Chapter 163: When the Shot Was Made
The Queen's words once again made the crowd in the audience boil, and they roared in cooperation and denounced the Tower of China, which they did not know about.
The queen stepped down from the stage when she had finished speaking. She waved to the crowd around her chanting her name.
When she returned to the pergola, the Praetorian Guards escorted Liu Pengfei to the stage and sent him to the gallows. Liu Pengfei faltered, and most of the strength in his body seemed to have been sucked away. After walking a few steps behind, he had to rely on the strength of two Praetorian Guards to drag him to the high platform.
Liu Pengfei stood on the stage, looking at the crowd around him who were glaring at him, listening to those strong calls to hang him, and suddenly had a very trance feeling. He didn't understand why such an inexplicable thing would happen to him like this. It was clear that he was desperately seeking power for that woman, but that woman abandoned him like a shoe. And these people he didn't know were easily seduced by that hypocritical woman, who wanted him to die so much. And they have not even heard the name of the Tower of China, but they constantly curse him and his compatriots with all sorts of vicious words.
He wandered through the crowd, perhaps looking for a pair of sympathetic eyes, but wherever his gaze touched, he saw anger, contempt, and hatred. Until he saw those black eyes.
The black eyes? Those eyes were clear and bright, and they were incompatible with this dirty and crazy world, and he looked at them carefully, only to realize that they were Luo Ling! His heart beat violently, like a person who had fallen into the abyss suddenly holding a rope.
Luo Ling was mixed in with the onlookers at this time, and Ye Zi was by her side. May, Roger, Caranda and Gabriel spread out to form a faint arc that surrounded the stands in the middle.
They all dressed up in some disguises, and they all performed hidden tricks that were not noticeable.
"Is Laura crazy? She actually turned her face directly with all of us, does she want a war with us!" Ye Zi couldn't help but ask.
"It's not just her attitude, it's the attitude of the other magic towers. It is all too clear which mages our Tower of China interacts with on weekdays, and whose side they are on in the fierce battle that night. Not to mention that Prince Javier, the princess's confidant, is now by our side and protected by us, and our relationship with him speaks for itself. The war had already begun, and everyone had already chosen their own sides, and Queen Laura had only stated this in front of everyone. Luo Ling analyzed the core of the problem in a few simple words, "And Liu Pengfei is just a victim of waste utilization." ”
"Why are these people still there fighting for power at such a time? Don't they know that the god of nature, as soon as he awakens, can deprive them of everything? ”
"Because they're human. Just like us, we are always moving forward in contradictions and conflicts. When a group of people choose a road at a great cost, it is often like a train speeding on the tracks, changing direction at will, which may cause the car to be destroyed and killed. Luo Ling said with a sigh.
While they were talking, Liu Pengfei had already been pushed to the gallows, and he barely struggled, just looked at Luo Ling with pleading eyes, as if begging for her help.
Liu Pengfei even tied his mouth. The so-called trial did not give him a chance to defend himself. Who will be convinced by such a verdict?" Ye Zi said.
Luo Ling stared at the execution platform and said: "I'm afraid that there is some misunderstanding of the trial, the trial of this era, the monarch's words are enough." The queen has just handed down her verdict. ”
"Then, he's going to be hanged? When are we going to do it?" now?"
"Wait, the atmosphere isn't quite right. Luo Ling said softly.
"Sister Luo Ling, what have you discovered?" Ye Zi asked.
"I felt a faint fluctuation of magic, very slight, but permeating all directions of this square. Luo Ling narrowed her eyes, as if she was feeling and feeling that kind of power with her heart.
"Could it be that the enemy arranged a trap?" Ye Zi asked.
Luo Ling said: "Even if it's a trap, we don't have time to analyze it." ”
As she spoke, Liu Pengfei was pulled under the gallows. He was forced to stand on a raised floor, and two guards began to rope him. The rope strangled his neck from the front and tightened from behind, and as soon as the floor under his feet moved, it would become a hollow, and Liu Pengfei would be quickly strangled to death on the shelf.
Just as the two Praetorian Guards set up the ropes and retreated to both sides, an extremely sharp ice blade appeared in front of Luo Ling and quickly rushed towards the rope above Liu Pengfei's head.
And both May and Gabriel followed the plan and attacked the pergola where the princess was. And Roger and Caranda tried their best to get to the high platform and go to rescue Liu Pengfei.
The ice blade slashed through the rope on Liu Pengfei's head, making a soft sound, and the rope broke in response. Liu Pengfei suddenly realized his situation, and someone came to save him. He hurried forward, trying to jump off the platform. But at this moment, the Praetorian Guard who had just escorted him reached out and grabbed it, as if a substantial fighting spirit burst out from his arm, turned into a claw, pulled him upside down, and fell to the ground on the high platform.
The other Praetorian Guard drew his long sword and blocked it with a horizontal sword, actually blocking the attacks of Roger and Caranda one after another.
At the same time, May and Gabriel sent fireballs that smashed into the pergola, and the scorching flames burned the entire shed, revealing a translucent barrier beneath the shed. The two court mages had been prepared for a long time, and completely resisted the attack of the two war angels.
Luo Ling saw from afar that Queen Laura was standing under the pergola, looking at them coldly. It seems that none of these attacks have surprised her.
"Sister Luo Ling, it seems that your hunch is right, she has been prepared. Whether it was these two Praetorian Guards, or the two court mages beside her, they were all true masters. And Salmeron over there hasn't made a move yet. Ye Zi said.
"It's not just these people," Luo Ling's gaze focused on the intersection, where strong magic fluctuations began to surge, and there were constantly magicians who lifted their invisibility because of magic fluctuations, revealing their true appearance. They blocked all the crossings, and most of them were holding a magic item that resembled a plate, and were using it to cast spells, "It looks like this is a big trap, and we are the prey that we rushed up on." ”