Chapter 5: The Lurkers
Blackbeard was the captain of the Glass City's escort team, and he felt strange when he took over this morning. First of all, the sky outside the castle changed, which had not appeared in the previous escort. It stands to reason that the repatriation of the remnants will be postponed for a day due to the weather of the Foehn Wind, but at this time, the vice president of the Liuli and Cat Guild personally sent a release order, and told him that he did not need to check the identity of these remnants and went out of the city directly. Blackbeard has been in the army for 20 years, and he has always regarded obedience to orders as his duty, and he has never spied on the intentions of the higher-ups. However, today's incident still made him mutter, he thought that it was because there was a vicious "heavy tank" Krum among these remnants that his superiors were so anxious to send them out of the city. But he didn't expect that there was a person who could make the "glass mirror" hidden in this group of relics, as far as he knew, this kind of skill known as the strongest protection, only one person in the entire kingdom would use it, and that was the glass hero who had passed away for many years, Xia Weiyang. Who is this young man who has such a powerful technique?
"I've long seen that this kid is not easy," Krum said with a twisted smile on his face, looking a little gloomy, "I was almost kept in the dark by him, and I had a guy in my hand to go out with me to help him." Then he was going to go out of the cave.
Blackbeard dodged to stop him and said, "He has a glass mirror to protect his body, and a few junior burners can't help him." Now we should take advantage of him to attract the attention of the Burning Clan, and fix the airship first. He pointed to the octopuses that had devoured a Burner and gathered one after another, and said, "I need you to cover for us." β
Krum looked at the airship not far away, and the still intact one eye rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "It's okay if you want me to cover it, but the right to use this airship must belong to me after it is repaired, don't worry, I will send you and your people to a place not far from the city, but we remnants also have to fend for ourselves." β
Blackbeard stared at his ugly face, thinking that even if you were to be left outside the city, you would only be left to fend for yourself, so he said, "I see that you are still righteous along the way, so I will do as you say." β
Xia Yan and Qianlan stood on another hill, surrounded by seven or eight junior burners about several meters tall, all standing on their hind legs, their sharp front paws and whip-like tough tails burning with black flames. They all turned their heads, stepped on the white bones, and gathered around Xia Yan. On a boulder farther behind these Burners, there stood a monster the size of a monkey, with a pair of pitch-black horns on its head, but its body glowed red like a red-hot furnace, and its hollow eye sockets were burning with raging flames, obviously looking this way, but it did not follow the junior Burners.
"Elite Burners." Qianlan looked at the fiery red monster and said.
Xia Yan was also looking at the Burning Clan, he clenched the green demon in his hand, turned his head sideways and said to Qianlan, "Follow me." β
"Hmm." Shallow Lan nodded, and ripped off the gray robe on her body, revealing a delicate blue-and-white blouse and a short black pleated skirt, black boots and stockings, and a silver old-fashioned three-barreled musket hanging from the holster on her belt.
Xia Yan flashed, bypassing a junior Burning Clan who was the first to attack, the glass mirror spun rapidly around him, fending off more attacks that followed, he ignored these junior Burning Clans, and rushed towards the Elite Burning Clan with a clear goal. Shallow Lan followed him, her long hair fluttering in the wind, and she drew her musket in mid-air and fired several shots into the face of a nearby Burner. The bullets of this gun have been modified to be so powerful that the Light Gun used by the Escort is slightly less powerful. The three barrels of the guns took turns firing, and the rate of fire was extremely fast, and the head of the burning clan was instantly opened, and before he could snort, he fell to the ground with a bang. A point of light rose and drifted through the air.
The elite Burning Clan seemed to know that Xia Yan was targeting it, perhaps because it was shocked by the powerful aura on Xia Yan's body, it actually avoided him and prepared to flee backwards. But as soon as it turned around, a bullet had already hit it in the back of the head. After killing the two junior Burners, she shot another shot at the elite Burners a few hundred meters away. However, this bullet was fatal to the junior Burning Clan, but hitting the Elite Burning Clan only made it pause, and there was an extra bullet hole on its head, but its action power did not weaken in the slightest. Apparently enraged by the shot, it stopped its fleeing form and turned its head sharply towards Asarashi.
