Chapter 44: Fetal Movement in the Dark
This is the first time in Luna's first life that the night has been so long. However, she didn't feel bored at all because of the time, and she didn't even mean to be sleepy. Luna's eyes widened, and she spent almost all of her time in the dimly lit entrance, occasionally glancing at the operating room window on the projection screen.
Alice's snow-white body was motionless on the capsule operating table, but Luna clearly felt that a life-and-death battle was going on there.
Come on! Come on!
Luna screams in her heart, praying that Alice will survive every time she looks at the images. I believe that this prayer of hers will be able to convey.
At about two o'clock in the morning, Bertha had fallen asleep in the tiredness of sadness and hesitation, Luna draped the only quilt over Bertha, who was leaning against her, and the worried Miss Nurse came to visit the two of them with a paper cup of coffee. Luna turned down milk and sugar as she realized what it was like to drink black coffee for the first time in her life: the bitterness irritated her tongue like a needle.
At five o'clock in the morning, a faint ray of dawn shone in at the door of the emergency room. After a moment's hesitation, Luna helped Bertha to lie flat on her chair, then rushed into the bathroom, and then came out to the bench in the shortest time of her life to huddle with Bertha.
Six a.m. As the number of medical staff grows sporadically, Luna tightens her guard, but then her eyelids stop holding on, and Luna falls asleep.
"Luna?" A gentle voice opened her eyelids again, and a silver-haired girl appeared in a blurred field of vision.
"Alice?" Luna whispered, and the other party subconsciously tilted her head, and she hugged it excitedly.
"Hello? What are you doing? The girl said, "I'm Bertha!" Luna let go of her hand, and the girl fell to the ground, accompanied by a series of "pain, pain, pain", and she realized that she was Bertha.
"You ...... It looks like it. Luna said stunned.
"Nonsense!" Bertha's face bulged like a squirrel, and she snapped, "We're sisters!" ”
"Hmm." Luna nodded, and then saw the time, ten o'clock in the morning...... Ten o'clock in the morning! The apparent numbers burst out with Luna's screams, and she jumped to her feet.
"It's fine." Bertha sensed Luna's panic, "I got up at seven o'clock, and I've been guarding my sister until now. ”
"You've been guarding it for so long?" Luna asked.
"Hmm." "When I got up, the people who had finished their shifts were coming home one after another," explained Bertha, "and ......," she said, pulling out a box beside her, "the nurse brought us coffee and sandwiches." ”
"And then?"
She said a few comforting words and left, then ......," she pressed her chin and thought for a moment, "and then alternated with the emergency room on the day shift and walked out there." She pointed to the automatic door at the intersection of the emergency room.
"Did Lucius come over?"
"Yes." Bertha said, "He went to take care of Franklin's body, and then said let's wait here, and he said be careful, the Assassins might come back." ”
"Did you find anything?"
"Well...... "when I first opened the door, it seemed that the door was full of people waiting, mostly older patients. Hearing this, Luna's eyes widened, and then she turned her head to take in the flow of people.
It was already morning, and there were more and more people in the emergency room, and it was too late to investigate, and the tight concentration stretched the corners of the extreme vision, and the time displayed by the electronic clock beat leisurely little by little, as if mocking her.
Twenty-five points, thirty points...... Isn't Alice out of danger yet? It's been more than ten hours since the doctor announced, so please regain consciousness quickly, Luna prayed desperately.
At 10:45, Luna finally stopped breathing after her wary gaze identified several suspicious faces.
Apparently Lucius was right, Luna let out a long sigh.
A slender and well-proportioned figure, dressed in a black trench coat, with a half-face mask under the hood shining silver in the morning sun.
It's coming...... Luna relaxed her shoulders and her tense face relaxed slightly, followed by several men in the same clothes, but Luna was always sure that the person at the front was the one who attacked Franklin last time.
"Hey!" A paramedic blocked their path with his hand, "We don't welcome cos...... here" Before he could finish, his throat was wiped with blood and he fell to the ground.
The crowd then panicked, but it didn't bother them, and the man's gaze wandered from side to side, eventually fixing on the hallway connecting the entrance to the innermost emergency room.
Facing my gaze as I stood up, the man tilted his head slightly, and the debris behind him rushed towards me.
"There are assassins! Come on! The people around them roared, and they supposedly pushed them away mercilessly, towards Luna and Bertha.
Luna's brain raced, and she drew her sword at her waist, and to tell the truth, she slept for hours, so she was a little overwhelmed by the assassin in front of her, but I couldn't afford to abandon Alice and the panicked hospital. She confronted several of the Assassins, then raised her sword to her chest.
Luna breathed a sigh of relief and surrendered her consciousness to instinct again, she sideways dodged the first assassin's stabbing blow, quickly raised her right foot and kicked him hard, the armor matched the strength of the muscles, and the man's lower body threw blood stains, and he fell down with a loud sound.
A few seconds later, a second Assassin rushed from her right, and he hurriedly raised his right-angled blade and slashed at Luna, just as the third Assassin swung his sword at her.
