In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

"I hardly saw the Yukinoshita sisters at all this time."

Lorelei, who had been waiting in the car, removed the silencer from the pistol, put it in a box, and said.

"After all, this level is not something they can access, if we look at it from a normal perspective," Chen Yi explained, leaning back in his seat and closing his eyes to rest.

......

"The results of last night's investigation are in."

The officers, who were in the position of squad leader, ran out of the zoo and then entered the temporary command center.

"How is the situation?" the commander-in-chief inquired.

"Not very optimistic, but there are some leads." He held a handwritten report in his hand.

"The surveillance footage shows that the elephants never go to the cage area containing water and food; they only eat during the day."

"..."

"In contrast, the number of apes in the primate region, especially the largest groups, changes every hour."

"Are there any specific surveillance records of changes in the monkey troop?" Officer Miao asked.

"We are investigating. Photos taken every hour show that the number of monkeys varies by about 7-13, but the overall number is not higher than the number of monkeys seen during the day."

This is the problem: if the monkeys are all real monkeys during the day, then why does the number of monkeys keep changing at night, even with the cramped cages and all-around surveillance?

"Is there anything else?"

"Yes, there is a very terrifying phenomenon."

"We discovered today that in addition to cognitive interference from text, there may be other, less obvious cognitive interferences in the park."

"Can you finish what you're saying all at once?" Miao Mu asked impatiently.

"There is goat's blood on the shelf."

"Goat's blood?"

“Since we started monitoring the animal population last night, three goats have already died,” the staff officer said, as if remembering something.

"?"

“Unnatural death.” The commander-in-chief’s eyes were grim.

"...unnatural death, but...it seems to be due to a fight." The staff officer pulled up a folder containing photos taken during the first investigation at dawn today.

As can be clearly seen above, the dead goat's neck was obviously deformed, with a hole from which blood was gushing out.

The other goat had red blood on its horns.

"Killed by other sheep..."

"What about the goat?" Miao Mu pressed.

"They've already been sedated and sent to biologists for testing."

"call......"

"So how was the goat's blood on the shelf discovered?" The commander-in-chief thought of the squad leader who was still standing at the door reporting.

"It was a member of the Kilo intrusion team who discovered it while inspecting the convenience store. He had just taken anti-cognitive interference drugs less than two minutes earlier. He claimed to have found irregularly arranged red liquid on the shelf. At first, it was suspected to be human blood, but after testing, it was found to be goat genes."

"However, when we found the member of the Kilo assault team, he had forgotten what he said on the radio and was drinking Coke."

"Drink...Coke?"

"He claimed it was his vacation time and he was at an amusement park. From the time he reported it to when my team arrived, it took no more than three minutes."

"Update orders! Administer anti-cognitive interference medication every five minutes! No single stay within the park may exceed half an hour!" The commander-in-chief reacted immediately and shouted into the command channel.

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Revisiting Izu: Chapter 238 Little Rabbit, White and White, with Two Ears...

Chapter 238

"...A small team near the elephant area has lost contact. The last reply was twelve minutes ago."

Miao Mu walked over and glanced at the vital signs monitoring system, finding it to be intact, meaning the missing team should be alive.

“That fake man might have made a move…” Recalling the firsthand information the informant had previously obtained, the commander-in-chief believed that the monitoring system might be inaccurate.

"Nakajima, immediately try to access that squad's combat recorder," Officer Naegi said.

"...No, the recorder has been destroyed."

"Is there no data stored in the cloud?" Miao Mu asked patiently.

"Only delayed data is retained, that is, data from ten minutes ago."

"Useless trash!" Miao Mu roared in a fit of impotence.

"Should we call upon the Sangvis Ferri?"

"Use SWAT first... Kujo, how's your squad's status?" The commander-in-chief looked at the squad leader who was about to leave.

"Stand by, ready to carry out missions at any time." Kujo stopped in his tracks.

Where are they now?

"Report: They are currently undergoing repairs near the East Gate and are fully prepared for battle."

Nine answers.

"Go to the armored vehicle to get an extra set of lethal grenades and a grenade launcher, and set off as soon as possible... If the missing squad behaves abnormally, execute them on the spot."

"...Yes, I guarantee the mission will be completed."

......

"Leader, the elephant is acting very uneasy."

While patrolling through the elephant area, a team member suddenly spoke on the radio.

"...You even know about elephants?" another team member asked with interest.

“I used to love studying animals and I often went to the zoo,” he explained.

"Tell me about it." The team leader became interested, although he wasn't sure if it would help their mission, but it could at least provide an idea.

Recalling the orders issued by their superiors over the radio, the experienced team leader realized that the fake man and the animals in this zoo must have some kind of connection, to the point that these lovely creatures should be treated with caution.

"Look, their tails are stiff, their eyes are wide open, and their bodies are stiff while they keep shaking their heads. This is clearly a sign of tension."

