Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 51 Riel Bieber
"Hey, don't be nervous, is it your first mission?"

A mellow female voice came from behind, and Angel turned his head to see that it was Ms. Loreta who was accompanying her.

She continued to flex and stretch her right hand, and patted Angel's shoulder comfortingly with her left hand: "I see that your body is stiff, are you okay?"

"It's okay, just now...well, I was a little scared." Angel didn't want the other party to feel that he was not professional enough, so he quickly denied it.

Luo Luota took a step forward and walked towards the stairs together with her. By the way, she put down her right hand to rest, and changed her left hand to continue flexing and stretching.

"Don't worry, '2-049' is only a Level 2 Sealed Artifact. It's not very dangerous. Although its impact is silent and the consequences are serious, we already have a good coping strategy. As long as we act collectively like this, we don't need to be afraid of its harm at all."

As if to protest her evaluation, the iron box carried by Borgia walking in front suddenly made a "boom" sound, as if something inside was hitting the box wall quickly and violently.

Angel, who was observing the box, was taken aback, and almost wanted to pull out the revolver and shoot the iron box a few times.

"Well... it does this occasionally, but don't worry, it doesn't make the danger any greater."

Luo Luota explained with some embarrassment.

"Even if there is a way to deal with it, this sealed item is still very dangerous, right? Why did you bring it for today's mission?" Angel asked puzzled.

"Ah, I forgot that your captain hasn't told you about this yet." Lolotta looked back at Dunn Smith, who was at the end, and saw that he didn't stop the two from talking, so he continued: "Today we are going to find a notebook, the notebook of the Antigonus family."

"And the full name of this sealed item is 'Antigonus Puppet'. Its only function is to find any objects and people related to the Antigonus family."

Antigonus?
Angel felt that this name was quite familiar, as if he had heard it not long ago.

By the way, isn't that the notebook of the Antigonus family that Mr. Fool mentioned in the Tarot Society, the lost notebook of the "Secret Order"?
"The Hanged Man" then explained the relationship between the Antigonus family and the Church of the Evernight Goddess. The former was exterminated by the Goddess of the Night thousands of years ago and was annihilated in the history of the Fourth Epoch.

How could this puppet with the effect of directional finding the Antigonus family appear in the church's sealed item reserve?
Thinking quickly, Angel looked at the iron box in Borgia's hand.

dong dong dong-

As if responding to her gaze, there were a few more knocks inside the box.

The five people stumbled from the second floor of the Blackthorn Security Company to the downstairs. Because they were crowded together and passed the stairs, 1-2 "Antigonus Puppet" activated the negative effect four times in just one minute. Except for Lolotta and Dunn, the remaining three were all hit. Hard state.

Leonard Mitchell had already parked his carriage by the street downstairs, a short distance away from the stairs. He saw several people walking down the stairs. Sitting in the driver's seat and kneading his right arm, he quickly raised his arm and began to bend and extend his elbow. Dunn stepped forward quickly. Sure enough, when Borgia approached the carriage, Leonard immediately slowed down. Dunn pushed him while getting into the carriage.

"I'm driving with him. The four of you get into the car and protect the Antigonus puppet." Dunn looked back at the other four people, and quickly gave orders and assigned tasks.

Although the characteristics of 2-049 will only affect the nearest 3 targets first when there are many people surrounding it, but for the sake of insurance, it is better for two people to drive and take care of each other.

Borgia nodded, and got into the not-so-wide compartment of the carriage first. Angel followed, but bumped into the former who had entered a stagnant state, and by the way, his negative state was lifted.

This effect is too frequent, it will appear once every 20 seconds or so...

Angel frowned and looked at the iron box engraved with the emblem of the Evernight Goddess. There were still knocking sounds in the box from time to time, and the "puppet" inside was extremely restless.

The four were seated separately, with the two ladies on one side and the men on the other.

Borgia placed the box on the floor of the carriage, right in the middle of the four people, so that "2-049" was surrounded by the four people in the carriage, and the possibility of negative effects affecting Dunn and Leonard who were driving outside the carriage, or affecting the passing pedestrians was very slim.

Leonard drove the carriage, the wheels rolled over the stone road, and drove forward quickly.

"Where are we going?"

Angel watched the changing scenery outside the window, followed the pedestrians left behind by the carriage with his eyes, trying to observe whether they had fallen into the negative state of the Sealed Artifact, and asked suspiciously only after confirming that it would not affect the targets outside the carriage.

The taciturn scarred man Borgia still didn't say a word, just stared at the box in the middle of the car, his eyes glanced at the other three people from time to time, ready to release their negative status at any time.

"Riel Bieber's home, that's where Antigonus' notes last appeared, here, your 'Seer' found it."

