Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 743 Is there no time left?

"Ah! Lingge, you are finally here. We have been waiting for you for so long!"

Alice, who was squatting on the roadside counting ants out of boredom, looked up and saw the figures of Lingge and Saint Xia Liya walking towards here from the small door in the back alley. She immediately shouted happily, and then approached them with a playful smile, completely ignoring the fact that her maid costume was already dirty with dust: "So, so, is it done? Can you return the cassette to me? It's my sweetheart, and I lent it to you for Xiao Xia's sake. I won't pay anyone else back if they ask me to return it!"

If Yieta were here, she would expose your lies.

Lingge was too lazy to talk nonsense with this guy, so he handed the cassette to her and asked, "How is the development progress of the new game?"

He is just like a ruthless supervisor in a black-hearted factory who is exploiting the working people.

But this time, Alice would not feel guilty. She proudly puffed out her chest and said smugly, "Of course, don't you see who I am? This is just a new game, which is a piece of cake for the genius player Ai-chan. I tell you, this game can definitely meet your needs. It doesn't require krypton gold, krypton life, or krypton face. It all depends on skills. As the saying goes, warriors have high critical strikes and their swords explode with fire. Mages have strong control and can kill everyone with frost. This is a brand new version that you haven't played before. Come and kill me if you are a brother..."

It felt like she was playing some outdated joke again. Ling'er's ears automatically filtered out this sentence and he nodded gently, "That's good."

"Dark Castle: Dawn Waltz" plus this new game should be enough to deal with various emergencies.

"But isn't the new cartridge not activated?" Nevile, dressed as a housekeeper, came over and asked. After joining the team for a while, she also learned all kinds of strange game terms: "What if Miss Gloria is not the young queen we are looking for?"

Neviel was still a little hesitant. She cast her eyes to Saint Chariah beside her. The shepherdess smiled with her lips pursed, her eyebrows curved, silently expressing her support for Linger. The Countess shrugged helplessly: "Well, I should have known this would be the result."

Ling Ge also said: "Although it has nothing to do with intuition, I also think that she is very likely to be the young queen. It's just that her queen is quite special, so I still need to confirm it."

"Confirm?" Nevile frowned. "How do you confirm? I remember that detective was very cautious and refused to touch Alice's cassette. Apart from this, do we have any other methods?"

"Impossible!" Alice categorically rejected this possibility: "She is definitely the young queen. Xiao Xia and I's intuition will not be wrong!"

"It won't be long." Ling'er's answer was brief, powerful and confident: "We will know when the party starts."

If there is anyone in the team who trusts Lingge unconditionally, it is probably Saint Xia Liya. Even Metien occasionally quarrels with his brother, such as the recent debate over whether to reopen Tianxin Church. The Countess heard it clearly in the room. It's just that she has a higher emotional intelligence and won't barge in like a certain Belmang princess.

She looked up at the sky. The dusk had completely disappeared. A huge, twisted cloud covered the sky above her head, plunging everything into darkness. The tidal night was spreading from the direction of Kenkwell Green, gradually submerging the border of Lunwitting. If you look down from a high place at this time, you will definitely see countless shining lights lighting up one by one along the banks of the Tywell River, just like countless glimmering jellyfish floating to the surface from the dark seabed, indicating that the city's nightlife has just begun.

Since the invention of the steam engine, the pollution and haze caused by industrial development have always troubled the residents of Lunwiting. An old man who has lived here for more than 30 years lamented that there is no star in the night sky now, but those stars have not disappeared, they have just moved to the ground. In this city of thousands of cities, the place where the stars shine the brightest is undoubtedly the Westminster area with famous landmarks such as the Crimea Palace, the St. Covenant Bell Tower, the National Grand Theater, the Grand House of Persilo Palace, the Roggeburg Building, the Inver Monument, and Trafalgar Square. The Xiaoliang Palace where the group is about to go is also among them. "It's almost time to set off." Neville said to everyone, "Don't forget, we still have to take a detour to pick up the detective lady. If we miss the party, I'm afraid it will be embarrassing for Professor Heinrich Schliemann."

Naturally, everyone agreed, so, including Rorona, all the people who were expected to participate in the operation boarded the carriage and sat down. Princess Umi was not originally selected for the operation because of her inconvenient legs, but who would have thought that her legs would suddenly be fine? In addition, she was more familiar with the use of those alchemical tools, so they finally decided to let her go. After all, the interior of the carriage was large enough, so it wouldn't matter if there was one more person.

After everyone was seated, Neville took the driver's seat. For confidentiality reasons, Ling did not choose to hire a professional driver (although Alice insisted that he just wanted to save money, but was soon silenced), so the only Countess who had driving experience could only condescend to play the driver's job.

As for why she has driving experience...

"In the Battle of Three Hills, when I commanded Neo's chariot army to charge those highland barbarians with stones in their heads, I always led the charge. The rhino horn warriors of Karasu once called me the 'fearless black-winged knight' because I directly broke through their proud rhino horn defense formation during a charge. Those guys only fear those who are stronger than themselves."

The Countess said so, her eyebrows raised up like swords, and the feeling of holding the whip made her regain the youthful enthusiasm of the past.

Lingge could only pray that the alchemical carriage would not fall apart before reaching Xiaoliang Palace.

……

Standing by the window of his office, Brother Mufasa silently watched the magnificent carriage drive away from the back alley. The creaking sound of the wheels rolling over the old stone slabs could be heard clearly here. After a short silence, he whispered, "Those outsiders seem to have their own ways. They have begun to integrate into the rules of operation of this city."

"I think this is a good thing." Sister Livia came in at some point. She gently placed a large pile of documents in her arms on the desk, and then said calmly, "At least what they did will not implicate us."

And what we do will not implicate them.

Brother Mufasa was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Has the road from the Star Sanctuary to Guardes City been opened?"

"Yes." Sister Livia nodded gently, but she was still a little hesitant about this matter: "Is it really necessary to be so anxious, Brother Mufasa? It is too hasty to act tonight. Our people are not ready yet, and the believers in the church have no time to evacuate. Whether they succeed or fail, they will face the threat of the Night Watchmen..."

"Because we don't have time to hesitate." Brother Mufasa interrupted her and said lightly: "The round table meeting of the united sects is about to be held. The guards of Lunweiting are becoming increasingly strict. They are turning the manuscripts of the saints into cold and ruthless research reports in unknown corners, which will eventually lead to our demise. We are not as crazy as the believers of the Holy Spirit Return Sect, but we cannot sit idly by and watch them desecrate the relics of the saints. As for the believers in the church, let them prepare to evacuate now. There is still time, because tonight, neither the Night Watch nor the Dragoon Regiment, nor the Winged Mobile Force above our heads, will have time to threaten us."

He stared at the end of the back alley, in the silent darkness, and murmured, "They will face a greater threat."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)