"...So sir, you said that you followed the order and came to take us to the city?"
Bai E nodded and said, "Yes."
Is it just an ordinary soldier in the military camp who saves everyone from the devil's control?
But could a man who dared to fight the devil head-on and be full of leadership glory be just an ordinary soldier?
An officer who made mistakes in the past and was demoted? Or is it just a temporary hibernation?
But no matter what, it is always good news that a city is willing to send people to take the initiative to accommodate them.
The elder is old and well-informed, but he has only lived in the same wilderness oasis his entire life.
I've heard of cities existing in them, but I've never really been exposed to them.
After being squeezed out of the oasis, they had already lost confidence in their compatriots, but when they heard that they could live in the city, they suddenly felt hesitant and excited.
"Sir...Sir, what is the city like?" The more active boy asked expectantly with his shining eyes open.
"The city..." Bai E looked blankly. He didn't know what the city looked like, but with the protection of the military camp outside the city, the people inside should live a more stable and comfortable life, right?
"A city is a home surrounded by steel."
"What about you, sir?" The girl also spoke out, staring at Bai E's face with a pair of clear eyes, asking hopefully.
"Me?" Bai E smiled at her, "I'm a soldier and live in a military camp outside the city."
The girl's eyes suddenly lit up, "Then can I go to the military camp?"
"The military camp is a place of fighting, and you should live a good life."
Bai E doesn't know about other places, but at least in Blackwater City, based on the information he knows so far -
With the consumption of artificial humans, the pressure to recruit troops from natural humans is not great.
Even if Kilolan enters the military camp, he will probably learn how to become a qualified nurse like Masati who he met before.
But there is no need to join the army if it is not necessary.
Bai E just smiled and explained, "But it will all be your own choice. I just received an order to take you back. Maybe after arriving in the city, you will find that a more interesting life is waiting for you."
"So we can join the military camp?" The girl seemed a little persistent.
Bai E helplessly spread his hands, "It should be possible if you take the initiative to apply, but this is not my responsibility."
The girl who got the answer stopped asking, "I understand, sir..."
"What about you..." After appeasing each other's emotions, Bai E started talking about his own business, "Where are you from and how many of you are there?"
These are related to the judgment of the background of these refugees and the planning of transfer work.
"We come from Jinshuizhou Town..." The elder whispered the origin of his group.
Simple resource issue.
Oasis in the wilderness can support a limited population. As the population becomes more bloated, the inevitable survival of the fittest will sift out the weak.
The group of people in front of me are the ones who have been screened out.
Whatever the process was, it's all in the past. Fortunately, people are not dead yet... It's over.
"There were 631 of us when we set out, but now there are only 417." As he spoke, the elder looked back at the corpse that had been sucked by the devil and excluded him.
"More than four hundred people..." Bai E muttered slightly, the amount of information was almost doubled compared to the initial information obtained.
However, as long as these people are willing to cooperate, there is no essential difference in the difficulty of migration between more than 200 people and more than 400 people.
"Zizzizi~"
After roughly understanding it, Bai E heard the voice of his teammates coming from the headset. Hu's firm voice seemed to have regained its strength, "Bai E, how are you doing over there?"
While they were waiting to slowly regain their ability to move, they who stayed in the car had analyzed the current situation rationally.
Out of rationality, they need to send someone back to the military camp to report on the situation here.
A demon invading the real world is a huge event that only the professionals from the Heresy Arbitration Institute can handle.
And out of emotion, they didn't want to see the Bai E brothers fighting alone.
Especially after the real-time footage from the crypt was shared by the devil, it even made my heart twitch.
It's just that the Baie brothers seemed to have discovered the devil's weakness and launched a resistance, but what happened next was beyond their observation.
The demons who needed more power actively activated the seeds of fear in their hearts, so that their consciousness fell into a hazy state.
The images shared by the demons in their minds ended unknowingly while they struggled to fight against the void darkness. When they tried to recall, they found that their consciousness was blurred by the confrontation and fear, let alone remembering all the details clearly.
Only trust in a certain name is deeply rooted in my heart——
Bai E.
When I call this name in despair, I feel like I can really get warm salvation.
So after everyone woke up from the terrifying illusion in their minds, Hu immediately contacted Bai E.
"My side?" Bai E glanced at the refugees who were gradually regaining their sanity again, watching them huddle together in the darkness to heal the scars in their hearts, and smiled before replying: "Everything is fine."
"Okay!" Hu's voice was exciting, "We'll go in right away."
"By the way..." Bai E remembered something and reminded him aloud, "Bring some food in."
"good."
After hanging up the phone, Hu looked at the other soldiers around him excitedly, "He's fine over there."
Everyone's situation is basically the same, and the scenes shared by demons only stay when Bai E is fighting alone.
