"Life is becoming more and more difficult for the people of Whartont," said Alice, looking ahead, "two years ago there was a cold freeze, and the harvest was worse than every year in the past, and then the regent ordered the construction of walls around Whartont Central, and he intended to stop the occupancy rate of foreign nomads, reduce the burden of food supplies, and intend to raise the taxes of the common people, and the people fell into panic, at this time, Earl Franklin stood up against the tax bill, and led the people everywhere and some nobles to march, Since it was Count Franklin who led the way, the soldiers did not dare to accept the order to shoot at the marchers......"

I didn't speak, but frowned.

Alice said, "As soon as the people taste power, they begin to dislike the people in power, and as soon as someone stands up, this opposition will erupt, and then all the frustrations of a lifetime will be vented, and some horrific events will erupt." ”

"For example?" I asked.

"Twenty years ago," Alice paused, her face becoming serious, and then said, "Scarlet Christmas." ”

"I've heard about it, but I don't know what the details are?" I said.

Alice continued, "On December 25, 2519, many people gathered at the Supreme Court to throw fireworks and stones, they smashed the statue of Queen Catherine, they burned the palace of the nobility of Hakonoi, do you think they are worthy of obeying the nobility? ”

"How so," I was a little surprised, "and what about later?" ”

Alice closed her eyes and thought for a long time, and after a moment she opened her eyes, "Earl Franklin ordered that all the rebels be killed, and that their families be captured and 'sacrificed' under the smashed statue of the Queen. ”

"What!" I exclaimed, I really can't believe at this moment, that the inspector who imagined for the people, the earl who led the people's house, could be such a person.

Alice nodded, "This is Scarlet Christmas Eve, and you probably haven't heard of it by another name, Luna." ”

"So what?"

"This catastrophe is known as 'Franklin's tragedy,'" Alice said, and then sighed, "Franklin was great, but he still failed to kill Jack the Ripper, and he was stupid, he still doesn't know a thing, Jack he didn't die......"

I didn't say a word.

"Luna, the turmoil is about to begin, are you ready?" Alice whispered, then stood up and walked forward.

I was thinking about her words, thinking about what my father had said to me, and what my mother had taught me, and I was thinking, when suddenly a question came to me, and I immediately stood up, "Alice," and I stopped

She.

Alice looked back at me, and I asked, "If it were you, which side would you be on?" ”

Alice turned around, and she finally smiled, she looked at me tenderly, and said, "I'm on the side of justice." ”

"Now, then, which do you think is justice between the Regent and Franklin?" I continued.

Alice walked up to me, and although she was about the same height as me, she patted me on the shoulder and said, "We can't use words to judge the faults of others, and we can't dictate the direction of the future, so let history judge what is just and unjust!" ”

She had a point, and I straightened up my long tied hair and let it fall down to my growing breasts, so that I felt a little like a real adult, and through the mirror in my hand, I saw myself, except for the right eye that was covered by the injury, and at this moment, I seemed to see my mother.

"Luna," Alice walked toward me, handing me a cloth bag, "here's your stuff, see if there's anything missing." ”

"Necklaces, rings, swords, wooden-handled knives, digital punk, huh, what's the same?" I thought, and then the wooden-handled knife.

"I stole those two," Alice said, "and that one." With that, she pointed to the ebony box next to her.

I crouched down and picked it up, feeling its weight with both hands, and immediately guessed what was inside. I opened the ebony box and found that it was empty, but that was not the problem, I took out the wooden-handled knife, ejected the blade, and then knocked on the bottom of the box with my hand, and after confirming it, I cut the bottom of the box with a knife.

Sure enough, I was half right, and there was a short sword inside, the scabbard was of soft brown leather, sewn with white thread on both sides, and a leather sword strap that fit around the waist, a new steel blade reflecting the candlelight, and the hilt was tightly wrapped in dyed leather.

In addition to this, there were two steel masks in the shape of skeletons, and I gave the sword to Alice, and the mask was given to her, and then I picked up the parchment below and opened it:

"Dear friend, these are gifts for you to meet, please hurry up and get out of the sewers, where there is someone to greet you." After reading it, he walked towards the sewer door.

