This disaster seems to have finally come to an end, but this is not a happy ending, but a terrible one.
Although Lorenzo was blocking the soldiers from behind, after leaving the exploded neighborhood, the sound of heavy horse hooves continued, coming from all directions, like drums beating in people's hearts, bringing further depression.
Under Lawrence's unified will, the soldiers' actions were extremely efficient, like cold machines. They had been preparing to surround several people early in the morning, but fortunately Eve and the others ran faster, and the war horses had not blocked the street yet.
Eve looked ahead. The dock was very close, but such a short distance seemed extremely far away.
The exhausted people moved hard, but while showing their desire to survive, Irene's expression was a bit complicated. She followed the team closely, looking at the things in her hands from time to time, and then looked at the kestrel whose life and death were unknown.
.
Ever since Hebold carried him up, this guy had completely given up struggling and made no sound. He didn't know whether he was dead or about to die.
Haybold didn't want to check the specific situation of the kestrel. In his words, if he was still alive, he would be carried out. If he was dead, he could also use the kestrel as a human shield. How could he run away with him anyway?
The road is not bad.
Unknowingly, Haybold has also integrated into this somewhat crazy style.
Unfortunately, the moment of relaxation was short-lived. There was a sound of bloodthirsty breathing in the darkness, and the war horses rushed out of the darkness and attacked several people.
Under the dim sight, it looked like a nightmare that broke reality. The soldiers finally caught up with a few people, their guns and sharp blades carrying the chill of death.
Before it was time to give up, Eve slowed down due to this sudden change, waiting for the horse to approach. When the warrior swung his sharp blade at her, Eve also moved quickly.
The slender figure easily dodged the sword strike. With the strength of the Rangers, she reacted very quickly. She almost passed by him. At the moment of dodging, Eve reached out and grabbed the arm that was wielding the sword.
She didn't have strong strength, but her body was light enough and she had experience that could be used in combat. Eve followed the soldier's arm and climbed onto the horse's back. The slender lancet looked extremely deadly at the moment, and the soldier just had time.
Hold on to the reins? The sharp iron penetrates into the flesh and blood along the neck.
This was a fatal blow. Ordinary people would die easily under such an attack? But facing this violent warrior? It was obviously not enough to kill him completely.
There was no need to kill him. Eve repeatedly hit the wound on her neck. The vitality of these warriors with secret blood was too tenacious. Rather than killing them, why not incapacitate them? As long as it was delayed for a little time,
It was enough for them to escape.
The churning blade slit the throat, and as blood spurted out, the soldier was kicked down by Eve. Eve cheered, had she snatched a horse? But before she could be happy, gunshots rang out? The war horse
He was shot into a sieve before he could run a few steps.
Eve reacted quickly. She grabbed the reins and hung herself on the other side of the horse. Then she rolled to the ground.
"These guys are really chasing after me."
Eve was breathing heavily. The girl's body was also covered in scars at this moment. Her arms were full of scratches, and there were also deep sword wounds and marks left by bullet rails.
Looking at the shadows behind them? It stands to reason that with the ability and number of the soldiers, Eve and others can't run so far. As long as they continue to maintain the volley just now, in this empty street, a few people can only stay in the bunker.
Then he trembled and trembled until he was surrounded and caught.
The soldiers did not do this. The distance between them and Eve and others was neither far nor close. It could be said to be just the right distance, just like a hunter and his prey.
"Are they waiting for us to burn out?"
Haybold asked.
"Do you think we really count as prey?"
At this time, Eileen said, her expression was very serious, her pace gradually slowed down, and finally stopped in place.
"Irene, what are you doing?"
Haybold immediately cursed, but Irene shook her head. She turned around and looked at the vague figure behind the sea of fire.
"The most valuable prey tonight is not you, nor me..."
A Viking, a Gallican, and an Inverg, all with different identities and statuses, but tonight their values all seemed extremely cheap compared to him.
"Lorenzo, they're hunting Lorenzo Holmes."
Erin's eyes were complicated with a little fear.
"That's what they're going to do."
Listening to Erin's words, Eve understood her consciousness in an instant, and for a moment she didn't know what to do.
