Chapter 156: Cause and Effect VI
"Those people are looking for you, and they put Uncle Waled ...... The others, and your sister, have been arrested! ”
Cole's face changed suddenly, and he saw several men wearing long gray cloaks and swords hanging from their waists crashing out of the narrow, dimly lit alley. Those people pushed away the debris piled up in the alley with one hand and rushed straight towards the boy, but they suddenly realized that there were still people on the bridge, and when they looked up, they couldn't help but be slightly startled.
The moment those men looked up, Cole saw the black and white robes revealing from under the other mantle—the Grey Knight! Cole was like being devoured by lightning, and almost subconsciously took a step back.
But those people had already recognized him by the image on the crystal, and they all abandoned the young man in front of them, and reached for the hilt of the sword with one hand, and turned in this direction.
How did the Grey Knight find him?
No, you have to run away!
Cole's mind was like lightning, but in the face of these knights who pounced on him without saying a word, his feet were like stepping on cotton, and he couldn't move half a step. The Grey Knight has been involved in the management of the city for a long time, and people have long been accustomed to the laws that the other party represents the port in times of war, and where can he flee to the city's enforcers?
The young man saw him in a daze on the bridge, but as if he had a flash of inspiration, he suddenly gritted his teeth and slammed away the gray knights, and ran wildly towards the mouth of the alley, and pounced on the iron fence gate.
The attention of the gray knights was no longer on him, and before he could react, he saw the boy run to the door, pull it with all his might, and tear it open. Then he went around to the other side of the door, slammed the iron door shut, pulled the latch, pressed the weight of his whole body against the door, turned around, and shouted to Cole:
"Brother Cole, run——!"
The gray knight was furious, rushed to the door, grabbed the young man by the collar, and said angrily, "Little ghost, get out of the way." ”
But the boy was short, and as soon as he bowed his head, he deftly avoided the grasp, and the Grey Knight passed through the iron fence with his hand, trying to open the latch, but the boy pressed his hand to the place.
Cole woke up from a dream when he saw this. He was like a drowning man fished out of the water, his body was already soaked, but his strength returned to his body at once, and he didn't have time to think about anything, so he subconsciously turned around and fled.
The gray knights' faces sank when they saw him turn around, and they all withdrew their hands and drew their swords. The boy's mind went blank when he saw their movements, but he forgot to let go of his hand when he saw the flickering sword stabbed into his chest.
The stinging pain spread all at once, and his chest felt as if he had been bitten by something, and the boy's eyes widened, and he watched this scene incredulously, only to feel his strength draining from his body.
Cole realized that it was not good when he heard the sword drawn behind him, and he turned his head sharply, only to see the Grey Knight raise his sword and stab the boy through with a single sword.
At that moment, he only felt that the world was spinning, and his heart seemed to be punched hard by something, and he didn't even know that he was shouting out that sentence:
"Merce ——!"
But the boy couldn't respond to him anymore, and the gray knight pulled out his long sword with a cold face, bringing up a fountain of blood, and then stabbed the boy in the lower abdomen, and then the third sword.
The young man, covered in blood, fell down softly, with a look of disbelief in his eyes, but a little white light had gradually risen on his body, like countless fireflies, flying into the night sky.
Cole saw the Grey Knight push the boy's corpse open, grab the latch of the iron fence with his hand, and rush out of it. There was an indescribable feeling of suffocation in his heart, but his mind became clearer, and suddenly he thought of the letter that was resting peacefully on his chest.
The companions of those who are called may be able to save him and others.
As soon as he thought of this, he burst out with an endless desire to survive, and all the hesitation and fear in his heart were swept away, and without any hesitation, he turned around and fled in that direction without hesitation.
……
There was silence in the darkness, and the sound of dripping water could be heard in the distance.
White Night and the others sat a little bored against the cold stone wall, looking at the underground river not far away, which was located below the inner city wall, this floodway was not too long, and there was nothing of interest in the silence and darkness.
But the darkness itself can be unsettling, and they sometimes look suspiciously in the other direction, as if something was going to be there.
It took a long time before someone finally spoke:
"What do you say......"
White Night looked in that direction.
There, a man was looking down at his collar - they were all members of the former Tapolis and most of them were still accustomed to wearing the same attire after the disbandment of the Oak Knights - but the other was not looking at his own robes, but at the emblem pinned to the collar with a faint silver glow.
He reached out to cover the emblem before hesitantly asking the others, "...... What to do, and should you ...... Who to notify? ”
"What do you say?" The other man spoke, his voice echoing hollowly in the dark underground: "This is the ...... of the conscription, didn't you listen to them, what if...... If the Descendants of Flor did cooperate with the Dark Cultists, it would be ...... I'm afraid it's going to change......"
"But that's just their side of the story."
