Volume 5: The Cold-Blooded Princess and the Dark Paradise Chapter 124: Taking a Risk
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It can't go on like this. Ed hissed in toothache, feeling the annoyance that he couldn't stop. The situation has developed so far that it has become quite unoptimistic.
Carl no longer has the elegance and leisure of the cat play mouse this time, wearing the kraken exoskeleton special combat armor, he took out his 10% ability, and beat his old bones out of the way he felt when he fought in Bablore. In fact, I'm afraid that he didn't fight as hard as he does now, and this time he came with the consciousness of "relinquishing and retiring after this battle", which made him super difficult to deal with in an instant.
Adele can't get rid of Carl, if it's just herself, she can't break free from Carl's entanglement - this is what Ed took a short time to judge, the reason is obvious, you can understand it with a little thought, otherwise Adele can run with things by herself, and there is no need to desperately cover Little Git.
Although Little Git's own hard combat effectiveness is very low, as the person in charge of secret intelligence in Dark Heaven, his consciousness is still up to standard, allowing him to run with things and become the focus of the enemy's chase, Adele can also play a role in assisting, blocking, and protecting, and they are still a combination of one plus one. And if Adele herself takes on this role and focuses the enemy's attention on her, then in the case that Little Git has no ability to intervene in the battle, she can only face the siege of the enemy's entire strength by herself, and the odds of victory will plummet and be infinitely close to zero.
Originally, Adele stopped the armed Carl, and the two temporarily canceled each other out, and Little Jit broke through the encirclement of the remaining soldiers with some small toys he had prepared before this, and then quickly went underground with the technology accumulated by his real industry for many years, realizing social stealth and quickly delivering things to the place, even if it was their success. But what I didn't expect was that the role brought by the old Carl this time was more troublesome than imagined, he has not succeeded in getting rid of it, not to mention, and he was almost hit by a dumbbell headshot, and half of his big teeth were slapped out by the dormitory lady, but fortunately, Ed and Old Duroc, who were suspected of being arranged by the eldest lady, arrived in time to avoid overturning in the gutter.
However, even Ed and Old Duroc didn't expect that Donfrie's sister Don Saram would return to Stuttgar at this critical point in time, and intervene in the family's war with Dark Heaven in Bablore, let alone that after meeting with her brother and fully understanding the current situation, she would immediately be keenly aware of what was wrong, and immediately entangled the night traveler's manpower to support Old Carl, breaking Ed and Old Duroc's "police car tactics".
Now, facing a high-level night traveler of the Night Traveler, and Carl, who is armed to the point that his face is invisible, although there are only two people, it still makes Ed and the old Duroc and little Jit behind him feel depressed and breathless.
In this case, they have no problem protecting themselves, but it will not be too easy for any of them to leave, otherwise Old Duroc and Little Kitt would have hurried to withdraw. And if it drags on like this, it will be quite unfavorable for Ed and the others, because God knows if the Donfrie family has any other back-ups, if there are other troops or temporarily hired night travelers are coming, once the enemy's new forces join, this fragile balance will be immediately broken, and then their situation will be very, very passive.
As for whether they have helpers themselves - originally this was an extremely secret operation for the Dark Heaven that even the vast majority of the internal high-level officials did not know, originally Little Git thought that the only people involved were him and Adele, and the addition of Ed and Old Duroc was an unexpected fright, and the other forces of the Dark Heaven did not know what was happening on their side at all, so naturally there was nothing to come to support.
Speaking of which, this is also a strange and smacking point for little Git, few of them themselves know about the extremely secret plan, how can the hostile organization know so clearly?
Who leaked the news, and does the eldest lady know about it?
Little Git's idea is not unfounded, because judging from Safatina's arrangement with Ed and Old Duroc, she seems to have expected that something will go wrong at the fair, in other words, she has long known that there will be ghosts within the organization who leak this top-secret news. And she still promoted all the actions today even though she knew all this, what was she thinking?
What the hell is she trying to do?
And apart from the Dark Heaven, there is even less hope on the side of Old Duroc. Originally, he was privately helping Ed to mix up this matter between Dark Heaven and Donfrie, hoping to end the cold war between the two gangster families as soon as possible and restore Bablore to his original calm state. He didn't report today's action to the bureau at all, and if the police really came to intervene, then he himself could be arrested.
Carl and Bai Lin are not the only two of them, while Ed and the others are only themselves. It can't go on like this.
