Chapter 324 Revenge
When Malu found Ouroboros, he found her wandering on the street, looking completely lost.
Skylark rushed forward first and hugged her, "Ah, it's great that you're okay, Ah She! I thought you were really buried under the auditorium."
However, after seeing a few people, Ouroboros showed a look of shame on his face, and whispered, "I'm sorry, I, I didn't know it would turn out like this..."
"What you said is The sacred stone was destroyed?" Malu raised his eyebrows.
"The Shrike never mentioned the Holy Stone to me. I received orders to kidnap the Pope during the chaos and liberate the witches in the city. All our previous preparations were to complete this mission."
Ending. Snake's tone was bitter, "I didn't know she left a backup plan."
"That was not a backup plan," Malu said, "She planned everything with the goal of destroying Temple City from the beginning. Action."
Ouroboros still had a glimmer of hope in her heart, "Maybe... something just went wrong, things developed beyond her expectations, or someone else violated her arrangements. "
"No, she admitted it herself," Ma Lu said, "She appeared in the giant tower when you were fighting the elite of the Holy Knights."
"Shrike, she's not dead?" Ouroboros asked in surprise.
“Not only was she not dead, but she dropped the staff on purpose. In that battle, she carried a total of two staffs and used another one at the last moment before the missile fell. The staff ran away, keeping the one in her hand. "
"Why did she throw away the staff?"
"Because that staff was the key." >"Key?"
"Yes, it can open the holy stone and start the self-destruction process." Ma Lu said, "But when Shrike found the staff, it was in a damaged state. It could not be repaired with the technical level of the Witch Alliance, so she could only use the Temple City to
"However, sending a single staff to the Temple City will definitely arouse the vigilance of the church, but if the person who brings the staff back is Levi, the deputy leader of the Holy Knights, and this If a staff is related to the death of the Shrike, that's another matter.
“In the end, the researchers in the weapons and equipment department repaired the staff, just as the Shrike expected, and then a traitor took the staff out of the research room and handed it to her.”
"As for you, you were also used by her as bait, drawing away the elite members of the Holy Knights for her and giving her time to act."
Ma Lu said, "These are all said by Shrike himself. Yes, she didn’t run away after blowing up the holy stone. She just stood there, laughing loudly, waiting for the arriving knights to arrest her.”
"But I don't understand," Ouroboros's face turned pale, "Why did she do this? Is it to build a new city?"
"There is no new city, so-called built entirely by witches Without slavery and oppression, the settlement would not exist at all. The Shrike only did this out of hatred, to avenge her father, the current Pope, for abandoning her."
"Wait a minute, Shrike. Why is the bird still related to the Pope? "
Ouroboros has heard too many shocking things tonight, and should have gradually become immune to it, but he still couldn't help but lose his voice after hearing this news. .
“She was the youngest daughter of the Pope. She was found to be a witch at birth. The Pope was worried that this scandal would affect his political career, so he secretly sent a knight to throw the Shrike into Go outside the city and want the activated plants to kill her. Of course, these are the words of the Shrike. You can choose not to believe them.
"But considering that she has destroyed the holy stone and surrendered on her own initiative, she should not deliberately lie to slander the Pope at this time. After all, it is nothing compared to what she has done."
After hearing what Malu said, Ouroboros seemed to have lost its last bit of strength, and sat down on the stone steps by the roadside, holding its head.
"Are you saying that the future we are pursuing has never existed?" "At present, it seems that is indeed the case." Ma Lu said.
"Then our efforts and sacrifices all the time are nothing..." Ouroboros's eyes showed pain, "I just hope that witches can get along with humans equally, Is it wrong to just get the freedom we should have? ”
"I'm just a guy who happened to be passing by... I can't answer your question." Malu paused, then continued, "But I know someone who may be able to answer your doubts."
"Who? ?"
"The person who directed all this..."
"No. , she may be regarded as the protagonist of today's drama, but there is a screenwriter above her," said Ma Lu.
"Where is he, the screenwriter?"
"If I guessed correctly, he should have been at the top of the giant tower, quietly overlooking everything happening below."
Ma Lu He said, "We are planning to go talk to him, do you want to come with us?"
Hearing this, a flash of hope flashed in Ouroboros' originally desperate pupils, "I, I can still return to your Are you in the team?"
"Of course," Ma Lu said, "We also happen to be short of a legal profession."
He stretched out his hand to the girl, who hesitated for a moment, then firmly grasped the armor-covered palm.
Obviously the coldness of metal is there in the hand, but it inexplicably makes Ouroboros feel a little at ease.
Then the five people walked towards the giant tower in the center of the city.
While there was nothing to do on the road, Malu explained his previous speculation to Ouroboros.
“There were too many unreasonable things before and after the Shrike blew up the Holy Stone. For example, why did the staff as a key suddenly fall into her hands?
"After she was abandoned, she never returned to Temple City and never saw the Holy Stone with her own eyes. How did she know that the broken staff was the key? And the attack you planned in Temple City.
"Although Li Wei deliberately indulged and wanted to catch a big fish, it was too easy to succeed. How did so many of you, including you, sneak into the temple without knowing it? City? "
"I don't know very well," Ouroboros frowned, "I only heard that there is an ally of ours in the upper echelons of the church, and that person helped let our people in." "
"Why do the upper echelons of the church take risks to help you? "
" Shrike said that she sympathized with the witch family's plight. ”
Malu was noncommittal and continued, "And the staff. After it was repaired, it was taken out of the research room by the mole and handed into the hands of Shrike. It was as if it was prepared for her.
< br>"And the most important point is that Shrike was only three or four years old when she was abandoned outside the city. How did she survive and become the leader of the fallen witches? ”
(End of this chapter)