Being swept by its gaze, Angel felt a trace of fear in her heart. This was an instinctive fear of mysterious objects she didn't understand. However, she quickly suppressed her emotions and continued to swing her arms. This was the best way to deal with 2-049.
Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that Lorotta's arm beside her suddenly stopped in the air. She quickly stretched out her hand to help, but the next moment, her thoughts were quickly frozen. The outstretched hand moved forward frame by frame like a slide in her sight, but the speed was slow, as if she would never reach it.
The negative effects are now stronger than before...
A thought flashed through her mind.
Klein and Borgia on the other side of the carriage were very alert, and at the same time they reached out to relieve Lorotta and Angel.
"The negative effects of 2-049 have become more intense. Find Ray Bieber as soon as possible and re-seal it."
The rescued Lorotta took a deep breath and suggested.
Standing in the center of the carriage, 2-049, "Antigonus Puppet" saw that the humans around him were well prepared. The corners of his grinned mouth closed again, returning to the weird expression he had just emerged from the iron box. He tilted his head slightly, chose a direction, and began to walk slowly towards the corner of the carriage.
"Dong dong——"
Borgia knocked on the carriage, stretched his hand out of the small window, pointed to the direction the puppet was facing, and said, "It moved, go in that direction."
Leonard outside the window nodded. After a few seconds, the carriage started again, going around the side of the street into the path and heading in the direction chosen by the puppet. Borgia shouted directions from time to time to help Leonard, who was driving the carriage, adjust.
It seems that this is the real function of 2-049...
Angel watched as Antigonus Puppet kept adjusting its direction while the carriage was moving, and finally pointed to the front of the carriage - which meant that the current direction of travel was completely consistent.
Whenever it slowly walks to the edge of the carriage or under the seat, Borgia will grab it back and push it back to the center of the floor. Often at this time, the puppet will grin and make faces, causing negative effects to the two people in the carriage at the same time, which often includes Borgia who caught it.
It doesn't seem to control the same person continuously, but now it can control two targets. Under the premise of order, will it give priority to controlling the one "it hates the most"?
Angel recorded the target chosen by 2-049 in his mind, trying to find a certain pattern.
When Borgia's shoulders were almost swollen from being slapped, the carriage finally drove into Docklands and arrived at a dense warehouse.
After changing several directions for confirmation, everyone locked onto a gray-white warehouse hidden deep in the building complex. It was inaccessible and not as lively as the warehouse near the Tussock River.
Borgia caught 2-049 who ran to the side of the carriage again. This time he did not put it back in the center of the carriage. Instead, he picked up the iron box again and stuffed the puppet into the iron box.
He re-locked the mechanical switch, poured Spirituality into the Evernight Goddess holy symbol on the box, and sealed the Sealed Artifact in the box.
During this period, 2-049 also showed a strong spirit of resistance and controlled Borgia five times. None of the other people in the carriage were spared. Klein, who was closest to Borgia, was selected three times. However, there were four people in the carriage. Everyone helped each other and successfully completed the re-sealing of 2-049.
After picking up the box again, Borgia breathed a sigh of relief. He was the key target of 2-049. He had been patted on the shoulder no less than twenty times along the way, which made him miserable. Now that he finally arrived at the destination, he was naturally the most active one.
"Come on, let's get off the bus."
He couldn't wait to carry the box containing Antigonus Puppet and "escaped" out of the car.
Leonard tied the horse to a lamppost on the side of the road, and several other people got out of the carriage.
The strange thing is that 2-049 does not seem to exert negative effects on other creatures except humans. The horse pulling the cart sneezed and waited boredly by the lamppost, not affected by Sealed Artifact at all.
A group of six people lined up again, waving their arms as if they were possessed by evil spirits, and walked towards the warehouse where Ray Bieber was hiding.
Now is the busy time for Docklands. There are no workers working in this warehouse far away from the river bank. Except for the faint noise coming from the wind in the distance, the surroundings of the warehouse are actually quiet.
Angel looked around with vigilance. Ever since she got off the car, she felt that there seemed to be eyes peeping at her, but she looked around and found no trace of the peepers.
"Something's wrong."
After much hesitation, she decided to tell her feelings. If she made a mistake, it would only affect the efficiency of the operation, but if the team was indeed being followed, it meant that there might be a fierce battle next.
Dunn looked at her through his arms swinging up and down, and nodded after a while. "It's indeed too quiet, but we have 'Seer'."
He turned back to greet Klein who was following the team, "Klein, please divine whether there is any danger in the warehouse ahead. If so, try to find out the degree of danger."
Lorotta and Leonard moved to the middle of the team and stood next to Borgia, keeping Klein away from the influence of 2-049.
"Seer" Klein shakes off the pendant tied to his left wrist. The silver chain hangs down and the citrine moves irregularly at the end of the chain.
