Embers of Embers

Chapter 124 Someone else
The wailing sounds twisted and twisted, weaving into a sad track in the icy cold wind.
The actions of Jiudun Ling were much faster than everyone imagined. After all, there was a royal area near the manor. Those well-armed guards were the most deterrent force. They were quickly dispatched under the order, but The order was not to attack the manor, but to block it. No one could enter and no one could come out.
The red cloak formed a scarlet defense line, and sophisticated weapons pointed at the burning manor.
The real executors tonight have arrived under the night with the roaring train. They avoid people's sight and fight in the shadows. The reaction force of the purification agency has arrived, and thermite rifles add fuel to the burning fire.
Heavy gunshots continued, and no one could figure out where so many monsters came from. Judging from the Peeper system, when such a large number of monsters appeared in Old Dunling, they should have discovered it immediately instead of waiting. They became alert after taking action.
What is even more alarming is the number of monsters. Although it is not as large as during the operation in Ende Town, from what they can observe now, there are still a steady stream of monsters appearing, and they have no idea where the monsters come from. Come.
Most of the survivors have been protected. In fact, they only hid in the houses and closed the doors. The soldiers outside were still advancing slowly, but the inside of the manor was still in chaos.
Under the dark night, there are bright lamp posts, and the shadow like a giant whale wanders behind the deep clouds, staring at the earth with its bright eyes.
Horner was walking in the burning castle. This man who looked like a wooden sculpture seemed to have gained the power of emotion at this moment, and his always stiff face showed a ferocious look.
"I'm doing pretty well, Tutor Lawrence."
Horner said softly, but no one answered him.
He looked around for a moment, and seemed to have just remembered that Teacher Lawrence was no longer with him. Tonight was a grand dance, and they all had their own dance partners.
But this is really a pity. This is the most perfect and glorious scene in Horner's life. He gave his best to perform on the stage, but no audience could see it.
There was disappointment in his eyes, but as the people wailed, he started running slowly as if he had gained some motivation.
This was the last one on the list. In fact, Horner didn't want to kill so many people, but this was the person requested by Lawrence's mentor. The mysterious mentor also hoped to get something in the chaos, but the two had different purposes.
Horner just wanted to kill the person who created the tragedy, the person who created the tragedy of Horner.
He is just an ordinary maintenance worker, and his goal every day is to eat and drink enough, but even so, someone still refuses to let him go, even though he doesn't even know that person.
The same was true for Horner's master, who was also a maintenance worker. He couldn't bear to see Horner wandering around, so he finally adopted him and taught him.
According to the plot of the story, the master was a good person, but he didn't have a good outcome. He died in the factory and fell into the furnace. Horner couldn't even collect his body. After all, it took one minute for the machine to stop working. A lot of money.
A fishy feeling rose up in his throat, and he stopped and retched vigorously. His vision was a little blurry, but he quickly adjusted himself, and all the pain was suppressed with force.
The trajectory of the flowing fire streaked through the air. It was a weapon that Horner had never seen before. The bullet burned violently and penetrated the steel and wooden boards, and finally burned a demon to death.
The soldiers of the purification agency broke through the gate of the manor, spread out and advanced skillfully, and shot every monster in sight.
Instructor Lawrence has told himself this, there is a strange power inside the old Dunling, and they must be it.
Horner had encountered those people in his previous revenge, and the weird armor was beyond his ability to resist.
He smiled silently, as if he felt that the world was complicated, or maybe it was something else. He shook his head and turned around.
Those things have nothing to do with him at the moment, his target is only one person.
……
"What are you doing? Hide now!"
At the basement door in the corner of the manor, Duke Salicardo yelled at Duke Phoenix.
This is a safe house. Although it is disguised as a basement, the sandwich between the wooden door is a thick steel plate with life-sustaining supplies inside. I don’t know what the Duke has gone through to actually arrange such a thing in his home. thing.
Arthur gave him a disgusted look, then continued to reload his revolver.
Under Lorenzo's reminder, he left the ball and returned to the carriage, but this was not an escape, but a counterattack. As the Duke of a military family, Arthur was far more vicious than the Duke of Salicardo. After notifying the clean-up agency, he removed the revolver in the car and returned to the ball.