The elite Burning Clan was menacing, and after Xia Yan waved his hand to cut off the head of a junior Burning Clan, he slashed a sword light at the Elite Burning Clan who was rushing towards Qianlan. The elite Burner Clan hurriedly leaped to the left, sending out a beam of black lightning from between the two pitch-black horns, and struck directly at Qianlan, who was fighting with the two junior Burners.
"Bang!" With a bang, a glass mirror blocked the lightning, and Qianlan pulled out and turned around and threw out a bullet. However, the E-level elite Burning Clan was also very strong, not only dodging Qianlan's bullets, but also dodging Xia Yan's blade. Qian Lan rose into the air from behind Xia Yan, the short gun in his hand fired in three prongs, and the elite Burning Clan just dodged Xia Yan's knife, and there was no way to avoid it in mid-air, so he could only use his tail to sweep the bullets that came over. The power of three bullets fired at the same time was several times greater than one, and its tail was immediately broken into two knots, and a spark erupted. The elite Burner rolled down in the sand, and it knew that it couldn't fight hard, so it no longer fought with Xia Yan and Asaarashi, but quickly pounced on the cave full of human breath in the distance.
"Death!" Qianlan fired two shots at it, but they didn't hit the flickering elite Burning Clan, and they couldn't help but look at Xia Yan. Xia Yan didn't need her to remind him, he had already followed the elite Burning Clan and rushed to the cave where Krum and the others were.
Krum and Zhuge Ming, along with one of the guards, were struggling with the octopus underground, completely unaware of the rapidly approaching shadow of death. With a loud bang, a scarlet shadow crashed into the cave, followed by a cyan knife light and the roar of the monster, and the entire cave was instantly chaotic, and smoke and dust were everywhere. The octopuses also seemed to explode into the pot, and all of them poked out their tentacles from the sand, and swept everything they caught into the sand. The elite Burner had one of his arms cut off by Xia Yan, but he was still fierce, tearing one of the octopuses that caught him in half. While dodging Xia Yan's blade, it recklessly fired a larger black lightning bolt at the remnants, as if it was determined to pull these people to be buried with them.
Krum was also stunned when he saw the elite Burning Clan, he understood the horror of this Burning Clan, ordinary knives and guns could not hurt it at all, so he simply turned the double-barreled light energy gun in his right hand into a shield, and blocked the Elite Burning Clan's fighting blow in time. Rao was like this, and his shield was also pierced by a large opening, and the electricity was cross-current.
But Krum could barely stop the lightning explosion, and the others, especially the remnants, couldn't. Fortunately, Xia Yan summoned four glass mirrors at the same time to wrap most of the power of the explosion in it, so that no one was killed in this explosion, and the remnants were just shocked by the aftermath of the explosion and fell into the sand. At the same time as Xia Yan summoned the glass mirror, the knife in his hand also slashed out. After the explosion, a slender wound had been cut open on his arm, but the elite Burners had been cut off.
The corpse of the elite burner fell to the ground, and the fiery red body gradually turned black, and a brilliant red light burst out of it, flying towards an octopus not far away.
The octopus was so frightened that it had already ducked into the sand, but it was still hit by the spirit of the elite Burning Clan. Emerging from the sand, he waved his huge tentacles wildly, and dark green flames erupted from his body.
"This octopus is infected." Krum shouted, taking a few steps back and staring on guard.
The octopus writhed a few times, and the flames on its body quickly extinguished, and it still maintained its tentacle swinging posture, and its body quickly turned into a piece of charcoal. After a while, he finally couldn't hold it anymore and fell to the ground in a few pieces.
Qian Lan solved the remaining two junior burning clans, hurried over, looked at Xia Yan's injured arm, and without saying a word, tore off a piece of cloth from his skirt and bandaged him.
Xia Yan nodded at her, letting her fiddle with her bleeding arm and retract the blade of the green demon into the hilt. Seeing that the crisis was solved, Krum hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Thanks to the little brother who sacrificed his life to save him just now, the grace of saving his life is unforgettable!" I don't know if I can tell my honorable name, so that I can teach me to know who I was rescued. The rest of the remnants also got up from the ground, and they all nodded in agreement.
