Chapter 45: Arrest in Progress
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Because Tingen was experiencing a heavy rain, the carriage wasn't moving very fast, but even so, the Nighthawks squad quickly rendezvoused with the Punishers squad.
Unlike the Nighthawks, who were held back by many things, with only Captain Dunn Smith and the complete newbie Klein participating in the operation, the Punishers squad came with a full four people, one of whom was even a Sequence 6 Wind Blessed, clearly showing how seriously they took this matter.
This wasn't strange, although the Antigonus family notebook incident belonged to the Nighthawks, they couldn't stop Ray Bieber from hiding in the Storm area. And recently, the Punishers were in a volatile state due to Lin Ruo's "prophecy," wishing they could kill all the troublemakers, so naturally they wouldn't tolerate anyone causing trouble in their territory.
Of course, the most important thing was that the Tingen Punishers squad really wasn't short of people right now—the special squad that came to investigate the Aurora Order hadn't left yet, otherwise, where would they get a Sequence 6 to support them this time?
When the two teams met, Lin Ruo had naturally already entered a state of concealment, quietly following beside Klein like a melon-eating Spectator member.
Under his gaze, the two captains huddled together to discuss the general plan for the upcoming capture operation.
As a Nighthawk of the Evernight Goddess, and a Nightmare adept at strong control, Dunn Smith naturally preferred a steady and methodical approach, suggesting they use the Nightmare's characteristics to control a wave of enemies first, and then make other plans.
The Punishers' plan was very simple—just A and it's done!
The result of combining the two was naturally that, after arriving at the destination, Dunn Smith would see if he could control a wave first, and after controlling them, the Storm Old Pigeons would go and flatten them.
If anything unexpected happened during this process, such as being discovered in advance, then they would improvise.
As for a more detailed plan, there naturally wasn't one, after all, in order not to alert the enemy, neither the Nighthawks nor the Punishers had thoroughly investigated the situation at the target's location. In this situation, apart from a general plan, it was naturally better to improvise during the battle.
After discussing the action plan, the two teams separated again—they were going to approach the house where the target was from different directions, forming a encirclement.
Soon, Dunn Smith drove the carriage to a detached villa.
"Ray Bieber and the members of the Secret Order are hiding inside…" After getting out of the carriage, Dunn Smith, hiding under the eaves of a house next to the villa, turned his head and whispered to Klein, then instructed: "Klein, divine whether there is danger inside, it would be even better if you could figure out the degree of danger."
Klein, who had already taken the revolver in his hand, nodded quickly, reached into his left sleeve, and untied the yellow crystal pendulum inside.
This was naturally what Klein had obtained from Dunn Smith after taking Lin Ruo's first class. Facts proved that Klein quite understood what it meant to apply what he had learned when it came to fleecing the sheep.
After taking down the pendulum, Klein, who had become quite proficient in divination after practicing for the past few days, immediately took action:
"There is danger inside."
"There is danger inside."
…
After chanting seven times, Klein opened his eyes and saw the yellow crystal pendant in his hand rotating clockwise, the amplitude and speed were moderate.
This indicated that there was danger inside, not high, but not low either.
Lin Ruo, who was next to him, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he saw this, this was obviously different from the situation in the original work.
In the original development, because Ray Bieber had already lost control, when Klein and the others found him, the result of the divination was naturally that the danger was very high.
And now, perhaps because of Ince's interference, or perhaps because the Secret Order had found Ray Bieber in advance and prevented him from courting death, in short, the situation had changed somewhat compared to the original work.
"Divine again whether there is danger around here." Seeing Klein's divination result, Dunn Smith pondered for a second, and then said.
Klein immediately accepted the order and was about to do another divination when a sudden loud noise interrupted his operation.
Looking in the direction of the loud noise with a slight look of astonishment, Klein discovered that it was behind the villa, which was also the direction where the Punishers were.
Did they engage?
As Klein thought this, he heard Dunn Smith next to him say: "It seems that our actions have been detected in advance, Klein, you stay here, just in case, I'll go support them!"
As a responsible captain, Dunn Smith would naturally not let Klein, a clerical worker, directly participate in the dangerous battle that followed, that would be risking Klein's life.
"Okay!" Klein nodded quickly, and once again held the revolver in his hand, he quickly adjusted the revolver's firing position, opened the device equivalent to a safety, and put himself in a state where he could shoot and hit the enemy at any time.
Because the heavy rain hadn't stopped, the visibility was not good at the moment, Klein watched Dunn Smith enter the villa nimbly, while being vigilant about possible changes around him, his ears also perked up.
He was listening to the movement coming from behind the villa, in order to judge the state of the battle.
Honestly, although it was the second time participating in a battle, Klein couldn't help but feel a little nervous at this moment.
Just then, the corner of Klein's eye caught something flying over from a distance.
It was a fist-sized orange fireball, clearly flying through the rain, but it didn't seem to be affected by the rain at all, and it smashed towards Klein at an extremely fast speed.
It must be said that this was quite unexpected, Klein almost subconsciously pounced to the side, dodging the fireball, but was stunned to find that the fireball did not cause the huge destruction as expected after hitting the wall, but instead dissipated into nothing.
Illusion… Klein immediately thought of this, and just then, ripples suddenly appeared on the wall that had been hit by the "fireball." Then a man in a black swallowtail coat and a semi-high silk top hat appeared.
However, although he was formally dressed as if attending a banquet, the man's face was painted with red, yellow, and white greasepaint, painting a "clown" look with the corners of his mouth turned up high on both sides, which had to be said to form an absurd and laughable contrast with his clothes.
Klein, who was quite aware of his close combat ability, retreated quickly when he saw this, while keeping the distance from the "clown," the gun in his hand was not put down, but instead, he almost unhesitatingly chose to shoot.
"Bang—"
The bullet left the chamber and almost easily hit the opponent. However, in the next second, the clown disappeared like the previous fireball, "swish—".
At the same time, Klein suddenly pounced to the left, a clearly visible bullet hole appeared in the position where he was originally.
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