Qi Ji didn't look at them, but just nodded slightly, his eyes still on Nancy:
"You're pretty fast. It's only been less than half a day and you're already here."
Nancy walked towards us step by step with steady steps. As the distance between us shortened, her face, which had been blurred by the backlight, gradually became clearer.
"As an 'executor' supported by the Imperial Super Administration, the means I can use are of course much faster than ordinary transportation methods."
At this moment, the cloaked girl who had been sitting in the carriage without moving suddenly said softly with a hint of amusement:
"By the way, you who eats the government's food, didn't you notice anything wrong?"
"Ok?"
Hearing these words that seemed to be mocking, Nancy stopped and frowned.
She was not angry, but her expression changed immediately because she realized something crucial but overlooked from this sentence.
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A heavy solemnity instantly climbed onto Nancy's face. She immediately turned around, stretched out her right hand, and held her palm in front of her eyes, as if she was holding an invisible pot with one hand.
“Authoritativeness!”
She quickly pronounced a seemingly common word in the human common language.
Without any warning, a ray of candlelight ignited in the palm of her right hand, and after shaking a few times, it stabilized in a special shape.
It has an angular shape and at first glance looks like an orange-yellow crown, dancing unsteadily and spiritually in the delicate white palm.
An inexplicable pressure suddenly descended, covering the area of nearly 100 meters around without any omission.
All of a sudden, the weeds and bushes in the area fell flat on their backs as if they were crushed, and the ants, beetles and other insects on the ground also relaxed their legs, pressed down their bodies, and pressed their abdomens against the ground.
Even the gentle breeze disappeared completely in an instant, and the air seemed to have solidified, making it suffocating.
In this area, all existence was obviously suppressed. Even the twilight shining in the west dimmed visibly at this moment.
This pressure is not pressure in the physical sense, but a more abstract, conceptual "coercion".
Not only can it act on the material parts of living and dead things, it can also directly cause people's hearts to uncontrollably generate extremely strong fear and respect, and they can't help but feel like kneeling down and submitting.
It was as if the illusory flame shaped like a crown was the crown of some unimaginably great emperor, enough to make all who witnessed it surrender.
"Woo..."
Daisy and her parents and brother were naturally also within the range of influence of the flame crown. Daisy herself was fine, she just frowned, but there was no fear in her eyes.
The rest of the ordinary people trembled all over immediately, their heads drooped uncontrollably, their eyes fixed on their feet, not daring to look up at all.
Fortunately, the intensity of this pressure was not too great, and the impact on them was limited to this.
But under the oppression of the "pressure" that acts on both the material and spiritual levels, some things that were originally hidden nearby... gradually revealed their true appearance.
"Wow, you found it so quickly."
A young male voice came from somewhere.
Nancy immediately cast her eyes over there.
The source of the sound was the shallow pit caused by the puppet's self-explosion. At the bottom of the pit, which was more than ten centimeters deep, the dark red light left after the puppet's annihilation had now become so weak that it was difficult to distinguish.
But because of this, the object covered by the red light was revealed...
A silver-white, regular rectangular brooch.
It lay quietly at the bottom of the charred, rough shallow pit, with the upward side carved with simple and neat lines into a very abstract pattern: a perfect circle surrounded by radiating straight lines.
The dimming red light did not disappear, but instead seeped into the ground below like sand and gravel settling in the water.
After losing the last bit of dark red glow, the brooch engraved with abstract symbols changed rapidly. The originally smooth and flawless surface was quickly covered with mottled iron-black rust, and the cold silver luster also faded away.
Eventually, it turned into an old piece of metal covered with rust and scratches, and even the patterns carved on it could not be distinguished.
"In that case, I'll have to trouble you..."
The young man's voice came out again, but the real source was not the brooch that had lost its luster and was new again, but somewhere deeper, in the land beneath it, in the ground where the red light had seeped into...
"Puff, puff..."
