Chapter 660
"Line up and don't crowd! Walking the block ahead has already taken the airship! The black-faced man shouted at the top of his throat.
Tiger had already patrolled the neighborhood under his jurisdiction several times, the muddy water on his head was accumulating, and he had to wipe it every few steps. In order to stand out in the rain, he pulled a red ribbon out of nowhere and tied it to his arm. The strap was soaked by the rain and slumped softly against the arm, and as the arm swung back and forth, a puff of water droplets were thrown, "Hey! You've all heard the will of Lord Hunter, right? Don't cut the line! The whole street is waiting to get on the boat, are you the only ones in a hurry to run for your life? β
The man's face was pale, and before the disaster came, he was the only helper in the brewery in the town, and he was no less ruthless than the hammer craftsmen in the workshop. Even when the union cleared out poachers two years ago, he was one of the few civilians who did not flee without hearing the news, and he thought that he would spend the rest of his life smelling alcohol in the town, but he did not expect to be selected by the divine voice in the underworld, and at this moment his eyes were rare in his life: "You two, go back to your place!" First come, first come, first come, do you understand? β
"Tiger, what's the matter, you're chosen too?" When the young man in sorrow saw the black-faced man, his face was full of joy.
The sheriff looked the thin young man up and down, pretending not to see the other party's smirk, and said with a memory: "I know you, from East Street, your name is Link or something...... Don't think that the set can almost open an opening for you in front of so many people, this is the order of the hunting god, and no one is allowed to take a step forward. β
"I know...... I know. The young man smiled bitterly and replied, "I didn't want to disrupt the order left by the adult, but my mother ...... She could no longer suffer in the rain. β
Tiger wiped the rain off his face, only to realize that Link was next to an old woman. The young man put the only pair of rain on the old man's body, and wrapped a few sets of coats in it, but the old lady was old after all, and she had been in the rain for a long time, and her body was struggling, not to mention that her feet were still soaking in muddy water, which was a fatal torture for the old man.
Link wrapped the poncho tightly around his mother with his backhand, and pleaded with the sheriff, "Please, even if you let me retreat to the back block, at least take my mother to the airship first." With a stove and dry floors, she could have done better. β
"What are these words? Everyone is waiting to get on the airship and escape for their lives, how can there be any reason to tell people to retreat? The black-faced man said helplessly: "The divine envoy asked us to come up with the style of a union hunter - order is order, and no one can go out of line." Bear with me, the last time the Divine Envoy dispatched, there were only two blocks left from here. β
"Don't listen to this guy." In the rustling rain, a dull voice sounded from the side, "Little guy, if you really want the old lady to live, listen to my advice, it is better to turn around and go back and escape from the town gate to make a living." β
Link turned his head, and no one in the panicked streets could notice the people around him. It wasn't until the other party opened his mouth that the young man noticed a fat bald head in an iron-colored jacket standing behind him: "You are ...... One and a half miles outside the town is the hunting ground, and our mother and son broke in, didn't they be eaten alive by monsters? β
"It's about the same as the odds of escape from waiting here." The strong man crossed his hands and snorted, "That Raush's hunting god is guaranteed to be light, do you know what's going on in front of you?" β
"Don't talk nonsense! Beware of blasphemy! Tiger's eyes widened, and his face looked like that of a tiger.
"Hey, what if it's blasphemous? To tell you the truth, before I retired, I was the captain of the Redstone Airship Team, and I was in charge of the T-shaped boarding and landing area. Even if the airships on the platform have not passed by one by one, they have touched more than eighty percent. The corners of the bald mouth's mouth tilted to the side strangely, "The airships that are still on the tarmac on the easternmost part of the landing pad are all scrapped goods that have been retreated from the volcanic channel. When the fire starts, the power stove either makes a sudden noise, or it emits blue light and smoke, and I don't know how many of them move, why do you think Redstone left them here, it's not a pity at all? β
"Yes...... Is there such a thing? Already soaked through the lining of his clothes by the rain, Link's shoulders shook, shivered, and subconsciously hugged his mother, who was a little unsteady on his feet.
