59. Arrival
"It's you!"
Seeing that the person who came was actually Ani who was a giant 'internal annihilation', Mikasa, who was not surprised, was also slightly stunned.
But then her expression calmed down, because she believed that as long as Thrall did something, there must be a reason for him, but she still looked at Ani with a lot of hostility in her eyes.
It turned out that before Sal returned to the wall, he had arranged for Ani to stay in a low forest not far from the city gate for the time being, and left her a set of three-dimensional mobile devices, and when he led the expedition, the latter quietly followed from a distance, and only took over by a specific code in advance until tonight.
Patting Mikasa on the shoulder, Sal took two steps forward and said, "Actually, I had already caught up with her the day she fled. ”
“…… Kindness. Mikasa nodded, not saying much, quietly waiting for Sal's explanation.
"Arnie and Reiner and Berthold are all from the same place......"
Next, Thrall told Mikasa what he knew, including how he had found the Ape Giants, how he had fought them, and how he had won with great difficulty, which made Mikasa frightened and frightened for Sal, and at the end, she looked at Sal with a faint hint of reproach in her eyes for his assertiveness.
During this process, Arnie did not say a word from beginning to end, and it was not until Sal had finished the general story of the matter that she couldn't help but say, "Reiner and Berthold ......"
"Killed."
Before she could finish speaking, Sal replied nonchalantly.
Hearing this, Ani's delicate body was shocked, and his face showed a deep sadness, and at the same time, he seemed to glare at Sal very angrily, as if he was about to rush up desperately, but soon he relaxed again and let out a long sigh.
Although her surname has always been indifferent, and there is almost no communication between the two Reiners, who have been carrying out tasks together, after all, those two are her 'fellow villagers' and comrades-in-arms on the united front, and there is quite a feeling of sympathy for each other.
But thinking about the future that she would have to rely on Sal to fulfill, she relented.
On the other hand, while Ani lamented for this answer, Mikasa was also greatly surprised, she naturally knew about the oversized and armored giant quietly dying outside the city walls, but she didn't expect that it was Thrall who did it, and judging from the reactions of the vanguard soldiers today, it seems that he did it alone......
Is he already so strong? Then I want to catch up with him......
Thinking of this, Mikasa's mood was actually a little low, but when she saw Ani's previous reaction, she still didn't show anything, just stared at the other party vigilantly to prevent the other party from suddenly outbursting and hurting people.
"Don't be nervous."
Seeing the appearance of the two of them at this time, Sal smiled and said, "Now everyone is on the same front, Mikasa, the purpose of my expedition this time is not just to temper recruits and gather intelligence, if possible...... I would like to be led by Arnie to find her 'homeland' and bring back all the people there who are worthy of trust. ”
Hearing this, Ani was stunned, and then there was a burst of ecstasy.
However, Mikasa was silent for a while and said, "Can we trust those people?" After all......"
"I know what you're trying to say, but from my intelligence, it's only a small fraction of them who advocate following the will of the ape-giants to attack us." Sal interrupted her with a wave of his hand: "...... There are no Giants to be seen everywhere now, and I'm pretty sure they've been summoned by the Ape Giants, and they're probably about to launch a massive attack...... After leading the team to find out the situation this time, we turned to Ani's 'hometown', and I have to say that the people there are actually all very good combat effectiveness...... It can work wonders! ”
Hearing him say this, Mikasa didn't say anything to refute it, anyway, what Sal had to do, he did it with him.
"What do you mean...... It's all true? ”
At this point, Arnie spoke, her voice shaking.
Sal smiled: "Naturally it's true! Saying...... Do you want to 'mix' into my team so openly? ”
"I'm prepared."
I saw that Ani heard the words, lowered his head and took out a few bottles and cans of things from a bag around his waist, and then each of them stuck a little bit of it with his fingers and began to spit on his face and arms, and after a while, although it was under the night, Sal still clearly saw that Ani's originally fair and smooth pretty face had turned into a deep bronz, and when she took out a small bag and took out some things to clean up for a while, there was a very real beard on her chin, The originally slender eyebrows were also a few points thicker, and there were a few more hideous scars on the face.
"How?"