A sticky, slippery, and hair-raising bubbling sound emerged from the shallow pit, and a dark red color, almost black, spread out from the brooch to the surrounding land at a speed that was neither fast nor slow, and the edges were very irregular.
The soil stained by this dark red color immediately became soft and loose, as if it had melted, with a faint reflection of liquid rising.
This "dark red"... is some kind of sticky liquid!
It surged up from an unknown depth underground, soaking the soil on the surface, and constantly expanding its range!
A strong stench that was strong enough to temporarily make people lose their sense of smell came towards her, causing Nancy to hold her breath. At the same time, the strange liquid revealed its identity:
is blood!
Old, sticky, almost coagulated blood!
Nancy's eyes flashed, and she immediately clenched her right hand into a fist, holding the crown-shaped flame that exuded the emperor's majesty in her hand.
"Judgement!"
She pronounced the word in the common language of mankind with great solemnity, and at the same time pulled her clenched right hand behind her ear, like stretching a hard bow.
Orange-yellow flames burst out from her clenched right hand, quickly extending to both ends and converging inward to form a spear of bright flames in an instant.
Nancy aimed at the hole that was oozing abnormal blood and threw the flaming spear in her hand!
"brush--"
The blazing flaming spear burst into dazzling light, and in the blink of an eye it crossed a distance of more than ten meters and hit the center of the pit diagonally, on the rusty brooch that had been completely submerged in dark red blood!
"Boom!!!"
A violent explosion swept across, and the light emitted not only the orange-yellow color of the Flame Spear, but also the familiar and strange scarlet!
Thick smoke and dust were lifted up by the shock wave, spreading more than ten meters high and almost blocking out the twilight slanting in the west.
"...I can only trouble you a few people. I died a few minutes earlier."
When the earth-shaking explosion gradually subsided, the young and magnetic male voice was heard again from the center of the explosion filled with smoke and dust. His tone was leisurely and his voice was steady, as if he was not hurt at all by the attack just now.
"pat, pat..."
Slow but firm footsteps came one after another in a certain order.
Behind the smoke and dust that drifted away with the wind, a hazy and unstable figure became clearer and clearer.
"Could you please be more self-aware, ladies?"
A few seconds later, the swaying shadow was replaced by a real figure, and a tall man with slender eyes and a handsome face walked slowly out of the smoke.
He looked to be in his twenties, wearing sleek, shiny brown leather shoes, a well-fitting black tuxedo, and his dark brown hair combed back, making him look fashionable and calm.
"Let me introduce myself," the well-dressed and handsome gentleman said, with one hand on his chest and the other behind his waist, and bowed formally in a standard and solemn manner. "I am the deacon of the Loen branch of the Church of Life. You can call me..."
He stood up straight, and the hand on his chest moved up to his collar, and adjusted his neat and stylish tie. The delicate cufflinks on his cuffs reflected a golden glow under the dim twilight:
"Buck."
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...Buck?
Hearing the name, Qi Ji seemed to have thought of something. He slowly turned his head and adjusted his sitting position.
The moment she saw the young man in a tuxedo walking out of the smoke and dust, Nancy didn't say anything. She just clapped her hands and moved them to both sides.
"boom--"
Amid the roaring sound of burning flames, another spear formed by condensed orange-yellow flames appeared, but this time the shape was more condensed and the flame was brighter!
“You didn’t even say hello?” Seeing that the new Flame Spear was about to be thrown at him, the young man who called himself Buck just smiled politely, “That’s not ladylike at all…”
“BOOM!!!”
Dazzling flowers of fire exploded in front of him, engulfing him in an instant.
"boom!"
However, before the flames and fireball produced by the explosion could fully spread out, an extremely violent noise exploded from the rising flames, and the powerful impact caused several holes to be broken in the exploding fireball.
The fireball lost its balance and dissipated instantly, and two figures appeared beside Buck.
No, it cannot be said to be a "figure".
Because the people standing on both sides of it are not "people" at all!
Instead, there are two bamboo-shaped bulges with a smooth black surface and dark red runes floating on them!