"Is that so? On the surface they are holding us back, but in fact they are holding Lorenzo. As long as we leave unsafely, Lorenzo will have no choice but to continue to confront Lawrence for us until he dies here."
After seeing through the conspiracy, there was no joy, but instead she felt even colder. This was a conspiracy that could not be changed after being seen through, and Eve didn't know what to do now.
Lawrence abandoned all connections with people, and he no longer had any weaknesses. But Lorenzo was different from him. Lorenzo had already experienced the beauty of life and tasted the poison of happiness. It was rare for him to have a plan.
A man of friends, Lorenzo could not give up all this.
"Hide first and then make a decision!"
Haybold pushed the two of them hard and fell behind an overturned carriage nearby.
The fragile structure of the carriage could not stop many bullets, but as Eve analyzed, the purpose of the soldiers was not to kill them, but to delay them. Seeing that a few people stopped running, the gunfire gradually became less frequent.
"Option one, we commit suicide now. Then Lorenzo will have nothing to worry about. Maybe because we are dead, he will go on a killing spree in anger?"
Erin said quickly, every minute and every second at this moment is precious.
"are you joking?"
Haybold scolded that as a Viking, he could not accept the outcome of suicide.
"Of course."
Erin said with a smile. She seemed to be back to her previous self, teasing others casually.
But soon, she calmed down, her expression froze, like ice, and then she slowly raised the items in her hands.
It was a crystal ruby, as if it were solidified blood.
A secret blood.
"Choice two, use it, and get out."
Erin stared at the blood in her hands. It was like the most perfect treasure in the world, making everyone eager to usurp it.
For a moment, everyone held their breath and stared at Mi Xue with fiery eyes.
"Power and price, this is really a difficult choice..."
Eve whispered that she knew more about secret blood than the other two, and she also knew the price of this power. Lorenzo himself was the best example.
"Let me do it!"
Haybold said immediately.
"No, you can't, Hebold, you don't know the power of this thing. Although it can make people powerful, with it comes the possibility of losing control. Once you use it... maybe you will never be able to control it again.
You can’t change yourself again.”
The twisted and ferocious faces of the demons flashed in Eve's mind. They were like bloodthirsty and crazy beasts, but they were also like the crying and wailing dead, feeling sad for their cursed fate.
"Then what do you think we should do? Just keep this stalemate until someone dies?"
Heibald directly stretched out his hand to grab the secret blood. Maybe it was because he felt the crisis of the predicament, or maybe he was tempted by the secret blood. There was anger in his voice.
"No...I mean this thing should be given to me."
Eve beat him to it and snatched the secret blood from Irene's hand.
Now Eve feels very strange, she feels like it is destined that she has also followed the path of her fathers, and has gone deeper than them.
"I am a ranger, a natural ranger. My resistance to erosion is far stronger than any of you. If I use it, there is a high probability that I will not lose control."
Eve clenched the secret blood tightly, she could feel the warmth brought by the blood, they were rolling and burning.
Someone is whispering in your ears, luring you into the darkness.
"Yes, this is what I should do."
A sense of mission filled Eve's mind, and she directly picked up the secret blood to inject it without waiting for the two's answers.
"Wait, Eve, it's not you who really needs it."
Irene's voice sounded, and her voice was very cold, which instantly made Eve, who had a fiery mind, sober up a little.
I saw her holding the kestrel, just like the sculpture of the Virgin in the church, with an expression of compassion.
Brushing Kestrel's cheek, all she could feel was the coldness of a corpse. Erin felt that today was a really bad day. There were only a few people who could be remembered by her, and today she almost lost everything.
"Give it to Kestrel, this thing might be able to save him."
He removed his hand from Kestrel's chest, and there was still a slight heartbeat underneath. Kestrel was not dead yet, but he was about to die. Even if he could escape from here, without medical treatment, Kestrel would not be able to survive until Inverg.
Deathly silence fell here, and the time to make a decision had arrived.
No matter how the words are modified, in fact everyone knows that as long as they use secret blood, they have fallen into darkness, dedicated themselves to their ideals, and become a member of the monsters.
