"I have given you the power to trample down serpents and scorpions, and to overcome all the power of your enemies, and nothing can harm you. ”

In the dark night, someone seemed to be whispering.

Presse barely heard all of this, from the Gospels.

Before the rise of steam technology, the Western world was ruled by the Holy Evangelical Papal States, who stirred up strife and war in the name of God, and under the power of faith, the Templar crusades roamed the islands and continents, destroying cities wherever they went.

At God's will, they enforced their divine rights until Invig won the Glorious War, the steam engine shattered all faith, and with the leap of technology, the old Holy Gospel Papal States formed a huge military fault line with the countries with steam technology, and faith could no longer rule anyone.

Despite this, the influence of the Evangelical Church on the nations remains, after all, the old Dunling was originally founded by the Romans, and most people still maintain their reverence and faith in it, whispering together and gathering together in a torrent of prayers.

Officer Preese was on his knees at the moment, and he didn't understand what was going on tonight.

A few hours ago, the sheriff gathered all the men, he didn't know what was happening, only that this was the first time in Sualan Hall in recent years that such a huge police force had attacked, thinking that it was some kind of secret operation, for which he was even ready to die in battle, but when a large number of mounted police arrived here, it was the Royal Janissaries who were waiting for them.

It was rare to see this group of soldiers in red dashi, who were Invig's trump card during the Glorious War, and it was rumored that their daze was black, but the blood of the enemy stained it red, and the enemies who feared them called them the Red Shirts.

The iron boots slammed on the ground, the crisp sound of iron echoed in everyone's ears, and a resident who lived not far from the lower town opened his window, and he wanted to scold the people who woke him up, but poked his head out and found that it was pitch black like never before.

The red-clad Praetorian Guards blocked the entire dungeon and its surroundings, they raised the walls of the city with guns and cannons, in order to prevent unrelated people from seeing this place and accidents, the mechanical courtyard cut off all electricity in this area dozens of minutes ago, the lights went out, and the darkness completely isolated people from the dirty secret.

There was no resistance, and there was no need to resist, and the Royal Guards were brought under control before the Mounties could figure out what was going on, so a group of mounted police from the Sualan Hall were seized of all their weapons and knelt under the cold night of the old Dunling.

Something must have happened tonight, and there was silence everywhere, except for the sound of iron boots, except for everyone's gasps and the murmur of prayer.

Suddenly, someone from the mounted police stood up, and several Praetorian Guard soldiers pointed their guns directly at him, it was a weapon that Prey had never seen before, presumably a secret product of the Mechanical Academy, but he didn't look at it much, he knew very well that the more he knew, the faster he died.

"I'm Sergeant Donas of Sualan Hall, and I have the right to see your leader!"

It was Sergeant Donas, who couldn't stand it any longer, so he yelled angrily, but what awaited him was a thump of the butt of a rifle, and the soldiers didn't care who he was.

"Sheriff Donas?"

Someone in the darkness said tentatively, and as he tilted his head, Donas saw the man who had come out of the darkness in pain.

It was an outfit that Donus had never seen before, the edges of the pitch-black skuze were gorgeous, and the sword and gun were all models that had never been seen before, but judging from the intricate craftsmanship, it must have been an excellent murder weapon.

There was a strange smell on him, not so bad as it was, but it was familiar and pungent, and it took him a long time for Donus to remember that it was the smell of sulfur.

"Hello, I'm the person in charge here. ”

It was a delicate mask, but Donas couldn't see it clearly because of the darkness of his vision.

"Do you know what you're doing?"

Sergeant Donas scolded angrily, as a sheriff he had never been treated like this, but apparently his words were useless, and the iron boots kicked him hard in the abdomen, and Donas shrank in pain on the ground.

"I want you to recognize two facts, Sheriff. ”

The pitch-black muzzle was pointed directly at the sheriff, and the man's demeanor was very casual, as if he would fire in the next second.

