"What do you think they're looking for?" Hitzfeld asked.
"I don't know." Grant shook his head.
"Is there any such reward recently?"
"No more."
"What do you think is the reason?" Hitzfeld stared at her. "Did they succeed? Or is there some other reason?"
"I think... it's something else."
"why."
"Because there is no one left in the southern part of Goli."
Grant finally plucked up the courage to go see her.
"There is no one there, sir... You don't know how many people died when the gray fog spread. I have heard too many related descriptions. All kinds of monsters emerged from the fog, killing people... eating people... The south was originally the most prosperous place in Goli, with countless castles and plantations, but the gray fog swallowed almost everyone! I wonder if only one in ten people can escape to the north and come to Ivanria now!"
After all, she was young, and although she was ruthless, she would still feel fear and anxiety when she saw such a horrific disaster. She herself did not realize that she was also afraid that Ivanria would become like that, so she chose this group of people - that meant she chose Sarah!
Isn't it? Maybe one day the Goli civilization will become history, and it will be completely swallowed by the gray fog. Instead of competing with others for tickets to the other side at that time, it is better to choose now!
From today on, she, Gran, is a Sara person!
She was too excited, so Hitzfeld calmed her down for a while and then asked, "You just said... there is a ditch in the middle of Elsa Continent."
"The word abyss is more appropriate to describe it."
Grant nodded: "It is a ditch long enough to separate all of Elsa. No one knows how deep it is, and no one knows where it came from, but it is there - I have seen the map drawn by the envoy of the Kingdom of God."
"The Divine Kingdom's envoy? From the Corrupted Blood Divine Kingdom?"
"Yes."
"That kind of person would come to the hotel?"
"People who have seen it will come." Grant lowered his voice, "There are always some fools... who will show off what they know."
Nodding, Hitzfeld said no more.
Later, she took out some more things from Ge Lan, but they were no longer important. She calculated the time and took out her pocket watch.
10 o'clock exactly.
"boom!!!"
The ground suddenly shook and screams were heard outside the window. After obtaining her consent, Grant opened the curtains and was surprised to see huge black smoke rising in the distance.
This...that looks like a military camp, where the city defense army's armory is located!
Grant stared, speechless.
She suddenly realized that she was drawn into a deeper vortex.
Chapter 69: Prelude to the Sea Tide III
Thick black smoke rose into the sky, accompanied by subsequent loud noises and explosions, adding a gloom to this festive day.
Hitzfeld was not surprised, because after Ivenria eliminated the forces of the two great kingdoms of God, no extraordinary person was seen - just look at Ethan's actions in the past few days. As long as he doesn't want to cause trouble and expose himself, or doesn't commit suicide by creating a royal palace, he can almost be said to have a smooth sailing.
The crowd also exploded at this time. The citizens who had gathered thought they were attacked from somewhere and did not even bother to rush to the west coast. They pushed each other and tried to escape, like a dark stream of water flowing into the countless dark alleys around the streets.
This was certainly not a peaceful process. Some people fell to the ground, some cursed, some were trampled to death, and some simply took advantage of the chaos to kill people.
But the most terrifying are the wild beasts. If the various animals could live in harmony before because they still retained a trace of humanity and remembered what kind of social model they should be in, then the current riots, the screams, the smell of blood and the wailing, these elements have completely aroused their animal nature. They joined the carnival without hesitation, and the damage caused is even greater.
A group of people were originally pushing and crowding at the entrance of an alley. Accompanied by a sharp scream, a bright yellow figure rushed from the side, waving its claws to knock three or two people from the outside away.
It was a beast that looked like both a tiger and a leopard, with its sharp teeth exposed. It lowered its head and ripped open its prey.
There was also a terrifying python as thick as a bucket. It had completely lost its human emotions. The last image in its mind was its own child being drowned in the crowd. It went mad and used its huge body to penetrate into the crowd like a whip, whipping more than a dozen people away each time.
"Crazy... all crazy..."
Ge Lan stared at everything in amazement. This was the first time she had seen a riot of such a scale. She was so frightened that she couldn't even speak clearly.
For her, the biggest turmoil she had ever seen was related to the gray fog. When she was a child, she accompanied her father to deliver goods. From afar, she saw the vast fog swallowing up the town, and small people escaped from it like ants. She looked at it from the hillside and felt that the scene was similar to her usual kicking over of ant nests.
But now it’s different, now she is in the ant nest herself!
