In one of the warehouses in the Herrank Warehouse District.
"Found it!"
A fully armed SWAT officer wearing tactical goggles suddenly raised his right hand and gestured for them to stop. At the same time, he stared at the corner in front of him that was full of junk.
The other two SWAT officers heard him and aimed their muzzles at the left side of the room according to the leader's gaze. Then, the two of them saw that there was a slightly old statue sitting quietly in the corner.
The statue was carved very meticulously and lifelike, but it exuded a kind of ancient aura. It was as if the statue had been placed in this old warehouse for a long time, so long that it was almost forgotten by time.
However, these people had received hints from their superiors, so they understood that this kind of ancient and old-fashioned appearance was a kind of camouflage that allowed them to blend into the environment more easily.
"Boss, are you sure that's it?"
One of the SWAT officers was a little confused. "After all, no matter how you look at it, it's just a statue..."
"This is an order from above, we just need to follow it."
The leader of the SWAT team said coldly, "Now, according to the instructions given by the higher-ups, the three of us must not look away and must stare at it. If anyone blinks, you must report to us, understand?"
"Yes!"
The two of them nodded and stared at the statue in front of them without blinking.
The leader of the SWAT team took out his walkie-talkie and began to report to his superior. "Calling headquarters, this is Hound Squad No. 23. We have found the target in the sixth zone. We are currently in observation mode and locking on to it. Headquarters, please send a containment team here to forcibly contain the target. Over!"
As he finished his report, an order from his superior came through the walkie-talkie. "Calling Hound Squad No. 23. Your request has been received by headquarters. Please confirm how many statues you have."
"So far, only one has been found."
"Understood, the containment team is rushing to your location. Over."
After the call ended, the three of them did not feel that anything was wrong. They were just carrying out the orders given by their superior and waiting for the containment team to arrive.
Moreover, while waiting, the three of them were still chatting casually. They seemed to be very relaxed about this kind of task.
"Boss, do you think this thing can really break a person's neck?"
Suddenly, one of the team members asked curiously, "If we say that as long as we look away, they will come up and break our necks, then as long as we alternate blinking, will we be able to stop them from moving?"
"I don't know either."
The SWAT team leader shrugged. "Alright, I'll blink in two seconds. You two keep a close eye on it."
As he said that, he lowered his head and rubbed his eyes before looking at the statue again. "But I don't recommend that you do this. Although I know that many members don't believe that the statue can move, what if it's true? I don't want to end up like those corpses in the photos they showed us before, with their necks twisted like a fried dough twist … "
Just as the three of them were chatting happily, suddenly, a clanking sound came from behind them. The sound came from the door of the warehouse, as if something had knocked over the furnishings in the warehouse and walked in from the outside.
"Is it the containment team? We are the Hound Squad, and the one in front of us is one of our targets. Please take it in immediately! "
The SWAT team leader said immediately, but he didn't get the answer he expected. Instead, he heard a crisp "crack" sound, as if something had been twisted and broken …
The moment he heard the sound, the SWAT team leader's pupils shrank. Before he could turn around, he heard another of his teammates scream, "Charles, Charles is dead!"
"What happened?"
The SWAT team leader wanted to turn around to see what was going on behind him, but when he thought of the orders from his superior, he suppressed his instincts and asked loudly instead.
"It's another statue..."
The previous disdainful voice had turned into a sobbing one. "It broke Charles' neck before I came back to my senses!"
Hearing the other party's wail, the SWAT team leader suddenly felt a chill in his heart. "Wait, you mean, you're looking at another statue now?"
"Yes, I'm looking at the statue that killed Charles. It's still maintaining the posture of its hand. Boss, I don't want to die!"
"Hey, you'll be fine, but don't blink, understand?"
The SWAT team leader's soul almost flew out of his body when he suddenly heard the grievous news. He even heard a low "hehe" sound. This sound was the sound of Charles' lungs being unable to store air after his neck was broken, causing it to slowly leak out!
