After opening the door to the underground space with the key given by Section Chief Sergey, there is a staircase diagonally downwards.
Going down the steel stairs, just as their boss had just told them, a monster soon jumped out from the corner.
"The urban areas on the ground have power-guided streetlights to repel monsters, so there will be no monsters. Because Crossbell is a land rich in spiritual power, it is not surprising that monsters will appear in the underground space. I have never been here before." Tio
Said quietly to himself.
Only the red-haired young man keenly noticed her words and moved his ears slightly. The other two companions did not hear her whisper.
To deal with the Warcraft, Lloyd originally planned to use his crutches to attract the opponent's attention, but with a "bang" gunshot, the Warcraft that just jumped out fell to the ground.
After all, Ellie is still a girl, and she doesn't have a good impression of those slimy-looking soft-bodied monsters in the underground space.
She shot their cores without hesitation. Although Section Chief Sergei had said before that the monsters here were not strong, Lloyd was still quite surprised to see his teammates take down the targets so easily.
Tio took out a small square box, and as if there was some kind of attraction, the radiant chip dropped by the monster automatically flew into the box in her hand.
"I will keep the Yao chips. I can use these to help you make new crystallization circuits."
After she said this, everyone else nodded.
"That's really troublesome for you, Tio." Lloyd said.
North gate, north gate, west gate, west gate, north gate, north gate... passed through numerous corridors and platforms and advanced all the way to the depths of the underground space. At the next corner, Lloyd saw a strange light.
"There is actually a ladder leading to the ground in a place like this."
The beam of light he saw came from the hole above the stairs.
"Is this the Tyndall effect she said..." Tio murmured to herself and nodded. This time, her words were not hidden from Lloyd beside her.
"What is the Tyndall effect? I never learned about it in Sunday school or police academy."
"Well, in words that you can understand, it is simply a phenomenon of the woods. In the early morning, in the dense woods, you can often see beams of light passing through the branches and leaves. Similar to this natural phenomenon, it is the Tyndall effect.
According to someone, it was discovered by a person named Tyndall. However, I searched various documents and could not find this person, so it may be a fictional character she made up." Theo explained briefly,
Then he looked at the top of the ladder, "It seems to be the entrance and exit of the underground tunnel... but it is not recorded in the Crossbell Police Department's database."
"Well, then why is it opened now?" Randolph asked following Tio's words.
"Maybe the staff who manage the city hall forgot to close it. Let's contact them later?" Ellie analyzed.
"Yeah, let's do it." Lloyd nodded.
Lloyd and others were ready to leave and move on, but Tio frowned slightly.
"What's the matter, Titty?" Randolph seemed to be unwilling to change his habit of speaking.
Tio, who discovered something at this time, did not complain about it.
"I seem to hear something, please wait for me a moment."
Tio quickly formed a string of seals with both hands. After saying "Resolve" softly, her pupils turned golden in the eyes of Lloyd and others... It's probably not accurate to say that, Tio was originally
She has golden eyes. But her original eye color was a darker golden color, somewhat close to amber. But now it is a bright golden color.
Everyone is curious about Tio's changes, but now doesn't seem to be the time to ask specifically.
"What's wrong, Tio?"
Seeing her frown, Lloyd quickly asked.
"Why are there naughty children in the underground space?" Tio sighed, raised his right hand and used the tip of his slightly glowing index finger to draw a clever pattern on his forehead that no one else could see, and his eye color returned to dark.
Gold color.
"Ah?" Ellie didn't react for a moment.
"Ahem, can you explain it?" Lloyd and Randolph looked at each other and said to Tio.
"It literally means that deeper underground, there are four naughty children. They probably came down this ladder. If we hurry up now, we should have time to save them before they encounter the monsters."
"Hey, what's going on? Doesn't it mean that the underground space is blocked?"
"Such a thing could happen. Let's talk about it later. We have to act quickly. But how did you know, Tio?" Lloyd finally asked.
After hearing this, Tio showed a true expression, "You are very concerned about that just now, right? That is my ability. But it cannot be used easily. So I can only use it as an emergency at critical moments."
Several people expressed their understanding and did not continue to delve deeper. Although the monsters in the underground space are not a problem for the Special Agent Support Section, they are still too dangerous for children. Human lives are at stake. The three people immediately followed Tio's instructions to the underground space.
Go deeper.
Without wasting time and taking detours, everyone quickly found the crying little boy Henry in the ventilation duct.
