Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 773 Is this the end?

After getting rid of the enemy, the countess quickly flew back to the driver's seat and regained control of the carriage's pace. Although the two white horses pulling the carriage had much more endurance and speed than ordinary horses, they were alchemical products after all and still needed someone to use them to achieve the greatest effect. Therefore, after the countess took over, the passengers in the carriage immediately felt that the carriage was moving faster and more stable, with almost no bumps. If it weren't for the previous experience of falling all over the place, they would have mistakenly thought that they were actually running on an endless field, rather than running for their lives in the streets and alleys of the city late at night.

The magic armored car that had been chasing them was now blocked by the alchemical ancient tree summoned by Lingge, and fell far behind, looking like it could no longer catch up. Seeing this, Alice couldn't help but feel proud, and even stuck her head out of the car window and made a face at them. Although the other party couldn't see her face because of the fog wall, Alice was still refreshed, thinking that the debt she had been chased so badly before was finally paid back, and she completely forgot how she had just hugged Lorena's thigh and cried.

Lingge couldn't stand this guy's shameless behavior, so he reminded him: "Don't be too happy too soon, we are not out of danger yet."

The carriage had just left the residential area, and they still had to pass through the public area and the Indorsis Bridge to enter the outer blocks with more complex terrain and dense population. By then, they could abandon the carriage and escape through the intricate abandoned passages throughout the underground world of Lunwitin. Only in this way would they be completely safe.

"Oh, Lingge, you are too cautious. They are so far behind us, how can they catch up with us?" Alice waved her hand nonchalantly, then turned to look at Lorena and said with a grin, "And even if they catch up with us, so what? We still have Lorena's magic props. By the way, Lorena, if you need props next time, let me do it. Lingge's level is not that good, and I am the master of the game..."

Rorona shook her head, and Olvera poked her head out from behind her, blinked her eyes and translated, "Rorona said no, because she has used up all the tools she made."

"Eh? Why is that?!"

Alice was very disappointed and seriously suspected that Rorona was hiding something. She was about to continue pestering her, but at this time, the countess's calm voice came from outside the carriage: "I think Lingge is right. I'm afraid this matter won't end so easily."

What do you mean?
Could it be that those silver mad dogs really caught up with us?

Once people see hope in a desperate situation, they will burst out with even more powerful strength, and so does Nevi. She didn't know if it was her illusion or if it was true. Anyway, after the shadow of the Indorsis Bridge appeared, the speed of the carriage seemed to have increased a lot. The white horse pulling the carriage exceeded its limit. The clattering sound of the horse's hooves trampled on the stone bricks of the street, as rapid as drumbeats, and as dense as a torrential rain, even bullets couldn't catch up. Often, the gushing blue flames followed after the carriage passed, leaving countless ugly craters on the road.

Everyone in the carriage was stunned for a moment, but Lingge was the fastest to react. He immediately leaned out of the window and looked out, and saw a deep night. At this time, the carriage had left the residential area and was speeding on the central avenue in the public area. On the left side of the central avenue were rows of shops and public buildings, and on the right side, where Lingge was looking, was the famous Trafalgar Square. This was a place where citizens were keen to gather, make noise, walk and have fun. It was very lively even at night, but at this time, the young man could not see even a single passerby. The light of the street lamps had gone out at some point, and only rows of dark plane trees outlined a dark outline in the night.

The magic armored vehicle rumbled past, and Wade Locke's words were torn to pieces in the wind. He retracted his gaze and shook his head slightly: He didn't know whether the soldier heard his words clearly.

A dozen pitch-black magic armored vehicles came speeding from the direction of Trafalgar Square. With the roar of their magic engines, they jumped over the plane trees on the roadside one after another and drove onto the central avenue. Then they all turned around and chased after the carriages. At the same time, the sides and top decks of the armored vehicles were opened outwards, and six silver-white magic machine guns adjusted their positions at the same time, aiming their dark and cold muzzles at the enemy in front.

If this is true, then their loss is not unfair.

