New Gods of North America

On the map, a straight line runs through the town and then reaches the edge of the paper.

Wayne looked at the place where the line passed, and there was no special landmark:

“This doesn’t seem to be easy to find…”

Going along the straight line all the way, there are no places like the landlords' manors, plantations, mines, etc. Although we passed through one farm and stepped on another's cultivated land, we didn't hit the bull's eye.

"Oh, you don't understand." Lina pulled the pen out of Wayne's hand and pushed Wayne away from the table.

Then she marked a point on the map. "This is the valley where we encountered the swarm monster before, right?"

Wayne nodded.

"That swarm monster is quite powerful, and it can even talk, so it's obviously being controlled by someone. So the person controlling the trap shouldn't be very far away. At least under the same conditions, he wouldn't deliberately increase the straight-line distance.

"Since it's directly controlled by a human, he must have found a relatively safe place to wait for us. He doesn't know exactly when we will arrive, so he might not sleep all night, yawning like an idiot, and staying by the control array."

Starting from the point representing the valley, Lina drew a vertical line segment in the direction of the straight line, obtained an intersection, and then drew a concentric circle around the intersection.

Then Lina pointed at the circle and puffed out her chest. "Since he is in this direction now, and the area closest to the valley is this area, then we must search this area first."

It turned out to be a remote-controlled robot, and there seemed to be signal problems...

Wayne thought about it for a moment:

"Then is there any extremely powerful Beyonder who can control the swarm monster with just his thoughts from hundreds of kilometers away?"

Lina smacked her lips a little, then widened her eyes, "If that's the case, it would be too powerful... It feels like at least a high-level existence that can be called an 'evil god'."

Then Lina seemed to think for a moment, looked at Wayne seriously, and nodded:

"If he really is an evil god and we can't escape, then we should surrender quickly and try to join him."

Wayne asked again tentatively, "What if he's not that strong?"

Lina clenched her fist:

"Beat it, of course."

You are quite flexible...

At this time, Inesa poked her head out from the other side of the living room, and saw Wayne and Lina discussing at the table, so she walked over.

"Did the 'Wise Sage' respond to your prayers?" Inissa asked.

Lina held up the map to show Inissa, "Well, I said He is very friendly. He is not as scary as the Truth Church said. Look, Wayne is fine now, he just had a nosebleed."

Inesa did not comment, but glanced at Wayne:

"Were you present when Lina was performing the ritual just now?"

"Yeah." Wayne nodded.

Wayne still had two small pieces of paper stuffed in his nose at this time, and he was still frightened.

"How does it feel?" Inessa asked.

Wayne was firm, "I will definitely stay away from them in the future."

Inissa smiled rarely, pointed at Wayne, and looked at Lina: "Look, this is how normal people see Him."

"You are all prejudiced."

Lina puffed up her cheeks a little, but soon felt relieved. "Whatever. Anyway, it's thanks to the timid people of the Truth Church that they always ask me to help pray, and I can accumulate enough contributions to exchange for Parker."

After Lina finished speaking, she tapped the map twice and motioned for Inissa to look over there.

"The sage gave the direction that person is in, which is over here. This is the valley where we were attacked before. I think we can find that person roughly within this range, or at least find his trace."

Inesa thought about it for a moment and nodded in approval, "It is indeed a very likely possibility."

…

Although it sounds a bit wrong,

But since meeting Lina, Wayne really felt that he had not slept well at night in the past few days.

This girl is really active at night.

Wayne estimated the time and decided to go from home and search within the area on the map for a while. Then he had to rush to the steam train station before the steam train returned at noon tomorrow to see if he could be lucky enough to intercept Dr. John.

It's another all-nighter.

Three people and three horses were galloping in the wilderness. Compared with the previous weapon configuration, this time Inissa opened the inventory and increased the firepower for everyone.

Wayne was given twenty so-called "demon hunting bullets", ten of which were actually silver with patterns, and the other ten were made of black shell texture. It is said that they would explode when hitting hard objects and are used to deal with intangible evil spirits.

Then there was a bundle of seven high explosives with fuses, and two test tube bottles filled with liquid.

Inesa warned Wayne on horseback:

"Mr. Wayne, you may not have any experience in hunting before, so you must always be vigilant after you go there. If you encounter something abnormal or feel that your body or cognition is abnormal, you must take the medicine in time.

"Although the potion will make you feel sluggish and abnormally tired afterwards, it can keep you awake at critical moments."

Lina also echoed, "Yes, you must be alert in the front and alert us in time if you find anything unusual."

Okay, we are all squishy, ​​so leather armor can only be used as a meat shield.

A circle on the map.

In reality, it is a very large area.

The kind where you can see one side of the horizon and then turn your head to see the other side.

Several people came to the edge of the "circle" on the map, stopped their horses and took a short rest.

Wayne carried a kerosene lamp covered with a lampshade and asked the two old drivers for their opinions:

"Are we going to search along a straight line from the edge, or start from the center and search in a circle outward?"

Inissa's fingertips traced the straight line. "That center point may not be accurate. The revelation given by the 'wise sage' is relatively more reliable. We will go along this direction and explore the obvious places we can see first.

"If we still can't find any trace of them until we are out of the town, then we will go back the same way and look for any possible hiding places."

"Understood."

After finishing his repairs, Wayne got on his horse and remembered the lines in the game:

"Tonight,

"Wayne Constantine joins the hunt."

Hmm...

This seems to be the boss's line...

In other words,

When the time comes, I will punch the opponent's head off and then say:

"This is Constantine, Wayne Constantine,

"You bastard!"