"It's serious, just now it was just a gesture, not a favor." Although Xia Yan rarely entertained people in the green forest like Krum, he could hear that the other party was worried about his identity, and now that he had reached the Bone Burial Plain, there was no need to hide his identity from them, Tunnel: "My name is Xia Yan." β
"You are the younger brother of the glass hero Xia Weiyang! Count Xia Yanβ" The Blackbeard came out of the airship and said, as if he had finally remembered that Xia Yan had been given a knighthood by Queen Liuli when he was 7 years old, and could enter and leave the palace without notice. Although these low-ranking officers had always heard of it, none of them had really seen this youngest canonized earl in the history of the Glass Kingdom. Blackbeard's tone became respectful. "Please forgive my subordinates for being rude, and I have not been able to recognize the Earl."
"Xia Weiyang!" There was a lot of discussion among the remnants, even the three-year-old child knew that he was a hero of the mainland, but he didn't expect that the young man in front of him was actually his younger brother.
"If you don't say it, I don't even remember that I still have this false title," Xia Yan scratched his head a little embarrassed and said, "Captain, don't be so polite, let's call me Xia Yan." β
"The prestige of the glass hero is like thunder, and everyone knows it. It's a pity that my generation didn't have the opportunity to see the honor, and it was really eye-opening to see the little brother's skills today. Krum praised.
Xia Yan just smiled and said to everyone: "Xiao Lan and I came here because of some private matters, not to hide it from you. β
"There are also 10 junior burners gathered in the southeast corner, and the mobile force will come to clear the scene in a minute or two." Qian Lan tied a bow on Xia Yan's arm, seemed to be very satisfied with the effect, raised her head and said to him.
Krum's face changed when he heard this, and their remnants had managed to escape several catastrophes, and if they were captured by the army again, it would be difficult to escape. He weighed the pros and cons, knowing that with Xia Yan here, it was impossible for him to forcibly snatch the airship again, so he turned his head to Blackbeard and said, "Does the previous agreement between you and me still count?" β
Blackbeard glanced at him and said slyly, "The current situation has changed, Krum. Now that one member of my team has died, and if I lose another airship, it will be difficult for me to go back. β
"You don't keep your word!" Zhuge Ming on the side pointed at him angrily.
"Don't you think it's ridiculous for a thief to talk to me about credit?" Blackbeard scoffed.
"I didn't expect you to keep your promise," Krum said to him with a sinister smile, raising his right hand slightly, "If you and I do this, we don't know who will kill the deer." It's better to respect strength and let this little brother decide. He turned to Xia Yan and said, "Your life was saved by you, even if you want to take it back, we will never complain." β
The other remnants were the only ones who looked at him, so they naturally nodded in agreement. Blackbeard also looked at Xia Yan and said slowly, "Okay, please decide whether the airship will be given to these remnants, my lord." β
Xia Yan looked at the dozen pairs of eyes that were full of expectations towards him, and said to everyone with a calm face: "It stands to reason that it is not my turn to take care of this matter, but since everyone trusts me, I will tell you my opinion." He put the handle of his sword back into his clothes, turned his head to look at Captain Blackbeard, who saw a twinkle in his eyes, nodded to him in a gesture that no ordinary person could detect, and continued, "Honesty and bravery are the two most important things in the rules of the soldiers of the Glass City, and since the captain of the guard promised them before, he should not break his word. I'll make this clear to Vice President Alice, and you won't be held responsible. β
Krum and the others were overjoyed when they heard this, and Blackbeard saw Xia Yan say this, and it was inconvenient to be stubborn anymore, and said with a sigh of relief: "Since you said so, I will do it." It's not that I'm afraid to take responsibility, it's just that this Krum is notorious, and I'm afraid that letting him go this time will cause endless trouble. β
"My notoriety is not all the rumors of your military," Krum said indignantly, "I, Krum, ask myself, that I have never done anything to bully. β
"I believe him." Xia Yan said to Blackbeard, "And they are the status of relics, and they can't go back to the protective goggles, so they won't be dangerous to the city." β
Blackbeard hesitated, then nodded to Xia Yan and walked into the cave again, and after a while, the sound of the airship starting came out. He drove the airship out of the ruined cavern, stopped next to the crowd, and then jumped down and said to Krum, "The airship's power system is badly damaged, and it won't be able to drive for a few days. If you enter the city, I will send you here as well. β
Krum seemed to disdain to reply to him, and only beckoned the other remnants to hurry up and board the airship. He finally turned back to Xia Yan and smiled: "Little brother, I don't thank you for your kindness, if there is a chance to serve you in the future, although Krum's strength is meager, he will definitely do his best." β
Half of his face was already covered in metal and wires, and his smile was indescribably weird. Xia Yan also smiled at him and said, "There will be a period later." "Watch the airship lift off and sail away from the Bone Field.