"The first fact, if it weren't for the fact that your mounted police were too numerous, we didn't want to leave the police force vacant in Sualan Hall, otherwise you would all die tonight according to the process. ”

The muzzle of the gun was pressed against Donas's head, writhing so hard that he let out a groan of pain, and the rest of the mounted police were tempted to do what the sergeant was treated, but the soldiers moved the muzzle of the gun directly at them.

"The second fact, tonight we have the right to shoot anyone. ”

Raising the muzzle of the gun, the man looked at his watch, and when the time was almost up, he shouted loudly.

"Plugging their ears and blindfolding, what follows is not what they can see. ”

Preece was moved without resistance, and the soldiers did not expect to encounter this group of mounted police tonight, so they could only drive them to the other side of the darkness, blindfolded and plugged their ears, but when Pres arrived, the man suddenly stopped the operation and ordered the soldiers to lead Preece over.

"What's your name, officer?"

The man looked at the outer city behind him, as if waiting for something.

"Pres Leilana, sir. ”

For this man, Presce didn't dare to slack off, after all, even his boss said that he would beat him, let alone himself.

"My name is Kestrels. ”

Kestrel turned his head and said, his eyes under the oily red mask looking at Pree, who knew it was just a code name, but he didn't understand why the man in front of him was telling him.

"Take it and protect your colleagues. ”

It was the same firearm as the Praetorian Guard, heavy, unlike any other firearm that Prey had used.

"For ...... Why me. ”

Pres had a lot to ask, such as how could there be any chance of self-protection with this group of powerful Praetorian Guards, but when it came to his lips, he could only say these things dryly.

"Hmm...... Maybe it's the face is good, or maybe it's the sheriff I can't get used to you, okay, don't be stunned, if you can do everything next, I hope you haven't seen it, okay?"

Kestrel said, but added as she remembered something.

"'Out of control' can also happen to that group of mounted cops, and if I can I need you to kill your colleague if necessary...... Or yourself. ”

"What...... Meaning......"

Press did not understand, and his doubts increased, and at the same time, the sound of divine prayer intensified, and a mysterious sense of religion covered every inch of the land.

"It's better not to know that these things come at a cost. ”

The kestrel didn't want to say anything more, as if the conversation had just been a whim.

As Kestrel fell, the situation did not give Prey a chance to ask anything more, and a loud whistle came from afar.

It stands to reason that there shouldn't be a steam tram now, but it just did, and the blazing light cut through the darkness at the end of the mist.

It was galloping, with a howling wind, and he only briefly saw the steam tram as it passed in front of his eyes.

The heavy armor on the pitch-black surface, the whole vehicle was far larger than any steam tram that Prey had ever seen, and this was the real iron serpent sweeping through the line with the desire to kill, and then more whistles rang out, roaring from the fog, like the neighing of galloping horses.

For a moment, Prese had a strange illusion that these Praetorian Guards in front of him were not the protagonists of tonight, and those iron snakes that he had never seen before and who came slowly from the night were the real protagonists.

And as they sank into the darkness of the lower city, the whole earth trembled as if some behemoth were fighting in the darkness.

......

Just like the Paradise of the Shrike, the underground palace was also built under a ruin, remember that it was originally a tall and majestic building, but unfortunately it was covered by enemy artillery fire during the glorious war, even this building in the wilderness was not spared.

Soldiers dressed like kestrels, guarding every part of the dungeon's vicinity, their cold muzzles pointing in the direction of the dungeon.

Shrike hadn't been in vain for so long in the lower city, and I don't know where he got the original blueprints of the dungeon, and there were already heavy troops at several exits, which were the first line of defense, followed by soldiers scattered around, and the Janissaries on the periphery.

"So you're going to be in person? Your duty should be to be out and about, and it's supposed to be me. ”

Berau objected to Galahad's suggestion to enter the dungeon to search for Eve, and the operation was about to begin, and the two were on the main battlefield at the gates of the dungeon, where the most ferocious impact was predicted.

"No, time is running out, and we'll have to attack when they arrive. ”

"So you're going to save people and come out in such a short time? You know our process very well, you're going to die at our hands, and you probably won't even be able to keep the body in order to get rid of it completely. ”

The shrike was full of distrust of Galahad's words.

