The bullet whizzed across Anne's face, and Anne's eyes widened, and the steam* in Sergeant Rand's hand had not yet been put down, and thick white smoke was emitting from the muzzle of the gun, like an ethereal cloud lingering around the barrel of the gun.

- It was a Mithril bullet.

The bullet hit a soldier behind Annie and the others, and the soldier's head was instantly blown to pieces, and a large number of burning dark particles escaped from his body, like black sparks that fell to the ground in an instant.

"This bastard just pointed a gun at you, Your Majesty. Rand took off his metal helmet, which resembled the old knight's helmet, with long, large feathers.

Anne was so frightened that she almost thought the sergeant was going to shoot him.

"Your ......Majesty" Lan Xue subconsciously grabbed Annie's hand and asked in a low voice, "Annie, are you okay?" ”

"It's fine. Anne heard what seemed to be a faint scream in the dark particles coming from the dead soldier.

Is it a demon, were they all once humans? If so, then anyone can be a demon, anyone can kill themselves without even noticing.

"After all, should I trust you? The street behind Anne exploded and burned, and the demons tore people and horses to pieces. The soldiers on the street in front of them were stubbornly resisting with their guns, but in the next second, someone would suddenly turn their guns on their companions and turn into demons.

"The devil is all around you and me. Cardinal Hayshi reminded her, "Don't trust anyone, not even me." Because anyone can be a host for demons. ”

"Let's go, please trust me, Sergeant Rand is willing to go to the soup!" Rand straightened his body, holding his helmet and gun in his left hand, and saluted a standard military salute with his right hand, "Sergeant Rand, the Cold Steel Knight of West Iron Town, will escort you." ”

Anne was noncommittal, if it was just a demonic trap, the amplified steam* in his hand could kill the soldier who turned into a demon, and he could also kill her.

Damn, why is this happening, it seems that no one can be trusted, everyone wants to betray her, everyone smiles at her on the surface, but behind the scenes, they are always plotting how to take her throne, her land, and even her life.

Like that Northern Empire bombing five years ago. At that time, it was the birthday of my father, George III.

It was the first time she had watched the steam airships and bombers flying through the sky as she watched them as their steel noses broke through the thick clouds and their engines made a loud noise.

On more than one occasion before the feast began, the mayor of Elbe had promised nothing to be foolish, telling her and George III in a flattering tone that the Northern Empire was firmly under control and that the royal soldiers had entered the borders of the Northern Empire.

However, when Anne, who was playing in the garden outside the town hall, saw the airships and bombers throwing the next *, she finally realized that it was all a lie.

Before the bombing began, the mayor had left the town hall with an excuse, leaving the king and his ministers behind.

It was the first large-scale air raid in the history of the world, organized and planned, targeting only the small town hall in the city.

"Little princess, it will be fine, I guarantee the safety of His Majesty the King and you in the name of the mayor of Elbe. "It's all a goddamn liar, and the mayor's brazen promises still ringing in Anne's ears to this day.

Countless shells poured down on the ground, the town hall collapsed in flames and whimpered, and the exploding poison gas bombs emitted deadly green gases.

Anne only remembered the last shell that fell beside her.

If I survive, I will make the Northern Emperor pay the price! Let the kingdom's armies level their land, and let the kingdom's red dragons bite their black bears...... If you can, at any cost......

"Annie. Lan Xue saw the Queen's mechanical arm trembling and "gurgling", and every knuckle collided with each other.

If it weren't for that bombing, my father wouldn't have died, and her arm wouldn't have been crippled. And she may still be just a carefree princess raised in the boudoir.

"I'm fine, it's time to go. Anne Muran turned around, she was the ruler of the three kingdoms of the Great Western Continent, she was no longer a princess, she had to shoulder a heavy responsibility, and fought stubbornly until the last moment.

"Okay, the gods are the witness, and I am willing to serve Your Majesty!" Rand immediately knelt down on one knee and solemnly swore an oath, "Please come with me to the stables!"

"Your Majesty, you go first, I, Hayshi, must stay. "This is my war with the devil." ”

"You ......"

"Your Majesty, remember that from now on, the devil is all around you and me. Heishi gripped his dagger and walked towards the burning street.

"Understood. Anne knows this sentence better than anyone else, as the king of a country, no one can easily trust, let alone the demon that has appeared inexplicably now.

Anne and Lan Xue quietly left the hotel from the back alley with Sergeant Rand.

This trail is deserted at night, and if it were during the day, it would be the "pure land" of this industrial town.

Every stone and tile on the ground has existed since the time of the kings, and the style of the houses on both sides has undergone a change from the age of steam to the age of kings.