"Titi, didn't you say there were four..." Randolph quickly realized that something was wrong.
"Yes, yes... It was actually my friend Long's suggestion to bring Ken and Nana here to explore. But, we encountered a terrifying monster and we escaped... Wuwuwu..."
little boy henry
"That's right. It's natural to be scared. Now, Lloyd, what should we do?" Ellie tapped Henry on the shoulder, and then asked Lloyd.
Lloyd closed his eyes and thought for a moment, "There is no time, let's take this child deeper."
"Is this okay? Don't you need to separate someone to take this child and leave first?" Tio asked.
"And we can also divide the troops into two groups and search separately, right?" This was Randolph's question.
"The current situation is one where every second counts. I'm afraid it's not a good idea to distract the combat power hastily." After Lloyd answered the two of them seriously, he turned to look at Ellie, "Ellie, I will leave this child to your protection, okay?"
"Well, leave it to me. If there's a fight, I won't let the monster get close to this child."
Nodding to Ellie, Lloyd gave the little boy a final warning.
"Little Henry, my brothers and sisters are going to find your friends next. It's very dangerous around here, so I hope you will follow us."
After getting a positive answer, Tio once again acted as a human radar and found the location of the other three people.
Ken and Nana are twin brothers and sisters with rare pink hair. They may look younger than Henry. It should be said that they are very lucky. There are no Warcraft near their area. And seeing Lloyd
When that happened, Ken immediately shouted out, "Are you brother Lloyd who used to live next door to our house!?"
"Eh... are you the children of the Crawford family?" No wonder Lloyd felt a familiar feeling when he saw the pink hair. He was also very lucky to be able to rescue them here and successfully get them out of danger. He
For the first time, I felt that it was great to be assigned to the special agent support class.
Before the death of their eldest brother Guy, Lloyd and Guy lived together in the Belheim rental apartment in West Street. The Crawford family was their next-door neighbor.
"Why did you come to such a dangerous place? Uncle Matthew, Aunt Lina, and your sister Yuna must have been extremely worried when they found out that you were missing."
"Wow..." As soon as Lloyd made a serious face, Nana started crying.
"Hey, Lloyd, don't scare children even if they are people you know."
Ellie immediately hugged Nana in her arms.
"No, Nana is not scared to cry. She may have been too scared before. Brother Lloyd is worried about us, and Nana and I can feel it. Nana, don't cry, don't cry." The pink-haired little boy Ken
Enmingming was the same age as Nana, but he pretended to be reliable and tried hard to calm his twin sister's mood.
Just when everyone was delayed for a while, Tio clapped his hands and asked everyone to look towards him.
"Although I'm sorry to interrupt your reminiscing about old times, the situation with the kid named Long is a bit bad. It seems that several magical beasts have moved towards his location."
At that moment, everyone no longer hesitated and took action immediately. Lloyd, Randolph, and Ellie each picked up a child and followed Tio.
Passing through the three-story passage, a little boy's scream came from the direction of the high platform.
"Don't, don't come here. Wow~~Help! Lady Edes!"
Several people put down their children and drew their weapons.
There were five soft-bodied monsters surrounding Long.
"It's a bit troublesome! Ellie, attract the attention of those guys."
Just when Ellie was about to agree to Lloyd's request and shoot the blue soft monster with a guided gun, Randolph, who was originally behind them, jumped up with a step beyond ordinary people, and suddenly jumped to Long's side. He looked like
He grabbed Long by the collar like a chicken and threw him directly in the direction of Lloyd.
"Okay, Captain."
Before he could react to what happened, his body took action before thinking, and accurately used Randolph's pass. Now the scene turned into a scene of five blue monsters surrounding Randolph, and as he
After the blazing flames of fighting spirit rolled up around him, the weak monsters were all defeated in an instant.
"Okay, so strong!"
In most of the previous battles, Ellie solved the problem by shooting with a guided gun. Lloyd had very few opportunities to use crutches. Although Tio and Randolph seemed to be holding guided guns, Ellie didn't seem to give them a chance.
They had the same opportunity to play, and neither of them had a chance to shoot.
He didn't even use any combat skills, he only relied on the fighting spirit he released to kill the monster in an instant. This was the first time that other people in the Special Agent Support Section saw the strength of the eldest man in the team.
"Long, are you okay!? You're not injured, right?" After Long was gently placed on the ground by Lloyd, Henry immediately walked over worriedly and asked.
