Mystery: Undead don't die from passing fire

Chapter 7 Persimmons must be picked softly

The four Nighthawks that Backlund came to support, plus the three Nighthawks from Tingen.

A total of seven people squeezed into the same carriage.

This will undoubtedly make the space in the car very crowded.

Even the movement of approach and avoidance will be restricted due to space.

But even so, almost no one will relax the 'surveillance' of other people.

Once anyone's movements become jerky, the people next to him will remind him immediately.

But even in this case.

Klein still couldn't help being a little distracted.

"Ember, is he the Ember I remember?"

"But how is this possible! It's just a game, and even though I've traveled to a strange world, it's also a real world, not a virtual reality game!"

"How could a person in the game appear alive in front of my eyes?"

"So is this really just an ordinary coincidence? But..."

"Klein!"

Dunn pushed Klein, who suddenly became stiff, and said in a deep voice, "Concentrate."

"Feel sorry."

Klein shook his head and lowered his head with a wry smile.

It's a pity that there are too many people here, otherwise you can return to the gray mist for divination.

Divinate whether he is the person in his impression.

"Be more open."

Klein took a deep breath, and silently explained to himself in his heart, "Perhaps the Great Emperor Roselle has also played this game, and the other party may only be in the role of cosplay? Well, maybe it's because the other party's potion needs to be played." Embers' sake?"

"Yes, maybe that's the case, this possibility is very high!"

Klein's spirit was refreshed, he stopped being distracted after 'figuring it out', and began to concentrate on dealing with the impact of '2-049'.

"Klein."

Leonard laughed and joked, "Aren't you afraid? If you are afraid, I think you can start thinking about your epitaph now."

"It's not impossible."

Klein frowned slightly but did not get angry. Instead, he smiled, "Then write 'Priest, help me revive, thank you'."

Instead, Leonard couldn't be dealt with by him, he just muttered, "The pastor won't be resurrected, you idiot."

Instead of being annoyed, Klein winked at him.

Soon.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of a building with the sign of the Tingen City Police Department on the door.

This is the home of Riel Bieber and the goal of their trip.

A group of people got out of the car one by one, not daring to relax their 'surveillance' on the others.

Al Hasson was the first to enter the house carrying the box.

And at the same time, the box in his hand suddenly began to smash violently, even more violently than before!

This even makes people doubt whether the box will be directly smashed through.

The next moment, Klein and Duncan were affected almost simultaneously.

Both of them also pointed their fingers at each other, as if they wanted to push each other.

But sadly, both of them were affected at the same time.

But they were not the only ones who came, Lolota and Ember, who had been prepared for a long time, gave them a push respectively.

"The sealed item '2-049' has entered a berserk state. It can be confirmed that Riel Biber is a descendant of the Antigonus family."

Al Hasson described it in a mechanized way.

"Once '2-049' encounters the descendants of the Antigonus family, even if there is only a little residual breath, it will quickly go into a berserk state, and the number of people affected will rise to two each time."

Ember who just pushed Klein explained calmly.

"So, it's alive?"

Klein turned his head to look at Ember's face, and couldn't help asking.

If it was the past, he would definitely be very entangled in what is in this box.

But now, he is more entangled in Ember's identity.

Is he playing or not?
"call."

Al Hasson's tone was much more relaxed, "As long as this Riel Bieber doesn't leave Tingen, '2-049' can lead us to find him."

While talking, several people went downstairs one by one and returned to the carriage.

After confirming that there were not too many pedestrians around, Al Hasson twisted the mechanical switch of the box and released the spiritual shackles.

The ferocious impact came to a sudden stop, and the entire carriage was silent, and a needle could be heard.

The iron-black box opened slowly, making a creaking, ear-piercing sound.

Bang!

Suddenly the box toppled over, and a thin brown arm stretched out, only the length of a child's finger.

Pressing the two arms forward in turn, a tan puppet with obvious elbow joints, knuckles, and knee joints, covered in tan oil-stained cloth strips, and with red and yellow clown oil paint on its face appeared in front of everyone. .

"This is '2-049'?"

Klein subconsciously thought, "How can there be such an ugly puppet?"

'2-049' raised his head, looking at Klein with pure black pupilless eyes.

He slowly parted the corners of his stiff mouth, revealing a clown-like smile.

