Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 58
Wearing a tattered coat, black hair that was blown into a mess, and a strange posture of "bending knees and pouting"... Leonard couldn't connect this corpse with the "Secret Order" Extraordinary who came and went without a trace before.

"Dead? How come?"

Surprised that the tuxedo clown who was still walking around under the guns of the crowd and facing many nighthawks with ease just now had turned into a corpse, Leonard wiped the blood from the corner of his eyes, and was about to get closer to identify it carefully.

"Be careful, 2-049 is nearby, don't get too close."

Angel reminded him.

"2-049... Well, he was affected by the negative effect of the sealed item, so he couldn't escape?"

Leonard frowned and muttered to himself for analysis. He tilted his head, thought for a moment, and continued to ask:
"But he is a member of the 'Secret Order', so he should know the Antigonus puppet very well. How could he stray into the range of influence of the sealed item? Even we will not make such low-level mistakes."

"He really knows this sealed item very well, and has been avoiding the range of influence, but he has a mission like us, the purpose is to take away the notebook, so he lingers on the scene. I cooperated with Klein and used this to force him into the range of negative effects of 2-049."

Angel makes no secret of Klein's crucial assistance in killing the Tuxedo Clown, but doesn't mention that he can undo 2-049's effects on his own.

After all, this matter is just a conclusion drawn from my own observation, and there is no conclusive evidence, so it can only be put on hold temporarily.

Besides, who doesn't have a little secret?
Leonard seemed to be still full of problems. His eyes moved back and forth between the corpse of the clown in the tuxedo, Sealed Artifact 2-049, and Angel, and his green pupils were full of doubts.

Seeing this, Angel pointed to Klein who was helping Dunn up and looking for something in his pockets, and said, "It seems that Klein is also looking for 'Gaze of the Goddess', do you have any?"

"No, there is only one bottle for each person. Do you think that is a bargain?"

Patting his empty pocket as a gesture, Leonard replied with a wry smile.

"I'll check with Borgia, if they share a bottle, there might be some left."

He walked towards the two Backlund nighthawks who had supported each other to stand up. Angel also came to Klein's side and helped him lift Dunn up.

"Captain, there is no blue metal bottle you mentioned in the inner pocket."

Klein searched all the pockets on Dunn Smith's body, but couldn't find the "finger-long sky-blue metal vial" described by the latter.

"Maybe... I forgot to bring it, it's okay... I'll rest for a while... you guys go... and others... find the notes..."

Dunn said slowly, and he sat up with the support of the two people. He put one hand on the ground and touched the back of his head when he was blown away with the other hand. There seemed to be a big bump there.

Forgot to bring medicine... This is the captain I know well...

Angel groaned. Seeing that Dunn was still struggling to stand up, he quickly replied: "Captain, the notes have been retrieved. Leonard went to Borgia to find out if there is any 'Gaze of the Goddess'. Sit down and rest for a while."

Hearing Angel's answer, Dunn's distracted eyes focused on her face, and it seemed to take a few seconds before he recognized her.

"...you are... Miss Granger..."

Did he bump his head and have memory problems?
Angel looked at Klein on the other side, and found the same worry in his eyes.

Fortunately, Leonard quickly came over from Borgia, still holding the sky-blue metal vial in his hand - "Gaze of the Goddess".

"Fortunately, I went quickly and snatched half a bottle from Ms. Lolotta's mouth, but this amount is enough...Captain, don't you mind?"

Dunn took the potion that Leonard handed over, not caring that the metal bottle had already been used by others, he raised it to his mouth and drank it down.In just a few seconds, the confused gray eyes regained their spirits. I don't know if the headache has been relieved, but he no longer clutches the back of his head.

"Sorry, I forgot to bring the medicine to go out."

Shaking his head, he stood up without relying on others, his eyes swept across the audience, and he quickly determined the situation.

"...I failed to consider that the out-of-control Rhell Bieber will explode after the note leaves the body, and the power is so great..."

He frowned and looked at "Rail Bieber" scattered all over the floor, and then moved his gaze to the sealed artifact 2-049 in the field and the Antigonus note next to it.

"Fortunately, the note has been found, and the sealed item has not been lost. '2-049' needs to be resealed as soon as possible, and then brought back to the 'Chanis Gate' for storage until it is sent back to the Backlund Diocese. The Antigonus family's note is also the same. The 'Secret Order' dispatched mid-sequence Extraordinary to snatch the note. We underestimated the importance of this item to them."

"As for the Extraordinary from the 'Secret Order'..."

"Dead," Leonard quickly replied, "The two of them did it."

He pointed to Angel and Klein.

Dunn raised his eyebrows. It was only at this time that he recognized the torn corpse of the tuxedo clown in the arena.