The ground was shaking. Ge Lan looked up and saw that the ferocious python had already rushed into the nobles' carriages and wrapped around an iron-shell carriage, strangling it to death.
"We have to leave..." She muttered subconsciously as she looked around, "This city is finished... We have to leave here... Leave here..."
Hitzfeld saw all of this as well, but compared to Grant, her indifference was even more glaring.
Except for the time when she frowned a little bit in pity when she saw the tragic scene of the riot at the beginning, at other times, she forced herself to be hard-hearted and concealed all emotions with indifference.
Grant soon discovered that the threats were not only from wild beasts, but also from mysterious reptiles and insects.
A group of blind blood mosquitoes appeared at the back street, the main intersection behind the train. This insect is a specialty of tropical regions. It can grow extremely large around Ivanria, with wings and legs stretched out to the size of the first joint of a thumb.
But these things are transformed from humans! So they are even bigger! Each one is as big as a human head, densely packed together and rushing towards the crowd. Once they catch a target, they will insert their thorny beaks into the skin and suck blood!
People were screaming and making all kinds of noises of fear. Those who were bitten immediately tried to kill the blind blood mosquitoes, but they did not want to fight, and only bit once before flying away and circling.
After just 2-3 seconds, all the people who were bitten found themselves blind.
Their bodies began to swell and ache, their limbs became stiff and sluggish, and the worst thing was that there seemed to be a blood barrier in front of their eyes and they could not see anything clearly.
These people were quickly abandoned by the pushing crowd. The crowd was pushing forward and dispersing in all directions, but they stayed where they were like headless flies, being pushed to the corners and letting the giant mosquitoes fall on their heads.
Ge Lan could even clearly see the process of their feeding - there was an unlucky guy who stumbled and bumped into the carriage. He no longer had the strength to escape and could only lean against it for dear life. However, the hematoma on his body became more and more serious. When a giant blind blood mosquito landed on him and pierced the blood bubble with its beak, he was not afraid at all. Instead, he showed an expression of relief, relaxation, and intoxication... and his face was sucked into a mummy.
After finishing its meal, the giant mosquito flapped its wings and flew up into the air with its big belly full of plasma hanging, just stopping in the air and looking at Ge Lan.
Ge Lan was so scared that she suddenly regretted not bringing her father along, because her father had turned into a giant lizard, and this kind of big insect was just a matter of one bite after another for it.
The giant mosquito did not attack Glenn, but flew away staggeringly.
Suddenly, the ground shook - even more exaggerated than the previous explosion, as if indicating that the thing causing the shaking was nearby.
Ge Lan's vision was obstructed, so he had to stick his head out as far as possible, and then he saw in horror that a two-horned rhino and a giant elephant were pushing each other and running towards them, causing people and horses to fall to the ground along the way.
Her curiosity told her to keep looking, but her fear of death told her to run away.
Forcibly using the latter to suppress the former, Ge Lan fell off the seat in a panic and almost crawled towards the car door.
What Sara people...what noble leader...none of this matters anymore!
Nothing is more important than her own life, damn it...she has to save her life first!
"I told you, you don't have to do this."
A hazy sigh floated above her head, as if someone was talking to her hidden in the mist, coming from a very far away place.
Ge Lan didn't understand what this meant. Faintly, she heard a sound of breaking air, as if a sharp blade was cutting through the air.
She shrank her neck - why did she suddenly feel cold?
And then... the development was beyond her understanding.
Outside, the roars mixed in with the screams disappeared.
The noise from the wild beasts, their madness and rage disappeared in an instant.
It was as if this was a record with various musical instruments mixed together, and a great force reached out from the void and wiped out one of the instruments. From then on, there were only screaming and crying in the outside world, at least for this street.
How can this be?
Ge Lan thought of a possibility, but she was unwilling to believe it!
She would rather submit because of the other party's wisdom and strategy than serve a monster!
After lying on the ground for a long time, she quickly jumped up, turned around and climbed up the window again.
Indeed... it’s gone.
Three cars were piled together, with flames burning on them. The python was lying behind the obstacle with its head tilted. A big hole could be clearly seen on its head.
There were also the two-horned rhinoceros and the giant elephant. The two giant monsters had originally been charging at the train, causing all the noble teams along the way to either collapse or flee. But now they were also lying on the ground, with bright red blood gushing out crazily.
All the beasts died.
With this frame as the center, all the bodies fell towards this side, like the hands on a clock face. Looking down from the sky, it was a perfect circle.
"The street is empty now. Let's speed up."
She heard the girl with gray eyelashes giving orders to the servants.