After everything was done, Arnie asked, her voice deliberately suppressed hoarsely, although her dress was a bit nondescript, but it was definitely not reminiscent of her true identity.
Feeling a little strange and walking around Ani twice, Sal nodded with satisfaction, and said to Mikasa: "I want to lead a large army, I can't take care of her, Mikasa, you don't have to stay in the recruit team after that, just stay with Ani, and tell her about the things that need to be paid attention to in the corps on the way, so as not to show your feet, as for the vanguard, I have said hello to everyone, as long as the recruits don't find out, there will be no surprise." ”
Mikasa nodded in agreement, and the three of them turned around and walked in the direction of the camp after a little discussion, but Sal always felt that Mikasa and Ani's words were very wrong after all, and the smell of gunpowder was full......
After a night's rest, Sal set off again with the two hundred men, Mikasa and Ani rode side by side in front of the vanguard, and the rest of the soldiers were also greeted by Sal in advance, although they did not know where this ugly lean man came from, but out of trust and absolute obedience to Sal, none of them asked anything more, and the recruits at the back of the team naturally did not know.
Along the way, Mikasa only coldly explained the situation in the investigation corps and the matters that needed attention, and then stopped talking, while Ani would occasionally look in the direction of the recruits behind him with a complicated expression, always looking very uncomfortable.
It's no wonder that although she has made up her mind to follow Thrall to realize her long-standing 'wish', she is surrounded by people who should be her enemies, and her comrades-in-arms who have been with her in the past and have now betrayed, even if her surname is indifferent, it will be strange.
This uncomfortably peaceful journey lasted for five days, and because of the many wagons full of supplies, the procession was not moving fast, and on the morning of the third day it was out of the damaged gate of the Wall of Mary, and on the afternoon of the fifth day Thrall approached the lair of the ape-giant, who had visited alone.
In the same two days, they finally began to meet some wandering giants, and the further they went, the more they encountered, especially the last time, they actually encountered a huge crowd of people who were mostly composed of fifteen meters and numbered below twenty heads!
Sal didn't find anything strange about this situation! Counting that everyone was only about ten minutes away from the lair, he commanded the team to stop and ordered everyone to rest in place for a while, and then divided twenty low-quality recruits to take care of the supplies on the carriage before leading the rest of the people to slowly start approaching the target area while on guard.
Ahead was a mountain range that stretched left and right across the entire area, and he had to cross the mountain range and pass through a jungle of giant trees that was not too big to reach the lair of the ape-giant, but from now on, he had to be careful every step of the way.
However, although he had already expected that all the disappeared giants had been summoned by the ape giants to plan something, when he led everyone to climb to the top of the mountain range in front of him and looked down, his heart was still pounding!
Even he is like this, the soldiers and recruits under his command are even more unbearable, and even some recruits whose psychological quality is not up to standard are directly weak on the spot, rolling backwards from the mountain, fortunately, there are people next to him to quickly support him, otherwise they will not wait to go to the battlefield, and they can stumble along the way to kill them.
――――I saw that on this side of the mountain, as far as the eye could see, there were no green mountains and green waters, strange rocks and rugged mountains that Sal saw last time he came, but it had completely turned into a boundless ocean composed of pure giants!
The giants, large and small, stood together in a dense group, spreading from the foot of the mountain where they were to the distant horizon, and their number Sal roughly estimated that it had already exceeded ten million, approaching ten million!
And look at this picture, this 'sea of meat' has not yet been assembled, as far as the eye can see, there are still scattered giants in the distance to join this team one after another, countless giants converge together and crowd each other, dense, people can see goosebumps, even the original dazzling and abnormal ape giant lair, has been covered by them can not see the shape, only the obvious sunken terrain and the dense bamboo shoot-like boulders in it, still show the difference there......
"I'm a god! This......! How much is that!! ”
Everyone bent down on the top of the peak and watched, Miller, who was next to Sal, first howled uncontrollably after the shock, and then looked at the rest of the people who reacted, all of them were nervous and dignified.
"Looks like these guys really want to make a big deal...... Sal muttered, thinking to himself, "These guys did such a big move so suddenly...... For what? ”
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