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Airo and Cosmos had crashed many times, and even the Eagle Fortress had to undergo several major repairs. Only the Black Panther had never been damaged after crossing countless battlefields. It was rumored that the car's maximum speed could reach supersonic speeds above Mach, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why it could escape the pursuit of super beasts without any damage time and time again.
Although those are all rumors spread by word of mouth, there is always a smoke without fire.
"I heard that the car uses alien technology." Qingshu muttered with some envy, "I really want to see it running at full speed... Wait, he's catching up!"
"What?" Ren glanced at the rearview mirror and saw the Black Panther approaching from behind.
"Could it be that the TAC team is now also working part-time as traffic police? Haha." Qingshu made a joke that he thought was funny, but Aren didn't laugh. He held the steering wheel seriously.
Qingshu was well aware of his partner's action.
"Hey, you don't want to..."
"That's what you think!" Ah Ren stepped on the accelerator, the engine was roaring, and his heart was roaring as well. The tension and excitement tightened his heart in an instant. He could feel his adrenaline pumping, that was the feeling, that was it!
The push from behind pressed Qingshu down on the seat, and the huge roar of the modified engine almost echoed throughout the entire Arakawa District.
"Hey, you guys, wait a minute!" Beidou opened the window in the Black Panther, but his voice was completely drowned out by the sound of the engine.
Damn, is this a biker gang? Sure enough, they are quite biker gangs. Speeding really has nothing to do with Beidou, but he still has something to ask.
Beidou also stepped on the accelerator. The sound of the Black Panther was obviously much smaller than that of the modified car. Even when the accelerator was stepped on to speed up, there was no more noise, but the acceleration was not slow.
"Here we go! Qingshu, you always call yourself 'Dr. Modified Car' and you can tell the engine data by listening to the sound. Can you tell the engine configuration of that car?"
"No, that car must have been specially soundproofed. The sound is attenuated too much, and it's completely inaudible."
Aren was not disappointed, rather he said 'as expected'.
"Just show me 'alien technology'. This is the blood-boiling feeling, this is a racing showdown!"
Even though I had already reached the maximum speed, the car behind me was still clinging to me like a black shadow, and I couldn't get away from it. Of course, a supersonic car was a joke, but the performance of that car was indeed extraordinary.
This is a showdown between wild beasts. Only in such extreme sports can humans return to their bestiality. Throwing aside all propriety and morality, even betting on life and death, this is an incomparable feeling.
At this moment, whether it was Akagi, Myogi, or the so-called Akina ghost, they were all forgotten by Aren.
At this time on the Black Panther, Beidou's expression was far less nervous than Ah Ren imagined. He held the steering wheel with one hand and had the other hand to open the communicator and contact the headquarters.
"Captain, I'm at the place where the super beast was reported to have appeared. I encountered a racer here, but no trace of the super beast has been found yet."
"Okay, Beidou, stay safe."
As Captain Long finished speaking, another voice came from the communicator.
"Beidou, you're not racing with others, are you?"
Beidou could tell that the sound came from the mountains.
"No, I was just following the other person."
The speed was kept below 180 km/h, how could it be considered racing? It should be called "taking a ride". Beidou often drove the Black Panther to play extreme drift under the feet of the super beast, and even made the super beast run around. For him, such a scene was indeed not a "duel". The reason why he followed all the way was because he had no intention of overtaking. He originally only intended to follow the car.
The car followed for another two minutes, and then Beidou's ears suddenly caught a strange sound. He glanced at the rearview mirror and saw a huge super beast appearing on the road in the night not far behind them.
"Ah, it appeared as expected! Headquarters, I'm Beidou, the super beast codenamed Sandjira appeared in the D area of Tokyo!"
The TAC team divides Tokyo into several areas, roughly corresponding to the 23 districts. The central Taito District is Tokyo A District, numbered sequentially. Tokyo D District is the Arakawa area.
"Headquarters received it!" The voice of the communicator Noriko came from the communicator, "Beidou, the captain has ordered everyone to set off. You must be careful, reinforcements will arrive soon."
