The chase continued, and high-temperature rays continued to appear in Hesta's path. These invisible attacks failed to hit her body, but left a continuous burn mark on the building behind her.
She noticed that Victoria's sniper team was forcing her to escape in the direction of the reserve base, but Hesta was not fooled. Whenever everyone's position began to shift, she always quickly escaped from the crowd and returned to Church dome.
She provocatively imitated the movements of every mercury needle present, using the remaining photos in her hand as flying blades to strike back at the pursuers behind her from time to time.
Victoria avoided these small fights with complicated emotions, because this was also the method she had used to fight enemies - the pieces of paper flying out at high speed were sometimes as sharp as a knife blade.
Leap, swerve, hover, dive——
Continuous pieces of paper grazed the tip of Victoria's nose, the ends of her hair, the sides of her shoulders, and the soles of her feet. They went straight into the bronze statue not far behind her, leaving a series of neat cuts.
"Is that all you can do?" Victoria sneered. She suddenly changed her previous mid-range combat strategy and suddenly accelerated towards the assassin.
The fire support in the distance temporarily stopped, and Victoria held a thorn similar to the assassin to fight with it - facing chelates, the best way to annihilate the enemy in close combat is to stab the brain, but it is not necessary, Mercury Needles have always avoided such close encounters.
Except for Chiba Masaki, no one comes up and fights directly... It's too easy to get hurt.
However, Victoria didn't think so. Although the assassin had just attacked Zoe at close range, it was when the strength of the two sides was completely unequal. Once a close combat occurs, the actual risk the assassin has to bear may be much higher than himself - the assassin has worked so hard to disguise his identity and would never dare to easily leave his own blood sample.
"Let me see - your true ability!"
…
At this moment, Tan Yi fell into silence.
In the tavern a few blocks away from the church, many people were taking emergency refuge inside the building. People strictly extinguished all the lights in the room in accordance with the requirements of "Chelation Disease Evacuation Methods". Everyone held their breath and listened to the sound in the dark. A hail of bullets everywhere.
Some residents living in high-rise buildings moved to the windows in fear. They quietly opened a corner of the curtains and tried to see what was happening outside.
However, before they could clearly see the situation in the distance, a figure suddenly flashed past them, startling everyone.
That was Chiba Masaki speeding along the deserted street.
On the way back from the wasteland to the province of Nia, she smelled the smell of battle.
…
Victoria is still fighting the assassin in close combat.
Everything went as she expected. When she clung to the assassin and fought with the first goal of stabbing the assassin's body, the opponent's will to attack seemed to be quickly weakened. It gave up attacking rashly and even stopped actively defending. Everything returned to the state when they first met - one desperately chasing, the other desperately hiding.
The assassin was like a loach in the water. He dodges to the left and is so slippery that no one can catch him. However, even so, it still does not deviate from its own direction - it always takes the church dome as the origin of its actions and never moves to other places.
Because of this, the balance of victory seems to be slowly tilting towards Victoria.
The assassin's movements were limited, and Victoria quickly found her own fighting rhythm. When things went smoothly, her short knife even cut through the cloak behind the assassin. Everyone could see that the assassin's moves were coming. were defeated one by one.
But...why doesn't it run?
The sun in the distant sky was setting. When the last ray of rays was replaced by the light blue night, the assassin plunged into the bell tower, followed by Victoria. In an instant, the glass with the image of the Virgin and the Child was painted. They were smashed to pieces.
Deep red, sapphire blue, green... Accompanied by the incessant sound of explosions, the broken glass pieces stayed in the air for a short time, and then fell, causing a fierce shattering sound on the ground.
Inside the dark bell tower, the two used shocking destructive power to destroy everything that stood between them - stone pillars, hanging ladders, beams... Gray-white dust spread outward from the damaged glass windows.
The other Mercury Needles approached the bell tower one after another. They listened to the sounds inside the building and were ready to give Victoria the necessary assistance when the two rushed out of the bell tower again.
"Everyone... stay away from the clock tower immediately," Victoria's order came from the earphone. "Don't expose yourself to the naked eye. Unless the assassin attacks the ground unit, don't take the initiative to attack."
All executed promptly.
Susie asked with concern: "How are you doing there, Victoria?"
"The Assassin..." Victoria's voice was accompanied by urgent breathing, "The Assassin seems to be entering the Acheron moment——"
Everyone was startled.
During the Acheron moment, the final burst of the mercury needle, the person's ability will continue to increase by 20 to 150 times based on the original bullet time, but it usually only lasts for tens of seconds to a few minutes.
When the Acheron hour ends, the mercury needles will die of severe haemorrhage, just as the chelates die naturally.
——In this case, the assassin is really a mercury needle.
Everyone immediately understood Victoria's order. During the last period of time, the assassin would be invincible.
They quickly left the church and retreated in all directions. All the mercury needles invariably went to the nearest police deployment point - if the assassin lost his mind and attacked people or police officers, they still needed to attract as much firepower as possible.
"Theresa..." Endai suddenly raised her head and called her friend in an unbelievable tone.
"What's wrong?"
"Did I see it wrong..." Endai murmured in a low voice, "Why does it seem like there is someone on the top of the bell tower?"
Several mercury needles raised their heads at the same time.
At this moment, the assassin and Victoria broke through the roof of the clock tower one after another. Under the gloomy sky, the two looked like two migratory birds fighting.
The scarred bell tower was already crumbling, and Stella immediately realized the danger. She held the camera tightly in her hand and grabbed the nearby iron fence with her other hand. However, this did not work. When a stone pillar close to the ground It collapsed suddenly, and the stone platform on the top floor also tilted.
Before Stella could readjust her posture, she lost her balance and fell backwards.
At the same time, the assassin and Victoria, who had jumped to the highest point, also began to fall.
In the twilight before nightfall, the sky showed a deep ink-colored blue. Victoria faced the enemy on her back. Above her, the cold wind blew the assassin's cloak like a battle flag——
It's now!
Stella held her breath and pressed the shutter - she captured the moment, she captured this incomparable moment.
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