Extraordinary Puppet Master

The bridge across the river at night cannot escape the shroud of fog. The new moon exudes a cool brilliance, reflecting the sparkling waves of the river water.

One end of the bridge was shrouded in a hazy fog, which looked no different from the original fog in the Steam City.

Carlin in the mist has already adjusted the shooting elements of 'Miss 75'. The witch on the side can fire the gun at any time by pulling the trigger rope, and the other three marionettes are also in place.

He had already arranged everything and was waiting for Charles' arrival.

At this time, Karin has equipped his own [Forbidden Gear].

The black gear turned into two rays of light and clung to Karin's arms, and both of his arms were immediately covered in thick jet black metal.

It looked like two black metal giant arms were attached to his body.

Karin raised his arms with his fingers facing forward, and the metal finger joints were opened, revealing ten black gun muzzles.

At this moment, there was a rush of horse hooves from the other side of the bridge, and a hazy light shone on the surface of two specially modified and reinforced carriages.

One after another, they protected a luxurious and elegant carriage in the center, and the three carriages quickly entered the bridge.

As they drove into the bridge, the corners of a curious doll's mouth suddenly curved in a strange arc in a dark corner, and a pair of eyes tilted to the left at the same time.

In the luxury carriage, Charles Bening looked at the steam core that he had previously bid at the auction. While rubbing the metal cylinder with his palms, a smile appeared on his lips.

"The production of steam cores is still too low, and I have only gotten one of my own 'steam gears' to upgrade over the years.

It's good luck to get it today. If it weren't for the nouveau riche from the countryside, it might have taken a lot of effort to get it. "

He was not the only one who had the ability to compete for the steam core in the auction, and some of the nobles on the second floor had financial resources no worse than Charles. However, the atmosphere changed after Drake spoke.

Although the previous conflict between Drake and Snico was short-lived, it was known to many people, and everyone knew that he was a wealthy man from the New World.

When Drake raised the price, a fierce fight was about to break out. At this time, Charles suddenly shouted and offered a sky-high price of 300 spirit gold coins.

And Drake's behavior of leaving directly instead of continuing the bidding also made other nobles feel proud and relieved.

So I sold Charles to save face from competing with him, otherwise the final transaction price would probably have gone up.

"Give this steam core to Tim. It's time for me to give birth to a second combat force that can compete with the professional level.

Haha, I really should thank that upstart. When the second spiritual recovery occurs in ten days, maybe Tim can also rely on the upgraded steam equipment to advance to the professional level."

And just when Charles was imagining a bright future, there was a sudden loud bang and the escort carriage in front exploded into a ball of fire.

Two strong horses and four trainee guards, including the guard captain, were killed with one shot.

"No, there's an ambush on the bridge!"

The remaining people realized it was an enemy attack, but Kalin didn't give them time to react.

In the middle of the bridge, Drake directly activated the golden formation disk.

A concealment barrier opened instantly, covering a two-hundred-meter radius in darkness. The last bit of light in the night disappeared, and the vision of Charles and others became pitch black.

In the darkness, red mist spread rapidly, and Carlin's ten metal fingers also roared angrily.

Da da da da da da da da—

Countless spiritual bullets condensed into ten miserable green bullet chains that ravaged the carriage on the opposite side crazily.

And Eric's [Spirit Mist] melted the horse pulling the cart into a pile of bones before the bullet hit the target.

After that, spiritual bullets wildly bombarded the carriages. It was only then that the two carriages, which were drifting by inertia after losing their horses, triggered the passive shield to resist the bullet attacks.

But this was obviously in vain. The shield and solid metal baffle of the escort carriage at the rear seemed to be made of paper, and were torn apart by the tide of bullets in less than half a second.

It was torn apart in an instant, with metal fragments mixed with broken limbs flying everywhere.

Charles's carriage was obviously a high-end product, and its shield was much stronger than that of the escort carriage, but it could not withstand Carlin's bullets that were comparable to machine gun bullets.

It took about fifteen seconds for the carriage's shield to be shattered by bullets, and Carlin stopped shooting.

Although killing Charles was his goal, the steam core was more important in his mind. If he continued shooting, it would be easy to damage the steam core.

At this time, the carriage had been stopped abruptly by bullets.

The previous violent jolts had already caused the inner steam core to slip out of Charles' hands and fall to the ground. At this time, he was holding a spell and shouting something crazily.

But the spell's lack of movement made his expression turn desperate.

"How is it possible, my communication charm is actually blocked by the ritual!"

Just then the gunshots stopped, which gave Charles a sense of luck. The other party might not necessarily kill him, so everything still had to be discussed.

Charles quickly kicked open the carriage door. It was dark outside, and even Eric's red mist was hidden by the barrier.

He couldn't care about this and could only yell in the darkness. As he spoke, a brass gear in his pocket bloomed with light, covering his whole body.

"Friend across the way, I think we can have a good talk."

Pfft——

Before he finished speaking, Charles's head flew high and the brass gears calmed down.

Snitch didn't give Charles a chance to use the gear and just cut off his head.

After casually taking away a bronze ring on his finger and the brass gear in his pocket, he also put the metal cylinder dumped in the carriage into his backpack, and then entered the hidden state again.

‘Why do you feel that that gear is somewhat similar to the [Forbidden Gear]?

Could it be that the extraordinary system of the Bening family was developed on the basis of "Forbidden Workshop"? ’

While Carlin was thinking, he was not idle either, working with all the marionettes to clean up the crime scene.

At this time, the Cland Bridge was shrouded in darkness from the outside.

About ten minutes later, the darkness subsided, revealing the scene inside. Carlin and the four Marionettes had disappeared, leaving only a messy crime scene.

Snitch left the team directly and headed to Ciel's house to prepare for killing Chloe.

Carlin, on the other hand, returned home as quickly as possible and began to deal with the loot.

He didn't even bother to look at some of the belongings belonging to Prince Charles' escort. Most of them were broken into pieces, and the rest were worthless.

Carlin just swept away the cash that escaped the crime and left the scene of the crime.