Chapter 17: The Cicada, the Praying Mantis, and the Yellow Sparrow

Hybold twisted his wrist slightly, the mechanical snapping in the silence so clear, he unscrewed the door open, revealing a corner of darkness.

Nothing happened.

Hybold thought that the moment he unscrewed the door would be the beginning of the big war, but he didn't expect nothing to happen, and instead of letting his guard down, he became even more nervous.

If Erin's counterattack wasn't here, where would it be?

Hybod quietly walked into the room, everything was dim without the lights on, and he could only see one gloomy silhouette after another, outlining a warm room.

He wanted to keep going, but as if sensing something, Haybold leaned to the other side and ducked into the shadows.

Hurried footsteps sounded, the sound faintly muffled, but it was keenly captured by Hybod.

Someone walked through the open door, dressed in darkness and wearing a black mask on their faces, making it impossible to see their faces at all.

The smell of blood wafted through the air, and in the ascending stairwell, the trailing security guard had collapsed in a pool of blood, his throat had been cut fiercely, and there were bloody footprints on the ground.

Hybold held his breath.

Sure enough, Lorenzo was right.

Hybold began to trust the unobtrusive detective, who seemed unreliable but was really professional in his work.

Erin is not a simple woman, she is cared for by many forces, Lorenzo guesses that such a woman can live so long, there must be her own intrigues, she will weave one trap after another in the same place, waiting for those with bad intentions.

That's why it's not Lorenzo himself, Heybod is Lorenzo's stick, trying hard to scare the poisonous snakes hiding in the grass, and then Lorenzo, the real hunter, will solve everything.

Hypard remembered Lorenzo's strange tone.

The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind.

The killers looked anxious, the two scattered to search the room, and the two went straight to the bedroom, everything was moving in parallel, and the sound was cluttered in the silent space.

In the bedroom, there was a vague human figure on the bed, and the killers did not hesitate, and the sharp short knives pierced directly into the futon, and they repeatedly pierced them several times in order to kill the target completely.

But there was no blood coming out.

Lifting the quilt, there was a pile of torn pillows inside, pure white filling flying.

What about Irene?

The killers exchanged glances and carefully surveyed the room, and on the opposite side of the bed, a half-hidden wardrobe caught their attention.

One killer pointed his gun at the closet, while the other quietly approached.

Something seemed to be peeking at him through the cracks in the darkness, and he opened the closet, and the gunshots rang out.

As the wardrobe opened, the preset mechanism was triggered, the rope pulled the trigger, and the pistol above the wardrobe opened fire at this moment, and the bullet shot diagonally down from the top, and the killer was directly hit by the bullet before he had time to retreat.

The darkness obscured all this, and the burst of gunfire caused the women in the closet to whimper in fear, the sound attracting the killers, and the chaotic gunfire rang out, and the bullets repeatedly ran through the closet until blood poured out of it.

The woman died, her body lost the support of its strength, and the broken corpse was poured out of the closet and lay in a pool of blood.

There was no light in the room, and they couldn't confirm the woman's identity for a while, but it seemed to the killers that it was Irene.

She deliberately set up a disguise in bed to deceive the killers, and she hid in the closet waiting to fight back, but she was still too rash, if she didn't shoot, the killers were not ready to kill her, after all, she still had many valuable secrets in her head.

The mission is over, and the next step is to confirm the identity of the corpse.

The suppressed breathing eased, the killer gasped, and the killer who had been shot let out a moan of pain.

The killer reached out to pull the fallen colleague up, but he suddenly realized something.

Something is wrong.

He looked at the dead female corpse, and he remembered what those people had said about Irene, and now the treacherous woman had died like that, so easily.

No, what about the others?

The killer jerked to look at the others in the room, but all he saw was a majestic figure, the cold muzzle of a gun pointed at his head.

When people are nervous and stressed, they will concentrate all their attention on what is in front of them, which is good, and they will be keenly aware of any abnormalities in the target, but this is also not good, and too much concentration will cause them to ignore other things.

