New Gods of North America

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

Only one of the small meat balls could open its eyes; the rest seemed dead, their eyelids still sealed shut, their little tendrils drooping like willow branches.

But the few tendrils on top of the one that had opened its eyes began to attack the large meat ball frantically.

The sound of juice-filled plastic balls bursting was incessant.

One large tendril seemed to want to come to the rescue, but it missed its mark, instead skewering another small meat ball next to it.

The large tendril flung outwards, causing the entire 'grape bunch' to lurch sideways.

The hollow, ethereal wails instantly became more piercing and painful, making Wayne's scalp tingle.

Just as this tendril with the small meat balls landed, another large tendril stabbed towards the 'grape bunch' again.

"Wayne! Kill it!"

"Are you crazy! If I die, you won't survive either!"

"My life doesn't need you superfluous guys!"

Hollow, hallucination-like voices echoed in the basement, buzzing and interweaving, seeming to pierce the eardrums.

Wayne wasn't sure if he really heard those voices, but he felt that the Double Eagle gold coin in his hand was almost fully charged, nearly half of his normal spiritual power was injected into it, and the 'grape bunch' was clearly in bad shape, making it a good opportunity to 'strike while the iron is hot'.

So the Double Eagle gold coin was thrown in the air in an almost straight parabola.

The large meat ball noticed the movement and twisted slightly in mid-air, taking the 'grape bunch' with it, and a large tendril quickly blocked the coin.

The coin's trajectory grazed the large tendril, slightly changing direction, and it looked like it would 'brush past' the 'grape bunch'.

At this moment, several small tendrils pulled themselves off the large meat ball, and one of them caught the coin, then 'slapped' it towards the large meat ball.

Although Wayne had a premonition, such a good opportunity couldn't be missed.

Therefore, the moment the coin was slapped onto one of the eyes of the large meat ball, Wayne directly activated the 'detonation' ability.

"Bang—"

The explosion wasn't as violent as a high explosive, but more like a muffled thud with vibration, like the rope of a crane suddenly breaking and a heavy object landing.

But visually, the scene of the 'grape bunch' exploding was too stimulating, like the cylinder head of a steam train blowing up, with internal pipes being 'flung out' instantly.

A large pile of indescribable tubular objects suddenly burst open the large meat ball with soup and water.

Then the large tendrils swayed slightly and then limply went soft.

The 'grape bunch', which had been supported in mid-air, was smashed to the ground.

The small meat balls were not spared either.

After rolling away in all directions with momentum and sauce, they were no longer 'spherical'.

Basically, they were all in the same state as the large meat ball, either broken into irregular pieces of meat or turned into octopus-like shapes with their insides turned out.

The spiritual pressure dissipated.

Wayne finally raised his elbow and shielded himself sideways.

Although he inevitably got some soup and water on himself, his face was mostly protected.

Looking around, Emma's situation wasn't so good.

On the ground, the little loli's back of the head had changed from 'full of blonde hair' to a black and gold 'highlighted' hair color.

Conner also stood up from behind Damon McCready, cautiously approaching with a lever-action rifle, and then firing shots at the still-wriggling remnants of the large and small meat balls.

Wayne walked to the side, picked up his revolver, and, according to what he saw in the simplified lines vision, joined the team cleaning up the disordered remnants, until he had fired all the bullets in the magazine.

Then he left the matter to Conner and went to check on the condition of the 'hostages'.

Emma should be fine.

Wayne took off his coat, picked up her head, and opened the sack to put it back on.

Except for the fact that she probably needs to wash her hair after returning, she was still clean.

The hostages were also fine.

Although most of them had one side covered in what looked like black pepper sauce, the few who were still awake and those who had been forced awake seemed only to be frightened and not crazy.

So Wayne had Conner throw him the dagger and cut the ropes on the hostages.

Amidst the cries and curses against the murderer, he loaded a bullet and fired a shot at the ceiling to help the hostages calm down.

Then he calmed them down a bit and indicated that they could leave the basement first, but they could not leave the church's supervision on their own for the time being.

Although their identity tonight was hostages, they should not be in the most core 'accomplice' sequence.

However, according to Wayne's judgment, since this place was chosen by 'Macken Reef' as the final place to hold the ceremony, the relevant personnel were probably a bit suspicious.

It was too troublesome to identify them, so he packed them all together first and threw them to Tom Hagen to deal with later.

Inesa also walked into the basement at this time.

She didn't hear the noise, but she felt the abnormal fluctuations of extraordinary power.

So, after using a large stone to block the iron plate door of the basement entrance and installing a trap with high explosives as the main material, she came down to reinforce.

After a preliminary review of the situation, she took Emma, who had been wiping her hair with a sack, and the hostages to the ground first, and then had to set off fireworks to notify the others.

Wayne and Conner were responsible for the aftermath, or rather, secretly recording the magic circle from tonight before the church people arrived, and rummaging through the basement for notes and the like, to study after returning, and see if there was a chance to pick up some extracted extraordinary materials from the 'grape bunch' corpse.

After rummaging for a long time, relying on the simplified lines vision, Wayne tentatively collected the parts where extraordinary power was enriched.

However, Wayne was not sure if he had picked up the right thing, because that thing looked different from normal extraordinary materials.

It was not extracted from the meat, but part of the meat, looking like a big eyeball, with several blood vessels or nerves connected to the back.

Eight extraordinary materials, and in the end, only such a small thing was left.

It felt like a blood loss.

As for Damon McCready, although Wayne woke him up with the earth method taught by Inesa—actually, he fired a shot at the Kirin arm where he could be reborn—but this guy was dirty all over now, and he was knocked down by one of the accomplices tonight, Wayne was a bit disgusted, so he told him to find a place to take a bath before returning to the detective agency, and he had to write a review later.

He was at least a figure on the detective agency's arena ladder list, but he was tricked by a potion by one of the accomplices tonight, which was embarrassing.

This also reminded Wayne, so he rummaged through the corpses and the scene, and found some potions, items, and cash.

It was regarded as reimbursement for the ammunition and clothing losses tonight.

Unfortunately, Wayne only knew the locations of a total of six of those sealed objects.

After Wayne told the church people, someone immediately split up to confirm.

Lina also caught two guys driving a carriage in the middle of the night to confuse the audience.

The detective agency lost the carriage before because they received money from the accomplices to help.

Wayne looked at the fire still burning in the night sky and felt that if they were treated as accomplices, it would be a small price to pay for a big prize.

The night was still long, and the detective agency did not rest because they had just finished a fight, but also joined the team to confirm the sealed objects.

After Wayne got on the carriage, he was still complaining to Lina and Inesa, saying that it was a pity that 'Macken Reef' was completely dead, otherwise the remaining ones would probably be easy to find.

At this time, on the floor of the carriage, a hollow vibration suddenly came from Wayne's dirty coat, which was wrapping the trophies:

"I seem... to know where those things are..."

What?!