Arthur's target is Duke Salicardo. As Lorenzo said, the most valuable thing in this ball is the Dukes. Arthur himself is not worried. As the head of the purification agency, he is better than anyone else. It was even scarier than he could have imagined, so he returned with his gun to protect the rest of the dukes.
But except for the frightened Duke Salicardo, Seliu has disappeared. Although Arthur is also concerned about the girl who is about the same age as Eve, he can only protect Duke Salicardo first. .
I saw the normally smiling Duke suddenly change his attitude and carve out a path of blood with a revolver. His marksmanship was superb. Every shot was fired when the demon was infinitely close to him. At close range, those fleshy heads were Burst one by one.
"I still have to protect others, so you can hide here first."
Arthur stood at the door, looking like he didn't want to hide in this basement.
"You have to protect me, their target is me!"
Duke Salicardo screamed like crazy. The businessman looked really scared. After all, no amount of wealth can buy life.
"The target is you?"
Arthur asked with confusion as he looked into the basement suspiciously.
"Why do you think someone is coming to kill you?"
A group of monsters were exposed in Jiu Dun Ling just to kill him?Putting aside whether Duke Salicardo knew about monsters, why did he believe that the twisted monster came for him.
"It's the survivors! It must be the survivors!"
he screamed, his voice high.
"Damn!"
Arthur couldn't stand the man's scream anymore. He pulled the trigger, and the loud gunshot finally stopped Salicardo's wailing.
Apparently the poor Duke Salicardo has been affected by the demon's erosion and has fallen into a huge panic, and his condition is still getting worse.
Seeing his miserable state, Arthur couldn't help but feel troubled.
He has seen many such people. The purge agencies always find many survivors in their operations against demons, but most of them are corrupted and unable to communicate at all. In the end, they can only be sent to a mental sanatorium, hoping that one day these lunatics can Come over normally.
The biggest difficulty in the battle between humans and demons is the strange erosion. It is like a torrent of fear hitting the spiritual dam. Once the dam breaks, humans will fall into fear and madness. This is also the reason why there is so little knowledge about demons.
Many scholars who knew about demons eventually died of their own madness, so the knowledge disappeared from generation to generation. Even if there are books left, most of them are not things that ordinary people can read.
"Calm down, Duke Salicardo, if you want to survive, make things clear!"
Arthur forced Duke Salicardo to calm down. He was a shrewd businessman. If this guy went crazy, it would have an impact on the economic situation of Old Dunling.
Many people can die tonight, but Salicardo cannot die. Everyone else can be easily replaced, but he cannot.
Duke Salicardo has countless properties in his name. Once something happens to him, it will inevitably cause another dispute in Old Dunling.
"It's the remnant, the remnant."
Salikado tried to calm his breathing as much as possible, the erosion worked in his mind, he could not see countless cheeks flashing in front of his eyes, roaring at him.
"what happened!"
"I...I hired them...as you know, the survivors are very cheap and can be exploited at will, but recently a small group has appeared within them."
Salicardo thought about the letters he received.
"They need fair treatment. You also know how this is possible. Then he said he would come to kill me, so I just treated it as a threatening letter. You also know that people like me will receive many threatening letters..."
"Yes, but out of all the threatening letters, you only believe this one?"
Arthur said fiercely.
"It's already here, and you're still hiding something from me."
Duke Salicardo looked sad, but then pointed behind Arthur as if he saw something terrifying.
"It...it!"
Arthur let go of Salicardo. For a moment, wind surged in the basement. The demon found him and slashed down with its sharp claws.
It is difficult for ordinary people to avoid it, but Arthur's actions are faster than ordinary people. He turned around quickly to avoid the attack, and then put the muzzle of the gun on the demon's chest, pulled the trigger, and the bullet penetrated the chest, spurting blood. The wall behind was dyed red.
The demon still tried to attack, but Arthur swung a heavy fist and collided with the scarlet arm, making the sound of broken bones. But it was not Arthur who was injured, but the demon. The whole arm was bent strangely. Then the muzzle of the gun pressed against its lower jaw, and the entire head exploded in the next second.