Like now.

At the sound of the gunshot, Haybold began his own actions, he came out of the shadows, and struck the killer in the throat with a ferocious punch, and the whole head was twisted strangely with Hybade's heavy punch, and the sound of the fall was perfectly drowned out by the gunshot, followed by the next ...... This one in the hands of Hybod.

Hybold let go of his other hand, and under his broad mind, the killer was strangled to death, and his body seemed to have his spine drained, and he fell limply to the ground.

"Put the gun down. ”

Haybade's gun was pointed at the standing killer, and the killer did not speak, but gave an answer with action.

The killer slowly placed the pistol on the ground, and the next moment the gunshot rang out.

Hypard observed all of the killers' actions, with a total of four killers infiltrating the room, two checking the room, and two assassinating Erin.

The killer who had been shot by the machine looked at Haybold in horror, his hand pressed on the gun, but he didn't dare to lift it, and the killer who had been ordered by Haybold to put down his pistol was lying in a pool of blood with the female corpse.

"I just need a live mouth...... Or half, or rather. ”

Haybold walked straight towards the wounded killer, the operation was both successful and unsuccessful, he caught a live mouth, but his main target, Erin, seemed to be dead.

He dragged the wounded killer up, but at that moment more rapid footsteps sounded, and the instinct of battle warned Haybord, and he lifted the wounded killer in front of him like a shield, and then the chaotic gunfire rang out, and countless bullets shot into the killer's body, some even piercing his body, scraping Haybord.

Throwing away the body, Haybold flashed into the side cover, not forgetting to return fire towards the door.

The killer is more than that, it is Hybod's carelessness, but it doesn't affect anything, he has already completed the task.

Irene is the cicada, Hybode is the praying mantis, and Lorenzo is the yellow finch at the rear, and Hybold has caused enough chaos that all the enemies hiding behind the scenes are revealed at this moment.

He kicked and smashed the window, which was a terrible height, but not an obstacle for Hybade.

Lorenzo needed a mantis that could fight, a mantis that was vigilant and strong, and at the same time provoked so many enemies and found a way to get out of the way.

Hybold jumped straight from the window, grabbing the bulge in the wall as he fell, as agile as an ape.

The killers burst into the room, and they were about to pursue Haybed, but the door was opened...... Another door.

The door to B521 was pushed open, and Lorenzo walked down the hallway generously, still carrying a glass of water.

The killers guarding the door noticed Lorenzo's arrival, but before they could shoot, Lorenzo threw out a glass of water and slammed it into his face.

The gunfire rang out, but it was crooked, and Lorenzo's figure snapped, instantly approaching him, and then finished off the enemy in front of him with a punch.

The punch slammed into the killer's face, a subtle sound could be heard, what seemed to be the sound of bones cracking, and he grabbed the body that was about to collapse, grabbed the killer's hand with his hand, and controlled his arm to fire at the other killer.

Staggered gunshots rang out, and there was no room for either of them to dodge at this close range, but Lorenzo was standing in front of a comatose killer.

The bullet passed by and shot Lorenzo's killer in front of him, and Lorenzo's fire killed the enemy in front of him as well.

It all happened so quickly that by the time the killer in the room reacted, Lorenzo was already standing in front of the door, and he leaned down and picked up the box that Haybold had left in front of the door of room B524.

There were also weapons, weapons for Lorenzo, and when Hybod had alarmed everyone, Lorenzo put an end to it.

"It's funny, it looks like we're not the only ones looking for Irene. ”

With the flicking of the arm, the metal popped out one by one, and the cold glow on the folding knife reflected the frightened faces in the darkness.

Erin will not sit still, she will inevitably leave traps against these pursuers, Lorenzo's original intention is to use Haybold to test these traps, and then do it herself, but she did not expect to attract another group of people.

Silence lasted only a few seconds, and the jumble of gunfire rang out again, bullets piercing through furniture and doors, heading towards Lorenzo, but something was really not a threat to the witcher.

