The puppet's face was painted with red and yellow paint to look like a common clown, with the corners of its mouth raised high, creating an extremely funny smile.
As its mouth opened, revealing the dark and deep cavity inside, Klein, who was staring at it, felt his hair stand on end, and a sudden and inexplicable strong fear arose in his heart.
What he saw suddenly dimmed, as if he was observing the world through thick brown glass.
Klein's thoughts moved quickly and slowly. He instinctively wanted to ask for help, but his neck seemed to be tied tightly by a rope. He couldn't make a sound, and the word could only remain in his silent recitation.
At this moment, Dunn noticed that his arm bending movement suddenly became sluggish and pushed him hard.
The brown glass in front of Klein's eyes shattered immediately, and the word "help" came out of his throat. He returned to the carriage with a slightly sharp panic.
"It's stronger." Klein stated in a positive tone.
Being with a strange sealed object like "2-049", one could easily fall into a terrible crisis if one was not careful. No, it was impossible to guard against it and one could only rely on other methods to avoid it!
"This is normal." Al Hassan nodded calmly.
Luo Luota chuckled:
"It seems to like you? Don't worry, it is one of the less dangerous Level 2 Sealed Objects."
In the naturally lazy voice, the puppet with clear joints as if it corresponded to a human stood up and took a staggering step to its left.
Its movements were full of awkwardness, like an old, rusty steam engine that had been forgotten to be lubricated.
Robot dance... Klein suddenly remembered these Chinese characters and had a new guess about why "2-049" was dangerous:
Will it assimilate the organisms it controls?
If I hadn't been awakened in time, I would have become a giant puppet the size of a normal person, a real-life Barbie doll?
While Klein was lost in thought, Al Hassan was pushed awake by Dunn. He stretched his arms and pointed in the direction where the puppet was moving slowly. He said to Leonard, who was driving:
“Go there!”
Leonard couldn't get the carriage to pass through the building, so he had to go around half a circle. During this process, "2-049" kept adjusting its direction, tenaciously acting as the "needle pointing to the Antigonus family."
Seeing this scene, Klein, who kept "moving" his arms, actually wanted to laugh despite his tension:
"I heard that '2-049' was created by the Antigonus family... Is this a sign of loyalty or a typical example of betrayal?"
Next, with the voice of Al Hassan ringing from time to time, Leonard drove the carriage across the street and headed in a certain direction.
Every time the strange puppet "2-049" was about to reach the edge of the carriage, it would be caught by Al Hassan and start over again.
Every time this happens, its mouth will open wider, and two people will be controlled at the same time.
Klein's tension gradually eased, and he actually felt that Sealed Object 2-049 was not that scary. As long as there were more than three people on the scene, as long as they knew how to keep flexing and stretching, and as long as they mastered the skills to wake up their companions in time, "2-049" would be just a special puppet.
The carriage galloped at a high speed and soon drove into the dock area and came to where the warehouses were gathered.
After walking around a few times and confirming that "2-049" wanted to go to the gray-white warehouse at the innermost part, Al Hassan picked it up carefully with a serious expression and stuffed the strange puppet back into the iron-black box.
Boom boom boom!
Amid the incessant and violent knocking sounds, Al Hassan, with the help of Borgia and Lorota, woke up again and again, and with difficulty turned on the mechanical switch, then injected spirituality to drive the star and red moon symbols on the iron box.
The invisible seal reappeared, and Al Hassan let out a long breath.
"Get out of the car." Dunn Smith's deep and mellow voice sounded, "Leonard, just tie the horse here."
Six gentlemen and ladies, some wearing windbreakers, some in formal suits, and some in shirts, left the carriage and walked towards the innermost warehouse. As they walked, they flexed and stretched their arms in almost uniform motion.
This added a bit of funny and absurdity to the slightly tense atmosphere.
The Nighthawks Dance Troupe... Klein could only complain to ease this feeling.
However, he has no choice but to do so, because according to his observation, the impact of "2-049" is first reflected in the upper body. In order to discover it in time and avoid sliding into a more dangerous situation, the only options are to flex and extend the arms, turn the neck, and shake the body. The latter two will make people look like a gangster.
As for actions like blinking and tapping eyebrows, they are either too easy to be ignored or the amplitude of the movements is too large, so they are also not good choices.
The dancing troupe is better than the Young and Dangerous gang in Causeway Bay... Klein sighed and resigned himself to following Captain Dunn and the others.
The closer he got to the warehouse door, the more uneasy and worried he became.
Because no one knows what kind of changes that notebook will bring to Riel Bieber!
If something went terribly wrong, Klein wouldn't dare to hope that he could travel through time again.
Moreover, when he was cutting meat and cooking, he found that he still got injured and bleed, and the healing speed of his wounds was also within the normal range. He was not the kind of monster who was not afraid of death or fighting.
