Chapter 173: Black Friday (7)
At that time, the Louvre was still used as a royal palace, and there was no glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei at the door, no Venus with a broken arm, no stone sculpture of the goddess of victory, no Code of Hammurabi, and no famous painting "Mona Lisa", because Leonardo da Vinci was still more than 100 years old.
There were not many people living in the palace, most of the rooms were empty, the royal family members had their own residences, the king could not open the harem publicly, and the side halls were basically occupied by servants, some hid under the bed, and some hid in the cabinets, shivering.
Zhou Yu didn't know what they were afraid of, and he was not interested in knowing, so he hoped that the palace would be as chaotic as possible, and that there would be no manpower to chase them, so that they could escape from Paris more easily.
He moved into the palace alone, with the aim of killing anyone who might have seen them on the road, so that the people behind could sneak into the captured Templar courtyard and go undetected until they had fought the guards, making the rescue operation smoother......
The captured Templars were originally going to be detained elsewhere, but now they don't have the heart to care, so they are temporarily placed in the backyard of the side hall, anyway, there are now the most soldiers near the palace.
After clearing all the obstacles, Zhou Yu came to the square in front of the Louvre again, and at the same time as he appeared, he stabbed the blades of his arms into the abdomen of the patrol team leader next to him, picked up the man directly, and slammed him to the ground, dividing the whole team to the ground with three strikes and five divisions, but except for the captain, none of them were killed.
The silence of the night was driven far away by the screams, which led to the sound of soldiers and Hospitallers on patrol and to see many soldiers crawling towards the edge of the square, trying to get as far away as possible from the young man in the Templar robes standing in the middle.
Zhou Yu closed his eyes, lowered his head, hung his hands, his arm armor reflected the moonlight, and there were sprayed blood stains on the back of his hand, covering the pair of beautiful triangles, blood dripping down his fingertips, and several dark red plum blossoms had bloomed on the ground.
This time, it was not Assassin's Creed, but Assassin Mussou, and the rescue of the captured Templars was left to Jacques and Herbert, who would be too embarrassed if they couldn't even kill the soldiers inside.
His mission was to attract the attention of the patrolling soldiers and knights, so he came to the spacious square to play Musou, and tried to attract more people, anyway, as long as he was not surrounded by the group, it was very simple to get out of the way.
The soldiers who arrived first immediately put Zhou Yu in the middle, pointed the spear in his hand at him, gradually contracted the encirclement, and shouted loudly to make him kneel down and surrender.
Zhou Yu waited for the spear tips to be very close, and then moved outside the encirclement, ran around the group of soldiers, and made a huge cut in their backs.
The screams were louder.
Then a team of hospitalisers ran over, and they didn't use the tactics of encirclement, they directly drew their swords and rushed up to fight, the chain mail on their bodies could resist the cuts of the blades, but they couldn't withstand the sharpness of [Qingmang] at all, and it didn't make much difference whether they wore it or not, and this team of knights was quickly defeated by Zhou Yu, but more patrol teams arrived.
Zhou Yu began to use teleportation, and when he saw a place where he could stand, he moved over, the stabbing and slashing of the east and west swords, and the screams flickered left and right, before and after, and the encirclement could not be formed at all, so after killing for a while, the patrol team that surrounded was completely dispersed.
The soldiers fought separately, looking for their teammates back to back as if playing a game, and regardless of whether the person they found was a soldier or a knight, they looked around in groups of two or three, carrying their weapons.
Zhou Yu hid his figure and stood in the crowd, this result was what he was happy to see, in order to make the soldiers and knights dare not move, he no longer killed people, but like an instructor, when he saw that there was a "formation" that did not stand well, he immediately moved over and stabbed a sword, and those who stood well and had their backs tightly attached to them did not care.
After a few more minutes, neither the soldier nor the knight dared to move, and their backs seemed to be glued, in pairs, as if they were doing some strange group dance.
No one dared to speak, for fear of attracting Zhou Yu's attention, the square suddenly became very quiet, and the people who were still lying on the ground screaming were infected by this atmosphere, and they also gritted their teeth and held back, not daring to scream.
At this moment, there were several crisp sounds of "Woo Woo Woo" from the side hall.
Zhou Yu frowned and looked in that direction.
It was gunshots, no doubt Herbert's, but a group of Templars against a group of soldiers had no need to shoot unless they were in greater danger.
As soon as he turned around, the [Dimmy] Dream Talisman became invalid, his figure was revealed, and the Hospitaller next to him immediately stabbed with a sword, but it stabbed into the air.
