Ahh Well, there's one more in the afternoon

There are large marshmallow-like clouds floating lazily in the sky, and a flock of geese forming a herringbone is flapping its wings and flying south for the winter.

It's evening, the sun is about to set, and the sky is a little yellow.

Men gather together to talk, young women in aprons put away clothes hanging outside, and newborn babies sleep peacefully in their mother's arms with their white fingers in their mouths.

Everything seems to be business as usual.

But everything seems unusual.

"Then, because I said that human beings should one day go to see the outside world, they were beaten and called me a heretic"

It was a very good-looking boy who spoke, with straight blond hair hanging down to his ears, and a thin body, but his head was large compared to his thin body.

His name is Armin Arurette, a child who loves to read, and is a friend of Alan and Mikasa.

Just now, he was beaten by three other children because he said he wanted to see the world outside the wall, but fortunately Alan, no, to be precise, it should be Mikasa's timely arrival that scared off the three of them to save him.

"Damn, I just want to go outside, why should I be looked down upon!" Alan picked up a rock and threw it at the water in front of him. He is dissatisfied with the current people's satisfaction with living in the walls and the rejection of those who dream of going out.

"That's because," replied Emin, "because people have been living peacefully in the wall for a hundred years, in order not to let people go out at will and thus invite giants to enter the wall, according to the policy of the king's government, it is forbidden to have an interest in the outside world." ”

Ermin's expression was calm, and his words were so coherent that it was hard to imagine that this analysis came from a child who had just turned ten.

Yes, Emin is physically weak, but he has a brilliant mind.

"Our lives are our own, what does it have to do with them?!" Very unhappy, Alan scoffed at the Wang government's approach.

"Absolutely not." A calm female voice sounded that seemed to be strong emotional, and Mikasa retorted to Alan's words, "No. ”

"By the way, speaking of which, you actually told your parents !。" Suddenly remembering that Mikasa had told his parents directly that he wanted to join the Investigation Corps, Alan said that we were a traitor.

"I don't remember saying anything about keeping it a secret for you." Her voice remained calm.

"And then?!" Ermin was a little excited.

"Of course I won't be happy," Allen's mood seemed a little depressed, after all, it would be uncomfortable for anyone to be replaced by his mother's fierce opposition to his dream.

"That's right," Emin felt a little disappointed

The wind seems to have gotten stronger.

The dust rolled up, blowing away the fallen leaves that had not yet had time to be cleared, and blowing the wind chimes hanging in front of the window.

The sound of the wind chimes is very crisp and ethereal, like a clear spring flowing out of the deep mountains, very clear, very shallow, and very beautiful.

However, the sound of wind chimes at this time did not make people relax.

Air, it's heavy.

Several domestic dogs barked desperately, and even people whose senses had long since degraded felt a little dignified.

Maybe it's the so-called sixth sense, but it's more likely that everyone is aware of danger, and everyone turns their eyes to the sky.

The clouds, slightly orange dyed by the setting sun, flowed and swirled rapidly, eventually forming incomplete concentric circles.

Ermin was still talking, his light blue eyes looking at the sparkling and undulating water: "Indeed, I can't agree with those who believe that as long as you live in the giant wall, you are absolutely safe, even if the giant wall has not been destroyed for a hundred years, it does not mean that it will not be destroyed today"

Then, the wind stopped.

The young woman, who had been holding her turban in her hand to protect it from being blown away by the wind, also let go of her calloused hands due to her long hours of housework.

The wind chimes stopped ringing, and the dust and fallen leaves mixed together and accumulated on the ground.

In the next second, the mutation was abrupt.

The golden flash slammed down from the center of the concentric circles formed by the flowing clouds and slammed into the ground!

What was supposed to be a weightless flash shook the world like the legendary Titan!

The plaques of the merchants were shaken down, the children were shocked into the air and then fell, and the air echoed with a humming sound similar to that of a large steel plate being smashed with a hard blow.

People are a little frightened, a little stunned, they don't know what's going on, and humans are always terrified of the unknown.

However, the truth often does not relieve people's fears, but sometimes leads to deeper, despair.

A large cloud of steam rose from where the flash fell. Then, the huge red hands put on the fifty-meter-high giant wall and grabbed it fiercely! Rubble at the top of the wall falls.

Then, there was a shadow cast on the city, bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger

"How is it possible, that city wall, but it is fifty meters high!!" Unbelievable, Ermin's voice trembled.

Because he saw the shadow and the master of the hands, the giant!!

Giants are indeed huge, but only three to fifteen meters have been found so far, and no giant with a height of more than fifty meters has ever been found or even heard of!

But this giant is so huge, it is even a head higher than the fifty-meter city wall!

At least, sixty meters.

Its face has no skin or hair, revealing bright red muscles and bones, and its entire body is surrounded by steam.

Lean your head forward slightly, lift your right foot back, and kick it down!

"Boom!!" The wind blew away the chatting and farting men near the city walls, the young women with their babies in their arms, destroyed one building after another, shattered the glass, wailed everywhere, and the huge bell that once resounded throughout the city to remind people of the imminent return of the Survey Corps fell from the high bell tower.

Countless boulders were also smashed in a radial pattern

In the district of Higanshina, the walls were broken.

It's as if the giant giant appeared to break the city, and when the city is broken, it disappears without a trace.

