Chapter 195: Encirclement and Suppression of Aurora Order Members
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From the moment Hobert kicked the door open to when the 'Shadow Ascetic' was riddled with bullets, it took no more than a minute, and the capture operation concluded successfully.
Borgia asked Hobert, "Shall we go together to support the other teams? Should we leave Loretta to clean up the battlefield herself?"
When he first met Hobert, Hobert was just a Sequence 9, and a wild Beyonder at that, naturally short-tempered.
But now Hobert could single-handedly deal with a Sequence 7. Borgia had the insight to see this. His and Loretta's final shots were just for a sense of participation. Even without their shots, Hobert would have been fully capable of taking down the enemy.
Borgia's politeness to Hobert was, in fact, an acknowledgment of Hobert's strength.
Hobert nodded. "Okay, which team is closest to us?"
"The team capturing Heyman," Borgia replied.
As soon as Hobert heard Heyman's name, he immediately said to Loretta, "Leave this to you, let's go."
Just as Hobert and Borgia got into the carriage, many people who had been awakened by the gunshots began to poke their heads out to investigate.
Loretta held up her badge. "Police business!"
Everyone was frightened and quickly retracted their heads.
On the other side, in the carriage, Borgia was explaining the plan to capture Heyman: "According to our analysis, Heyman should be a 'Swindler', a very cunning and agile Sequence.
"Therefore, we have deployed a Sequence 8 and two Sequence 9s to capture him, and we are carrying a Grade 3 Sealed Artifact."
Hobert nodded. Thomas was indeed an experienced Nighthawk, knowing where to deploy 'heavy troops'.
Although 'Swindlers' don't have many bizarre Beyonder abilities, underestimating them would definitely lead to a great loss.
The carriage sped along the deserted streets. Even if there were pedestrians on the road, they quickly made way.
The Southern Bridge District mainly consisted of residential areas, without many bustling streets, so the streets were very quiet at night.
Hobert and Borgia, who were chatting idly in the carriage, suddenly sensed danger with their spirituality.
Before they could react, a huge black shadow crashed into the horses pulling the carriage. While knocking the horses away, the shadow raised its long, sharp claws and tore one of the horses in half, scattering horse blood, intestines, and internal organs all over the ground.
The out-of-control carriage crashed into a building on the side of the street. Fortunately, Hobert acted quickly and "Teleported" himself, Borgia, and the coachman to the side of the street one after another.
Bang~
The wooden carriage crashed into the wall, suffering severe damage.
Using the light from the gas street lamps, Hobert and the others saw a humanoid monster covered in black. It was tall, at least three and a half meters, with long limbs and long, sharp claws.
Its head was very peculiar, composed of individual eyeballs and a clump of hair, without any other organs. The entire head was like those eyeballs were bundled together with hair.
Just making eye contact with any one of the eyeballs would make one feel as if the madness deep within the soul was being released, and reason would gradually be lost.
Hobert and Borgia both looked away.
At the same time, they were a little surprised. This was Backlund, after all. Why would such an aggressive monster appear here?
The monster seemed to enjoy killing. With another swipe of its claws, it tore off the head of the other horse.
Then, it set its sights on the coachman behind Hobert and Borgia.
The coachman was an employee of the Blackthorn Security Company and had basic professional qualities. He didn't panic at all and immediately fled in the opposite direction.
Hobert "Teleported" the cane from the carriage into his hand while summarizing the monster's behavior: bloodthirsty; and targeting weaker lives; its intelligence doesn't seem to be very high.
While thinking, he and Borgia drew out their canes from the left and right.
Smack~
The cane clearly struck the monster's thigh, but it felt like hitting an iron pillar.
Borgia's cane was directly broken, and the other half in his hand flew out. The hand holding the cane was even shaken to the point of bleeding between his thumb and forefinger.
Hobert's cane was made of special materials, so it only numbed his hand without breaking.
The two men's strikes were not without effect. The monster's two long, thin legs were broken, and the monster fell to the ground, its eyeballs scattered everywhere.
Hobert was still wondering: Did we just take it down?
Judging from the monster's appearance, it didn't seem like it would be so easily dealt with.
At this time, two Nighthawks chased over, shouting as they ran, "Don't let the eyeballs get close to any flesh and blood!"
But their warning was already too late. Several eyeballs had already rolled to the corpses of the two horses.
The flesh and blood of the corpses, upon touching the horse blood, were like clay being sculpted by some force. Almost instantly, they turned into two humanoid monsters with slender limbs and hairy bodies.
The heads of the two new monsters were composed of long hair and eyes. Four huge horse eyes also joined the ranks of the "eyes".
The eyeballs on the ground regrouped towards the first monster that appeared. When they reunited on that tall, slender body more than three meters high, the monster's broken legs suddenly changed. A joint actually grew out of the broken bone, and such a serious injury was actually "healed" by itself!
During this scene, Hobert did not blindly take any action, but carefully observed the monster's changes.
At this time, the coachman had already gone far away. The three monsters simultaneously charged towards the Sequence 9 among the pursuers.
Hobert took action, using the "Teleportation Statue" to move and change the positions of the three monsters, preventing them from attacking the Sequence 9.
Taking advantage of this gap, the Nighthawk who had come to chase quickly said: "This is a monster summoned by Heyman using some method, and it has already killed many people."
Two of the eyeballs, like they had transformed the corpses of the two horses, transformed the corpse of a victim, entangling three Nighthawks. The monster's main body therefore escaped the control of the Nighthawks.
The three Nighthawks, with one companion seriously injured, managed to deal with the transformed monster and then quickly chased over.
The three monsters were temporarily controlled by Hobert using the "Teleportation Statue" within a range of a dozen meters. Just as they were about to run out of the "Teleportation Statue's" control range, Hobert "Teleported" them back to their original positions. If they kept running like this, they would never be able to escape.
Hobert said to Borgia, who had good marksmanship, "Shoot those eyeballs!"
Obviously, those eyes were the key.
Borgia raised his gun, but his hand trembled violently: "No, I can't make eye contact with those eyes."
At this time, the monsters seemed to have sensed the existence of the "Teleportation Statue", knowing that they were trapped here, all because of that stone.
So, they changed their habits and began to charge towards Hobert, the strongest here.
Hobert didn't dodge, but instead threw the pen he carried with him towards the monster's "main body", completing the process of "bribery": "Weaken!"
He had already found a way to deal with this monster.
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