Chapter 470 Dead City
After learning that there was an accident in the Royal City, Duanmu Huai took a few people on the Valkyrie gunboat and flew directly to the Royal City - it was too slow to send people to investigate, so it was better to go and see with his own eyes.
However, when the group of people arrived over the royal city, the scene in front of them really shocked them.
I saw that the entire royal city was dead silent at the moment, and there was no sign of human habitation at all. Black smoke was rising everywhere, and many buildings had even collapsed, looking like ruins!
"What...what is going on? Is it a demon invasion???"
Rolex asked in surprise, while Kriolev shook his head.
"The situation is not right. Look carefully. If it is an invasion by a foreign enemy, then the losses should be the most serious on the periphery. But if you look here, here and here...it is obvious that the enemy attacks from the center...so we should The consideration is..."
"That doesn't mean anything."
Hearing this, Kanami said silently.
"Prince Barton of Herman teamed up with the demons and suddenly appeared in the royal city of Lisas through the portal, which made it impossible for us to mount an effective resistance..."
"………………"
Kriolev had nothing to say.
Indeed, Lisas has learned from the past, you have to say that you are not a demon...
"Huh? This is interesting."
However, just as the cabin fell into awkward silence, Duanmu Huai's voice suddenly sounded.
"What's wrong? Lord Judge?"
"I scanned the entire city with an auspicious instrument and found that there are basically few life signals in the royal city."
"Huh?"
Hearing this, Kanami and others couldn't help but be stunned.
"What does this mean?"
"To put it simply, there are few living people in this city."
Duanmu Huai spread his hands.
"If I were to be more precise, there are probably only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven-eight left in this city right now...a total of seventeen living people."
"How is this possible!"
Hearing this, Kriolev and Rolex were stunned.
"There are hundreds of thousands of residents in the city. Where have all those people gone?"
"Maybe he ran away, maybe... he died?"
"The Council...what did Stisser do..."
"We don't know, but I think someone here must know."
As he spoke, Duanmuhuai opened the holographic map and projected the entire royal city. Then he stretched out his hand and pointed at a few small light spots here.
"These are life reaction signs. As of now, there are about twelve or thirteen life signs located in the Royal City Fortress. The rest are scattered everywhere, and there are several underground waterways below. They may be survivors. Maybe they are...but that doesn't matter. As long as we find them and catch them and ask them, we will know what's going on."
After saying this, Duanmuhuai turned his head and looked at Kanami and Suzuno.
"Leave it to you, no problem."
"I know."
Kanami nodded seriously, while Suzume smiled.
Soon, the Valkyrie gunship circled and descended in the air, then hovered in a square. Then Suzume and Kanami slid down the rope and started the action.
"This is really......"
Although she had seen the dilapidated scene of this royal city from the air, Kanami was still quite shocked when she was inside and looked at the broken statues and houses.
However, compared to Kanami's shock, Suzume looked a little confused. She looked left and right with a strange expression.
"How strange..."
"Strange?"
"That's right, Kanami, didn't you notice? There's not a single body here."
"If you say so...it's true..."
Hearing Suzume's reminder, Kanami shuddered and reacted. Indeed, just as Suzuomei said, it is obvious that this city has been severely attacked at present. Logically speaking, even if this place is not a river of blood, it should still be littered with corpses. However, looking around, there was not a single body in the square, in the streets, or even in the alleys.
The entire city was as empty as a dead city that had long been abandoned.
"What, what's going on?"
Kanami swallowed a mouthful of saliva and felt the hair on her whole body stand up.
"No, it can't be haunted!"
"Now is not the time to discuss this issue."
At this moment, Duanmu Huai's voice came from her ears.
"You should act as soon as possible!" "Okay..."
Upon hearing Duanmu Huai's contact, Kanami nodded, then looked at each other with Suzume, lowered her body, and ran forward as fast as a gust of wind.