"It's them! It's a giant!! The giants have entered the city!! There was a terrible howl, and then the sound stopped abruptly, and only a wail remained, and one of the humans was caught in the hands of the giant, or pinched to death, or sent directly into the mouth, and the blood flowed from the giant's hands and mouth, dyeing them one by one into the appearance of the devil.

"Let's run away! Allan!? A panicked Hermin called, but Allen's performance made him even more suspicious.

"Over there, there's my home, and my mother" Looking at the direction where the stones were thrown, Alan looked stunned, and ran towards his house against the flow of fleeing people in a godless manner.

Without saying anything, Mikasa followed without hesitation.

"Mikasa!" Ermin stretched out his hand, wanting to stop it, or also wanted to follow, but his body couldn't stop trembling: "Already, no, this city is about to be occupied by countless giants!" ”

"Impossible, my house can't be smashed" Alan prayed silently in his heart.

Along the way, he collided with a desperate runaway and witnessed his mother, crying in despair, kneeling beside her bloody child who had been smashed by a boulder.

He didn't want his own mother to die under the boulder

Turn the corner and you're home, and then all you see is ruins

"Mom! Mom!! With a helpless expression on his face, Alan rushed forward

Fortunately or unfortunately, his mother, Carla Yageger, was still alive, but the gentle young woman was crushed under the collapsed house, revealing only her head and half of her upper body.

"Mikasa, you hold that side, and we'll move the pillar together." Alan commanded the girl beside him, and at this time his mind was only about rescuing his mother, and there was nothing else to think about.

"Okay." Mikasa's answer was succinct and crisp.

But, no matter how mature they were, they were still just children, and the collapsed house was too heavy for them, and no matter how hard they tried, they still didn't move against the ruins of Carlla.

And then

"Knock, knock, knock" heavy footsteps sounded, like beating the drumbeat of death.

A giant had noticed them, and with the corners of his mouth curled, he approached them step by step

"Hurry up!! Mikasa!! His expression was panicked and his voice trembled, but Alan tried hard to save his mother.

"Okay."

As if sensing something, Karla woke up with a scar on her face and a hoarse voice, "Giant, you've come in?!" Alan, run away with Mikasa! ”

"I want to run away too! So come out soon!! Alan closed his eyes and tugged hard, crying and pleading, his hands were already bleeding from excessive exertion and rubbing against the rough ruins, but he was still straining, straining.

"Mom's leg is crushed, and even if she comes out, she won't be able to run, you understand?" Desperate, Karla's eyes widened, but in a gentle tone she persuaded Eren and Mikasa to give up on themselves, at least, to let the two children run away.

"I'll run away with you!!" With tears streaming down his face, Alan shouted in a tone that bordered on roaring.

"Why don't you always listen to your mother! At least one last time you'll have to listen to it! Mikasa! "She wants Mikasa to take Eren with her.

And Mikasa's eyebrows were trembling: "No! No!! "I finally had a warm home, and she didn't want to give up like that.

"If it goes on like this, all three of them will" She was helpless now, but suddenly she heard the sound of a steel rope grinding, and a man fell from the sky: "Mr. Hannes, please take the children and go!" ”

Karla prayed.

"Don't underestimate me, Carla." Hannes, a soldier of the garrison corps who often drank alcohol, had a reluctant smile on his face: "As long as I kill that giant, all three of them can be saved!" ”

As he spoke, he drew his sword and ran towards the giant—even as the voice of Karla begging not to fight could be heard behind him.

It was easy to save the two children, but Hannes wanted to repay the favor and repay Mr. Yeager for his kindness, so he wanted to fight!

Unfortunately, he overestimated himself.

When he saw the giant's huge body, the strange and emotionless smiling face and cold sweat crawled all over his back, his expression stiffened, he felt that he was almost dead, and the heaviness of being targeted by natural enemies froze the air around him, and even more crushed his heart.

Collect your sword, turn around, and run away.

Hannes picked up Alan and Mikasa with a blank face, despite the struggles and screams of the two children.

"No, Mom, Mommy hasn't come out yet!!" Alan kept pounding Hannes, screaming out of despair.

"Alan, Mikasa, you have to live well!" In the ruins, Carl stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to keep the child's last figure and say his last blessing as a mother.

Then, with tears gushing out, she covered her face and sobbed softly: "Don't go"

Eren saw his mother crying, saw the giant coming, saw the giant play and turn up the ruins that he and Mikasa had failed to shake with all their might, and saw his mother being held by the giant

"Stop!!" A little tear was sprinkled on Allen's way to escape as he was carried away by Hannes.

The giant didn't care about Carla's hard thrashing and struggle, put his right hand up, grabbed Carla's upper body, and was only about to tear it hard!

Alan's gaze was glazed, bordering on despair.

At this very moment, the world seemed to stand still.

Alan blinked, and saw the blood blooming, the migratory birds in the sky vibrating their wings, the dark green cloak that flew in the air and hunted in the wind, and the white and blue free wings overlapping on the cloak.

"Courage and strength." The man looked at Alan and Hannes.

"You two happen to have one of the other." Alan saw that the man in front of him, who was only a teenager, had rescued his mother, and his long hair was scattered like inky silk.

Although the words were unceremonious, Alan inexplicably felt that this was the best voice he had ever heard.