After agreeing to Klein's Invitation out of impulse, Angel regretted it not long after.
Carefully recalling the details of the conversation, she discovered that Klein's purpose might simply be to thank her for his help in the battle and to help "lie" and hide some facts.
Rather than the "confession conference" she imagined.
But since he has verbally agreed, Angel has no intention of going back on his word, and just treats it as a social interaction between colleagues...
She comforted herself in her heart like this.
After solving the "Antigonus Family Notebook" incident, Tingen City's Nighthawks team had nothing to do for a while. Apart from routine patrols and duties, most of the members were in the lounge or reception room, reading newspapers or chatting.
Angel has only become a formal member this week and has not yet been assigned the task of rotating "Chanis Gate". Originally, today's arrangement was to inspect North Borough with Ms. Royale Cemetery on the outskirts, but Royale drove Backlund's Nighthawks team to Steam Train Station in a carriage and never came back.
Not wanting to waste time waiting, Angel went to the basement of the station, received some alchemy materials and pistol bullets from Old Neil, and started making special ammunition in the dim Alchemy Room.
After joining Nighthawks and being issued "Demon Hunter Bullet", her demand for "Storm Convergence" ammunition is no longer great. Although the latter's penetration and damage are stronger than the standard Demon Hunter Bullet, its production is time-consuming and laborious, and it also wastes precious Beyonder Ingredients in the warehouse. She rarely makes it these days.
In contrast, during yesterday's battle with Tuxedo Clown, she urgently felt the need to carry auxiliary bullets like "Phantom Phosphor Eruption" with her.
Among the Beyonder in this world, the ability to hide one's body shape is not uncommon. At least the ones she has seen include "Witch" Madam Sharon, and the unknown Sequence Tuxedo Clown.
Needless to say, the invisibility ability helps in combat, and "Phantom Phosphor Eruption", which can spread light powder that makes them invisible, is the best countermeasure.
After preparing the materials in Alchemy Room, Angel started making "Phantom Phosphor Eruption" with ease.
Heat the bullet to melt the adhesive, remove the warhead and discard it. Pour out all the propellant shells and use liquid wax for preliminary surface treatment. Then use a ceremonial knife to carefully carve complex runes and prayers, and finally draw the holy emblem of Evernight Goddess.
Although Church of Evernight did not ask her to hand over the production method of special bullets and only collected some samples, Angel still made preparations in advance, so she did not use English prayers, but used the "localized" Hermes Script instead.
Soak the treated cartridge case into the prepared Etching Fluid. The acidic liquid will soon corrode the unprotected nicks into deep ravines. Then fill these dents with the essence of Screaming Grass, and you can make Charm to store Spirituality.
After making a batch of etched cartridge cases, Angel mixed the Luminous Lizard scale powder processed by Nitric Acid, Calcium Carbide and propellant, and reloaded it into the cartridge case. The warhead could not use hard copper-coated lead bullets, but a soft warhead that was mixed with wax after similar treatment to propellant.
This kind of warhead will quickly burn and explode in the air after being launched, spreading Phantom Phosphor Powder all over the entire area, making the enemies inside reveal themselves.
Not much Spirituality is needed to make "Phantom Phosphor Eruption", but the process is complicated and the manufacturing success rate is low, especially the part where Charm is engraved and etched on the cartridge case. If you are not careful, the entire cartridge case will be scrapped and you will have to start over.
Maybe it was being made in an unfamiliar working environment, or maybe she was distracted due to too many distracting thoughts in her mind. The discarded bullet casings had piled up into a hill, and only a few of them were successful. Most of them were small-caliber ammunition, but there were still a lot of 0.45-inch bullets on hand that were not consumed. She also made a few large-caliber ones.
There seemed to be a slight conversation outside the door. Angel subconsciously tilted his head to listen. With a shake of the ceremonial knife in his hand, Night Emblem had an ugly scratch across Crimson Moon, and another surface-treated bullet case was scrapped.
Listening to the conversation getting closer, she sighed secretly. She probably wouldn't be able to continue working today.
Pour the turbid Etching Fluid into the sewer, throw the discarded shells and materials into the trash can, and put the equipment away in categories. She carefully wrapped the finished "Phantom Phosphor Eruption" in oil paper and put it into the metal bullet box, rubbed her already sore shoulders, and left Alchemy Room.
As expected, there were two people standing outside the door, and the conversation Angel heard before came from them.
The person wearing a windbreaker and a silk top hat was Dunn Smith. When he saw someone coming out of Alchemy Room, he nodded to another middle-aged man wearing black Pastor clothes opposite. "I understand."
The man did not speak, but connected dots with his right hand on his chest and drew Crimson Moon, then lowered his head and left in a hurry.
"He is?"
Angel asked as he watched the man walk in the opposite direction to the intersection of the underground passage.
"That direction leads to Saint Selena Cathedral. If Holy Cathedral is in an emergency and cannot contact us, they will send a telegram to the church and someone will notify us."