"Understood!"
After hanging up the communicator on his helmet, Beidou reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device.
That's a cell phone.
Daidoji produced a small number of prototypes, one of which was given to Beidou by Ling. It was not unusual for it to be able to be used as a phone for instant calls, but it also had a built-in camera and video camera, which was a bit unusual.
Beidou turned on the camera function, rolled down the window, and shot the back with one hand. However, he was not able to shoot for long, only five seconds. It was not that the phone had a problem, but that the super beast disappeared.
After releasing the accelerator, the Black Panther slowed down and stopped by the roadside.
Beidou played back the video on his phone. Although he didn't capture how the super beast appeared, the super beast on the screen did disappear suddenly. Space technology? Not likely. It was more like the super beast itself was an illusion.
"Ah Ren, that car isn't chasing us anymore. Did it give up?"
Ah Ren's car also stopped, and the Black Panther that had been following him had disappeared without a trace. He got out of the driver's seat and lit a cigarette while leaning against the door.
"Are you blind? Didn't you see the super beast just now?"
"Ah? Was there a super beast just now?"
Ah Ren ignored the girl who had been his neighbor for more than ten years. She was always so careless.
"As expected, the guys from Team TAC care more about the Ultra Beasts than the race. You bastard, what do you think of the sacred race car!"
This sentence was obviously not addressed to Qingshu, so Qingshu did not respond. She thought about it and said thoughtfully:
"Now that I think about it, was the Black Panther really competing with us just now? Could it be that it was just to find that super beast?"
"What?" This was even more unacceptable to Ah Ren than leaving halfway. Was the street fight he thought of just wishful thinking from the beginning?
"That bastard will never be spared!"
For A-Ren, racing is his life, it is everything to him.
The TAC team arrived late.
This is not surprising, the super beast only appeared for a few tens of seconds. Even the Gaara could not fly here from the base under the five lakes in such a short time. There was no time to prepare for boarding.
"So Beidou, did you really see the Chao Beast?"
Back at the base, Shanzhong still didn't quite believe it. Not to mention seeing the super beast, there was no sign of the super beast appearing. With such a huge body appearing on the road, there should be at least some ground sinking. But there was nothing.
"Of course, I have the video."
"Video?"
Seeing the phone that Beidou took out, Yamanaka and Konno were amazed. Even Mokaji was attracted.
On the screen, the huge super beast appeared for a few seconds until it disappeared, and it was all captured clearly.
"Director, if you have such convenient things, why don't you equip us with a few?" Shan Zhong was a little dissatisfied. Being able to record videos and take photos at any time can be of great use in their daily work.
Mu Qi felt a little wronged, this was not an invention of their logistics department.
"This is a product jointly developed by the Daidoji Group and the Oshima Group, and it is expected to be released next year." Captain Long took the initiative to speak. This was what Beidou reported to him when he took out his phone. The name "Oshima Group" alone made him decide not to investigate further.
Konno and Yamanaka said nothing more. Only Yoshimura was still in disbelief.
"Civilian technology? Is it superior to the TAC team?"
Mu Qi hesitated to speak. If he was not mistaken, the chip technology of this thing called "mobile phone" was somewhat similar to some of the technologies that the Yabo people paid as compensation to the earth.
The captain obviously knew about it. Since the captain was pretending to be deaf and dumb, there was no need for him, who was in charge of logistics and technology, to interrupt.
Chapter 223 The Power of Voice
Exporting the video from the phone - even without a transmission cable and a matching driver, this was not a technical difficulty for Mu Qi. He could analyze even alien technology, not to mention open and unprotected equipment on Earth.
The TAC team deliberately put aside the question of the source of the mobile phone and began to analyze the video frame by frame.
The phone's parameters support 4K video recording. The manufacturer has no intention of squeezing consumers' wallets year after year with new models, and has gone all the way. The camera lens is equipped with four lenses: an ultra-sensitive camera, an ultra-wide-angle camera, a zoom camera, and an autofocus camera.
