Normally, a spring could be detached from an object in advance, as long as the connection point was destroyed.
Mo Qiong stabbed down with his sword, but the derivative immediately retaliated.
A machine that required a spring would not become a derivative. However, other things that did not require a spring would be forcefully attached to the universal spring, as if they were given a life of their own.
It would be fine if they were not attacked, but once they were attacked, the clockwork creatures would retaliate.
This was what happened when the security guards shot at the tree spirit. The tree spirit did not hesitate to wave its roots and branches to retaliate.
The truck was the same. As if it could feel something, it immediately bounced back.
The chassis and the top frame separated, and the truck sent Mo Qiong flying like a 'big mouth'.
"Bang!" The roof of the driver's seat fell backward and crashed onto the ground.
Then, it quickly merged together like a giant mouth biting down on Mo Qiong.
"Damn it … Normal cars don't have such a moving mechanical structure, but it can still move like this …"
Mo Qiong knew that the spring did not change the structure of the car. It could forcefully give all things the ability to move.
This ability did not necessarily have to conform to mechanics.
In theory, if it chose the Earth and wound it up a few times, the Earth could abandon the Sun, derail, and leave as soon as it wanted.
"No matter how simple an anomaly is, it can bring about a disaster," Master Gou said.
Mo Qiong nodded. Fortunately, the universal spring could not be manually attached to an object.
That was because the spring could not change its trajectory when it was detached from an object and was about to attach itself to another object.
Therefore, if someone wanted to interfere with the next object, they could only pick up that object and insert it into the spring.
Who could pick up Earth and use it against the spring?
Therefore, its threat level was only at Beta level.
The main thing was that it was easy to contain as long as it did not attach itself to any particularly dangerous or large objects.
Mo Qiong easily dodged the truck's attack. Then, he swung his sword and directly removed the roof of the driver's seat.
After that, he directly removed the front of the truck with a few slashes.
The part of the spring that was attached to it was also removed.
Sure enough, the clockwork came off of its own accord and moved toward the next target that suited it.
A skyscraper.
"Mo Qiong, stop it!"
Lord Gou was the first to grab the spring, but the spring was like Mo Qiong's arrow, completely unmoved.
Mo Qiong hurriedly tossed out the toy wind-up monkey in his hand. Lord Gou caught it in mid-air, and with a flip of his hand, he placed a cap on the wind-up monkey.
Suddenly, the spring wound around the toy monkey more than ten times. Then, the toy monkey laughed like a baboon and clapped its hands.
"Done," Master Gou said with a smile.
It was that simple to contain the Universal Clockwork Spring.
As long as he repeatedly maintained this method, the anomaly would be nothing more than an ordinary toy.
…
In the New York Sunshine Police Station, all the witnesses had been gathered. They would be subjected to a double investigation.
As the Blue and White Club, if they didn't secretly investigate the witnesses, then this bait would be too obvious.
Mo Qiong was at the police station. He glanced at the noisy witnesses and clapped toy monkeys. He asked the peripheral personnel, "It's still not safe here. Has the base been cleaned up?"
"Not yet. Before Clockwork escaped from the base, it destroyed almost all the facilities."
The peripheral personnel quickly explained the process of the failure after their investigation.
The D-class personnel had indeed made a mistake. They didn't replace the toy in time, causing Clockwork Spring to crash into the wall of the secret room.
In an instant, the entire secret room became a moving cube, rampaging through the underground shelter.
Clockwork Spring was inside the secret room, so if a D-class personnel made a mistake, it would first possess the cell where it was locked up.
It was worth mentioning that the secret room was specially designed, with a boat-like facility outside. The secret room itself was like a boat, floating on the surface of the water, not connected to any walls.
In fact, the entire underground shelter was designed according to this idea, with various partitions between each other, not forming a single entity.
That way, when Clockwork Spring failed, the entire shelter wouldn't be turned into a moving fortress by Clockwork Spring.
Because of that, after Clockwork Spring caused a ruckus, it could only escape through the ventilation duct and attached itself to a fan.
This effectively reduced the threat of Clockwork Spring failing.
However, since it managed to escape, the underground shelter must have been pretty much destroyed.
"It will take at least 2 days for us to restore the shelter's facilities." the peripheral personnel said.
"Then let's temporarily keep it in the police station, we'll personally guard it." Mo Qiong said.
Luo Yan said, "What about the task of finding the aether?"
Mo Qiong said, "Then we'll take turns. Split into two groups, we'll slowly search. Anyway, he can't run away in New York. It's fine if he hides, but once he leaves New York, he'll definitely trigger … that."
Of course, he was just spouting nonsense. Everyone knew what Mo Qiong meant, it was nothing more than assuming that the aether could hear.
"Hey, hey, hey, what did you put in the police station? I want to go home. "
"Why are you detaining us for so long?"
"We're just victims. There's a monster in New York. Why are you wasting time with us instead of fighting aliens?"
The people were very noisy. After verifying their identities and asking them to sign a confidentiality agreement, they were already impatient and wanted to leave.
No one wanted to waste time in the police station, especially when they had just experienced a particularly miraculous thing.
Tree Man and Optimus Prime fighting agents?
The people expressed, what was a confidentiality agreement? There were so many secrets on Earth. Why were they kept in the dark before?
The club members looked at the people calmly, knowing that for most people, confidentiality agreements were meaningless.
Luo Yan leaped onto the desk in the police station's office hall. She swung her ponytail and said, "Look at me!"
Everyone was attracted by her domineering voice and stared at her.
Luo Yan turned her back and said, "Those who have signed the confidentiality agreement can leave now."
Everyone laughed and was ready to leave.
"But!" Luo Yan suddenly turned around and attracted everyone's attention again. Then she snapped her fingers and said, "You should sleep."
Instantly, all the witnesses, including the police, sat down in a daze or even collapsed to the ground.
Next, Luo Yan sealed the memories of the witnesses one by one and then let them go.
Group hypnosis had to attract everyone's attention.
If the aether was in the crowd, would he pay attention on the surface but actually be on guard?
Ether was a top-notch assassin master, and one with an especially strong willpower. He definitely had the ability to do so.
There was probably no one in the world who could hypnotize an expert of his level, just like most of the club members. Unless they were willing, it was impossible to hypnotize them.
In addition, as long as the aether could split personalities, Luo Yan would not be afraid of hypnosis.
Of course, the aether was most likely not there. After all, the clockwork breaking through the containment was a sudden event.
However, with such a big commotion in Leiden Park, it was impossible for him not to know. Those who felt the commotion at the time were all fooled by Lan Bai She into a car accident. All the real witnesses were taken to the police station and released.
The aether, who was familiar with Lan Bai She's cleansing procedures, couldn't have been fooled. He must have known about the containment incident.
All he needed to do was find a random witness and unseal their memories to know the full picture.
At the police station, everyone took turns to be on duty. There was only one member at a time. The others deliberately stayed away from the police station and spread out to investigate the aether's traces.
This way, as long as the aether wanted the Universal Clockwork Spring, it would definitely steal it during the two days when the anomaly was temporarily held in the police station.
Of course, maybe not, but they had to try.
Otherwise, if they kept looking, they would not get anything except for sacrificing peripheral members.
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