As they walked, Dunn suddenly pressed his free hand downwards and asked everyone to stop about ten meters in front of the warehouse door.
“Klein, please divine whether there is any danger inside. It would be even better if you can roughly figure out the extent of the danger.” Dunn turned to Klein and said.
His grey eyes were still deep, without any trace of fear.
Klein nodded imperceptibly, stopped flexing and stretching, stretched his right hand to his left cuff, and untied the silver chain with a topaz pendant inside.
Because his arms were moving, he slowed down a bit and was discovered by Dunn in time, who woke him up.
Klein held the silver chain in his left hand, allowing the topaz to fall naturally. At the same time, he controlled his right hand and only flexed and stretched it slightly.
When the topaz was stable, he half-closed his eyes, outlined the light ball, entered a meditative state, and silently chanted:
"There is danger inside the warehouse."
"There is danger inside the warehouse."
…
After seven times, he opened his eyes and saw the topaz pendant slowly spinning in a clockwise motion.
It spun faster and faster, and in the end it even felt like it was pulling Klein's left hand.
“It’s dangerous. It’s very dangerous.” Klein said truthfully.
——Clockwise is an affirmation of the silent words, and counterclockwise is a negation.
For other extraordinary people, even "secret peepers", using the "pendulum method" can at most detect whether there is danger, but cannot obtain further information on the degree of danger.
But Klein discovered that when he used the "pendulum method", the pendant would rotate at different speeds, indicating different degrees of answers.
Although this is not accurate enough and is very vague, it can still allow people to roughly distinguish the specific situation.
It is worthy of being called the Fortune Teller potion... Klein was quite pleased with this.
Just as he was about to put away the topaz pendant, Leonard Mitchell, who had remained silent behind him, suddenly spoke:
"Let's divine if there is any danger around."
"Yes, I'm worried that the secret society will not give up and will keep an eye on Riel Bieber's house, and then follow us here to cause trouble at the critical moment." Dunn nodded in agreement.
Klein immediately took a breath and entered a state of emptiness and calmness again.
When the silver chain stabilized again, he silently said in his heart:
"There's danger around."
…
"There's danger around."
…
After repeating it over and over again, Klein opened his eyes and looked at the silver chain.
In his dark brown eyes, the topaz pendant first moved counterclockwise with difficulty, then suddenly stopped and turned clockwise.
"There's danger around here." Klein's heart tightened, and he spoke carefully.
And some people tried to interfere with the divination, but they lost to themselves in the invisible confrontation in this regard!
As soon as he finished speaking, a fist-sized orange-yellow fireball suddenly flew over from the distance.
It smashed towards the center of the crowd at an extremely fast speed.
Dunn Smith, who had pulled out his long-barreled revolver before Klein's divination, immediately raised his hand and pulled the trigger in advance.
Bang!
Amid the gunfire, the fireball didn't shake at all and continued to move along its predetermined trajectory, as if forcing everyone to disperse and avoid it.
Originally, Klein didn't care too much about the trackers and troublemakers, because there were six extraordinary people here, including some of them at Sequence 8 and Sequence 7. In a small place like Tingen City, they were able to move around freely.
But when the fireball hit him, he suddenly realized a fact.
The fact is, for him and others, the most dangerous enemy is not the stalker, not the troublemaker, not even Riel Bieber who is in an unknown condition in the warehouse, but the Sealed Object "2-049"!
Once they are separated and get caught up in a battle, with no time to wake each other up, they will all become real-life puppets one by one!
As his thoughts raced, Klein was pulled by Leonard and rolled out with him, avoiding the fireball.
Without having time to feel sorry for his clothes, he saw that the night watchmen were divided into two groups and were dodging in a very orderly manner.
puff!
The orange-yellow fireball fell to the ground without stirring up any dust, as if nothing had happened.
Phantom? Just as this thought came to Klein's mind, he saw Al Hassan pick up the iron-black box and throw it far to the side, at least ten meters away.
"Stay away from it! Guard it!" Al shouted.
Before he finished shouting, Leonard and Borgia moved closer and guarded the box from at least seven meters away to prevent others from approaching.
Dunn and Lolota each held a gun, and together with El Hassan who had drawn his silver rapier, they formed a semi-arc formation and quickly rushed to the location where the fireball was shot, while also taking the side areas into consideration.
Seeing this scene, Klein, who did not bring his cane because he was doing flexion and extension exercises, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that he had just overlooked an important issue.
That is, the impact of "2-049" is limited in range. As long as you keep a sufficient distance from it, you don't have to worry about danger!
Klein suddenly turned over and stood up. He put the topaz pendant into his pocket with one hand and pulled out a revolver from the gun bag under his arm with the other hand.