9. The royal family
I said, "Royalists, royalists, which king is the protector?" β
Boren said: "The Queen of England. β
I made a "ha" with my nose, which is a difficult pronunciation, very yin and yang weird and careless.
A bodyguard next to himβI don't know if it's one of the so-called Five Hunting Methodsβshouted, "Are you mocking? β
I said, "Where else is the Queen of England now?" It's as funny as having a president in the United States, wife, don't you say? β
"Because of the urgency, I'll cut a long story short, the city has been destroyed once in history, and it was probably the most powerful nuclear bomb ever built," Boren said.
The nuclear bomb was launched because the city was polluted by the vapor of some kind of blood, and the blood mist turned the infected into fast, strong, and ferocious ghouls, which we call Mortz ghouls, because the scatterer of that blood is called Ark Motz.
Before the bomb was dropped, all the British royal family, ministers, officials β those who were not infected β evacuated the city and fled to Manchester.
Nuclear bombs do not cause as much damage to buildings as they do to living beings, and the nuclear radiation pollution it causes is unprecedented, the air is full of radioactive materials, and the dark clouds in the air linger and rain of nuclear contamination falls.
This may have triggered some kind of upheaval, opening a 'rift' in another dimension, and as a result, demons began to appear throughout the city. The surrounding cities have taken all measures to isolate the place, and it has become a branch of hell.
After about two decades, experts say that the nuclear bomb used in the first place uses new technology, and the radioactive material has decayed and is no longer so 'dangerous'. As a result, some nostalgic people in the royal family, as well as some international friends, wanted to retake the city.
Those people are our ancestors, including the British royal family, the Sword and Shield Society, some voodoo in Eastern Europe, the Brotherhood of Kongming, and the Bloods with a keen sense of smell. Each of them has their own goals, some want to use this opportunity to study demons, some want to find treasures in museums, some want to see the scene of hell with their own eyes, and some want to gain more power.
In any case, an army of about 10,000 men was organized and marched into London in full gear. Overhead, there was still a dark cloud that lingered, and as far as the eye could see, there were countless ruins and devastation.
They discover a strange distribution of forces in the city, some places are demons, some places are ghouls left over by demons, and of course, humans are dead.
The army failed to complete its mission, and the remaining radiation in the city interfered with communications and weapons, and many people died after being surrounded by demons.
Fortunately, under the guidance of some mages, the survivors found this place - the Sea of Aether, and the Black House Street behind the Sea of Aether, where the demons could not chase down. The survivors were trapped in the Black House Street, unable to leave, they wanted to wait for rescue, but they didn't wait for it after all, and this wait was more than a hundred years.
So, the survivors β we β are waiting here, multiplying here, we call ourselves the old people of the Black Street, and in order to prevent panic and organize manpower more effectively, we have formed a cabinet according to the old monarchy, elected a prime minister, and elected a member of the British royal family as king. β
I'd like to point out that he's not making a long story short, on the contrary, he's very verbose, but if he's done, Lamia and I will probably have to work for him, and I want to rest a little longer, so it's better to let him continue.
Boren: "At first, we called it Miracle Street, because it was here that we found some people infected with the blood of Ark Motz, who had actually returned to normal, and they had strong bodies. One by one, ghouls will wander here, and we will rescue them and let the Aether restore them to their original state.
After a while, we discovered that the aether mutates people, and there are threats such as heavy feather rain and feather slash. Of course, these have already been introduced to both of them. Even in harsh conditions, our population is still more than 8,000, and some of the newborn babies are much stronger than ordinary people, agile like wild animals, and can learn spells. More often than not, we can protect ourselves.
We keep organizing expeditions to the outside, wanting to tell the people outside that we're alive, wanting them to send reinforcements, wanting to be part of the world again.
The expeditions were almost wiped out, but finally someone found a wrecked plane, and the man in the plane told us that the outside world is also finished, the whole world seems to have evaporated, and we may well be one of the rare seeds of human civilization.
We didn't believe it at first, but after tempting us with a polygraph spell, we thought the man wasn't lying.
We are unfortunate, but we are alive, and we must live, because we are humanity's last hope. β
I pointed at us and said, "I'm sorry, we're still alive, humanity did destroy once, but now it's starting to revive again." β
Bolun sighed, "I think so too, only hope and faith can keep us from going crazy in despair." But over time, we, the ironclad and united Black Street people, have disagreements.