Even so, he still did not dare to turn around. He even had to keep comforting his teammates behind him. For a moment, cold sweat trickled down his forehead!
"But Boss, I can't hold on any longer..."
"Shut up, you must hold on. The containment team will be here soon, you must hold on..."
Hearing his teammate's desperate voice behind him, the SWAT team leader became even more nervous. However, before he could finish speaking, the familiar "crack" sound came again!
"Could it be..."
The SWAT team leader finally could not take it anymore. He pulled out his gun and shot at the statue in front of him. However, as he shot a few holes into the statue in front of him, he was just about to turn around and shoot at the other statue when he suddenly felt his whole body go numb. Then, he heard a third "crack" sound!
Only this time, the sound came from his own neck...
"Thud!"
The SWAT team leader's body fell heavily to the ground. His whole body was twitching, and in his increasingly blurred vision, he could only see two angels standing in front of him. They were reaching out their hands as if they wanted to redeem his soul...
"Hehe... Hehe..."
The SWAT team leader's lips moved slightly, but he did not utter the words "God bless". A few seconds later, he lost consciousness forever...
A few minutes later, a large pickup truck drove along the road. The windows of the pickup truck were reinforced with a large amount of steel, and there was a large iron cabinet made of steel, one meter wide and two meters long, in the compartment behind the front of the truck.
There were a lot of welding marks and thick iron bolts on the iron cabinet. Obviously, it had not been carefully polished and was moved here as soon as it was made.
In the car, there were four SWAT team members who were also fully armed. This was the containment team that the Los Angeles police had temporarily formed. Their mission was to imprison the statues in the iron cabinet and effectively contain them.
However, when they arrived at the scene with the iron coffin, all they saw was the gradually cold bodies of the three members of the Hound Team.
The two statues had disappeared without a trace...
...
When the first ray of dawn appeared in the sky, a dark shadow descended rapidly from the sky and finally landed on the rooftop of a tall building not far away from the Herrank Warehouse District.
The camera zoomed in. It was Chen Chen who had just returned from the Rocky Mountains.
However, at this time, Chen Chen did not look good. He could not help but look tired and pale. As soon as he landed, he panted heavily.
For him, flying thousands of kilometers continuously at supersonic speed was a bit too much for him.
"It's been a long time since I used Field at such a high intensity..."
Chen Chen took a deep breath and looked at the distant warehouses that stretched into the sky with some anxiety. "X, what's the current situation in the Herrank Warehouse District?"
"Heavy casualties."
Little X's voice came. "The containment results are different from the Quantum Deity Laboratory. Although there are more angel statues in the Quantum Deity Laboratory, because they were all locked up in the laboratory, the containment was very smooth.
"However, because the Herrank Warehouse District is a large area, it's not easy to search. So, we've lost more than 20 SWAT team members and only managed to contain two statues. At least two more haven't been found."
"There's nothing we can do about it."
Chen Chen waved his hand and sighed in relief. "It's fine as long as those two statues don't escape. If they escape into Los Angeles, the consequences will be unimaginable."
"But Sir Godfather, I have one more thing to report."
With that, Little X said again, "Currently, four Black Knights are pursuing the man named Carter, but the situation is not looking good..."
"How is it not looking good?"
Chen Chen raised an eyebrow.
"As an intelligent life, I know I shouldn't use the metaphysical unit of 'luck' to judge something, but the fact is, that human named Carter does have indescribable luck..."
Little X's voice was a little aggrieved. "In order to improve the efficiency of the pursuit, I divided the four Black Knights into two groups. One group pursued the target from behind and the other group ambushed in front of the target. However, no matter how the Black Knights attacked, even using firearms, they couldn't catch up to the target.
"Not only that, in the process of the pursuit, two Black Knights were seriously injured. One Black Knight was thrown from the target's car and had half his body crushed by the truck behind him, so he had to withdraw from the pursuit.
