Chapter 206: The City on Fire
In the Sanctuary of Angorivin, Cassius waited anxiously for information from Reesus.
In the interim, Marvin informed him of what had been found in the congressman's house and handed him the pile of pottery.
Regarding the imitation **, Marven didn't even mention it.
Cassius took the terracotta figurine and looked at it closely. The front and back of the figurines each depict a person, one side in serious contemplation, the other side dancing happily, and the face of the pottery figure has only one eye, which is round and very similar to the card that S gave him.
There's also a clay plate, a small stick, and a few messy chops.
What else do these things mean?
Cassius picked up the clay plate, which seemed to be painted with some strange patterns. He picked up the plate and put it to his nose to smell it.
"Hey, this plate smells of blood."
"It's a prayer vessel." Father Marvin took the initiative to respond to his doubts.
"Some ascetics of the mystical sect who feel that their prayers are not pious enough, will sprinkle their own blood with a holy grail. The one you have in your hand is one of those forms. ”
"Ugh!" Cassius hastened to remove it from his nose and put away the pile of rags.
Footsteps rang out the door. Resus, who came in a hurry, took out the carefully guarded box from his bosom and handed it to the Juggernaut.
Catherine leaned over and looked curiously at the flat spindle-like box, and on the lid, in poor handwriting, wrote a multiple-choice question:
"The right way to eat fish is:
1. Eat only the head of the fish 2. Eat from the tail 3. Take it to feed the cat 4. Eat half and half of the remaining half to offer to the Buddha"
"What's this puzzle?" The female knight looked up, hoping to get some hint from Cassius.
Cassius looked at the title of the prank, stretched out a hand, wiped his mustache, and pressed the fourth button under the expectant gaze of the female knight.
The lid of the box opened at the sound of a shaft with a small roll of black paper hanging from it.
Marvin and Catherine couldn't wait to reach out and read the contents of the paper. Cassius carefully pulled the black scroll open, containing countless details they wanted, including the route of travel, the method of the breakthrough, the details of the island, and so on.
All the people stared at this information, their eyes were full of joy, and Cassius said with relief: "It seems that S is safe now, and we can discuss it calmly." ”
Catherine was about to talk, when she suddenly frowned and said, "My intuition tells me that outside, it seems a little different?" After saying that, he couldn't help but wrinkle his nose.
Cassius frowned as he walked to the window of his room, observing the night outside.
At this time, the moon had set, and the earth was dark and quiet, but there seemed to be some commotion in the message sent by the night wind.
The north side of the city, mixed with a violent smoke and fire, at first only faintly flashed a few times, in the blink of an eye, the explosion continued to sound, several fires rose into the sky, and the screams of women and children resounded throughout the city.
Reses shouted, "They're moving again, get out of here, we can catch them." ”
Cassius grabbed him: "Calm down, the guerrilla association is closer to there, Kim will rush over, let's quickly discuss the steps of action." ”
The female knight gritted her teeth and gurgled: "This time is too good, have they already noticed our arrival and deliberately want to hold us back." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, Melanie ran in and reported: "A whole battalion of soldiers has appeared in the streets, and the roads leading to the outside of the city have been put under martial law. ”
"Where did the soldiers come from? And what about our airships? ”
"It's the battalion of soldiers stationed outside the city, the garrison that was added after the local accident last year. In order to avoid exposure and entanglement, the airship has been urgently lifted into the air and is now temporarily unable to carry it. ”
The female knight was full of anger and said coldly, "They are really fast enough. ”
She turned to Cassius and said, "Cassius, let's divide the work, and the city will be handed over to you." We also have a boat in the waterway outside the city, and we are going to catch rats in the water. ”
"With only half the strength, can you handle it?"
The female knight cast an inquiring glance at Marven, who quickly made a decision: "We will call for support and see who else can come." You must settle the affairs of the city as soon as possible, and then come to our reinforcements. ”
Cassius handed the information box that had been opened into the hands of the female knight: "With S inside, maybe you can relax, I will stabilize the situation in the city as soon as possible, solve the problem of the soldiers, and then rush to reinforce you." ”
The two groups of people quickly discussed, and the guerrillas ran towards the fire, searching for the lair of the Mystic Order was important, but it was their primary duty to keep the civilians in the city safe.
After Marven and the other guerrillas left, he took out a portable communicator and called to the support members on the airship: "There are forbidden items here, the importance of the action has increased by one level, immediately call all the remaining members in Kaslai, use the airship to pick them up, we will rush by boat first to break the defensive formation." ”
In the old neighborhood of Angorivin, there are many connected wooden buildings, which have been rainy these days, and the beams of the wooden houses are moldy. However, the arsonists knew how to do this, and they used large quantities of explosives and flammable materials to cause a critical high temperature at the point of fire, and when this temperature was too high, it was a disaster for the wooden buildings that were connected to each other.
Because it was the middle of the night, the sound of the explosion resounded almost throughout the city, and many residents ran out before they had time to get dressed, and the streets were filled with the sound of crying and panic.
"The demons are coming, the demons are coming, they are going to take our loved ones and children!"
Suddenly, a tall figure appeared in the firelight.
"Don't panic, everyone, we are guerrillas. Don't run around, find your family, stand in a crowded place, and we will protect everyone's safety. ”
Perhaps it was the burly figure of Jinna, who was a head taller than ordinary people, that was very convincing, or perhaps the word guerrilla was convincing, but in short, he quickly found an open place for the residents at the fire site as a temporary shelter, and organized more than a dozen people to participate in fighting the fire.
Seeing that these wooden houses, one after the other, were about to be set on fire, Kim suddenly saw a big wet log in front of the family. He stretched out his hand, picked it up, and rushed into a burning house.
Cassius ran to the scene, and saw the big man named Kim, carrying a large log alone, and slammed it hard, and a wooden wall that had caught fire fell towards the fire, and the adjacent houses finally had some distance from the fire.
Cassius ran over, took one end of the wood, and asked, "Are there any casualties?" ”
"At the center of the explosion was an apartment, there were many wounded inside, the number of dead and injured has not yet been counted, the whole street is on fire, we can only stop the fire from spreading first, and several other guerrillas are searching from house to house to see if there are any people trapped in the fire."
Cassius took a deep breath, and the smell of gunpowder and incendiary bombs was evident in the air. He took the other end of the big log and ran to the next fire stopper, when he suddenly remembered an important question: "Did you find any suspicious people when you came over?" ”
Jin shook his head: "The enemy is very good at concealment, from the time the explosion sounded to the time I arrived here, it was no more than 3 minutes, but I didn't see a single suspicious person." ”
With that, the two of them worked together, and another wall that was on fire fell in response.
One of the guerrillas saw Cassius and ran over and said, "We've searched this row of houses to make sure all the people inside have escaped." ”
Cassius remembered the blackened, unsightly guerrilla named Hamill.
In the streets, the sound of heavy machinery starting.
Residents thundered with joy, and the fire station's fire truck came.
In the darkness, the police whistle sounded, and the police of Pvinnis were hurriedly dispatched.
On the other side, the army's characteristic bugle sounded, and a large group of soldiers drove towards this side.
There was chaos in the city.