As it grinned, revealing the dark and deep mouth inside, Klein, who was staring at it, was covered in hairs, and a strong, unreasonable fear suddenly emerged in his heart.

until.

From the corner of his eyes, he saw Ember beside him, and Ember raised his hand.

Bounce back!

"boom!"

The puppet slumped to the ground, as if it had bumped into something and knocked itself over.

no doubt.

It seemed to like Klein so much that it wanted to 'eat him', so much that it forgot that there was an ember next to it.

And while exerting influence on Klein, it also exerted influence on Ember.

"thanks……"

Klein stared at the funny puppet with some fear, sitting slumped on the floor of the carriage in a duck-like manner.

Just such a small thing almost killed him just now!

"Should be."

Ember shook his head.

Before it's time to fight the boss, you can't let the NPC die in the hands of mobs.

Otherwise, no one will help him resist the damage.

"Kakaka~"

It took a while for the puppet to regain its strength, and its palms alternately supported the floor of the car to keep away from the embers.

Like a frog with its limbs turned upside down, it's funny and a little ridiculous.

But with its weird abilities and its nightmare appearance, no one will want to laugh.

"Kakkaka!"

The puppet stood up with both hands and feet, and then forcibly turned its hands and feet 180 degrees.

Only one head was left staring at Ember, and finally even turned his head, and leaped vigorously with both hands and feet——

It tried to jump out of the carriage and ran away.

Then, it was grabbed back by a big hand covered in leather armor.

"Follow!"

Dunn pointed in the direction the puppet wanted to escape, and ordered in a deep voice.

Leonard, who was driving, immediately drove the horse in the direction the puppet wanted to escape.

The embers in the carriage had already released the puppet, and the puppet adjusted its direction.

Wanted to jump off the wagon faster than before.

But if you don't take the last step, you will be ruthlessly caught back.

According to the direction in which the puppet was trying to escape, Leonard adjusted the direction of the carriage again and again.

The carriage galloped quickly, and soon drove into the dock area, until it came to the place where the warehouses gathered.

After walking around several times, the puppet tried to escape in the same direction——

He wanted to go to the gray and white warehouse on the innermost side.

"That's it!"

Al Hasson's expression became serious, and he nodded towards Ember who was holding the puppet, and helped him put the puppet back into the black iron box, and there was another violent impact sound inside the iron box.

Afterwards, he buckled the mechanical switch with difficulty, and poured into his spirituality to activate the stars and red moon symbols on the iron box.

Although this cannot completely isolate its influence, it can at least prevent it from escaping and harming others.

"Get out of the car."

After seeing them finish all this, Dunnes' deep and mellow voice sounded, "Be careful, there is a high probability that Riel Bieber is nearby."

"Also, remember not to take your eyes off the people around you."

"Do not."

Al Hasson shook his head, and looked at Ember under Dunn's puzzled eyes, "Ember, how do you feel?"

"no problem."

Ember nodded slightly, and said calmly, "I'm sure I can 100% isolate the influence of '2-049'."

"it is good."

Al Hasson breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly said, "Ember carries the box and walks ahead, and everyone else must stay within five meters of him!"

"Ok?"

Leonard's expression changed slightly, and he subconsciously looked at Dunn.

In his view, holding '2-049' alone is tantamount to courting death!

"Do as he says."

Dunn was silent for a moment, then spoke slowly.

He believed in Al Hasson's judgment, and also believed that the young man named Ember would not take his own life as a joke.

Furthermore.

On the one hand, without the interference of '2-049', they can indeed let go of the fight more boldly.

On the other hand, even if there is an accident, the distance of five meters is enough for them to start rescue.

PS: '2-049' exhibits certain 'alive' properties.

And from some details in the original work, it can be seen that it also knows that persimmons should be picked softly.

So only Sequence 9 and also a fortuneteller, Xiao Ke, had significantly more tricks than the others——

Of course, it can also be called survivor bias.

But there is a clear description in the original book that "On the way from the underground to the carriage, the sealed object "'2-049'" caused six slowing phenomena, of which I got two."

There are six people in total, and they cannot be affected consecutively, that is to say, one person can only be affected three times at most out of six times.

As a result, Ke Tong was affected twice, and it happened that he was the Sequence Nine among all the people.

Apart from picking soft persimmons, I can't think of any other possibility...

Well, of course, it may also be due to the fortune tellers' sympathy for each other.

(End of this chapter)