Chapter 57: Picking up the Pieces
Dressed in a tattered coat, black hair that has been blown up and messy, and a strange posture of "bending your knees and pouting...... Leonard couldn't connect this corpse with the extraordinary members of the "Esoteric Order" who had come and gone without a trace before.
"Dead? How so? ”
Surprised that the tuxedo clown, who had just been walking under the guns of the crowd and was still at ease in the face of many night watchers, had turned into a corpse, Leonard wiped the blood from the corners of his eyes, and prepared to approach to take a closer look.
"Be careful, 2-049 is right next to you, don't get too close."
Angel reminded him.
“2-049…… Hmm, he was affected by the negative effects of the seal, so he couldn't escape? ”
Leonard frowned, muttering to himself, he tilted his head, thought for a moment, and continued to ask:
"But he is a member of the 'Esoteric Order', and he should know a lot about Antigonus puppets, how could he strayed into the area of influence of the seal? Even we don't make such low-level mistakes. ”
"He does know the seal well and has been avoiding its reach, but he has a mission just like us to steal the notebook, so he lingers around the scene. I teamed up with Klein and used this to push him into 2-049 debuff range. ”
Angel doesn't hide Crane's crucial help in killing the Tuxedo Joker, but doesn't mention that he was able to undo the effects of 2-049 on his own.
After all, this matter is just a conclusion drawn from his own observations, and there is no conclusive evidence, so he can only be put aside for the time being.
Besides, who doesn't have a little secret?
Leonard still seems to have a stomach problem, his eyes moving back and forth between the body of the tuxedo clown, the seal 2-049, and Angel, and his green pupils are full of doubt.
Seeing this, Angel pointed to Klein, who was helping Dunn up and looking for something in his pocket, and said, "It seems that Crane is also looking for the 'Goddess's Gaze', do you still have it?" ”
"No, there's only one bottle per person, do you think that's some bargain?"
Patting his empty pocket, Leonard replied with a wry smile.
"I'll go check on Borgia, if they share a bottle, there might be leftovers."
He walked towards the duo of Beckland Nightwatch, who were already helping each other to their feet, and Angel came to Klein's side and helped him to his feet.
"Captain, there's no blue metal bottle in the inner bag."
Klein scoured all of Dunn Smith's pockets, but could not find what the latter described as a "finger-long sky-blue metal vial".
"Probably...... I forgot to bring it, it's okay...... I'll take a break...... You go...... and others...... Found the note......"
Dunn spoke slowly, word by word, and sat up with the help of the two of them, one hand on the ground, the other touching the back of the head that had just been hit by the bombing, where there seemed to be a large bulging bag.
Forgot to bring your medicine...... This is the captain I know......
Angel sneered, seeing that Dunn was still struggling to stand up, he hurriedly replied: "Captain, the notes have been retrieved, Leonard went to Borgiana to find out if there is still a 'goddess's gaze', you can sit down and rest for a while." ”
Hearing Angel's answer, Dunn's sloppy gaze focused on her face, and it seemed that it took a few seconds to recognize it.
“…… You are............ Miss Granger......"
Could it be that he hit his head and had a memory problem?
Angel looked at Klein on the other side and found the same concern in his eyes.
Fortunately, Leonard soon came from Borgia's side, still holding a sky-blue metal vial in his hand - "The Gaze of the Goddess".
"Luckily, I was able to get half a bottle from Ms. Lorota's mouth, but that's enough...... Captain, don't you mind? ”
Dunn took the potion handed over by Leonard, not caring that the metal bottle had been used by others, and raised it to his mouth and drank it down. In just a few seconds, the confused gray eyes regained their brightness, and the headache was not relieved, but he no longer covered the back of his head.
"Sorry, I forgot to bring the potion out."
Shaking his head, he didn't use others, he stood up by himself, his eyes swept over the audience, and quickly determined the situation.
“…… I didn't take into account that the runaway Rare Bieber would explode after the note left his body, and it would be so powerful......"
He frowned at the spilled "Riel Bieber", then moved his gaze to the seal 2-049 in the field and the note of Antigonus next to it.
"Thankfully, the notes have been found, and the seals have not been lost. 2-049' needs to be resealed as soon as possible, and then brought back to the 'Chanis Gate' for preservation until it is returned to the Diocese of Beckland, as are the notes of the House of Antigonus. The 'Esoteric Order' dispatched the Extraordinaires of the Medium Order to snatch the note, and we underestimated the importance of this item to them. ”
"As for the Extraordinary One of the 'Esoteric Order'......"
"Dead," Leonard replied quickly, "the two of them did it." ”
He pointed to Angel and Klein.