Then the turbulent emotions that were not their own came up forcefully and tried to overwhelm them. Although everyone who was alert in their hearts tried their best to resist, they also vaguely lost their observation of the shared scene at some point.
After coming back to his senses, the scene shared by the devil was over.
"It seems that Bai E drove away the devil?"
"It's really... amazing."
Captain No. 2 looked at Hu with a face full of shame and said, "Thanks to Bai E in your team this time, otherwise we would have to fall here again."
The soldier in the corner buried his face and did not dare to see anyone. "On the way here, I told him that he could call me when he was in danger..."
It's true that Brother Baie said to be careful before setting off, but unfortunately, even if you maintain enough caution, it seems to be absolutely useless in this place.
There were no sudden attacks or external threats.
The real danger comes from within.
The Tiger Squad has not separated, but each member's heart has still become an island.
Except Bai E...
It is said that this brother performed well when the Zerg lair faced the overlord's psychic realm, but they were in the reserve echelon at the time and could not feel the value of saving more than 400 people.
Now it seems that if the spiritual field of the Zerg master at that time could have the intensity they feel now, then Bai E who achieved that feat would be simply unimaginable.
"What now? Shall we go in?" Some soldiers kept questioning calmly, "He may not have really driven away the devil. Didn't the missing scouts also become the minions of the devil? Now his words may also be true.
A trap set under the guidance of the devil, trying to trick us all back."
Facing an enemy they don't understand, like the devil, any idea of how to deal with it will extend to the most extreme direction.
"I think it's unlikely." Song Ying glanced at the warrior who spoke, "Bai E has never disappointed anyone, and he will never become a minion of the devil."
"But even everyone present couldn't escape the demon's attack. Why should he? It's hard for me not to believe that this is a trap of the devil."
"Don't forget that he saved us."
"I can wake up on my own without him saving me." He recovered the fastest among all the soldiers left in the car, which was why he felt confident that he was no worse than anyone else.
His teammate tugged at the corner of his clothes and whispered, "If it was a trap from the beginning, then there would be no need for Bai E to rescue us all from the crypt."
The questioning warrior looked at his teammates seriously, "You have to know that even on the Zerg battlefield, he is not the only one who can enter and exit the frontal battlefield. But right now, he is the only one who can resist the mental corrosion of the devil.
, don’t you have any doubt?”
The driver in charge of driving in the team said hesitantly, "I tried it on the Zerg battlefield..."
"That's because you can't do it." The questioning soldier's eyebrows were calm, "I don't mean to target anyone, but when we are performing tasks outside, we must always be as cautious as possible."
"..."
Everyone present is also an elite.
Every elite is proud.
If they can't resist, it's hard to believe that there are others who can easily resist or even resist.
It doesn't sound good to question soldiers, but it actually makes some sense.
"How about leaving some people in the car?"
Captain No. 1 nodded, "Okay... let's do this. Carrigan, you and Tiger's two teams will bring some food to the refugees as he said."
"good."
"no problem."
The two captains readily agreed.
…
In the crypt, the five scouts who had disappeared earlier also woke up from their bad state. Bai E specifically asked the elder to call them over.
He wanted to know more information from them.
But right now...these former elite warriors don't seem to be in a good mental state.
Bai E's eyes swept over the dilapidated and gloomy faces on their faces.
They are more elite than the refugees, but it may be because of this that they have suffered more targeted attacks from the demons.
"The two photos you have were left by me, but I actually regretted it after leaving those messages." One of the soldiers confided regretfully. He was the first batch of scouts to come here.
Unlike those ordinary refugees, they have been trapped in the fear of demons for a long time and their previous beliefs have been completely destroyed.
Even after the demons have been expelled, their mental state cannot return to the high-spirited and full state of the past.
"Similar to your experience, after I woke up from the illusion and escaped from the cave, I felt like a piece of my heart had fallen down here, and I wanted to pick it back up..."
As he spoke, the soldier's eyes turned red for a moment, and he suddenly lowered his head to cover his eyes, choking out from his palms, "But I... I didn't expect that it would turn out like this."
He felt that he was probably useless.
Even after most of the refugees bravely took the first step of resistance, he still could not escape the control of the devil.
If the demon whose strength had not fallen to a certain level was not directly expelled back to the high-dimensional space by Bai E, he might still be a pawn in the hands of the demon.
"It's all over." Bai E was helpless about this and could only reluctantly comfort him, "It's all over. Actually..."
Bai E saw that the mental state of the scouts in front of him was definitely not good, but he still made up his mind to ask, "I want to know how you felt during the whole process of being controlled by the devil?"
Although it may be quite painful for them to recall those terrible past events, in order to learn more information, Bai E had to take the initiative to uncover their scars.
And there are some things that you must ask before your teammates arrive. After all, it involves the exorcism essential oil you use. The origin of this thing... is not easy to explain.