The sound of water "ticking", and the sound of footsteps slowly dissipated.

"This is supposed to be the end of the sewer," and in front of us, a wet wall appeared, and the water flowed down from above, following the direction of the water, and I looked up, it was a hard manhole cover, and from the bottom up it felt like we were sealed in a water prison.

The hard manhole cover has a steel bar, and a chain hangs from it, up to us.

"It looks like someone is secretly assisting us," I said.

Alice ignored me, she grabbed the chain, and then pulled it down, "It looks firm," and with that, she grabbed the chain with both hands and kicked her feet against the wall, pulling and kicking, slowly climbing up, while I stood below and looked at her, at a loss.

"Aren't you coming up?" Alice asked.

I froze, then grabbed the chain, imitated Alice's movements, and climbed up with a pull, and to be honest, the wall was the most slippery I've ever climbed, not one of them.

Finally, Alice climbed to the platform above the wall, Alice propped up the wall with her feet, grabbed the chain with her whole body, and then jumped hard and jumped onto the platform, because she was a little harder, the chain shook so hard that my hand slipped and my whole body began to fall.

Alice quickly turned around and grabbed my hand, and at this moment, the hard manhole cover above suddenly cracked, and it fell down, and Alice pulled me up hard, so that she could avoid this little disaster, and we both sighed.

I looked around, there was an oil lamp next to the platform, there was a gift box, I walked over and gently opened the lid of the box, there were a lot of ammunition and throwing knives in it, I didn't look closely at the weapons, I fumbled under the box, took out another piece of parchment under the box, I opened it again.

"If you read this letter, it means that my plan has succeeded, I have sent my men to hide some weapons and equipment here for you to use, pick them up and go out of the sewers, I will meet you and wait at the door of the passage, I wish you success."

After reading it, I crumpled up the parchment and threw it into the drain. Then I started working on the weapons, and I took them out one by one and laid them on the ground.

"Luna, look at this," Alice walked towards me with a bag of things, I put down my work and took the child, inside was a black beret, I looked left and right, it looked like my one, but unfortunately not, because the fabric on it was thick that I had never seen before.

I took it out, and there was a black robe under my hat, and I knew that I liked black.

I took it out and put it on.

Suddenly, a strange power flowed through my body. The beret was huge, I pulled it down as much as I could, and didn't want to take it off. There was also a carapace bracer in the bag, a rare blade, a crossbow without a handle, and although it had no handle, there was another strange device that could not be understood, and she took out everything and spread it on the ground.

First of all, he picked up the blade, took it and tried to spin it a few times, but he didn't find that it fit well, so he pinned it to his waist. I picked up the crossbow and looked closely at the strange device, which I couldn't understand, and I put it back in place, maybe by touching some button, and the crossbow snapped onto the carapace bracer.

"How so?" I picked up the carapace bracer and put it on my right hand, and then the crossbow unfolded perfectly, I pressed the crossbow arrow on the ground on the string buckle, and then habitually pushed my hand forward, and the crossbow flew out, and I realized that there was a switch on the inside of the bracer, as long as I moved my wrist, it would unfold, and if I moved again, it would retract, and of course if I put the crossbow arrow on it, it would fire.

There was a space on the inside of the wrist, I looked closely, it was a *, I loaded the crossbow bolts into it, it could hold almost ten rounds, and when it was all loaded, I did it again

Flip the switch and the bolt will automatically load.

One push, one load, one push, one push, one push, open the crossbow, one push, the crossbow is retracted, it is very convenient, I stood up and carefully picked up the bracer, the pattern on the back is a golden trident and cross on a black background, and the hard shell shows the bracer's sense of accomplishment even more.

I stood up, looked at the mirror-like water, and looked at the outfit on my body, which matched the uniform of the senior class, and it was very beautiful.

"Alright, take this," Alice said, handing me the skull mask. It has a terrifying appearance, with a huge slit in the center of its face, as if it had been cut open by a knife.

"It's horrible," I shuddered, and then gestured to Alice, "Aren't you bringing it?" ”

Alice didn't speak, she didn't show any expression, but I noticed it, and she took two steps back.