The one with the highest pixel is the ultra-sensitive camera, which has a pixel of up to 4000 million, enough to be used as a professional photography device.
Because she remembered the original promise she made to Tomoyo, which was that the mobile phone could take photos and record videos at any time, Ling also paid special attention to these.
Although the Yabo people's technology can provide more sci-fi equipment, there is no need. She doesn't want sci-fi movies, she is just used to things in the past. This phone will be a top-notch camera phone even in fifty years.
So even though the Beidou car was still moving, the recorded images were still very smooth.
The TAC team finally had a clear image of this super beast. It was no longer the case that many people who reported the case said that "there might be a super beast". It proved that this super beast that had not destroyed anything really existed.
The picture was magnified on the screen of TAC headquarters. A dark green monster appeared in front of everyone. There were a lot of traces of artificial modification on its body, so it was obviously not a monster, but a super beast.
"What's that thing on its head? A horn?" Yoshimura pointed at the head of the super beast on the screen.
Right on the Chao Beast's forehead, a device that resembles the speaker from a disassembled radio catches the eye.
"The super beasts have all been artificially modified by the Yabo people. Since they have installed such parts, there must be a purpose." Mu Kaji said, "Although we can't arbitrarily understand it with human technology, such a device is most likely related to sound."
"Sonic weapon?"
"This possibility cannot be ruled out. Of course, it could also be a device that receives sound waves."
Receiving sound waves?
Beidou remembered that every time a super beast appeared, there would be reports from racers, so he had been investigating the racers in Tokyo these past two days to prevent the situation like the one where a super beast disguised itself as a female student from the University of Tokyo.
"But is it possible that there is nothing wrong with the racers, but the noise they made attracted the super beast?"
"Noise? That's a problem. Tokyo is a city full of noise."
The word "noise" is almost tied to "modernization". In the days when people could hear each other's chickens and dogs, the loudest sound was the thunder and lightning in nature, but in modern times, human cities have been surrounded by noise.
"But why the racers? If we talk about noise, shouldn't it be the factories? Yes, and the airport too!"
The noise of a plane taking off can reach over 110 decibels, and if it gets close enough, it can shatter the glass. It is not comparable to the noise of the engines of speed racers. However, there have been no reports of super beasts appearing around the airport in the past few days. Instead, it is always late at night when everything is quiet, and when the noise of the engines of speed racers is heard, super beasts will be attracted.
"That's right," Beidou also thought seriously about Yoshimura's question, "So there must be something we haven't considered here--"
What was it? Beidou was not sure, but he knew he could not leave the super beast alone. The other party did not wreak havoc, and it was definitely not because of good intentions. As biological weapons, super beasts did not understand what good intentions were, and their nature was only to destroy.
"Beidou," the correspondent Noriko answered the phone and turned back to tease, "Your girlfriend is here to see you again."
"Girlfriend?" Beidou was stunned for a moment, not realizing who he was talking about.
"Reiya, the eldest daughter of the Oshima family."
Captain Long raised his head in surprise, then lowered his head as if nothing had happened and continued to read the data provided by the analysis department. After a pause, he casually said:
"Beidou, you could also bring your friend here. I think it's a bit rude to always receive people in the reception room."
The TAC team's reception room is actually just an alarm room that receives reports from the public about abnormal phenomena involving super beasts. Although there are sofas and tea, the conditions are certainly not very good.
"But isn't this a secret?"
Is the TAC team's headquarters open to the public?
"It's okay for children. This tradition has existed since the Kurt team days, with children often going there. Caution is necessary, but mysticism is not desirable. Starting with those little kids, I hope everyone can understand our team."
Since the captain said so, Beidou certainly didn't mind.
This was Lingye's first time at the TAC team headquarters. She had only been at the gate and reception room before and had never been deep inside.
Walking in from the gate, there are some buildings, but these are actually training grounds, equipment warehouses, etc. The real TAC headquarters is actually located underground.