Chapter 335 Backlund's Night
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Bennett, with his large ears, was listening to his subordinate's report: "Are you saying the Hobert family's faith is in the Evernight Goddess?"
The subordinate nodded and said, "Yes, yes, because the newspapers have been frequently publishing news about the Hobert family recently, and information about their family is easy to find out."
Bennett stood up from his chair and paced back and forth in front of several subordinates: "He has big problems! He has big problems! How could a believer of the Evernight Goddess think of asking 'Machinery Hivemind' for help in the first place?
"For more than two months, we have been monitoring and tracking on this street. Almost everyone in the South of the Bridge has been monitored by us, but we still haven't found any clues!
"I knew it, we must have missed something before, it must be so!
"Now we are clear, the problem lies with Hobert!"
He said to everyone, "Let everyone come back, tomorrow we will go to Feynapotter!"
Before several subordinates could go out to deliver the order, a person in charge of surveillance ran back to report: "Captain! The masked man has appeared?"
In the dreams of the residents of Rose Street, someone had seen a masked man appear on Rose Street on the day of the incident.
At that time, Bennett suspected that the masked man must be an important suspect, but since they started monitoring, the masked man has not appeared again.
(Because of the particularity of the church, it is difficult for them to see Hobert and others entering and leaving the church even in their dreams, so they have not suspected Bishop Utravsky until now.)
Everyone in the room was stunned, and then they all looked at Barnett.
Bennett slowly sat back in his chair: "Maybe, maybe there is some discrepancy with my previous guess?
"The people who attacked our compatriots are not local forces in Backlund at all! They left immediately after they succeeded?"
A subordinate asked, "Then, Hobert's side..."
"Keep an eye on the masked man first!" Bennett said, "But only two people should follow! Don't all of you follow!"
The subordinate was a little puzzled: "Aren't we going to catch him?
Bennett said, "Why did he suddenly appear in Backlund? Maybe this is a trap?"
...
Bennett was right, this was indeed a trap set by Hobert.
Wearing the original middle-aged man's face, he left the Harvest Church. After leaving Rose Street, he found a corner to change to another face and put on a mask made of "Order Crystal".
Hobert wandered around Rose Street and deliberately stopped in front of the house Apton had rented.
But when he took a taxi carriage to the factory area, he found that only one carriage was following him.
The taxi carriage stopped in front of an abandoned factory. This factory was where Hobert, when he was still Sequence 9, worked with Xio to eliminate an outer member of the "Aurora Society".
After waiting in the factory for half an hour, Hobert was a little disappointed. There were still only two people in the corner!
It seems that the leader of the other party is very calm! Hobert took out his pocket watch and glanced at it. It was almost eight o'clock. He couldn't wait any longer, so he had to change his plan.
So he started to act, quickly walked out of the factory. Before the two people who were staking out could react, Hobert had already used "Blink" to come to them, and the Tang sword that had already been drawn pierced the heart of one enemy.
The other enemy ran away quickly, but Hobert reached out and grabbed him, using the "Dream Stealing Pocket Watch" to steal his idea of running away. After only a few steps, the enemy stood on the street with a confused expression.
Hobert took a step forward and stabbed again, and the two Sequence 8s who were in charge of staking out were killed in this way.
Hobert used the ability of the "Spirit Wine Glass" to accelerate the precipitation of the Beyonder characteristics on the two people.
After collecting the two Beyonder characteristics, Hobert saw that the other party still did not take action, so he returned to the abandoned factory and used "Travel" to Nikola Street in the workshop that blocked the outside view.
...
At this time, Bennett and others were actually hiding nearby. He believed that the masked man led his group to the sparsely populated abandoned factory, and there must be an ambush.
When the two subordinates were killed, Bennett was about to order a rush to rescue, but before the subordinates could regroup, the masked man took away even the Beyonder characteristics.
Bennett still did not rush to order to rush over. The masked man's actions almost confirmed his guess. He felt that the masked man's accomplices must be ambushing nearby. Now it was time to compare patience. Whoever exposed the existence of the main force first would become passive.
As for the masked man's abilities, they were too far away to see clearly, but it seemed that he was extremely good at close combat, otherwise it would be impossible to solve two Sequence 8s in such a short period of time.
Watching the masked man enter the factory, Barnett's spirituality felt something, and the sense of danger just now disappeared.
He was slightly stunned, and then seemed to realize something, and quickly led people to rush over, searched around the factory, where was the masked man's trace?
Everyone looked at Bennett again. Usually, the captain's decisions were always very wise, and his words and deeds were always very intelligent, but tonight, how come his wisdom and brilliance did not seem to be brought into play?
Bennett frowned, and suddenly he shouted: "Damn! Go to Nikola Shipyard!"
While speaking, he took out a sealed artifact in the shape of a pen, put one hand on the shoulder of a helper, and the figures of the two gradually disappeared into the spirit world.
...
Time returned to more than ten minutes ago, Hobert used "Travel" to come to Nikola Street.
This street was already empty, only the office buildings or dormitory buildings in the factory were still lit.
Hobert quickly came to No. 1668. Seeing that the office building of "Nikola Shipyard" was still lit, he simply used "Blink" to enter the bathroom inside the office building while no one was around.
Hobert heard that the hall outside was noisy, as if a lot of people were gathered.
What he didn't know was that Bennett had just sent a message, asking Alva, the greasy-looking Backlund person in charge who liked to smoke cigars, to gather people to support the factory area.
Alva only learned tonight that the council had sent a team to secretly investigate the killing of family members.
He did not dare to neglect, and quickly gathered people. Because he had not notified in advance, only half of his subordinates had gathered at this time.
Hobert in the bathroom did not know these inside stories, but he also guessed that these people might be preparing to support the factory area.
So Hobert took out the "Teleportation Statue" from the box made of "Order Crystal", and used the statue to sense that the people outside were basically Sequence 8 and Sequence 9, with only three Sequence 7s and one Sequence 6.
The person in charge of the Tamara family in Backlund may not be outside at all.
Hobert also injected spirituality into the "Traveler's Knife". The "Travel" ability had already recovered. If he couldn't beat them, he could escape at any time.
So he opened the door generously and walked out openly, all the way to the vicinity of the Tamara family's dozen Beyonders. Some Beyonders reacted: "You are..."
What greeted him was a knife with a black light.
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