New Gods of North America.

Chapter 366 Calm down
After the trial,

Wayne observed for a few more days.

To say that nothing has changed would be a bit self-deceptive.
After all, local newspapers now report on detective agency lawsuits or allude to various violent civil organizations almost every day.
The plaintiff has clearly withdrawn the lawsuit, but they still keep calling it a "coercion case" and "coercion case" all day long. It's so annoying.

Wayne roughly estimated the price he had paid for news space before and felt that some people were actually willing to spend the money.

Wayne was originally a popular figure in the academy. When he appeared in popular places such as near the teaching building, there would always be many classmates who were gradually getting familiar with him or were still unfamiliar with him who would take the initiative to greet him.
But on Monday, when Wayne took Emma to math class after a long absence, some of the students behaved differently.

It became "seeing but pretending not to see", and then silently turning away,

Maybe if Wayne went over and said "hi" a little, the other person might force a smile.

In addition, Wayne saw Doug secretly buy some ointment for treating bruises and sprains.
After asking a few questions, I found out that Doug would regularly distribute food or candy to some street kids. Recently, some of the kids spoke up for the detective agency, but were beaten.

Although Doug and Connor helped teach those street thugs a lesson, they also reminded the children that there was no need to argue with others about this.
However, it is difficult to trace who ordered this, and once sent to the police station, they will basically be sentenced to community service.

Fortunately, some familiar people still treat Wayne and the detective agency the same as before.
David Mills and Bill Tench came over to eat and show their support. Miss Olivia still came to check on Inessa regularly. The landlord also made a special trip to visit the detective agency.
A few guys who were still recovering from their injuries in the dormitory cursed after reading the newspaper, saying that the current news industry is completely hopeless, and they will make those reporters call Wayne "Daddy" sooner or later.
Fortunately, Mr. Russell did not send a letter requesting to terminate the security contract, but Miss Mary's brother, who was interested in studying technology, wrote to urge Wayne to go over and test the new samples.

Professor Maisel was the one who had changed most obviously among the people I knew.
He doubled the homework load for Wayne and Emma…

In general,

Not that good, but not that bad either.

Wayne felt that he was a relatively traditional Chinese person at heart, and his thoughts always fluctuated between "Just bear with it" and "No matter what, I'm going to go and root out the problem."
However, Wayne was basically still in a relatively calm state. He simply wanted to wait for the people to come back and then collect some extraordinary materials from the people of the School of Life.

Then, on this Saturday night, unexpectedly, the other party gave the detective agency another big job.

Because the more "good" sniper positions near the detective agency have been initially cleared, for example, some big trees have unexpectedly fallen down for unknown reasons, and some weeds on some hillsides have suddenly withered for unknown reasons.
Therefore, the gang that came to attack this time was almost a "head-on confrontation". A group of people suddenly climbed over the courtyard wall from several directions at the same time, probably with the idea of "attack once and then retreat quickly".

The owl's warning came in time. Doug, who was on duty at night, fired a warning shot immediately.
Although they had been rushed into the courtyard by the enemy, everyone came out to support them very quickly.
After a round of "ping ping bang bang" and "bang——" noise,

An independent wooden house in the detective agency was blown down, Doug was injured, and only one of the nine people on the opposite side escaped, while the rest were either dead or injured.

Connor didn't know who had taught him this. He patted a prisoner on the head and made him lie down with the body of his accomplice who had been dragged into the courtyard.

The lines are also weird: "Crying? Crying also counts as time!"

It is worth mentioning that the prisoner named Liam, after his injury gradually recovered, I don't know whether it was Stockholm syndrome or Doug was really talented in recruiting players.
He calculated his previous average income and the income of the detective agency's agents, and for some reason he believed some rumors, he actually started thinking about "turning from darkness to light."

Wayne thought his attitude towards transformation was quite good, so he kept some of his hair and nails as a precaution for Lina, and then let him enjoy the same treatment as Peter.

His performance tonight was quite good. Not only did he manage to defeat an enemy despite his disability, but he also watched with great regret as the cowardly Peter finally climbed back over the courtyard wall. If it had been a little later, he could have fired a shot and called for help.

——According to him, one enemy plus a cowardly Peter, two extraordinary materials can be exchanged for one of his "tickets".

Until this moment, things were relatively calm, and then Wayne realized that

The cabin that collapsed was actually Emma's room.

Theoretically, the little girl is immune to gunshot wounds, but the shattering "explosion" is not necessarily the case.

And I haven't heard any movement for such a long time, not even a cry for help or a cry...

Oops……

If you want to be sensational,
At this time, there should probably be some sad and slow background music playing.

Then Wayne yelled "Em-ma--" in slow motion.
The slow camera followed his figure as he swept across the scene, and then only a figure was seen frantically rummaging in the rubble.

But actually,
Wayne only felt as if there was a ringing sound in his head, and suddenly there was a "buzzing" sound.

It was as if something was disconnected, instantly blocking out other sounds.

I walked over and lifted up a few pieces of the wooden wall wreckage.
A bunch of large and small pieces of meat were crawling towards the same position tenaciously like slugs.
Wayne couldn't help scratching his hair.

I must have absorbed too much extraordinary material and gone a little crazy...

How come I feel a little warm watching such a tragic scene...

Wayne squatted down and picked up a small wooden stick, poking at one of the pieces of meat that looked more alive:

"Fortunately you're not dead, Emma...

"Otherwise, Damon MacCready, who entrusted you to me, will probably die with regrets... Lina will probably be mad as well..."

"Although I was indeed caught, I'm not dead yet..."

Ok?
Wayne turned his head and saw the living head of Damon MacCready suddenly appearing beside him.

I was almost sick from being scared.

This guy was actually half-bending his back, and he stuck his head out to look forward.
The proportions of his arms are no longer human-like. One of his arms has swelled to be thicker than his head, like a fiddler crab. One can tell the "civil claw" and the "military claw" at a glance.

Looking back a little further,

A line of agents have joined the team and are helping to collect the prisoners.
Sanders, who looked the most muscular, threw the gangster on his shoulders, who seemed to have just escaped from the yard, to the open space next to him, and let the guy lie down in a row with his dead or alive accomplices.

Lina, who was standing next to Sanders, noticed Wayne's gaze.
She waved the hair by her ears and smiled brightly, "How is it, did you miss me?"

(End of this chapter)