Chapter 28 Crazy Woman

Paine covered his mouth and nose and coughed lightly. His mouth was now filled with the taste of blood, and the shock wave from the explosion hurt his internal organs, causing him to cough up some blood. This was thanks to his extraordinary physical strength. If it were an ordinary person, his spleen would have been damaged and he would have died of massive bleeding.

He made a series of heavy breathing sounds like he was being choked, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence.

"It almost killed me."

"I'm sorry, Petey may have misjudged the amount of gunpowder."

A woman with a black veil appeared in front of Paine, and Paine recognized that it was Scarlett Hao's voice. It seems that this woman has been following Paine.

"Isn't the power under control? I almost died inside."

"You were attacked by that monster? You couldn't escape in time. Is the monster dead now?"

"Isn't this what you expected? I think you should care about my safety first."

Paine said angrily that they made a plan before setting off. Paine carried out the assassination operation, because he was just assassinating an ordinary person, so once he didn't come out in time, it meant he was in trouble. Scarlett Hao said that the monster might appear since it was not dead, so if the plan did not go smoothly, they would immediately provide fire cover, but Scarlett Hao and Petey did not say it was this kind of "cover".

Paine wished he could punch Scarlett Hao, this unsympathetic mad woman, to death.

"Right now, we are just grasshoppers on a rope. Instead of worrying about that monster first, you might as well worry about my physical condition."

"But you look like you're okay now."

Scarlett Hao said, her eyes looking at Paine were full of schadenfreude. The witch is also very vindictive. She will not forget the incident when Pan grabbed her neck and threatened her life.

Paine knew that he couldn't argue with the witch who was in vengeance mode at this time, so he could only change the subject.

"What exactly did you use? This can't be black powder."

Paine said: "To achieve the effect just now, black powder requires a huge amount. I don't think you can transport so much gunpowder here under the eyes of the Northern Army."

"What if the gunpowder was already there?"

"Impossible! The Northern Army would not be so stupid as not to discover so much black powder."

"You're only half right. It's indeed not black powder. It's a brand new gunpowder. It's indeed much more powerful than the black powder used in the army. Before the Northern Army commandeered this place as a hospital, this explosive was hidden here. Here it is.”

Scarlett Hao said, "Peety was the largest cloth merchant in the South, operating more than half of the leather and woolen goods business in the South. She extracted a new type of gunpowder from a dye. This gunpowder was very powerful and compared with black powder. It’s very stable, but it requires a witch’s special means to detonate it. This is Petey’s trump card. She made arrangements in many places before the Northern Army entered the city.”

"So you followed me to detonate the gunpowder? Do you know you almost killed me! How much did she arrange?"

"Every good house in Atlanta that may be expropriated has gunpowder buried under it. There are just as many as there are."

"Including her family?"

"Naturally included."

Paine raised the danger level of the two women by several levels. It turned out that Atlanta was now sitting on a pile of gunpowder. No wonder Scarlett Hao had the confidence to enter this city that was already controlled by the enemy.

"We should leave. Anyone who is not deaf will notice such a loud explosion. The monster is probably not dead."

Paine said quickly, his sixth sense warning him that the crisis was not over yet.

At this time, the bricks and stones piled into hills on the ruins began to shake off, as if something was about to come out. There was also a sharp whistle in the distance, and a large group of people was gathering here.