Returning to the Inspectorate, Mo Zhi submitted an application to Lady Catherine again and spent the entire afternoon at the shooting range.
It's not because I'm nervous, I just feel that it's urgent to improve my strength...
The first time I participate in a battle between contractors, I always feel excited. Yes, excited, not nervous.
Mo Cai looked at the target paper with bullet holes still scattered, and for a moment he had the illusion that joining the Punisher seemed to be a mistake.
After firing hundreds of rounds, at nightfall, the mechanical watch finally received the communication:
Vera: "Assemble in the office!"
Turning around and going upstairs, the team members were already ready, and Uncle Cat was back and sitting at his desk.
Captain Vera entered the office with a stranger.
"This is a colleague sent by the Ministry of Supervision for support, Captain Aubrey Bacon of Punisher City, Blackwater Province."
Looking over, Mo Yi saw that Aubrey Bacon was about 40 years old, from the East, wearing a long robe, and carrying a two-handed sword on his back;
What is incongruous is that he wears a somewhat worn straw hat on his head...
"Hello everyone, it's an honor to cooperate with you." Aubrey Bacon bowed slightly, greeted the Punishers of Hot Spring City very politely, and at the same time stretched out his right hand and took off his straw hat.
Well...he is an old man with a smooth head, and only a little hair on both sides of his temples.
"Hello!" Uncle Cat replied in a mature and solemn manner, but when the cat's eyes saw "Mediterranean Sea", his voice was a little erratic.
"Well..." Captain Vera clenched her fist and pretended to cough, cleared her throat, and introduced with a serious expression:
"Mr. Bacon is an old contractor. He has rich combat experience and is the best among our punishers..."
…
After waiting for more than half an hour and the night getting darker, a group of six people and Lao Mao came out of the building of the Supervision Office and got into two cars.
Aubrey had to take off the one-meter-long broad sword from his back, hold it in his arms, and then reluctantly sit in the passenger seat.
"Our biggest problem is that we can't find Von Jackman, so I applied for the corresponding contract items and was escorted over by Mr. Bacon..." Vera said as she started the car.
"This delayed a lot of time!" Aubrey laughed: "Pandora's application process is very complicated and the process is disappointing."
"Do you like wearing straw hats?" Douglas asked the senior Punisher.
"Actually, I prefer to wear a top hat, you know..." Aubrey Bacon pointed to the top of his barren head: "To cover my hairline."
"But, you know, the Black Sea Province is in the south, and the top hat is too hot..."
You no longer have a hairline, okay...
The vehicle started, and Vera turned to look at Aubrey, interrupting the chat between several people:
"let us start!"
Aubrey Bacon nodded and took out a strange-looking ruler from his large robe...
A copper ruler with two metal rods at right angles to each other. Holding the vertical metal rod below, the horizontal metal rod above begins to move silently.
It's a bit like... a dragon-seeking ruler! Unexpectedly, I found a "name" similar to this thing from the impression of my previous life.
I saw Aubrey opening the information handed over by Captain Vera, finding a photo of Scalpel Von Jackman, and placing the bottom end of the vertical metal rod on top of the photo.
"Orange-level symbol source language, search!" Aubrey turned his head slightly and explained to Mozhi and Douglas sitting in the back row:
"When using it, use the bottom end against the person or object you are looking for, so that a connection can be established... Then the source of the symbol is activated, and the horizontal ruler above can lock the direction of the target."
"Search"... Mozhi suddenly realized that this was the contract item that Vera applied for.
Indeed, the most difficult thing about dealing with Von Jackman is that the opponent has always been hidden. It can be said that there is no trace at all. Even if the two puppets monitor him twenty-eight hours a day, they still can't find any trace of the target.
If you can lock the opponent's position, then the rest will be much simpler - only fighting is left.
Just as Muzhi was preparing to observe how the "search" worked with great interest, Aubrey Bacon turned to look at Captain Vera and pointed at Muzhi and Douglas in the back row:
"Both these two guys have poor fighting abilities?"
"Yes, one is a newcomer, and the other is a ten-year white level..." Vera nodded and said, "As you command, let them sit in the same car as us."
"That's good!" Aubrey Bacon handed over the search ruler and the information with a smile on his face:
"Then it's up to you to activate this thing. As a combat supporter, I need to conserve my strength to deal with Von Jackman..."
Suddenly I had a very bad feeling...
Douglas next to him was full of interest and reached out to take the search ruler and information: "Just do it as you demonstrated just now?"
"Yes..." Aubrey Bacon turned around and looked forward without looking back.
As a result, a burst of talisman fluctuations...