The black-haired Lolotta replied, pouted at Klein who was sitting opposite.

"Actually, Mr. Neil's credit was due to divination of Riel Bieber. I just happened to touch my spiritual sense and found something was wrong."

Klein waved his hand and explained that his half-waving hand suddenly slowed down, his eyes lost focus, and he froze.

Borgia on the side elbowed him to remove the negative state. Seeing that Klein breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his arms, he said in a low and indifferent voice, "Modity is a virtue, but excessive modesty is not."

After saying this, Borgia stopped speaking, but returned to the previous state of being immersed in the task.Of course, he was also quickly favored by Antigonus, fell into a stagnation, and was awakened by the "overly modest" Klein.

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The carriage drove through the streets of Tingen City, and soon came to a three-story building. Leonard pulled the horse and stopped.

"Here we are." Klein said briefly.

Borgia nodded, stood up with 2-049 in hand, and got off the carriage first.

Angel also walked down, looking at the building in front of him.

The three-story building is similar to the street-side apartment building she had seen in her previous life. The door along the street is in the middle, and there are suites of the same size on both sides. There are a lot of clothes hanging out of the windows of the four houses on the first and second floors. It is obvious that someone has lived there for a long time. The window on the right side of the third floor has a khaki seal from the inside.

It seems that there is today's goal.

Dunn and Leonard also left the carriage, and the six of them joined together again, raising their arms left or right, doing flexion and extension exercises non-stop.Passers-by from time to time looked at everyone curiously or vigilantly, subconsciously avoiding this area.

Even Borgia, who was taciturn and didn't seem to care about these gazes, couldn't bear it. They left the street quickly, walked up the stairs of the unit building, and soon came to the third floor.

The gate of Riel Bieber’s house was also sealed by the police, with a police officer’s name on it. Dunn Smith unceremoniously tore it off, took out a key to unlock the door, and signaled Borgia, who was carrying 2-049 “Antigonus Puppet”, to enter first.

A rancid smell wafted from the room, and the moment he entered the gate carrying the iron box, the knocking sound of "dong dong dong" reappeared and became more intense.

Looking at the iron box that was being knocked from the inside so that it kept shaking, Angel quietly took half a step back. She looked at Dunn and Leonard. The two seemed to have expected it and did not show any surprise.

Wait...they are affected by negative effects...

Seeing that their shaking arms suddenly slowed down, Angel reacted. She didn't care to wonder why 2-049 could affect both of them at the same time. She hurriedly stretched out her hands and pushed Dunn and Leonard respectively to wake them up.

Borgia also looked back at the crowd and saw that two people were affected by 2-049 at the same time. He nodded and said solemnly: "This will confirm that Riel Biber is indeed a descendant of the Antigonus family."

Is this confirmed?Could it be that the sealed item began to affect the judgments of two people at the same time?

"As long as it encounters the descendants of the Antigonus family, or even a little bit of breath, it will become agitated and violent, and you have seen the consequences." Luo Luota explained from the side.

"This sealed item is still excited? Does it have a mind of its own?" Klein asked curiously.

"You'll find out after a while." Lolotta replied pretending to be mysterious.

Several people watched Borgia carry the suitcase and walked around the room, allowing 2-049 to come into contact with Riel Bieber's breath as much as possible. Then Dunn locked the door, and several people went downstairs and returned to the carriage.

"Dong dong dong—" it was placed in the iron box in the center of the carriage again, and the knocking sound became more intense, as if a monster was about to jump out of the box.

Leonard and Dunn were still sitting in the driver's seat, and the latter was watching from the small window in front of the carriage, waiting for 2-049's further "actions".

Borgia fumbled to unlock the mechanical switch on one side of the iron box, and at the same time invalidated the spiritual shackles that originally surrounded the box. A strange atmosphere enveloped the carriage, and the knocking sound stopped at this moment, making the previously lively carriage fall into silence.

The next moment, the lid was pushed away from the inside, the rusty loose-leaf creaked, and a brown arm stretched out from the box.

The length of the arm was less than 5 centimeters, and the thickness of the fingers. It grabbed the opening of the iron box, dragged its whole body out, turned over the wall of the box, and fell on the floor of the car.

A palm-sized puppet appeared in front of everyone.

Its face was painted with bright oil paint, and its body was wrapped in tan cloth strips. Its joints twisted strangely, as if controlled by invisible silk threads, and it stood up crookedly with mechanical movements.Its pebble-sized head is full of features, but it looks weird.

The puppet raised its head and twisted its neck in a circle, looked at the four people in the carriage one by one, then grinned, with the corners of its mouth raised high, like a clown in a circus against the background of paint on its face.

(End of this chapter)