Chapter 39: The Pursuit
Screaming bullets pierced through the night and caught up with Newcastle.
The night sky was filled with lightning, and the bullet trajectory that had been aimed at his shoulder shifted slightly due to the rapid advance of the wind whirlwind behind Newcastle, but it still hit Newcastle accurately. Although not fatal, the high-speed bullet still slashed through his left arm, piercing through his outer skin tissue and tearing a piece of flesh, and the sleeve of the white gown was charred and blackened by the extremely fast spinning bullet.
Newcastle stumbled in the air, the pain in his left arm almost spasmed, and then he landed on a sloping building, surrounded by a shroud of wind elementals that blocked the rain.
"I miscalculated, I didn't expect to be targeted a long time ago. Newcastle's face contorted, the pain of his heart blurred his consciousness a little, and he lay on the side of the roof, gasping for air.
The gushing blood flowed down the grooves of the tiles, and Newcastle's left arm was a blur of blood, and even the pale arm bones could be seen, if the trajectory had moved a little more inward, he would have said goodbye to his arm.
"Ministry of Armed Forces, target the freshman of Department B Newcastle, close the net!" Andre searched for the white figure in the dark night through the scope, and the voice of the teacher of the Ministry of Armed Forces came from the ear communicator, "Andre, cover us! Attention, the target is extremely dangerous, keep on high alert!"
"Roger!" Andre chewed two mouthfuls of gum to relieve his nervousness, slightly bitter from holding it in his mouth for too long.
In the midst of the rainstorm, black figures flew between buildings and tall trees like spiders, each with two ropes attached to their bodies. Anglo once mentioned to Andrei that it was a jet mobile device that only the special squad of the Ministry of Armed Forces would be equipped with, using a high concentration of methane as a booster, and a high-strength steel wire rope that made people fly high in the air like a swing.
Andrei's whole body was tense, and he didn't dare to be careless.
Almost at the same time that Andre turned off the microphone of the communicator, another black figure rushed out of the main entrance of the archive, the black long knife was cold, and Li Shiyi rushed into the rain with his bare arms.
"Report!Report!Another intruder has appeared!" Andre noticed something strange downstairs in the archives, and immediately pointed the muzzle of his sniper rifle at Li Shiyi.
After Li Shiyi heard the first gunshot, he immediately realized that the academy might have a plan and waited for the rabbit. He glanced at the slender barrel of the gun at the doorway, then turned and galloped into the side street, his figure clearly illuminated by the streetlights.
When Andrei reacted, Li Shiyi was about to rush into the corner of the intersection, and behind that intersection was full of high-rise buildings, he was about to lose his target, and the situation was extremely urgent, Andrei hurriedly reported.
"Attack now!, but stay alive!" replied from the other end of the communicator, mixed with the sound of rain and wind.
"Bang!"
The powerful recoil of the sniper rifle shook a mist of water, and after receiving the command from the front, Andrei did not hesitate to shoot at the black shadow. The bullet shattered, and the raindrops pounced on Li Shi like the claws of death.
Sudden stop, turn, abdomen force, black knife slash, it seems that Li Shiyi had long expected this to happen, so he has been paying attention to the situation behind him when he ran to the Newcastle landing position.
The knife silently cut into the bullet, and the next moment, sparks flew everywhere, and the bullet was cut in half at the blade, and continued to slide at high speed from the front and back of Li Shiyi, respectively, and two bullet holes appeared on the concrete asphalt ground in an instant, and they were flooded by the rain.
Taking advantage of the situation to put the knife into the sheath, Li Shiyi no longer cared about the sniper hiding on the roof of the building, and quickly got into the rain and disappeared without a trace. Although Li Shiyi knew that the weapon in the sniper's hand was a powerful sniper rifle, he also knew the disadvantage of this weapon, that is, it needed to be reloaded after each shot.
On the roof of the archives, a bullet casing fell to the ground with residual heat.
"Report! missed, target disappeared, target disappeared!" Andrei spat out the tasteless gum in his mouth and urgently reported to the teacher of the armed forces department, while his left hand, wearing tactical gloves, quickly took out a brass bullet from the magazine, where there were still eight left.
When Andrei expertly pulled the bolt of the gun and pushed the bullet into the chamber, the knife-wielding man was long gone from the scope.
"It's just the ultimate explosiveness, can the human body reach this level?" Andre moved his shoulder, and there was a strange sound of metal grinding there.
"Andrey, focus, this is not a drill. "The Anglo voice has the sound of a slight electric current, and the interference of lightning on the communication signal is getting worse and worse.
"Got it, Anglo-sensei. André re-focused his scope at the dozen or so figures leaping from the outer walls of the tall building, the men of the Ministry of Armed Forces were already approaching the position of Newcastle, and as for the man in black who had escaped, Anglo told him that the people of the Ministry of Information were urgently investigating.
