Chapter 51: Surprise Attack
Swept by its gaze, Angel felt a trace of fear, which was an instinctive fear of a mysterious object she didn't understand, but she quickly suppressed her emotions and continued to swing her arms, which was the best way to deal with 2-049.
Out of the corner of her eye, Lorota's arm suddenly stopped in the air, and she hurriedly reached out to help, but the next moment, her thoughts were also quickly frozen, and her outstretched hand moved forward frame by frame like a slide in her sight, but the speed was slow, as if it would never reach.
The negative effects are now stronger than before......
The thought crossed her mind.
Crane and Borgia, on the other side of the carriage, were vigilant, and at the same time reached out to relieve Lorota and Angel of their stagnation.
"The negative effects of 2-049 are even stronger, find Rare Bieber as soon as possible, and reseal it."
Lorota, who had been rescued, let out a sigh of relief and proposed.
Standing in the center of the carriage at 2-049, the "Antigonus Puppet" saw that the humans around him were well prepared, the corners of his grinning mouth were retracted, and he regained the strange expression that had just come out of the iron box, tilted his head slightly, chose a direction, and began to walk slowly towards the corner of the carriage.
"Knock-"
Borgia knocked on the carriage, put his hand out the small window, pointed in the direction the puppet was facing, and said, "It's moving, going in that direction." ”
Leonard, outside the window, nodded, and after a few seconds, the carriage started again, winding into the path from the side of the street, heading in the direction chosen by the puppet, Borgia calling out directions from time to time to help Leonard, who was driving the carriage, adjust.
It seems that this is what 2-049 really does......
Angel watched as the Antigonus puppet shifted direction as the carriage moved, eventually pointing to the front of the carriage – meaning that the direction of travel was exactly the same.
Whenever it slowly walked to the edge of the carriage or under the seat, Borgia grabbed it back and pressed it back into the middle of the floor, often at which point the puppet would grin and grimace, causing both of the carriage to fall into negative effects at the same time, often including Borgia who grabbed it.
It doesn't seem to control the same person in a row, but now it can control two targets, and if there is a priority, it will prioritize the one it "hates the most"?
Angel mentally records the target chosen by 2-049, trying to find a pattern.
As Borgia's shoulders were about to swell, the carriage finally pulled into the docks and into a dense warehouse area.
After changing several directions to confirm, they locked on an off-white warehouse hidden deep in the complex, which was less accessible and not as lively as the one near the Tasok River.
Borgia retrieved 2-049, which ran to the side of the carriage again, and this time instead of putting it back in the middle of the carriage, instead picking up the iron box again and stuffing the puppet into the iron box.
He re-locked the mechanical switch and poured spirituality into the Sacred Emblem of the Night Maiden on the chest, sealing the seal inside the box.
During this period, 2-049 also showed a strong spirit of resistance, controlling Borgia five times, and the rest of the carriage were not spared, and Crane, the closest to Borgia, was selected three times, but there were four people in the carriage, and everyone helped each other to complete the resealing of 2-049 without danger.
Putting the box back on, Borgia breathed a sigh of relief, he was the key target of 2-049, he was patted on the shoulder no less than twenty times along the way, he was already miserable, and now he finally came to his destination, and he was naturally the most active one.
"Let's go, let's get out of the car."
He couldn't wait to carry the box containing the Antigonus puppet and "escaped" out of the car.
Leonard tied his horse to a lamppost on the side of the road, and several others followed.
Curiously, 2-049 does not seem to exert a negative effect on creatures other than humans, with horses pulling carts sneezing and waiting boredly by the lamppost, unaffected by the seal.
The group of six regrouped, swinging their arms as if they had been struck by an evil spirit, and walked towards the warehouse where Riel Bieber was hiding.
It was rush hour in the docks, and there were no workers working in the warehouse, far from the riverbank, except for the faint noise of the wind in the distance.
Angel looked around vigilantly, and since she got out of the car, she felt as if a gaze was watching her, but after looking around, there was no sign of the peeper.
"Something is wrong."
After much hesitation, she decided to say how she felt, if she was mistaken, it would only affect a little operational efficiency, but if the team was indeed followed, it meant that there might be a fierce battle next.
Dunn's gaze looked at her through his arms swinging up and down, and he nodded for a while: "It's too quiet, but we have a 'soothsayer'." ”
He turned back to Crane, who was following at the end of the line: "Crane, you divinate if there is any danger in the warehouse ahead, and if so, try to figure out the extent of the danger." ”
Lorotta and Leonard moved out of the middle of the line and sided beside Borgia to keep Klein away from the impact of 2-049.
"The Fortune Teller" Crane shook off the pendant tied to his left wrist, the silver chain drooping, and the citrine made irregular movements at the end of the chain.