"Are those people in Momiji trustworthy?"
"But Miss Sandnight and we are on the same side."
“…… And," someone said, "The format of the email is military, and if you look at the community, it's so unusual...... There's definitely something going on behind this......"
"Honestly, I regret it," said another...... We should not have gotten caught up in this and got involved with the dark believers, maybe we should all end up in it...... And we agreed to the Descendants of Flor, and if we go back, they will probably get us in trouble in the future......"
The crowd fell silent.
In the darkness, only the sound of dripping water remained.
The others couldn't help but look at the white night on the side, and the latter also looked down at his Elector's emblem and lightly touched it with his hand.
"White Night, what do you think?"
"What can I think?" Bai Ye sighed.
He instinctively felt that the conscription order was a bit uncomfortable, but now that the long-distance communication of the entire northern territory had been cut off, they had no way to confirm it to the Star Gate Harbor side.
As for confirming with the descendants of Flor, what if what the other party said is true? Cultists have long been classified as terrorist activities by Xingmen Harbor, and if they are involved in these things, they may be court-martialed.
They didn't come to this world to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
"Do what you do," replied Hakuya, "he is at least right, we are the Chosen One, and it is our duty to fulfill the duties entrusted to us by the Stargate Declaration, and there is nothing to say about it. ”
Everyone nodded.
But the silence represents a deeper uneasiness in everyone's hearts, and does the fact that the people of the Fleur descendant have come to them means that they have expected these people to come to this place?
The identity of the person who connected with them was also a high-ranking member of the former guild, how many people were bought by the descendants of Flor?
Those people don't know about the conscription order, will the other party betray them, is it really safe for them to hide in this place?
They should have told Fang Yu and his party about these things, but no one could say anything about them. How should I speak? Say they betrayed Tapolis and switched to the descendants of Flor?
It's strange that the sand night group didn't turn their faces with them on the spot.
The crowd was silent and looked at each other in the dark.
But at this glance, it was as if the white night had seen something that should not be seen—it was a purple ghostly fire, suspended in the darkness, like a ghost fire burning quietly, and like a purple bud in full bloom.
He suddenly realized what it was, and it bounced off the ground like an electric shock, and the port of Gura had been plagued by these things these days, and the barrier that was about to open was also to guard against these things.
"Shadow Man!"
Others saw the flame and let out a scream of disbelief.
But how did they end up here!?
White Night instinctively reached for his sword, but the flames had spread out in all directions, reflected in the depths of his eyes, as if a new star had been born. Before he could react, he heard a terrible scream.
The scream pulled him out of the world of thought and back into reality.
The two companions in front of him had opened their mouths wide and spewed flames from their eyes, nostrils, and mouths, and the next moment they had fallen to their knees in agony, twisted into a ball, and turned into a burning man.
“Mey! Fawn! ”
Bai Ye heard scattered footsteps behind him, he knew the horror of the shadow people, no one could tell the level of these monsters, because few people who saw them survived.
He actually subconsciously wanted to escape from this place, but this thought had just arisen, and the people who fled behind him also let out several screams.
Bai Ye turned back in that direction, only to see a few humanoid flames falling to the ground, quickly burning to black ashes. It seemed that in the blink of an eye, he was the only one left.
The white night stopped all at once.
And the purple flame floating in the darkness also stopped.
It was not a shadow figure, but three, and they split into three, and the silhouette of a man gradually appeared in the dancing flames, and the face could not be seen clearly, and it was silently suspended in front of him.
Bai Ye felt a blazing gaze fall on him, and one of the shadow figures quietly walked towards him, and then reached out and pressed against his face.
The purple flames were refracted in the depths of his eyes, and Bai Ye subconsciously wanted to retreat, but it was as if there was a strange magic that controlled his movements, so that he could not take a step back.
Not only could they not retreat, but they seemed to sink into the beating flames.
At that moment, Bai Ye's mind was at ease, and he suddenly realized that these shadow figures were not originally in this place. It's a trap, but why do they know they're in this place?
At the last moment before he lost consciousness, a thought flashed through Bai Ye's heart:
What the hell did those goddamn bastards of the Flor Descendants do?
……
In the corridor on the right, a huge door is opening.
When the gray knights saw the person pushing the door in, they all showed surprised eyes: "...... you?" ”
Pushing the door in, there was a group of Aidan monks, dressed in gray robes with the inlay of crow's feathers hanging from the rosary. The Grey Knights were vigilant—shouldn't the monks be praying in the antechamber at this time?
Almost immediately, they pressed their hands to their swords at their waists, as if they would draw their swords to meet each other if they had the slightest mistake in answering.
