Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 313 The out-of-control detective

As early as when everyone was emotionally broken down and shouting, Sherlock Klein was alert. The moment the detective drew his gun, his "Joker" instinct reacted, making him bow his head and bend over. He rolled to avoid the gun pointed at him by another detective and reached behind the sofa.

Of course, the sofa couldn't stop bullets, but the detective with bloodshot eyes and a ferocious expression was stunned when he lost his target. The moment of confusion prevented him from avoiding Klein who rushed out from beside him and grabbed him and shot him. Hammer hand.

The locked trigger was difficult to pull, and then Klein easily discharged the crazed detective's gun.

This trick was taught to him by Angel at the shooting range in Tingen.

But restraining this person was not enough. There were still five or six detectives on the scene, each with his gun pointed at others. Unless he revealed that he was an Extraordinary, it would be impossible to kill so many people at the same time...

"stop!"

A loud roar came from the only female detective present, Kaslana.

Her roar was full of majesty, making everyone, including Klein, want to obey from the bottom of their hearts. The detectives who were obviously in extreme panic had doubts in their eyes, and the hand holding the gun also lost strength, and they were about to lay down.

"Everyone stop!"

Essinger looked around the living room, and also spoke to stop everyone. His voice was low, but the effect was similar to that of Kaslana, with an inexplicable intimidation.

……

"Sherlock, what are your thoughts on the next move?"

Essinger Stanton's low but kind voice pulled Klein back from the "group collapse" that had just occurred.

"Sorry, I didn't hear clearly. Just now I was wondering whether Stuart and the others arrived at the police station safely and met their families."

Klein nodded slightly to apologize and replied.

"It will definitely happen, and you should know that what they receive is not the protection of the police, but the protection of the 'Machine Heart'."

"I thought you wouldn't point it out directly like this?"

With a chuckle, Klein replied. He looked at the other people in the living room. There was a slight surprise on Kaslana's face, but it was not obvious. Her red-haired female assistant was helping Isinger's assistant clean up the fallen person. The tables and chairs seemed not to hear these strange conversations.

It seems that those who stay are either extraordinary people, or have some understanding of extraordinary power...

He knew it in his heart and no longer tried to hide his identity as an extraordinary person. Instead, he smiled calmly and said:

"Then the commotion just now was what you expected?"

"I had a premonition that the 'Apostle of Desire' was waiting for us to gather together so that he could deal with most of the targets at once, but I didn't expect that he would not have to take action himself, and he almost made everyone kill each other, almost leading to a murder. .”

Essinger said with a wry smile, looking towards the messy living room, as if he was also recalling the scene just now.

"If it weren't for Kaslana's ability and my timely simulation and strengthening of this ability, the 'Fear Seed' that was just detonated would have reduced our number."

"Fear Seed? Is it some kind of extraordinary ability?"

Kaslana asked with a serious face. After using her ability to frighten the panicked detectives, she knew that her identity could not be concealed, so she no longer pretended to be an ordinary person who did not understand mysticism.

"Yes, this is the ability of the man behind the scenes, the 'Apostle of Desire'. He must have planted the seeds of fear in their hearts before everyone gathered here. The time was when everyone received the threatening letter. When the inner panic was at its highest...it seems that everything was in this person's plan from the moment everyone received the threatening letter."

"That's why he wrote the threatening letter in blood, and instead of mailing it, he delivered it in person to create the greatest panic?" Klein thought thoughtfully and looked at the other two Beyonders.

Kaslana can stop chaos by roaring. She may be an Extraordinary of the "Arbiter" path, and Essinger said that she can simulate the opponent's ability. Is it a sequence that she doesn't know, or is it the function of a magical item?
It seems that the ability of the Desire Apostle to sow the seeds of fear remotely can only be used by ordinary people, not extraordinary people like us?But there are two ordinary assistants here. Are there still similar methods that have not been inspired in them?
Fortunately, the chaos just now caused no casualties. Official extraordinary people dressed as policemen arrived in time, calmed everyone, and took them to a more tightly guarded place for protection.

