Chapter 45: The Man with Wishes
As the sun had just risen to its highest, the entire team of the Survey Corps began to move to the left under Alwin's command, in order to avoid the sudden appearance of the common giants and strange creatures.
However, this approach will not be able to eradicate the crisis, as some Odd Species do not move much faster than horses, and are likely to catch up when the team passes through troubled terrain.
Not only that, but the real threat is the armored giant and the female giant mixed in.
Although the two giants are not seen at the moment, everyone knows that they are the only ones who can cause abnormal situations.
Judging from the current development, it is presumable that those giants were originally attracted to a certain place, and finally released at the same time as the discovery of the Survey Corps.
"There are a huge number of strange species, and their daytime and stamina are much longer than horses, so it is of little use to continue to escape!"
Armin glanced back, and now that the black signal smoke was rising, the threat from the giants was approaching.
Connie and Jean, who were following behind, also knew what Armin meant, and the two of them drove their horses to Gu Wu's side.
"I said Captain Gu Wu! If we continue to follow the main army, we will catch up! ”
Connie didn't want to become a giant's food, so he thought about moving away from this position that was considered the team's 'first line of defense'.
"That's right, if you continue to move to the left, once you are overtaken by a sufficient number of strange species on the plains, there is no way to escape, and ...... That female giant must be there too, who the hell is it! ”
With a nervous look on his face, Jean retracted his gaze on the right, he also joined the Survey Corps under the influence of Allen, but he also had no intention of dying here.
Of course, Mikasa, the calmest in Gu Wu's team, looked to the right while staring at Allen's team in front of her, ready to kill those enemies who approached at any time.
"There's no need to be so alarmed, since Commander Alvin didn't give the order to attack, I believe he also has his own ideas."
"Do you want to catch the giantess by some means like last time? But this time, there must be that armored giant mixed in, and I think the success rate will become very low. ”
Armin knew Alwin's thoughts very well, and Gu Wu also thought so.
The team of the Survey Corps continued to move on, as if intent on luring the giants somewhere.
It's just that the number of giants is huge, and it is difficult to pull out and catch the female giants in the chaos.
So what kind of tactics will Alvin use?
At this time, Gu Wu saw that the team in front of him had changed, and Allen's team was divided into two parts, one part moved to the left, and the other part began to move to the right.
Bait? The armored giant and the female giant may have separated after seeing each other, after all, their purpose is to take Eren away, not for the giants to eat Eren as food.
"Alan?!"
Mikasa was puzzled by the changes in front of her, she probably didn't get Elwin's notice like Gu Wu, it seems that Erwin thinks that there is a high possibility that there are traitors in the investigation corps.
However, Gu Wu, who is a spoiler, knows very well that there is indeed a person from Ma Lai in the investigation corps, but that person will not have any impact on the plot now, unless the story is deflected again.
Seeing that Mikasa was about to catch up, Gu Wu grabbed her shoulder with his hand.
The forward speed is fast, more like a slap than a catch.
"Don't worry, Eren is probably still directly ahead of us, and the team that was sent out is likely to be a decoy, and if the armored giant and the female giant want to make sure they can catch Alan, they will definitely not let go of that bait."
This allows the Armored Giant to be separated from the Giantess, and once they are no longer connected to each other, the threat posed will be greatly reduced.
And now, the team that had just been sent out to advance to the right began to merge with the other classes, which meant that Alwin had transferred some of the soldiers to pretend to be real, deliberately making the enemy think that Alan might be in the Einsatzgruppen and moving towards the Higanshina district.
It's an obvious decoy, but a decoy that is obviously overdone is also a possibility in the eyes of the enemy, so they won't let it go.
Back to the present, Mikasa was suspicious of Gu Wu's words, and her expression became gloomy, as if she was weighing the pros and cons in her heart, but she did not come to a definite conclusion.
"Your words are not necessarily true."
"That's true, but I know better what Alvin thinks."
Alvin will take risks, but will make sure he has enough room for his backhand to not be pressed to the ground by enemies.
Armored giants and giantesses tend to see the team heading to the right as bait, even if that team is protected by many soldiers, and it is very likely to be a decoy.
However, as I said earlier, when a huge diamond is assigned to two cars, if there are enough manpower, they will definitely choose to pursue both cars at the same time.
"The team is let go!"
Armin shouted, and a part of the giant crowd on the right began to pursue what was likely to be the bait, after all, the giants were just trying to 'hunt humans'.
The huge crowd began to split in two, and some of them stomped on the ground and turned their bodies hard to pursue the special force.
What's next for Elvin?
"It's an abandoned building village again."
Jean's voice sounded in Gu Wu's ears, and he also looked forward.
The whole party seemed to be preparing to enter the village, most likely intending to make contact with the giants there and take the opportunity to capture the giantess.
However, as Armin had said before, the structure of the abandoned village was very loose and dilapidated, and it was easy for it to fall apart under the impact of giants, and then there would be no place for soldiers to use three-dimensional mobile devices.
Even so, the team entered the abandoned village, and Mikasa drew his blade.
"It's going to be a battle here."
Mikasa sees the female giant as an enemy, which also fuels her to fight.
Facing the strong heroine, Gu Wu, who did not stop her thoughts again, looked forward and saw the tracks laid around.
"This is ......"
"It's not a fixed battery track."
The puzzled Gu Wu heard Armin's voice, he slowed down slightly and looked around, and after a while, he came to a conclusion.
Gu Wu also knew that the track here was indeed not a fixed battery, but a minecart's track.
Not far away is an entrance made of large quantities of stone and wood, which is probably the location of the underground cavern.
This is an abandoned mine, a village built around the mine.
In addition to the houses that are usually thought to have been built, there are also warehouses made of steel in addition to stone, which were probably used to protect against thieves.
Some of them have long since rusted, but at least some of the steel is still hard, and the stone houses are enough to make the structure particularly strong.
"It's a bit bigger than the other villages, and there's a partially destroyed brick road over there, which isn't very open enough for humans to move freely and limit the number of giants."
Armin thinks that even if the giants want to destroy this place, it will take some time under the constant collision, enough for the Survey Corps to make other responses.
Gu Wu and the others continued to advance with the team, as the original mining town, there was a fairly well-preserved tower in the center, and some minecarts and shovels that had fallen to the ground were placed nearby.
Boom! Boom! As the party entered the town, the stone houses and wooden waterwheels at the entrance were destroyed, and a huge crowd led by the Odd Species arrived.
"It's a giantess!!"
Several people who ran to the roof in advance to wait found the female giant, and it seemed that the giant who was chasing the other unit was the armored giant.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded everywhere, and some of them faded away, soldiers ready to meet the giants.
"Let's get started, too."
Gu Wu reminded everyone in the team to get ready, and Mikasa, who had long been unable to bear it, handed the reins of the horse to Armin, and jumped out first.
What a hurry!
Gu Wu, who was going to keep up, was going to tie the horse first, after all, this was the only means of transportation.
As he passed through another mine, he saw a group of soldiers, who seemed to have arrived early and were preparing their things.
It was an iron rope with barbs that held the giant in place, and it turned out that the soldiers sent out by Alwyn had arrived here early to prepare.
"The !! of the start of the operation"
This is the place to prepare for the second capture of the giantess.
But things suddenly took a turn for the worse, and a soldier shouted as the Strange Species invaded.
"Lost the figure of the giantess!"
Is it back to being human? Or is it deliberately slowing down?
No matter what, people with different ideas are about to have the next collision here, and Gu Wu, who is an actor on the same stage, has no intention of slacking off.