Chapter 44 Assassination of the Governor
“We’re here!”
Someone shouted softly, and Ji Xun looked out through the window.
Surrounded by a strange and dark wilderness, the car lights illuminated some low mounds ahead that looked like graves. There are some barren trees on the mounds, and there are strange birds like crows or something on the branches, and there is a light mist in the air.
Nothing special, this is the weird and deserted feeling of the wilderness.
Ji Xun looked at the place where the lights gathered. There was an explosion in front of the railway track, and a steam train of more than ten cars was overturned to the ground.
It looks like someone blew up the railway ahead, and then the train derailed and overturned.
Looting supply trains is not uncommon in Sinless City.
Especially plundering the supplies of upper-class nobles is risky, but the benefits are also huge.
Every major gangster in the city likes to do this.
It turned out that similar incidents had happened before, which was considered a welfare incident for the body collectors.
But this time as soon as they arrived at the scene, everyone noticed something was wrong.
After getting out of the car, Ji Xun only glanced at the scene, and immediately noticed something unusual in his eyes.
The battle is over.
More than fifty corpses were scattered on the ground, but the traces of the battle did not look intense.
It stands to reason that since the looters blew up the railway tracks, they were naturally prepared to rob them. Why did so many people die?
Although the materials on the train were scattered near the track, they were not looted.
It was said to be a robbery, but it looked more like a one-sided massacre.
Are the so-called "predators" a bunch of noobs who overestimate their abilities?
Obviously not so.
Ji Xun looked at the corpses in front of him. The fatal injury was the smooth cut wound on the chest, which even severed the mechanical exoskeleton.
This is a wound caused by a wide range of wind cards.
He immediately made a judgment in his mind: "At least the second-level wind spell card master took action."
Looking at the traces of the battle in the distance, it was obvious that there were fire elements and thunder elements. Traces of card explosion.
Obviously there is more than one master.
The seemingly unlucky looters didn't know that the train was accompanied by a high-level spell card master. They blew up the tracks in an attempt to rob, but were killed in turn.
Ji Xun immediately thought of the key.
Why are there multiple high-level spell card masters on the freight train?
Is there something special about this train?
Before Ji Xun could think too much, the roar of a steam boiler suddenly came from far away.
After a closer look, another convoy appeared on the north side of the tracks.
The speed of the convoy was very fast, and in a blink of an eye it was clear that it was an elite army.
The body of the car has the "halberd and double-headed falcon clan emblem" of the Governor Cao family.
The first time Ji Xun saw it, his pupils turned, and he realized that this was probably not an ordinary robbery.
Seeing this convoy, the captain Dong Jiu muttered to himself: "It's strange, why are the elite Frost Knights of the Governor's Mansion here?"
Because their body collectors got the news in time and drove their car very fast, they arrived at the scene almost immediately.
Even one step ahead of the elite army of the Governor's Mansion.
The corpse collectors looked at the dozens of military armored convoys that were armed to the teeth and rushed towards them, and they all looked puzzled.
As soon as the armored vehicle approached the derailment site, before it could stop, a group of majestic heavily armored soldiers wearing white armors jumped out of the vehicle.
Nearly a hundred people were on guard around the smashed carriage.
Majestic, well-trained, and disciplined.
This is a regular army that is completely different from the stragglers of the hunters in Innocence City.
Ji Xun took another look, then looked at the fine white armor on those guys, and thought that he had heard of it.
This is the famous "Frost Knight".
The Governor Cao family has a complete progression route for the orderly path [Six of Spades - Punishment Iron Guard], and these heavily armored warriors are the private guards trained by the Cao family in this sequence, and they have extremely strong combat effectiveness.
It is said that in a legionary battle, one can fight ten.
I heard about it when I asked for news before.
Normally, a few law enforcement officers can handle such a train robbery, but now there is actually an integrated escort corps?
Seeing this, the confusion in Ji Xun's eyes turned into relief. He seemed to have thought of something, and murmured to himself: "It seems that I have run into some shady things that some big shots can't see. Tsk, it's getting more and more It’s interesting.”
Minister Gong Xu is very senior and well-liked in Golden Oak Security Company.
As soon as he arrived, several headquarters field agents who had arrived first greeted each other: "Brother Gong, you came very quickly. We just arrived, and you came here."
Gong Xu Smiling, he gestured to the convoy of the Governor's Mansion in the distance, and asked casually: "Old Ma, what's going on over there?"
With people from the Governor's Mansion intervening, the arrival of the Golden Oak people seemed redundant. .
But the relationship between the company and Shangcheng is very ambiguous. It is not considered hostile, but neutral at most, and there is no conflict.
The leading field agent spread his hands and said: "I don't know either. But it looks like there is a big shot from the city on the train."
"Oh."
Hearing this, Gong Xu also shrugged and didn't show any curiosity.
Secrets involving high-ranking nobles are not something people of their level can inquire about, and they are not interested in it.
Due to their professional nature, corpse collectors often come into contact with some special murder scenes.
Just like the last incident in the tailor street cellar.
But this time, it was obviously different.
Ji Xun smelled a hint of conspiracy.
But instead of feeling bad, his scalp felt slightly numb.
