Oxygen cylinders are limited, and you will be suffocated if you hide in the zipper space all the time, but if you want to escape, you must wade through such sewage.

"Do you believe in enlightenment?"

Looking at the dead rats, household garbage, and various unnamed mixtures that remained at the bottom of the zipper space after the sewage was absorbed, Bugarati himself felt a little guilty when he said this.

The teenagers looked at each other in silence: Based on their consciousness, they would not frown even if they challenged the tough knives and guns, but swimming in this kind of water is another kind of challenge for a human being. .

"If it's for the path to victory over fate, I don't mind giving it a try."

In the end, Giorno, who dared to drink the apa tea in the original plot, was the first to express his opinion, but he then raised his concerns, "But what I am worried about is that the enemy has set up an ambush above the water."

Buccarati nodded: Judging by the difficulty of the opponent this time, there is indeed such a possibility.

……

In fact, Sherlock and Balco were standing on the roof of the car, staring at the entire flooded street.

In the last photo of Sherlock's photo group, the rainstorm has gradually stopped, so they will not get wet all over, but they are still in the swamp.

"If your guess about the stand-in's ability is correct, they should be trapped and unable to move. My filter will turn into whatever it wants somewhere!"

Although he has used it many times, Sherlock is still very proud of his stand-in ability: What are the filters and news editing capabilities of BBC and CNN?What is the shock department?I've reached the point where I can't say what I say, and I can make any kind of news I want.

But Balko lost his previous cleverness, and his sharp eyes as a former boxer also became cloudy.

After a few seconds, he replied to his boss in a blunt and stammering tone: "As you... wish, I... seem to... feel that they... have..."

According to the principle of use it, lose it, lose it and compensation, after losing a certain perception, if you actively adapt, the functions of other organs will be greatly improved.

He ate the new forbidden fruit: he turned himself into a super-hearing person who, after being blind, worked hard to develop other senses, so that besides sight, hearing, smell and even a sixth sense are extremely keen.

The price is that Balko's thinking ability and reflection speed have been greatly reduced due to the backlash of the killer template and the wise man template, and even his brain is not working well.

"Where? What's the point?"

Sherlock immediately yelled at his less intelligent bodyguard.

Balco's finger tremblingly pointed to a position, which was directly above the zipper space where the Bugarati team was located.

Without the interference of the sound of rain, through the enhanced perception ability, he was extremely clear about the sound of the underground and even the movement of the water.

Through the partition between the ground and the sewer, he heard the slightest change in flow direction, as well as the sound of human beings talking.

That was the sound caused by Bugarati closing the zipper after he was almost submerged in the water just now.

"So your guess is correct, they are indeed trapped here, we just need to send more people to defend here?"

Sherlock asked excitedly, but Balko only responded with a wise look after a long time.

"Okay, I understand!"

Sherlock waved his hand, indicating that he no longer needed Balko's opinion.

Now that he already knew the situation of the other party, even the exact place where they were trapped, Sherlock knew exactly what to do next.

He pulled out the next roll of photos: a bombing case of a terrorist attack.

The blast isn't as big as a fire or flood, but it can come in handy if someone is trapped in an area and can only break out eventually.

And if the scope is limited, there is no need to worry about affecting yourself.

"Once you hear that they plan to swim up, notify me as soon as possible, let these bastards eat dirty water first, and then be blown to the sky!"

Sherlock patted Balko's head and ordered, because he was worried about his reaction speed, he simply clamped the guy's finger that had no place to rest on the hem of his protective suit: "If you hear any movement, pull my clothes, understand?"

Balko nodded ignorantly, and pulled hard after a short silence.

When Sherlock was almost torn off the car by the boxer's strength, he immediately activated his stand-in ability, and the explosion sparks in the photo were reflected in the eyeballs of the ruined street...

025. Fig Tower II

Balko was very sure that there were slight noises and abnormal fluctuations in the water flow in the waters where the Buccarati team was confirmed to be hiding.

So he reminded Sherlock to use photos to map the bombing to reality.

The water flow one person high disappeared in a blink of an eye, and was replaced by the blasting scene with surging air currents, which overturned all objects within a radius of nearly ten meters.

The explosion took place in the downtown area, and several cars were detonated. Although the flames caused were not as good as the previous wildfires, they also formed a wall of fire, enough to continue to trap the members of the enemy team who were lucky enough not to be killed.

That's why Sherlock chose this shot: You might be able to block a bullet, or even a cannonball, but the blanket explosion, the wall of fire, and the resulting smoke are all about bells and whistles.

The gunpowder smoke gradually dissipated, and Sherlock raised his binoculars, intending to see the horror of the enemy being torn apart after being bombed.

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