Chapter 375: The Massacre of Sinderella (Part II)
On the 10th of December, Cinderella was already in mourning. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Firmino hid in a dry well and did not dare to escape until it was dark, when nothing was heard outside.
Three years ago, he was just a scout in the White Wolf Castle, and he was a good player, but in the army he was just a squad leader. Later, he was fortunate enough to be valued by Chappell and became one of Chappell's adjutants. Later, after Chappell began to work with Dane, he naturally joined Dane's forces with Chappell.
Once, he thought that he would continue to do his old job, and his own boss would definitely be a general who directly led the troops, and he would continue to be an adjutant for Chappell. He didn't have any complaints about it, and Chappell had always been nice to him.
But later, Chapur did not become a general, became the chief of logistics, and began to manage the secret intelligence network of the White Wolf Castle. And he also ended his career as an adjutant.
As Chapell's henchman, coupled with good skills, Firmino became an agent of the Castle White Wolf Intelligence Network, which had just been established at that time and was basically not what it looked like.
He became a secret agent.
After working for a while, he found that he seemed to be quite suitable for the job. In the following year, he was born as a scout, and by accident he became a gold medal agent in Chappell's hands.
As a gold medal agent, when Hindlaire's situation changed drastically some time ago, he was given a mission - to infiltrate Cinderella, collect all the information that can be used in the city, and pass it on.
Yesterday, Firmino, with his keen sense of smell, was one of the first people in the city to sense that the Governor of Conry was about to make a big move. Before the massacre began, he quickly sent his men to deliver news to Dane, and at the same time, he also lurked, intending to find out more information.
But who knows, luck is so unlucky?
The tenth, it was the second day of the massacre. The madness of the Governor of Conley continues. In the past two days, he has seen too many corpses all over the field.
He felt that he had hidden it well. A small businessman who followed a humble chamber of commerce to the metropolis of Sinderella to do business would not attract much attention if he reasoned. As luck would have it, the chamber had several bodyguards who had served in the military during the Bernier era.
He dared to swear as a 'gold medal agent' that those guards who were eating in the Chamber of Commerce would never have anything to do with the so-called 'remnants of Bernier'. Those few people, who really just used to be soldiers, and then became soldiers, so they relied on martial arts to make a living, and in the casual conversation on weekdays, they did not show half of their attachment to their old master.
But just because of the fact that they were Bernier's soldiers, they were treated as a so-called 'remnant' by the soldiers of the frenzied Governor Conley.
At noon today, two squads of heavily armed soldiers broke into the chamber of commerce. Without saying a word, he raised his bow and crossbow and shot when he saw someone. Firmino looked at the guards and was shot like a hedgehog in the first shot. Subsequently, the soldiers with knives began to kill people everywhere. There was no order, and it didn't matter what the identity of the person killed was, anyway, in this house where the 'remnants of Bernier's remnants' were once hidden, all the living people were their targets.
With Firmino's skills, he could certainly kill a few soldiers and then walk away. It's just that the whole city is in almost the same situation, and if he dares to kill any soldier at this time, he will face the pursuit of the whole city.
Weighing left and right, he didn't dare to do that, so he escaped from the chamber of commerce, found a dry well outside and hid in, and didn't dare to come out until it was too dark.
When he came out, the chamber of commerce station, which could have been regarded as a prosperous decoration, had become a mess. The furniture was knocked over, and the walls were covered in knife marks and blood.
It's just, very strangely, he didn't see a single corpse.
It wasn't what he had expected. He didn't believe that when those soldiers were in such a hurry to act and there were so many targets to clear up, there were still people who had the time to clean up the scene and clean up the corpses? In fact, according to his earlier judgment, this place should be full of corpses of chamber of commerce men, guards, and small merchants, and those corpses should not be cleaned up until they stink.
Firmino, who was not very tall, cautiously peeked out of the window of the chamber of commerce's residence and looked out.
The place where he was located was not the center of Cinderella's city, but it was more or less a prosperous place in normal times. But now, there was not even a light on outside, it was pitch black, and the cold winter wind blew, which made people feel the slightest coolness, and then mixed with a very obvious and pungent smell of blood, it felt like it was hairy.
In the terrifying atmosphere, Firmino didn't have much to worry about. He could be regarded as a person who had been killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and he had smelled this smell a lot when he was a scout and accompanied Chapur to death during the battle in the Eastern Wasteland.
Looking around, there was really no one, and he simply turned out of the room.
The streets were stained with blood, many of which had not even dried up, apparently not long after the killing.
But again, on the street, he did not see a single body.
This strange phenomenon made him feel very strange and vigilant.
It's so abnormal!
He stood in the middle of the street, thought left and right, found a building with a relatively high floor, turned over and climbed up.
Standing on the top floor, his vision widened, and he looked around.
The city that should have been brightly lit at this point in time is dead dead at the moment. Except for the location of the central palace of the city, which is lit up, the rest of the place is pitch black.
Firmino scratched his head a little, Rao is a gold medal agent who has been doing front-line intelligence work for almost a year, and he can be regarded as an experienced gold agent, and he doesn't know where to start at this time, so he continues to find out the situation.