"Uh, um, it's completely fine. Compared to this, I'm really lucky that you're safe and sound!" Completely different from the guy who screamed so loudly that he was so frightened that he called the goddess just now, Long now sounded overly confident.
"Because your reaction is very slow, I'm still thinking that if I don't save you quickly, you will definitely be eaten by the monster."
"You, you have the nerve to say that. You were almost eaten by a monster yourself. And it was you who forced us to come here this time. You made Nana cry." Henry retorted unceremoniously.
"What are you talking about? Weren't you the first person to talk about underground space?"
"Yes, but I didn't say I really wanted to come in."
Seeing the two people arguing non-stop, Lloyd stood between them and said, "Okay, okay, the quarrel ends here."
"I'm sorry." Henry apologized seriously.
"Hey, this is my first time meeting my brothers and sisters. Maybe they are newcomers, but you are so strong, especially the red-haired big brother, he is so strong."
Takashi became more lively and started to comment on a few people in the Special Agent Support Section.
"Really. You are so calm now, which is completely different from your behavior just now. Moreover, we saved your life, so we should first thank you, right?" Randolph rubbed Long's head vigorously.
"Hey, forget it. Thank you for saving me." The little boy Long nodded slightly to Lloyd, Ellie and Tio, but bowed deeply to Randolph. This is no wonder, after all, he was treated like Randolph
Rescued alone.
"It seems that we have reached the end here. We have also completed the task of the section chief. Anyway, let's go out quickly?" Ellie said to everyone.
However, Tio and Randolph looked at each other, and then took out their respective weapons. Tio took out the magic wand behind his back, and Randolph opened the piano case behind him.
"What, what's wrong?" Lloyd didn't notice anything wrong at all.
"It's just like a routine unfolding. Don't you really think it's over that easily? Now that we've reached the end, there will always be a boss at the end." When Randolph spoke to Lloyd, the scene was filled with excitement.
Changes had already occurred. As Tio waved the magic wand and chanted the incantation, a magic circle appeared in front of her, and an ice lotus condensed from it and shot towards the darkness.
"Hey, Titi!"
"What's wrong, Brother Randy?"
"Don't eat alone!"
Just as Randolph finished speaking, the remains of a huge magical beast fell from above.
In Lloyd's eyes, this guy clearly looked like a very tough guy, no less than a wanted monster. However, the huge monster that was frozen into an ice sculpture fell to pieces when it fell to the ground. After the ice crystals dispersed,
, in the end only the Yao Chips were left on the ground as traces of its past existence.
"It's not an enemy that requires us to join forces to deal with it, so there's no problem." Tio silently put the magic wand behind his back, and then took out the box to collect the routine flaring chips.
After listening to Tio's words, Randolph stuffed the Berserker he had just taken out back into the box and put the piano case back on his back.
"Um, um..." Lloyd was just as stunned as the four children. Ellie was looking at Tio's magic wand thoughtfully.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Mission accomplished, it's time to go, Captain."
"Ah, oh oh." Lloyd, who came to his senses, led his three team members and four children back the same way.
After the people from the support section left, a voice came from near the location where the giant monster fell.
"It seems that there is no need for me to appear, but they have probably noticed me. If they didn't notice the existence of the last monster, they would have tried to say 'it's not necessary' on this occasion."
The man with long dark blue hair, a scar on his left cheek, and a sword at his waist is the Wind Sword Saint Arios Markline.
"Ah, Cassius is like this, and you are like this too. Do you guys from Yaye all have the same routine?" The girl's clear laughter came from the empty place on the railing opposite him.
"You are indeed here." Arios stared at the empty front and pressed his hand to the hilt of the sword.
"How did you find me?"
"No, your invisibility is really good, I didn't notice it. It was just a test, and I seemed to have guessed it right."
"I see, I actually succeeded twice with the same trick. It seems that I am not a Saint after all."
In Arios's eyes, the purple-haired girl gradually appeared.
"We haven't seen each other since you completed the mission of escorting Dr. Schmidt last year, Mr. Arios. I thought you rushed away immediately after receiving the mission of a missing child from the Guerrilla Association.
Come here. It doesn’t seem to be the case. You deliberately made me aware of it. Are you looking for me in an emergency?"
"That's right. I have something to ask you."
"Oh? Considering that you taught Joshua swordsmanship last year, if it is a question that I can answer, I will try my best to answer you."
After hearing the girl's assurance, Arios spoke,
"Well, I want to know how my former partner Guy Bannings died."