Section 67 Epilogue
Amid the rumbling explosions, the ordinary citizens of the imperial capital still lived according to their usual routines. After the chaos of the first few days, the newly enthroned old Pound began to curb the chaos in the city, set up a specific garrison for soldiers, and let his descendants, the Knights of War, take over the defense of the entire city.
Then, the whole emperor slowly calmed down in the uneasiness, and gradually derived a service area to solve various needs for the soldiers, and many business-minded citizens gathered near the soldiers' stations to make money, whether it was a food stall or a sewing pulp wash, the soldiers with a lot of money could make them a lot of money.
Because of this, after a short period of chaos, the imperial capital showed a strange prosperity. But while making money from those lavish soldiers, the townspeople are well aware that such prosperity is only a temporary phenomenon, and what is hidden in the fog of the future, no one knows.
A corner of the imperial capital, a civilian residential area.
An old woman with gray hair placed handfuls of hulled wheat on the stone mill, and with a small broom in her hand, carefully swept the black flour together. The old man, who was also gray-haired, held the wooden handle of the stone mill and pushed it slowly.
"Listen, old man, it seems that the movement over there today is more lively than before?" The old lady stopped suddenly.
"yes." Hearing this, the old man stood up, wiped the sweat from his face with the towel on his shoulder, and looked up in the direction of the seminary.
"You say...... Who will win? ”
"Lord Warlord, right? Isn't his Knights of War never defeated? ”
"But the church is also very powerful......"
"Those priests know what it means to fight?" The old man shook his head, "If you want me to say that we are still a military god from a civilian background......"
Before the old man could finish speaking, his feet suddenly shook violently, and then a dense explosion came from afar.
"What's going on?" The old man looked up in the direction of the sound......
A huge black shadow obscured most of the sky, countless white light projectiles poured down from the ship, and the earth trembled again, and then the deafening explosion filled his ears again.
After hearing was restored, the old man listened to the old lady say, "...... Old man? What is the forsaken place where that big thing in the sky shouts? ”
"I don't know." The old man shook his head, "It's shouting?" ”
"yes...... It's strange, it's so big, and it doesn't have wings, how did it fly? The old lady shielded herself from the sun with a broom and looked at the church airship.
"Whatever! Hurry up and get to work, go early in the evening, and sell a few more breads......"
Suddenly, there was a loud shout outside: "No! You can't go! One step further to the seminary is treason! I have the right to put ...... to death"
The old man heard it, and the voice was the knight on the corner.
But before the knight could finish speaking, he was interrupted by an explosion.
"Boom!"
A ball of light suddenly fell from the sky and smashed directly on the street corner not far away, this time the explosion was clear and loud, and the frightened old lady shook her hand, and a large handful of wheat grains were sprinkled on the ground.
"Old man?"
“…… Go over and take a look. ”
The two old men packed up their things a little and followed the neighborhood to the corner not far away.
A large black crater had been blown out of the originally smooth stone pavement, and the air was filled with a strange smell of burnt hair, and the half-burnt flag of the Knights of War lay quietly on the ground.
"Someone!" Suddenly, a little boy pointed to the pit and shouted.
Sure enough, after the little boy reminded them, the citizens found that there was an inhuman-shaped charred corpse in the pit, and if it weren't for his gauntlets, people wouldn't have seen that the charred lump was actually a person.
Outside the crowd, several citizens glanced at each other, hurried home, dragged their wives and children, and ran in the direction of the seminary.
This kind of thing was repeated over and over again, and anyone who tried to stop others from advancing towards the seminary was blown to pieces by the holy light bombs that fell from the sky. Risk-takers who have the courage to try arouse the confidence of others.
Looking down from the sky, you can see a number of people leading the family and gathering in the direction of the seminary under the guidance of the radio.
……
Seminary, the battlefield on the west side of the Tower of Knowledge.
The ground was full of craters from the explosion of the Holy Light Bomb, and between the round scorched black, large swaths of corpses lay silently there.
And what caused all this was the golden and white airship suspended in the sky, emitting a faint blue light.
Behind the corpses, several would-be legends who were still standing stared at the corpses all over the ground.
