Chapter 18: The Death of Lady Sharon
Seeing that Dali did not splash blood on the spot, but activated the psychic in time to restrain Mrs. Sharon, Angel's heart, which was about to jump out of her throat, finally fell back to her chest.
Leonard, who maintained a charging forward posture on the side, also broke free from the silk thread and stumbled forward, almost falling.
"It doesn't seem like it's been twenty seconds, right?"
Angel asks Daly that according to her calculations, only half of the time has passed at most.
Mrs. Sharon took the initiative to eat a bullet and used the mirror stand-in to move to Dalie's side, originally thought that Dali, who was still psychic, had no ability to resist, but she didn't expect her to activate the psychic effect in advance, making Mrs. Sharon, who had thrown herself into the net, look like a clown.
"Heh, I lied to her, ten seconds is enough."
Dai Li's eyeshadow and blush, after two consecutive psychic spells, squeezed out a smile on her somewhat pale face.
"Hurry up and get rid of her, although the black fire is useless to the spirit this time, I'm afraid she has other means."
Angel didn't stop her hand movements during the conversation, she quickly stuffed the last five "Storm Convergence" into the bomb nest, and walked quickly to Mrs. Sharron, who was frozen in place.
"Whoa—"
The first thing that came was not Angel's gunshot, but the sound of broken mirrors, and Leonard directly picked up a chair and smashed the remaining decorative mirrors in the reception room one by one.
Seeing that the mirrors in the room had all shattered into pieces less than the size of a palm, Angel raised her pistol and put the muzzle of the gun against Mrs. Sharon's forehead.
Mrs. Sharon's angry and frightened expression suddenly calmed down, her pale red lips turned pitch black, and the brown of her eyes spread to the whites of her eyes like a calm lake.
Black flames erupted from Lady Sharon, enveloping her from head to toe, and then bits of hoarfrost appeared in the black flames, quickly spreading into ice cubes that covered her body like ice coffins.
Originally invisible silk threads appeared in the air, wrapping the ice layer by layer, forming a cocoon-like object, and the surrounding temperature dropped sharply, and the whole room seemed to fast forward to winter.
All this happened in an instant, Angel thought that Mrs. Sharon had attacked again, so she took two steps back in fright, blocking Daly, Leonard also rushed over with a chair, and several people surrounded the "cocoon" in the middle.
But the "cocoon" did not make any next move, but quietly stood in place.
Leonard frowned suspiciously at first, and then as if he remembered something, his face changed drastically, and he quickly said, "This is her trying to lift the curse of Lady Dalie, and kill her quickly." ”
Angel immediately raised his gun to shoot, and a "storm convergence" hit the "cocoon", and the bullet successfully tore through the silk thread wrapped around the outer layer, but it was blocked by the solid ice, and the bullet smashed a dent in the ice and shattered, leaving only a light blue mark.
This is the "Storm Convergence" trait, and as long as you continue to attack towards the same position, the next few bullets will do more and more damage.
"Wait, don't waste bullets just yet."
Leonard reached out to stop Angel from continuing his attack and turned his head to Daly to the side.
"Ms. Dali, please find its weakness."
Daly nodded, her green eyes quickly turning gray, like a layer of mist, and then transparent.
Staring at the "cocoon" with these special eyes for only a second, Dai Li pointed at the position of the height almost to Angel's waist with her hand: "This height, shoot straight, and behind it is her head." ”
At this time, the silk thread outside the "cocoon" was already showing signs of loosening, and it might not take a few seconds for Lady Sharon to lift the curse and get out of trouble.
Crouching down slightly and lowering the muzzle, Angel aimed at the position indicated by Daly and pulled the trigger again.
"Bang!"
The first "storm converges", leaving blue bullet marks on the ice.
"Bang! Bang! The next two bullets hit the exact spot of the bullet marks, and the stacked damage had an effect, and the solid ice broke a small notch behind the white forehead beneath Mrs. Sharron's brown hair.
Goodbye, Sharon Hoy, let's go down there and be with Cole...... Silently saying goodbye to Mrs. Sharon in her heart, Angel pulled the trigger and fired the last "Storm Convergence".
As if detonated from within, the "cocoon" of ice and silk threads burst open, and black flames poured out of the cocoon, drifting away.
Mrs. Sharon knelt in the position of the original "cocoon", her beautiful face overlapped with the scene in Angel's memory, and the large-caliber bullet shot into her forehead, flying out of the back of her head, and spilling down in a fan shape with a rain of blood, leaving only half of the head of the body to lie backwards with the impact force, and collapsed limply on the ground.
If the last bullet hadn't killed Mrs. Sharon, it would be an even tougher battle......
Angel breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that his right hand holding the pistol was trembling slightly, and he continued to fire the powerful "Storm Convergence", and even his body strengthened by potions was overwhelmed.
Dai Li behind her sat directly on the ground regardless of her image, and after continuous psychic, her face was pale, her eyes were blank, and she seemed to faint at any time.
Seeing this, Angel hurriedly worked with Leonard to help the biggest "hero" of this battle to the only intact sofa in the room.
"I'm fine, it's just that the spiritual wear is too great, just rest for a while."
Although Dalie said this, Angel's pale face and lips that could not be covered by blush still made Angel a little worried, and she simply left the sofa, gave up her position, and laid Dali flat for her to lie down and rest.
Leonard seemed to have seen too much of this, he took off his trench coat and put it over Dalie, who fell into a deep sleep as soon as his head was on the sofa, walked back to the battlefield just now, picked up the revolver, and returned to Mrs. Sharon's graceful but brain-opening corpse.