Everyone who was reluctant to accept police protection before had no objection this time. Everyone almost collapsed in fear. Not to mention being protected by guards, even if they were imprisoned in the underground of the church, as long as they could save their lives, I am afraid these ordinary people would nod and agree...

But why leave a few of us behind?

"But I have a question, why did they keep us instead of taking everyone with us for protection?"

Kaslana asked the question in Klein's mind. She stood up from the chair and walked around the living room, which had been almost tidied up, showing a trace of uneasiness.

"Don't you think that the current scene is exactly what the 'Apostle of Desire' wants to see? The hidden official extraordinary people escorted most ordinary people away, leaving only us who have the ability to protect ourselves. If you were him, What will you do?"

Essinger sat back on the sofa, picked up the pipe next to him, and called his assistant to help him light it. However, he did not put it to his mouth to smoke, but held it with one hand, letting the rich smoke rise slowly after the tobacco was lit. rise, lingering around him.

In the smoke, his words seemed far away:
"The 'Mechanical Heart' is not stupid. They all left on the surface and escorted Stuart and the others away, but there must be other members nearby who continue to squat and wait for the 'Apostle of Desire' to appear."

"So, we are still bait, but we are just bait with a certain ability to protect ourselves?"

Kaslana's tone was bitter. She was an Extraordinary detective who thought highly of herself, but now she became the bait for the official Extraordinary to hunt down the "Apostle of Desire", which made her a little unwilling and a little angry.

"You don't have to worry too much. This is something that has been agreed upon a long time ago. Moreover, they gave me a sealed item. Well, it is a magical item that can sound around me at the same time when my voice is heard. The range is up to five kilometers. As long as the Apostle of Desire appears. , if we persist for 1 minute, or even 30 seconds, a large number of official extraordinary people will arrive and bring him to justice.

"The biggest problem is that this guy won't show up at all, not only on November 11, but even in December. This will make the 'Heart of Machinery' no longer focus on this matter, and inevitably Relax your vigilance and reduce the intensity of surveillance. Only then will our lives be in real danger..."

Essinger looked at the drifting smoke and said softly.

That's right...this was also the view that Angel and I discussed when we discussed it. Instead of waiting for an attack that I don't know when, it would be better to take the initiative to expose the flaw and let the Desire Apostle appear. Even if he has Sequence 5, he is not considered worthy of being an extraordinary person in the eyes of the official What.

Moreover, Mr. Essinger is so confident that he is probably an Extraordinary of a high rank, or he has many magical items in his pocket, able to protect himself and hurt the enemy...

Klein was thinking, looking at the well-known private detective, and was about to continue asking. Suddenly, a spiritual danger reminder came to his mind. At the same time, the clown's intuition also made him seem to have eyes on his back, and he could clearly see the situation behind him. .

Kaslana's eyes turned red at some point as she walked behind him. The sagging muscles on her cheeks were tense and her face was ferocious. She quickly took out the pistol from her waist with her right hand and aimed it at Klein's back.

"boom--"

When the gunfire rang out, Klein had already followed his instinct and jumped forward, rolling to avoid the bullets aimed at him.

A strong gust of wind blew by him. He stood still after rolling and looked in the direction of the wind.

Kaslana had no intention of relying on her pistol to deal with the Beyonders on the field. She threw away the revolver, made fists with both hands and rushed towards Isengard Stanton who was sitting on the sofa with a pipe in his hand. The latter threw away the pipe and took it out with his hand. He looked into his pocket and seemed ready to take out some magical item to deal with it.

Unfortunately, the "Arbiter" has excellent fighting skills. He didn't even have time to show a surprised expression on his face before he was kicked in the neck by the female detective.

"Crack-"

Far away, Klein heard the crisp sound of a broken bone. Essinger, who was full of confidence just now and wanted to persist under the "Apostle of Desire" for 1 minute or even 30 seconds, had broken his neck bones, and his head and neck were shaking in a strange way. It flew off the sofa at a twisted angle and landed on the carpet next to the fireplace.

(End of this chapter)