Nightmare wake up

Chapter 59 "Looking for the Dragon Ruler"

Back at the Ombudsman, Maggie reapplied to Mrs Catherine and spent the afternoon at the range.

It's not because of nervousness, but because I feel that improving my strength is imminent...

The first time I participated in the battle between contractors, I was always excited. Yes, I was excited, not nervous.

Moqi looked at the target paper where the bullet holes were still scattered, and suddenly there was an illusion that adding a punisher seemed to be a mistake.

Hundreds of bullets were fired, and at night, the mechanical watch finally received the communication:

Vera: "Office gathering!"

Turning around and going upstairs, the team members are already ready, and Uncle Cat has come back and is sitting on the desk.

Captain Vera entered the office with a stranger.

"This is the colleague who was transferred to support by the Supervision Department, the captain of the Punisher in Zhulang City, Blackwater Province, Aubrey Bacon."

Unpredictable looked at the past, Aubrey Bacon was about 40 years old, a native of Dongsi, wearing a long robe, with a two-handed sword on his back;
Incongruously, with a somewhat worn straw hat on his head…

"Hello everyone, it's an honor to cooperate with you." Aubrey Bacon bowed slightly, greeted the Punishers of Hot Springs very politely, and stretched out his right hand to take off the straw hat.

Uh... he is an uncle with a smooth top of his head, only a little hair on the temples on both sides.

"Hello!" Uncle Mao returned the salute solemnly, but when the cat's eyes saw "Mediterranean", his voice was a little erratic.

"Well..." Captain Vera clenched his fists and pretended to cough, cleared his throat, and introduced with a rather serious expression:

"Mr. Bacon is an old contractor, has rich combat experience, and is the best among our punishers..."

……

After waiting for more than half an hour, after the night became darker, a group of six people and the old cat came out of the building of the Supervision Department and got into two cars.

Aubrey had to take off the one-meter-long broad sword behind his back, hugged it in his arms, and then reluctantly got into the co-pilot's seat.

"Our biggest problem was that we couldn't find Von Jackman, so I applied for the corresponding contract item and was escorted by Mr. Bacon..." Vera said as she started the car.

"It took a lot of time!" Aubrey laughed: "Pandora's application process is very complicated, and the process is desperate."

"You like wearing straw hats?" Douglas asked Senior Punisher.

"Actually, I prefer to wear a top hat, you know..." Aubrey Bacon pointed to the top of his barren head: "In order to cover my hairline."

"But, you know, the Black Sea province is in the south, and the hats are too hot..."

You don't have a hairline anymore, okay...

When the car started, Vera turned to look at Aubrey and interrupted the chat of several people:
"let us start!"

Aubrey Bacon nodded and pulled out a strangely shaped ruler from his oversized robe...

A copper ruler, two metal rods at right angles to each other, holding a vertical metal rod below, and the horizontal metal rod above began to wander and rotate silently.

It's a bit like... looking for a dragon ruler!Unpredictable found a "name" similar to this thing from the impression of the previous life.

I saw Aubrey opened the information passed by Captain Vera, found the photo of Scalpel von Jackman, and put the bottom end of the vertical metal rod on top of the photo.

"Orange-level Rune Words, search!" Aubrey turned his head slightly and explained to Unpredictable and Douglas sitting in the back row:

"When using it, use the bottom end against the person or object you are looking for, so that a connection can be established... Then Fu Yuan is urged, and the horizontal ruler above can lock the direction of the target."

"Search"... Moqi suddenly realized that the contract item that Vera applied for was this thing.

Indeed, the most difficult thing about dealing with von Jackman is that the other party has been hiding all the time. It can be said that there is no trace. Even if the two ghosts monitor 28 hours a day, they still cannot find any clues of the target.

If you can lock the opponent's position, then the rest will be much easier - only the battle is left.

Just when Maggie was ready to observe how Search works, Aubrey Bacon turned to look at Captain Vera and pointed to Maggie and Douglas in the back row:
"These two guys are not very good at fighting?"

"Yes, one is a newcomer, and the other is a ten-year white class..." Vera nodded and said, "As you ordered, let them ride in the same car as us."

"That's good!" Aubrey Bacon handed over the search ruler and the information with a smile on his face:
"Then it's up to you to launch this thing. As a combat supporter, I need to save my strength to deal with von Jackman..."

Suddenly, I had a very bad feeling...

Douglas, who was beside him, was full of interest. He reached out and took the search ruler and information: "Just do what you just demonstrated?"

"Yes..." Aubrey Bacon turned to look forward and said without looking back.

So, a burst of symbol source fluctuations...

