Chapter 2 Harvest Day
The overseer in the back pushed me to the execution table, Franklin arrived at the execution ground with a squad of guards, and the girl and I were pulled onto the gallows, and the overseer opened a piece of parchment and read aloud, "Luna Ben Johnson Frese, Alice. Christina, who is guilty of murder and treason, is being executed here today...... "When the overseer finished reading, he put the parchment in his hand and burned it, and afterwards I learned of their cunning.
The executioner put the noose around my neck, and the attention of the crowd turned to the other end of the square, where Commander Franklin stood on an elevated platform behind the crowd.
As a major general, Sergeant Johnson never left his side at all times.
The guards brutally kept the crowd out of the way, and I took the opportunity to compare the two of them: Johnson was taller than Franklin, but Johnson was a little more aloof than Franklin's approachability.
As I watched the two of them stand together, I immediately understood why Franklin was more powerful than Johnson, not him.
Martin went up to Commander Franklin, and then, with a few guards, he made his way through the square, pushing through the crowd as he went, and then ascended the steps to the gallows, where he addressed the crowd, and the crowd swarmed forward.
"Brothers, sisters, patriots," Martin began his speech, and the crowd quieted down anxiously, "a few days ago there were two conspiracies in Wharton Central, and they were so wicked and vile that even the retelling of them at this moment would disturb me deeply, these two young girls in front of you, who had not shown their talents at a time of wisdom and studiousness, had done something unreasonable and conspiracy to murder our beloved general. ”
People gasped.
"Yes," shouted Martin, as he began to get straight to the point, "what kind of darkness and madness drive them, none of us know. They had no intention of defending themselves, and they remained silent, despite our repeated pleas and begging them to confess. ”
Then the executioner stepped forward and put another noose around the girl's neck.
"If they are willing to defend themselves, if they are willing to confess and accept atonement, we can let them live, but what other choice do we have? They tried to launch terrorist attacks to overthrow the regime, tried to send us into the hands of the enemy, and we were forced to send them out of this world for the sake of justice, for the sake of peace, for the sake of tranquility! It is God's business to forgive them, and all we do is send them to God! May God have mercy on their souls! ”
When Martin finished speaking, he looked around and the support had risen dramatically, and Martin turned his head and smiled at us.
At this moment, the trapdoor under our feet was opened, my neck was tightened a little bit, my breathing became very difficult, my vision gradually became blurred, and slowly, my hearing also deteriorated......
"Luna!" I heard familiar voices, vague impressions of me seeing someone, and it became a glimmer of hope for my life, I twisted the rope in pain, I insisted on staying conscious, I couldn't die yet......
But no matter how much I insisted, my consciousness was still gradually blurred, gradually blurred.
Just as I was in despair, there was a "whoosh" and I felt something hit the rope above my neck, but it didn't break, and then, with another thud through the air, this time, the rope broke, and I threw myself through the trapdoor, and I heard a surprised inhap outside.
I coughed twice in agony, then I heard shouting outside, "Shadow Dancer! It's the Shadow Warrior!! Then there was the sound of swords fighting, and then a man with a long backpack came into our position, and he opened the shield on his face, and it was Mr. Samuel, and he smiled at me.
"Teacher, what's ......" he quickly covered my mouth and said, "Don't be so loud," I nodded, then he opened his backpack and took out a sword and handed it to me, "Take your things, and you," he handed the girl another dart bag in his pocket.
"Teacher?" We were chanting in unison, some of us wondering why.
"Today is your first mission at the beginning of the school year, and you all know about Martin's conspiracy, they planned to kill Commander Franklin, I won't say who instructed me here," Samuel patted me on the shoulder, and then said, "Believe in your own strength!" ”
With that, he closed his mask and turned out under the platform, and I stayed silent, looking at the sword in my hand, and for a moment I didn't know what to do, until she spoke, "Hey, what are we going to do," and the hoarse voice came into my ears, I really didn't dare to elaborate on it was a girl's voice, to be honest, her voice was like a witch in a fairy tale, but unfortunately, it didn't look like it.
She looked at me suspiciously, her silver eyes full of stubbornness looked at me, what else could I do, I took her hand, and before I could introduce each other, I rushed out of the gallows.
In the square, the masked warriors and the guards had a duel to the death, I didn't pay attention to that, for the first time, I looked around, and immediately locked on him, Martin K*: he found me, and began to flee, running in the direction of Franklin, he had a short sword in his hand, and I was not conscious.
I hurried over, pushing the crowd away, running as hard as I could, occasionally drawing my sword and slashing one or two bystanders, so that the surrounding soldiers could hesitate for a moment.
And that's when he, Martin pulled out the * on his waist, I knew his marksmanship, I realized it was bad, he pointed the gun at me, and with a sinister smile, he pulled the trigger.
At this moment, I saw a throwing knife floating beside me, no, it was two, they were close to my shoulder, and flew through the air, one bullet was fired in the middle of the bullet, and the impact produced a violent spark, and the other pierced Martin's hand with the gun, and his gun fell as a result, and he was left with only a knife
……
I flicked my sword at where the gun had fallen, and the * obediently jumped up, and I grabbed it hard, then hurriedly stopped my feet, held it with both hands, and shouted, "It's over!" Martin! ”
Martin didn't stop, he drew his knife, revealed his true nature, and ran towards Franklin, "Suo! Section! Fertile! Husband! He yelled, and the guards surrounded him, but all of them were consistent with him.
"We've got to hurry!" The girl appeared next to me and said, then raised the knife in her hand, and I narrowed my eyes.
The bullets flew along with the knives, and I watched them cut through the air, and thankfully they hit Martin.
Martin took two steps forward, stopped, he clutched his chest, blood dripped to the ground, his knife fell, then he fell to his knees, coughed twice, and then fell to the ground, and he died......
I held my gun and gasped, and as for the rebuke around me, it turned into cheers, and the soldiers around me stopped fighting, and people began to surround us, and they cheered and cheered for our actions......
Soon, however, a group of guards rushed towards us through the crowd, and although the people were trying to stop us, we realized that something was wrong......
There was space about an arm's width around us, and I started running as hard as I could, and people made room for me along the way, and in a hurry I looked up at Franklin, and I saw his smile, but now was not the time to think about it......
We ran out of the square and ran to the waterfall on the side, there was no road!
The soldiers behind me slowly surrounded me, I looked at the bottom of the waterfall, it was almost 40 meters here, but I looked at the soldiers behind me who were surrounded by guns and raised, what should I do?
Just then, the girl next to me pushed me down, and then I heard a gunshot.
My body slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and through the waves, after a while, I heard the sound of falling into the water again.
I saw a stream of red liquid float upwards behind me, and then my consciousness became blurred, and at that moment, a force behind me pulled me and swam to the other side......