"Nice job, but tell me more about how you did it later."

The Nighthawks who regrouped their teammates dared to come to the area affected by the negative effect of 2-049. As expected, the surroundings were full of fragments of the corpse of Riel Bibb, a descendant of the Antigonus family, and the sealed object was still in a "furious" state.Dunn and Borgia, who entered the five-meter range first, were instantly favored by negative effects, and their flexing and extending arms slowly stopped, entering a state of stagnation.

Klein and Leonard, who followed behind, quickly patted the shoulders of the two of them, helping them release the control.

Most of the Antigonus puppet has crawled out of the cracked iron box, and its arms wrapped in brown cloth strips are waving towards the Antigonus family notebook not far away.

Borgia rushed to the side and grabbed the puppet. Regardless of the angry expression on its painted face, he opened the iron box and stuffed it back.

During this brief process, 2-049 controlled four more people successively, but the vigilant Nighthawks helped each other to remove the effect.

After closing the lock of the iron box, Borgia reactivated the Evernight Goddess emblem on the box, and the invisible wall that isolated spirituality surrounded the cracked iron box again.

"Fortunately, the holy emblem was not destroyed, otherwise we would have a lot of difficulties to bring it back to the Chanis Gate."

Borgia breathed a sigh of relief, looking at 2-049 who had become quiet again, and said.

"Let's put it out of the way first, we still have a lot to do."

Dunn Smith ordered, he picked up the filthy Antigonus family notes that fell on the ground, shook the dirt on the cover, opened the black hard cover, and flipped through it roughly.

"That's right, it's this one. We'll take it back later, and place it behind the Chanis Gate together with 2-049, and Borgia and Lolotta will bring it back to Backlund."

After quickly confirming the authenticity of the note, Dunn closed the cover and clipped the note under his arm regardless of the dirtiness.

The slightly injured Lolotta stood guard outside, outside the effect range of the sealed item, to prevent others from approaching the scene.The rest of the people went into the warehouse with Dunn to search just now, but unfortunately there was nothing special found in the dark warehouse except for a pile of chewed human remains.

"It looks like there's more than one victim."

Leonard said pretending to be calm, but his pale face was obviously not only caused by blood loss, the complexions of several other people were also not very good, and the stench in the warehouse made people not want to stay for a long time.

Leaving the warehouse that was worthless to search, several people returned to the open space outside the door, and under the leadership of Dunn, they carefully searched every piece of land with the location of Riel Bieber's explosion as the center.

"What are we looking for?" Klein asked suspiciously without knowing it.

"The extraordinary substance, or material left behind by Riel Bieber." Leonard kicked away a piece of meat covered in mud, and replied casually.

"Before he mutated, he should be using the power of the notes to try to advance. No matter whether he succeeds or fails, a certain part of his body will be enriched with extraordinary power in his body after death."

"Like Mrs. Sharon before?" Angel listened carefully and couldn't help interjecting.

She thought of the mysterious eyeball-like object that appeared next to Mrs. Sharon's body after her death.

After the mutated monster dies, it will also produce extraordinary characteristics like the Extraordinary?
"That's right, in the future... ah, I found it."

In the middle of Dunn Smith's speech, he suddenly stepped forward and squatted beside an open space, and the rest of the people also moved closer.

Among the various parts of Riel Bieber, a palm-sized gray-white substance lay quietly, like the body fluid that flowed out when the bullet hit the mutated monster before, but it was more compact, with uneven surfaces and full of grooves, like an enlarged walnut, or...a shrunken brain.

"It should be it."

Dunn tried to grab the object with his gloved right hand, but the gray-white substance seemed to be solid, but its substance was like liquid. The part touched quickly spread out, dripped from between his fingers, and condensed into a ball again.

"Who has a cigarette case? Or a bullet case?" After several unsuccessful attempts, he raised his head and asked a few people around him.

Angel had just received the bullets from Old Neil early this morning, and he still had the metal box containing the hunting bullets with him, so he quickly took it out and handed it to Dunn.

With the container in hand, Dunn picked up the gray substance again, and threw it into the metal box for storage before it dripped.

Carefully put away the box containing the "extraordinary material" of Rhyl Bieber, Dunn stood up again, faced several people, especially the newly joined Angel and Klein, and said:
"When encountering similar things during a mission, or killing an Extraordinary, don't miss these objects. They may become some kind of spiritual material or clues to a case, but once ordinary people come into contact with them, it often means another case involving Extraordinary power."

Angel's breathing was stagnant, and she thought of the "assassin" she killed on the roof just now. Due to the emergency, she had no time to deal with that corpse, and she threw it on the roof to let the sun blaze.

(End of this chapter)