The source of the symbol flashed in Douglas's hand, and a faint orange light suddenly emitted from the search ruler. The metal rod at the top began to rotate rapidly, and finally pointed to the south.
Vera barely paused, stepped on the switch, and the car sped off towards the road indicated by the search ruler.
Luo Qing's car followed closely behind...
"Use the direction that can locate the target for an hour at a time. You don't have to hold the photo all the time..." Aubrey Bacon turned his head and glanced at Douglas, saying with some sympathy.
Unexpectedly, through the dim light, his eyes fell on Douglas's face, and he suddenly shuddered.
In just a few seconds, Douglas's eyes were sunken, his cheeks shrank, and his face was as pale as a corpse...
"You should know...activating orange-level contract items requires the support of a large number of talisman sources..." Vera looked back through the rearview mirror and asked nonchalantly:
"How do you feel, Douglas?"
"It's okay... Hey, why is my voice a little hoarse." Douglas didn't notice his changes at all. He stared at the search ruler in his hand and smiled nonchalantly:
"I just feel a little tired and my body feels hollowed out."
If you had a mirror now, you would know what you have become now... Mo Zhi couldn't help but say something in his heart:
It turns out that I, a newcomer who has been on the job for three days, only participated in the mission as a "blue bottle" to provide talisman sources.
fine;
There’s Douglas…
The two cars sped through the dark streets and finally arrived at the southern suburbs of Hot Spring City more than forty minutes later.
Ahead is the plain away from the city. The weeds on the ground are as high as half a person, blowing in the night wind like rolling waves...
The search ruler was still pointing firmly to the south... without moving at all.
"What's wrong?"
Aubrey looked at the direction of the pointer, then looked at the uninhabited wilderness in front of her, and looked at each other with Captain Vera.
"It's impossible for Scalpel von Jackman to live in the grass like a field mouse, right?" Douglas also noticed the abnormality and asked in a hoarse voice.
Vera Alexandra rubbed her temples: "Let's drive a little further! We lost sight of the search ruler..."
So, we continued on and headed straight onto the intercity expressway.
finally;
The search ruler lost its target, its orange light dissipating in the darkness;
The metal rod of the upper wishbone resumed its wandering state.
Park the car and everyone gathers together…
"Before it loses its effect, it always points south..." Douglas explained to the teammates around him with determination.
"Impossible!" Luo Qing frowned: "Did von Jackman leave Hot Spring City after committing the crime?"
Everyone fell into silence almost at the same time. Under the dark night, on the deep intercity highway, six people and one cat frowned at the same time...
"It's not in Hot Spring City anyway." Uncle Cat looked at the direction Douglas was pointing and made a not-so-funny joke:
"If you drive in this direction, you'll be able to reach Dongcheng City tomorrow morning..."
"There are only two possibilities..." Vera frowned: "Either von Jackman left Hot Spring City, or something went wrong with this thing."
"The search ruler can't be broken!" Aubrey Bacon said with some dissatisfaction: "This is an orange-level contract item stored by Pandora, so there will be no problems easily."
"Verification is easy, let's try again!"
After saying that, Aubrey Bacon's eyes looked unpredictable...
Wucao... Mobi looked at Douglas's haggard face and felt his scalp numb.
However, you can't escape...
"Let me try!" Mo Zhi took the search ruler from Douglas's hand, placed it against Von Jackman's photo, and activated the symbol source.
Suddenly, the search ruler in his hand was like a black hole, sucking all the talismans from his body instantly, along with some of the strength in his muscles...
A feeling of weakness suddenly came over me.
Unpredictable almost lost his footing, barely keeping his figure, and watched as the search ruler emitted a faint orange light again, and the horizontal arm on it once again pointed in the original direction—south!
This search ruler is a northerner who is afraid of the cold, so he longs for the south...
Several people present saw the direction of the cross arm and fell silent again.
"Are you going to continue driving in this direction?" Luo Qing pursed his lips and asked in surprise.
"Who knows how far this point is? If von Jackman is in the southern province, can we still chase him?" Vera shook her head:
"The Punishers can't all leave Hot Springs City."
"There's something wrong with this..."
The search ruler was tested twice with two people, both pointing in the same direction. This effect is equivalent to "double blind"...
There is no problem with the search ruler, so it only means that von Jackman is indeed no longer in Hot Spring City.
Mobi took a deep breath, not daring to imagine what he looked like now. He shook his slightly tired body and returned the search ruler in his hand to Aubrey.
When I pulled out the information below, I glanced at the photo of Von Jackman below...
My mind, which had been feeling exhausted, suddenly tightened.
An inexplicable familiar feeling shocked his heart!
