"...handsome girl."
He wiped his face and made a comment, then saw a metal house tag with a key tied to it among the meat scraps at his feet, and quickly bent down to pick it up.
"Stab!"
The skeletal hand caught up.
"Boom!"
Wright raised his gun and shot at the big hand, hitting only its shadow. Then he threw away the rifle and pulled the dazed Tilan into the corridor: "Run quickly--"
"boom!"
There was another loud noise behind her. Although Tilan couldn't see it, she guessed that the skeleton hand was blown into pieces by the powerful "Shadow Explosion Bomb".
"Where are those people?" she asked Wright loudly as she ran.
What about those "mechanical soldiers"?
They said that the other party was responsible and they only needed to keep an eye on them. This was simply asking them to bear the first wave of attacks! Are there such unreliable allies? Huh?
"It should be here soon!" Wright said hastily, "It's just a little trick... They don't expect this thing to do anything. It's probably just a diversion and a way to delay time."
"Delaying time? Are they going to run away?"
"You take this!"
Wright stuffed something into her hand.
When Tilan saw it, it was that house number.
It was covered with blood and some indescribable broken things, and the strong fishy smell rushed straight into her nose. She almost didn't trigger the vomiting mechanism directly.
"The numbers on it are 1-6. His room is on the first floor... Go find 1-6! Go look through his things! See if there is a rental certificate from the 'Bone Car Shop' - something similar to this iron plate!"
"'Bone Carriage'?"
"Go if you are told!"
It was the first time that Tilan saw him so angry. She realized that this matter might be directly related to cutting off the evil followers' retreat, and that Wright did not go with her, obviously wanting to stay here to buy her time. She quickly ran out of the corridor and followed her memory to run to the first-floor corridor on the other side.
1-6…
1-6…
Found it! It's right here!
There was no one in the corridor. Tilan quickly found the door number, then inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it gently.
The door opened.
However, she did not go in directly. Instead, to be on the safe side, she aimed at the shadow of the door and fired a shot.
After a short delay, the wooden door shattered into half, revealing an unknown body hiding behind the door, with only the body below the waist left.
Fortunately, he had foresight. Tilan quickly ran into the room and began to search through the packages of the two evildoers.
There is nothing here...
This is not...
etc--
If the rental certificate is really that important and is related to their subsequent escape plan...
Stopping the search, Tilan walked to the body parts despite the nausea and fear, and fumbled through the pile of indescribable things. Sure enough, he found a rectangular metal plate with a row of numbers engraved on it.
and then?
The goal was achieved, and she was stunned for a moment, suddenly not knowing what to do next.
Damn you, Wright-Sally, you don't even finish your words, and then why don't you finish what you're saying!
Should I go back to help him, or should I go find this "Bone Car Shop"?
Bone Car Shop... Since it is called this, it must be on White Bone Avenue. It should be not far from this hotel. You can find it by going out and looking for it.
Then this rental certificate is the other party's escape route. That guy must mean that they intend to use the bone giant to attract the attention of the mechanical soldiers, and they themselves will take advantage of the chaos to get the rented carriage and escape to another place.
...But I disrupted the established plan, and the bone giants were triggered ahead of time by Light-Sully. They must be in a panic now, and may be gathering over there.
Such a dangerous thing... Arles, oh Arles, why do you want to get involved in it?
Instinctively, Tilan wanted to give up.
The situation was really too obvious - the safest option now was to go back to Wright-Sally, give the thing to him, and then she would find a place to hide herself, and everything that followed would have nothing to do with her.
It is true that this will waste time and might even let the evildoer escape, but what does this have to do with me, Tilan Arles?
I have done my best, I have detonated the powder keg in advance, I have disrupted their plans, I have done a pretty good job!
What more could you ask for?
You wouldn't risk your life for a weird mission, right?
Tilan thought so, but her legs and feet just wouldn't obey her.
In that extremely brief "moment", she remembered the gentle voice that had soothed her.
Goddess...the purification of me is divine grace.
So it’s me…
There are so many people who have seen the Eclipse, so many people from the Diplomatic Corps! I have long wondered, "Why me?" Why was I chosen to carry out this mission?
Because I am special.