In the rain, black ancient watchtowers, gray medieval churches and smoke billowing smoke from the distance form a strange combination.

Gunshots rang out in the center of the town in the rear, but the old town was so quiet that even the sound of stray dogs could not be heard.

They stopped in front of a Gothic sanctuary, the walls of which were eroded and faded by rain, and gargoyles on the eaves poured rainwater.

"Welcome Her Majesty to the home of Rand, the Knight of Coldsteel. Rand spread his arms and tilted his head slightly, "Or, Rand's lab." ”

Anne then noticed that the surface of the church was connected to many electrical appliances, and that the place where the church was supposed to be a cross had become a chimney, and wires were connected to the windows.

"Do you want us to take refuge here?" asked Anne, "I don't think a sanctuary can keep those demons at bay, though it is often said that inside the church, all evil is cleared. ”

Rand shook his fingers as he walked to the door of the Sanctuary and pushed hard, revealing an eerie upturned front of the car through the open door.

"Please get in the car, Your Majesty. Rand made a "welcome" gesture, "It's not a royal car, but it's absolutely safe." ”

Rand turned on the searchlight on the metal armor, and a brass-colored armored car appeared in front of Anne and Blue Snow, the metallic sheen flowing slowly on the surface under the light, and the Grimm machine gun mounted on the roof of the car was raised high.

"This is a tank that was personally modified under the next. It may have violated the laws of the United Kingdom, and I hope Your Majesty will not be angry. Rand tapped the armored car's tin lightly and smiled confidently, "I like to call it the Mars." ”

Xiluo passed through the river valley plain, crossed the southern sea of flowers, and was taken by a group of exorcists from Yinyangliao to Haijin Port, the closest coastal port to Elbe.

As Silo disembarked from the carriage arranged by the Imperial Governor, he saw a busy dock, container after container lined up around the dock, and carry-wearing porters carrying heavy loads back and forth between the ships and the warehouse.

The vast blue sea shimmered in the sun, and huge ships like beasts sailed on the surface of the sea. They either fly the three-headed dragon flag of the United Kingdom or the war elephant flag of the Mandala State.

On the shore, Siloh saw a multitude of dark-skinned Xindu (referring to the natives of the Mandala State) and Mance merchants, who had come to the kingdom from the east with spices, coffee, and black tea, but most of them were despised by the inhabitants of the kingdom and considered barbarians who could not even develop a steam engine.

"Little ghost, aren't you going to say goodbye to the United Kingdom?" said Yu Zhi to Xiluo with a smile, the folding fan in his hand pointed to a Great Chu Empire ship docked near the dock, "We're leaving soon." ”

"I'd rather say goodbye to you. "Silo has always been extremely disgusted with them.

"Okay, then you must be ready to say goodbye. Yes, when I get to Fuso, I'll say goodbye to you, hum-hum-hum. ”

Gonao let out an eerie laugh, and Xiluo always got goosebumps every time he heard it, as if someone had scraped through the glass with his fingernails.

With a straight face, Silo turned his head to look at the steaming ship from the east—it was indeed different from the western ships he had seen, the vermilion ironclad hull, the cabins on it were strangely built, the golden eaves were upturned at the eaves corners, the fluttering flag was embroidered with a serpentine dragon different from the three-headed dragon of the kingdom, and a phoenix surrounded the dragon, with a large "Chu" written in the middle.

"Welcome aboard the Higashiyama, everyone. The captain with a hat on his head was wearing a long robe embroidered with a green dragon, he was wearing the clothes of the Chu people, but he spoke the language of the Fusang people, maybe he was not a real Chu person, "It's really not easy, the emperor has recently strictly forbidden going to sea, and I finally spent money to get the permission issued by the maritime consul." ”

"Thank you for your hard work, Yin Yang Liao will not forget your help in the cause of demon severing. Kuroki took the lead and bowed to the captain, and then quietly slipped a note into the captain's hand, "Take it, and then you can use this note to exchange Kamihara-sama for a new steamship." ”

"Thank you so much, my little favor can't get a new ship. The captain touched the mustache on his face, and a pair of thief's eyes wandered around, like a thief who had just stolen the royal diamond, "By the way, are you sure no one is coming......?

"Nobody, there were indeed suspicious sentry soldiers on the road, but I basically killed them. Kuroki raised his chin and said with a sneer.

"It's really simple and rude, Kuroki-sama. Mizhi took the fan and fanned Kuroki Dust, and his tone was sarcastic.

