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"Let go of me!" Siloh was carried all the way to the outskirts of Elbe City by Kuroki Dust.

"Be quiet, little devil. Kuroki replied disdainfully.

"You scoundrel!" said Silo slammed his fist into Kuroki's arm, but for the latter, it didn't hurt at all.

"Do you want to keep arguing from here to Fuso in the Far East?" Kuroki Dust threw him on the grass and took out a handkerchief and shoved it into his mouth, "I'm sorry, I can't take it." ”

Siloh glared at him and pulled the handkerchief out of his mouth, "I'm not going to Fusang, this is my home!"

"Your home is hell. Kuroki Yangchen picked up the handkerchief again to plug it, but Silo desperately resisted, "Little devil, unless you shut up, I'll let you eat the handkerchief." Got it?"

"I want to eat, not a handkerchief!" Cillo protested, "I haven't eaten in a long time." ”

"You're asking for a lot!" Kuroki took out a rice ball from the bag around his waist, "Walk while eating, don't think about running away." ”

"Don't you have any power in my mind?"

"You ...... guy"

The black wood dust was about to flare up, and suddenly the sound of walking was heard on the roofs of the villas on both sides.

- Footsteps large and small, many people walking through the roof!

Kuroki Dusty subconsciously clenched*, his eyes scanned the roofs on both sides, and he was always ready to meet the enemy.

"Kuroki-sama, it's us. Several ninjas dressed in black appeared on the roof, and a man with a folding fan came out from behind the walls of the villa.

The man was dressed in a plain white kimono with wide sleeves, and the long black hat on his head was very strange, which Siloh had never seen in the kingdom before.

He stretched out the folding fan in his hand, and on the fan was written with a brush five big black characters, "Fusang Yin Yang Liao", and Xi Luo naturally couldn't understand it at all.

"Why are you here?" it turned out to be all his own people, Kuroki Yangchen asked with a sigh of relief.

"The Great Priest Hiroya Kamihara asked us to assist you. The man in the kimono covered his face with a folding fan and smiled, his eyes fell on Xiluo beside Kuroki, "Oh, this kid ......"

The man in the kimono looked at Xiluo with a strange gaze, in Xiluo's opinion, this strange person was like a woman, if he changed into women's clothes, it is estimated that ordinary people will be indistinguishable from male and female.

"Don't look at it, Minao-kun, beware of this little devil damning you. Kuroki clasped his hands in front of his chest and stared coldly at this person called "Mizhi".

"Yo, it's so dangerous, isn't the purple-eyed demon a high-ranking demon?" Mizhi raised an eyebrow, "However, I think Kuroki-sama looks even more dangerous than this high-ranking demon." ”

Xiluo didn't like these people, but he hated that Kuroki Yangchen even more, and he gritted his teeth silently, why...... He firmly believes that he is not a demon, absolutely not, but others will never believe him.

Just because of these purple eyes, everyone hated him, and everyone wanted to hurt him and despise him.

"Why. Silo suddenly clenched his fists, "Why do you want to do this to me, I, only, no, yes, demon!"

He yelled and strode over to Yuzhi, and several ninjas present pulled out* and surrounded him.

"The little ghost is quite angry. Mi Nao smiled, and before Silo could get close to him, Kuroki struck Silo in the back with a scabbard, and he fell to the ground unexpectedly.

Unwillingly, why is he just a child to be slaughtered, why do everyone hurt him?

Siloh grabbed the weeds on the ground, and tears flowed down his cheeks. Moreover, it is all because of himself, so Uncle Andrei will ......

"Get up, little devil, don't play dead for me. Kuroki's scabbard tapped lightly on the top of Silo's head, "High-ranking demons can't be so weak, right?"

Mizhi walked over to Kuroki's side and gently pushed his scabbard away with a folding fan, "Even if it's a high-ranking demon, it's just a child, it's not good to use a knife." ”

"What if he's pretending?" Kuroki retracted his scabbard, "Demons are the best at confusing people's hearts, and for the sake of justice, demons should be killed as soon as possible." ”

Silo trembled and got up, he could barely stand on his feet, and he almost fell several times, but he still repeated the words: "I am not a demon!"

Once again, the tip of the scabbard pressed against Sillo's forehead.

"If you continue to exhibit dangerous emotions or behaviors, I should pull my knife out of its sheath next time, understand?"