Originally, this wave of troops consumed Chen Yin and Pu Xiles' physical strength, and then they could kill these two difficult guys in one go, but now everything was ruined by the huge monster in the sky.
"How so!? Why is this happening!? Mutsu muttered as he looked at the monster in the sky......
"It's just a little bit...... Damn the church! Mutsu angrily hovered the airship in the sky.
Soon, though, he couldn't laugh anymore. The airship seemed to notice their handful of people, and several holy light bullets flew down at them in a row.
“…… It's too much of a deception! Although Mutsu said this, he was just talking, and before the Holy Light Bullet fell, Mutsu ran far away, avoiding the explosion range of the Holy Light Bullet.
Although the Holy Light Bullet is a powerful weapon, its biggest disadvantage is that its flight speed is relatively slow, and there is no pressure on such a speed for the Legend, and it instantly disperses to find a place to dodge, and after the Holy Light Bullet has no target, it is loaded on the broken wall and exploded on the ground.
It seemed to notice that this group of quasi-legends was different from those who were bombarded before, and after several quasi-legends dodged the Holy Light Bullet in a row, this abnormal hit rate finally caught the attention of the airship.
The rain of holy light bullets stopped first, and then the airship suddenly killed two dazzling white lights, whether it was the leading Mutsu or other unlucky quasi-legends, they actually had no power to resist in this dazzling white light.
Seeing that Mutsu Ao, who had been driving Chen Yin around like a mouse, was lying quietly on the ground, but now it was no different from other corpses lying on the ground, Chen Yin shook his head and asked:
"It's over?"
"Not yet." Pusiles also looked at the huge airship in the sky, "But now that we are in no danger in the frontal battle, the next thing is to see how those diplomats play......
"Play? Why play? Chen Yin was puzzled.
"Of course, we will be withdrawn, we can't leave without negotiating with old Pound, it takes too much time between the airship taking off and landing, and landing now is purely to create an opportunity for old Pound to attack the airship."
Pusiles replied.
"Or ...... Let it fly a little lower. Pull people up with a rope? Chen Yin suddenly thought of this question.
Pusiles rolled his eyelids weakly, "Humans gather in the soul force field without any protection, and they don't know how to die when they die." ”
"Soul Force Field?"
"It's those things that float around the airship with a light blue halo are soul force fields, so if we want to board the airship, we need diplomats to bargain with old Pound's staff."
"If I'm not mistaken, it should be the airship protector and us people who go out of the city, and then find a place where we can dock the airship within about 5 minutes of the imperial capital, then land, turn off the stand generator, and then load us in......"
"Huh? Still going out of town? Isn't the Tower of Knowledge okay? Chen Yin was stunned for a moment, and pointed to the tower behind him: "Can't you find a relatively high place to jump directly from the Tower of Knowledge to the airship?" ”
Pusiles shrugged: "Isn't that still going to die?" As long as the airship is still floating, the soul field generator will not stop, and if you want to get on the ship, you must pass through that field. ”
Pusiles sat down on the ground and said without the demeanor of a strong man: "The next thing we need to do is to wait." ”
Hearing this, Chen Yin raised his head and looked up at the behemoth in the sky......
"It's finally delayed." Chen Yin also followed the example of Pusiles and sat on the ground.
"Daddy? It worked. ”
A communications card with a link to Daddy McCarthy.
"yes." Daddy McCarthy looked unusually tired, "If it weren't for the airship firing several arrows in a row, my old bone would have almost been confessed here." ”
"Won't it?" Chen Yin was stunned, "Are the others okay?" ”
“…… Are you asking Angel? I don't know why, Chen Yin always felt that his father's voice was a little funny.
"No, I'm concerned about my Tyrannosaurus."
"Hehehe...... I don't believe it. ”
……
Next, under the protection of the airship, no one dared to attack again.
However, it is not easy for Chen Yin and them to withdraw, after all, the seminary is located in the middle of the imperial capital, and it will take a long time to get out of the city.
The church doesn't want to suffer this loss, so compromise is inevitable. When both sides can destroy each other and fear each other, peace comes suddenly.
Da Sheng was killed for so long, turned around and sat together, hooked shoulders and backs, complimented each other (Chen Yin's brain), and compromised with each other......
