New Gods of North America.

Chapter 413 Peripheral Members
A spacious carriage left first, surrounded by the crowd, and the accompanying carriage team also took away most of the guards at the scene.

Wayne confirmed the man's appearance from a distance through the telescope, "This is the Tyrell priest from the Exorcist Association."

Then three carriages, one large and two small, left, and a considerable number of guards were missing from the manor.

Wayne recognized the George Berg church carriage, "Reverend Bazzini is gone too."

Next is the configuration of two carriages, like a priest with several followers,

Wayne recalled for a moment, and tried to remember the other person's appearance with Inissa beside him, "I don't know him, so I'll just write middle-aged A."

Then there are middle-aged B, fat C, bald D, thin E...

There were two people among them that Wayne had met in the cathedral before. At that time, Bishop Corleone used Wayne as a target to "blame others with indirect criticism". They should be priests or exorcists in some unknown city in Virginia.

The guests in the manor left one after another, and the number of servants seemed to gradually return to the size it was during the day.
The two guys still left at the door of the manor house looked very much like the "masterminds".

One was an old acquaintance, Reverend Pycelle, and the other was an unknown middle-aged or young old man.

Wayne compromised a bit and decided to call him Middle-aged F.

Lina objected on the other side, "Wait, this is Reverend Norton from South Carolina. It's unclear what he's responsible for, but he's not a local parish priest."

"You know him?"

"We all know the members who went to Atlanta before. Right? Strange noise."

"Yes, Miss Lina."

"Okay... Doug, change it. Reverend Norton, an out-of-towner. Our detective agency has no grudge against him, right?"

"No. He teamed up with a bad sheriff to target us. We happened to run into him on the road on our way back and beat him up. He probably doesn't know it was us who did it."

"..."

Wayne didn't know whether he should trust the agents' expertise. "Doug, mark this point."

"Yes, sir."

Finally, even Reverend Pycelle left the manor in a carriage, and only the foreign priest returned to the main house surrounded by servants.

Wayne was a little convinced now. "This manor is registered with the exorcism department as the property of a wealthy man in South Carolina. The person who is staying here now is a pastor from the same state. Is he coming for you? He arranged for people to attack the detective agency. Is he taking revenge on you?"

"It shouldn't be..."

Lina turned her head and looked at the "strange noise" and then turned back to her, seeming a little unsure, "We acted very strategically. We covered his face and no one spoke. We all wore gloves."

Wayne thought for a moment, "What if the other party knows some extraordinary person with special abilities? Or like you, he can pray to the 'wise sage' for enlightenment or something like that."

Lina responded quickly, "Then he is a heretic. If he were in the Old World, he could be sent to the Inquisition by simply reporting him to the Vatican."

...If someone else moves in, the place will be ruined, but if you move in it will be like coming home, right?
Wayne felt that the whole thing seemed to be a bit of a mess now.
But since the other party is related to this manor, it can be considered a blessing in disguise.

To put it in context, Mr. Weissman said that Mr. Baker had visited here secretly, which means that the owner of the manor has some unclear relationship with Cohen Pharmaceuticals.

Now that this South Carolina pastor and the two attackers from last night are all staying in the manor, it means that they are in the same group.

To round it off, the people on the Cohen Pharmaceuticals side are definitely not "friends", and the ones who attacked the detective agency are even less so.

As for those who visited tonight, it’s hard to say…

The old man, Reverend Pycelle, is a bit tricky now. He doesn't look like a good person. The cathedral has arranged for the detective agency to investigate him.
It seemed inappropriate to "discard" it, and it felt a little off to "improve" it. Inessa noticed that a servant drove a carriage to the front of the annex, and Doug's owl was also flying towards them.

So she reminded them, "It seems that the two people in the annex are going to take action again tonight."

This is just in time.

No matter how big the bowl of rice is, you have to eat it bite by bite.

……

One to say one,

After the detective agency had been "waiting for the rabbit" for so many days in a row, Wayne felt that it was indeed more enjoyable to be in the state of "the enemy is in the open and I am in the dark".

Connor and "Strange Noise" were left to guard near the manor.

Wayne drove two carriages and quietly followed the other party.

Before the other party set off, Peter secretly hid the dead leaves that Inessa had smeared with medicine on the carriage that the servants had prepared for the two attackers.
Then, several people followed each other from a distance, and even the kerosene lamps on the carriages could not see each other, and they set out on the familiar journey back to the detective agency.

Wayne's simple line vision "radar" function can actually achieve this "beyond visual range tracking" effect.

Unfortunately, that thing can only last for fifteen minutes at most. When the time is up, it will automatically explode. Even if we don't consider the possibility of alerting the opponent in advance, the durability is not high enough.

For now, it is more suitable to nail those guys who can be "invisible" in actual combat.

When they were still three miles away from the detective agency, the two guys parked the carriage in a grove of trees by a river tributary and walked.

After Wayne and his team found the enemy's carriage, they asked Doug to release an owl to look for people in the night sky, and then drove the enemy's carriage away. By the way, they asked Liam to go back to the detective agency in advance to warn them.

Several partners stayed where they were, thinking about how to surprise each other later.

These two guys are not easy to deal with, especially the one that can make a bunch of smelly "cancer cells" grow on the tree trunk after touching it.

Touching a tree is so scary, I wonder what a person would become if he were touched by it.

Everyone guessed that he must be a Beyonder in the "Abyss" realm. If they couldn't keep him, they would have to send him away.

Many members of the detective agency were divided into different areas and were located "opposite" him. If Wayne didn't have a lot of undigested spiritual power in his stomach, they would have been reluctant to keep any prisoners.

It's a pity that these two guys didn't have much fighting spirit tonight.
Soon, gunshots and explosions were heard in the detective agency's courtyard. Fireworks were occasionally seen rising in the sky. It was as lively as New Year's Eve.
After the noise died down, the agents followed Doug and his team over with fishing nets, and watched from nearby as they emerged from the river and climbed ashore.

When they were a little further away from the riverbank, the lampshades of the kerosene lamps were suddenly lifted, and everyone was holding their guns and setting up nets.

The two of them looked at the surrounding situation and immediately raised their hands in surrender:
"Don't do it! We are also from the church."

Liam quickly put the blame on her, "Shit! How dare you tarnish the reputation of the church? You must be an imposter! Kill him first!"

The other party's desire to survive was obviously stronger, and he changed his words without thinking, "I... We are bounty hunters."

Well……

Although the topic took a slightly strange turn, the result was pretty good.

Then the agents threw ropes over and asked them to tie up their teammates' wrists and knees.
After taking it back to the detective agency for a brief examination, they also looked through some items in the carriage.
"Ah? You guys are really peripheral members of the Exorcist Association?!"

(End of this chapter)