Chapter 22 Rush to the Rescue
"One, two, three, ...... hard" Liv hooked a large stone slab with a red scythe, and Elaine's hands flashed with magical light, slamming hard at the bottom of the slate.
"Bang!" The stone slab the size of a millstone swirled twice in the air and fell on another pile of ruins, stirring up a cloud of dust.
Underneath the slab is a pit made of broken beams and masonry, in which two figures, one large and one small, are huddled. It was an Islamic woman wearing a veil, and judging by the wrinkles on the back of her hand, it was an old man who was holding a little girl of seven or eight years old in her arms.
They were lucky enough to escape the collapse of the house under this messy hole and not be buried in the rubble like the rest of the family.
"Hey, you're safe!" Liv leans into the hole and helps the two of them crawl out of it.
Both the elderly and the child have some weakness, presumably due to lack of oxygen. The two looked at Liv and Elaine, but there was no gratitude in their eyes, just an indifferent numbness.
Two Allied soldiers with cross armbands came running from a distance and picked up the old man and the child. The homeless refugees had to temporarily live in military tents on the outskirts of the city, wait for the army to clear the area, and then work with other survivors to rebuild their homes on their own.
It is foreseeable that the US and British troops will not be the main task of assisting refugees, and they still have a war to fight. It is very likely that these poor people will be starved and cold for years, and perhaps by the end of the war, the number of survivors will be more than half.
"Woo~~" On the brick-and-stone streets, a military jeep came speeding over. A middle-aged U.S. colonel jumped out of the jeep without waiting for the car to stop.
"Miss Liv, Miss Elaine, I've finally found you!" The colonel grimaced and said sternly, "Both, with all due respect, your duty is not here, please go to the underground shelter, and my people will take over the civilian rescue here!" ”
Liv shrugged her eyebrows, but before she could speak, Elaine beside her had already said coldly: "Colonel, are you sure?" We've been here for nearly half an hour, and you've just arrived with these soldiers, do you know how many civilians here would have died if we weren't there? ”
"Miss Elaine, the 101st Division must first clear the German special forces in the city center, not to mention, the Germans used incendiary bombs in the shelling, you have no idea how much we sacrificed for this......" A lieutenant staff officer next to the colonel retorted with anger.
"Is it, the entire paratrooper division besieging a German commando of less than thirty people? Sue me, what would you do if this was New York? Liv said sarcastically.
The lieutenant's staff officer opened his mouth wide and was speechless.
"Please forgive Lieutenant Jonathan, he just ...... Angry at the sacrifice of his comrades. Casablanca is not New York, there is a lack of fire trucks and necessary city facilities, and we can't let soldiers act as firefighters and carry out rescue missions in the midst of fire! The Colonel sighed, weakly arguing.
"At the end of the day, you're just U.S. soldiers, and you don't care about the lives of civilians in Casablanca!" Elaine flicked her ponytail and stepped onto the jeep, "Let's go, Colonel, I hope you can keep your promise and do your best to do something for these survivors!" ”
The jeep is back on the road and speeding towards the museum.
"Colonel, how's the situation going in the underground bunker?" After a moment of silence, Liv couldn't help but ask the two officers, "Actually, we already had a companion rushing to the underground shelter just now. ”
"I don't know exactly what happened, but the information from below is urgent. Several superhumans led by Skorzny almost broke through the main protective area where the heads of the three kingdoms were located, but for some reason, they retreated at the last moment. The colonel said with a frown.
"According to the intelligence, at that point in time, two other members of the 'Gentlemen's Alliance' also broke through another real room. It's just that the real room is definitely not as important as the main area where the heads of the three countries are located, and in order to prevent the Germans from coming back, the 'Justice League' did not pursue the Germans. ”
Liv and Elaine looked at each other and fell silent, both worried about Catelyn and her other companions.
"Elaine, you said the 'Queen' and the professor would be fine, right?" Little Red Riding Hood couldn't help but ask her companion beside her.
"Professor Katrin is much better than us, she'll be fine!" Elaine pursed her lips, "As for the black witch who always dresses herself up as a queen, she won't be so cunning!" ”
"Hee-hee, your relationship is still so bad, one thinks of himself as Snow White, and the other as a black-hearted queen!" Liv covered her mouth and laughed heartlessly.
"Cut, the ghost has something to do with her! Hey, what's going on here? Elaine was halfway through her speech, turning her head to look at the driveway outside the jeep.
As the jeep approached the museum, the roadside was full of wounded American soldiers, most of whom were lying in strange positions on the brick and stone streets, and had lost their breath of life. The rest of the soldiers pressed against their wounds, moaning in pain.
