Late at night, gunshots and explosions rang out continuously in Dongcheng District. A group of guards and engineering mages who were secretly planting magic seals were attacked by fire from an unknown direction.
News of the continuous attacks on the engineering team in recent days has spread. Looking at the torches burning everywhere, these people have no will to fight. The soldiers were in a mess, not daring to leave the back of the shield. After the engineering mage randomly cast a few spells, they abandoned the construction equipment and retreated hastily.
What they didn't know was that there were only two rebel fighters coming. With only a dozen people left in the escort team, facing hundreds of magic seal nodes, they could only divide their forces as much as possible and attack them at the same time.
The two soldiers relied on the tactics of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, making the enemy confused about the direction and number of people attacking, and frightened them to death. After successfully repelling the construction team, the soldiers jumped out of the bunker and came to the construction site, preparing to dismantle the half-buried magic seal.
Usually, the safest way to dismantle it is to blow up the metal cast along with the anchor base to prevent the Sister's men from returning to repair it again. But when arranging the detonating runes, they soon discovered that the location where the magic seal was buried was too close to nearby houses. In the firefight just now, some children were awakened by the cries of gunshots and explosions. They disappeared after a moment, and their mouths were obviously covered by adults;
Not to mention that the explosion itself may affect hiding residents, the shattered magic seal fragments and powder will also be integrated into the air and water sources, causing severe pollution in a short period of time. Someone must warn them to stay as far away as possible and not to drink from nearby wells for a day or two.
After discussing with each other, the two soldiers prepared to evacuate nearby residents first and then carry out the demolition task. Although Pullman had warned everyone not to stay in one place for too long after being exposed in the crossfire, after all, they were behind enemy lines surrounded by thousands of white troops and were isolated and helpless;
However, it is impossible for these simple and kind-hearted peasant soldiers to remain indifferent when they personally do things that are about to harm the people. Just as two soldiers were knocking on doors door to door, warning residents to leave quickly, a flash of blade flashed, blood spattered, and a soldier's head flew high into the air.
A slim figure wearing a nun's black robe appeared behind them at some point. The ends of slender fingers that were definitely not made of flesh and blood were connected to a slender blade stained with blood.
Another soldier was stunned for a moment, then yelled and shot at the attacker. But the bullets hit the nun everywhere in her body and bounced away. Under the scratched burqa, shining, extremely hard alloy is exposed;
The soldier had used up all his bullets, but the nun who came up to him had his throat stuck in his throat, and he lifted it up with one hand. Moments later, the nun broke his neck.
Serena let go and the body fell heavily to the ground. Her head was twisted back at an impossible angle, the magic crystal pupils rotated and clicked, and her eyes were locked on the communication crystal ball carried by the warrior;
Equipped with the most advanced combat weapons, she quickly locked onto the location of another group of warriors by relying on sophisticated magic tools with detection magic attached.
This team was searching for comrades who had lost contact. Shortly after trying to call the missing team through the communication channel, they were suddenly attacked by a woman who was extremely agile and not afraid of ordinary bullets and magic.
Caught off guard and overwhelmed by combat power, the team was quickly decimated by casualties. After two warriors died, the last seriously injured warrior realized that this dangerous cyborg was tracking them with a communication ball; he used his last strength to crawl over, lifted the crystal ball, and smashed it to the ground.
Serena strode over, turned over the dying warrior with her metal feet, and said expressionlessly, "Tell me, where are the brown-haired young man and the little girl with two braids?"
The seriously injured soldier sneered and said, "You never know." He resolutely raised his gun and prepared to commit suicide.
However, Serena had already cut off his wrist with a knife. The broken wrist and the pistol flew high into the air. The soldier groaned and almost fainted from the severe pain. Serena walked up, leaned down, grabbed the warrior's head, then popped out the finger knife and stabbed the long blade directly into his eyebrow;
Amid the deafening screams of the soldiers, she remained unmoved at all, and her expression did not change at all, as if she was performing an anatomy on a mouse or frog. The tip of the knife continued forward, piercing the skull and inserting into the brain, and then pulled it out suddenly, and the lifeless body fell to the ground.
Serena stretched out her forked bionic tongue, and by licking the blood and brain tissue on the blade, the pocket magic circle on the tongue began to operate, and soon obtained part of the warrior's memory. This extremely vicious magic is also one of the technologies that should have been permanently sealed in the curse code.
In the victim's fragmented memory images, Selina found information about the escort's hiding place and other teams. However, the subsequent tracking was not smooth. The shattering of the crystal ball and the successive loss of contact between the two teams sent a warning message. The remaining guards immediately shut down the communication signal and dispersed. The inn stronghold was also abandoned and bombed. destroy.
The remaining soldiers know that some of their comrades will never return to the team; but at the same time, they also understand that their sacrifice must not be in vain. The most important task at the moment is not to have a head-on conflict with the nuns, but to continue destroying the engineering seal.
After finding and defeating another team, Serena was unable to find any more Rebel agents. However, the energy of the array showed that the nodes continued to weaken and disconnect, and soon fell below the minimum activation threshold.
Serena was a little annoyed. Even though she had superior combat power, she couldn't appear in all places at the same time, search every corner of the town, and protect all forbidden magic nodes. This is why she needs her subordinates, and they have all been killed by her own hands.
However, there is one last method left. After killing most of the warriors she encountered, she left behind a severely wounded prisoner. After exhausting all kinds of torture, this strong warrior never uttered a word.
Serena originally wanted to use the forbidden technique of acquiring memories again, but then she thought about it. The other party had abandoned their stronghold and was fighting on their own. Each agent did not necessarily have the exact information of all his comrades in his mind;
So she dragged the prisoner all the way to the gallows in the center of the city, tied his hands and feet, and put a noose around his neck.
Serena first used the puppet nerve threads to control the soldiers' arms and sent the rebels' unique rally signal to the sky. However, after a while, there was no response. The opponent would not be easily fooled. Next, she made a mechanical timing device, consisting of a crowbar, a rotating shaft, a rope and an alarm clock. When the countdown ends, the device will automatically cut off the string tied to the joystick, triggering the gallows footplate to open, and the prisoner will immediately lose his life.
When doing all this, Serena took her time, because she knew that there must be the other party's spy nearby closely monitoring her. All this will be visible to them. This is the only effective way to deal with those bandits who are not afraid of their own death.
After the device was activated, the clock ticked, and the sharp blade came closer and closer to the string. Time passed by, and there was still silence all around.
Serena waited patiently, knowing that the other party would definitely come. Because these people never know what price they should pay. After Van Cleef's death, Defias, who still controlled half of the country, could not escape such a conspiracy. He knew very well that the army was trapping and killing all the new troops bit by bit.
Serena sat on the corner of the stage, holding her chin and shaking her feet. She imagined the scene when the brown-haired young man appeared over and over in her mind, like a girl waiting for a date with her lover;
"I'm so nervous. What are I going to tell him later?"
As the alarm clock dinged, time ran out. Serena closed her eyes, the mechanism was triggered, and the sharp blade popped out. Just before the string was about to be cut off, a bullet flew quickly and shattered the timing device.
Serena opened her eyes, and a young man's figure appeared on the edge of the execution ground.
"That's enough, here I come. You've already lost, Serena Hogia."
