New Gods of North America.

Chapter 443 Detour
"Our most critical task right now is to confirm the whereabouts of his accomplices.

"Logically speaking, once he, the most crucial character, successfully leaves safely, the other accomplices may get the news from some unknown channels, and then they will evacuate according to the plan separately, or they will meet at a pre-agreed place.

"And we can't completely count on him to keep his promise. Even if he does tell us where the other sealed objects are hidden later, his accomplices may unseal some of them in advance tonight to attract our attention, so that he can truly escape the control of the church."

Before Tom Hagen and Mackenzie Reeve officially completed the negotiations, some things had actually been agreed upon internally.
Although the real Willy did not appear, because the two hostages at this time were from the detective agency, the detective agency gave priority to the tracking job. As for dealing with the small riots that might be caused in the city, it was left to David Mills.

Unfortunately, the owl was injured by Anton Sieg before. Although it is not dead, one of its wings has been clipped and bandaged.

Now that the detective agency has lost its "little plane", it can only use stupid methods, such as having Peter pull a spider silk, and secretly placing a bottle with a small hole under the carriage, which will drip a drop of blood every once in a while.

I dare not use other extraordinary means. The opponent looks like neither human nor ghost this time.
I was also worried that he would develop some strange sensitivity to the extraordinary power, which would turn out to be counterproductive.

Inissa was a little worried about this, saying that if the distance was too far or it was during the day when there were a lot of people coming and going, she would easily lose track of the target.

However, Wayne still has confidence in her. After all, "having clues to follow" is more reliable than "looking for a needle in a haystack".

To deal with such evil people, there is no need to talk about the code of conduct, but before they reveal the information about other sealed objects, it is better to try to keep the table from being opened.
Although the church seems to have a lot of manpower, it is really not enough if they are spread across the entire city.

In order to show his sincerity and prevent any abnormal situation in the city, Tom Hagen temporarily withdrew his staff from a large area according to the negotiation content.

Only one or two secret sentries were deployed at key intersections to ensure that the enemy's movements would not be completely lost.

More people acted separately, trying to calm down any abnormality as soon as it occurred, and it would be even better if they could catch the troublemaker at the same time.

In order to prevent the other side from getting angry, Wayne's pursuit team also tried to adopt a dispersed and relay tracking mode.
Just keep your distance and don't lose it for now.

Some things do sound a bit long-winded. There were some fierce exorcists in the church before. They said that they should not trade with criminals. It's just a dozen seals. Even if there will be some casualties, it will not affect the operation of the entire city. If they spend some time and use some coercive measures, there will always be a chance to interrogate them.
In fact, given Tom Hagen and Wayne's personalities, things would be simpler if they could do this.

But sometimes law enforcers can only do their job in a sissy way.

The other party is not holding hostages on the spot, so the problem can be solved by just finding an opportunity to kill them. Instead, there are accomplices hiding in the dark, and the casualties that will be caused are still unknown.
The probability of possible casualties in the entire city may be only a few thousandths or ten thousandths, but for specific innocent people, the probability is 100%.

Wayne may not be afraid of accidents happening to him, but he can't do anything to gamble with the safety of ordinary citizens.

In a sense, for ordinary people, those who will not easily gamble with others are qualified law enforcers.

Even Emma, the little loli, came here only after agreeing to it. Wayne and Inessa were sitting in the same carriage, driven by Connor, while Wayne was reading a map in the carriage.

The city was still relatively quiet at night. Although the carriage in front was no longer visible, the straight-line distance was probably less than one kilometer.

The sound of horses' hooves could not be completely avoided. If they formed a "convoy", it would be very obvious in this situation. All they could do was to disperse themselves and control their speed as much as possible.

After about ten minutes, the carriage arrived at the so-called "civilian area" in the city.

The road conditions in this area have obviously become relatively narrow and crowded. The horse manure on the road is not cleaned up in a timely manner like in busy areas. It feels a bit fermented.

At this time, when they passed an intersection, Wayne listened to the direction pointed out by Inissa and the sound of horse hooves in front of him that seemed to suddenly become louder. He looked at the map and felt something was wrong.

I looked up at Inissa and saw that she seemed to have noticed it.

Inessa nodded slightly. "Well, the other party seems to be going in circles now. We just passed the next intersection not long ago."

They were afraid of confusing the spider silk with the smell, so Lina was secretly pulling the strings, so she followed the opponent's route. Inissa and Wayne were slightly off the route, so they were in a relatively "flanking" position.

If the other party were allowed to circle here for a few times, it would be easy to lose him even if the bottle on the carriage was not discovered.

Wayne chose to let Connor speed up a little. There were occasionally other carriages in the city at night, and the other party should not be surprised that there were pursuers behind them.

He opened his vision to the simple lines and began to observe both sides of the road with Inissa.

In theory, if someone who plans to escape starts to take a detour, it is either because someone is secretly watching and keeping watch, or they are planning to do something unexpected, such as going into an alley.
Sure enough, not long after, after passing two intersections that we had already passed, the sound of horse hooves in front of us seemed to suddenly disappear.

When they continued to move forward, Wayne saw a sign on the roadside and realized that things seemed not to be good.

"Damn it, his original plan might not have been to leave Georgeburg at all. Conor, turn back and go to the orphanage we just visited."

The roadside sign is a bit ugly and crude compared to modern society.
The information above is very simple.
On the one hand, it reminds people how to get to the orphanage after seeing the sign.

On the other hand, they told the citizens that the orphanage had received donations from Cohen Pharmaceuticals, thus helping them promote their good deeds.

(End of this chapter)