New Gods of North America.

Chapter 330 Catching the Fish

Saturday night,
After seeing off Miss Olivia, an owl flew out silently from the yard of the detective agency.

The silly bird came back and made a "gu" sound, confirming that there was only one "fish" tonight.
Wayne went out in the carriage driven by Peter.

The first batch of silencer samples have arrived.
But Wayne found that this thing was not very meaningful when installed on revolvers and lever rifles of this era...

A key factor affecting the silencing effect is the airtightness of the firearm itself.
If the air tightness is good enough, the high-pressure gas generated by the burning of bullet gunpowder will basically be "squeezed" out from the muzzle, and the silencing effect will be better.

Then by chance,

The weak point of revolvers and lever rifles these days is airtightness, which causes them to "leak" air from other places, and the "noise reduction" of the muzzle silencer is not large enough.

The silencer works well on Inissa's bolt-action rifle, but it blocks the front crosshairs and is not very stable, so it needs to be modified.

However, it is not impossible to make a weapon with a better silencer effect. The airtightness of a revolver is not good, so you can consider using a single-shot pistol without a "revolver" to modify it, and try to kill the enemy with one shot, otherwise you will end up in the grave.
The same goes for lever-action rifles. If simply adding accessories does not produce a good effect, then consider overall modification and plugging as many possible leaks as possible. At most, you will have to sacrifice some ammunition capacity and continuous firing speed.

The principle is not difficult.

The problem is that "overall modification of the firearm to make the sound of shooting smaller" seems to be too deliberate than "adding accessories", and its scope of application is also questionable.

It can almost be characterized as a "premeditated crime"...

Although there are no legal provisions for this kind of thing in this era, if it really goes to court, it probably won’t pass the jury.

So Wayne planned to take some time to go to the Brooke family's steel processing plant and have a good chat with Alex Brooke.
If that guy can keep it a secret, he will consider giving it a try.

Otherwise, find an opportunity to change one.

Since the silencer cannot be used tonight, Wayne plans to try to lure the "fish" to a relatively remote place.

If you can avoid shooting, don't shoot. If you encounter a situation where you have to shoot, the worst that can happen is you can just shoot and run.

Wayne was looking at the mirror in his hand, which was now covered with Seth's "film".
There are not many people left in the detective agency at the moment. Except for Parker and Emma who are guarding the house and protecting themselves, all the others are out in full force tonight.

Doug, Seth, and Conor were a group of three riding in a carriage, and they set off a little later than Wayne.
Owl is responsible for aerial reconnaissance, Seth is responsible for information synchronization, which is basically the simplest "battlefield situation awareness system". It is a waste of talent to use it to track and locate a carriage. Connor is both a bodyguard and a thug, which is just right to balance the average combat effectiveness of this group.

Wayne and Inissa should have been in a separate group. It would be safer to have three carriages to chase and intercept them without firing a shot.
But in this case, the prisoner would be left unattended. Although he was relatively cooperative now, he had tried to escape several times but failed. He could not be left alone with the chef or the little girl.
So Wayne called Peter to be his coachman, half supervising and half using him, while Inissa drove a car alone.

Seth's "membrane" can only transmit image information, but fortunately the synchronization rate is not bad, and even Seth's "stroke sequence" can be seen. The ability belongs to the concept of "coherence" or "resonance" in the field of order.

A circle and a cross symbol has been quickly drawn on the "membrane", which means that Wayne has been "bitten" by the opponent's carriage. In fact, it also means that Seth and his group have entered a tailing state and are in the "oriole" position of "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind".

Wayne was the bait, and his route was planned in advance, with roughly two or three plans, and then he would respond to them as they came.

The other party was not following too closely, keeping a distance of about several dozen to a hundred yards. If it wasn't a straight road, it wouldn't be easy to be discovered if being followed.
What Seth continued to share at this moment was the other party's direction of movement, which was basically a straight arrow or a curved arrow. After drawing it, the "film" could clear the content and then draw a new one.

After confirming that the target had not lost him, Wayne turned onto a relatively single-track road as planned.
Feeling that they were close enough, Peter took the opportunity of turning to tear down the cloth covering the spare kerosene lamp, and turned the car around to chase after him.

At this time, on the front of Wayne's carriage, there were two kerosene lamps hung on the left and right, turned to the brightest, which looked like a pair of eyes of a beast at night.

The detective agency was located in a relatively "suburban" area in Georgeburg, and Wayne deliberately did not go too close to the city.

The other party's reaction was also very quick. He turned a corner from a distance and hid in a small forest on the side of the road in the suburbs, which could not be considered a "road".
As Wayne approached, the other party realized that Wayne was actually turning back to look for him, so he quickly turned off the kerosene lamp on the carriage and sped up.

Wayne had never thought that the other party was quite familiar with the terrain in this area.
There are indeed many places in the suburbs that "don't look like roads but are actually passable by horse-drawn carriages", such as small woods or grasslands.
However, the water system in the Georgeburg area is quite developed. If people who don't know the way leave the main road and run around, they will easily end up in a "dead end" blocked by rivers and the like.

It seems that the other party has at least explored this area in advance and knows which directions cannot be taken and which directions have "forks in the road".

Detective agencies are not serious "law enforcers". When dealing with strangers who are merely "unidentified" or "suspicious", they follow the principle of "equal countermeasures".
If you fight hand-to-hand, I will fight hand-to-hand. If you pull out a gun, I will pull out a gun too. Although I will not "never fire the first shot", I will not "set off firecrackers" randomly. In this way, even if the king of heaven comes, the detective agency will still have some crooked logic.

Therefore, when the other party neither fired a shot nor fled silently, it was really difficult to catch him.

Unfortunately, it's useless.

At Wayne's signal, Peter drove the horse and shouted, and Doug's group also cooperated and tried to intercept in advance.
Although the other team tried several times to "quickly turn" or "pass by", the closest time they came to escaping the encirclement was when they drove a horse-drawn carriage suddenly turned and crossed the water at a shallow ford that seemed to be a "dead end", causing Doug's team to miss the opportunity.

But Inissa was in the right position, and she quickly went around to the land on the opposite side of the river bank to fill the gap, preventing the opponent from escaping successfully.

Under the illumination of the kerosene lamp hanging from the carriage, the silver-haired figure stood out in the darkness.
The other party did not try dangerous driving again this time.
The carriage gradually slowed down and finally stopped completely. The driver of the carriage raised his hands:
"Don't do it... We are from the Exorcist Association."

Ok? !

　When I was updating, I found that I received a message from the website. This book will be free from 2 pm next Wednesday. The memory of the dead started to attack me again...

　　Dear readers, maybe you can raise some recently and then kill them all at once. Of course, I will be very happy if you continue to read in the next few days.

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(End of this chapter)