"So what do you think you should do? Galahad said angrily.

He was greeted by silence, in fact, Beroe didn't know what to do, Lorenzo's bastard is a very good sword, so good that if you tell him the goal, he will solve it cleanly, but the same sword is also easy to get out of control, you never know what moth will be made in the next second, like now.

But fortunately, the bad night did not intend to make the two entangled, it directly gave its own answer, so an extremely cold cold hit the two.

It was hard to describe the feeling, as if it was a biological instinct for protection, and the two of them breathed heavily for a moment, and a feeling of fear rose from the bottom of their hearts, and they looked at each other for a moment, followed by the shrill siren that sounded through the night.

It was an extremely high-frequency ticking sound that came from everyone's body, and as time went on, the frequency became more and more concentrated until it eventually became a long, piercing sound.

It was the Geiger counter, a complex set of mechanical products that detected the radiation index that was difficult for ordinary people to observe, and determined the proximity of the target location with the frequency of the warning. At this moment, the indicator is constantly rising, and finally breaking through the critical value, and the blood-red light reflects everything.

Everyone knew very well what this meant, there were no too many arguments and words, the bullets were loaded, the artillery was ready, there was no hesitation, the overwhelming shells directly covered the surface of the entire dungeon, this was a cleansing operation, the purification mechanism did not need any living mouth, as for Eve, it seemed to them that Eve's life ended when the alarm sounded.

This is the iron law of purifying the organs, and it is also the reason why they have been able to fight those demons with mortal bodies to this day.

"Attention units, the reality bending anomaly has appeared, start moving, no one will leave alive tonight except us!"

As Galahad's roar echoed through the channel, divine light fell on the ruined land, all bright, all darkness banished, like a land favored by God. It was support from the night sky, and the massive steel whale slowly swam among the clouds, its light like a sword thrown by a god.

There was a smell of blood and ominous from the exit in front of him, Galahad directly waved his arm, and countless fires lit up in front of the flamethrower, it was a row of soldiers, they were wearing heavy fireproof suits, their bodies were completely covered with only a pair of lenses to observe the outside world, and heavy breathing came from the gas masks.

It was the arsonists, the most terrifying nightmare in the assault on underground facilities, the modified flamethrowers and high-capacity fuel backpacks from the mechanical institute that could burn at high temperatures for tens of minutes, and the blazing fire would burn all the air in the underground space, and then burn the enemy to death like a baking oven.

More soldiers set up spears behind them, and the only weaknesses of the arsonists were limited mobility and fragile protection, and their fireproof suits were extremely bulky to keep them out of the heat, and only under the protection of these soldiers could they be guaranteed that they would not be killed at close range.

This is a close-knit wall, and the slightest gap can cause the entire section of the wall to collapse.

"Do you hear that? Galahad. ”

Shrike had set up his strange silver-white spear, his fingers lightly pressed on the trigger, his eyes solemn and cautious.

It was the sound of the dark entrance in front of them, the hurried pace and the hoarse whispers, as if a crowd was fleeing in a panic towards this place, they were about to escape from the darkness of the earth, but what awaited them was not a new life of repentance, but a flame that destroyed everything.

"Keeping our plan in mind, tonight there was a fuel explosion in the lower city that caused the dungeon to collapse...... No one survived. ”

Galahad's voice was cold, executing orders like a machine, completely different from the heroic image of the person who had just tried to save Eve.

Countless twisted figures burst out of the darkness with the smell of decay, they were no longer human, and their hideous makeup was like the weirdness recorded in the old books, as they were called then.

Devil.

So the black iron serpent came from afar with a howling wind, and the inertia was so great that when it slowed down and braked, the junction of the wheels and the rails stirred up a dazzling spark, and then the heavy iron armor lifted one by one, and the deep and distant prayer echoed in everyone's communicator.

"Be sober and watchful, for your adversary, the devil, is as a roaring lion, which walks about in search of whom he may devour, and resist him with strong faith. ”

The iron door popped open in an instant, and the blazing steam surged, and the man whispered into the battlefield in the endless white tide.