Seeing this, Luna waved her right arm and flicked Lucius's repaired wrist blade out, slashing the man's neck exposed under the mask, and the throat was exposed, accompanied by a little mucus and hot blood plasma in mid-air.
At this moment, the assassin who was bleeding from his crotch stood up and rushed at Luna with his sword, at some point, Luna's heart had already lost the panic it deserved, Luna easily dodged the assassin's attack, he reacted quickly, and swung his blade sideways towards her, Luna dodged again, and after a few swings, Luna understood his attack and tried to analyze him.
Well, it was time to end, and Luna quickly raised her blade to block the Assassin's swift attack, and then his blade froze, and the Assassin's eyes flashed with panic, which quickly turned into a roll of the eyes before death: a throwing knife was firmly stuck in the back of her head, and she collapsed to the ground on all fours.
Luna looked sideways, Bertha was holding two throwing knives in her hands, and then, she gestured to Bertha not to move, and at this moment, the second right-angled blade swung towards her, Luna hurriedly blocked the right angle of the blade with her wrist armor, and slid forward to the grip, while turning sideways, dodging the right angle of the right-angled blade, and then, Luna grabbed the opponent's wrist, twisted it quickly and heavily, and at the same time ejected the wrist blade, cutting straight through the veins of the arm, With the sound of blood and screams, the blade struck him in the throat steadily, making him lose his scream.
As he fell to the ground, Luna quickly bent down, picked up the right-angled blade that had just landed, grasped the hilt, and swung it backwards, slashing off the head of the assassin behind him who tried to sneak up on me.
The sixth Assassin then lunged at Luna, bent down, and stabbed his right-angled blade into his chest before he was about to collide with him, stumbling over him again.
With a bang, the assassin slammed to the ground, the blade piercing his chest with the force of the fall, and he twitched for a while, but stopped moving.
Several of the Assassins were all dealt with by Luna, and the so-called Zodiac Killer was left behind, and Luna stared at her, as Luna tested the durability of the Blade, flicking and shrinking until it became nimble again.
At that moment, she suddenly turned and ran outside, and Luna chased after her, and following her pace, she came to a large building, wasn't it the so-called government building?
The Assassin slammed onto the roof of the nearby house, and by the time Luna caught up, she was gone. Luna was a little strange, and after looking around, she quickly lowered herself, why? Because she recognized two figures at the gate of the government, a small group of guards not far away, and the payment pattern of those men was a sickle on a black background.
They appear to be arguing, and Luna quickly turns on the sonic monitoring system, and the gang stops in front of the porch of the Overseer's Palace, while she hides out of their sight, eavesdroppingly listening. Both men spoke in disgruntled tones, and among them was the cunning priest Berenwell.
The other was a young man in his twenties, with a large nose and firm features, a noble preacher wearing a black hat and a white cloak over which he wore a black-gold tunic over it.
"You can't point the finger at me for this," Berenwell said, "I'm just doing what you have to say, and besides, I don't know it's going to fail." ”
"Lord Adolf originally believed in you very much, so he asked you to carry out this assassination mission, but I didn't expect that not only did you not complete it, but also lost the lives of several people. This made me very unpleasant. ”
"Are you qualified to speak of me? You control half of the legion..., you are the commander-in-chief, but when I go out on a mission, you don't pull out a dime! ”
"Didn't you say five is enough? Not to mention that I just sent two more. ”
Berenwell was a little angry, "Do you really think you can do it with just a few soldiers?" What you promised me was to support one of my battalions! ”
"Don't always make excuses for your failures, we have great confidence in your ability with your generous statement," the young man laughed sarcastically.
"You ......," Berenwell was so angry that he was speechless for a moment.
"You can come and tell me about the strength of a battalion next time you make a meritorious service, I have nothing to do with you today, you go and do your business," After saying that, the young man and his guards walked towards the corridor inside the government.
After a few moments, Berenwell cursed under his breath and followed. I could hear it clearly, it seemed that she was cursing at us, and Luna had sneaked down.
Around the corridor were gold curtains, which reflected hundreds of dazzling lights, and on a high platform next to the fountain in the center of the corridor, an electric mechanical instrument was playing. On another high platform is a statue of Mobius, which is half a man tall and looks delicate and beautiful.
Luna walked inside, turning on the VR-restricted hideout setting, where it seemed like a banquet was taking place, and not far away, a group of local aristocrats surrounded Berenville, who didn't hesitate to praise him. From what he heard, it seemed that he was telling the story of Franklin, praising him for clearing the whole world of a scourge.
Luna never expected Franklin to have so many enemies, and it was at this point that a noblewoman told Berenwell that she hoped he would understand Franklin's integrity and honesty, and it was clear that Berenwell did not like what she meant by her.
"What about the black wolf of the Frese family?" A nobleman asked, "Is it called Luna?" I heard she came here too? ”
Berenwell squeezed out a smile, "Anyway, it's a girl, there's no threat, she has soft hands and a softer heart, even if it's a black wolf, if she is soft-hearted, she will be caught and executed as a dog!" With that, the nobles around him burst into laughter.
Luna feels humiliated by the ridicule of others, but Luna can only stand aside, stretching her Hidden Blade in her hand, ready to baptize him with blood.