Chapter 198: The Returning Survey Corps
After Allen heard Yang Pan's slightly meaningful words, he suddenly glanced at him a little strangely, and asked in a somewhat confused tone, "Uncle, what did you say?" ”
"Ha, ha, I'm kidding, don't care." Yang Pan patted Allen on the shoulder and said with a smile.
Seeing Yang Pan say this, the simple-minded Allen didn't doubt it, but he was a little dissatisfied, but Mikasa, who had been talking very little, looked at the location of the basement, looked at Allen, and finally turned his gaze to Yang Pan, and took a deep look.
She always felt that the uncle in front of her made her feel a little kind, and the sentence just now had something else, not a joke as he said.
But at this time, there was a sudden sound of a bell outside the house, followed by a commotion, although Yang Pan didn't know what was happening, but from where the faint words such as 'return', 'investigation', and 'casualties', he also guessed what was going on.
It seems that the Survey Corps has returned from investigating beyond the Great Wall.
When Alan heard the bell, he said with a very excited expression, "The gate is open, and the Survey Corps is back." After speaking, he ran towards the outside of the house, and Mikasa on the side hurriedly followed when he saw this, and in an instant, only Yang Pan himself was left in the entire house.
"It looks like it's supposed to be the Survey Corps coming back, and it seems like that's the case." Yang Pan said something to himself, then drank all the water in the cup, and walked out, he was going to follow to join in the fun.
Not far from Allen's home, Yang Pan relied on his excellent eyesight to see the gate of the urn city in the Higanshina district slowly rising, and a team of people slowly entered the giant wall and walked on the street, and the bustling crowd gradually gathered on both sides of the street.
Judging by their attire, the group of people who returned from beyond the giant wall should be members of the Survey Corps.
However, although Yang Pan was far away from that side at this time, he could still feel that the morale of this group of survey corps members was very low, like soldiers who had lost a battle.
After looking at it for a while, Yang Pan began to look around, and after confirming the location of Eren and Mikasa, he also set off to follow.
When Yang Pan followed Eren and Mikasa to the street where the Survey Corps had returned, he suddenly heard whispered conversations from time to time in the crowd.
"Why are there only so many people back?"
"Probably all eaten by giants."
"It's okay to run out of the wall, that's what happened."
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Listening to the discussion of the surrounding crowd, Yang Pan raised his eyebrows, and then with the advantage of his height, he stood directly outside the crowd and looked at the team of people in the middle of the street.
Judging from the insignia of the Wings of Freedom on the group, their identities were indeed members of the Survey Corps, but their morale and state were extremely poor at this time.
The whole procession, whether on horseback, on foot, or lying in a cart, all of them either drooped their heads or covered their faces with cloaks.
And their bodies were more or less covered with blood, nearly half of them were still bandaged, and even the people lying in the carriage were basically mutilated.
The low morale and the large number of wounded made the whole team look very miserable, even a little shocking.
After looking at it for a while, Yang Pan shook his head slightly, and then turned his head to look at Alan and Mikasa who were standing on the box next to him and looking out into the crowd.
However, at this time, Allen's eyes were wide open, his mouth was slightly open, and he looked very surprised, while Mikasa's expression was very flat.
Just when Yang Pan thought that there was no interest here, and was about to go back to Allen's house, an old lady suddenly rushed out of the crowd, shouting a person's name, and blocking the way of the advancing survey corps, and the surrounding discussions gradually disappeared at this time.
After the old woman had exchanged a few words with a middle-aged man from the Survey Corps, the middle-aged man said something, and then another member of the Survey Corps next to him took out a long strip of blood-stained white cloth wrapped in blood-stained white cloth from the carriage behind him and handed it to the old woman.
After a slight pause, the old woman untied the white cloth wrapped in her hand in a little panic, and after seeing the object wrapped in the white cloth, the old woman suddenly fell to her knees and cried bitterly.
And the sharp-eyed Yang Pan saw the items wrapped in the white cloth the moment the old woman opened the package, and a broken hand stained with blood.
Shaking his head again, the scene in front of him touched Yang Pan a little, and he felt that he didn't want to continue watching the excitement here.
didn't care about the follow-up development of things, Yang Pan turned around and walked directly into the alley next to him, and when there was no one around, he took out his contemplative pipe, lit it and stuffed it into his mouth.
Between the smoke, Yang Pan lowered his head and leaned against the wall, looking thoughtful.
Although Yang Pan has also completed several space missions, and can be regarded as experiencing life and death, in the end, the time he has entered the infinite space is still a little short.
Although his mentality has changed, he was born in a harmonious society after all, so the cruel reality of Attack on Titan still touched him a little.
Spit out the smoke in his mouth, Yang Pan knocked the cigarette ash in his pipe to the corner of the wall, and then said self-deprecatingly, "I'm really still too tender." ”
And at this time, Yang Pan suddenly saw Mikasa pulling Allen's clothes into the alley with one hand, and behind them was an old man who was scolding and scolding.
"Well, uncle, why are you here?" Mikasa subconsciously asked when he saw Yang Pan.
Yang Pan raised the dark green contemplative pipe in his hand, and then walked towards the old man who followed behind them.
Seeing that Yang Pan walked over, the other party's footsteps also stopped, and subconsciously wanted to say something, but Yang Pan didn't bother to listen to him, so he directly grabbed the right head and threw it directly out of the alley.
After doing all this, Yang Pan clapped his hands indifferently, and then turned to look at Mikasa and Allen, who was being dragged by her.
"What's the matter, Alan, are you causing trouble for Mikasa again?" Yang Pan asked.
"It's the guy just now, he said that the survey corps went out to deliver rations to the giants, he, how could he say that." Before Mikasa could answer, Alan rushed to say in an excited tone.
Yang Pan patted Allen's head and didn't say anything, although he knew the true side of this world, but it was difficult to say it, or he didn't know whether to say it or not, after all, it didn't do him any good.
In this regard, Alan's father, Grisha Yageger, came from beyond the Great Wall and also knew the truth of this world, but he also did not tell Alan about it.
Even his father didn't mention it to his son, and it was better for him as an outsider not to do this kind of thing that didn't have any benefits and was thankless.
On the way home, the three of them didn't say a word, Yang Pan had a pipe in his mouth as if he was thinking about something, Alan lowered his head and was a little depressed, and although Mikasa's expression was flat, he glanced at Alan next to him from time to time, obviously very concerned about the latter.
Yang Pan thought that they would return to Allen's house in silence, but just halfway through, Mikasa, who had been relatively silent, suddenly took the initiative to break the silence.
"Alan, are you still going to join the Survey Corps now?" Mikasa asked in a deep voice.
Hearing Mikasa's question, Eren was a little evasive, tilted his head and said, "Let's go back quickly, it's time for lunch." With that, Alan sped up.
Seeing that Eren didn't answer his question directly, Mikasa didn't continue to ask, but just sped up to keep up with Elan's speed.
After walking for a while, the three of them returned to Allen's house, but after entering Allen's home, the corners of Yang Pan's eyes narrowed slightly, because he found that Allen's father, Grisha Yageer, had returned home at this time.
And after Yang Pan followed Alan and Mikasa into the house, the other party immediately stood up, and his eyes were directly locked on him, and he didn't even respond to Alan and Mikasa's calls.
From the other party's gaze, Yang Pan felt suspicion and vigilance, but he didn't care, he didn't believe that the attacking giant in front of him would do something with him here.