Why it never ends

Chapter 203 At This Time, Here

The chase was still going on, and high-temperature rays continued to appear on Hesta's trajectory. These invisible attacks failed to hit her body, but left a continuous burn mark on the building behind her.

She noticed that Victoria's sniper unit was forcing her to flee in the direction of the reserve base, but Hesta was not fooled. Whenever everyone's position began to shift, she always quickly jumped out of the crowd and returned to the base. The dome of the church.

She provocatively imitated the movements of every mercury needle present, and used the remaining photos in her hand as flying blades to strike back at the chasers behind her from time to time.

Victoria avoided these petty fights with complicated emotions, because this is also the method she used to fight against the enemy-the pieces of paper flying out at high speed are sometimes sharp enough to rival the blade.

Leap, spin, hover, dive—

Continuous pieces of paper brushed against Victoria's nose tip, hair tail, shoulders and soles of feet, and they sank straight into the bronze statue not far behind her, leaving a series of neat cuts.

"Is this the only ability?" Victoria sneered, she suddenly changed her previous mid-range combat strategy, and suddenly accelerated towards the assassin.

The fire support in the distance temporarily stopped, and Victoria fought with it with a thorn similar to that of the assassin. In the face of chelates, the best way to kill the enemy in melee is to poke the brain, but it is not a last resort, Mercury Needle has always avoided such hand-to-hand combat.

Except for Chiba Masaki, no one came up and fought directly...it was too easy to get injured.

However, Victoria didn't think so. Although the assassin attacked Zoe at close range just now, it was when the strength of the two sides was completely unequal.In the event of close combat, the actual risk that the assassin would have to bear would probably be much higher than that of himself—the assassin would not dare to leave a sample of his own blood so easily because he tried so hard to disguise his identity.

"Let me see - your real ability!"

……

At this moment Tan Yi has fallen into silence.

In the tavern a few blocks away from the church, many people were evacuating inside the building. People strictly extinguished all the lights in the house as required by the "How to Avoid Chelation Disease". The hail of bullets everywhere.

Some residents living on the upper floors moved to the windows in fear, and they quietly lifted a corner of the curtains, trying to see what happened outside.

However, before they could see clearly the situation in the distance, a figure that suddenly flashed past them startled everyone.

It was Chiba Masaki who was running fast on the deserted streets.

On the way back from the wasteland to the province of Nia, she smelled the smell of battle.

……

Victoria is still in close combat with the assassin.

Everything was as she expected, when she clung to the assassin and fought with the first goal of stabbing the assassin's body, the opponent's will to attack seemed to be weakened very quickly.It gave up attacking rashly, and even stopped making active defenses, and everything returned to the state when they first met—one desperately chasing, the other desperately hiding.

The assassin is like a loach in the water, gliding left and right, so slippery that people can't catch it at all.However, even so, it still did not deviate from its own direction—it always took the church dome as its origin of action, and never moved to other places.

Because of this, the balance of victory seems to be slowly tilting towards Victoria.

The assassin's movements were limited, and Victoria quickly found her own fighting rhythm. When it went well, her dagger even cut through the cloak behind the assassin. Everyone could see that the assassin's tricks were moving were broken one by one.

But...why doesn't it run?

The sun in the distant sky was sinking, and when the last ray of sunlight was replaced by light blue night, the assassin plunged into the interior of the clock tower, followed by Victoria, and in an instant, the glass painting of the Madonna and Child Get smashed by them.

Crimson, sapphire blue, emerald green... Accompanied by endless cracking sounds, the shattered pieces of glass stayed in the air for a short time, and then fell, causing a violent shattering sound on the ground.

Inside the dark bell tower, the two destroyed everything that stood between them with amazing destructive power - stone pillars, hanging ladders, beams... The gray-white dust spread out from the damaged glass windows.

The other mercury needles approached the bell tower one by one. They listened to the voices inside the building, and were ready to give Victoria the necessary assistance when the two rushed out of the bell tower again.

"Everyone... stay away from the clock tower immediately," Victoria's order came from the headset, "Don't expose yourself to a position visible to the naked eye, and don't take the initiative to attack unless the assassin attacks the ground unit."

All executed quickly.

Susie asked with concern: "How is your side, Victoria?"

"The Assassin..." Victoria's voice was accompanied by eager panting, "The Assassin seems to be entering the Acheron moment—"

Everyone was taken aback.

At the time of Acheron, the final eruption period of the mercury needle, the ability of the person involved will continue to increase by 20 to 150 times based on the original bullet time, but usually it can only last for tens of seconds to a few minutes.

When the time of Acheron is over, the quicksilver needles will die in a severe haemorrhage just like the chelate dies naturally.

——In that case, the assassin was really a quicksilver needle.

Everyone immediately understood Victoria's order. During the final period, the assassin will be invincible.

They quickly left the church and retreated in all directions, and all the mercury needles went to the nearest police deployment point in unison—if the assassin lost his mind and attacked the people or the police, they still needed to attract firepower as much as possible.

"Trisa..." Ende suddenly raised her head, calling out to her friend in an unbelievable tone.

"what happened?"

"Did I read it wrong..." Endai murmured, "There seems to be someone on the top of the bell tower?"

Several mercury needles raised their heads at the same time.

At this moment, the assassin and Victoria broke through the roof of the clock tower one after another. Under the gloomy sky, the two looked like two migratory birds fighting.

The scarred bell tower was already crumbling, and Stella immediately realized the danger. She held the camera tightly in her hand, and the other hand grabbed the nearby iron fence, but it didn't work. It collapsed suddenly, and the stone platform on the top floor also tilted.

Before Stella could readjust her posture, she lost her balance and fell backwards.

At the same time, the Assassin and Victoria, who had jumped to the highest point, also began to fall.

In the twilight before the night fell, the sky was ink-colored dark blue, Victoria faced the enemy on her back, and above her, the bitter wind blew up the assassin's cloak like a battle flag——

It's now!

Stella held her breath and pressed the shutter - she seized the moment, she seized this incomparable moment.

(End of this chapter)