Chapter 853 84. Suicide note
Everyone in the city saw the recalcitrant soldiers by the river. They used their own way to relieve the pressure on the soldiers - throwing flower pots and firewood from the edge of the Free City and smashing them to death. Unlucky Ratman.
The Liberty City came directly above the soldiers, gradually lowered, and finally floated about a hundred meters above their heads. The deep shadow finally made the rat tide know what terror was, and they no longer screamed and pounced. Come forward.
Dean Blehim opened the portal, released the Guards Corps and the professionals in the city who were full of energy and clamoring for revenge, and brought back their warriors.
They and the rat men switched offense and defense, chasing the rats as they ran around the river, while the civilians gathered in front of the square. At first they were cheering for the heroes, but when those warriors appeared covered in blood, each with varying degrees of injuries, and even fainted after crossing the portal, their cheers turned into respect and silence.
The losses were more severe than Annan imagined. He personally sent them to the battlefield, but only less than a third of them came back...
Annan looked at Fermi who walked up to him with a broken arm. He knelt on one knee in front of Annan and lowered his head, which would never be lowered to the Rat Man: "Lord Annan, you saved us once again."
"Your hand..."
"At least I'm still alive." Femi tilted his head and looked at the empty cuffs indifferently, "This is the merit of the warriors."
"Ingrid, take the soldiers to the hospital."
The hospital has been vacated, but obviously it cannot accommodate more than 2,000 injured people, so the seriously injured were sent to the ward, while the lightly injured were camped at the entrance of the hospital.
Everyone has been picked up, only those who just ran down are still killing on the ground. Annan gave up the idea of calling them back.
Blood debt must be paid with blood.
At this time, Olmedo suddenly asked: "Where is Uncle Blom?"
"The rat tide caught up with us yesterday, led by Mr. Blom and his nephew Three hundred soldiers stopped the rat tide.”
Olmedo was silent.
They had no hope that Blom was still alive... After all, they saw nothing when they came, but they still picked up the people on the ground and floated to the place where Blom was blocking the rat tide.
In that bloody land where the early morning sun shone, they only saw wandering rats and broken blood-stained weapons and armor, not a single complete body.
Olmedo, who was standing next to Annan, was suddenly shaken. She saw a wandering rat-man wearing the Breeze City standard plate armor - it was ripped off from their bodies.
"Luoxi, take your people and professionals to clean up the rat swarm, leaving no one behind." Annan ordered coldly.
"Sister, you stay with Olmedo while I go to the hospital."
Annan and Itilia said, going to the hospital in person to express condolences to every soldier.
The hospital is overcrowded, and the injured with high fever due to wound infection and plague are not even qualified to enter the hospital.
Blom was not the only one who died in battle, many familiar faces to Annan were missing, such as Ymir...
After visiting the seriously injured, Annan came to the entrance of the hospital and was crowded with the wounded. In the open space, he quickly became one with the wounded who had just climbed out of hell.
Annan sat in front of the campfire and listened quietly to the warrior saying that he used his biceps to crush the head of a rat man. Then a ranger stood up and said that he used a bow string to cut off the head of a rat man. Another mage said that he Cracked the rat man's head with his staff.
But it's not all a happy story. A young Hellfire soldier said that he wanted to free his companions who were bitten by rats, but he let himself shoot the rats instead. The warriors said that their comrade's throat was bitten by the ratmen because he was unable to lift his weapon.
At this time, an elf ranger came over. She was Ymir's companion and asked Annan if they were going back to Hell Mountain to find Ymir
"We will go back to Hell Mountain. Save her if she's there, avenge her if she's not there," Annan promised.
Another female mage wearing a blood-stained mage robe and silk gloves came over. Annan still remembered her, Georgina, an elite mage. She said inexplicably: "I still think you are more beautiful."
"You are the most beautiful people."
Georgina's tired but bright eyes lit up: "Are you complimenting me on my beauty?" "Of course, the qualities you have are the best of any woman I have ever seen. Rare." Annan said sincerely.
Elimayas, eldest sister Itilia, Lady Winter, Princess Sayles, the princess, etc... all have the same qualities.
In addition to telling their glorious deeds, one thing the wounded were most concerned about was: whether they would launch a counterattack.
"Of course, a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, blood debt must be paid with blood!"
The injured around suddenly burst into joy: "Did you hear it? Master Annan wants to wipe out the rat people in the entire mountain range!"
"What are you talking about? Destroy the rat people in the entire mountain range...Why don't you say that I will destroy the McKean clan?"
"Did you hear that? Lord Annan wants to destroy this clan. Ratman Clan!”
When he left, several suicide notes were stuffed into Annan’s arms.
Everyone's suicide notes disappeared when Ymir lost contact. These suicide notes were written by them as they took the time to break out of the siege. Their owners were all dead.
Annan couldn't find a suitable person, so he simply acted as a messenger himself and delivered these suicide notes to their relatives.
The family members who received the suicide note cried and laughed at the same time. After picking up the soldiers, they went to the hospital immediately, but did not find their family members and husbands. They were aware of the bad news, but they did not expect Lord Annan to come in person. Send a suicide note.
Annan didn't like this atmosphere and just told them that after the war, Liberty City would give honors and pensions to the soldiers and come to the last address.
But as he got closer and closer to the mansion, Annan's steps became heavier and heavier.
He had been to this place before...or rather, he had been here once during the war with Mad Dog Archduke.
That time also brought news of the death of a soldier.
When Annan knocked on the familiar door of Room 302, he had already given up on the coincidence that it was just the same mansion or the same floor.
Click——
The door opened, and a pale woman and an old woman stood behind the door.
"Lord Annan?" the woman said in surprise, her face even paler.
“Is this Ram Brat’s home?”
The woman held on to the door frame, but still couldn’t stand and fainted.
The old woman helped her helplessly and called the neighbor who stuck his head out to carry her back to the room.
"Please sit down, Lord Annan, did Ram die on the battlefield?"
Compared to young women, old women are much calmer. There was no sadness in her cloudy eyes that had seen all the vicissitudes of life.
"Well, this is the suicide note kept by his comrades."
The old woman calmly took the bloody suicide note, glanced at it briefly, and shook her head: "I I knew he would mention the place where he hid his private money in the letter, but in fact everyone knew it.”
(End of Chapter)