I, Iron Pilot, work as a teacher in Azure Files

"boom!!!"

The second violent impact erupted inside the building, and the two successive loud noises made Xiaochun who was staring at the street outside couldn't help shaking his shoulders, covered his ears with one hand, and turned his head instinctively. Looking behind the dust drift.

At this moment, the locked entrance to the secret passage has collapsed into disreputable shape, revealing a steep staircase that seems to be endless in the deep darkness.

The heavy sandbags that were originally used to seal the floor rolled crookedly to one side, and lay powerlessly deep in the tunnel. After the rupture, sand mixed with gravel was scattered everywhere, feebly proving how violent they were. treat.

"..."

Bai Zhouzi's pupils dilated slightly, and the ground was reflected in his eyes, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Although I have long heard that the two chairmen of the Disciplinary Committee and the Realization of Justice Committee are very strong, but it is really too foul to be so strong...

With this level of power... No wonder Arius needs to arrange missiles and explosions to attack the ancient temple and hurt them first, otherwise even if Saori himself brings the guardian's projection against the two of them, it may be impossible to win. Definitely not an easy thing to do.

"Ah ha ha…"

Looking at the scenery in front of her, Hifumi couldn't help but feel a bit of embarrassment in her smile, and raised her hand to stroke the hair on her forehead unconsciously.

"Bi, after all, he is recognized as the top person in the entire Kivatos. It doesn't seem so strange to be able to do this kind of thing..."

"That's true..."

With a low sigh, Xiao Zi put away the surprise on her brows, arranged her equipment, took a deep breath, raised her legs and walked towards the stairs.

"Let's go, I'll lead the way, let's find Arius—"

"and many more."

A slightly hoarse voice suddenly sounded from the side, calling out the girl's movements, Bai Zhouzi was taken aback, turned around with some doubts, but met Crane City's blood-red eyes.

She poked her head to look at the dark tunnel, first pointed to Bai Zhouzi, then pointed to herself, and added to her:

"In such an environment, I will go first."

……

Considering the time advantage Arius had, the girls in the pursuit team didn't hesitate too much, and went straight into the not-so-spacious secret passage one by one.

Crane City, holding a shotgun in his hand, took the lead, and the blood-red halo above his head became more and more monstrous in the darkness. The brilliance shining like viscous liquid fluctuated slightly, as if it would flow down in the next moment.

Bai Zhouzi carefully followed behind her, keeping a proper warning distance. The pointing of the muzzle of the gun was always strictly avoiding the direction of Crane City. Enemy's fork.

Hifumi and Hanako sandwiched Koharu, who was the weakest in combat in a small environment, and she followed behind Bai Zhouzi, holding a pistol, while Hina walked quietly at the end of the team, with no gestures. How nervous he looked, turning his head to glance at the corridor he passed from time to time.

"Under the ruins of the ancient temple, such a place was artificially built, although it is very simple."

Hanako looked at the surroundings where she couldn't see her fingers, and she gave a small sigh of emotion, and a few traces of undisguised thought flashed in her eyes.

"It seems that the staff of the Justice Realization Committee is not very sufficient, but after all, the ancient temple is only a historical site with little traffic except for holidays. It is understandable that the number of patrols is relatively rare."

"But didn't the Sisters even notice this at all? Hmm... Sure enough, I still need to find a chance to ask carefully~"

"Will Trinity College divide and implement even this aspect in terms of specific autonomous region management?"

Hina touched her chin, her tone sounded curious.

"Actually, I've always wanted to ask, this may make the work of the leadership a lot easier, but the various processes will be very troublesome when it is really necessary."

"Yes, Hina-chan."

Hanako looked inexplicable, and smiled at Hina, "But this is Holy Trinity?"

"Uh... Hina-chan or something..."

"Everyone, if you continue to move fast, be careful from here on."

Bai Zhouzi's gaze was condensed slightly, and he was firmly locked on a corner of the secret passage for several seconds before he slowly opened his mouth and said:

"This place should have been used by Arius as a supply point for ammunition before. If they had consumed a lot in the previous battle, they should have obtained relatively sufficient ammunition and explosives by now."

"So in the future, you must pay attention to the booby traps set by Arius, this is what that school is best at—"

"Ding!"

The clear and crisp sound of the thread being triggered suddenly bounced in the dark passage, and the silent chuckle of the god of death suddenly hovered in the heart of Xiao Zi who hadn't finished speaking.

Her pupils shrunk suddenly to the size of a pinprick, and she directly swallowed back the half of the words she hadn't spoken yet. With a flick of the rifle in her hand, she turned around and pushed Rifumi and the others to the ground on one side without hesitation.

"Everyone! Get down!!"

"boom!"