It's ironic just thinking about it.
However, everything had nothing to do with Chen Yin, and he even had time to go around the musical instrument street, pick up the 9 guitars he had stored there, and secretly use the blank weapon cards of the Holy Light Church to print them one by one.
The people who remained in the Tower of Knowledge were finally reinforced, and water and food were dropped by airships, although not much, but they solved their urgent needs. As for Chen Yin, who dared to go on the street, he naturally bought a lot of things in the imperial capital and sent them back to the Tower of Knowledge, which greatly improved the conditions of Chen Yin's small group of drinking water, and even the treatment of his high-level people was almost the same as that of his father.
Two days later, an agreement was reached.
The Church of the Holy Light left an inventory of gospel gold coins, and slowly left the city with the resources collected by the donation and a large number of refugees, found a place to park the ship not far from the emperor, and then kept on guard while letting all the refugees board the airship.
When everything was done, Chen Yin ran to McCarthy's father's bedroom to chat.
"Daddy, why did you leave all the money for them? Haven't you lost a lot for the sake of these refugees? ”
"Money? Do you mean this piece of metal? McCarthy's father was half-lying on the bed and threw one to Chen Yin in a funny way.
Gospel Gold Coins.
Beautifully cast, it represents a lot of wealth and can be exchanged for many, many good things......
This is Chen Yin's impression of it.
"Right?" Chen Yin held the gold coin in his hand and looked at McCarthy's father with a strange expression.
"No, for the Church of the Light, it's just sheet metal, a high value-added product that is industrially produced with a stamping machine." Daddy McCarthy smiled, took out a soul stone and threw it to Chen Yin.
"What are you?" Chen Yin held the soul stone in his left hand and the gold coin in his right hand, and he didn't know what kind of medicine McCarthy Daddy was selling in his gourd.
"For the Church of Light, that's wealth, and gold is just a piece of metal."
Chen Yin was stunned.
That's right!
The Church of the Holy Light itself runs a bank to print money, but the problem is that the money they print is still in high demand, and everyone is eager to fill their pockets with these metal pieces, but they forget its true face in the chase.
“…… As energy? Chen Yin weighed the soul stone in his hand.
"Not exactly, but that's pretty much what you understand...... Did you guess it yourself? Daddy McCarthy was smiling.
"Not exactly." Chen Yin shook his head, "Pu Xiles said a word about the soul force field, and the energy is my own guess." But that's easy to guess, isn't it? Especially when you consider the meaning of your previous sentence. ”
"Pusiles, the mouthy guy." McCarthy laughed and scolded.
Chen Yin shrugged, "Don't blame him, who asked you to call me to support him?" He is such a simple person, what does he think I have to do with you, and he wants to cut me off...... Besides, after so much time on the battlefield together, maybe he already thinks of me as his own......"
"I don't even dare to ask." Chen Yin's voice changed, turning his emotion into complaining.
"Hehehe......" Daddy McCarthy touched his beard, suddenly turned his head and shouted: "Kind and lovely little Jenny, your handsome and dashing Uncle McCarthy wants to drink your special bitter wine, why don't you take it out quickly!" Serve it with half a barbecue steak, hurry up~~"
"Ah~~"
A coquettish female voice agreed, and the man, who had a waist thicker than a bucket and a horse on his arm, ran out and placed the tray in his hand on the table at the head of Daddy McCarthy's bed, on which lay a poorly made metal flask and a kebab steak still warm.
“……”
Seeing his father staring at the back of the hero with a squinting face, Chen Yin was completely speechless.
"What a healthy little girl! It will definitely be good in the future. "Daddy McCarthy's aesthetic is obviously different from that of a normal human.
Dad kept staring at the person's back until the person's back disappeared, and suddenly the conversation changed and pulled the question to Chen Yin: "How are you and Angel doing?" ”
"I haven't seen the airship since it came...... What do you mean by this, you ask? ”
"Hehehe...... It's nothing. Daddy laughed three times, still looking at Chen Yin with that smiling expression.
"Something?" Chen Yin frowned.
"Nope. Not at all. Daddy smiled but didn't leak.
“……”
(To be continued.) )