Klein was lifted up and rolled out of the range of 2-049. Angel's pain nerves, which had been delayed by adrenaline, felt the burning pain coming from his left shoulder.
Not caring about dealing with the still bleeding wound, she held the gun and came five meters away from 2-049 and the clown controlled by it.
The Sealed Artifact just showed its terrifying dominance. After Klein squatted down, he put his hands on the ground and kicked in a circle, kicking 2-049 towards the clown behind him. 2-049 did not disappoint the two of them. It exerted a negative influence on the clown the moment he entered the area of influence. The clown with countless escape abilities did not even snap his fingers.
Angel didn't want to go over and experience this effect together. She stood outside Sealed Artifact's range of influence, raised her pistol, and aimed at the stiff clown. The latter maintained a funny posture with one hand on his shoulder and pinched his thumb and middle finger with the other. His eyes tracked Angel in an extremely slow motion, but soon the look in his eyes disappeared and he no longer responded to external stimuli.
Dunn and others did not tell her what she would look like after being completely controlled by 2-049. She might remain in the same posture until she died, or she might become Antigonus Puppet's "puppet" to realize its wish to find a descendant of the family.
But she didn't dare to gamble.
Tuxedo Clown's many strange and powerful abilities allow him to survive under the siege of many Nighthawks. If he were not controlled by 2-049, he would probably have a few more s. There is nothing Angel and Klein can do against him. If the other party really has any means of getting out of trouble, or starts acting again under the control of Sealed Artifact, the consequences will be unacceptable to her.
After thinking about this, Angel aimed at the clown's head without hesitation, instead of other non-fatal locations.
Before shooting, she tilted her head and looked at Klein beside her.
Seeing that the other party made no objection, she simply pulled the trigger.
If it was a conventional attack, Angel would first hit the chest with the highest hit rate, and then shoot again in the head. But the clown was like a living target at this time, so she shot directly at the head, twice in a row.
Just like the clown's threat to her just now: cut a hole in Klein's head.
Demon Hunter Bullet is very worthy of its price, and the 0.38-inch caliber is also powerful. Two bullets penetrated the clown's forehead one after another, leaving two finger-sized bullet holes. When they passed through the occipital area, they had expanded to two fist-sized horrific wounds, knocking away most of the occipital bone, and taking away a lot of brain tissue.
Without checking, Angel also knew that this guy was dead.
2-049 seemed to have no interest in inanimate targets. The clown's lifeless body was freed from the negative effects of Sealed Artifact. He knelt on his knees, bent forward, and collapsed softly to the ground. The dark red blood mixed with sand and gravel quickly dyed the Earth Mother under his feet red.
Along with it, Angel felt a sense of relief.
From Cole Granger's memory, she learned that this was not the feeling of relief after defeating the enemy, but the "digestion" of "assassin" Potion.
This feeling also appeared when she killed Madam Sharon, but she had just experienced a tense battle and had no time to care about it, let alone think about it.
But after killing two Beyonders in succession today, her intuition told her that the Potions in her body might be just one step away from being completely "digested".
But the role of an assassin should not be so simple...
Putting aside the doubts in his heart for the time being, Angel turned to look at Klein, who stared blankly at the dead Tuxedo Clown, then looked away, frowning, and seemed a little uncomfortable.
"You're not hurt, are you?"
Angel asked curiously while reloading the pistol.
Klein shook his head. "It's just that I'm still a little uncomfortable with it. It's my first time to see a dead person so close. Just now..."
He looked at 2-049 next to the clown's body with some fear.
"... When I was controlled by Sealed Artifact just now, I really thought I would die like this. Fortunately, it seemed that the guy shot at my feet, and the sand and gravel splashed on my legs. Maybe for this reason, I was awakened from the negative effects..."
Can he really be awakened from the control of 2-049 without personal contact?
Angel looked at Klein in confusion until the latter looked away guiltily.
"Let's just treat it like this. Let's go see the captain and the others first."
Angel did not pursue the case in the end, although she was indeed curious about how Klein got rid of 2-049's control on its own, but it was definitely not the reason he said.
But now other Nighthawks are lying on the ground, in urgent need of rescue, and she can only ask about this matter when she is free.
As for the focus of the battle, the notebook of the Antigonus Family is still lying quietly within the scope of influence of 2-049. The two of them have a tacit understanding, and no one mentions venturing into the scope of influence to retrieve the notebook.
Anyway, when everyone is rescued, neither the note nor Sealed Artifact can escape.
Bypassing the center of the explosion and coming to the other corner of the open space, Angel approached Leonard who was groaning and opening his eyes.
She was relieved to see that Leonard had regained consciousness even though her face was covered in blood.
After just a few minutes of battle of wits with the clown, she was actually quite afraid that these teammates would die from serious injuries, but it seemed that no matter which Sequence or Potion they were, they had a certain strengthening effect on the body. Although several people were staggering around, either unconscious or bleeding from the mouth and nose, they were all still alive.
Looking at Klein not far away, he was helping Dunn Smith, trying to wake him up with his head shaking. In the other direction, Borgia struggled to get up, took out a small bottle from his pocket and handed it to Lorotta who was lying aside.
She also handed her hand to Leonard.
"Want to help?"
The green-eyed poet lay on his back with confused eyes, looking around as if he had just woken up from sleep, and finally focused on Angel's face.
