New Gods of North America.

Chapter 517 "Party"

As the lights in the community gradually lit up, and several teams of firelights moved back and forth on the roads, like bumblebees in a frying pan, searching for the perpetrators,

Wayne and his companions have returned to the hillside where they originally gathered.

Liam was still slumped beside the tree, breathing heavily. “I was so scared. I didn’t expect there would be so many Beyonders here. I was discovered not long after I entered the carpentry workshop. I almost thought I couldn’t escape.”

Thanks to the lack of lighting at night in the community, after the red fireworks started, others noticed the direction of the flames and started making noises in unison.

Inissa fired a blank shot from a distance, and Lina directly ignited the high explosives and threw them on the open ground - if Wayne hadn't stopped her to reduce the additional losses to the community, Lina might have flattened the warehouse. Wayne was a little suspicious, whose extraordinary ability was "explosion"...

Even if Liam is not good in other aspects, at least he still has a strong will to survive.

In the end, the situation did not develop to the point where someone needed to be rescued, and he successfully shook off the tail.

So the others saw that the fire they were looking for seemed to have lost its target and its movements became scattered, so they hid themselves and returned one after another.

Inesa had begun drawing a topographic map by the light of a shaded kerosene lamp, and was gradually completing the markings based on contributions from others.

The whole community gradually became clear on the map: two main residential areas, a central square, a factory area, a workshop area, and a comprehensive area.

The composition of the security patrol officers seems to be closer to the structure of a western town. The members are mainly some of the indigenous residents. In addition, there are also white-skinned "police" characters. Their number is small, but they obviously have a higher status.

According to Liam's observation, there is actually a "gangster"-like organization here. Those people are not the same as the security patrol officers, and they even seem to be deliberately avoiding them.
However, they have a stronger impulse to resort to violence, and Liam almost got into a fight when he encountered them.

Then, unexpectedly, after the fireworks were launched, those people dispersed quickly like Liam, as if they were also avoiding a head-on confrontation with the people who came after hearing the news.

Several people ran to Inissa one by one, pointing out the general situation of the buildings in the area they were responsible for, and adding where there were hidden passages and which ones were actually dead ends.
While marking, Inesa spoke without looking up:
"According to the records of the Hunter Association, the Windsor colonists encountered a lot of trouble when they were dealing with some indigenous tribes in Virginia. Among them, there were some relatively strong indigenous tribes. Although their primitive belief system was not complete, it had entered the extraordinary realm to a certain extent and had some relatively unique application methods."

Wayne put down the telescope in his hand and turned around after hearing this. "According to the captives' description, the missing little leader should also be a Beyonder. So his situation doesn't seem to be a special case in their tribe?"

Inesa blinked. "Many records from the colonial period are not public. In addition, the Kingdom of Windsor was defeated and left the country, so the archives were severely damaged and lost. I don't know the specific situation. But from what I can see now, I think the 'gang' that Liam mentioned is probably a 'secret society' of those who have mastered extraordinary abilities. You just said that accepting the Holy Spirit seems to be one of the conditions for these indigenous people to be accepted into this community."

This judgment was very easy for Wayne to guess.
There is a Holy Spirit Church in the middle of the community. Pick any two families and you will find holy emblems in their homes. However, the items that originally belonged to their beliefs can only be hidden in strange secret compartments and corners. Is this what Americans would ask others to do?

So he then looked at Liam again, "Tell me what you found over there."

"I was just exploring that place." Liam pointed at the community from a distance, then squatted next to Inissa and pointed it out for her on the map. "That's the border between the 'Workshop Area' and the 'Comprehensive Area', a woodworking workshop. I noticed the reaction of extraordinary power there, so I went deeper. There was a hidden basement there, and there were about 20 to 30 people gathered there at the time. But before I had time to investigate in detail, a man with feathers on his head and oil paint on his face sounded the alarm for them."

Well……

Wayne thought about it, “Feathers on the head and oil paint on the face”, isn’t this the image of a priest in the Aboriginal tribe?

“Is it possible that they are not allowed to spread and openly discuss their tribe’s traditional beliefs and culture here, so they can only do it secretly?”

Liam was slightly stunned. "It seems possible... But they wouldn't just draw their knives and weapons, right? At that time, they not only used extraordinary abilities, but also had snakes and things like leopard souls chasing me. If I hadn't dodged quickly, the cursor gun would have nailed me into a hedgehog. Some people even took out guns. Under the circumstances at the time, they would not be reluctant to open fire."

"How many Beyonders did you encounter?" Inessa raised her head.

"It seems that all of them were present." Liam was not sure, "At least those who were present at the time looked like hunters in the tribe. The kind responsible for fighting."

"See who we're going to arrest?" Wayne asked.

Liam looked a little sad. “A lot of them had paint on their faces. I didn’t have time to observe them carefully… and I’ve only seen the guy’s portrait, not the real person. I’m not sure how to identify him.”

Fine.

Wayne thought about it a little and thought that maybe the group of people were secretly performing a traditional ceremony that was not allowed in this community, but Liam suddenly barged in. They thought Liam was the person investigating their "violations", and then Liam set off large-scale warning fireworks. Anyone would be panicked.

If this is the case, it seems more reasonable for the group to then hide from the security patrols that gathered around them - after all, in a territory where the Holy Spirit faith holds the upper hand, other "heretical beliefs" are not allowed to exist, even if that was the original belief of the group.

But this is just a imagination. Maybe they really are some Aboriginal gang, and maybe they are related to the missing little leader. In that case, it is also very reasonable that they would be wary of and hostile to "foreign intruders."

Following Liam's instructions, Inessa marked the area on the map one by one. Then she thought for a moment and confirmed with Liam, "They were gathered in the basement at the time. What was the air like at the scene?"

Liam shrank his neck and tried to recall: "Just ordinary basement air, a little stuffy, and a little humid?"

“Not quite right.”×3
Wayne and Lina spoke up at the same time.

(End of this chapter)