Chapter 21: After the Escape

The three of them kept running into the woods, and the guards behind them gave chase to them, and they quickly burrowed into the tall grass beside them, and in the night, Alice lifted her cuffs, buttoned something from her watch, and threw it on the ground.

Immediately after that, there was a wolf howl, and after barking for a while, the surrounding real wolves came. With the help of their animal friends, they soon escaped.

Running and running, led by Alice, finally, the three of them cut through the tall grass and came to the gate of the courtyard of an old mansion and stopped.

Facing them was a large oak door, and Alice pulled a pinhole camera from the hanging pocket around her waist, carefully inserting it into the electronic keyhole of the oak door, and then she turned on the Levi projector near her chest: it was a pinball lock, with cylindrical parts of different heights on each of the eight different sides, which locked the lock cylinder.

At the same time, Bertha pulled a small drone from her pocket and threw her into the air, and she nimbly steered the drone, dropping button-like objects in various corners of the forest.

"What are those?" Luna asked.

"Those were small projectors." Bertha explained as she fiddled with the drone, "It can drop our phantom around any corner, so it can disrupt the enemy forces behind. ”

"It's time for us to go!" Alice retrieved the pinhole camera, then took a dagger out of the hanging bag, and without hesitation, inserted it into the keyhole, she pressed the button on the back of the handle: the dagger instantly changed from a double-edged to a multi-edged, and quickly unfolded in all directions with the sword as the axis, more than a split.

With a "click", the lock was split on all sides, and the courtyard door opened, and Alice took the dagger back into the hanging bag, replacing it with an iron bar, and then her hand trembled, and the iron bar bounced off both sides, and a bow appeared in her hand.

Seeing this, Luna immediately popped out her sleeve blade, and the sword at her waist was clenched with her other hand, and Bertha also took out a dagger, holding it flat on her chest, and the three of them entered the courtyard with their backs against their backs.

"Why are you here?" Luna asked.

Alice didn't answer, she looked around vigilantly.

"I have a hunch that Charles is ......here," Bertha said, as she quickly slammed back into me and Alice, and then she quickly turned back and took the oncoming blade with both hands and a "bang".

The two faced each other for a few seconds, Bertha could almost see the drooping eyelids on the other party's eyes, Bertha pushed a few steps forward, and the other party was also pushed back a few steps, but immediately the other party quickly put away the blade, he adjusted very quickly, Bertha almost lost the opportunity to defend.

Alice hurriedly grabbed Bertha and pulled her back hard, trying to distance herself from the other party, and well, she pulled Bertha back.

The opponent is tall, and due to the use of a huge broadsword all year round, the green tendons on his neck are protruding outward. Two more guards rushed over and stopped at the suggestion of the other.

"Let the horses come!" The giant guard roared, then raised his broadsword and swung it down.

How arrogant and conceited. Alice smiled, then she put away her bow, deciding to enjoy the irony in front of her. She quickly straightened her body and leaned forward in a lunge shape, holding the handle of the white fox knife with one hand.

Suddenly, an explosion sounded from the inside of the scabbard, and the white fox knife quickly bounced out. Alice grabbed and swung it up, the steel-colored blade quickly turned blue with the electricity, and then she swung it up hard, cutting off the guard's hand holding the chainsaw, blood spurting from the wound like a spring, and the guard was half-kneeling on the ground, in pain.

Seeing this, the other two guards lost their fighting spirit, put their swords on the ground, and knelt down with their heads in their hands.

Alice shook the white fox knife vigorously before retracting it into its sheath, then she nodded toward the guards, and Bertha went over and kicked away the weapons they had dropped.

"Not bad! Not bad! Pretty slashing together! The applause came from behind us, and following the voice, a middle-aged man walked straight out of the inner house.

Alice clenched the white fox tightly, "Wait! Luna stopped.

The man raised his hands, then said calmly, "Yo, long time no see, Miss Luna." ”

Alice was a little confused, but she still took the white fox back.

"I'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet," the man said, gently pushing his glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hand, "My name is Charles. Robert, it's a pleasure to meet you. With that, he bowed deeply to the two of them.

Luna stepped forward and lifted Charles, who was bowing, "Your Excellency, you don't have to be so polite. Then Luna put her hand back and introduced, "These two are my partners, Bertha on the left, and Alice on the right, who is silver-white. ”

"Yo! Not bad! Not bad! Mr. Charles gave me an approving look, "Your new friend is good. ”

"Humble." I bowed.

Just then, Alice stepped forward, and she said, "We have here a letter for you, from your old friend Guevara," and with that, she pulled a letter out of her pocket.