"In addition, when another Black Knight chased the target into an alley, he was shot in the back of the neck by the target, which detonated his God chip on the spot. The remaining Black Knights had to stop the pursuit and deal with the body of the dead Black Knight first."
Little X's voice was endless. "Moreover, the target almost never stopped when he was on the run, always encountering help from others along the way. There was even one time when the Black Knight had caught the target, but before he could crush the target's neck, he was hit by a chandelier that was destroyed during the previous fight...
"In short, it's like our Black Knights are under some kind of curse and the target is the son of fortune. No matter how desperate the situation is, he can turn the situation around and keep moving forward. I'm afraid the target will arrive in Los Angeles by tonight at the latest."
Hearing Little X's complaints, Chen Chen did not show any strange expression because he had even seen these scenes described by Little X in the movie Deadly Crisis: A Shocking Scheme three years ago.
With Chen Chen's memory, as long as it was what Little X said, he could find the corresponding scene in the movie because these were all scenes that had appeared in the movie. The part where the Black Knight's lower body was crushed was the scene of the road chase during the intermission.
Not only that, Chen Chen originally planned to send ten Black Knights to hunt down Carter together, but who would have expected that the memetic effect would go out of control in Los Angeles, so Chen Chen only sent four Black Knights there in the end.
Now it seemed that even the number of villains in the movie matched up...
"It's a pity I'm tied up and can't leave, otherwise I'd like to go and see for myself."
Chen Chen was a little helpless, but then he changed the topic. "Now isn't the time to think about this, X, have you found the reason why these angels appeared?"
"You mean..."
Little X was a little hesitant.
"Why would there be more than twenty angel statues in the Quantum Deity Laboratory?"
Chen Chen immediately asked, "Were those statues formed after humans watched the video calculated by 'Adam'?"
"This speculation can basically be confirmed!"
Little X immediately replied, "There are a total of twenty-three representatives of all continents in the Quantum Deity Laboratory, that is, the 'shield bearers', which corresponds to the number of statues you found. Moreover, the 'shield bearers' are the group of people with the highest authority in the Quantum Deity Laboratory. Every time Adam calculates something, they're also the first to get the answer, so it can be confirmed that they've all watched the video."
"I see, after watching the video, I'll be infected with the angel meme and become a new angel statue?"
Chen Chen suddenly understood, then asked again, "Then what about looking at the angel statues, will something like the memetic pattern appear?"
"So far, nothing has been found."
Little X continued to answer, "Whether it's the Quantum Deity Laboratory or the Herrank Warehouse District, all the police and military responsible for the containment have not shown signs of being infected by the meme because of contact or eye contact with the angel statues."
"Very good."
Chen Chen nodded. He initially thought that since the video predicted by Adam had the characteristics of a memetic infection, there was a high probability that the statue itself also had this infectious ability. For this reason, he did not even dare to look at it directly.
However, now it seemed that the statue was not that lethal.
But since that was the case, the following situation was easy to handle. Although the Los Angeles police suffered heavy losses, under the strong pressure from the higher-ups, they were still dutifully searching for the remaining two statues hidden in the Herrank Warehouse District.
As long as the remaining two angel statues were found and successfully contained, then this memetic incident could be put to a perfect end.
After that, it was time to deal with the protagonist, Keith, and then have a showdown with the world.
However, just when Chen Chen thought that everything was settled, Little X's voice suddenly became anxious. She hurriedly said, "Sir Godfather, I just received news that there's a special situation in the Los Angeles City Hall!"
Chen Chen could not help raising an eyebrow when he heard this. He raised his head in the direction of downtown Los Angeles and said worriedly, "Don't tell me there's a memetic effect in the city hall..."
"Unfortunately, it is!"
Little X immediately replied, "I intercepted the information from the city hall network. Angel statues suddenly appeared in the city hall without warning, and there's more than one!"
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