"It's such an airship, and Redstone has also put mechanical locks on them, and would rather rot the key in their stomachs than give it to us." There was a snort from the bald head's nose, "Those Shadow Hunters have never looked at the civilians of the town in the first place, and of course they won't give us a way to survive. β
"Haven't we all waited in vain?" At this time, even Tiger also accepted the fierce look, and asked with some hesitation, but after a few seconds, he woke up again, and a turbid air spewed out from his nostrils, "No, since you feel hopeless, why are you still waiting in line here?" β
"Anyway, there aren't many safe places at the foot of this vast volcano. You should have that in mind when you settle here. The bald man spread his hands, signaled that he was a bachelor, and glanced at the young man, "Those who bring their families should not have settled in this damn town in the first place." β
The more he spoke, the more indignant he became: "I don't think the hunting god of Rausch has any good intentions, maybe someone is just doing ghosts in secret." If you want me to be convinced, if it has the ability, it can first unlock the airship. β
"The lock is unlocked! The airship can move! As soon as the strong man's words fell, there were bursts of shouts from the block in front of him.
"We're going to be saved!" The cheers overshadowed the waves, making the bald face look a little ugly. The two men were just bewitched by his words, and they were about to turn around and rush into the devouring hunting ground, especially Link's face was bruised, and the young man was with his mother by his side, so he didn't make a big mistake.
The bald head looked at the two gloomy compatriots in front of him embarrassedly, and there was a shiny stream on his forehead, I don't know if it was rain or sweat, he said stubbornly: "Hmph, this can't explain anything." As soon as the natural disaster happened, the strange voice came, and Xu Xiaoxiao hid where to pretend to be a ghost. I've lived so long, and I've never seen any gods, and they're all used to scare people, and I can't count them. β
"Clickββ!
A turquoise blast thundered from the top of the volcano, and instead of the usual fork-shaped, thick straight column, it shook the entire town of Burning Rock. The bald head did not finish speaking, but he was frightened, and he closed his mouth with a pale face, and he did not dare to say another word. The crowd of people walking slowly around the neighborhood spontaneously started a new round of prayers, and under the natural disaster, everyone became a sincere prayer worshipper.
The farce is over, Tiger no longer pays attention to the strong man who keeps babbling something, but solemnly says to Link: "Your mother...... You can't put her alone on the airship first, there is no one on the boat to take care of her, you might as well just wait in the rain. In this way, you take the old man to the north end of the block first, and I will see how many old, weak, sick and young people are still on this street, and they are all sent to the airship with their families. The Hunter has chosen me, so that I will not watch my fellow villagers suffer, and I believe that the gods will understand us. β
The young man took his mother with him with great gratitude, and moved through the gap in the queue to the north step by step, but the black-faced strong man stood still and glanced suspiciously at the air. The sky was still cloudy, and the dust in the air had gradually settled under the rain. The new rain was clear, which was a good thing, and it meant that the airship was a little less dangerous to take off, but it was not what he was expecting.
The voice of the Hunter had not been heard since ten minutes ago. Tiger had the heart to ask the oracle about Fang Cai's condition, but the response was only a silence, and the new sheriff's heart couldn't help but feel a little bad, but he could only hold on to it, so that the civilians around him could not see any clues.
"Probably God's guidance is enough to get here." The man explained to himself.
Freed from the initial fear of facing a natural disaster, the town in front of him has largely stabilized. In particular, the take-off and landing pads in the distance have regained their former liveliness, which has ignited a fire of hope in the hearts of the civilians waiting in the streets and alleys.
There are many times when it rains on the landing pad, but there is no time when the people in the square are busy with their lives. The efficiency of the operators has never been as high as it is now, and the movements of the flag bearers are becoming more and more standard, as if they are the product of union training.