"This farce should come to an end."
Chapter 70: Prelude to the Sea Tide 4
"Hurry up...come up!"
"Ignore those people and don't look around! Remember your mission! Let's go to the palace!"
At the same time, under the cover of the riots in the city, the Pierre surfaced from the water under the astonished gaze of countless people at the dock. Xia Yibing led the team to jump onto the deck from the observation tower, raised his hand and fired a volley of bullets, sweeping down all the soldiers guarding on it.
I don’t know whether this world is crazy or the ruler of Ivenria is crazy. The soldiers in this city are all wearing white cloth robes, which have no protection against bullets at all.
"Ah——" With the first scream, the riot quickly spread from the dock to the outside.
The crowd at the foot of the palace was still dense because the riots did not spread that quickly and most people did not understand what was happening.
They would think: What's going on? How come we just saw the King of Oman with his chosen concubines, and the next moment we heard gunshots?
Then quickly, most people realized that gunshots usually equate to riots, and they immediately turned into a violent torrent, gradually speeding up... rapidly pushing and fleeing in all directions.
"These people are useless." Torres said sarcastically while stepping on the body of a soldier. "They are slow to react and their eyes are dull. I doubt if he can shoot me accurately even if I stand here and let him shoot me."
"Torres, don't stop!" Saibot ran out of the queue and pulled him, "We are on a tight schedule, don't forget... this is a surprise attack!"
Surprise attacks are usually associated with efficiency. The group walked and stopped, quickly clearing out the remaining resistance soldiers at the dock, and saw a dilapidated carriage at the foot of the palace.
The carriage itself was not enough to confirm its identity, but it was surrounded by many familiar faces, all sailors and crew members of the Pierre.
"The plan went smoothly." Xia Yibing raised the muzzle of the gun to the sky, opened the car door and looked directly at the girl. "Most of the guards were diverted by the movement in the armory. Even if we do nothing, it will take them half an hour to come back... Come on! Go find Aman!"
She didn't even look at Glenn, who was curled up in the corner, and stretched out her hand to Hitzfeld, who also consciously took her hand and was pulled into her arms.
She almost carried her down. She held the girl in her arms for half a circle before her feet landed on the ground. Then she gathered her hair and looked to the side: "Baliwu said she would pick us up."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone saw black fog floating above the palace.
"That must be her response." Xia Yibing said, "I have a feeling that we can find Li Ang in the mountains."
Li Ang is missing, and no one knows where he is. But Xia Yibing has a hunch that he must be here to find Baliu.
Without another word, Hitzfeld led her up the steps.
The white whale was already in her hands, so she didn't need anyone to give her a weapon. When the tail of the team was about to disappear from her sight, Ge Lan finally reacted. She quickly jumped down and ran to the stairs - the situation was already dire... She didn't want to be left here!
"Are you sad?" On the way, Xia Yibing still had time to care about Hitzfeld.
She was keenly aware that the girl was not in a normal mood. Although she was doing serious work - important work!, she seemed too nervous and indifferent.
"We underestimated the consequences of causing unrest." Hitzfeld shook his head and whispered, "The death toll is far greater than expected..."
She could convince herself that this was a necessary sacrifice, but when those tragedies happened right before her eyes and she knew in her heart that it was all caused by her, she really couldn't deceive herself like that.
"How can you say it's cheating?" Xia Yibing shook her head and sneered, "You are just too kind, Aisuen... I also have kindness, but I only show this face to the Sara people."
"You didn't look like this in Talignan." Hitzfeld looked up at her.
"But what are the consequences? I almost lost you!" Xia Yibing stared at her straightly, not giving in. "I will never make such a mistake again. Have you forgotten what happened a few months ago?"
Hitzfeld fell silent.
"You know how dangerous this operation is, right?" Xia Yibing said again, "Look back below, it's such a wide square... If you don't disperse all the people, do you want to walk up like this? Impossible!"
It is impossible.
Glancing back down, Hitzfeld saw scattered car frames, crashed cars, burning black smoke, and bodies lying in all directions.
There is no place to hide on the stairs. If there are people below at this time, no matter how many, just a column of musketeers shooting in a row will kill all of them.
And compared to the total number of people gathered, the number of corpses was really small. Most of them were the corpses of wild animals killed by the team. These beasts... since they had such hidden dangers, it would not be a pity if they died.
"I'll adjust myself," she said to the woman, while actually adjusting her mentality.
There is no way to save all the people, and my past thinking was indeed wrong.