Zhou Yu moved towards the side hall as fast as he could, and before he could move in, he saw a large group of Hospitallers standing in the courtyard of the backyard, forming a circle and surrounding the arrested Templars, Jacques, and Herbert in the middle.
Most of the French soldiers who had been guarding the Templars were lying on the ground, and Herbert had only a few wounded in the arm, and most of them had been wiped out in such a short period of time, indicating that the rescue operation was successful, but it was interrupted.
The nearby soldiers were all killed by Zhou Yu, and the first step of the rescue operation was to block all the intersections leading to the palace in the backyard, so as not to let the soldiers guarding the captured knights escape, shouting in the backyard The main hall could not be heard, and the patrolling soldiers were attracted to the square again, there was no reason to be discovered so quickly, and there was no reason for so many soldiers and knights to come at once.
Everyone in the courtyard stared at the gun in Herbert's hand, whether it was a French soldier, a Hospitaller or a Templar, smoke came out of the muzzle, and in the opposite direction lay several people, all of whom had fallen from the guns, two of them were dead, and two were covering their wounds and did not dare to move.
"Get out of the way, let us go." Herbert said to the soldiers who blocked the exit.
The soldier who was pointed at the gun was frightened and tried to move to the side, but was stopped by several hospitalguards next to him.
A Hospitaller took a step forward, and as soon as he said the word "we", a gunshot rang out, and he shook his body and fell backwards clutching his chest.
"Get out of the way." Herbert said in a deep voice.
The soldiers blocking the passage finally got out of the way, but at that moment, someone from the other direction shouted: "We have come to destroy the demons by order of the Pope!" ”
Herbert turned sharply and pointed his gun in that direction, but he didn't know who was speaking, so he had to ask, "What demon?" ”
"There is a demon in the palace, it is killing people at will, no one can subdue it, the Pope urgently summoned us, but we can't deal with it, I plan to take you over to help, not to kill you!" Someone shouted in the other direction.
This made all the Templars frown and look at each other, it was too strange that there were demons in the palace, and so many soldiers and hospitallers couldn't deal with it, so what was the use of looking for them?
The reason for looking for them is actually to let them be cannon fodder.
There were enough soldiers and Hospitallers gathered in the palace to take down the demon in one fell swoop, but who would attract the demon's attack? The first person must have been killed, and neither the French soldiers nor the Hospitaller were willing to be cannon fodder, so someone thought of the captured Templars, with the Templars as the vanguard, and the soldiers and Hospitallers in charge of the attack, and they could kill the demon as soon as they swarmed up.
So Philip IV sent someone to bring the Templars over, just after Zhou Yu left, and as soon as the people who came saw a group of Templars rushing to the backyard, they immediately went back to call for people, which led to the current situation.
A French soldier leading the team said loudly: "Your Majesty said that it was only a misunderstanding to arrest you, because it has been reported that you secretly worship demons and trample on crosses, and now is the opportunity, if you are willing to go with us to deal with demons, no one will doubt you anymore; If you don't want to go, it means that the report is true, and if you don't know that the demon was also summoned by you, the Templars will become enemies of all the Lord. ”
Herbert sneered: "If there is a demon, if the demon is really summoned by us, how can Philip IV live until now?" You're clearly making up a story so that we can surrender. ”
"We have the Pope's oracle, I have just seen the demons with my own eyes, this is not a lie to you, no matter what reason the King of France captures you, as long as you can subdue the demons, the Pope will not let your credit go, for the sake of the Templar Order, it is best for you to participate in the operation to kill the demons." The Captain of the Hospitaller's side spoke up.
"The Pope?" Herbert sneered again: "For the sake of power, Clement V was willing to help Philip IV in everything, and the nine cardinals he promoted were all French, five of whom were his own relatives, and three were children. ”
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Jacques beside him suddenly waved his hand, and the short sword slashed from the bottom to the top, slashing at Herbert's arm.
Bite!
Jacques's dagger snapped in unison, failing to reach Herbert's arm, and he exerted too much force, holding his arm high in the air, gripping the hilt tightly.
"Don't get excited, how can you cut people directly without saying a word." Zhou Yu stood in front of Jacques and pressed the tip of his sword against his chin.
Herbert had already withdrawn his hand just now, but it was still half a beat slower, and if Zhou Yu hadn't cut off Jacques's blade, his arm holding the gun would probably have been cut off.
Jacques looked at Zhou Yu with a cold gaze and said, "The devil is God's chance to prove our innocence. ”
"Indeed." Zhou Yu nodded, pressed Herbert's arm down, and said with a smile: "So we will also follow." ”
When he heard the word "demon", he immediately thought of the long, black and gray slender figure, of course, he wanted to take a look. (To be continued.) )