Two brand new puppets appeared on both sides of his body like ghosts, and the flashing rune shields easily blocked the flaming spears that had just attacked.
"Tsk, the fight will never end if it goes on like this." Seeing that the fight between the two seemed like it would not end for a while, Qi Ji curled his lips in boredom.
Muttering to herself, she turned to look at Daisy, who was looking at Nancy with worry and expectation, eager to try but a little scared, and said:
"Stay here and don't move. I'll go down and help."
“Oh, okay!” Daisy nodded repeatedly, then clenched her right fist a little nervously and shyly, and waved it slightly in front of her eyes: “I, I will protect my father, mother, and brother!”
Qi Ji smiled silently, then stood up and jumped off the carriage very lightly.
“Wait, you don’t have to come down!” Nancy’s eyelids twitched slightly when she saw the cloaked girl who could cast strange spells leave her original position. “They might have other people. You stay in the car to protect Renee and the others. Leave this place to me!”
Nancy's desire to fight against Buck, the deacon of the Church of Life, and the two puppets alone was not due to her blind confidence in her own strength.
On the contrary, this decision makes perfect sense under the current circumstances.
Because there are only two combat-capable people on our side, and the number of enemies is unknown.
After it became clear that the other party was targeting Gary's family, the most rational arrangement was for the stronger person to fight the main attacking force on the ground, while the rest stayed in the car to guard against sneak attacks, while also providing long-range fire support to their companions on the ground from time to time.
——That’s right, she thinks she is stronger!
Even though Qi Ji's "Candle of Redemption" instantly killed the puppet that she had been struggling with for a long time and had not been able to take down, she still thought so for some reason.
Qi Ji ignored her and just walked towards Buck who was guarded by two puppets.
"The man in red who attacked this morning, is he your colleague?"
As she walked, she asked Buck in a very normal tone, as if she was casually chatting up a stranger on the bus.
"Ok?"
Buck's attention had long been attracted by the little girl with strange attire. When he saw her approaching him, he looked at the newcomer.
Immediately, he saw the red agate cane in Qi Ji's left hand, and immediately understood something, frowning slightly:
"Les, did you kill him?"
There was no anger on his face, and his tone and expression didn't change much. He didn't seem very angry or sad.
But those slender eyes were filled with unspeakable malice and hatred, which almost froze into solid ice, causing fear in people from the bottom of their hearts.
Qi Ji responded with his gaze without fear, staring into his eyes that were full of strange malice, and raised the red agate cane in his left hand half jokingly and half seeking confirmation:
"From your tone, you already know he's dead? Tsk, if I kill you too, will your mysterious 'Archbishop' also get the news and come over to avenge you? Just like you are doing now."
Although the routine of beating the younger one and then the older one comes, and beating the older one and then the older one comes is a bit cliché, it is quite practical in the current situation.
Qi Ji knew that both Rice and Buck were just pawns. They were just following orders and had no idea of the real purpose of kidnapping Gary's family, let alone what they could get by threatening Nancy.
The one who really planned all this was the unknown "Archbishop".
Qi Ji was very curious as to why this guy was doing so many things.
This plot involves Nancy... She is from the Super Management Bureau... He probably wants to threaten and force her to do something... The Super Management Bureau is responsible for managing and supervising supernatural beings, spiritual objects, and supernatural events...
Following this logical chain, she had a vague guess, but due to the lack of some key information, she was unable to continue deducing and could only come up with a rough outline.
So, it would be best if we could fish out that "Archbishop".
"You want to murder the Bishop?" Buck heard Qi Ji's extremely annoying words. There was no anger on his face. The corners of his mouth curled up coldly. He snorted and said, "With you?"
"Forget it, I won't waste my time talking to you." Qi Ji shrugged and didn't respond to him.
Intelligence, whether it's psychic murder or soul searching with mental spells, is much more efficient and more fidelity than just talking nonsense.
"Hmm... let's try this new toy this time." Muttering, she shook her left hand and shifted the red agate cane to her right hand.