But the monks lowered their eyes and said nothing. After a short period of stunned, the Gray Knight's face suddenly changed, "It's not good, it's an illusion!" The leading Grey Knight reacted quickly, and with a flash of sword light in his hand, he slashed at a crossbow bolt that passed through the shadows of the monks and shot in this direction.
It's just that the blade of the sword slashes through the crossbow, but it doesn't feel the force it should have, and the crossbow turns into a light smoke and disappears without a trace.
The Grey Knight realized something was wrong and opened his mouth to scream, but a crossbow bolt had passed silently through his throat, slicing his trachea, leaving him with a 'gurgling' sound and falling on his back.
The Grey Knights unsheathed their swords one after another, and the monks who were guarding that direction immediately got up and fled to the main hall on the right, as if to warn those who remained there.
But a shadow swept in a direction that no one noticed, and in an instant it crossed the feet of the gray knights, and extended in the direction where the monks had fled—the shadow suddenly closed and turned into a graceful maiden, none other than Miss Nightingale.
Alyssa looked in that direction, her eyes flashing with a calm light, and she raised her hand and threw the dagger in her hand.
The dark, dull blade flashed through the corridor with lightning and passed through the chests of two or three monks, who fell to the ground like a piece of dead log.
The sudden attack surprised all the monks, but before they could react, Alyssa leaped to the other side, and with a wave of her hand, the dagger refracted back with electric light.
In the darkness, the electric light almost formed a refractive trajectory, passing through the bodies of several Adan Rian followers in that direction, and with a bright arc of electricity, it returned to Miss Nightingale's hand.
The Grey Knights seemed to react and turned to strike, but a small figure had already slipped through the door, passed through the apparition, and crashed away from them.
"Borrowed, borrowed!"
The Paparal shouted as he pounced forward like a ball, rolling forward with an obelisk in his hand and coming among the knights.
He let go of his hand abruptly and whispered to his communication crystal, "Little girl from Tapolis, quick! ”
The texture on the obelisk cone suddenly lit up, and he broke away from Parker's hand and spun and flew up to the top of the head of a kind of gray knight.
Before the Grey Knights realized what was happening, a dark blue ripple popped off the obelisk cone-shaped object, and the ripple spread out in all directions, enveloping everyone.
"Wizard Build!"
The Grey Knights shouted, but a strange scene happened, their mouths opened and closed, but they did not make a sound.
The entire corridor on the right seemed to be in a strange situation at this moment, all the voices of the people disappeared, and the movements, spells, swords, and shadows in the hands of the people seemed to be performing a mime.
Silence.
The Grey Knight immediately realized what good had been done by the obelisk cone-shaped magic structure.
But the spells have been cast, and anyone knows that it's not wise to go to trouble their constructs when confronting the Combat Tinkerers, and the most important thing is to find out who controls them.
To their surprise, however, they didn't have to wait to find it, and a girl holding a control glove had emerged from the apparition.
Momiji brushed the hair hanging down from his forehead with his remaining hand, tilted his head to look at the people, and then pointed his control gloves at each other and said something.
Although in the eyes of the Grey Knights, the girl in front of them was just a mouth open and closed, without making a sound, they had actually read the rather simple spell from the mouth shape of Momiji:
"Gravity trap—"
It was very different from the 'gravity trap' used by the lurkers used by the Plover, and the Grey Knights felt the pressure of the sky cracking down on them, causing them to almost fall to the ground.
And at that moment.
Behind them, they saw a row of tall figures appear, with a flickering, dark red light.
……
The battle ended in a matter of moments.
The red leaves were passing through the corpse of the gray knight and the monk of Aidanrian who had fallen in the middle, and he walked lightly to Fang Yuan's side.
She looked ahead and asked, "Are there any enemies?" ”
Fang Yu shook his head, the Grey Knights guarding this entrance was enough to stop everyone from entering and leaving this place, and there were some monks guarding the room in front of them, but none of those people posed any threat to them.
What's more, they handled the battle cleanly, and the other party didn't notice anything wrong here.
However, his original plan was to subdue these people, but considering that the number of people on the side of the Crowclaw Sanctuary was obviously unrealistic, he had to settle for the next best thing.
Fifteen minutes later, the Grey Knights would emerge from the altar, which meant that there was only a quarter of an hour left for them.
He also looked in that direction before replying, "Go and walk through the main hall, and go out from the cloister on the right side of the road with some guards. The Clockwork Elf saw that there was some room behind it, and if nothing else, the target should be in the room there—"
"How are we going to subdue him?" Momiji couldn't help but ask, "Will he tell us the truth, the followers of Aidanrian are all fanatics?" ”
Fang Yu pondered for a moment and nodded, since he chose to come to this place, he naturally had a plan in his heart.
Although it may not be 100 percent, he is at least seventy or eighty percent sure that the other party will reveal some of the answers they want to know.
……