"Go back and find the body of No. 4, and bring it back with the mobile unit later." Blackbeard didn't seem to care about the airship at this time, but just instructed the two team members behind him.
"We went to look for it just now, but we didn't find any corpses, presumably they were dragged into the sand by the octopus in the chaos just now." One of the team members replied.
"Alas, this No. 4, on the first day he went out of the city to perform a mission, he was in a different place, which is really bad luck." Another member of the team grunted.
There was a gunshot in the distance, and then the roar of the machine's engine got closer. Two warplanes flew through the sky, and then, a column of blue-gray armored combat vehicles also emerged from the other side of the hill. Blackbeard and two guards hurriedly waved at them.
Xia Yan looked at the thunder light that stretched into the distance, and seemed to be thoughtful. Qianlan looked at him and said in a routine tone: "The front line is still far from here, and we promised Sister Alice that we would go back today." β
"Hmm." Xia Yan nodded at her, glanced back at the mutilated cave, and said, "Go back." β
After confirming that they were not infected by the Wandering Soul through the military's scanner machine, they were picked up in an armored vehicle with Blackbeard and his team inside. As soon as Blackbeard got into the car, he said to the driver, "Turn on the tracking system, the code is: G4750." β
"It's the code of our airship, it turns out that the eldest brother has already installed a tracker on the airship, and he deliberately let them go just now!" One of the team members said happily.
Blackbeard looked at the red dot that appeared on the map on the screen in the cab and sneered, "If I had let them go generously just now, I would have been suspicious of Krum's cunning and cunning. Lord Xia Yan cooperated very well just now, so they will definitely be able to lead us to the location of the rebels. β
Xia Yan led Qianlan to sit down, and when he heard this, he glanced at Blackbeard and the others who were in his hands, but he didn't show surprise.
On the other side, the empty cave was a mess, the broken corpses of the octopus and the burner were still lying on the ground, and the air was filled with a thick smell of burnt and heat. In a shadowy corner of the cavern, a flame slowly lit up, and after lighting a red dot, the flame turned into a wisp of green smoke. Then a man with a cigarette in his mouth slowly stepped out of the shadows, and saw that the charred white armor on his body was actually the guard who had been lying on the ground since the beginning. His helmet had lost somewhere, revealing a pair of narrow, red and green wizard eyes, and he patted the dust off his golden curls and stood still in front of the corpses, puffing out a smoke ring, his thin lips raised into a cynical smile, and muttered, "I saw a good show." β
Behind him, several regular circles were silently approaching him. The man seemed unaware until the circle spread to his feet, and the octopus inside sucked hard, and the man's figure disappeared in place. However, the circles did not disappear, but all gathered in the place where the man disappeared and kept spinning, as if they did not achieve their goal. A second later, a purple lightning bolt fell from the sky, exploding the octopus in the circle alive, killing him instantly. The disappeared man appeared out of the air again, and some of the circles that had gathered around him were intimidated by this lightning, and he only lingered in place, not daring to approach rashly. The man didn't care about the turbulent octopus, as if his contemplation had not been interrupted, he stared at the elite Burning Clan on the ground that had been turned in half and was being charred, and said, "This lurking is finally worth the trip, I didn't expect you to inherit the 'glass mirror'." It's a little tricky, Xia Yan," he said with a cold look in his eyes, and a cold smile appeared on his young face, "How many secrets do you still have?" Before you die in my hands, let's show them all one by one. After saying that, he threw away the cigarette butt and walked out of the cave without looking back.