When Lingge saw this scene, alarm bells immediately rang in his heart. He withdrew his gaze without hesitation. The next moment, he heard a burst of intensive artillery fire coming from outside the car. Bullets were bathing the road like a storm, leaving countless large and small potholes on the Central Avenue, which was completed twelve years ago and is still intact. Citizens passing by here tomorrow will definitely be surprised, because there is not even a complete place on the road surface, and it has been almost beaten into a sieve.

Although the timing was not right, the Countess could not help but have similar thoughts in her mind, but she quickly put this thought behind her because a bridge suddenly appeared in her sight. The towering bridge pillars and towers stood like a giant in the dark night, which suddenly made her spirits rise: That is the Indorsis Bridge. As long as she crossed the bridge, the possibility of escape would be greatly increased. In such a short time, it is impossible for the united cult to cover every block in the city of Renwitin, right?

The scene was so strange that it made people shudder. The young man's pupils suddenly shrank. He saw countless dazzling white lights in the darkness, piercing his eyes like fog lights. Then came the rumbling sound of the giant beasts rolling over the bricks. The whole square seemed to be shaking. In the diffuse night, huge shadows suddenly emerged and suddenly broke into the battlefield from the blind spot of vision. When those heavy outlines emerged from the darkness one after another, Ling Ge could see their appearance clearly: they were rumbling magic armored vehicles, but unlike the magic armored vehicles driven by the silver mad dogs just now, these magic armored vehicles in front of him were all black, almost blending into the night. Not only were they larger in size, but they also looked more advanced.

“It’s already speeding up!”

Bullets also hit the carriage, making a harsh sound, and the golden red flames that splashed out were almost enough to melt steel. The carriage was shaking again, and the violent shaking made the passengers unstable. Alice, who was entangled with Rorona, was caught off guard and hit the wall again, covering her forehead and screaming. But Linger didn't care about these anymore. He stepped forward and shouted to the countess who was driving: "Never, speed up!"

Nevi clenched her teeth, shook the reins and whipped the two white horses, trying to make them speed up, but to little avail. Although alchemical items are magical, they have their limits after all. It is impossible to be like Yieta's cloud whale, which can cross a distance of hundreds of kilometers in an instant as long as it wants. Indeed, it would be great if Yieta's cloud whale was here. There would be no need to escape. Relying on its towering body like an island, it would be enough to ignore any interference.

After the carriage passed the checkpoint, the Night Watch's magic armored vehicles followed suit, rumbling past the dazed soldiers. When these heavy tanks boarded the bridge, it seemed that the entire Indorsis Bridge trembled, and circles of eye-catching ripples emerged on the dark Tywell River. Soon after, the A-1152 Arbitration Team, which had finally solved the two ancient alchemical trees, also caught up. When Aegir drove a magic armored vehicle two models behind the Night Watch through the checkpoint, Wade Locke on the roof of the car saw the soldiers guarding the checkpoint in a daze, and gave a friendly reminder: "The Superintendent of the Renwittin City Police and the Folklore Countermeasures Bureau of the Ministry of Religion are jointly handling the case. This matter has nothing to do with you, soldier, return to your post."

The wind blew in her face, whistling, lifting the countess's snow-white hair and making it flutter like a flag. The lightning speed reminded the countess of her experiences in her youth. She seemed to be in the same mood when she took the lead in the Battle of Three Hills and led the chariot troops to directly break through the rhino horn defense formation of the Karasu people.
The checkpoint at the Indorsis Bridge was within reach. The soldier guarding the checkpoint did not expect that there would be carriages passing through so late at night. He lazily walked out of the hut where he was staying and stretched out his hand to stop the carriage to collect the toll for crossing the bridge. However, the roar of artillery fire instantly woke him up. He opened his eyes in disbelief, probably wondering if he was still dreaming. The countess did not even look at him, and drove the carriage past him, directly smashing the wooden door in front of the checkpoint used to block pedestrians and carriages, and stepped onto the deck of the Indorsis Bridge.

But it doesn’t matter. Hunting down the enemy is more important now.

No one knew what they had done, but not only did Her Majesty the Queen personally order their arrest, but even the Night's Watch was alarmed and arrived in time to provide support.

