After escorting the last family of refugees into the portal.
At the end when the other person disappeared, the whole family, young and old, looked grateful to him, especially a little girl who was several years old. Until the last second before leaving, she still held his hand tightly and gave him He said big brother, come on, and kissed him hard on the cheek, which filled the player's heart with pride.
This feeling is amazing, because for a moment, the player really thought that he was not in a game composed of virtual data, but in a real world.
Thanks to their hard work and perseverance, tens of thousands of refugees from Red Flame Town were able to escape from the claws of the monster and move to a safe place.
However, this feeling did not last long.
Because at the next moment, he was too immersed in emotions and did not pay attention to the battlefield. When he was not paying attention, the monster from the Abyss took advantage of the opportunity and threw him to the ground.
Fortunately, a sharp sword arrived in time and penetrated the monster, saving him.
"Don't be distracted, rookie!" Harvey flicked the monster's body aside with a flick of his hand, and then pulled up the player who fell to the ground.
Just as players' feelings about the world are changing, the attitude of indigenous people like Harvey towards players has also changed a lot.
If he had mentioned all the magical things about strangers in Mayor Solin's letter before, he felt that it was an exaggeration.
So now, Harvey only thinks that what Thorin said is too conservative.
They seemed to have unlimited energy, were tireless, and were not afraid of death. It could be said that they held on to the portal for almost an hour in total. The main force in the first half hour was the excellent soldiers from Chiyan Town, but as they went on, the physical strength of the soldiers declined. Gradually they couldn't keep up, but it was only thanks to the strangers who became more and more courageous as they fought, that they were able to hold on for another half hour and successfully complete the retreat plan.
Damn it!
It seems that in the future, these strangers will have to be included in the recruitment list of the Knights, and they must also be the key recruitment targets!
By the way, if you let that boy Damir set up Vivian again, ask that little girl how she gained such a high reputation among strangers.
You have to grab people quickly before the Vulcan Cult and the nobles react!
The most difficult period has passed, and Harvey's mind can't help but drift away a little, starting to think about the future.
After all, all the refugees have been moved away now. Next, those in charge of the rear will enter the portal to retreat. Finally, when the portal is closed, it will be considered complete.
"Attention everyone!"
"Shrink the defense line. We no longer have to accompany these ugly monsters. Prepare to retreat! Return to Huodian City!"
Under the command of Harvey's shouts, the soldiers and players all took a long breath.
Seeing the dawn of victory, everyone worked hard and unleashed all their strength, pushing back the monsters falling into the abyss while moving closer to the portal.
"Damir, have you set the time for the portal to close?"
Harvey just asked as a precaution. He believed that it was impossible for Damir to neglect such an important matter.
However, Harvey did not get the response he imagined.
When he took a break from the battle and cast his surprised gaze on Damir, Harvey's heart suddenly trembled when he saw the young mage breaking out in cold sweat and his lips trembling.
"Damir! What's wrong, is there something wrong with the portal?" he asked anxiously, but Damir still looked confused.
This time Harvey directly grabbed the mage's collar and shouted in his ear:
"Speak! Damir! What's going on!"
"The portal...can't be closed..." The young mage sat down on the ground with a squeak.
"I also...I don't know if something went wrong when I activated it, but why...why did the shutdown command the teacher taught me didn't respond at all..."
Damir had tried various methods as early as an hour ago, but it didn't work at all. It seemed that from the source of magic, there was no option to turn off this option.
On the other side, after hearing Damir's words, Harvey took a step back, his face full of horror.
"You...do you know what you are talking about?"
Harvey, who lost control of his emotions, lifted Damir up from the ground, and then pointed at Damir, who had lost control of his mind, at the large swath of abyssal creatures that surrounded Red Flame Town with no end in sight.
"Give me a good look at these monsters all over the mountains and plains. If you don't close the portal, do you want them to follow us on a trip to Huodian City!!"
"Then what were all our previous efforts for! Why did those dead soldiers sacrifice themselves!"
"you you!"