I wanted to laugh, but now wasn't the time to do this, I put the mask upside down on my face, and the data appeared diagonally under my eyes, and I saw the heartbeat, pulse, and brain waves display, and the upper right corner showed "normal mode," and then I crouched down again, and the pattern changed to "stealth mode" again.

Through the fog ahead, three figures appeared.

In the sewers, the smoke was filled, the light was dim, and there was a fishy stench in the air, but after a while, the smell of alcohol spread slightly in the air, which meant that the three soldiers were getting closer and closer to us.

The three soldiers who were walking towards us, walking slowly, looking from afar, with bottles in their hands, looking around, their eyes full of drunkenness, the one in the middle was shorter than the other two.

They walked slowly forward, and we lay on the ground not far in front of them, and because of the depth of the sewers, the light was even dimer, and they didn't notice us.

But after a while, I realized that something was wrong, and they took the maglev oil lamp out of their pockets and turned it on, and the light shook in the air. I watched as the three of them were preparing to explore ourselves.

I watched them carefully, intently.

"Well, what a bad luck to be sent to patrol the sewers," said the man in the middle, who, with the help of night vision devices, could clearly see him with a straight face, take a long-handled pipe from his breast pocket, stuff it into a gap between his blackened and crooked teeth, and smack it with his pink gums.

"yes, it's bad luck to be sent to this place," said the other, "and tell me, there's nothing on the ground, why does it burst when we're patrolling?" It's weird. ”

"Maybe it's the pigs in the gutter who are doing it."

"A herd of pigs in the gutter?"

"Haven't you heard?" The man in the middle asked.

"Is it the same pigs that are full of monster-looking pigs that could escape from the stinking sewers and run around the corners of the city?

"Yes, what I've heard is that a sow somehow went into the sewer to give birth to some piglets, and then fed the piglets with the garbage that keeps throwing in, and it is said that they will eat people from time to time."

"What! Cannibalism? The man next to me blushed, and although I didn't believe in superstition, I was still cursing their stupidity at this time.

"Of course," said the man in the middle, "isn't it terrifying?" ”

The two men didn't say a word, and the man in the middle couldn't help but laugh, "Don't mind, guys, it's just a legend." ”

"Really, can you talk about something serious!"

"Okay, I'm serious," said the intermediary, "do you know the two fugitives the other day?" ”

"Isn't it the two girls who deliberately murdered Franklin?"

"Yes, but Franklin didn't die that day, poor captain Martin died......"

"Alas, it's a pity for that marksmanship."

"What a pity, those two girls killed Martin before he caught Earl Franklin,"

"Oh, there is such a miraculous thing, why do so many people respect Count Franklin, but no one knows about his sin?"

"Shh The intermediary hurriedly stopped, "It's better not to say this kind of thing." ”

While they were talking happily, I saw a figure appear in front of them.

"Who is it?" The three of them shouted loudly, and the figure resisted, it was a civilian living in the sewers, and the moment he was stopped by the soldiers, he quickly knelt down, "Please," his face was full of fear.

Behind the dark times there is a dark practice, the three soldiers, the man in the middle walked towards the civilian, "Stand there for me and don't move!" Then he drew the short blade from his waist, walked behind him, strangled him by the neck, and put the knife around his neck.

"No," the civilian begged, but still could not finally cut his throat with the sharp blade, which quickly slit his throat, and the soldier let go of his hand, and the man fell to his knees, coughing with a few bloody coughs.

"It's not fun, just die," the soldier scoffed, and the three of them laughed, turned and continued talking

I was resentful, I wanted to rush up and fight with them, but Alice still held my body and didn't let me get up, she whispered, "Now the scene, we can only watch, we can't save the dead, so you be quiet!" ”

"But ......"

"Nothing, but, give me my stomach," Alice said to me fiercely.

I lay on the ground, I hated myself for being incompetent, but thinking about Alice's words, there was some truth to it, if I couldn't save myself, how could I save others, but I was hesitant.

But then, my gaze was frozen: a child appeared in front of three soldiers.