"I'm so lucky." After a long silence, he squeezed out a sentence.
Angel was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what he meant.
"Indeed, I am so lucky." She also sighed.
An extraordinary person in Sequence 6, under the first sneak attack, not only did not kill anyone present, but was even counter-killed with the cooperation of several people, in the final analysis, it was Mrs. Sharon's own lack of preparation.
But Mrs. Sharon was fully prepared, brought a firearm, and shot decisively after the silk thread entanglement took effect, and the few people present did not have the almost scoundrel defense ability of a mirror stand-in, and if they were controlled by the silk thread and could not dodge, Mrs. Sharon would kill whoever she wanted.
Maybe it's overconfidence, maybe it's a hasty decision, or maybe it's to be able to continue to manage Angel's image after secretly killing her. Lady Sharon arrived at the Nightwatcher's stronghold with a dagger and tried to control the crowd through invisible threads, then quietly killed the target in stealth and escaped.
It's a pity that although the combined strength of everyone present is not as good as her, the cooperation between various extraordinary abilities has formed a joint force, not only quickly breaking the shackles of the silk thread on everyone, but also launching a counterattack against her.
Angel's suppression of stealth abilities, Leonard's lullaby and combat support, and most importantly Dalie's "psychic" abilities, twice controlled Mrs. Sharon, allowing everyone to finally get a chance and kill her.
Looking at Dalie Simone, who was in a deep sleep, Angel guessed that she probably had the strength to approach Sequence 6, otherwise it would be difficult for her to control or even curse Lady Sharon in Sequence 6 by driving the invisible spirits with the cooperation of others.
"It's a pity that Lady Daly is spiritually exhausted and can't channel the dead Lady Sharon, otherwise we might know the reason why she attacked here."
Leonard, crouching next to Mrs. Sharon's corpse, said with a frown, he was inspecting Mrs. Sharon's clothing pocket with gloves on, and found nothing meaningful except for the dagger that no longer burned black flames and a small mirror the size of a palm smeared with an unknown dark red liquid.
"Psychic? Is it okay with the dead? Angel wondered.
"Of course, for psychics, the dead are more useful than the living, didn't you also see the role of spirits just now?" Leonard picked up the dagger and left the corner of the bloody room to return to the couch.
"As the 'psychic' of Sequence 7, as long as the death time is less than an hour, and the spirit body is not damaged by extraordinary powers, the information she can obtain will be quite complete. But in her current state, she will definitely not risk continuing to channel, which will most likely lead to a loss of control. ”
It turns out that "psychic" is really the name of Dalie's potion, and it is Sequence 7, no wonder she was able to restrain Lady Sharon in Sequence 6 for a short time...... Angel thought silently, and she kept the keyword "out of control" in her heart.
No, it turns out that the "psychic" can talk to the dead, so killing Mrs. Sharon actually doesn't achieve the effect of killing people?
Thinking of this, Angel suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, she looked at Dai Li lying on the sofa, and felt a little lucky, the only person who can psychic here has dried up spiritually, and it seems that it is impossible to psychic in a short period of time. According to Leonard, the best time window for channeling is within an hour, and as long as Dali does not return to a psychic state during this time, then she is considered safe.
But in this way, why didn't Dunn Smith consider bringing Dalie with him when planning the operation, isn't this trait of "psychic" very useful in the process of capturing outlaws like Mrs. Sharon?
Angel asked this question, and Leonard's originally tense face became relaxed, even with a hint of gossip on his face.
"You don't know the relationship between the captain and Ms. Dalie, do you?"
How could I possibly know......
Angel was stunned for a moment and shook her head.
Leonard gave a careful look at the sleeping Daly to make sure she hadn't woken up before continuing to whisper:
"Actually, the captain has always liked Ms. Dai Li, he pretended not to care, but when he taught us, he always used her as a teaching material, and he never separated from 'how Dai Li is'. If I want to see it, Lady Daly is actually a little interesting to the captain, who is based in the port of Nmatt and needs to apply to the Templar every time she leaves, but she often comes to Tingen. Of course, there are all kinds of reasons, to assist in the investigation, to escort the seals, etc., but unfortunately they can't escape my observation...... Speaking of your question, in fact, channeling against cults like the 'Witch Sect' is very risky......"
Leonard's gossip was interrupted by a loud noise downstairs, and he nervously craned his neck, only to listen carefully to realize that it was not Dunn and the others, but several police officers questioning passers-by.
"It should be that the residents next to me heard the gunshots and reported the incident to the police station, and there is a policeman downstairs that I am somewhat familiar with, and he is a patrol officer in this neighborhood."
Leonard peeked down from the window, observed for a moment, and came to a conclusion.
He retracted his pistol from his armpit holster, walked towards the door of the reception room, thought for a moment and returned to Mrs. Sharon's body, ripped the tablecloth that had fallen on the floor, and covered her horrific head with the entire upper half of her body.
"I'll go down there to deal with the police, I can't let them come up for the time being, Mrs. Sharon is a celebrity in Tingen City, it's better to wait for the captain to communicate with the above before announcing the death."
He explained to Angel.
Angel nodded, as the most famous courtesan in Tingen City, Mrs. Sharon has a close relationship with many dignitaries, if you know that she is not only an extraordinary person, but also a member of the witch sect, these people will probably not be able to sleep tonight.
The noise downstairs suddenly disappeared, as if the sound was just a hallucination of the two people upstairs, Angel and Leonard glanced at each other, and Leonard turned back from the door and looked out the window again.