Was it Professor Heinrich's instruction?
Wade Locke was deep in thought when he suddenly heard the sound of propellers overhead. He looked up subconsciously, his pupils shrank, and he felt extremely surprised: How come even these two troops were alarmed? This didn't seem like a troop that could be mobilized with the personal permission of Her Majesty the Queen and Professor Heinrich?
What on earth had those guys done wrong?

…Although the constant roar of artillery fire behind her was piercing, Nevill still caught the sound from above her head. It was the clamor of propellers, tearing apart the thick clouds like a spinning blade, as if splitting apart a dark land. She subconsciously looked up, and her pupils shrank like those of Wade Locke, whom she had never met. In her sight, the dark clouds covering the sky above the Indorsis Bridge were dispersing, and a number of silver-white airships were descending from the gap between the clouds and the sky. The slender and graceful ship bodies were like whales swimming in the depths of the ocean, releasing beams of strong light like searchlights from their huge eyes. The incandescent beams of light came from all directions, and in an instant, the Indorsis Bridge and the Tywell River below were illuminated as bright as day. The desperate carriage naturally could not escape the gaze from above, and was completely exposed to the enemy's vision.

The heavy armor plate of the suspended cabin under the airship slowly opened to the outside, and a number of magic cannons with a cold metallic sheen poked out from them. The caliber of each magic cannon was the size of an adult's palm. The dark gaze made the countess's scalp numb: unlike the continuous magic machine guns of the magic armored vehicles, magic cannons of this caliber were enough to threaten the lives of demigods. In the dark period of the Metosh Empire, countless powerful aliens were drowned in dense artillery fire and never opened their eyes again. That was also the first time that the rigid and corrupt imperial nobles understood the meaning of "saturation bombing", but at the cost of their lives.

Although the Indorsis Bridge was extremely strong, it could not withstand the bombardment of so many magic cannons. Could it be that the cult union had gone so crazy that it would rather destroy the bridge than destroy them? An elephant would dig three feet into the ground to crush an insignificant ant? These witches and their members were really not normal people!

Nevi cursed inwardly, but the threat from the sky was far more than that: from the deck of the airship, the sound of metal colliding continuously came, like a symphony of steel, crisp and pleasant. Then, countless blue light spots fell from the airship, blinking in the dark like signal lights, but they were not light spots, but the death birds that relied on the "gravity traction plug-in" to get rid of the shackles of gravity and fly freely in the sky. They were the solid defense line of the capital's airspace, and they had always protected the sky above 3,000 meters in the urban area of ​​​​Lunweiting, not allowing any enemy to take advantage of it. But tonight, in order to deal with a few thieves who stole data, they were transferred to the urban area to assist the night watch troops in interception operations, which was really a bit of a waste of talent.

The commander of this unit did not understand the significance of this action, but because the order came from the omnipotent leader, he carried it out without hesitation, because all members of the association knew that the leader would never do anything unnecessary. If you think it is unnecessary, it is only because you don't see it deeply enough.

Maybe there is something special about these thieves?
He looked down at the Indorsis Bridge from the transparent glass porthole. Under the illumination of numerous searchlights, the carriage was rushing towards the other side of the bridge at an alarming speed. It seemed that the people in the carriage had not given up hope and were still trying to find a chance to escape. However, this was impossible. The encirclement had been formed. Not only the carriage, but even a speck of dust could not escape.

He calmly gave the order: "Warn the Death Bird Unit, cooperate with the ground forces to block the enemy's escape route; the artillery units are free to fire, but mainly focus on harassment and interception. There are important targets on the carriage, so try not to hurt the enemy's lives; one minute later, the magic engine will enter half-power operation, open the No. 1, No. 3 and No. 6 steam exhaust valves, and prepare to deploy the second group of combat units."

Then, he pressed the start button on the remote communication stand next to him and said softly, "This is the commander's letter from the wing suit mobile force. We have arrived at the target combat area and are carrying out the interception mission. Report completed."