The demon's body continued to talk weakly, and the blood almost dyed Arthur red. He turned around like a demon, and Duke Salicardo's eyes were full of fear.
"Duke Salicardo, to be honest, you are in big trouble."
Arthur reloaded the bullet chamber, his voice seemed very calm, but overall he sounded like the God of Death calling for death.
……
An elbow knocked Duke Salicardo unconscious, and then Arthur locked him in the basement. Standing in the empty manor, facing the burning world, he lit a cigarette tiredly. .
"I have made a new discovery. These monsters are from Duke Liccardo of Penza. Many remnants died in his factory. With the power of the Duke, no one knew about these things. Before, the remnants' group carried out an attack on him. I have been assassinated several times, but today it is a demon who comes to assassinate me.”
"Remnant? Are you the one who guides the Ministry?"
Lan Jade's voice sounded on the channel. She was on duty at the central monitoring station today.
"Yes, unfair treatment will only breed conflicts. We thought that the armed forces of the remnants would be able to cause trouble in the south, but obviously they didn't know how to get involved with the monsters."
"sure?"
Lan Jade's voice sounded a bit unbelievable.
"It's not clear yet, but it should be almost the same. If Duke Salicardo is right, these monsters are here to kill him."
As Arthur said, he raised the muzzle of his gun, and killed a monster that was trying to approach with one blow.
"We have always suspected that the armed forces of those remnants originated from Gaul Naluo. Our centuries-old enemy still refuses to live in peace, but I did not expect that there would be shadows of demons here."
The remnants of Gaul Nalo have become a serious social problem in Inverge in recent years, and they have recently formed an armed group, causing chaos everywhere like terrorists. It seems that they are just fighting in a small way. It must be Gaul Naluo behind the White Tide Strait who came to their aid.
Unexpectedly, their activities extended to Old Dunling and were related to demons.
Low-quality secret blood, armed groups, and the impact on the nobles.
Arthur smoked the last of the tobacco vigorously and threw the cigarette butt on the ground.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered that Eve was still in this ghost place, and he had a splitting headache.
Trouble comes one after another...
Arthur's breathing suddenly stopped, and a dark shadow passed before his eyes, and then sharp claws penetrated his abdomen. That ghost thing was really terrifying, and it launched an attack at the moment when Arthur was most relaxed.
"So you're the one who came to kill him?"
Arthur's eyes were cold, his abdomen was obviously injured, but he asked fiercely like a normal person.
Horner did not speak, his body had been completely demonized, his bones were twisted and growing, his face retained a vague human shape, his eyes were hollow and dull, burning with fire.
It was a pair of vengeful eyes that completely dominated that empty soul.
This kind of person will not be the decision maker behind the scenes, he is just a poor ghost driven by people.
Arthur smiled, and he saw this man clearly for a moment.
"Blue Jade, Salicardo is not their target. The real target is someone else."
Whether it's the burning castle or the surging demons, none of this has anything to do with Horner, he is just a lonely avenger.
Everything here does not belong to him, so wouldn't it be a waste to create such a prosperous world for one person's revenge? Whether it is the invasion of demons or Horner's revenge, it is just a cover-up to cover up the real purpose. This poor soul It was an outcast from the beginning, used to attract all attention.
Arthur clenched the sharp claw, and slowly pulled out the sharp claw from his abdomen with strong force. Horner tried to suppress it, but it found that his strength could not suppress Arthur at all.
"how is this possible……"
He could barely make a distinguishable sound from his throat. Horner never thought that a mortal would have such power.
"Young people, there are still many things you don't know."
Arthur opened the sharp claw and trapped it like iron pliers. Then he smashed down hard with his other hand, breaking Horner's sharp claw abruptly. Blood and bone fragments flew everywhere, and Arthur was there. It stands like steel.This visual experience is much more exciting than gunfire.
Strange power covered this mortal body, and the power that had been dormant for a long time became active again.
In fact, many times, people in the purification agency will forget one thing. Before they got the armor technology, what did the purification agency rely on to fight against demons?
Arthur picked up the broken claw with his backhand and stabbed Horner like a sword.
(End of this chapter)