Xiluo looked at everyone without saying a word, and kept thinking about how to escape from the clutches of the Fuso people while he was in chaos. From now on, several ninjas were keeping an eye on him all the time, and at the slightest disturbance of the black wood dust, he would be vigilant and look back, and the strange Gozhi made him even more unpredictable.

Escaping seemed like an impossible thing, but he was about to be taken on the boat, and once he was on the boat, he couldn't escape anyway. Siloh could only pray how he wished that someone would come to his rescue, like Sibelius, like ...... Blame Uncle Andrey. Every time he thought of him, Silo always felt a deep sense of guilt.

"You'd better not think about running away. Yuzhi suddenly pushed Xiluo and squeezed him onto the escalator, "It's absolutely impossible to escape, little devil. ”

Silo gave him a blank look and stepped onto the deck in frustration. And he didn't notice that somewhere in the docks, two weirdos hiding behind the containers were keeping an eye on him.

"Looks like it's a step too late, what a pity, Lord Surovich. Vasily, dressed in the uniform of the kingdom's dragoons, leaned against the wall of the warehouse and sighed, "Obviously, after inquiring for so long, even the strange squire in the manor went to inquire before finding them." He thumped the warehouse wall hard, "Damn!"

Behind him, with a white cloak to hide the metal skeleton, Deputy Commander Surovich, dressed as a knight of the kingdom, was also secretly watching all this.

"The main thing is that there are too many people here, and it's easy to be exposed. Surovich propped up his monocle and his eyes narrowed, as if he was thinking and observing, "We have to follow them for opportunities." The Fuso devils are going to the waters of the Mans Dynasty, so let's hire a merchant ship of Mans to follow them, and hurry up before they set sail. ”

"But are we going to fight a naval battle with the Fuso?" Vasily scratched his hair.

"Follow them, they will have to dock at the port of Mans for supplies. The Mans didn't have any powerful steam weapons, and it was best to do it there. ”

"But why did we get here from Elbe?" Vasily felt that it was a little unrealistic to have been searching for so long, obviously they didn't have any hellgirl sarcophagus with them, only a purple-eyed imp following the gang.

"Demons are possessed, and once a person and a demon reach some kind of contractual agreement, it is possible for the hellgirl to enter the body of that little ghost. Surovich pointed to Silo on the side of the boat in the distance and said, "I speculate that they can't take the sarcophagus with them, but they can lure the demon inside to possess a little ghost, that is, that little ghost is the hell girl." ”

Vasily was even more confused, how could this good little boy become a hell girl, could it be that this is the legendary mandala sex transfer? But this little boy is not like a girl except for being white and pure......

Or is it that the devil has a strange aesthetic for women?

Looking at the bunch of question marks popping out of Vasily's head and the skeptical stupid look on his face, Surovich couldn't help but punch Vasily in the head!

"Hey, Deputy Leader, it hurts!"

"I'm already light. ”

"You're wearing a metal bone, and even a light blow is as hard as hitting me with a stick!" Vasily protested as he touched the swollen bag on his forehead, tears almost streaming down his face.

Surovich didn't apologize to him, but pushed him to the dock, causing Vasily to accidentally bump head-on into a black-faced Xindu merchant wearing a feathered scarf hat, and spilled all the jewels in his hand on the ground, and the merchant was furious, waving his fist and cursing a long list of strange words that he did not understand.

"I don't understand, do you? Then I'll scold them again in Spanish!" the grumpy Xindu merchant still refused to let them go, and the saliva he spewed out as if it was raining, and Vasily almost wanted to hit an umbrella, "Look at it, my golden statue of Bhatu Dhara has broken a corner, you must pay, you must pay!"

"What is he talking about?" Surovich spoke very poorly, completely confused by this strange Spanish with a Xindu accent.

"Probably because we want to lose money......" Vasily covered his face, "Hey, hey, I've been sprayed, Brother Xindu!"

Surovich looked down and thought for a moment, then walked up to Vasily and said: "I will compensate you." But if we can take your downwind, I'll pay you double. ”

"Is this true?" the Xindu merchant looked at the Northern Empire man in disbelief, "You set up a note?"

"I can give you a check for 30,000 gold fars now, and when it's done, I'll give you another 30,000 gold fars. Without hesitation, Surovich slipped a cheque for 10,000 yuan into the hands of the Xindu merchants.

The merchant's mouth was wide open, unable to speak, and the other gems in his hand fell to the ground.

"Is this money enough?"

"Enough, enough......" Xindu Merchant's attitude suddenly reversed one hundred and eighty degrees, and he immediately laughed all over his face, "I don't know where you are going?"

"Follow that Chu Guolou ship. ”