The Queen, and her adherents, believe that we should find a way out of the dark streets and continue to fulfill the mission that our ancestors did not complete. I, as Prime Minister, believe that our primary goal should be to preserve ourselves, and that we should only plan further when the time comes.
We were divided into two factions. The despicable royalists took advantage of our unpreparedness and launched a sneak attack. If it weren't for the sudden heavy feather, I might have become a prisoner of the royalists. At that time, Queen Ranna, hmph, Queen Rana will carry out her crazy idea to make our strongest warriors risk their death in the heart of London.
What's more, she will let us send an army to attack the demon tree at the risk of death, in a vain attempt to solve the problem once and for all, hum, what a whimsical little girl, she doesn't know what kind of painful lesson the predecessors have experienced, the precious lesson that has been exchanged for blood and life. β
I carefully discerned his expression and asked, "Queen Rana will not.... I won't have anything to do with you. β
Bolun's face changed color and he asked rhetorically, "How do you know?" β
After he came to power, in order to consolidate his power, he would most likely use marriage and murder to try his relatives to become queens.
It stands to reason that the queen can't be his wife, it's probably his daughter?
I asked, "Is she your daughter?" β
Bolun looked left and right in shock and shouted to Safi, "You told him?" β
Safi shook his head and said, "No, my lord, I didn't say anything. β
I smiled and said, "This is just my own speculation, I have always been known for my ingenuity. β
Bolun sighed: "Rana is my eldest daughter, and my wife is the sister of the previous king, and after His Majesty died of illness, my daughter succeeded to the throne. Alas, she is really rebellious, I am loyal to her, and I am her biological father, how much have I contributed to her, just because I restrained her stupid ideas, she did such a poisonous hand to me? β
He let out a long sigh and behaved sadly. I began to wonder if Carla would stab my old father in the back in the future.
But how is that possible? I am such a man of great wisdom....
I said, "Then you mean that we should deal with the royalists?" β
Bolun nodded: "The first thing is the royalists, now, with the advantage of force, we occupy the south and east parts of the black building group, but you can also see that these buildings are full of loopholes, they can sneak in when they want, when they attack." β
He opened a curtain, and I could see that there were many rails connected to the saddle between the buildings, and that there were all floors of a skyscraper, in all directions, and even in every window. The person on the opposite side can go around in a big circle and enter the skyscraper from behind.
"It's easy to attack, but she doesn't know where you are," Lamia said. She doesn't necessarily have to search one building after another. β
There are about 50 skyscrapers in total, each with at least 100 floors, but only about 50 floors with exterior walls that can live in people is probably more complicated than the world's largest labyrinth, and it is not easy to find someone.
Boren said: "I was going to give her a head-on shot! But she has the same force as me. We have ten Spell Hunters, five of whom are on my side and four of her are on my side, which is one of my strengths. But she had two thousand soldiers in half of the area, and I had only a thousand, which was very bad for me. β
I said, "Wait, there are ten so-called Dharma hunters, you are five and she is four, and what about the other one?" β
"He's the most powerful of the magicians, Leon Lee. He must have been on my side, but he had trespassed into the City of London and has not returned. That's why Rana dared to do it to me. β
"Maybe we should shake hands and make peace, because it's not that big," Lamia said. β
Bolun said: "You don't understand, you don't understand the character of this girl Ranna, she must want revenge." β
Lamia and I asked at the same time, "Revenge?" What revenge? β
Bolun seemed to know that he had slipped his mouth, and immediately defended: "The hatred she thinks she thinks is actually just that I punished her more harshly when I was a child..."
I said angrily, "You bastard, are you an alchemist or something?" β
Bolun also said angrily: "What do you think in this brain, how could I do such a thing? β
His attitude was so resolute that I dispelled my doubts, and I let out an "oh" and said, "That's my misunderstanding, sorry, sorry." β
Bolun said: "At half past seven in the morning the day before yesterday, she sent a hunter to lead her army into Building 40 in Area B, and we exchanged fire, each with casualties. In retaliation, I sent another Spell Hunter into her base to capture her, and she escaped. There is blood on both sides, and at the moment, I don't see any hope of a ceasefire, and besides, Rana is a fanatic, she won't agree...."
I said, "Can you know where she's based?" β
Bolun nodded, "Yes, as I told you, I have the cameras on each rail, so I can roughly guess where she's hiding." That's another big advantage for me. β