Anime Crossover: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, My Stand is the World

“We don’t even know where the other side’s hideout is; we can only passively interpret the ‘clues’ she left behind, which are hard to distinguish between true and false.”

"But she can appear in any shadow she wants at any time and launch her next attack on us."

"If this continues, we'll be in a very passive position."

　Yes.

Too passive.

He was constantly being led by the nose by the other party; all his actions and thoughts seemed to be unfolding within a script pre-set by that woman.

This feeling made every proud and arrogant girl present feel extremely uncomfortable and frustrated.

However, just when everyone was at a loss, and even the air seemed to freeze.

Su Chen, who had been leaning against the wall with her eyes closed in deep thought, seemingly detached from the oppressive discussion, suddenly smiled.

The laughter was soft, yet like a pebble thrown into a stagnant pond, it instantly broke the silence of the room and drew everyone's attention.

He slowly stood up and walked to the huge electronic map of Shinjuku Ward, which was temporarily made up of an electronic billboard.

The map is densely marked with known danger zones and safe routes, resembling a complex chessboard.

Then, under the questioning gazes of everyone, he made an extremely bold decision.

"Since we can't find her home turf."

His voice was calm, yet filled with undeniable decisiveness, as if stating a self-evident fact.

"Then why don't we turn the entire Shinjuku district into our home turf?"

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this moment.

All the girls present had a dazzling light shining in their eyes.

The gloom and frustration caused by being passive were instantly swept away by this simple, blunt, yet absolutely confident statement.

……

Thus, a brand-new, even insane, operational plan quickly took shape.

Su Chen officially issued a large-scale "carpet sweep and search and rescue" order codenamed "CleanSweep".

He reorganized his all-star "Queen's Team" into the most optimized and efficient groups.

"Group One."

His voice was loud and clear, like the pre-battle drumbeats, echoing in the small command post.

"【Stealth Pursuit Team】."

"It's made up of me alone."

“I have only one mission,” his eyes sharp as knives, “to delve into the most dangerous core area. Like the sharpest scalpel, soaked in deadly poison, to actively seek out, to cut, and to completely dig out the enemy’s core heart.”

"The second group."

His gaze then fell upon the two genius girls with the highest IQs, who were like the team's dual brains.

"[Intelligence Analysis Team]"

"Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka will be in charge."

“You will stay behind. This is our ‘nest’.” He pointed to the ground. “Use the blank ‘Skynet’ system as your eyes and be responsible for processing all the real-time combat intelligence and environmental data transmitted from the front. Your mission is to find the fatal weakness of that monster’s nest from the massive amount of information in the shortest possible time, and to solve the woman’s ‘mystery’.”

"Understood." x2

Yukino and Utaha exchanged a glance, both seeing a flame called "fighting spirit" in each other's eyes. One possessed absolute rational analysis, while the other had a wildly imaginative and emotional interpretation; their combination would be the key to unlocking all mysteries.

"Finally, the third group."

Su Chen's gaze fell on the two girls who also possessed leadership qualities and were capable of calming people's hearts.

"【Safe Zone Search and Rescue Team】."

"Led by Mai Sakurajima and Megumi Kato."

"Your mission is to conduct operations in the outer areas of Shinjuku Ward."

"While clearing out those scattered, insignificant monsters."

"On the one hand, we will do our best to search for and integrate the survivors hiding in the ruins."

"To establish the most secure forward base and rear defense line for us."

"Leave it to us." x2

Mai and Megumi, equally enthusiastic, nodded emphatically in response.

……

Group assignments have been completed.

Three firepower squads, each with a distinct style but equally elite, set off simultaneously in three different directions.

An unprecedented, large-scale event is about to sweep through the entire Shinjuku district...

A war of sweeping and counter-offensive.

At this moment, the curtain officially rose.

Chapter 140 The Queen and the Strategist's Web

Inside a police headquarters building in Shinjuku Ward that was relatively intact during the disaster.

This place has been completely taken over by Su Chen's team and temporarily transformed into the command center for this "carpet sweep" operation.

Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka, a queen and strategist with exceptional intelligence, are currently in charge here.

Before them were rows of monitoring screens still flickering with a faint blue light, frantically refreshing real-time data from every corner of the front lines in a waterfall-like flow.

In the very center of the room, a huge 3D holographic electronic map of Shinjuku, projected remotely by the Blank siblings, is slowly rotating.

Above, green dots representing friendly forces flashed, along with gray unknown areas that were constantly being marked and eliminated.

The only sounds in the room were the soft hum of the cooling fans and the crisp, rhythmic tapping of the keyboard.

The atmosphere was tense and solemn, yet filled with a kind of intelligent, cold, and pure beauty.

"Command center, this is search and rescue team one."

From the communicator came Mai Sakurajima's gentle yet capable voice, so clear it seemed to be right next to my ear.

"Area A has been cleared. No trace of monsters found. Safe. Three survivors were rescued from the underground parking lot of Building A3. Their vital signs are stable, but they are somewhat traumatized. Repeat: Three survivors rescued. Over."

"receive."