Liao Zixuan was right to insist that Vivian not touch the portal. Even with the deep hypocrisy of Damir and Harvey, Harvey almost cut Damir down without drawing his sword for such a big mistake.
Although in fact the source is not on their side at all.
Fortunately, a stream of clear water flowed out from the necklace on Harvey's chest, instantly suppressing his anger and allowing Harvey to quickly calm down and regain his senses.
This is one of the two pseudo-supernatural props that Maggie once gave him, the concentration necklace.
Knowing that it would be useless to accuse Damir, he had to find a solution now. The necklace on his chest not only woke up Harvey, but also gave him a reminder.
"Listen up, kid! You go to me now, immediately! Go to the Vulcan Tower through the portal and find your mentor Maggie. Even if you cause problems with the portal, I believe Maggie will have a way to solve it. , to close the portal."
"Yes...yes, yes! I can go directly to the teacher!"
Damir also seemed to be awakened. He had really thought that he had made a mistake with unimaginable consequences, and he was frightened.
However, just as he stepped into the portal with his front foot, he seemed to realize something with his back foot.
"Wait a minute, I'm leaving then, Harvey...Where are you, Uncle Harvey?"
"Get out!" Harvey didn't bother to talk nonsense and kicked Damir completely into the portal.
It was exactly as Liao Zixuan expected again.
After Harvey and even many soldiers knew that the portal could not be closed, they all gave up the opportunity to retreat safely even though they were so close, and chose to continue to hold on silently.
They were buying Damir time.
Until the moment when Damiel finds Archbishop Maggie and can close the portal.
Before this, they would never let any monster enter the portal unless the monsters from the Abyss stepped on their corpses.
For soldiers like this, who would fight side by side with their commanders even to the death, and advance and retreat together, Harvey did not say anything touching or hypocritical.
Because anyone who is not a fool can see it.
After an hour of fighting, everyone at this moment has long been at the end of their efforts. Now they are using their lives and flesh to block the monster. It is no longer a matter of danger or misfortune, but a narrow escape.
"If after today, we can still return to Huodian City alive..."
"Everyone, go fuck yourself to "Ye Mei" and spend one night, I'll treat you!"
By the way, Ye Mei is the most luxurious and alluring bar in Huodian City. It is said that after entering, most men have to hold on to the wall to come out the next day.
As soon as Shirley and Shirley arrived at Red Flame Town, they heard Harvey's arrogant words, and the little wolf cub was delighted.
Oh, as for why it’s a wolf cub again, of course it’s in this form that you can enjoy the feeling of being held by others!
Well, it's actually because the human form needs to be saved later to go into Huodian City to cause trouble, so it's not appropriate to expose it now.
But anyway.
"Go on, Shirley, don't forget the words I taught you, and the most crucial actions! Be sure to remember those actions! This is very important!"
The little wolf cub jumped down from Shirley's chest.
He looked at Shirley being squeezed by him, with a cold, indifferent face, and an expression of disgust and disdain for the human race. He looked like a standard super villain, and waved his paw with great satisfaction.
Still want to invite the surviving people to go to Ye Meixiao?
You old crook.
We will make you bankrupt in minutes today!
By the time Damir finds Maggie, he will have to find a way to wake her up from the abyss. By then, the bodies of Harvey and the others will probably be cold.
Therefore, the guards of Red Flame Town who are kept in the dark at this moment, although their spirit is admirable, are just doing useless work and making meaningless sacrifices.
Therefore, what Liao Zixuan is doing now is to use greater despair, a despair that can make them lose their will to fight, to make them abandon the portal, which indirectly saves their lives.
As for what it means...desperation.
tread...
Tread...
The crisp sound of footsteps sounded out of thin air in the ears of everyone in Chiyan Town.
Not that the footsteps were loud.
But at this moment, all the noise disappeared, and only the sound of footsteps remained, so clear and so...
Weird.
You know, there are hundreds of Abyss-falling monsters surrounding the portal, and there are even more that can't be squeezed through and are wandering around crazily behind.
But at a certain moment, as if someone pressed the freeze button, they all stopped in place, no roaring, and even the sound of breathing was reduced to a minimum.
"What...what's going on?"
