Part 1 The Joker Chapter 205 – Emergency Arrangement
Crane subconsciously put his two hands into his coat pocket, one squeezing the “Yang Yan Charm” and the other holding the “Aztec Copper Whistle”.
He was keenly aware that the latter’s cold but soft extraordinary touch had disappeared, as if it was being suppressed by an invisible force, while the former was still warm and reassuring.
With the aid of this reassurance, Klein entered a semi-meditative state, dismissing panic and holding out for anything more.
He turned his head sideways, winked at Leonard Mitchell, and nudged his mouth toward Mego Oss.
Then, relying on his Joker powers, he controlled his expression and smiled at Megoës:
”Do you want coffee, or black tea, or nothing at all?”
Mego Oss rubbed her stomach as if she was listening to something and said:
”A cup of warm water, and I’m suddenly eager to talk to you about Llanerus, I have a feeling you know a lot about it.”
”Who told you this?” Leonard had long since lost his usual wanderlust and hangdog attitude, and smiled rather stiffly.
Mego Oss suddenly giggled:
”My boy told me, he knows a lot, he’s very smart!”
…… Klein resisted the urge to explode, turned toward the partition, and signaled Leonard to steady Megoose.
Leonard forced the corners of his mouth to curl up and pointed to the sofa area:
”That’s exactly what I wanted to talk about, and we were hoping to have a chat with you about Llanerus as well.”
Roxanne at the reception desk looked on in slight bewilderment and confusion, suddenly realizing that nothing seemed to need to be done for her.
Crane stepped quickly through the partition and wrenched the door to Dunn-Smith’s office straight open and closed it with a bang.
He looked at Dunn, who was first surprised and then grave, and spoke in a deep voice:
”Captain, something big has happened!”
”I know what the ‘bomb’ Lanlus was talking about!”
Dunn bristled and stood up, pointing outside:
”Mego Oss?”
He obviously heard Leonard’s startled voice, but couldn’t see the two team members’ faces covered in cold sweat and eyes full of fear.
Klein nodded and explained in a very quick voice:
”I tried to turn on my psychic vision to observe Mego Oss and confirm her mental condition, but my spirituality stopped my attempts and kept ‘telling’ me not to look not to look! Looking will kill you!”
”This reminds me of the saying, ‘Thou shalt not look directly at a god’, and the baby in Megoeth’s womb certainly belongs to a mythological creature, if not an evil god attempting to be born, or the heir of an evil god.”
”Captain, coupled with the black altar in Hood Organ’s memories, his ‘psychiatrist’ abilities, and the tragic world described in Lanlus’ letter, I think my guess is probably close to the truth: Lanlus received from the members of the Aurora Society the same information as that of the ‘True Creator’ related ritual magic, and with the help of Hood Organ, made Mego Oss a vehicle for birthing a certain power that would grow by leaps and bounds until it matured with the help of the resentments, repressions, and greyness that surrounded the factory, or that the ritual itself had to draw on in order for it to be successful! ”
Dunn thought seriously for more than ten seconds and nodded with a grave expression:
”I’ll immediately ask for help from the Holy Church, and hopefully the baby in Mego’oth’s womb will still be able to wait!”
”Of course, we can’t do nothing, you tell Leonard to stabilize Mego Os and try not to let her leave the company, and you inform Mrs. Oleanna and Roxanne and the girls to have all non-combatants evacuated!”
”I’ll be behind the Charnis Gate as soon as I’ve finished the telegram, we must be prepared for the worst, that the help from the Sanctuary hasn’t arrived yet and the baby in Mego Oss’s womb is about to be born.”
”As the leader of the Tingen City Night Watchman Squad, I have the right to use St. Selene’s ashes in a critical situation!”
St. Selene’s Ashes …… Ashes of a High Sequence Powerhouse …… Sealed Core of the Charnes Gate …… Klein settled down a little and his thoughts spun:
”Captain, we can still ask for help from the ‘Substitute Punisher’ and the ‘Mechanical Heart’, they should have similar holy relics!”
Speaking of this, Klein suddenly flashed an aura and muttered:
”Lanlus’s case was previously under the ‘Substitute Punisher’s’ handling …… They just happened to have a senior member who went out of control during that time, and Old Neil and I helped out with it… …”
In a whisper, his voice snapped up:
”Captain, would you question the ‘Substitute Punishers’ again and ask them if the member they lost control of before had been tracking or monitoring Mego Oss?”
”Do you suspect that his loss of control was due to contamination from the baby in Mego’oth’s womb? When the re-routing was done, Mego Oss was also their responsibility ……” Dunn replied solemnly, “There can be no more delay, you go find Mrs. Oleanna and the others, I’ll grab a telegram and ask the Sanctuary for help first, and then send a message to the ‘ Substitute Punisher’ and ‘Mechanical Heart’, well, also telegraph the police department to find a way to come up with an excuse to evacuate the surrounding people.”
”Okay.” Klein took a few steps outside, and then suddenly remembered something else, and that was how sudden and coincidental Megoeth’s “visit” was.
The red chimney house flashed haphazardly within his mind, and he busily turned back to Dunn:
”Captain, one more thing. Do you remember the coincidences I mentioned? The house across the street from the kidnapping contained clues to the Antigonus family notes, Rielle Beebe didn’t escape Tingen in time, Hynas Vansant was exposed due to a coincidence, another member of the Aurora Council happened to run into me and lost his life outright, and so on, and so forth.”