"Lieutenant Jonathan once said that we made great sacrifices near the museum." The colonel pursed his lips tightly and secretly pinched his knuckles, "Last night, we attacked and shot nearly a hundred German Orningberg special forces on the beach, and today they returned to us tenfold!" ”
"The German special forces hid in the rubble after the shelling, they were all marksmen, one shot changed places, and our soldiers left a corpse for every inch of advance. They also had special weapons that could penetrate the armor of tanks, which seemed to be a miniature version of Soviet rockets. Lieutenant Jonathan said with a blank face, "A little further ahead, you can see those still burning Sherman tanks!" ”
"They delayed the 101st Division for nearly half an hour, and we had no choice but to bombard every part of their hidden house with heavy artillery." The colonel said lightly, "There is no city center in Casablanca, and the closest to the museum, you will find that you will not find even a single intact masonry." Of course, there are no corpses either! ”
Liv and Elaine were shocked, and in this short battle of urban attack and defense, the two fairy tale girls seemed to have a new understanding of war.
When the colonel said that there were no corpses, he did not mean that the enemy had fled, but that under that kind of intensive bombardment, it was impossible to find a complete corpse, and the flesh mixed with sand and soil might not even be able to see the appearance of human organs.
"Elaine......" Little Red Riding Hood turned her head to look at Elaine.
"Hmm!" The white-haired girl's eyes flashed, and she pressed the door of the jeep, threw herself out of the car, and swept in the direction of the museum.
"Colonel, the jeep is too slow, let's go first!" Liv rose to her feet at the same time, tiptoe a little at the front of the jeep, and chased Elaine.
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"Joey, you come, or I!" Grant's boots stepped onto the collapsed iron door and pointed to the black-haired girl in front of him.
"I'll leave it to you, and I'll make up for my previous rudeness!" Joey grinned and walked over to the surrounding researchers with a package of blood drops.
"Do you also have the concept of apologizing?" Grant pursed his lips and stepped forward to meet the "Black Queen".
Mira took off the straight knife behind her back with a straight face, not paying any attention to Joey on the other side, just staring at Grant in front of her, and a sense of foreboding slowly grew in her heart.
"Da Da Da!" A series of gunshots rang out in the room. The real scientists here have all been evacuated, and those who remain are Allied military researchers, most of whom are militarily trained and more or less armed with a pistol or two.
"Hey, hey!" Joey licked his dry lips and lifted a heavy chair with one hand, using it as a shield to pounce on the researchers.
"I hate people in white coats, it reminds me of some very bad memories!"
The evil dagger in Joey's hand flew like a butterfly, and anyone who resisted came close to him fell in a face or two clutching their necks. The pools of blood pooled on the ground and converged into a stream, and the entire real room was splashed with blood everywhere, as if dyed with a layer of bewitching blood.
"Run, don't care about those documents, run away, I can't stop them alone!" The black-haired girl shouted at the remaining living people in the room, but the movements in her hands were unusually agile, and a black light flashed from the tip of the straight knife, passing over Grant's shoulder.
"Whew!" Grant's shoulder was splashed with blood, and suddenly a trace of anger flashed in his eyes, looking at the blade whip that hung at the feet of the black-haired girl, turning from a straight knife, and grinding his teeth, "It's a whip-like weapon again!" ”
"Have you seen the whips of other superpowers? Dr. Jones? Mira's eyes rolled, and her iceberg-cold face showed a trace of solemnity, "German, can I ask you a question?" Since you've seen Dr. Jones, have you ever seen a ......?"
"Hey, Katrin, right?" A hint of weirdness flashed across Grant's face, "Who is that woman?" Sister, mother, or teacher? ”
"Professor Katrin is my teacher!" Seeing Grant's strange expression, a sense of foreboding almost filled the girl's entire heart.
"I'm so sorry!" Grant suddenly showed an elegant smile, "Since Grimm House is in the war, then you should be ready to ......"
"Shut up!" The girl's shoulders trembled, her face instantly lost its blood, and she immediately interrupted Grant's words, "Don't say it, I don't believe you!" ”
Grant spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and stopped talking, and the two froze in place for a moment. It's not that the Joker doesn't want to kill the "Black Queen", on the contrary, because of Joey's excellent record, the Joker's desire to fight has not been as high as it is now. It's just that the injury is too serious, and he has to adopt delaying tactics.
He had to wait for Skorzny and the others to arrive, while Mira was covering the withdrawal of all the researchers, and Joey was collecting the materials in the real room at this time. Except for the white coats that ran to the secret passage in a panic, for a while, there was a strange tacit understanding in the room.
However, the tacit understanding between the two sides was soon broken by a reckless researcher. Seeing that Joey was ignoring them, the young military researcher immediately gritted his teeth and threw himself into the huge water tank in the center of the real room.
"Stop!" Mira's face changed drastically, Grant's eyes lit up, and she took advantage of the moment when the girl shifted her attention and flew up.
On the other side, Joey, with his back to the water tank, his blood-red eyes strangely slid to the corners of his eyes, like a cunning poisonous snake, quietly staring at the young researcher.