"Is this... Ray Bieber just exploded?"
He seemed to have just remembered what happened before he fell into coma, stretched out his hand to Angel, and asked slowly.
"Yes, you were all knocked unconscious, but fortunately none of your lives are in danger, well, probably not."
Angel grabbed Leonard's hand and pulled him up from the ground. The latter shook a few times before he stood firm while holding on to the wooden box next to him.
Taking off his tattered gloves, Leonard took out a sky blue metal vial from the inner pocket of his windbreaker, shook the bottle, unscrewed the cap, and was about to take a gulp when he saw Angel beside him looking at the bottle curiously, and then put down his hand.
"Are you injured? If it's serious, I'll give you half. If you can continue to move, don't drink it. The side effects will be serious."
"What kind of medicine is this?"
Angel was really curious. She found that the bottle Borgia handed to Lorotta was also a bottle like this. It seemed to be a drug commonly used by Nighthawks. Maybe it was added for a short time, and Dunn or Old Neil had not informed her.
"'Goddess's Gaze', a standard medicine of the church, has a certain therapeutic effect, but it mainly squeezes the body's potential and maintains the best fighting condition. However, after the effect, it will become weaker and requires timely treatment."
Leonard explained patiently, holding the blue vial carefully as if protecting a precious treasure.
But for the injured Nighthawks, "Goddess's Gaze" is indeed a treasure.
"Then I don't need it for the time being. I only have, um, a gunshot wound to my left shoulder. Spirituality is a little worn out, but my physical condition is fine." Angel was not ready to take this "Goddess's Gaze" when he heard there were side effects. The injury on his shoulder was not serious, so he just left it alone and dealt with it slowly when he got back.
Moreover, she did not consume much Spirituality in the entire battle. On the one hand, the "Assassin" lacked the high consumption and high profit capabilities of other Sequence 9. On the other hand, she also found that her body's strength, speed, and Spirituality "reserves" were higher than she remembered when Cole Granger was still an Sequence 9 "Assassin".
This may be consistent with her previous speculation - this body still retains a considerable part of the power of Sequence 7 "Witch".
Leonard drank the entire bottle of "Goddess's Gaze" in one gulp and regained his energy at a speed visible to the naked eye. His pale face became rosy after blood loss, but it looked a little too rosy, like congestion after strenuous exercise.
He smacked his lips, screwed the cap on the empty bottle and put it back in his pocket.
"Let's go see the captain and the others. It seems like Ray Bieber can't put together a complete look, but the 'Secret Order' member may come back at any time. We'd better leave as soon as possible with the notes of Sealed Artifact and Antigonus Family."
Hearing a somewhat familiar term, Angel asked curiously, "Secret Order?"
"An ancient organization, founded in Fourth Epoch, is related to Fallen Noble of the Solomon Empire. The notebook we are looking for was accidentally lost by them." Leonard looked a little cautious, "He They hide in the shadows and are usually hard to find, but they are often very difficult to deal with. The guy in the tuxedo who attacked us first and harassed us while fighting Ray Bieber, the one with the oil paint on his face, is a member of 'Secret Order'."
"He should be from Mid Sequence. He has weird abilities. In our current state, we will probably suffer a loss against him. If the notes are taken away by him, then today's mission will be in vain."
Mid Sequence, then at least it is Beyonder of Sequence 7...
Angel secretly recalled the knowledge about Sequence classification, Sequence 9 and Sequence 8, that is, herself and Leonard, are called Low Sequence; going up is Mid Sequence, including Sequence 7, Sequence 6 and Sequence 5; starting from Sequence 4, going up is the strong one of High Sequence.
Angel has seen several Mid Sequence Beyonder, Dunn Smith, Daly Simone and the dead Sharon Khoy. All of them are Beyonder who possess various powerful and strange abilities.
From this point of view, Tuxedo Clown, as another Mid Sequence, does have many unique Beyonder Abilitys. What she has seen is shooting invisible bullets by snapping her fingers, disappearing and appearing from the flames, hiding her body and moving secretly, and turning into Paper Figurine to avoid damage when being blown away.
Finally, with a touch of his palm, the fatal injury on the chest was moved to a non-lethal position like the shoulder.
If he hadn't been entangled with Angel and Klein for a long time at the edge of the 2-049 range in order to snatch Antigonus Family Notebook, and was finally accidentally controlled by the negative effects of Sealed Artifact, he would never have died here so easily.
"By the way, speaking of notes, have you found where you dropped it?"
Leonard took a few steps, suddenly thought of the mission goal, and turned back to ask Angel.
"Ms. Lorotta has just found it out of Ray Bieber's body, but now it is within the control of Sealed Artifact. We have to call someone to take it out together."
Following Angel's gaze, Leonard looked at the cracked iron box in the center of the open space, and sure enough, he found the ancient cover notebook stained with Ray Bieber's body fluids not far away.
And Tuxedo Clown, with his knees bent, hips raised, and his upper body lying on the ground, showing an inelegant posture.
"Well... who is the person lying next to him? He was killed by 2-049... No, he has been..."
Leonard quickly scanned the surroundings and found that several people traveling with him were there. Then he squinted his eyes and observed the corpse next to Sealed Artifact.
"If the 'Secret Order member' you are talking about is the clown in the tuxedo, then there should be no need to worry about him leaving and coming back."
Angel pointed at the clown's body.
"He's dead."