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  Chapter 469 Dead City

  After learning that there was an accident in Wangcheng, Duanmu Huai took a few people on the Valkyrie gunboat and flew directly towards Wangcheng—it was too slow to send people to investigate, so he might as well go and see for himself.

  However, when the group of people reached the sky above the royal city, the scene in front of them really shocked them.

  I saw that the entire royal city was dead silent at the moment, and there was no sign of human habitation at all. There was black smoke everywhere, and many buildings had even collapsed, looking like ruins!

   "This... what's going on? Is it the invasion of the demons???"

   Rolex asked in surprise, while Kriolev shook his head.

"The situation is not right. Look carefully. If it is a foreign enemy's invasion, then the outer area should suffer the most damage. But look here, here and here... It is obvious that the enemy launched an attack from the center...so we should consider yes……"

   "That can't explain anything."

  Hearing this, Kanami said something silently.

   "At the beginning, Prince Barton of Herman teamed up with the demons and suddenly appeared in the royal city of Lisas through the portal, which made us unable to make effective resistance..."

  “………”

  Kriolev had nothing to say.

  Indeed, Lisa is a lesson learned from the past, you insist that you are not a demon...

   "Huh? This is interesting."

  However, when the cabin fell into awkward silence and silence, Duanmuhuai's voice suddenly sounded.

   "What's wrong? Your lord judge?"

   "I scanned the entire city with a divination instrument, and found that there are basically no signs of life in Wangcheng."

"Why?"

  Hearing this, Kanami and the others couldn't help being taken aback.

"What does it mean?"

   "To put it simply, there are not many living people in this city."

   Duanmu Huai spread his hands.

   "If I were to be more precise, there are probably only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... a total of seventeen living people left in this city."

"How can this be!"

   Hearing this, both Kriolev and Rolex were stunned.

   "There are hundreds of thousands of residents in the city, where have all those people gone?"

   "Maybe ran away, maybe... died?"

   "The Council... What did Steeser do..."

   "We don't know, but I think someone here must."

  While speaking, Duanmuhuai opened the holographic map, projecting the entire royal city, and then he stretched out his hand, pointing to a few small light spots here.

"These are the signs of life response. As far as we can see, there are about twelve or three signs of life in the castle. The rest are scattered around, and there are a few underground waterways below. They may be survivors. Maybe it's someone... but it doesn't matter, as long as we find them and arrest them and ask them, we will know what's going on."

   Having said this, Duanmu Huai turned his head and looked at Kanami and Suzume.

   "Leave it to you guys, no problem."

"I see."

  Kanami nodded with a serious expression, while Suzume smiled.

   Soon, the Valkyrie gunboat circled and descended in the air, and then hovered over a square. Suzume and Kanami then slid down the rope and started to move.

   "This is really..."

  Although she saw the dilapidated scene of the royal city from the air, Kanami was still quite shocked when she was in it and looked at the dilapidated statues and houses.

  However, compared to Kanami's shock, Suzume looked a little puzzled. She looked left and right, showing a strange expression.

"really weird………"

"strangeness?"

   "That's right, Kanami, haven't you noticed? There isn't a single corpse here."

   "If you say that... it is true..."

  Hearing Suzume's reminder, Kanami also shuddered and reacted. Indeed, as Suzuka said, the city is clearly under serious attack. Logically speaking, even if this place wasn't filled with blood, it should still be full of corpses. However, looking around, no matter whether it was in the square, the street, or even the alley, there was not a single corpse.

  The entire city was empty and silent, as if it were a dead city that had long been abandoned.

   "This, what's going on here?"

  Kanami swallowed a mouthful of saliva, only feeling that the hairs of her whole body stood on end.

   "No, it can't be haunted!"

   “Now is not the time to discuss this issue.”

   At this moment, Duanmu Huai's voice came from her ear.

   "You should act as soon as possible!"

"good………"

  Kanami nodded upon hearing Duanmuhuai's contact, then exchanged glances with Suzume, lowered her body, and ran forward as fast as a gust of wind.

