Near the Clock Tower, the operation team had already approached the ruins, they roughly searched the situation inside, and then reported to Carly: "At present, no personnel have been found in the ruins, and further search is difficult, do you need to continue the search?" ”

"Continue the search, the second team will go to assist, and the rest of the team will continue to be on guard around the perimeter." After hesitating, Carly ordered again.

"Roger!"

Under her orders, the second team, which had been guarding the commanding heights around the house, left its original position and headed towards the ruins of the clock tower, while two people from the nearby third team rushed to the position guarded by the second team.

It was during the short interval between the two squads that a figure that was originally hiding in a nearby house suddenly rushed out and rushed towards a certain direction.

"The third squad has taken over."

Soon after, the third team came to replace the person who rushed to the commanding height of the house, but by this time, the sudden appearance of the figure had long since disappeared.

"Stay vigilant."

As the clock ticked by, the two teams worked together to quickly search the ruins of the Clock Tower's collapse, while Carly waited quietly with her back against the wall behind her.

She really hoped that the two teams didn't find anything in the end, because that would mean that Akai Shuichi had escaped from the clock tower before the explosion, which would at least prove that he was not alive......

Having said that, Carly had been on the alert for a possible attack on Plum Wine before, but after so much time, the other party still hadn't moved at all, could it be that she had really left the neighborhood?

[No, it shouldn't be possible......]

Shaking her head, Carly denied her optimistic suspicions.

In the previous unexpected communication between the two, Meijiu's words were intentionally or unintentionally luring her to the clock tower, clearly trying to ambush her here, and the woman would never leave so simply.

She must still be lying in ambush, perhaps just waiting for the right moment.

Carly couldn't have been more convinced.

It's just that what she doesn't know is, what exactly is the woman planning to act?

Could it be that they are planning to challenge the limits of humanity and kill them all with the cooperation of several action teams?

Or is it ......

At this moment, Carly suddenly remembered the brief murmur from the communicator just now, she hadn't thought about it before, but now that she had quieted down, she felt more and more that something was wrong.

The communication equipment they used this time is a military standard, and it is impossible for that strange noise to appear from the hardware point of view, unless the signal is interfered with by some special kind or hijacked......

"Whoosh!"

Just as Carly realized this, there was a slight noise behind her, and a sudden chill was heard.

Her heart tightened and her body reacted before her brain, and Carly dodged almost instinctively sideways while looking behind her.

Almost at the same time, a dagger slashed across her cheek, shaving off a few strands of hair from her ear.

After dodging, Carly quickly backs away and tries to distance herself, but the dagger-wielding figure anticipates her movements, and continues to cling to her, swinging the dagger at her again.

A silent battle unfolded rapidly on the empty street, and the two men were extremely close together, and Carly, who was bare-handed, was completely defeated in front of the dagger-wielding figure, and was forced to retreat by the other party.

In just a few exchanges, Carly gradually realized that the other party's goal was very clear, and it was coming towards her.

The figure's movements were very light, and he even deliberately used cold weapons instead of hot weapons, just because he didn't want the action team guarding around to be attracted by the sound of gunfire.

It's just that Carly can't figure out where the other party was hiding before, not only knowing the location of the action teams she arranged around, but also quietly avoiding them and finding her location accurately?

"Hmm!"

There was no time to think about it anymore, with her back against the wall, Carly, who had been forced to retreat, fought hard, and fought for a knife in the wrist, and at the same time clasped the wrist of the figure holding the dagger, and twisted it hard, trying to remove the dagger from the figure's hand.

There was no strong resistance as expected, and as she twisted, the figure easily let go of her hand, allowing the dagger in her hand to fall to the ground.

Then, in a moment of Carly's stunnedness, the figure's other hand grasped the falling dagger and quickly swung it upward.

The figure's sudden change of tactics caught Carly off guard, and in the midst of the lightning and flint, the adrenaline rush reached out and grabbed the wrist of the hand that the figure swung at her from a tricky angle.

But at the same time, the figure's other hand also broke free of her original restriction in an instant, and pulled out a dagger from her waist again, swinging it directly at her neck.

“……”

"Huh?"

Blood continued to drip down the blade of the dagger, and looking at the scene in front of him, Plum Wine made a rather surprised look.

"You can really bear it, doesn't it hurt?"

At the moment when her dagger was about to cut the throat of the blonde woman in front of her, Carly grabbed the blade of her dagger directly with her hand in danger, and forcibly stopped the blade that was cutting at her neck.

The situation between the two at this point was that Carly was forced to retreat to the wall by a series of attacks from Plum Wine, her right hand grabbed her left wrist, and her left hand was across her neck, grabbing the dagger in her right hand.

Blood continued to drip from Carly's sliced palm, and she looked at the plum wine in front of her in pain, and it was only then that she finally had a chance to look at the figure in front of her.

Dressed in black, she wore a mask on her face to cover her face, and she could barely tell that she was a woman from her size.

"You are...... Plum wine? Carly asked, her voice trembling a little from the sharp pain in her hand.

"That's right, I'm plum wine."

Easily admitting his identity, Meijiu asked with a smile, "You are the woman who refused to talk to me on the phone before, right?"

I thought that the source that hadn't moved for half a day must be Ling, and I guessed it, it seems that my luck is really good......"

[Signal source? 】

Listening to her words, Carly finally understood how Plum Wine had managed to find her location by avoiding the people she had arranged.

The murmur in the communicator before was supposed to be the reaction of their communication signal being hijacked, and it was by comparing this that Plum Wine judged her location......

"Okay, I'm in a hurry, so I won't say anything if it's useless, and I'll ask you one last time, how did you think about what we said before? Interested in joining our organization? Seriously~"

"Impossible......"

"Okay, goodbye."

Carly didn't hesitate to answer, and Plum Wine didn't hesitate to raise her knee and slam Carly in the abdomen, then took advantage of the pain to let go, broke free of her hand that was clasping her left wrist, swung the dagger, and stabbed her in the neck.

"Phew!"

At this moment, the sound of gunfire suddenly rang out behind him.

I don't want to code words, I really want to lie flat (『)

(End of chapter)