Lorenzo moved, his speed was so incredible that the killers couldn't see him clearly, they could only see a glimmer of approaching knife light, and the bullets were easily split and shattered, bursting into bursts of sparks.

Here it comes.

Flesh and blood were so fragile that the knife easily dismembered the killer, blood and shredded flesh added to the fear, and in the darkness death had come before their eyes.

"I just need a living mouth, or half a mouth. ”

Folding knives slashed horizontally, and there were killers who tried to resist, but in the face of absolute power, their arms, waists, and necks ...... It was all so fragile, like a crazy slaughterhouse, cut to pieces by the light of a sharp knife.

The only remaining killer stared blankly, he could not have imagined that humans still had such power, blood evenly smeared the entire room, and the air was warm with a disgusting stench.

"Lorenzo!"

Eve's shout sounded, and Lorenzo turned around to see that there was still a killer at the door, who seemed to be staying downstairs, and ran up when he heard the movement, and at this moment the muzzle of the gun was aimed at Lorenzo.

But he couldn't pull the trigger.

Eve rushed out from the other side, her speed was very fast, her physique was amazing after releasing the wild, the killer didn't pay much attention to this girl with a fierce face, she didn't look threatening except for that angry look, but the next moment Eve jumped up.

In a sense, Eve was the perfect ranger, she jumped high, the killer wanted to turn the muzzle of the gun at her, but it was too late, a knee hit him in the face, this was not the end, at the same time Eve grabbed the collar of the killer, and the whole body flipped over from him with momentum.

Landing on the ground, he grabbed his collar and threw the killer hard.

Severe pain and syncope.

The internship at the Purifier wasn't long, but Eve did learn a lot from the guys, and Eve quickly turned around and ended it all with a face-smashing elbow.

She walked in slowly, breathless, and behind her was the fallen killer, his face blurred with flesh and blood, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

"Is she dead?"

Eve stood in a pool of blood and saw the dead woman among the broken corpses on the ground.

Lorenzo didn't answer Eve's question for a while, his eyes were strange, but Eve couldn't see him clearly in the darkness.

He still remembers the first time he dealt with Eve, Eve's appearance, she was like a frightened lamb, screaming and running around.

No one knows what she's been through these days, her attacks have become ferocious, and the corpses and pools of blood in this place can't interfere with her judgment.

Ah......h

Should it be said that there is a father and a daughter?

Lorenzo adjusted his mentality, the jerky policewoman was gone, and now he was in front of the old Dunling Chopping King.

"I guess so...... You look at the guy. ”

Lorenzo approached the woman's corpse, and Eve took the folding knife he handed him, the sharp head of which rested on the neck of the only surviving killer.

"You'd better hurry, Lorenzo, we're going to be hidden. ”

Eve said, she herself didn't believe it, the room was like she had just killed a pig, and the bleeding was amazing, but from what she knew about Lorenzo, he was probably ready to kill everyone who knew it.

Thinking of this, Eve looked at the half of the living mouth under her knife with a look of pity.

"No...... This is not Irene. ”

Lorenzo crouched beside the woman's corpse and said with a serious expression.

"You haven't seen her again. ”

"I know, but she's tied up, blindfolded, and the mechanism is here...... When someone opens a cabinet, they are shot. ”

Lorenzo could already imagine the image, the killers would find it when they searched the room after they had pounced in the air, and the woman in this cabinet would attract their full attention, and at this time...... This was the beginning of Erin's operation.

Hybade is Lorenzo's praying mantis, and this woman is Irene's praying mantis, and Irene, herself being both the cicada being hunted and the last yellow finch, uses herself to create this trap.

"So she expected someone to kill her in the first place, right?

Lorenzo smiled, and things got interesting.

So what are you going to do now?

More footsteps rang out all around, and they were heading towards B524, and next to it, at some point, the door of B523 had been pushed open, and the room was empty.