A slightly weird muffled sound echoed in the corridor. Bai Zhouzi, who had been prepared to help others cover the flying shrapnel as much as possible, waited for several seconds, but he didn't feel the familiar impact.

She froze for a moment, subconsciously got up and looked towards the front of the team.

Crane City stood there, swinging his arms casually as if nothing had happened, only the cuffs of the uniform were broken for some reason.

Noticing Bai Zhouzi's gaze, she tilted her head in confusion, the distorted expression on her face restrained, and she gave a suspicious "hmm":

"It was a bit noisy just now, what did you say?"

"...No, nothing."

Chapter 240 Two I'm Looking Forward (Two in One)

At the same time when Hina and Tsurujo violently broke open the blocked entrance of the secret passage, in the depths of the dark passage, the Arius students who were advancing rapidly also keenly captured this overly obvious sound.

Their steps stopped in unison, and a little uncontrollable bewilderment appeared between their brows with the youthful feeling unique to girls, and they almost instinctively turned their eyes to Saori who was walking in the front.

Saori frowned, feeling the sudden gathering of sights from behind her, her already complicated mood suddenly went up to a higher level.

She half-closed her eyes, took a deep breath, suppressed the inexplicable powerlessness that suddenly surged up in her heart, turned around and glanced at the people behind, and said lightly:

"We have already done all the delaying measures we can do at this stage. If you really don't want to be caught up, it's better to move your legs faster than thinking about those useless things."

The almost indifferent voice of the dark blue-haired girl echoed in the silent tunnel, as if wisps of wind had seeped out from the cold night, bit by bit blowing through the not-so-thick coat, and smirking into the bone in the gap between.

Ordinary Arius students shuddered, and many of them unconsciously touched the goosebumps that suddenly jumped up on their arms, put away their eyes and lowered their heads, and continued to walk silently along the corridor, but The speed is faster than before.

Saori had a panoramic view of the performance of these students, and didn't feel uncomfortable because of their respectful performance. She just sighed softly, and just wanted to turn her attention back to the road in front of her, but suddenly turned his head away.

Misaki, who was originally wandering on the flank of the team, approached quietly at some point, and the extremely low sound of movement was mixed with the chaotic footsteps of the marching team, so that Saori didn't notice it at the first time.

"team leader."

The short-haired girl's voice was very soft, so soft that it was like a balloon without a string, as if it would float to the far sky in the next second.

"Can't we try to blow up the secret passage? If we know that our Bai Zhouzi is also in the pursuit team, it will be difficult for us to get rid of them by moving speed. Blocking the road may have a better effect."

"Do you think I haven't considered this method, Misaki?"

Saori kept hurrying her pace, but her eyes flashed with imperceptible tiredness. She raised her hand and subconsciously pressed the center of her brow, her voice seemed to be stained with decaying dust floating in the dark passage smell.

"The amount of explosives in our hands is extremely limited, and basically all of them are defensive grenades with fragments as the main method of killing."

"If you want to rely on these things to blow up part of the corridor, let alone whether we will be buried below because we can't perfectly control the degree of explosion, even if it is just the matter of causing the corridor to collapse, it seems very unrealistic."

"...we still have half of the saints who can project."

Misaki was silent for a moment, then spoke again to continue, her dark red eyes were as calm as two pools of stagnant water, unable to see even a gleam of brilliance, and almost merged with the surrounding darkness.

"If these replicas are allowed to stop Bai Zhouzi and the others, maybe we can buy more time."

"It works, but it's not available today."

Saori pursed her lips, glanced over Misaki's face, paused in her eyes, looked at each other for a few seconds, and finally looked away little by little as if realizing something.

"Didn't you notice, Misaki, ever since Sensei gathered the elements of the "First Public Conference" and re-established the Eden Treaty Organization, there has been a great conflict between the control rights of the two Guardians. "

"Maybe this situation has activated a certain self-protection mechanism of the "Commande". Now the part of the Saints we still have in our hands has lost the function of re-establishing hostile targets and even attacking non-hostile targets under orders. Even the maximum range that appears is limited to not far from us. "

"However, after all, this is a counterfeit that we seized after secretly tampering with the treaty. There is nothing to be dissatisfied with. It is better to say that it is still capable of fighting at this stage. It is already something to be thankful for."

The girl's words paused slightly, her eyes fell on the uneven ground under her feet, she didn't look at Misaki's expression, her tone suddenly became serious, but the volume of her mouth was so low that she seemed to be speaking to the air.

"Misaki, I know what you're thinking, don't think about things like staying alone and finding a way to commit suicide before Holy Trinity's pursuers arrive, we are not so desperate that we have to let you stop it alone The point of a pursuer."