Feeling the pain of the wound in his abdomen, Ed held his breath, temporarily restrained the bleeding through the muscle control in his body and outward, and took a small step forward from behind, and his small eyes with strong sense of horror stared at Bai Lin and Carl in front of him, and leaned down to Adele's ear.
He whispered something quickly and quietly.
“……”
Adele's expression didn't change, she just maintained a vigilant posture, turned her head to look at Ed, and glanced at the wound in his abdomen. Ed didn't open his mouth to say more, just gestured to Adele and shook his head seriously. Adele moved her lips, but finally turned her head back.
Ed tugged at the corners of his mouth, as if smiling. Facing forward, he took a few steps back to Old Duroc and Jr. Geet, and also whispered a quick exchange with them. In the process, he never took his eyes off, and always focused on Carl and Bai Lin. Those two people have not moved under his gaze, but the fundamental reason why they are so honest is of course not because of him, but Adele in front of him. In addition, they are not afraid of procrastination, and the more they procrastinate, the better it will be for them.
Little Jitter and Old Duroc reacted a little more violently to what Ed said than Adele, but they were suppressed by Ed without a word. They don't have the time to discuss or argue right now, and they don't have time to make other, more reliable considerations. Now they can only go if they have a way, and they must go through it, and they can get through it if they don't.
Old Duroc quickly closed his mouth, wiped the beard off his face, and said no more. But little Jitter still seemed a little hesitant, frowning and pausing there, looking like he couldn't make up his mind for a while.
Ed withdrew his eyes from Bai Lin and the others, and turned to Little Jit, who was close at hand. Even Bai Lin, who was far away, could clearly see that Little Jit's body shook unconsciously when Ed's eyes looked at him, as if he had been exhaled by some hungry and murderous terrifying thing.
Then at that moment, Ed suddenly hit the hard knuckles with his backhand and hit the little Git's forearm holding the suitcase like a knock on the door, and the exquisite control of the force was extremely skillful and shook the muscles of Little Jit's entire arm without causing damage, making him temporarily lose control of his arm at this moment, and the five fingers lost their strength.
Taking advantage of this, Ed snatched the suitcase from Little Git's hand as if he had practiced it a thousand times with great agility - this was the first time anyone had successfully snatched it from Little Git's hand - and then turned and rushed in the direction of the window at the other end of the hall.
Little Git and Old Duroc may not dare to jump out of the window, but it is not difficult for Ed now.
“!”
Carl and Bai Lin reacted at the same time. The latter's narrow and narrow eyes widened violently, and his cold gaze suddenly condensed, while the former disappeared directly in place. They didn't know what was going on, what the detective had said, that had led to such an unexpected change. But they don't really care, the only thing they care about is the box that is now in the detective's hands!
The detective is running away with the box, and he must be stopped!
If you can, it's better to kill him and take the goods away!
The corresponding thoughts flashed in Carl's mind, and suddenly the dynamic vision that had been amplified by the power armor caught a glimpse of another phantom in the corner of his eye, the shadow of Adele, who belonged to the extremely fast flash, was arcing past him from another direction, and ran straight towards Bai Lin the Night Wanderer!
Is this to force him to go back and save people, so that Ed can escape with the goods? They showed him that just now? Is that actually part of their plan in itself?
Many possibilities passed through Carl's mind, but he didn't pause. As far as he was concerned, Bai Lin had been hired by the family to assist him in completing the mission, and if she died in the process, she could only say that she was not strong herself, just like her other fellow Night Wanderers. They had already paid enough for these dark vagrants of the underworld, and there was no need to do anything extra for them.
And in the face of the attacking Adele, Bai Lin, who sensed the undisguised killing intent of the other party, quickly whipped and swirled, building an absolute defensive whip shadow egg around his body. She was not surprised by Carl's abandonment of herself, these outlaws were originally driven by money as a tool to be employed, and the relationship between them and the employer was only a temporary cooperative interest partner, and the other party had no reason to give up the really important goal and come back to save her - in fact, this was also the doubt that flashed in her heart at this moment, if Adele's purpose was really to force Carl to turn back and help Ed get out, then her approach was obviously too stupid.
She can only gamble now, betting that Ed will not be able to hold on to herself, betting that Carl can get rid of Ed as soon as possible and then come back to help her, betting that she can hold on until that time.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Carl catch up with Eddard in the same amount of time as Adele had come to her. As Adele's sharp blade collided with her impenetrable electric whip, Carl's hand reached for Ed's back.
Then, Ed suddenly turned his head back, his neck twisting almost one hundred and eighty degrees.