The two sharp gunshots were swallowed up by the high-decibel thunder, as if the huge ship had sunk into the sea without stirring up any waves. In normal times, it would have caused an uproar on the college campus, but not at this time, the torrential rain in the dark night drowned out all the sound and erased the traces of life.
The conference center on the top floor of the administration building has a solemn atmosphere.
"The vice-principal, Andre reported that the first bullet successfully hit the intruder Newcastle, but the second missed and the black-clad intruder actually cut the bullet with a knife. Anglo frowned and reported.
Then he muttered in a low voice, "Even bullets can cut through it, is this still a human being?" After all, that weapon had poured too much effort into the Anglos, and if it hadn't been for the Vice Chancellor personally approaching the Ministry of Armed Forces and asking him to send someone to bring this weapon, he would have been a little reluctant, I don't know how many days and nights the Anglos slept with that gun magazine.
"Do you have any physical characteristics?" At this point, Douglas took off his trench coat draped over his shoulders and wore only a suit vest with a white shirt underneath.
"Black, robed, armed with a knife, who seems to be at odds with the first intruder, Newcastle," Anglo said fifteen-ten, "and when André saw him in the scope, he was shirtless and shirtless. ”
"Black robe, knife," Douglas groaned as he exhaled a puff of smoke, his gaze moving from the mechanical watch slowly moving around his wrist to the B-department teaching area in the distance, "Could it be him?"
"Anglo, contact Savoy!" Douglas sounded like a sinking clock, and the hour hand on his watch pointed straight to ten o'clock.
On the outskirts of the B-department teaching area, on the empty streets, the wind pulls the branches on both sides and sways hysterically, accompanied by a mournful scream, exactly like a puppeteer in a circus performing a puppet show to an audience, laughing sickly like a clown.
The carriage turned a ninety-degree blind corner, and finally drove from a dark path into a brightly lit avenue, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed for a long time.
"What? You said Li Shiyi had already arrived?" Max threw a set of dry clothes from the locker in the carriage to Al, the two of them were similar in size, and his own clothes should fit El, "How did he find out?"
"Senior brother came down from the side slope of Arthur's throne, and it is estimated that he has already arrived at the archives," Li Shiyi wiped his hair with a dry towel, the cotton material was very comfortable, "He is like an unknown prophet, he has noticed the unusual nature of the archives since we ascended to Arthur's throne." ”
While changing his clothes, Al repeated to Max the story of himself and Li Shiyi from climbing the mountain to descending the mountain, of course, some conversations could not be said, and Al made up a random topic to prevaricate.
"It's you, Li Shiyi. Max's eyes were smiling, blue eyes like sapphires, and he was a little excited.
"Speaking of which, your abilities don't have anything to do with your left arm, do they?" said the scarlet arm and the armband with strange words engraved into Max's line of sight, "I'm a little curious. ”
"Let's just say that, but I don't know exactly what the ability is. Seeing that Max's gaze was always on his armband, Al was a little uncomfortable, and he hurriedly put on a dry coat to cover the armband and his left arm.
"Where did your armband come from..."
"Picked up," Al interrupted Max, knowing what Mark was going to ask, "let's move on to the operation." ”
Max pretended to be calm, but his heart was already in turmoil, and the string of twisted characters might seem like a mere decoration to others, but to him, or to the Holy Church as a whole, it was tantamount to a thunderbolt on the ground.
"Can we help?"
"I don't need you, just stay in the carriage, the task is assigned by the vice principal, there is no difficulty. As for Li Shiyi, it may be a variable in this plan. Max glanced at the scene outside the window, and his face gradually deepened.
Max put on the familiar white hood, for he was not far from the heart of the B-department teaching area, and an unknown enemy awaited him.
The dark brown tiles still had traces of blood that had not been washed away by the heavy rain, and a bright flashlight shone on the place where Newcastle had stayed, except for the chaos of raindrops and broken leaves.
"Captain Conrad, we've searched, and there's no one around, where is he going to flee?" a man in a black combat uniform swept his flashlight over the rooftops of the surrounding buildings, and although visibility was low, his white gown was still conspicuous if Newcastle was hiding nearby.
"Keep looking, he has a gunshot wound on his body, and even a person with the ability to control the wind can't get far. "Conrad's beard is covered with droplets, and it seems that he is the person in charge of the special squad's operation.
"Captain Conrad, I'm Andre!" Conrad's communicator voice was a little low, and he turned the knob up the volume, "I have something to confirm." ”
"Andrey, you say. Conrad's hand pressed the communicator on his ear so he could hear better.
"I don't know if it's my delusion, Captain, your special squad seems to be missing a person. ”
"What did you say?!" Conrad's pupils contracted sharply.