Yukino Yukinoshita responded calmly, her voice devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

Her long, slender, artist-like fingers flew across the tactical keyboard, so fast they almost left afterimages.

As she operated, the gray area of ​​Zone A on the 3D map was instantly rendered into green, representing safety, and three small blue icons representing survivors were precisely marked on the coordinates of Building A-3.

"Senior Mai, you've worked hard. Now, immediately lead the survivors back to the temporary base along the 'green channel' we've planned to rest."

"clear."

"Don't worry, Yukino." Mai's reassuring chuckle came from the other end of the communicator. "Leave this to me, I'll handle it."

Communication ends.

As Yukino looked at the green area on the map that she had just marked with her own hands, a barely perceptible look of satisfaction, the satisfaction that comes with a successful plan, finally flashed in her usually calm blue eyes, which were as still as an ice lake.

Excellent. The "peripheral cleanup" plan is proceeding step by step, without the slightest error, according to her pre-set optimal solution.

however--

"Don't get too excited, Yukinoshita."

A voice, brimming with languid wisdom, like a faint fragrance, rang out from beside her.

It's Kasumigaoka Utaha.

She was sitting with her arms crossed, calmly watching another, larger main monitoring screen with higher access levels.

The screen no longer displayed the relatively peaceful outer area of ​​the Ma Yi Squad, but a first-person perspective filled with snow and electromagnetic noise, making it almost impossible to see anything specific.

It was a stealth video feed transmitted in real time by Kato Megumi, a ghost who walks outside of cognition, and encrypted multiple times.

"Look here."

Shiyu stretched out her slender finger and gently tapped a fleeting, extremely blurry corner of the screen.

“Just now, when Kato was passing through Kabukicho Ichiban-gai, our thermal imaging detectors, vital sign scanners, and even the most basic optical cameras did not react at all. From a data perspective, that place is a ‘dead zone’.”

"but…"

She paused the video and then brought up an extremely complex spatiotemporal reverberation analysis plugin that only a playwright of her caliber could understand.

After a series of dazzling maneuvers, she zoomed in on that single frame of the image infinitely, and then zoomed in again.

A scene filled with an eerie and supernatural atmosphere appeared before the two of them.

In the shadows cast on the seemingly empty street, there remained an extremely faint human-shaped outline, so faint that it was imperceptible to the naked eye without special algorithm rendering.

“This is…” Yukino’s pupils suddenly contracted, and she immediately realized what this meant.

“That’s right.” Shi Yu’s lips curled into a cold, slightly excited smile, the kind that comes from a hunter finally spotting a fox. “It’s ‘Afterimage’.”

"It is the traces of time left in space by that woman when she activated her [Zflücke First Bullet] to move at super high speed. Because the speed was so fast, it could not be erased by conventional means."

"In other words..." Her finger traced a deep, dangerous, blood-red circle heavily on the 3D electronic map representing the area of ​​"Kabukicho Ichiban-gai."

"This is one of her most frequented 'hunting grounds.' It's her 'territory.'"

……

The top floor of the building.

The Sora siblings watched the intelligence analysis meeting on another screen, a meeting that was like a battle of gods. Sora, who always had a high opinion of himself, had a rare look of amazement on his face, which was always full of cynicism.

"Hey, Xiaobai."

"Ok?"

"Don't you think..." He pointed at Yukino and Utaha on the screen, their voices perfectly synchronized, "the two of them are practically like the left and right hemispheres of one brain?"

"A system responsible for absolute logic and order. It receives data, analyzes data, and executes instructions, just like the most sophisticated central processing unit."

"A tool for unrestrained intuition and association. It interprets images, identifies patterns, and makes bold assumptions, much like a top-of-the-line graphics analyzer."

"If these two teamed up..." He couldn't help but shudder, feeling for the first time a sense of awe towards any "player" other than his own siblings.

"I'm afraid even our 'undefeated' duo is no match for them in a pure intelligence war."

"Ah."

Bai nodded in agreement, her beautiful heterochromatic eyes also reflecting her recognition of her fellow strong individuals.

Then, in her soft, emotionless tone, she gave the most accurate and fair final evaluation.

"Two monsters."

……

When Yukino Yukinoshita's "absolute rationality" and Utaha Kasumigaoka's "extraordinary intuition" are perfectly combined through the Blank siblings' "Skynet" system, which is almost like "God's eye," what erupts is a terrifying chemical reaction where one plus one is far greater than two.

They were like two top detectives, constantly unraveling the truth hidden deep within the seemingly unrelated fragments of information from Kato Megumi's noisy stealth footage and Mai's team's seemingly unrelated pieces of information.

"found it."

Suddenly, a glint flashed in Kasumigaoka Utaha's eyes.

She connected all the coordinates of the "afterimages" she had marked with light blue dotted lines, forming a huge network map of movement covering several city blocks.

Then, she marked all the locations of the "missing survivors" reports sent back by Mai's squad with red crosses.

Ultimately, all the clues, all the routes of action, and all the missing persons reports, as if all rivers flow into the sea, pointed to the same place filled with an ominous atmosphere.

　The Metropolitan Government Building clock tower depicted on the tarot card left behind by Kurumi.