The symbol source flashed in Douglas's hand, and a faint orange light suddenly appeared on the search ruler. The metal rod at the top began to rotate rapidly, and finally pointed to the south.

Vera hardly stopped, she stepped on the switch, and the car sped away towards the road indicated by the search ruler.

Luo Qing's car is following closely behind...

"Every time you use the direction that can locate the target for an hour, you don't have to always touch the photo..." Aubrey Bacon turned his head and glanced at Douglas, and said with some sympathy.

Through the dim light, Unpredictable set his eyes on Douglas's face, and shivered suddenly.

In just a few seconds, Douglas' eyes were sunken, his cheeks contracted, and his face was as pale as a corpse...

"What you should know... Activating an orange-level contract item requires a lot of rune support..." Vera looked back through the rearview mirror and asked indifferently:

"How do you feel? Douglas?"

"It's okay... Hey, why is my voice a little hoarse." Douglas didn't notice his change at all, stared at the search ruler in his hand, and smiled indifferently:

"I just feel a little tired, and my body feels hollowed out."

If you have a mirror now, you know what you are now like... Unexpectedly, I couldn't help but spit out a sentence in my heart:

It turned out that he, a newcomer who had been employed for three days, participated in the task only as a "blue bottle" that provided Fu Yuan.

fine;
There is Douglas…

The two cars galloped on the dark street, and finally arrived at the southern suburbs of Hot Springs after more than 40 minutes.

Ahead is the plain that left the city. The weeds on the ground are more than half the height of a person, and they are like rolling waves under the night wind...
The search ruler was still pointing firmly to the south… unmoved.

"Did something go wrong?"

Aubrey looked in the direction of the pointer, then looked at the deserted wilderness ahead, and looked at Captain Vera.

"Scalpel von Jackman can't live in the grass like a vole, right?" Douglas also noticed the abnormality and asked in a hoarse voice.

Vera Alexandra rubbed her temples: "Let's drive forward for a while! When the search ruler loses its target..."

So, keep going and run directly to the intercity expressway.

finally;
The search ruler lost its target, and the orange glow dissipated in the darkness;

The metal bar of the wishbone above is restored to its wandering state.

Park the car, everyone gathers together...

"Before it was useless, it was always pointing south..." Douglas explained to the surrounding teammates with certainty.

"Impossible!" Luo Qing frowned: "Could it be that Von Jackman left Hot Spring City after committing the crime?"

Everyone fell into silence almost at the same time. In the dark night, on the deep intercity highway, six people and one cat frowned at the same time...

"It's not in Hot Springs anyway." Uncle Cat looked at the direction Douglas pointed and made a not-so-fun joke:

"Drive in this direction, and you will be able to reach Dongcheng tomorrow morning..."

"There are only two possibilities..." Vera frowned: "Either Von Jackman left Hot Spring City, or there is something wrong with this thing."

"The search ruler can't be broken!" Aubrey Bacon said with some dissatisfaction: "This is an orange-level contract item stored by Pandora, and there will be no problems easily."

"Verification is easy, let's try again!"

After finishing speaking, Aubrey Bacon's eyes looked at Unpredictable...

Misty grass... Moqi looked at Douglas' haggard face and felt a tingling in his scalp.

However, you can't escape...

"I'll try it!" Maggie took the search ruler from Douglas's hand, placed it on the photo of von Jackman, and activated Rune Source.

Immediately, the search ruler in his hand was like a black hole, instantly draining the rune source from his whole body, with a part of his muscle strength...

There was a sudden feeling of weakness.

Unfathomable almost lost his footing, barely keeping his figure, watching the search ruler emit a faint orange light again, and the upper cross arm again pointed in the original direction—south!
This search ruler is a northerner who is afraid of cold, so yearning for the south...

Several people present saw the direction of the cross arm and fell silent again.

"Do you want to continue driving in this direction?" Luo Qing pursed her lips and asked in surprise.

"Who knows how far this point is? If von Jackman is in the southern province, can we still catch up?" Vera shook her head:
"The Punisher can't leave Hot Springs as a whole."

"There are some problems here..."

The search ruler was tested twice with two people, all pointing in the same direction, this effect is equivalent to "double blind"...

There is no problem with the search ruler, then it can only mean that von Jackman is indeed no longer in Hot Springs.

Mo Qi took a deep breath, not daring to imagine what the hell he looked like now, shook his slightly tired body, and returned the search ruler in his hand to Aubrey.

When I pulled out the information below, my eyes swept to the photo of von Jackman below...

The mind that had been feeling tired suddenly tightened.

An inexplicable familiar feeling shocked him!

(End of this chapter)