That familiar feeling is back.
Ji Xun stared at the people at the Governor's Mansion over there.
Not only him, everyone was curious about what happened.
Not long after, the mystery was revealed.
As soon as the Guards Corps of the Governor's Palace arrived, an overturned carriage suddenly lit up with dozens of complex magic defense barriers.
Only then did everyone realize that it was a special carriage disguised as a freight carriage. The heavy armored door of the carriage opened, and several well-equipped Frost Knights walked out surrounded by a middle-aged man with a mustache and a big belly.
As soon as this mustache came out, the frost knights and law enforcement officers who came for reinforcements all knelt on the ground and saluted respectfully: "Your Majesty the Governor!"
This voice echoed in the empty and dark cemetery. Inside, it’s particularly harsh.
Governor?
When Ji Xun saw this, he realized that Governor Cao Sihai himself was on the train!
No wonder the elite guard regiments of the Governor's Mansion are here.
But why are the Governor of Innocence City and a federal congressman secretly hiding in a freight train?
And the looters happened to blow up the train where the Governor was hiding?
For a moment, his eyes sparkled: "This is getting more and more interesting."
Ji Xun was just guessing which big shot of the Cao family would be in the carriage, but he didn't expect it to be the most important person. The important one.
In this current situation, it feels like nothing is right unless something goes wrong.
He would love to hear about something happening to the Cao family!
The fourth young master of the Cao family is chasing him all over the city.
If his father dies now
Tsk, tsk, the Innocence City will probably be bustling.
Thinking of this, Ji Xun did not rush forward excitedly to collect the corpses that were close to the train like other corpse collectors. Instead, he quietly opened some distance.
His intuition told him that something bad was coming.
As expected.
Almost the moment the Governor appeared, a loud shout was heard in the distance.
“Everyone, be careful, an extra-dimensional space is coming!”
This is the wilderness of the eastern suburbs. The light only illuminates a small corner in the darkness. Before the words are spoken, everyone’s view is The diffuse black fog outside those lights has come like a tide.
The speed was so fast that no one even had a chance to escape by car.
Before anyone could think about it, the fog had drowned out all the lights.
The surrounding scene changed and it became pitch black.
The fog came quickly and dissipated instantly.
Wide coverage is simply unavoidable.
But after his vision became clear, Ji Xun looked at the changing environment around him and tilted his head: "I really got involved."
Just now it was the robbery scene in the railway cemetery, and now he is in a huge in the underground maze.
This is the extradimensional space mentioned by the former captain Dong Jiuji - [Grand Cemetery Maze].
There is no light source, the visibility is very low, and you can barely see some blurry outlines.
It is surrounded by dark rock walls that are at least a hundred meters high and cannot be seen at the top. The passages in the maze are more than thirty meters long. You can imagine the scale of this maze.
Ji Xun's eyebrows revealed a thought.
Obviously.
They, the body collectors, were affected by an attack on the Governor.
Accident?
Probably.
But certainly not entirely.
[JOKER]’s path was chosen by Ji Xun himself.
It seems that only at this time can he feel that his soul is no longer as silent as death.
"You have entered the "Cemetery Maze""
"The mortality rate in this maze: 29.4%"
"Assessed Catastrophe Level: D"
"Space exploration progress: 47.1%"
"Keywords: Puzzle Solving"
"Mission: You need to accumulate monsters in the skeleton "Find the correct passage out of the maze"
"Clue: Three thousand years ago, 300,000 workers were trapped and killed, and the resentment continued to form a maze that no living thing could leave."
Ji Xun looked at Qidi's appearance, and his expression showed a hint of thought.
After all, this is a primary space. The known information is that except for the trapped people, this maze is not very difficult.
Although Ji Xun didn’t have any information about how to navigate the maze from the Hunter Guild, he was not in a hurry.
D level difficulty, if others can get out, there is no reason why you can’t get out yourself.
Instead, he thought of something else: "Are you trying to trap Governor Cao in a maze and then kill him?"
The maze is full of low-level skeleton monsters, which theoretically pose no threat to the legion of Frost Knights.
Ji Xun was thinking quickly in his mind, and deduced the thoughts of the people behind the scenes, but he also complained: "No, such a big plan to hunt the governor, there must be some tweaks. Not to mention waiting. The Frost Knights came to take action, presumably because they wanted to solve it together. "
In the Innocence City, no matter who was assassinated, there was probably no one who assassinated the governor. There's a lot of movement.
The opening of a grand performance usually requires a gorgeous and shocking opening.
The current start is far from worthy of such a big drama.
I don’t know if it’s because he, Ji, has a crow’s mouth, or if the person behind the scenes didn’t disappoint.
At this time, Enlightenment appeared for the second time.
"Hidden plot trigger: The intruder has triggered the sleeping mechanism of the maze, the sealing stone has fallen, and the exit of the maze has been locked. The immortal 'keepers' have awakened, and they will wander in the maze. Kill all living humans."
The level of disaster has become "unknown" again.
“It’s here indeed.”
Seeing this, Ji Xun's eyes narrowed slightly.
Only then did he feel that now was the right way to start this grand assassination.
(End of this chapter)