Black sail

Chapter 52 LII. Showers
Linden City, Dream Blue Hotel.

Zahak's mood fluctuated like a roller coaster throughout the afternoon.

Around two o'clock.

The military police who went to a secret port lost contact, and the senior non-commissioned officer sent to check later did not reply.

At 03:30, the news was received.

Edmund has captured Gloria and the target, and will soon come to Linden City to join forces and return to the imperial capital.

And now.

Caruso and Claude killed dozens of gendarmes, but two of them had their morale broken and escaped. They used the falcons raised by the gendarmes to report that Edmund was alive or dead, and that the target might reach the coast through Lavender Town.

It was almost nightfall now, and if Edmund had brought people over quickly in the first place, they would have arrived long ago.

There is only one possibility.

"Edmund...that kind of man is actually dead."

The 300-meter-tall leopard man couldn't believe it. He knew that he had come to work, and he carried a huge knife weighing more than [-] kilograms. It sounded like he was going to intercept it on the road in Lavender Town.

"Only I did it myself."

Zahak spoke calmly, he had already laid a net, the official port of Linden City was airtight, and the rest of the secret ports were also patrolled.

Thinking of the team of military police who lost contact at noon, Zahak had an idea.

"Now go to the Admiral's house and ask the Admiral to send troops to the main road of Lavender Town. It is said that it is the command of the commander of the Imperial Military Police. Due to legal constraints, he will second some troops here."

With a cold expression on his face, Zahak stood up and ordered the Ys girl.

Although many of the siege soldiers stationed here are just related households who brushed their resumes, they also have their own elites.

All methods will lead to the same goal in the end, even in internal politics, we also pay attention to a long-distance and short-term attack.

In the same organization, every colleague at the same level is an enemy, a competitor who hinders him from climbing to the highest position in the current organization.

On the other hand, people in other agencies have to form a group and unite with each other to deal with competitors in friendly departments. Often the people under your command are not all your own people, and the people who stuff each other into friendly agencies are the most capable. trustworthy.

Only in this way can they operate flexibly in the imperial court, and the iron barrels can slowly erode the upper-level power and continuously consolidate it.

However, almost everyone with skill would do this, leading to murderous plots within the imperial court.

Zahak must take care of the people brought in by his political allies and let them brush up their resumes. Of course, he must also fight tough battles. He has about two hundred highly qualified soldiers here.

"It's urgent, let's set out immediately."

Zahak immediately set off and took the Leopard Man with him. Although this Leopard Man only had the rank of colonel, but because he had no military merit, his actual level was not much worse than Edmund.

After quick preparations, Zahak led the gendarmerie team out on the street. Along the way, the people of Linden City cast hostile glances. They felt uncomfortable with foreigners running rampant in their homeland, and they dared not speak out in anger.

10 minute later.

It's almost night on the coast, and the winter monsoon is extremely biting.

At the fork of the main road eight miles outside Linden City, there are many trees and weeds swaying in the wind, which is chilling.

The mighty 200-person team all held torches, illuminating everything within a few hundred meters.

From here, you can take a branch road to Lavender Town and another town, or you can take a rammed earth path deep in another branch road to go to a secret port patrolled by the missing team at noon.

When Zahak arrived here with his troops.

The patrolling gendarmes here have all been killed, and the death conditions of more than a dozen corpses are horrible. It seems that someone is proficient in dissection skills. The ulna and radius bones of the arms of several corpses were split from the middle. The part also looks like a piece of ribs hanging on a hook in a butcher shop. The blood has been drained out very well, leaving only fresh meat, which is extremely weird and unheard of.

The rest were disemboweled alive, with claw marks on their corpses, as if they had been killed by ferocious beasts.

"It's kind of creepy, fuck me."

A gust of wind blew, the torch flickered, and the leopard man couldn't help complaining that this ghostly place on the east bank is really evil.

"It's the person who responded to Carloso and the others. He has some skills."

Zahak looked at the side road leading to the sea cliff cave more than ten miles away, and seemed to remember something. Marcus actually...has some kind of supernatural power?The location of that place is impressively the direction where the bloody hand stretched out under the "Petition Umbrella" tree.

Zahak had already made up his mind. He and his group were going to intercept Caruso and the others. Marcus was naturally stationed here. To be on the safe side, he sent 100 people to the secret port for support. Among them were several senior non-commissioned officers who could become established.

From now on, the troops will be divided into two groups.

The news said that Gloria and the target were caught, but they must have been rescued by the responders. Zahak led the remaining people to continue to Lavender Town to intercept people.

At this moment.

Secret Harbor.

Micah woke up Fern, whose thoughts were flying, and the people Archer brought back came back with two reports, saying that there were a group of priests in heavy armor and a giant five meters tall coming here.

"Damn."

Woerman never expected that the person he was facing was actually a bewildered man from the Holy See.

Fen also didn't intend to use her spirit body to support the other two routes, and the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. It seemed that there was also something wrong with Li Si Te, those people actually locked up Secret Harbor, and concluded that this ship was the one to take over.

"Uncle, I like killing church members the most."

Haywood mimicked Wollman's words.

"Don't worry, I have this thing in my hand."

Fen took out a sack from his bosom, which contained the fragments of the underworld stele with the magic sealing stone. Although he had never tried it before, he did not dare to try it lightly. Spiritual arts, unless the person on the other side is the high priest of the Eternal Sect, he is not an opponent.

Micah was in awe. This warlock was obviously super powerful but too cautious and too stable.

at the same time.

the other side.

Zahak has already marched a certain distance on the main road to Lavender Town.

This road was built along the coast and gradually penetrated inland. At this time, the air was a bit muggy and a heavy rain was about to fall. Thick clouds covered the celestial bodies in the starry sky, and the visibility was so low that it seemed like it was midnight.

At this time, screams came from the troops in front of the longitudinal line.

Zahak immediately ordered the advance to stop.

"what happened?"

Zahak came to the front on horseback, and saw a horse on the ground disemboweled and its contents sprayed all over the ground. The throat of the soldier riding on the horse was also scratched. He wasn't dead yet, but spewed blood intermittently. He is already on the verge of death and cannot be saved.

"I didn't see it clearly. A black shadow rushed over and disappeared again. It looked like a giant wolf."

The soldier who was questioned was frightened by the scene just now, and his speech was a little awkward.

"What a giant wolf... it must be a werewolf from the western plateau."

The leopard man also came to the front, probably one of the murderers who killed the patrolling gendarmes just now.

The black shadow suddenly came out of the forest again.

Ren kept the strategy in mind, killed the small players directly, and dragged the big fish as long as he could. If he couldn't buy time, he joined the main force of Morrison and Oakes.

Rennes didn't have such good luck this time.

Zahak was right in front of the troops, he drew his sword and slashed in an instant, and the blood-red sword aura roared like a dragon.

Ren stretched out his arm armor to block, and his elbow joint was almost dislocated due to the shock. There was also a scratch on the steel arm armor.

"You are the apprentice of the Sword King of Alan, right?"

Ren didn't dare to wait for a long time. Compared with himself, the foot strength of human beings was vastly different. No matter how strong Zahak was, he couldn't catch up with him when he ran into the woods.

He whistled and ambushed a dozen pirates behind the army, not for killing people, but just to harass and weaken the force.

These pirates killed the few people in the rear and then rushed into the woods.

Wren himself gallops down the road on all fours, and it's time for the real macho to do the killing.

"Chase."

Zahak understood that the situation had now become a life-and-death battle of annihilation.

(End of this chapter)