Chapter 976 207. The embankment breaks
Dusk coats the beautiful Changhu Town with a layer of gold.
Smoke rises from the quiet lakeside town, reflecting in the rippling blue lake.
It is such a beautiful place that people cannot bear to destroy it.
On this day, a group of strange soldiers came outside the town. They wore fine but ill-fitting plate armor and carried strange weapons like fire sticks.
They were just passing by, but the woodcutter who was carrying firewood from the coniferous forest recognized them and exclaimed: "Are you the Blades of Freedom?"
The soldiers exchanged glances. A soldier quietly walked around behind the woodcutter and pulled out the dagger from his leg -
"Great, you are finally here!" The woodcutter clapped his thigh happily.
"That's right, my uncle...cough, I'm a soldier from Liberty City!" Their leader coughed dryly, "Old...uncle, are you from this town?"
"I have been a woodcutter in Changhu Town for more than ten years...Look, you must be exhausted after all the hard work, right? Come in quickly..."
Ladd diligently pulled them into Lake Town.
“The Blade of Freedom is coming!”
The woodcutter’s shout made them tighten their bodies, and they almost cracked the old man’s head open with a magic musket, but the townspeople who greeted him around them The smiling faces make them relax.
The soldiers were warmly entertained.
The leader had some guesses: "You... also received the flyers?"
"Yes, we have all read the flyers and are still talking about when you will come -"
"I want to fight with you too!" A boy squeezed in and said.
Amidst the laughter of the friendly townspeople around him, a soldier glanced away. The coldness in his eyes made the boy suddenly speechless.
There are only some militiamen and the mayor's private soldiers supporting him, and there is only one mage.
The mayor welcomed them with the same enthusiasm. Only the mage who followed him looked at them with some scrutiny. After seeing the blood and rat head emblem on the plate armor, his eyes gradually softened.
They ripped it from the bodies of dead Liberty City soldiers, and of course there were no flaws.
The mayor prepared a banquet and invited the soldiers of the "Freedom Blade" to sit down. He first expressed his longing for Liberty City, and then asked what Changhu Town could do.
“We want money, we want women—” blurted out a touted soldier.
The mage next to the mayor frowned.
Why are these soldiers different from the rumored Liberty City...
But they are indeed holding weapons called magic guns.
“Don’t forget about business.”
The leader glanced vaguely at the mage who noticed something, warned the companion who said everything, and changed a formulaic tone: “Mr. Mayor, we We suspect that rat men are spreading plague in the lake. Please take us to the upper reaches of Changhu Town."
The banquet suddenly went into an uproar, and the mayor's smile disappeared: "Is this true?"
" Didn't you read the leaflets? The rat men are spreading the plague near Eze Bay."
"The leaflet didn't say..."
The leader said impatiently: "This is related to the safety of millions of people. Take us there quickly."
"Okay, okay...I am now Just ask someone to take you there!”
The mayor did not doubt that he was there, because there were indeed some signs of rat people outside Changhu Town recently... He asked his youngest son to lead them to Changhu himself. The upper reaches of the lake town are also the upper reaches of the Mam River and the Pulani River.
“Please wait!”
Before leaving the town, a beautiful girl with fair skin and thick eyebrows ran over. Holding a letter nervously in her hands, she asked with expectation: "Are you from Yize Bay?"
The soldiers pretending to be the Blades of Freedom looked at each other: "No."
The girl was a little disappointed. The looks from these Free City people made her uncomfortable, but because of worry, she had the courage to ask : "Then do you know Claude?" "I don't know."
"Oh..."
The disappointed girl ran away in a hurry, and they continued to set off, arriving at the Pulani River several miles away from Changhu Town.
The rapid river as wide as a lake flows from east to south, twisting and reflecting the figures holding torches by the river.
The last afterglow disappeared in the horizon, the sky in the north was gloomy, and a cold wave was coming.
They had to hurry up, there was nothing they could do if the Planni River froze.
The leader asked the mayor’s youngest son: “If the dike breaks here, will Izawa Bay be flooded?”
When the river flows out along the breach, everything downstream will be gone.
Whether it's ratmen, forests, or towns.
The younger son, who vaguely resembles his father, puffed up his chest: "Don't worry, as long as we are here, we will never let the bad guys dig up the dam!"
The leader winked at his subordinates, They dispersed knowingly, walked around the Pulani River, returned to the leader, pointed to a bank and said: "The soil is the weakest there, we can dig here."
" How long will it take?”
"Thirty minutes is enough."
"Sir, what are you talking about...?" The mayor's youngest son suddenly felt uneasy.
Pfft——
The sharp edge of the dagger suddenly came out of the little son's chest, and the power in his body quickly drained away, leading him to fall to the ground.
Blood gushes out. In the last few dozen seconds of his life, he saw the members of the "Freedom Blade" walking towards the river bank and setting up something. The Rat Man came out of the burrow screaming, going crazy. Just want to stop them.
...
Changhu Town is always beautiful at night. On a clear day, the lake will bring the stars into the lake.
But today was a bit gloomy. The mayor came outside from anxious waiting and saw a snowflake falling leisurely and melting on the ground.
The first snow has arrived, so ice should not be far away...
At this time, the calm lake surface suddenly sounded like waves.
While the mayor was still wondering, his feet gradually began to vibrate. The earthquake was felt from the northeast, as if it was going to the Free Blade of the Planni River...
The vibration gradually became clearer, and the chandelier in the house behind him shook. Before the mayor realized what happened , the bronze bell on the town's watchtower suddenly echoed rapidly.
Dang——Dang——Dang——
Accompanied by a hoarse roar, echoing in the night sky: "The Pulani River has burst its banks!!!"
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The earth is shaking, accompanied by a rumbling sound.
The long lake that nourished the local people became restless and became extremely turbid.
The townspeople walked out of their homes in panic and fled outside, but no matter how fast they were, they were not as fast as the rushing water. They were instantly submerged up to their ankles and rushed to the ground.
A town citizen climbed onto the roof and raised an oil lamp high, trying to see the distance clearly.
His eyes widened and he did not blink even if snowflakes fell in his eyes...
Gradually, he heard some of the same sounds from the increasingly turbulent flood...
On the coast, a small boat was pushed by the flood and hit the townspeople head-on——
The peak of the flood passed, and the Pulani River burst its banks and almost instantly washed away this quiet town, calling for help, houses , lives, letters... everything was submerged in the darkness, roaring downstream carrying the wreckage and sediment.
(End of this chapter)