According to the mark on the map, the life signal is located in the underground waterway. Fortunately, there are two veterans here, Kriolev and Rolex, who are familiar with the Royal City. Rolex even served in the Royal City Guards and knows everything about this place. Under his guidance, the two quickly found the entrance to an underground waterway and got in.
There was darkness in the underground waterway.
"…………"
The man held his daughter tightly, holding a knife and hiding in a small hole in the sewer. The cold, smelly sewer was not a good place, but he didn't dare to light a fire, let alone go out to find food. Because the man knew that there was a group of terrifying monsters outside... Although he was not sure whether they would find them here, the man did not dare to take the risk.
"Dad......feels uncomfortable......"
The daughter's voice in his arms was so weak that he could hardly hear it. Of course, he could feel that the petite body was already hot, but he had no choice.
Maybe, in the end, he will die tragically here with his children?
"——————!"
Just as the man closed his eyes and waited desperately for death, suddenly, he felt his throat tighten, and a dagger stretched out from the side silently and pressed against his neck!
Who is it? !
"Don't make a sound, meow."
At the same time, a leisurely girl's voice appeared in his ears.
"You, who are you? I clearly set a trap at the door!"
"Not even mice will fall for such a simple trap."
At this moment, Kanami, who had finished dealing with the trap, also came over and looked at the man in front of her.
"That's him?"
"That's right."
"You, are you not an accomplice of those monsters?"
Seeing Suzume and Kanami in front of him, the man suddenly became excited.
"We are here to save you, and we also want to know what happened in this city. Well, come with me. Your daughter doesn't look good."
Without any hesitation, the man nodded, stood up with his daughter in his arms.
For him, maybe this is the last chance!
Without encountering any danger, Kanami and Suzume took the man and his daughter back to the Valkyrie gunship, and his daughter was seriously ill and was taken for treatment. As for the man, he stayed and reported what he knew to everyone.
In fact, according to the man's statement, he himself didn't quite know what happened. He is just a poor sewer cleaner who is responsible for cleaning the sewers and at the same time finding some things from them to sell to make a living.
However, just a few days ago, his fate changed that day.
The royal city was attacked.
The man himself did not know the specific situation. He only knew that he had just gone to work at that time, and then the Council suddenly issued a message that the whole city was under martial law, announcing that the rebels were about to attack the royal city... At that time, such news was natural for a low-level person like him. Even if he had heard that, no matter it was the rebels or the council, no matter who was in power, the sewers still needed to be cleaned, and he believed that no one would compete with him for this job...
At that time, the man also talked about this matter with his colleagues who were changing shifts, but apart from worrying about rising prices in the next few days, they didn't think too much about it.
Then disaster struck.
A group of terrifying soldiers suddenly appeared and killed everyone on sight!
"They killed everyone, even the soldiers and guards of the Kingdom of Herman!"
Recalling that scene, the man couldn't help but tremble. Moreover, those soldiers did not wear black armor like the Hermann soldiers. On the contrary, they wore a very strange golden armor and wrapped their bodies tightly, almost airtight, giving The person feels more like walking armor than a human being.
Not only that, the cruelty of these soldiers is beyond words.
"They are like a group of terrifying monsters, not like humans at all. They will kill even the elderly and children!"
"But we didn't see any bodies in the streets."
"This is another strange thing I want to say, those terrible monsters took away all the corpses directly!"
"Took it away? Where did it go?"
"In the castle of the royal city..."
“……………………”
Kriolev and Rolex looked at each other with solemn expressions.
Now it seems that this is indeed more planned by the council, and if this man is right, the other party only started killing people after blocking the entire city in the name of "resisting the rebels". So what is all this for? If it was just killing people, why would they bring their corpses to the royal city?
What does the council want to do?
No one knows, but...everyone has an unknown premonition.
"What should we do next? Lord Inquisitor?"
Wuluze frowned and looked at Duanmuhuai uneasily.
"Nothing to do."
Duanmu Huai made a decisive decision.
"Act immediately and prepare to attack the royal city! By then, we will know what the Council is doing!"
(End of chapter)