I weave fate in parallel time and space

Chapter 627 Unrest on the Meuse River

There is a river in France that passes through the steep and deep valley between Saint-Mihiele and Verdun. After passing through Charleville-Mézières, it winds through the Ardennese region in a narrow gorge and ends in Riviera. After entering Belgium, it continues to flow north to Namur, joins the Sambre River on the left bank, and then turns east to Liege.

Its name is the Meuse River, a natural waterway, and the nearby city is also a center of industrial development.

At the same time, a few decades ago, a very famous battle took place here, the Battle of Verdun.

It was the most tragic battle that has occurred in the world in recent years. A large number of people died and the intensity of the war was unprecedented.

Countless of the most powerful weapons possessed by mankind besides nuclear bombs are used here.

According to some people's rumors, West France actually released a nuclear bomb here.

However, this rumor was terminated because the radiation here did not exceed the standard.

But fate apparently has not spared the nearby cities.

The entrance to the dragon's nest that people from the magical world discovered was near the Meuse River, so the disaster here was destined to be more than that.

Especially because it is closest to the entrance of the dragon's nest, it also experienced a major earthquake due to the changes in the dragon world.

Many houses were collapsed, and there were even aftershocks from time to time.

There was panic on the streets of one of the cities.

"Mom!! Dad! Where are you?"

"Anya! Anya!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Someone please help me, it hurts so much!"

Some people who were lucky enough not to be buried in their houses chanted the names of their loved ones in the streets.

But these sounds overlapped with other sounds and people's cries for help. It was impossible to distinguish them. Anxiety and panic overlapped. Everything was so scary...

"Sasha, Mike!! Where are you...!"

A young woman carried a plastic bag full of food, crying and calling out the names of her family members.

She used to speak softly, but now she was as hysterical, urgent and frightened as possible, but she didn't get any response.

She got up early in the morning and went out to the market to buy groceries, so she escaped the disaster.

Soon she saw her home. It seems that because the construction materials are better, that house is still intact among the collapsed houses around it.

But that's when she got close.

"Rumble..."

The building in front of him collapsed with a loud noise and dust.

"Sasha!! Mike!!!"

Looking at the collapsed house, the woman collapsed to the ground.

She reacted, roared heartbreakingly, and wanted to rush forward.

"Here, here!!"

At this time, a voice came from one side. She turned her head sharply and saw a man wearing only a pair of underpants holding his six-year-old daughter and running towards her in slippers.

Seeing that they were still alive, the woman immediately softened, but when she was about to fall, Mike quickly stepped forward and hugged her. .

They hugged each other tightly. At this moment, they no longer cared about the collapse of the house. As long as their families were safe, everything was lucky.

After briefly recovering their emotions, they looked around and saw that several buildings in their area alone had been collapsed. The earthquake they had just experienced was like a nightmare, both in terms of its suddenness and intensity.

The panicked crowd seemed to gradually calm down, but some cries could still be heard.

A father was digging into the ruins. His palms were bleeding from the wood thorns and rubble scratches, but even so, he still did not give up.

People who reacted quickly joined the rescue team.

"Ho~~~"

Their ears suddenly heard the cry of some kind of monster.

Mike, who was holding his child and wife, suddenly felt his hair stand on end. He was a wilderness survival expert and knew very much about wild animals.

But he had never heard the sound of such a creature.

For some reason, an inexplicable fear gradually spread into his heart. .

A group of strange-looking monsters landed on a collapsed building not far away.

Its body is like a dragon but small, with only two legs, claws and toes like a bird, scaly wings, and barbs on its tail. It is about four or five meters tall.

If a magician were here, they would recognize that this is a relatively famous sub-dragon species, a bipedal flying dragon.

They have very hard scales and sharp claws.

But their weapons are not their most special feature.

Wyverns are not very territorial, and they usually only fight back when the intruder seems to be easy to deal with——

But in fact, wyverns are notorious for their poor eyesight, and they often mistake their opponents for weak creatures.

For example, mistaking an angry horned eagle for some other weak thing.

However, the wyvern always manages to win those incredibly unwinnable battles.

Even if you can beat it, if your back is turned to a flying dragon.

That thing will also eat a big piece of you the moment it finds you, or just tear you into pieces and take it away!

Mike can confirm without hesitation that these creatures must not come from the earth, and even among the paleontological fossils discovered by humans, there has never been such a thing.

A middle-aged man nearby whispered, "What are they?"

The people around him didn't move, and they didn't even dare to make a sound.

It's not that they are slow to react, it's just that they don't dare to act rashly, including the Mike family.

These bipedal flying dragons didn't know whether they were observing the crowd or waiting for their companions, they were just shaking their heads.

Mycroft observed that their eyes were not focused, so he speculated that their eyesight may not be very good.

However, as time passed, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

Suddenly, the group of monsters on the ruins did not move, but a black shadow cut across the sky and directly knocked down a young man.

The barbed fangs bit his neck.

"Fuck!"

Blood spurted out, flew several meters high, and sprinkled directly on the ground.

Some blood drops even touched Mike's face.

The man's head was bitten off and rolled on the ground several times.

The woman directly covered her daughter's eyes, and her face was very pale.

There has been peace for so many years, but she has never seen such a scene before.

The monster's movements also seemed to stimulate the group of bipedal dragons on the ruins.

They flapped their wings and flew up, and also pounced on the remaining people around them.

"Ah...help..."

"Mom...Dad!"

"Woooo..."

"Die, die!"    ... There were all kinds of chaotic sounds, and there was blood and fleeing people everywhere.

