big devil holmes

Chapter 16 An accident
"Bang!" A loud noise!
Of course it wasn't the sound of the old priest's head popping open!
On the contrary, Deacon Bader's sturdy body suddenly flew towards the side and rear in a strange way!
He knocked several guards into the air, and then smashed a long row of steam valves on the side of the road without any loss of momentum, and finally slammed into the wall on the side of the street.

Only then did people around see that at the place of his heart was a pitch-black spike that was only as thick as a finger but more than a meter long!

This sharp thorn is undoubtedly very hard, the horniness on the surface is like shiny black metal, and the speed is extremely fast. At this moment, Deacon Bader has been embedded in the wall, and the masonry has already made a soft cracking sound. The cracking wind carried by the thorns was just catching up, and it sounded like a strange and distant echo.

Looking at this sudden scene, Sherlock completed extremely complex calculations and reasoning in an instant. With such a speed, the huge impact force can be compressed into a narrow range of the thickness of the thumb, so how much can this blow cause? terrible injury
But such a terrifying injury still failed to penetrate Deacon Bader's chest! !
Sherlock turned his head and looked in the direction of the spikes, and saw an extremely slender figure quietly standing on top of the tallest tower in the entire block under the huge lights of the Zeppelin airship.

Catherine.
And beside her, was crawling, no, more precisely, it should be a large clump of dark plants growing.

It is similar to some kind of vines, but each branch is as thick as an arm, intertwined with each other, covering almost the entire top of the tower. These vines grow silently, and when the lights are not shining, they merge into the darkness. One body, even Sherlock didn't notice it in advance;

And in the center surrounded by vines, there is a group of jet-black spore sacs, which are swelling at a terrifying speed.
The surrounding air was quickly sucked in, and the spore sacs also swelled dozens of times in a second, and even under the light, the jet-black veins like blood vessels in the spore wall could be vaguely seen.

Sherlock was a little surprised. He had never mentioned in the books he had read before that it turns out that the contractor can control not only the creatures of the abyss, but also plants.

Well, the authors of those books probably only collected information on some low-level contractors, and how could a group of stinky book writers come into contact with the contractors who reached the second stage.

I was thinking about it.
Suddenly, the huge spore sac on the tower suddenly shrank, and instantly completed an explosion-like spit!At the same time, another pitch-black spike shot out from the spore sac, crossing the entire long street in an instant, surpassing the visual limit of everyone including Sherlock, and also surpassing the piercing wind sound, only the recoil The resonance brought out made Catherine's long hair dance wildly in the night!

"boom!"

With an even louder sound, the long black thorns were once again nailed to Deacon Badr's heart. This vine plant undoubtedly has a more precise positioning method than vision. The two long thorns almost hit the same position, and suddenly the wall Thick smoke billowed out from the shock from the body, and the cracks spread wildly.

Catherine didn't give the other party a chance to breathe, the aftershock was still there, and the third long needle had arrived, followed by the fourth, and the fifth.

boom!boom! !boom! ! ! ! !

The successive loud noises continued into indistinguishable roars!
The wall carrying too much impact collapsed, thick smoke billowed everywhere, and then the sixth, seventh, and an unknown number of spikes pierced through the thick smoke, continuing to bombard without mercy.

I don't know how long such a loud noise lasted until Sherlock felt that his eardrums were about to be torn apart, and the attack finally stopped. Looking at the building in the thick smoke, it seemed that he had been through it more than a dozen times. Like a tragic gas leak accident, it completely collapsed and turned into a mass of ruins!
In this situation, even if the other party is a contractor, he should be dead.

Those terrifying spikes should have pierced it into a blood-stained thorn of human flesh.

Everyone seemed to think so. Standing on the tower, Catherine finally exhaled lightly. The old priest felt that the abyssal beast that lived in the distance with Deacon Baldr was rapidly weakening until He screamed, collapsed, remained motionless, and finally opened his tired eyes.

The deafening sound of the turbines on the long street gradually stopped, and the armor that hadn't been scrapped began to spew out the cooling steam.

It's finally over. The nerves that have been tense can finally take a breather

In fact, everyone knows that this is a battle that has been doomed from the very beginning, because those who violate the laws of the Holy See can only die!

However, Sherlock in the shadows remained motionless, his eyes seemed to be brighter, staring at the collapsed ruins.

The hail of bullets before, the gunpowder smoke carried by the bullets, the terrifying power when the armor was torn apart, the terrifying impact when the spikes pierced the night, all the information once again circulated in Sherlock's mind at an unimaginable speed!

In an instant——————

wrong
inconsistent with the results of the inference
At almost the same instant, countless possibilities flew past before his eyes, some of which were good and some of which were bad.

He became more and more silent, more vigilant, more and more calm.

Finally, at the moment when the first raindrops fell on the long street.
This Mr. Detective, who has been hiding in the shadows, moved!

(End of this chapter)