Dunn raised an eyebrow, and it was only then that he recognized the body of the "Tuxedo Clown" whose tuxedo had been shattered.
"Well done, but I'll tell me more about how you did it later."
The Night Watch who regrouped their teammates dared to come within the area of 2-049's negative effects, and as expected, the surrounding area was full of fragments of the corpse of Riel Bieber, a descendant of the Antigonus family, and the seal was still in a "berserk" state. Dunn and Borgia, who were within five meters first, were instantly favored by the negative effects, and their flexion and extension arms slowly stopped, and they entered a state of stagnation.
Klein and Leonard, who were following behind, hurriedly patted the two on the shoulder and helped them uncontrol.
Most of the Antigonus puppet had crawled out of the cracked iron box, and its arms wrapped in brown cloth waved towards the Antigonus family notes not far away.
Borgia grabbed the puppet and opened the iron box and stuffed it back, despite the angry expression on its oil-painted face.
In the short process, 2-049 controlled four more people, but all of them were relieved of the effect by the vigilant night watchmen helping each other.
Closing the locks on the iron chest, Borgia reactivated the emblem of the Lady of the Night on the chest, and the invisible wall of spirituality re-encircled the cracked iron chest.
"It's a good thing the emblem hasn't been destroyed, otherwise it would have been difficult for us to bring it back to the 'Chanis Gate.'"
Borgia breathed a sigh of relief and said as he looked at 2-049, who had become quiet again.
"Let's put it a little farther away, we still have a lot of work to do."
Dunn Smith commanded, picking up the foul Antigonus family notes that had fallen on the ground, shaking the dirt off the cover, opening the black crust cover, and looking through it roughly.
"That's right, this is it. Later we will take it back and place it with 2-049 at the 'Chanis Gate' before being brought back to Beckland by Borgia and Lorotta. ”
Quickly confirming the authenticity of the notes, Dunn closed the cover and clipped the notes under his armpit despite the dirt.
Lorota, who was lightly injured, was kept outside, guarding outside the seal's area of effect to prevent bystanders from approaching the scene. The rest of the group went into the warehouse with Dunn to search, but unfortunately there was nothing special to be found in the gloomy warehouse except for a pile of human remains that had been chewed up.
"It looks like there was more than one victim."
Leonard pretended to be calm, but his pale face was obviously not caused by more than just blood loss, and the other people did not look good, and the smell of fish in the warehouse made people not want to stay for long.
Leaving the warehouse with no search value, the group returned to the open space outside the door, and under Dunn's leadership, they began to carefully search each piece of land, centering on the location of Rare Bieber's explosion.
"What are we looking for?" Crane asked puzzledly.
"The extraordinary substance, or material, that Riel Bieber left behind." Leonard kicked away a piece of dirt-stained meat and replied casually.
"Before he mutated, he should have used the power of notes to try to get promoted, whether he succeeded or failed, a certain part of his body after death will be rich in extraordinary power within the collective."
"Like Lady Sharon before her?" Angel listened carefully and couldn't help but interject.
She remembered the mysterious eyeball-like object that appeared next to Mrs. Sharon after her death.
After death, mutated monsters will also precipitate extraordinary characteristics like extraordinary beings?
"That's right, later...... Ah, found it. ”
Dunn Smith was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly walked forward briskly and crouched down beside a clearing, while the rest of the group moved closer.
Among the various parts of Riel Bieber, a palm-sized gray-white mass lay silently, like the bodily fluids that flowed from the previous bullet hitting the mutated monster, but more compact, with a bumpy surface and ravines, like magnified walnuts, or ...... Shrinking brain.
"That's it."
Dunn tried to grasp the object with his gloved right hand, but the gray substance appeared to be solid, but the substance was like a liquid, and the parts that came into contact quickly spread out, dripping between his fingers, and congealing again.
"Who has a cigarette case? Or a bullet box? After several unsuccessful attempts, he looked up and asked a few people around him.
Angel had only received the bullet from Old Neil early this morning, and the metal box containing the demon hunting bullet was still on his body, and he hurriedly took it out and handed it to Dunn.
With the container in hand, Dunn picked up the gray substance again and tossed it into a metal box for storage before it dripped down.
Carefully putting away the box containing Rare Bieber's "extraordinary materials", Dunn stood up again, and said to several people, especially the new Angel and Klein:
"If you encounter something similar during a mission, or kill an extraordinary person, don't miss these objects, they may become some kind of spiritually rich material, or a clue to a case, but once ordinary people come into contact with them, it often means another case involving extraordinary powers."
Angel's breath faltered, and she remembered the "assassin" she had just killed on the rooftop, and due to the urgency of the situation, she had no time to dispose of the corpse, and threw it on the roof of the building to be exposed to the sun.