New Gods of North America.

Chapter 449 Loss
The situation took a turn for the worse.

Only one of the little balls could open its eyes, and the rest looked like dead, with their eye slits not open and their little tentacles hanging like willow branches.

But the tentacles on the top of the small meatball that opened its eyes began to attack the big meatball frantically.
The sound of the juicy plastic ball being poked and bursting was endless. A large tentacle seemed to want to come back to help, but it missed the target and instead pierced another small meat ball next to it.

The large tentacle flicked outward, and the entire "bunch of grapes" was tilted. The hollow and illusory wailing sound instantly became more sharp and painful, and Wayne's scalp was numb when he heard it.

As soon as this large tentacle with a small meat ball landed on the ground, another large tentacle poked towards the "bunch of grapes" again.

"Wayne! Kill him!"

"You're crazy! If I die, you can't live!"

"I don't need you guys in my life!"

The hollow sound that sounded like hallucinations echoed in the basement, interweaving into a buzzing sound, shaking people's eardrums as if they were about to pierce.

Wayne didn't know if he really heard these voices, but he felt that the big double eagle gold coin in his hand was almost charged, and almost half of the spiritual power in his body under normal circumstances was injected into it. The condition of "Bunch of Grapes" was obviously not good at the moment, and it was a good time to "kill him while he was sick."

The big double eagle gold coin was thrown into the air in a nearly straight parabola.
The big meatball noticed the movement here, twisted the "bunch of grapes" slightly in the air, and a large tentacle quickly blocked it.

The gold coin's trajectory hit the large tentacle and changed its direction slightly, and it was about to "pass by" the "bunch of grapes".
At this time, several small tentacles were pulled out from the big meat ball, one of which grabbed the gold coin, and then it "slapped" the big meat ball with the gold coin.

Although Wayne had a premonition in his heart, he couldn't miss such a good opportunity.
So when the gold coin was hit on the eye of the big meatball, Wayne directly activated the "detonation" ability.

"Bam—"

The explosion was not as violent as that of high explosives, but more like a dull thud with vibrations, as if the rope of a crane suddenly broke, and then a heavy object fell to the ground.

But visually, the scene of the "bunch of grapes" exploding was so exciting, just like the engine of a steam train bursting, and the internal pipes were instantly "thrown out", and a bunch of indescribable tubular objects suddenly broke through the big meat ball with soup and water.
Then the big tentacles shook twice, and then they softened weakly, and the "bunch of grapes" that had been supported in the air fell to the ground.

The little meatballs were not spared either. After rolling around with inertia and the sauce, there were no more "ball-shaped" ones left.
Basically, they are all in the same condition as the big meatball, either broken into irregular pieces of meat, or turned into an octopus with its insides turned out.

The spiritual pressure dissipated.

Wayne finally raised his elbow and turned sideways to cover himself. Although some of the soup and water inevitably stained his body, his face was mostly protected.
Looking around, Emma's situation was not good. The back of the little girl's head on the ground had changed from "full of blonde hair" to "highlighted" hair with black and gold.

Connor also stood up from behind Damon MacCready, holding a lever-action rifle and approaching tentatively, then fired at the still-squirming remains of the big meatball and the small meatball.

Wayne walked aside and picked up his revolver. According to what he saw in the simple line vision, he also joined the team to deal with the messy debris. He didn't leave the matter to Connor until he had used up all the bullets in the magazine, and went to check the status of the "hostages". Emma should be fine. Wayne took off his coat and picked up her head, then opened the sack to put her back. Except for the fact that she probably had to wash her hair after returning, her body was still clean.
The hostages were also fine. Although most of them looked like they were covered in black pepper sauce, the few who were still awake or forced to wake up looked like they were just frightened and should not be crazy.

So Wayne asked Connor to throw the dagger he had on him to help the hostages cut the ropes.

Amid the cries and curses accusing the murderer, he loaded the bullet and fired a shot at the ceiling to help the hostages calm down. Then he comforted them a little and indicated that they could leave the basement first, but could not leave on their own without the supervision of the church for the time being.

Although they are hostages tonight and should not be in the core "accomplices" sequence, according to Wayne's judgment, since this place was chosen by "Macken Reeve" as the location for the final ceremony, the relevant personnel are estimated to have some tricks.

It’s too troublesome to identify them, so I’d better pack them up first and then give them to Tom Hagen to deal with.

Inesa also walked into the basement at this time. She didn't hear any movement, but she felt the abnormal fluctuation of extraordinary power.
So she used large stones to prop up the iron door of the basement entrance, installed a trap whose main material was high explosives, and then came down to provide reinforcements.

After a preliminary inspection of the situation, she led Emma, who had been wiping her hair with a sack, and the hostages to the ground, and then set off fireworks to notify others.
Wayne and Connor were responsible for the aftermath. To be more precise, they secretly recorded the magic circle of the night before the people from the church arrived, and then looked through the basement to see if there were any notes or something like that. They would study them after returning and see if there was any chance to pick up some extraordinary materials from the body of "Bunch of Grapes".

After searching for a long time, Wayne, relying on the vision of simple lines, collected the part that was rich in extraordinary power.
However, Wayne was not sure whether he had picked up the right thing, because the appearance of that thing was different from normal extraordinary materials. It was not separated from the meat, but a part of the meat. It looked like a big eyeball with several blood vessels or nerves connected to the back.

Eight pieces of extraordinary materials, but in the end, only this little thing was left.

I feel a bit of a loss.

As for Damon MacCready, although Wayne used the folk method taught by Inesa to wake him up - in fact, he shot him in the unicorn arm that could be reborn - this guy was now dirty and was beaten up tonight. Wayne was a little disgusted, so he asked him to find a place to take a shower before returning to the detective agency. He had to write a self-criticism later.
After all, he was a figure on the detective agency arena's ladder leaderboard, but he was tricked by a potion from one of the two accomplices tonight, whose identity he no longer knew. How shameful.

This reminded Wayne, so he went to search the body and the scene again and found some medicines, items and cash.

Consider it as reimbursement for tonight's loss of ammunition and clothing.

Unfortunately, Wayne only knew six locations of the sealed objects. When the church people came over, as soon as Wayne told them, some people immediately went to confirm them.

Lina also caught two guys who were driving a carriage in the middle of the night to confuse the police. The detective agency lost the carriage before because they were doing things for their accomplices after receiving money from them. Wayne looked at the fire still burning in the night sky and felt that if they were treated as accomplices, it would be like winning the jackpot with little money.

The night was still long, and the detective agency did not rest just because they had just finished a fight. They also joined the team that was checking the seals separately.
After getting on the carriage, Wayne was still complaining to Lina and Inissa, saying that it was a pity that "Macken Reeve" was already dead, otherwise the remaining ones would probably be easy to find.

At this moment, on the floor of the carriage, there was a sudden hollow vibration from Wayne's dirty coat that contained the spoils:

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

what? !
(End of this chapter)