"But they didn't show any signs of what happens when a predator approaches..." This was also what puzzled the experienced team member.

If the tension stems from predators, it could also be due to them mistaking the group for human collaborators. The problem is that the entire elephant herd is tense and uneasy, yet their posture is scattered...

It's hard to guess what it's warning about. Is it warning about its own kind?

"boom."

A gunshot seemed to ring out from behind the artificial hill.

"Who has engaged the enemy?" The leader immediately focused his attention, gestured to quickly compress into a single file and advance along the sightseeing road, trying to circle around to the elephant viewing area on the other side.

"This is Golf Squad. We heard gunshots near the elephant enclosure. Repeat, we heard gunshots near the elephant enclosure. Over."

We quickly circled around to the back of the artificial hill, where there was nothing unusual except for another group of African elephants.

What's chilling is that the elephants stood motionless like statues, their eyes closed.

"Team leader, there's a rabbit carcass in the bushes." One of the team members discovered the clue.

"What's so good about a rabbit carcass..." The team leader seemed annoyed by the team members' overreactions and subconsciously wanted to scold them, but then stopped himself.

Here, any anomaly could be a clue.

So he turned around and looked at the teammate who had parted the grass.

—And lying in the grass, a "person" dressed as a rabbit doll.

......

"This is Echo. Can the Golf receive the signal?"

The man with the sharp knife, wearing heavy bulletproof vest, headed straight for the elephant enclosure.

"Team leader, they might be finished."

“Nonsense,” Kujo replied.

Did he not know what losing contact in a place like this meant? He was simply explaining his mission and possible future movements to the other squads over the radio.

"...Stop." Some distance from the elephant enclosure's viewing area, Kujo raised his hand and ordered the team to stop.

"Drone".

"Yes."

The team's pilot deftly tossed the disposable reconnaissance drone from his bag into the air, then controlled it to fly into the elephant enclosure.

The rest of the people tacitly kept watch around the perimeter.

"Team leader, we haven't found anything unusual yet."

The drone flew around inside, and the camera quickly scanned the elephant herd.

"Echo Squad! There's a problem with the elephant herd!" The squad leader's voice came over the radio, but the tactical squad members on the ground ignored it.

"Team leader, the animals are heading in the right direction."

"Compress the spacing and advance in columns."

"Received." Before standing up, the pilot reached out and touched the white rabbit at his feet.

......

"The situation is clear to some extent. The pseudo-human does indeed use animals to carry out cognitive interference, and it is a far more troublesome form of mental pollution than the scarecrow."

Recalling the fleeting glimpse of the 'white long-eared elephant' in the drone, and the white rabbits scattered everywhere that Echo saw before it lost contact... it's not hard to deduce that the logic of cognitive interference should be related to white and long ears.

However, this still cannot deduce the connection between these images and that sample.

Of course, the worst-case scenario... the so-called cognitive interference and the mysterious fake human that appeared in the aquarium are fundamentally different things.

Don't forget about the park management, whose whereabouts are still unknown. What if the cognitive interference was orchestrated by the park management?

"Damn it, cognitive interference shouldn't be able to spread through images..." The commander-in-chief clutched his aching head and decided to find a comfortable spot to sit down.

"Commander-in-chief, if you really can't hold on any longer, take a break. We'll let you know if there are any special developments."

An operator who was nearby advised him.

"...Sigh, leave the site to Miaomu." The commander-in-chief rubbed his temples, his tense body deflated.

......

"Dr. Maruki, have you ever heard the story of gargoyles?"

"...I seem to remember something. What's wrong?" During the break, Dr. Maruki was chatting with Anzu Futaba and her assistant.

For so many days, he would rush to the lab as soon as he opened his eyes, and then go back before evening, leaving the patients to other doctors he knew.

There was no way around it; Chen Yi's discovery was just too... revolutionary, to the point that Dr. Maruki, who was inherently passionate about exploration, was completely immersed in it.

However, there were no noteworthy breakthroughs, even though Dr. Futaba was already among the top experts in the emerging field of biochemistry in Japan.

"Why are you suddenly bringing this up?" The assistant looked at Futaba Anzu, somewhat puzzled as to why the gargoyles were being mentioned all of a sudden.

Historically, gargoyles were actually a type of fake human.

"Gargoyles can be seen as examples of pseudo-humans that are afraid of light but do not die from sunlight."

Dr. Futaba began to speak slowly.

“Scarecrows are something that is relatively close to our lives.”

"So?" Dr. Maruki waited quietly for what he would say next.

"I'm thinking, since the boiling phenomenon is a parasitic mechanism, could we try to infer whether someone is being parasitized by observing certain inorganic substances in a patient's bodily fluids?"

"Dr. Futaba, this is what the psychology community has always done, but we used to call this phenomenon hormonal imbalance."

Thinking of this, Dr. Maruki suddenly remembered that he should find some time to give Chen Jun a full examination, maybe he could find some clues.