"Sorry, I made the choice for you, Kestrel."
Erin took the secret blood from Eve's hand and was about to stab it into Kestrel's chest.
The change was startled, and before Irene could inject the secret blood, another injection was pierced into Kestrel's chest.
Looking along the hand holding the injection, it was then that Eileen noticed that there was an extra person beside her. Perhaps due to the influence of secret blood and decision, few people actually noticed his arrival.
"First the red one, then the yellow one...wait a minute, which needle is it!"
This guy complained after getting one injection after another, as if he couldn't remember the order.
Without any hesitation, Heibald directly raised his fist to knock over this guy who suddenly appeared, but then he caught his fist with one hand and listened to what this strange guy said.
"Purge mechanism, high-ranking knight, you can call me Shrike, hello everyone!"
Shrike shook Hebold's hand vigorously. He couldn't understand why this guy was still thinking about shaking hands when it was already so deadly.
"ah!!!"
A scream disrupted everyone's thoughts, and Kestrel sat up straight away.
He opened his mouth wide, breathing heavily, and screamed continuously.
"Eh? Shrike."
The kestrel saw the shrike beside him, and his eyes filled with tears.
"It's so good to see you again! Shrike...how long have I been sleeping? Where is this place?"
"You have been asleep for about a few minutes, but this is still Gaulnaro. Welcome back to hell!"
Erin watched the farce blankly. She felt that her emotions were completely fed to the dog, and her voice had a somewhat helpless feeling.
This guy...maybe really lucky.
"Wow! I feel like my chest is going to explode."
Kestrel tore open his clothes, revealing his chest full of wounds.
"Adrenaline, Voldren Potion, and some other things can theoretically keep you going for a while."
Shrike checked Kestrel's wounds. Although this guy looked like he was jumping around, he was actually relying on the medicine to keep him alive.
"Our ship is on the high seas, and the people from the Black Mountain Hospital are on standby. Even if you lose half your life, they can save you. The premise is that you have to get back there alive. Do you understand?"
Shrike slapped Kestrel's face. He was recruited by Shrike. Shrike knew very well what Kestrel was. Although he was injected with Florund's medicine, judging from this guy's way of thinking, he still needs some external force to make him
wide awake.
"Are there any reinforcements? Now they are using us to hold Lorenzo back."
Eve said anxiously that the appearance of Shrike gave them some hope to break the deadlock.
"Reinforcements? Do you think those two and a half count?"
Shrike thought for a moment, then pointed in the direction of the dock where he came from.
"Two...and a half?"
Two dazzling rays of light were seen leaping from the direction pointed by the shrike. They outlined a burning trajectory in the night sky, and then fell on the position where the soldiers were advancing.
Explosions, shocks and seas of fire.
There was a harsh buzzing in the ears, and the vibration of the explosion made the earth tremble slightly, and under the light were two busy people and a mouse.
"The impact position is a bit off. Please correct it. The value is..."
Nicholas put down the telescope and said to Hercule beside him.
Hercule laboriously loaded the two mortars after correcting the values.
"Why did you bring this thing with you when you came to rescue us? Are you sure you came to rescue us and not to land on the beach?"
Hercule yelled as he worked, and it almost cost him his life to lift these damn things off the ship.
"Anyway, your position was vacant when we came, so I brought some experimental weapons up... Don't you think this is an excellent experimental site? It perfectly demonstrates the possibilities in urban combat."
Nikolai's voice was torn apart by the overlapping cannon sounds, and two more dome lights fell.
"Come on! Hercule! Come on!"
Amid the roaring explosions, Poirot jumped around Hercule, cheering him on.
Hercule looked at all this with a complicated expression.
Under various conspiracies, Maluli Port turned into a battlefield, with one group of monsters fighting another group of monsters, and he was working as an artilleryman here, and was encouraged by a chinchilla.
He felt that this was not like a war, but like a hellish fireworks show, and Hercule was the mental patient who set fire to the city.
"Forget it, why are you thinking so much?"
Hercule shook his head and gave up thinking. Another dome light illuminated the night sky and fell.