"And now everyone's fate is tied together, what happens to you, our end will be very similar, so let's give up those thoughts."

"..."

With Saori's voice echoing in her ears, Misaki remained silent and fell silent.

Her eyes were lowered, and the palm of the rifle was lifted slightly, caressing the cold receiver, feeling the temperature whether it was warmer or more biting than the environment.

"boom!"

A strange dull explosion sounded faintly along the seemingly extremely long corridor. Saori's ears moved keenly, and she turned her head to listen carefully for a moment, and the corners of her mouth immediately curled up slightly.

"Have you triggered a tripping mine? Bai Zhouzi, it seems that you still make mistakes now and then."

"But it's okay, let's dismantle it step by step, there is still a long way for you to catch up—"

"boom!"

Before her words fell, the second explosion sounded very similar to the previous one, and Saori was interrupted in the middle of her mouth, her eyebrows were raised slightly, and the expression on her face suddenly became a little inexplicable.

Bai Zhouzi, can you make such a small mistake twice in a short period of time?Sure enough, because I haven't trained for too long, I'm inevitably rusty——

"boom!"

Oh, so you--

"boom!"

"Captain, is there something wrong with the situation?"

Misaki subconsciously turned her head back, looking at the endless dark passage behind her, subconsciously put her fingers back on the trigger guard of the weapon, her delicate eyebrows were unconsciously frowned.

"Even though we set up quite a few booby traps, they didn't detonate in series with each other, and some of the grenades were separated by special attention. Now the frequency of the triggering is... a bit too high?"

"...more than that, it's not 'too high' anymore."

As if guessing a certain possibility, Saori's face turned dark all of a sudden, gloomy as if it was about to drip water at any moment.

"No matter how unfamiliar Bai Zhouzi is with Arius's booby trap placement skills, in such a small environment, she will never make a low-level mistake of not raising her vigilance."

"There are many possibilities for triggering the explosion at high frequency, but there is probably only one that can give a reasonable explanation at the moment... They ignored the booby traps we arranged and are rushing through the tunnel."

"Is that true..."

Immediately, Misaki also realized the seriousness of the problem, her thin lips unconsciously pursed into a straight line, the thoughts in her mind turned quickly, and she continued to speculate downwards along the idea proposed by Saori.

"But isn't this unreasonable? The fragments of the defensive grenade have a large range in the relatively narrow corridor. If they just detonate it regardless, even if Bai Zhouzi is fine, can the people who follow her pursue it?" Can you bear it?"

"Even if they came all the way with such injuries, when they finally catch up with us, I'm afraid they won't have any left to fight. Maybe they will faint on the spot after being shot a few times."

"Yes, in theory, that's right."

Saori's eyes gradually narrowed, and some unknown colors flickered deep in the light gray pupils, and said in a faint tone:

"It's just that the only problem is that the pursuer's ability to withstand damage is estimated based on our own and Bai Zhouzi's template."

"But what if... the one who suffers the direct damage from the explosion at the front is someone like Hina Kurasaki or Tsurujo?"

"...Is this really possible?"

Misaki's voice was still calm, as if there would never be extremely violent mood swings at any time, but at the end she couldn't help asking:

"If Hina and Tsurujo join the pursuit team, doesn't that mean—"

"Ah, yes. Sensei is staying outside, fighting our "strategic weapon" alone. "

Saori smiled coldly, and the corners of her chapped lips curled up in a faint arc that she didn't know whether it was irony or something else, and her fingertips rubbed unconsciously on the gun.

"It's obviously the first time I've seen that type of enemy, but I dare not keep the two chairmen of the Justice Realization Committee and the Disciplinary Committee by my side. I'm really confident—no, this choice should be called Out of arrogance."

"This is my mistake. I should have noticed this earlier. After all, when he was in Gehena, he was the one who dared to single-handedly counterattack the leader of the unknown attacker."

"If this speculation is correct, the blocking measures we set up can already be expected to not have the desired effect."

Misaki raised her wrist, looked at the beating minutes and seconds on the watch, silently counted a few seconds in her heart, and reported to Saorihui:

"According to the timing and our moving speed, maybe after arriving at the catacombs, we can't get everyone to leave through other exits, and then go to the entrance leading to the autonomous region to evacuate. Before that, we will be overtaken by the pursuers .”

"In other words, is the battle inevitable?"

Thinking about the conclusion she reached, Saori let out a breath slowly, but her expression didn't seem to show much panic. Instead, she commanded decisively as if she had expected it a long time ago:

"Let the students of the other ordinary teams hurry up. After entering the catacomb area, tell them to disperse and return to the autonomous region. The special team will be responsible for the rest."

"Relying on the Saints' Association and perhaps the help of that strange puppet, we should be able to delay a lot of time."