Dunn said something unintentional, then retracted his gaze towards the end of the passage and looked at Angel.
"There is an urgent mission. Holy Cathedral just sent a telegram, but our receiver sometimes breaks down and we often cannot receive the telegram, so they sent it to Saint Selena Cathedral again."
Dunn reached out and took off his top hat, holding it to his left armpit, revealing his meticulously styled short brown hair. His eyes wandered, as if he was thinking about something.
When the eyes focused on Angel again, Dunn continued:
"Before noon tomorrow, you need to arrive at No. First Avenue 26 of Enmat Harbor, Golden Apple District. That's where Enmat Harbor Nighthawks Squad is stationed. It's easy to find, just opposite Saint George Church."
"When you get there, find the leader of team Enmat, Bell Clement. He will tell you what to do next. Just follow his instructions."
Enmat Harbor? Urgent mission?
Angel looked into Dunn's eyes, trying to find some clues, but the other party just looked back with an indifferent expression, his gray eyes like a calm lake.
"Okay, I understand."
She nodded. Since the order had been issued, as a formal member of Nighthawks, she did not have the right to refuse. However, Angel still threw the question to the other party.
"But why me?"
Dunn seemed to have expected such a question. He waved his hand and headed towards the exit of the underground passage. Angel followed behind him.
"Tingen City's case of Labor Mutual Aid Society's involvement in human trafficking has made progress. The root cause is Enmat Harbor. The specific situation was not stated in the telegram, but a large number of people are required to participate in the operation. The scale of Emmett Harbor Team is similar to ours, so even sending out all the troops is not enough, so not only Tingen City, but also several surrounding cities where Nighthawks teams are stationed have sent personnel."
"As for why I chose you..." Dunn turned his head and showed a faint smile, "You were the one who discovered this case in the first place, so of course you have to earn the credit."
Seeing Angel's unbelieving expression, he added:
"Of course, there is another reason. Most of Nighthawks are Beyonder of 'Sleepless' and 'Corpse Collector' Pathway. They need some different powers."
This makes more sense...
There are a total of 7 Beyonder in Tingen City Nighthawks Squad, excluding the newly added Angel and Klein. Except for "Mystery Pryer" and Old Neil who have become civilians, the rest are actually "Sleepless" and "Corpse Collector", the two Pathway. This is certainly related to the inheritance of extraordinary power of Church of the Evernight Goddess, but the "partial science" chosen by Potion can also be said to be very obvious.
It is conceivable that the distribution of Nighthawks team Pathway in other cities should not be much different from Tingen City. It is indeed of little use to send another one with the same Pathway in the past.
"I understand, but for this kind of cross-regional case, if Nighthawks is temporarily summoned to form a team and cooperates with teammates who are unfamiliar with each other, is the combat effectiveness really guaranteed? It is better to form a separate team in normal times to deal with such tasks..."
"It's nice of you to think of that."
Dunn nodded in approval. He considered his words before answering:
"Nighthawks does have an elite team inside. Their costumes are characterized by wearing conspicuous red gloves, so we usually call them 'Red Gloves'."
"The mission of 'Red Gloves' is to support Nighthawks teams in other cities at any time, solve crises that a single team cannot handle, and hunt down Beyonder Criminal who commit cross-regional crimes. This human trafficking case involves Beyonder from multiple secret organizations. The area involved spanned Midseashire, Awwa County and East Chester County, and it was supposed to be left to them to handle. Unfortunately, 'Red Gloves' had other tasks and couldn't get back in time, so Holy Cathedral decided to temporarily summon Nighthawks from each area."
The two of them had already passed the intersection and returned to the spiral staircase leading to Blackthorn Security Company. Dunn stopped and stood at the top of the stairs. The swaying light made his shadow erratic.
"This is what I know. You can wait until Enmat Harbor and find out the rest from Clement."
He took the hat out from under his arm again and put it on his head.
"Their request is to arrive within 24 hours, that is, before noon tomorrow. Of course you can leave in the afternoon, but I suggest you be prepared and go early tomorrow morning. You can get the ammunition and consumables you need from the weapons depot. It is better to use theirs at Enmat Harbor..."
Under the captain's somewhat tedious instructions, Angel nodded repeatedly. Seeing that he had no intention of going upstairs, he climbed the stairs and walked to the ground.
"Three, two, one..."
She deliberately slowed down and counted down silently in her heart.
"Wait a minute."
As expected, the shout of Dunn came from behind.
"Captain, is there anything else?"
She forced a smile and turned around to ask.
"Well... you go to Mrs. Orianna and advance the bounty, which is the 50 pounds that belongs to you on the police wanted warrant. It will be used as the funds for the operation. When you come back, you will be reimbursed according to the specific consumption."
As if he was afraid that he would stop the other party again, Dunn pressed his hat after saying this and turned around and walked towards "Chanis Gate".
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