The air chamber is gradually bulging into a fusiform under the successive horns, and the idle young men rush in from the cargo compartment, moving boxes and boxes of sundries outwards to make room for the refugees who are about to hide in the cabin. Compared to usual, there are not many airships on the landing pad, and it is easier to dispatch. The medium-sized cargo boat, which has the largest belly, was dragged down the slipway into the A-1 landing platform, and the pilot was putting the finishing touches on the power furnace. Hearing the sound of wind pressure from the propellers outside the cabin, hundreds of cold and hungry refugees in the cargo hold turned the joy of the rest of their lives into shouts.
With a deafening shout, Lena hurriedly shrank her head back from the airship hatch. The gear casually threw it to the ground and covered his ears tightly: "This is the last one!" It's time for us to go back, right? β
"Not yet." Nameless crouched on the ground, holding the tarpaulin high with one hand to cover the three inches in front of him, while the other hand pointed and traced on an unfolded map.
The craftswoman slipped down from the head of the airship, her beautiful purple armor mixed with oil and muddy water, and her every move was glistening with oil: "Helping these fools find a way out?" β
"When you were doing things, I checked the dipsticks of each airship by the way, and like you said, an hour's fuel stock can't fly far." The stealth hunter made a circle on the map with his wet fingers, "The first airship is about to set sail, and they must have a reliable destination." β
"I thought you'd let them hover in the air all the time, after all, it's only a matter of a split second that the ghost spits out the pulp and rushes down." Lena picked up some rain in the air and washed her hands full of oil.
The old hunter raised his head, and the continuous stone waves could be seen on the volcano with the naked eye: "It has rained for dozens of minutes, not to mention the ancient dragon, even the real immortals can't save it." The town could not be saved, and thousands of civilians would need to be resettled sooner or later. β
"Huh...... There is no such thing as 'placement' in the underworld. Lena shook her head and smiled, it wasn't like there were no other settlements within an hour's flight, but most of them were Shadowhunter territory. Once dozens of airships descended on the territory of other families, they could only be greeted by the warships and air defense facilities defending the city, "After spending so much effort and giving them an hour of life, you and I can be regarded as benevolent and righteous, and the rest can only rely on themselves." β
"There's another way - the hunters have set up a number of research and defense outposts at the junction of the submerged forest and the volcanic hunting grounds, and they may be able to lure these airships there." Nameless's eyes lit up, "They won't refuse the thousands of refugees who survived the natural disaster." β
"Hey, these poor guys have just made a few rounds to get out, are you going to kill them when you change hands?" The craftswoman scratched her hair a few times. The nearest union stronghold is at least an hour and a half away, and half an hour by airship means walking several times as long, and the nameless suggestion is tantamount to pushing thousands of unarmed civilians into the barren mountains and mountains.
"If the union can provide the pick-up and fuel β help me carry the tarpaulin." The stealth hunter couldn't help but stuff the cloth into Lina's hand, took out a pen and paper from his waist and wrote hastily, and finally took out a small copper seal and stamped it on the handwriting, and rolled it up with an unusually thick signal bomb, "Dust, find a way to buy me some time, there are some things to give to the pilot of the head ship." β
"Hey, this is a seal that only has a deacon level, and you can mobilize the hunters of half the city with it!" Lena saw it clearly, and said with wide eyes, "So you dare to say that you are not a union hunter?" β
"Senior ......" The young hunter's voice was exhausted to the limit, and the refreshing drink had already been drunk to the point that it didn't work, even if he sealed the dust and how to save mental power, even if he only left the communication with the two seniors, the voice that came from him became blurred, "You have to figure it out yourself, our side...... Something went wrong, too. β
Clearly, he said with wide eyes, "So you dare to say that you are not a union hunter?" β
"Senior ......" The young hunter's voice was exhausted to the limit, and the refreshing drink had already been drunk to the point that it didn't work, even if he sealed the dust and how to save mental power, even if he only left the communication with the two seniors, the voice that came from him became blurred, "You have to figure it out yourself, our side...... Something went wrong, too. β