"What!" Charles was a little panicked, "What a letter!" Show me! He took the letter from Alice's hand, and then immediately unleashed the paint, took out the letter, and looked at it, his expression gradually changing from horror to sorrow, until at last he crumpled it and threw it away.

He turned around and sighed, I was a little curious, but in matters of politeness and privacy, Luna didn't ask him.

"Well, what about the guards, huh......" Bertha scratched her head, then pointed behind her, "What about those guards......"

"That's just a virtual fantasy." Alice said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, there must be a giant mixed reality simulator here." ”

Charles turned his head to look at Alice, "Oh, Miss, how do you know?" ”,

Alice's gaze became sharp, as if all the truth had already been pierced by her sharp gaze, "There is only one key point, when I cut off the man's arm just now, the blood did spurt out, but it didn't splash on me. As she spoke, she slowly walked up to Charles and stopped three meters away from him, "At that time, this was the distance, do you think the plasma from the bursting arteries will be so soft?" ”

"Not bad! Not bad! Charles applauded. Alice was not proud, she quickly moved her hand to the white fox at her waist, and Charles's applause gradually stopped.

"Wait a minute!" Before he could finish speaking, the blade of the white fox bounced out, and the blue blade with electricity accompanied by sparks stopped Charles from the waist.

Charles's hand drooped, then split in half and fell to the ground.

"Alice!" "Sister!" I shouted with Bertha, but before we could say the next word, she pointed the knife at the place where Charles had fallen: he was gone, and there was no blood on the ground.

That's when Luna realizes that Charles is also a phantom.

"Not bad! Not bad! Charles's voice came from beside them, and when they looked closely, it turned out to be the voice of the player buried in the ground, "You have passed the second trial, very good, you come down." ”

As soon as they finished speaking, a desolate landscape turned around them: shattered rubble and houses that seemed to have been shattered by a giant fist.

Suddenly, with a "bang", a floor tile in front of the feet of the three people opened, and below was a corridor, Alice sheathed the white fox, and the three of them walked down, and it was very dark inside.

The corridor spiraled along the walls into the dark underground, and at first there were no street lights, and it was only after the three of them walked for a while that they came to a place where there was a lamp, and the oil lamps on the walls gave a faint glow, casting a swaying shadow on the walls decorated with wolf totems, and the surroundings were silent.

No, not exactly.

I vaguely heard hurried footsteps from below, could it be that they had fallen for the trick? Luna took out Ares, a cold sweat streaming down her face, ready to fight.

A figure came out of the inside of the staircase, it was a little girl.

Dressed in black, layers of fiery goose down ruffles clinging to the ground like ominous flowers blooming in the dark night, white headdresses adorned with ribbon lace and rose ornaments reveal beautiful long blonde hair that flows to the floor like a loose velvet turban, and petite figures wrapped in beautiful dreamlike ruffles and lace. She's small, because she's still a loli, but the side of her face is a cold beauty that makes it difficult to tell whether it's an adult or a child, like the expensive doll that was left here.

Luna breathed a sigh of relief, and somehow, the girl in front of her was a little scared, and she took two steps back.

"Don't run that fast, Yuri." Then a figure appeared in front of the three of them, and it was Mr. Charles. In the dim light, Alice moved her hand to her waist, and Luna quickly grabbed her hand, then nodded to her to steady first, Alice did, and she let go of the white fox.

When Yuri saw Charles coming up, she immediately hid behind her, and then used him to cover her body as much as she could, and from time to time she poked her head out tremblingly, and her porcelain face was a rose-colored red.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this kid is shy by nature." Charles said to the girl behind him, "Yuri, don't be rude to come out and say hello. As soon as he finished speaking, the girl became even more frightened, and she quickly put her head back.

"Who is this?" Luna asked.

"Her full name is Alfred Ulysses." Charles said gently, "It's Mira's sister." ”

"This time it's supposed to be the real thing, right?" Luna said firmly, "Your Excellency Charles. ”

"What do you think?" With that, he smiled. Well, trust you for now. Then, the five of them began to walk down the gray staircase, step by step.

The girl walked in front of Charles, and from time to time she would look sideways at the back, and in the dark light, the emerald green eyes reflected the figures of the three people behind.

Eventually, the four of them reached the door of a room with dust on the floor, and Charles quickly told the three of them to lower their bodies.

Then, footsteps were heard in the room, and Luna leaned forward to find several mech-clad guards inside, and Charles cursed softly, "Damn! I didn't expect them to come first! ”

"Aren't they your men?" Bertha asked.

"This basement is all virtual reality except for me and Yuri!" He said, "Damn! Charles slammed the ground hard.

"Leave it to us." With that, Luna looked at Bertha and Alice, and then each of them took out their weapons and walked into the room.