In this city, he is not the only one who belongs to the intelligence network of White Wolf Castle. As far as he knew, there were no less than twenty intelligence officers who were in contact with each other. Yesterday, when the massacre had just begun, before the city had become so miserable, these intelligence officers had contacted them in some particular way, and roughly estimated that the number of people involved in the massacre was probably no less than 50,000 - that was almost half the population of the city!
But for now, it seems like it's more than that. If only half of the city was killed, then Cinderella would still have a population of 50,000 or 60,000. Where have all those people gone? Why didn't you even cry? You know, in the half day that he hid in the dry well, the cries in the city, the light of the flames, and even the sound of some explosions have never stopped, until the dusk slowly decreases and stops.
I really don't have a clue, and I can't figure out the situation. He sat on the roof and thought about it, and decided to leave for the palace in the center of the city.
Firmino didn't know what was going on near the palace, and he didn't know what he was going to investigate. However, from the perspective of the rooftop, it seems that the rest of the city is not too different from the neighborhood where you are located, and it is definitely difficult to find out what the results are, so it is better to try your luck in the middle of the city.
Not to mention, he did see something.
After a cautious walk in the silence of the city, he could no longer continue at a distance of only a few hundred meters from the central palace of Cinderella. The street in front of him was blocked by two groups of soldiers, who carried weapons and guarded the road under torches on the side of the road.
Although he had not yet tried it, Firmino was sure that if he dared to show his face in the light of the torches, he would not say a word, and the soldiers would take up their blood-stained weapons and stab them in their bodies when they saw a living person.
As for breaking through...... Although he was still relatively confident in his skills, he was not confident enough that he could stab the dozen or twenty heavily armed soldiers in front of him just by relying on a small dagger pinned to his waist.
He twitched his nose and his eyes fell on the room next to him.
A moment later, in the ears of the soldiers guarding the block, it was as if they heard the sound of a cat or mouse passing by. Apart from two complaints, no greater attention was paid to them.
After bypassing the guards from the rooftop, a smile appeared on Firmino's lips. It's just that as soon as his mouth opened, he was almost vomited by a strong fishy smell from the surface.
"Where did you get such a strong smell? Could it be that all the corpses in the city have been gathered here? He complained casually, but the thought that flashed through his mind was caught back by him keenly.
He realized that his casual complaint was likely to be true.
Those vanished corpses......
However, this is nothing more than speculation. Firmino decided to keep walking to see if it was as he had guessed.
This time, he didn't even have to look for directions, he followed the direction that his sense of smell pointed him to.
After crawling through two more guarded areas, he finally found the source of the scent.
"I ...... Oh, my God! ”
Firmino, who was looking out of the window on the second floor of a house on the street, was stunned by what he saw!
Corpse! It's all corpses! Mountains of corpses!
Sure enough, just as he had expected, all the missing corpses in the city were gathered. What he saw in front of him was supposed to be the clean corner of the outer wall of Cinderella's palace, but this corner, which had been guarded by many soldiers on weekdays and never allowed idlers to approach, was now full of human-human corpses.
The corpses were already piled up almost close to the height of the outer wall of the palace, and it was not only this one that had piled up corpses, looking left and right, along the edge of the outer wall of the palace, the mountain of corpses piled up, and even the end could not be seen!
He didn't know why Governor Conry had gathered so many corpses. That's probably the population of the whole city!
Of course, in a city as big as Cinderella, it is impossible for everyone to be killed. For example, he Firmino, didn't he escape? It's just that there are very few people who can save their lives in this massacre. Looking at the scale of the corpse pile, even though he only saw this small corner, he only needed to extrapolate according to the situation he saw in front of him, and he was able to make a general judgment in his heart.
Judging by the length of the outer wall of Sinderella's palace, if there were such a level of accumulation of corpses in every part of the entire outer wall, the number would be almost 100,000.
This means that Conry himself slaughtered the entire city!
Firmino, who gasped, felt numb all over his body. His knowledge is not less, but the scene of so many corpses piled up together, he is really the first time to see it!
Although, from a long distance, he couldn't see the specific appearance of any corpse clearly, but he could imagine how heavy the souls accumulated on top of these countless corpses were?
It must have been the most terrifying scene he had ever seen in his life.
It took a few minutes of shock for him to slowly come to his senses.
After regaining his cool head and starting to think again, a thick doubt filled his heart. In his impression, killing 100,000 people in the city was not a small siege. Even if these 100,000 people are all unarmed civilians, they are human beings, they have legs, they can run and hide. Even, not all civilians are unarmed, for example, the guards of the Chamber of Commerce where he hid before also have swords in their hands.
Five thousand people, kill so many people, two days? It's incredible.
Moreover, even if they were killed, how could so many corpses be transported from all parts of the city to the corners of the palace in the space of one or two days? Again, this is a question that Firmino can't figure out.
However, these are only 'small' issues. The more important thing for him is to figure out why Conry is doing this. What's in it for him?
He realized that this was very important piece of information, and it would definitely be a great task to figure it out. Moreover, even if you don't mention the credit or anything, just unlocking such a shocking secret is also a very fulfilling thing for an intelligence officer like him.
He dispelled the fear that had hung over him, intending to begin further investigation into the truth.
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It's still a two-in-one chapter.