Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 7: Pick the softest persimmon

The four Nighthawks who came to support Backlund, plus the three Nighthawks in 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 moving away will be restricted due to the space.

But even so, almost no one will relax their "surveillance" on others.

As soon as anyone's movements become clumsy, the people around him will remind him immediately.

But even in this case.

Klein still couldn't help but be distracted.

“Yu Jin, is he the Yu Jin I remember?”

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

"How could a person from a game appear in front of me alive?"

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

"Klein!"

Dunn pushed Klein, who had suddenly become stiff, and said in a deep voice, "Focus."

"Feel sorry."

Klein shook his head, smiled bitterly, and lowered his head.

It's a pity that there are too many people here, otherwise we could go back above the gray fog to do divination.

Divination to see if he is the person you remember him as.

"Be more open."

Klein took a deep breath and silently consoled himself in his heart, "Emperor Roselle may have played this game before. Maybe he is just cosplaying this character? Well, maybe this is because his potion requires him to play the role of 'Ember'?"

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

Klein's spirits lifted. He had 'figured it all out' and stopped being distracted. He began to concentrate on dealing with the impact of '2-049'.

"Klein."

Leonard smiled and joked, "Are you scared? If you are, I think you can start thinking about your epitaph now."

"It's not impossible."

Klein raised his brows slightly but did not get angry. Instead, he smiled and said, "Then write 'Pastor, help me revive, thank you'."

Leonard was at a loss for words and just muttered, "The priest can't be resurrected, you idiot."

Instead of being annoyed, Klein winked at him.

Not long after.

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

This is Riel Bieber's home and the destination of their trip.

The group got off the bus one by one, and they did not dare to relax their "surveillance" on others during the journey.

Al Hassan was the first to enter the house, carrying a box.

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

This even makes people wonder whether the box will be directly hit through.

The next moment, Klein and Dunn were affected almost at the same time.

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

But unfortunately, they were both affected at the same time.

However, there were more than just the two of them coming. Lolota and Yujin, who were well prepared, pushed them each.

"Sealed Artifact '2-049' has entered a violent state. It can be confirmed that Riel Biber is a descendant of the Antigonus family."

Elhasson described it in a mechanical way.

"Once '2-049' encounters a descendant of the Antigonus family, even if there is only a trace of their remaining aura, it will quickly go into a violent state, and the number of people affected each time will rise to two."

Ember, who had just pushed Klein, explained calmly.

"So, it's alive?"

Klein turned his head to look at Yu Jin's face and couldn't help but ask.

If it were in the past, he would definitely be very confused about what was in the box.

But now, he is more concerned about the identity of the ember.

Is he acting or not?
"call."

El Hassan's tone was much more relaxed. "As long as this Riel Biber has not left Tingen, '2-049' can lead us to find him."

As they talked, they went downstairs one by one and returned to the carriage.

After making sure there were not too many pedestrians around, Al Hassan twisted the mechanical switch of the box and unlocked the spiritual shackles.

The fierce collision suddenly stopped, and the whole carriage was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

The iron-black box slowly opened, making a creaking sound that made people's ears sore.

Bang!

Suddenly the box fell over and a thin brown arm stretched out, only as long as a child's finger.

The two arms took turns pressing forward, and a strange tan puppet with obvious elbows, knuckles and knees, wrapped in tan oily cloth strips and with red and yellow clown paint on its face, appeared in front of everyone.

"Is this '2-049'?"

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

'2-049' raised his head and looked at Klein with his pure black pupils.

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

As its mouth opened, revealing the dark and deep cavity inside, Klein, who was staring at it, felt his hair stand on end, and a sudden and inexplicable strong fear arose in his heart.

until.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Yu Jin standing beside him, and Yu Jin raised his hand.

Bounce! "Bang!"

The puppet fell to the ground suddenly, as if it had hit something and knocked itself down.

no doubt.

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

And while it was influencing Klein, it was also influencing Embers.

"Thanks……"

Klein stared with some fear at the somewhat funny puppet that was slumped in a duck-like position on the floor of the carriage.

Just such a small thing almost took his life!

"It should."

Ember shook his head.

It’s not time to fight the BOSS yet, so we can’t let the NPC die at the hands of the monsters.

Otherwise, no one will help him resist the damage.

"Kakaka~"

It took the puppet a while to recover, and it used its palms to support the floor of the carriage to stay away from the embers.

It looks like a frog with its limbs turned backwards, which is quite funny.

But with its weird abilities and nightmare-inducing appearance, no one would want to laugh.

"Kakaka!"

The puppet stood up using its hands and feet, then forced itself to turn 180 degrees.

Only one head was left staring at the embers, and finally he even turned his head away, using his hands and feet to leap forward.

It tried to jump off the carriage and run away.

Then, it was caught back by a large hand covered in leather armor.

"Follow!"

Dunn pointed in the direction the puppet wanted to escape and gave orders in a deep voice.

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

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

He tried to jump off the carriage faster than before.

But every time at the last step, they would be ruthlessly caught back.

According to the direction the puppet tried to escape, Leonard adjusted the direction of the carriage again and again.

The carriage galloped at a high speed and soon drove into the dock area and came to where the warehouses were gathered.

After circling around several times, the direction in which the puppet tried to escape remained the same -

He wanted to go to the gray-white warehouse at the innermost part.

"That's it!"

Al Hassan's expression became serious. He nodded to Yu Jin who was holding the puppet, and helped him stuff the puppet back into the iron-black box. At the same time, violent banging sounds were heard from the iron box again.

Then, he turned on the mechanical switch with difficulty, and injected spirituality into it to activate the star 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 other people.

"Get out of the car."

After watching them do all this, Dunnes's deep and mellow voice rang out, "Everyone be careful, there's a high chance that Rel Bieber is nearby."

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

"Do not."

Al Hassan shook his head and looked at Yu Jin under Dunn's puzzled gaze, "Yu Jin, how do you feel?"

"no problem."

Yu Jin nodded slightly and said calmly, "I am sure that I can completely isolate the influence of '2-049'."

"it is good."

Al Hassan breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly, "Yu Jin, carry the box and walk in front. Everyone else must make sure to stay within five meters of him!"

"Ok?"

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

In his opinion, holding '2-049' alone is tantamount to seeking death!

"Do as he says."

Dunn was silent for a moment, then spoke slowly.

He believed in Al Hassan's judgment and also believed that the young man named Embers would not joke with his own life.

Furthermore.

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

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

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

And from some details in the original work, it can be seen that it also knows to pick on the weak.

Therefore, only Sequence 9 and fortune teller Xiao Ke was hit more times than others.

Of course, it can also be called survivor bias.

But there is a clear description in the original book that 'just on the way from underground to the carriage, the sealed object "'2-049'" caused six delays, two of which I experienced'.

There are six people in total, and they cannot be affected consecutively, which means that one person can only be affected three times at most in six times.

As a result, Kesong was affected twice, and he happened to be the only one with Sequence Nine among all the people.

I can't think of any other possibilities except picking on the weak...

Well, of course, it could also be because the fortune tellers sympathize with each other.

(End of this chapter)