Alien world

Chapter 976 Chapter 207. Dam Burst
The dusk cast a golden glow over the beautiful Changhu Town.

Smoke rises from the quiet lakeside town, and its reflection is reflected in the rippling blue lake.

It's such a beautiful place, it's hard to destroy it.

On this day, a group of strange soldiers came from outside the town. They were wearing fine but ill-fitting plate armor and carrying strange weapons like fire sticks.

They were just passing by, but a woodcutter coming out of the taiga carrying firewood recognized them and exclaimed, "Are you the Freeblades?"

The soldiers exchanged glances, and one soldier quietly walked behind the woodcutter and pulled out the dagger from his leg.

"Great, you're finally here!" The woodcutter clapped his thighs joyfully.

"That's right, I'm a soldier from Liberty City!" Their leader coughed dryly, "Uncle, are you from this town?"

"I have been a woodcutter in Changhu Town for more than ten years... Look, you are all dusty and exhausted, right? Come in quickly..."

Rad enthusiastically led them into Long Lake Town.

"The Free Blade is coming!"

The woodcutter's shouting made them tense up, and they almost cracked the old man's head with his magic musket. But it was the smiling faces of the townspeople who welcomed them that made them relax.

The soldiers were warmly received.

The leader had some guesses: "You... also received flyers?"

"Yeah, we all saw the flyer and were talking about when you were coming—"

"I want to fight with you too!" a boy squeezed in and said.

Amid the laughter of the friendly townspeople around him, a soldier glanced over. The coldness in his eyes made the boy suddenly speechless.

There were only some militiamen and the mayor's private soldiers supporting them, and there was only one magician.

The mayor also greeted them warmly, but the wizard beside him looked at them with some scrutiny. After seeing the blood and rat head emblem on the plate armor, his eyes gradually softened.

They stripped it from the bodies of dead Liberty City soldiers, so of course there were no flaws.

The mayor prepared a banquet and invited the soldiers of "Free Blade" to sit down. He first expressed his longing for Liberty City, and then asked if there was anything that Long Lake Town could do.

"We want money and women--" blurted out a flattered soldier.

The wizard next to the mayor frowned.

Why are these soldiers different from the Liberty City in the rumors...

But it is true that the weapon they were holding was called the magic musket.

"Don't forget about business."

The leader glanced at the wizard who noticed something, warned his companion who said everything, and changed his tone to a formal one: "Mr. Mayor, we suspect that the rat people are spreading the plague in the lake. Please take us to the upper reaches of Long Lake Town."

There was an uproar at the banquet, and the mayor's smile disappeared: "Is this true?"

"Didn't you read the flyers? The ratmen are spreading plague around Ize Bay."

"The leaflet didn't say..."

The leader said impatiently: "This concerns the safety of millions of people. Take us there quickly."

"Okay, okay... I'll ask someone to take you there right now!"

The mayor did not suspect anything, because there had indeed been some sightings of ratmen outside Long Lake Town recently... He asked his youngest son to personally lead them to the Planni River, which was upstream of Long Lake Town and also upstream of the Mam River.

"please wait a while!"

Before leaving the town, a fair-skinned, beautiful girl with thick eyebrows ran over, holding a letter in both hands nervously, and asked expectantly: "Excuse me, are you from Ize Bay?"

The soldiers pretending to be Freeblades looked at each other and said, "No."

The girl was a little disappointed. The looks from the people of Liberty City made her uncomfortable, but because she was worried, she bravely asked, "Do you know Claude?" "I don't know."

"Oh……"

The disappointed girl hurried away, and they continued on their journey, arriving at the Planny River, several miles away from Long Lake Town.

The turbulent river, as wide as a lake, flows from east to south, distorting the reflections of the figures holding torches on the river bank.

The last ray of afterglow disappeared on the horizon, the sky in the north was gloomy, and a cold wave was coming.

They had to hurry, otherwise there would be no way out if the Planny River froze.

The leader asked the mayor's youngest son: "If the dam here breaks, will Ize Bay be flooded?"

When the river water bursts out through the breach, everything downstream will be wiped out.

Whether it's ratmen, forests, or towns.

The youngest son, who vaguely resembled his father, puffed out his chest and said, "Don't worry, as long as we are here, we will never let the bad guys dig up the dam!"

The leader winked at his men, who dispersed in understanding, walked around the Planni River, and returned to the leader. He pointed to a bank and said, "The soil there is the weakest. We can dig it up."

"how long it takes?"

"Thirty minutes will be enough."

"Sir, what are you talking about...?" The mayor's youngest son suddenly felt uneasy.

puff-

The sharp blade of the dagger suddenly pierced through the younger son's chest, and the strength in his body quickly dissipated, causing him to fall to the ground.

Blood gushed out, and in the last few tens of seconds of his life, he saw the members of "Free Blade" walking towards the river bank and setting up something. The ratmen crawled out of the dungeon with squeaking sounds, trying to stop them like crazy.

……

Changhu Town is always beautiful at night. When it is clear, the lake will take in the starry sky.

But today was a bit gloomy. The mayor came outside after anxiously waiting and saw a snowflake slowly falling and melting on the ground.

The first snow has arrived, so the ice should not be far away...

At this moment, the calm lake surface suddenly began to sound like the tide of the ocean.

While the mayor was still wondering, the ground beneath him began to shake. The shaking came from the northeast, as if it was heading to the Free Blade on the Planni River...

The vibration gradually became clearer, and the chandelier in the house behind him began to shake. Before the mayor realized what was happening, the bronze bell on the town's watchtower suddenly rang rapidly.

Dang——dang——dang——

Accompanied by a hoarse roar, echoing in the night sky: "The Planni River has burst its banks!!!"

The earth was shaking, accompanied by rumbling sounds.

The long lake that nourishes the local people became turbid and extremely turbid.

The townspeople ran out of their homes in fear and fled outside, but no matter how fast they ran, they were not as fast as the rushing river water. In an instant, they were submerged up to their ankles and knocked to the ground.

A townsman climbed onto the roof and held up an oil lamp, trying to see clearly in the distance.

He opened his eyes wide, and didn't blink even when snowflakes fell into his eyes...

Gradually, he heard some of the same sounds from the increasingly turbulent flood...

On the coast, a small boat was pushed by the flood and hit the townspeople head-on.

When the flood peak passed, the burst-bank Planny River almost instantly destroyed the quiet town, drowning cries for help, houses, lives, letters... everything in darkness, roaring downstream carrying debris and mud.

(End of this chapter)