"Run, run!"

Mike reacted from the warmth coming from the blood droplets on his face. He held his daughter in one hand and held his wife in the other hand to run away from here.

They didn't know where to run. All they knew was that they couldn't stay here.

Two cars passed by him at high speed. They must have stepped on the accelerator out of fear.

The more this happens, the more likely it is to make mistakes.

Sure enough, a car in front hit a rock, and one of the cars rolled over.

There was a "boom".

Another car was also affected, and the two sides collided and were thrown around on the road several times, and then...

boom! ! !

The car's fuel tank was ignited, and there was a deafening bang and thick smoke billowing into the sky.

The cars behind them slammed on their brakes and stopped amidst the screeching sound of tires.

The flames were burning brightly, and Mike could clearly see through the car window that the people inside were still alive and desperately calling for help, but the flames quickly engulfed them.

"dad…"

Mike's daughter Sasha clung to her father tightly, her body shaking.

"Sasha, don't look...don't look." Mike comforted his daughter.

He calmly pulled his wife and ran into an alley on one side.

Although many houses have collapsed, some are still there, but most of the surrounding houses are crumbling, so few people will run here.

Mike guessed that those monsters' eyesight was not very good. At this time, escaping from their sight range was the best option. Running on the road was just a target.

Some wise men followed them, and Mike recognized them as some of his neighbours.

However, their family members are no longer around, and they don’t know whether they are alive or dead.

They kept running, and the roars and screams of monsters and the sounds of vehicles colliding could be heard from all around.

From here they could even see the billowing smoke gradually rising in the distance.

They didn't know where was safe, so they could only keep running, but no matter where they ran, they could hear the roars of those monsters.

As Mike's physical strength gradually declined, the despair in his heart became stronger.

Could it be that the whole city is filled with monsters like this?

"Army, let's go find the army!" Shasha's mother seemed to have realized something and said quickly.

Of course Mike knew to find the army, but who knew where the military camp was.

They passed through an alley and came to an intersection at some point.

In the center of the intersection, there is a very tall statue. Joan of Arc holding a flag gun is standing on a two-meter-high stone looking at the street in front of her.

This Joan of Arc is not the Joan of Arc in the Hundred Years' War, but the general Joan of Arc who made a significant contribution to Western France in the World War decades ago.

After her death, people erected a statue of her here in memory of her.

The person who stood here in the past was a certain emperor of the West French Empire. People thought that since the West French Empire had been destroyed, naturally this feudal remnant could not be retained.

Mike was already in his teens at the time and had very clear memories of what happened at that time.

The city where he lived was located near the Battle of Verdun. This city suffered the most bombings and the most soldiers were recruited, so the most people died among all cities.

So when the news of her death came back, his parents even cried and told him that if it weren't for her, the entire West France would have been occupied by invaders.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The frontline war in West France before Joan of Arc showed her prominence was indeed very ugly, and it was entirely supported by human lives.

One of his uncles and another uncle also died on the battlefield.

It can be said that it was Joan of Arc who saved Harinid.

At this moment, Harinid suffered another disaster of blood and fire.

I just don't know if a "Joan of Arc" will appear to save the city this time.

"I hope Joan of Arc can protect us." Mike whispered softly.

Without any hesitation, he continued to pull his wife and ran in the direction where the flag gun of the statue of Joan of Arc was pointing.

They entered a street with few people on it. And I was lucky enough to see a Scarab taxi that crashed into the wall.

The driver was unconscious, but the taxi's engine was still on, so it should still be able to move.

Mike quickly stepped forward and pushed the driver to the passenger side, trying to take over the car.

But that's when he put his daughter in the back seat.

A black shadow roared and swooped down from the sky.

Mike felt as if his chest had been hit hard by a high-speed car, which made stars appear in his eyes.

But before he could react, he found a heavy object pressing on his body.

When his eyes gradually focused, he found a two-headed dragon pressing on him.

The flying dragon opened its mouth, and the mouth full of sharp teeth had several layers like a shark, which could easily tear his body apart.

There were even threads of meat hanging from its teeth, indicating that it had just killed a lot of people.

His wife was watching the scene in front of him in horror, and his daughter burst into tears.

She didn't know when she had a burst of strength, and she actually picked up a piece of wood that had fallen to the ground and rushed towards it.

"Get out of here!" She screamed in horror, hysterically.

"Lina! Don't come here!" Mike yelled.

But she did not stop her steps, and the wood hit the thigh of the bipedal dragon hard.

The giant bipedal dragon roared, opened its bloody mouth and bit Lucy.

Mycroft's eyes were filled with tears.

But at this moment, another figure suddenly bumped into him from the side.

"boom!"

The dragon was knocked directly into one side of the wall, making a big hole in the wall.

The impact was severe, causing spider web-like cracks on the wall, and the giant dragon kept vomiting blood, as if its internal organs were injured.

Mike came to his senses and found that the person who saved him was a large and scary stag.

I don’t know what kind of stag it is. Its whole body is exuding blue light, and the beautiful lines on its body look like creatures living in a fairyland.

At the same time, Mike also discovered that there was a woman sitting on the stag.

She has a golden braid hanging casually on the back of her head and wears simple women's clothing, but her aura is like that of a fairy living in a fairyland, drinking dew.

But for some reason, Mike felt that this face was inexplicably familiar.

It seems like I have seen it somewhere.

Suddenly, Mike seemed to realize something, and his pupils trembled slightly.

(End of this chapter)