Tilan Arles is the most special one, because she is the only one who was rescued from the process of falling into the Abyss. She is the one closest to the Abyss among all the people contaminated by the Abyss. She possesses some special talents that she herself is not aware of, so there are some things that she must do!
Damn it—why should I figure it out at a time like this!
Without time to think, she quickly found a pen and paper and wrote down a sentence.
[If I die, please bury me by the pond in the palace courtyard.]
After thinking about it, he added another sentence.
[Peter Arles is not allowed to worship me because he stole his sister's money to buy a pony and refuses to admit it.]
After doing all this, she found the gap that was smashed into the hotel and jumped onto the street. She watched at first and found that there was indeed a group of people dealing with the skeleton giant.
This monster was indeed extremely powerful, and every move it made could cause terrible damage to the surrounding buildings. But these people were equally terrifying... She saw with her own eyes that one of them was knocked away by the giant, but he patted his clothes and rushed forward.
They must be what are called mechanical privates.
A body of steel, can such a thing be considered a human life?
She had no choice, so she ran quickly in the opposite direction and kept praying in her heart.
I didn’t choose right, I didn’t choose right…
Then she walked to the intersection and saw a big sign across the street with "Bone Car Shop" written on it.
"..."
It has come to this, what else is there to say?
There was no one in sight, so Tilan gritted his teeth and walked into the shop, feeling the vibration coming from the other end of the street while listening carefully to other noises in the dark.
Have it.
It seemed like someone was talking in the backyard.
She tiptoed over and just heard:
"Why haven't Zefulo and Dan come yet?"
"Because the altar was destroyed... The attack shouldn't have started so early. Those damn Tin Men are really alert."
"We can't wait like this any longer! They could come looking for us at any time!"
"But Zefulo has the lease certificate! We have to wait for him!"
"Idiot! You can't rob without proof? Is this carriage locked?"
"And what about the ship? The certificate for the Blackwood is on Dan!"
"Why not just rob another ship? Damn it... You've been used to being rats for so long, I think you've forgotten who you are!"
"..."
Tilan listened to the argument silently, and took out the "black pipe" that Wright-Sally had thrown to her.
Pull out the line and throw it in, right?
There seemed to be a car being towed inside, so she lost no time, clumsily pulled off the line, and threw it into the yard with force.
"Ding!"
"Wheel, wheel..."
"what is this?"
"It's a shadow bomb! Get down--"
With a loud "boom", the instigator only felt the ground beneath his feet shaking violently.
This power is indeed extraordinary... The people inside should be dead, right?
She stuck her head out and went into the yard to admire the results of the battle. She counted nine corpses in total, and none of them was intact.
I am so awesome!
Amidst the panic, a sense of pride arose.
and many more……
Then the smile gradually froze.
Wright-Sally seemed to have said before that the most important thing was to capture them alive - to extract information from them?
"..."
Thinking about this goal and looking at the "battlefield", Tilan suspected that she had messed up.
Just as she was panicking, the door of an overturned carriage not far away suddenly opened, and a short shadow rolled out from inside.
"Who?"
Tilan quickly raised his gun and aimed it at him.
"Ahem... that's enough... I admit that you won..."
The man climbed up while coughing, and when he looked up, Tilan couldn't help but widen his eyes.
This is a boy.
At best, he was about eleven or twelve years old... He was only as tall as my shoulders, wearing overalls and a blue shirt, had brown hair, and his skin was as white as a girl.
Is this a heretic?
"Immortal"?
About the same age as my brother...
Seeing her shock, the boy's eyes flashed coldly and he grabbed something on the ground and threw it at her.
"boom!"
The next moment, blood burst out from his left shoulder, and a tall figure rushed out from the side and kicked the thing away.
"Pfft-"
Tilan followed the direction and saw... a ball of pink meat suddenly burst out at the end of the parabola.
The meat paste first expanded and then exploded in all directions. The scattered parts were highly corrosive, and all the floors and gravel that were touched emitted white smoke and a strong, pungent smell of decay.
“The process was good, but the ending was not so good.”
On the other side, Wright, who had rushed over, was pinning the boy to the ground, and he commented on her choice.
"Your talent is not being used."
"Looks like a real rookie."
Chapter 19: Mythology (Two in One)