"have no idea..."
"What are these monsters doing?"
"Don't let your guard down, be careful!"
Harvey and other portal guards took the opportunity to quickly gather together and reorganize their formation. While they were grateful for the opportunity to take a breather and rest, they were extremely nervous in their hearts.
Because everyone understands that sentence.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
"Did you...did you hear any footsteps?"
"Did you have it too? Damn, I thought it was my auditory hallucination."
"When you said that, I seemed to have heard it."
"Wait! You...look at the sky!"
Players were the first to discover the source of the strange footsteps.
At first, it was a black spot in the sky, but as it slowly got closer, everyone was surprised to find that it was a human figure, walking slowly towards them from high in the sky.
If this scene were to be said, it only made everyone in Chiyan Town startled and confused.
Then the scene that appeared in the next moment made Harvey and others' pupils shrink, and they almost couldn't hold the hilt of their swords.
Roar!
Boom boom...
The Abyss monsters that surrounded Red Flame Town, surrounded the soldiers and players, rioted again, and were far more ferocious than before, causing the ground beneath their feet to tremble.
However, the target of this riot is not the portal that Harvey, the players and others are guarding behind.
But...
The figure walking down from the sky.
The creatures of the Abyss began to crowd each other like crazy, even to the point of not caring, even if they were crushed to death by a large number of tramples, they still moved towards the direction of the figure walking down from the air.
At first, no one understood what these abyss-falling monsters were doing.
But not long after, just a few breaths later, as they were squeezed and buried deeply, more and more corpses of monsters falling into the abyss piled up, and monsters were still coming one after another to fill the vacancies.
Finally, a term emerged in everyone's mind.
steps.
These Abyss monsters that are supposed to have no intelligence and only know destruction, symbolizing chaos, are actually working together to use their own flesh and blood bodies to build this mysterious figure walking down from the sky... .
Take steps!
Harvey promised that he had never seen such a crazy, bloody, and horrific scene in his life.
Countless monsters who fell into the abyss, in less than half a minute, used their corpses, residual limbs, and everything they had to pile the mountain of flesh higher and higher.
And during the whole process, the mysterious woman who was shrouded in black mist in mid-air and whose face could not be seen clearly, and could only be judged by her vague figure, who should be a woman, just watched quietly without any pity or sympathy. , just waiting like this, the creatures of the Fallen Abyss worked and dedicated themselves to her, as if this was their original destiny.
In the end, a ladder of flesh and blood was formed in front of the mysterious woman. When she stepped on it, all the crazy behaviors of the abyss creatures below the ground finally stopped and resumed their original behavior, as if they were frozen. state.
tread...
Tread...
Step by step.
The crisp sound of footsteps once again echoed in the ears of everyone in Red Flame Town.
But this time, it seemed to be on the top of everyone's mind. Combined with the bloody and crazy scenes of the creatures in the Abyss that had just happened in front of them, every time the mysterious woman took a step from the steps and approached the ground, she was filled with excitement. The feeling of oppression is suffocating and makes it difficult to breathe.
tread!
After the final sound of landing, Shirley, who had completed her appearance, stood in front of the guards and players of Red Flame Town.
She hid the black mist, and instead shot out countless dark hands symbolizing the abyss from her back. They intertwined, deformed and reorganized, turning into Shirley's wings and claws.
Under the tall figure, there is a corrupted black wing with only one side exuding a monster aura on the back. Similarly, it is also an evil giant claw that is placed outside the palm and used as a weapon, as if it is alive.
Shirley's already sharp-cut features, with an aggressive and wild face, coupled with the blessing of the aura of falling into the abyss at this moment, gave people a suffocating beauty of despair.
It seems that just one look at it makes people unable to resist at all, and they just want to wait quietly to be dominated by the other party, or to be given death by the other party.
His eyes were as calm as a deep pool, looking at the players and Harvey's soldiers on the other side who were guarding the portal tightly behind them.
Shirley spoke after recalling the lines taught to her by Liao Zixuan.
"Humanity..."
"Give up your useless resistance."
"After all, even your gods have...abandoned you."
