"This..." The smile on Pauler's face froze, "The assassin is not really still alive..."
"Why else would I stay here now?"
Pauler once again felt a chill in his back. He reached for the phone receiver on the table, tried it three or four times before successfully picking up the landline phone, and ordered the people below to quickly go to the reserve base to maintain order.
…
At dusk, the street lights gradually light up, and people take to the streets to go home or go to a pub to sit in the rosy glow.
Stella had been walking around the city alone for a day, and now she was resting in a small flower bed in the city center.
She took some photos today - using her newly bought second-hand Capa II camera. Stella originally wanted to show this newly bought camera to Victoria, but she didn't expect that this person was gone all day today. Appear.
She stood up and walked towards home, and suddenly she found many people standing in front of the church, looking up at the dome of the church.
Stella was a little strange, so she also ran over to take a look.
At the highest point of the church, there was a dark figure standing there motionless. The setting sun shone on that figure, as if there was an unknown stone statue on the church's steeple. The sounds of police cars and ambulances were heard in the distance - some enthusiastic citizens thought someone was about to commit suicide and directly called the police and ambulance.
Out of some professional sense, Stella immediately pointed the camera at this person, found a good angle, and took several photos in succession.
"It's moving! It's moving!" People around him exclaimed.
Through the lens, Stella saw the person suddenly running on the roof of the church. Her movements were so light, like a swallow whirling between the beams. As she ran, she threw things out from her big bag. Something - they were flying high in the sky like flakes of snow, like swirling leaves falling.
The people on the ground shouted again: The church weirdo jumped directly from the dome of the main hall to the nearby bell tower.
People looked at everything in front of them excitedly. Which acrobatic group's open-air performance was this? Is it a movie currently being shot? Or some other part of the celebration - whatever it is, it's wonderful!
The snowflakes that had fallen from high in the sky had already fallen, and people excitedly reached out to catch them and grab them. One of them happened to fly in front of Stella. As soon as she stretched out her hand, the piece of paper flew into her fingers. between seams.
This is a piece of white photographic paper.
Stella turned it over. The photo showed a close-up of Schmidt. The old police inspector was standing under the street lamp, and the servant holding an umbrella for him just blocked his left arm.
In an instant, Stella recognized the weirdo on the bell tower.
...Assassin.
At the same time, more mercury needles appeared in people's field of vision. They flew over the walls and cut through the sky from unexpected directions. They flew up along the raised stone wall outside the bell tower and quickly approached the assassin.
This highly entertaining and shocking scene caused more screams.
Harsh sirens and sharp whistles came from not far away, and police cars in special uniforms began to drive away the crowd of people watching under the church. Stella held her head and hid behind a nearby trash can, taking advantage of the police not paying attention. , quickly picked up several other photos that had fallen on the ground.
The person in each photo is Schmidt, but Schmidt's movements are different in each photo. Stella quickly stuffed every photo she picked up into her coat pocket. In the chaos, she looked left and right at the positions of the police and the crowd, found an opening and rushed towards the church.
No one noticed her.
Stella ran along the damp and cold stone steps toward the church's basement—the entrance to the bell tower and the church's dome gallery were there.
At this moment, she felt that the blood all over her body was boiling.
If only I could capture a close-up of the assassin from the air...
It doesn’t take much…
One sheet is enough!
…
"It's still in the clock tower! Zoe! Don't be fooled by it, it's trying to trick you—"
Endai's anxious shouts came from the earphones. Zoe took off the earphone microphones hanging on her neck and ears. These small devices quickly fell down and disappeared in the wind.
They were so noisy that she couldn't concentrate.
Zoe stepped on the gargoyle head on the top of the bell tower and jumped gradually, circling the bell tower at a very fast speed, but she did not see the shadow of the assassin——
Of course she knew that the assassin was going in circles with her! But damn, she just couldn't catch this guy!
Today's assassin is more ferocious than ever before, and he has an additional weapon in his hand - not a locally sourced reinforced iron rod, but a thorn blade about forty centimeters long.
This way of fighting is easily reminiscent of another mercury needle who always uses thorns to fight...
"Zoe——!" Endai's heartbreaking voice came from the distance.
Before Zoe had time to think about why Endai suddenly went crazy, she felt a shadow behind her. She immediately kicked the wall to change direction, but it was too late——
Strong suffocation, uncontrollable fall, sudden stop, severe pain in the head.
She didn't have time to react.
All this was much crueler in Endai's eyes - the assassin suddenly appeared, strangled Zoe's neck from behind, and forced her to fall downwards, and then the two of them landed on a raised stone in the middle of the bell tower. On the beam, Zoe hit the wall with her head, and several pieces of gravel fell down.
These injuries were nothing to Zoe who had entered bullet time. Although the pain it caused was indeed very severe, Zoe still remained conscious. She struggled until a cold metal edge pressed against her brow bone.
——It was a 40-centimetre thorn in the assassin's hand. It only had to slide down a few centimeters to pierce Zoe's eyeball and stab into her brain.
Zoe froze.
At this moment, she smelled the strong smell of gunpowder smoke on the assassin's body and felt the assassin's powerful imprisonment. The disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves was as heavy as a thousand, and she couldn't breathe.
But then, Zoe suddenly raised her head to face the thorn in the assassin's hand——
The assassin seemed to have expected that she would resist in this way. The thorn lightly brushed Zoe's eyelids and was quickly put into its sleeve.
The assassin no longer strangled Zoe's neck. It let go and Zoe fell weightlessly, but before she could try to adjust her balance in the air, the assassin grabbed her left arm again, followed by a blow. A more ferocious elbow hit Zoe hard on the cheek.
——By the time Zoe came to her senses, her left arm was already in the assassin's hand.
The broken bionic arm quickly lost its color, revealing its original material texture.
Before Zoe had time to breathe, she saw the assassin suddenly leaping high and fleeing towards the back of the clock tower - Victoria and Susie were already chasing him.
Victoria's movements were very fast, almost as fast as the assassin. Even within bullet time, Zoe can only capture individual moments.
Suzy hugged Zoe and pulled away.
She leaned on Susie's shoulder and gasped, her mouth full of blood.
"It's taking revenge..." Zoe tried her best to speak, "It's taking revenge on us...in the Golden Crow Palace..."
"Quiet!" Susie scolded, "I will investigate you later for taking unauthorized actions against the arrangements."
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