After the shaking faded away, he closed his eyes and went into meditation, whispering in his mouth: "There is danger in the warehouse ahead. ”
After repeating the divination seven times, the citrine pendant in Klein's hand began to rotate in a regular circle, clockwise!
And it rotated more and more, and its strength increased rapidly, and it even had a tendency to pull Klein's arm and move together.
"There is danger, and there is no small danger." Exiting the meditation state, Klein, who opened his eyes, looked at the pendant in his hand and said, his face was a little pale, and he didn't know if it was the consumption of divination, or the result of divination was beyond his expectations.
The others looked at each other, then at the warehouse in front of them.
"Knock, knock." The 2-049 in Borgia's hand struck the iron box again, as if to remind several people that Rare Bieber was located in front of them.
"Leonard," Dunn thought for a few seconds with a frown, and then made up his mind, "You and Angel are going to find a way to get up to the roof from the back of this building, and if there's real danger in the warehouse, I'll need your remote cover." ”
He pointed to a two-story house on his right, an abandoned residential building, with broken windows on the walls facing the street, half-hidden only wooden window frames, and a faint view of pipes perpendicular to the ground on the side, which seemed easy to climb to the roof.
Importantly, there is a row of warehouse buildings on the other side of the building, and if you climb up to the roof from here, you can move along the top floor at any time, bringing the entire open space in front of the warehouse into the range of firearms. If Crane's divination was accurate, it was the right choice to arrange for the two of them to go to the roof to support them at all times.
Leonard also figured this out, he nodded, looked at Angel, and seeing that the other party did not object, he waved his hand and took the lead.
Aren't they worried that four people with 2-049 are dangerous?
Angel looked at Leonard, who had not looked back, had already walked around the corner of the residential building, and then looked at Crane, who was pinching the pendant and preparing for the next divination, and the other three people who surrounded 2-049 and helped him "block the gun", and couldn't help but be a little worried, but Dunn had already given the order, and he could only obey it.
Suppressing the uneasiness in her heart, she reached out to make sure that the holster under her arm and the pistol on the outside of her thigh were still in place, and caught up with Leonard in two steps in three steps.
Coming to the side of the residential building, Leonard had already grabbed the protruding water pipe by the wall, climbed up to the second-floor balcony about three meters above the ground, and climbed over the crumbling wooden railing of the balcony with one turn over and stood firmly on the inside of the balcony.
It seems that Dunn asked Leonard to climb the stairs for a reason, "Midnight Poet" as an upgrade of the "Sleepless" sequence, the improvement of physical coordination and melee ability is not inferior to that of "Assassin", although there are no special skills of assassins, but there is no difficulty in simply climbing over the wall and climbing the stairs.
Seeing that Leonard had already stood still, Angel also climbed up the water pipe.
Compared with the other days when she infiltrated the labor union station in the dock area, the balcony that was only three meters above the ground was a simple mode, and she used the water pipe to kick on the pipe wall with both feet, directly grabbed the protruding floor of the balcony, and climbed up with a backflip.
The balcony was supposed to lead to the bedroom on the second floor of the residence, and the floor-to-ceiling windows were also devoid of glass, exposing the messy interior, and the two did not have time to admire the dilapidated dock area, but continued to climb down the balcony to the roof.
This time Angel took the lead, stepping on the crumbling wooden balcony railing with one foot and the other kicking off the ground, her litheness leaping upwards and grabbing the edge of the roof with ease.
Unlike the sloping roofs used by residential buildings in the city, the buildings near the warehouses in the docklands have built roofs into platforms where clothes can be dried, and it is the afternoon when the sun shines on the roofs, a little undried water reflects the sunlight, and some moss can be faintly seen underwater.
The staircase leading to the top of the second floor is obscured by a rudimentary pergola, which is the only shaded area on the roof.
Looking back, Angel was about to help Leonard, who was preparing to climb, when he heard continuous, loud gunfire coming from the direction of the warehouse.
"Bang! Bang! ”
She couldn't help but look in the direction of the gunshots, but found that her vision was blocked by the roof, and she could only faintly hear shouts in that direction, as if the frontal four-person team had been attacked and was in a hurry.
"What's going on?"
Leonard, who was about to climb onto the roof, also heard the gunshot, and he had already put his foot on the railing, but at this time he didn't care about climbing, but asked anxiously with wide eyes.
"It should have been a battle ahead, and I can't see the specific situation."
Angel knew it would be useless to stay here any longer, and quickly made a judgment.
"You go down now, go back the way you came to help the captain, and I'll touch through the roof to see if I can support from above."
Without waiting for Leonard to react, she pulled out the new revolver from her arm and ran towards where the gunfire had come from.