After the shaking gradually disappeared, he closed his eyes and entered meditation, whispering, "There is danger in the warehouse ahead."
After repeating the divination content seven times, the citrine pendant in Klein's hand began to rotate regularly in a circle, clockwise!
Moreover, the amplitude of its rotation is getting larger and larger, and its strength is also increasing rapidly. It has a tendency to pull Klein's arm to move together.
"There is danger, and the danger is not small." Klein, who exited the meditation state and opened his eyes, looked at the pendant in his hand and said. His face was a little pale. I don't know if it was because of the consumption of divination, or because the divination result was beyond his expectation.
Several other people looked at each other and then looked at the warehouse ahead.
"Boom, boom." 2-049 in Borgia's hand knocked on the iron box again, as if to remind several people that the location of Ray Bieber was ahead.
"Leonard," Dunn frowned and thought for a few seconds before making up his mind, "You and Angel will find a way to get to the roof from behind this building. If there is indeed danger in the warehouse, I need your remote cover."
He pointed to a two-story house on the right, which was an abandoned residential building. The window glass on the wall facing the street had been broken, leaving only the wooden window frame half-covered. Pipes perpendicular to the ground could be vaguely exposed on the side. It seemed that it would not be difficult to climb to the roof.
The important thing is that the other side of the residential building is connected to a row of warehouse buildings. If you climb 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 attack range of firearms. If Klein's divination is accurate, it would be a very correct choice to arrange for the two of them to go to the rooftop to provide support at any time.
Leonard also figured this out. He nodded and looked at Angel. Seeing that the other party had no objection, he waved his hand and took the lead.
Aren't they worried that it would be dangerous for four people to carry 2-049?
Angel looked at Leonard who had not looked back and had already rounded the corner of the residential building, and then looked at Klein who was holding the pendant and preparing for the next divination, and the other three people surrounding 2-049 to help him "block the gun". He couldn't help but feel worried, but Dunn had given the order and he could only obey it.
Suppressing the uneasiness in her heart, she reached out to confirm that the holster under her arm and the pistol on the outside of her thigh were still in place, and she took three steps at a time to catch up with Leonard.
Arriving at the side of the residential building, Leonard had already grabbed the protruding water pipe on the wall, climbed up to the second floor balcony about three meters above the ground with his hands and feet, jumped over the shaky wooden railing of the balcony, and stood firmly on the inside of the balcony.
It seems that there is a reason why Dunn asked Leonard to climb the stairs. "Midnight Poet", as an upgrade of "Sleepless" Sequence, is as good as the "assassin" in improving body coordination and melee combat capabilities. Although it does not have the special skills of the assassin, it is not difficult to simply climb over the wall and climb the stairs.
Seeing that Leonard had already stood still, Angel also climbed up along the water pipe.
Compared to the Labor Mutual Aid Society station where she had sneaked into Docklands a few days ago, the balcony, which was only three meters above the ground, was in a simple mode. She used the water pipe, kicked her feet on the pipe wall, directly grabbed the protruding floor of the balcony, and climbed up with a backflip.
The balcony should lead to the bedroom on the second floor of the residence. The floor-to-ceiling windows also had no glass, exposing the messy interior. The two of them had no time to appreciate the dilapidation of Docklands, but continued to climb along the balcony to the roof.
This time, Angel took the lead. She stepped on the shaky wooden balcony railing with one foot, and kicked off the other foot from the ground. Feather Fall's body jumped upwards, and easily grabbed the edge of the roof.
Different from the sloping roofs commonly used in residential buildings in the city, Docklands these buildings near the warehouses have built platforms for drying clothes on the roof. It is afternoon, the sun is shining all over the roof, a little wet water reflects the sun, and some moss under the water can be vaguely seen.
The stairs leading to the roof from the second floor were covered by a simple pergola, making it the only shady place on the roof.
Looking back, Angel was about to help Leonard, who was preparing to climb, when he heard continuous and loud gunshots coming from the direction of the warehouse.
"Bang! Bang!"
She couldn't help but look in the direction of the gunfire, but found that her sight was blocked by the roof, and she could only vaguely hear shouts in that direction. It seemed that the four-person team in front of them had been attacked and were rushing to fight.
"What's going on?"
Leonard, who was about to climb up to the roof, also heard the gunfire. He had already put one foot on the railing, but at this time he no longer cared about climbing. Instead, he opened his eyes wide and asked anxiously.
"There should be a fight happening in the front. I can't see the specific situation."
Angel knew that staying here would be useless and made a quick judgment.
"You go down now and go back the way you came to help the captain and the others. I'll reach over from the roof to see if I can support them from above."
Without waiting for Leonard to react, she took out the new revolver under her arm and ran towards the location where the gunfire came from.