”Whereas all of these coincidences were relatively hidden, making them difficult to detect, today’s sudden visit to Megoos’s door after we found Llanerus’s letter was so obvious, so direct, that the coincidence has been laid bare, undisguised! I think the One behind it may be about to take the stage!”
”Also, why did Mrs. Sherron risk killing Senator Maynard? Does that also fall under ‘coincidence’?”
Dunn thought for a moment and answered gravely:
”I’ll add that to the telegram.”
Without wasting any more time, Crane pulled the door open and walked right into the accounting room across the street.
Mrs. Oriana was getting the budget for the last three months of the year, trying to get it done ahead of time, lest the captain forget about it again and fail to submit it in time, and when she saw Crane come in, she smiled a greeting and said:
”Little Moretti, what are you claiming this time?”
Klein exhaled and said:
”Mrs. Oleanna, take the day off and come home immediately.”
Oleanna froze for a moment, staring blankly at the stony face written across the room.
After a few seconds, she stood up in a panic and said:
”Okay.”
Klein was too busy to add, “You go to the clerical office and the armory and tell the others about this, and I’ll notify Roxanne.”
”Uh-huh!” Barely doing any packing, Oleanna grabbed her carry-on bag and ran with small steps to the door of the accounting office.
As she entered the hallway, she turned back and looked deeply at Klein, drawing the Crimson Moon Word on her chest:
”You will be blessed by the Goddess!”
Thank you …… Klein responded wordlessly and passed through the partition to the reception hall, only to see Leonard stiffly chatting with Mego Oss about all things Llanurus.
Klein leaned in close to Roxanne, tipping out his glass as he lifted the hot water bottle, then whispered:
”Go home, it’s dangerous here, come back tomorrow.”
Roxanne’s mouth opened in shock, but slowly closed again at Klein’s serious, solemn expression.
She buried her head in her purse for a good ten seconds, grabbed her carry-on bag, and left the reception desk.
As she brushed past Klein, she bit her lower lip and lowered her voice:
”Actually, how much I hate it when people become Extraordinary is how much I adore the Night Watch ……”
……
After witnessing the evacuation of all civilian personnel from Blackthorn Security, Klein brought warm water to Mego Oss and bent down to set it down, saying:
”I have things I need to take care of, so I’ll come back later.”
As he rose, he moved smoothly to Leonard’s ear and spat the sound out of his throat:
”Hold her steady.”
Leonard bared his teeth and grinned, then continued to chat stiffly, noticing that Mego’oth was gradually becoming a little irritable, her mind focused and lapsing at times.
Klein returned to the captain’s office to find that Dunn had already gone underground, and on his desk was a translated message back from the Punisher squad:
”Yes. We’ll be right over.”
Yes …… the out-of-control “vicarious punisher” is really because of Mego Oss …… Klein can hardly calmly paced to the corridor, I do not know whether it is waiting for the captain to come out with the sacred ashes, or I don’t know whether I’m waiting for the captain to come out with the ashes of the Holy Spirit or waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
Hey, I don t know if all the high level powerhouses know how to teleport …… I don t think so …… He circled back and forth a few times, and suddenly felt that his body and mind had become peaceful, and noticed that the gas lamps on both sides were all tinted with an ethereal blue color.
In the midst of the dimness and gloom, Dunn stepped out along the underground steps, holding a palm-sized square urn in one hand.
The box both looked like it was made of sterling silver and gave the impression of bone, carved with mysterious patterns, and the closer it got, the colder Clyne felt, as if a coolness had darted into his bloodstream.
Dunn, his face reflecting an icy blue glow, said to Krynn:
”You go behind the Charnis Gate and take an offensive seal, pick which one according to your own situation, I have already instructed Siga and the internal watchers to take care of avoiding hidden dangers, among them, there are three ‘2’ level seals, they are… …”
”Well, I took St. Selene’s ashes, and Siga and the Internal Watchers are even less able to leave their positions.”
At the moment, both Fry and Loyal, who was on rotation, were helping out at the Cornley’s house, preparing for the funeral, while that bishop-san of St. Selene’s church had gone to the countryside to give a sermon.
”Okay.” Without hesitation, Klein turned and walked toward the ground.
When he reached the crossroads, he suddenly stopped in his tracks, because he knew that the vast majority of the seals behind the Charnis Gate in Tingen City belonged to the “3” class, and it would be difficult to have an effect on the baby in Mego Oss’s womb, which was at the very least a mythological creature.
”The mutated Sun Sacred Emblem should work, but it takes too long to work at all ……’2′ level seals, there are only three of them in Tingen City, all of them are very dangerous and can easily get themselves killed! …… The power is estimated to be about the same as my ‘Yang Yan Charm’, well, I won’t worry about anything later, I won’t hesitate to use the ‘Yang Yan Charm’ when I should! This is only stronger than a ‘2’ level seal, after all, it contains the power of God’s blood ……” Klein’s thoughts spun as he nodded his head in a slightly unseen manner.
He touched the “Yang Yan Charm” and the “Aztec Copper Whistle” in his coat pocket, and was surprised to find that the latter’s sense of touch was restored.
Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Klein immediately took out the paper and pen used for divination, and wrote a short letter with a brush:
”The guy who made my fate incongruous and took your child’s skull has appeared, and he ‘arranged’ for Megoose to enter the Blackthorn Security Company at 36 Zotland Street, and Megoose is likely to be carrying the heir of an evil god.”
”The situation is critical.”
Putting away his pen and folding his letter paper, Klein was right at the intersection, pulling out his brass whistle straight away and blowing it, seeing the huge white bone messenger appear in front of him.