According to the sign on the map, the life signal is located in the underground waterway. Fortunately, there are two veterans who are familiar with the Royal City, Kryolev and Rolex. Under his guidance, the two quickly found the entrance of an underground waterway, and then drilled in.

  In the underground waterway, it was dark.

  “……”

  The man hugged his daughter tightly, held a knife, and hid in a small hole in the sewer. The cold, foul-smelling sewer is not a good place, but he dare not start a fire, let alone go out to find food. Because the man knew that there was a group of terrifying monsters outside... Although he was not sure if they would come here, the man didn't dare to take the risk.

   "Dad...is sad..."

  The voice of the daughter in his arms was so weak that he could hardly hear it. Of course he could feel that petite body was already hot all over, but he couldn't help it.

  Maybe, in the end, my own ending is to die here tragically with the child?

   "————!"

   Just as the man closed his eyes and waited desperately for death, suddenly, he felt his throat tighten, and a dagger stretched out from the side without a sound, and touched his neck!

who is it? !

   "Don't meow."

   At the same time, a leisurely girlish voice appeared beside his ears.

   "You, who are you? I clearly laid a trap at the door!"

   "That kind of simple trap, even mice will not be fooled."

  Kanami, who finished dealing with the trap, also came over and looked at the man in front of her.

"it's him?"

   "Exactly."

   "You, aren't you accomplices of those monsters?"

  Looking at Suzume and Kanami in front of him, the man suddenly became excited.

   "We are here to save you, and we also want to know what happened to the city, well, come with me, your daughter doesn't look well."

   Without the slightest hesitation, the man nodded and stood up holding his daughter.

  For him, maybe this is the last chance!

   Without any danger, Kanami and Suzume took the man and his daughter back to the Valkyrie gunboat, and his daughter was seriously ill, so she was taken for treatment. As for the man, he stayed and reported to everyone what he knew.

  In fact, according to the man, he himself didn't quite know what happened. He is just a poor sewer cleaner, responsible for cleaning the sanitation of the sewer, and at the same time finding some things from it to sell to make ends meet.

  However, just a few days ago, his fate changed on that day.

  The royal city was attacked.

The man himself didn't know the specific situation, he only knew that he had just started work at that time, and then the council suddenly issued the news of martial law in the whole city, claiming that the rebels were about to attack the royal city... At that time, this kind of news was naturally very important for a low-level person like him. Even if he heard it, no matter if it is the rebels or the council, no matter who is in power, the sewers still need to be cleaned, and he believes that no one will compete with him for this job...

  At that time, the man also talked about it with his colleagues who were changing shifts, but everyone didn't think too much about it except that they were worried that prices would rise in the next few days.

   Then, disaster struck.

   A group of terrifying soldiers suddenly appeared, killing anyone they see!

   "They killed everyone, even the soldiers and guards who were also the Herman kingdom!"

  Recalling that scene, the man couldn't help trembling. Moreover, those soldiers did not wear black armor like the Herman soldiers. On the contrary, they wore a very strange golden armor, and wrapped their bodies tightly, almost airtight, giving Humans feel more like walking armor than humans.

   Not only that, the cruelty of these soldiers is beyond words.

   "They are like a group of terrifying monsters, they don't look like human beings at all, even old people and children, they can still kill them!"

   "But we didn't see any dead bodies in the street."

   "This is another strange thing I want to talk about. Those horrible monsters took all the corpses away!"

   "Take it away? Where did you take it?"

   "In the castle of Wangcheng..."

  “…………”

  Kriolev and Rolex looked at each other with solemn expressions.

   Now it seems that this is indeed planned by the council, and if the man is right, the other party started to kill after the entire city was sealed off in the name of "resisting the rebels". So what is all this for? Just killing people is enough, why bring their bodies to the king's city?

  What is the council trying to do?

   No one knows, but... everyone has a premonition.

   "What should we do next? Your lord judge?"

   Wuluze frowned, looking at Duanmuhuai anxiously.

   "Nothing to do."

   Duanmuhuai made a decisive decision.

   "Act immediately, prepare to attack the royal city! By that time, we will know what the **** the council is doing!"

  (end of this chapter)