New Gods of North America

Truth be told,

Once Extraordinary individuals manage to form reasonable cooperation, their combat power often exhibits a "multiplicative growth" effect.

A relatively simple example would be "Whale Oil" and "Airflow" from the detective agency. Their individual combat abilities are so-so.

One can create an oily paste similar in nature to whale oil within a limited time, typically used to make people "slip" or "catch fire."

The other mainly induces directional breezes in a certain area, commonly used to prevent scent leaks in the mountains or to regulate temperature in rooms and assist in the kitchen.

But together, they're masters of arson and smoke. In a confined space, they might even trap Conner and suffocate him half to death.

A slightly more complex example is the "battlefield awareness system" that the detective agency just started trial operation tonight.

Seth acts as a "router" on the roof of the detective agency's warehouse.

Doug's owls circling in the sky and the dispatched members can be considered "sensors."

The three teams setting off with small mirrors attached with Seth's "film" are roughly the receiving terminals.

Of course, crude methods are still useful.

For example, Willie is staying with Seth, responsible for lighting "signal lights" on the roof and "shouting" when needed...

Because they guessed that the other party might take action tonight, the detective agency slightly adjusted their schedule after sunset.

Most were "ready for battle" and "slept in their clothes," waiting for the likely attackers to come to their door.

Finding suspicious attackers at night is actually easier than imagined.

The detective agency's location is now barely considered semi-rural. It wouldn't be strange for people to pass by at night,

But if a group of people approached within a mile of the detective agency and suddenly turned off their lights or covered them with lampshades, suddenly going completely "dark,"

Who would believe they weren't up to no good?

The place where they collectively turned off the lights wasn't in a location that the detective agency could normally observe.

However, Doug had also temporarily placed the pigeons at home in those more "regular" temporary bird nests in advance.

So, seeing pigeons flying back "cooing," and identifying where they were placed before,

The detective agency quietly mobilized according to the planned scheme.

The owl silently circled in the sky and then plucked pine nuts on the map upon returning.

The other side should have sent thirteen people this time, quickly splitting into three teams, flanking the detective agency's courtyard facing the river.

Damon McQuiddy, Conner, and Sanders each took a "receiving terminal" from Seth and set off with their teams.

Wayne and Lina also climbed onto the roof of the warehouse first, observing the battle situation with Seth, Willie, and Doug, ready to reinforce wherever a signal was sent.

Screams and explosions sounded first, followed by retaliatory gunshots and shouts.

The peace of midnight was quickly broken, then immediately exploded like water into hot oil.

"Ah—"

"Boom!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

With preparation against the unprepared, the initial battle situation was not bad.

Yellow flares quickly rose from Sanders' side, Damon McQuiddy's side gradually became quiet, and Conner's team seemed to have not hit the trap directly, with intermittent movements like a sheep passing stool.

The owl circles once and returns, Seth listens to Doug's translation beside him, and his fingers quickly swipe on a mirror,

With a square representing the detective agency by the river, and three curves roughly marking the enemy's number, advancing position, and direction.

Sanders' situation is the best, the number 5 is crossed out and written as 3, 3 is crossed out again and becomes 0.

The other two sides currently have remaining numbers of 2 and 4 respectively.

Then things quickly turned bad.

"Save—"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Then flares suddenly rose in all three directions, all of them red flares indicating "danger."

Seth was busy modifying the map on the mirror,

Willie, holding a small torch, quickly lit all the fire basins on the beams, three in a group, each representing the degree of danger in different directions, lighting them all indicating that all three directions were in urgent need.

Doug whistled to call the owl, then rummaged for highly explosive dynamite with extended fuses, preparing for "air support."

Wayne slid down the simple slide attached to the eaves, returned to the ground, grabbed his bolt-action rifle, and aimed in the right direction, ready to reinforce the side with the closest strength comparison first,

Damn it,

The slide didn't have time to be polished, sliding down felt like his butt was about to be cooked...

Lina trotted down the simple slide, finally unable to brake, shouting "Get out of the way" in the back, and with inertia, she darted past Wayne, almost crashing straight into the courtyard wall.

Fortunately, Lina's shotgun was on her back. After reaching the courtyard wall, she didn't pick a direction, greeted, and went out of the courtyard gate with the wind, continuing to rush towards the nearest red flare direction.

Lina went to the "middle lane," Wayne continued to run the "right lane,"

Conner's side almost turned into a jungle war, with agents retreating behind trees while continuing to fire cold shots.

The other side's style had become wrong. Spiritual intuition could clearly feel a strange "restlessness."

Wayne opened the minimalist lines of sight and took a look. The remaining three guys here didn't look like people anymore.

One guy's shape now looks a bit like a bamboo shoot, with many root-like vines spreading from his feet. There are "main stems" and "branches," some of which even climbed onto the tree, looking like poisonous snakes.

This thing is easier to deal with. It seems to be rooted and unable to move, and can only rely on "roots" to spread.

The remaining two guys, one scattered into a pile of "starfish" that can bounce around in the forest, and one became a "skin" with something wriggling inside, as if the bones were gone.

They are also extremely aggressive, as if they will "gnaw" on anything alive.

Conner used a hardened "small shield" to block a "starfish," and the "starfish" took the opportunity to grab onto it, with several tentacles like syringes about to pierce into Conner's body.

After Conner "lost his tail" and shook it off, the center point of the "starfish" seemed to have an "oral apparatus" that could both absorb and bite.

Conner quickly added a shot, just about to continue to retreat, when another "starfish" had already bounced and was about to jump on his cheek.

"Bang!"

Wayne helped him knock the "starfish" away, "They are all out of control guys again. Retreat if you can, stay away from those who can't move, and see if they will disintegrate themselves!"

Before he finished speaking,

Several "starfish" and the "skin" gathered towards Wayne, following the sound.

The "skin" exploded in mid-air with a "poof," and spider web-like flocs spread rapidly, as if sealing the surrounding area into a "Pansi Cave."

Some unfortunate "starfish" were directly wrapped in "spider silk" and then quickly withered.

Wayne watched his vision rapidly fill with "silk threads,"

But his sight was involuntarily attracted to another direction by the spirit intuition of the alarm bell.

On the other side, a little further away,

In the void in mid-air, many lines suddenly appeared out of thin air, and then these lines began to become disordered, and then intertwined and entangled with each other.

Wayne quickly retracted his gaze and tried to concentrate the spiritual power of his body on the skin of his body,

Planning to defend or "blow up" the entangled "spider silk."

Still in shock,

Mom, what's the situation on Lina's side that forced her to invite the "Wise Sage".