……

The sound of artillery fire from behind and above became more and more intense, sweeping across the bridge deck of Indorsis Bridge without stopping, leaving scars on the concrete bridge. The carriage rushed through the artillery fire and was also scarred when passing through the flashing blue light net, and it was almost impossible to see the original splendor and exquisiteness. The blue light spots in the sky fell down one after another. It was the Death Bird troops who were surrounding the airspace near Indorsis Bridge. Once their blockade line was formed, it would be even more difficult for the carriage to leave. For this reason, Nevile had to grit her teeth and try to ignore the artillery fire from all directions that seemed to never stop, urging the white horse pulling the carriage to speed up again and rush to the other side of the bridge.

In the battlefield where dense bullets and beams of light intertwined, the small carriage was like a small boat in a storm, bumping and swaying, and it could be submerged at any time, but Nevill managed to maintain its balance. She used blood magic to resist the bombardment of artillery fire, and at the same time drove the carriage across the bridge full of pits, rushing towards the end regardless of anything. The outline of the Nemesis Church appeared in her sight, and she was immediately refreshed: this meant that they were close to the end of the checkpoint, as long as they could buy another five minutes, no, maybe three minutes would be enough...

The countess's gaze suddenly froze.

In the dim night, under the heavy and solemn dome of the Nemesis Church, a row of silver-white knight-shaped mechanical soldiers stood silently. The more than four-meter-tall machines gave people a silent sense of oppression in the dark. It was unclear how many of them there were, but they were arranged in three columns, almost occupying the entire bridge surface, leaving no room for escape. The two rear rows of mechanical soldiers have switched to a turret-style gun mode, with their cold steel foot armor and shield-shaped protective device on the back spread out to the sides. The complex internal mechanical structure forms a stable support frame, and the dual combat mechanical arms are combined into one, allowing the two dual-resonance magic cannons on the shoulders to slowly sink and be mounted on the turret, pointing the cold muzzle at the enemy in front of them; the mechanical soldiers in the front row used their dual mechanical arms to set up a deformable mechanical tower shield, with the wedge structure at the end deeply embedded in the ground, firmly aimed at the direction where the carriage is galloping, like an entire steel wall that is insurmountable. If they crash into it head-on, they will probably be smashed to pieces on the spot, right?

Of course, Nevile didn't want to be smashed into pieces, so she quickly pulled the reins and stopped the carriage at the cost of a violent shaking of the carriage. The high-speed friction of the wheels splashed out golden-red sparks and left two black ruts on the bridge.

At the end of the mecha formation, a woman with long snow-white hair, wearing a military uniform and a cool temperament watched the scene silently, raised the emergency communication device in her hand, and said lightly: "This is Yelena, the commander of the 13th Mobile Battalion of the Crusader Army Mecha Division. We have arrived at the target combat area and are carrying out the interception mission. Report completed."

……

The road ahead was blocked, and the airships and death birds of the wingsuit mobile force were intercepting them. Nevill gritted her teeth, whipped the horse whip, turned the car around and rushed towards the railing of the bridge. At this point, the only way to survive was the Tywell River. Although falling into the water from this height was scary, it shouldn't kill me, right?

Because this decision had not been discussed with her companions in advance, Nevile could only pray in her heart that Lingge and the others could swim and not be choked to death by the water. But soon she didn't need to do this, because the carriage had just rushed to a place not far from the edge of the bridge. Before Nevile had time to let the white horse pulling the carriage jump over the railing, she saw with her naked eyes that on the river surface, which was illuminated by the searchlight as bright as day, steam-driven steel ships were patrolling on the river surface, blocking any suspicious waters. At the same time, huge, dark blue crystal walls slowly rose along both sides of the river, quickly swallowing up those jellyfish-like dim lights, and the crystal walls passed through the two sides of the Indorsis Bridge, slowly but quickly extending, and finally linked to each other overhead, forming a semicircular blockade.

Nevill fell silent for a moment: the cult's combined "ether optical stance" and "magic blocking stance".

In a steamboat on the river, a blond, green-eyed, cheerful young man picked up the communication device beside him and said with a smile, "This is Edward, the commander of the Night Watch in Renwittin City. We have blocked the waters on both sides of the Indorsis Bridge and are carrying out patrol missions. Report completed."

……

"Oh haha."

Alice murmured in the carriage: "It seems that this is the end?"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)