Siloh stared at him, his purple eyes burning with anger.

"I asked you if you understood?!" Kuroki's dusty scabbard poked hard at Silo's forehead, "I don't want to ask a third time." His fingertips rested on the hilt of the knife.

Siloh didn't answer, just looked at him, his face full of anger, his teeth clenched together, and the tears in his eyes kept rolling, but he still held back and didn't shed it.

"Alright, it's time to go back to Fuso. Yuzhi still smiled strangely and dissuaded on the side, "Lord Kamihara is still waiting for us, and it will take a month or two to return to the East by boat from here." ”

"Yes. Kuroki looked out over the desolate wilderness in the distance, with empty bungalows and manors standing lonely beside the fields, with no cows or sheep to be seen in the pastures, "But we need to find the sarcophagus, aren't we here to get the hell girl?"

"But can you still find it, maybe the hellgirl has woken up. "Together with the rest of the demon army." We need to make a new plan, for example, to take this purple-eyed imp back and study it first. He winked at Silo.

"Okay, but we can't go to the Mandala colony this time, we have to go from the Northern Empire. Kuroki thought to himself, "Because I'm afraid the queen won't let me go easily." ”

"Lord Kamihara has long considered that the queen is not a good person. If the first plan fails, she will definitely be ready to get rid of those involved in the plan. The ninjas behind him took out a few fake passports, using the nationality of the Great Chu Empire, the "Land of Dragons".

"Do you want to leave the United Kingdom Customs easily?" Kuroki expressed disdain, his eyebrows furrowed, this Imperial Straight is probably too simple, "The Queen must have ordered someone to post our names and photos at the customs. ”

"So we also prepared a ferry hired from Da Chu. They will take us directly through the seas of the Shahemans dynasty, and you know that the Great Chu Emperor has always befriended the Sultan of Mans (the title of ruler). Mi Nao confidently laid out his plan.

"That's fine. ”

A cold sweat broke out on Silo's back, what did they want to do? They seemed to have come to the kingdom in an organized and purposeful manner, would he be taken to Fuso? Will he be sent for experiments......

After Kuroki and the ninjas left, Minao covered his face with a fan and whispered to Silo, "This is good for you, and maybe we will 'plant' the demon in your body in the body of Kamihara-sama." ”

Silo's heart froze, and an unknown fear began to rush through his heart.

I heard him say with a smile: "It's just that this shell of yours should be abandoned, I don't think you, as a demon, will you care about this......"

Lilia patiently redressed Andrei's wound, she poured a cup of white coffee, and was about to hand it to Andrei, but suddenly remembered that he needed more rest now, and it was not good to drink too much coffee and not be able to sleep.

"Hey. Andrei stopped her, "Coffee, I smell coffee." He fumbled wildly, "Miss Spy, coffee ......"

Lilia is not angry, this idiot really doesn't forget to enjoy it at all.

"Oh, here you go. She put the coffee on the table in front of Andrei.

"Can't you blow it, it's ......so hot," said Andre weakly, his fingers touching the rim of the cup before giving up, the temperature that could be used to burn his tongue into a grilled shrimp roll.

"We in the Northern Empire don't do this kind of service for the people of the kingdom. Lilia deliberately "snorted" and tilted her head to the side.

"I'm a wounded ......" Andrei coughed a few times and looked at her with a sad face. He wanted to blow it himself, but Andre found that his back hurt badly, maybe it was Kuroki Dust that injured his waist, and now he had difficulty even sitting up.

Lilia was silent for a while, picked up the coffee cup, looked at the snow-white foam floating in the cup, hesitated, and finally picked up the spoon and blew it gently.

"Hey. She whispered to him.

By the time Andrei reacted, Lilia had already put the spoon in his mouth.

"Well, it's too ...... Ahem, it's so rough!" Andre almost choked, his face flushed.

"Can you forgive me. Lilia said suddenly, she thought for a long time whether she should say this sentence or not, and finally she decided.

"Forgive you?"

"Forgive me for pointing a gun at you in the first place, forgiving me for wanting a little kid to attack you. Lilia's voice was as small as a mosquito, perhaps, these words were really the first time for her, as a spy, she had never apologized to anyone, "If I shoot......"

Andrei was stunned, a little overwhelmed, maybe he didn't know how to answer her, maybe it was for some other reason......

Maybe it's really a very subtle change, what is it that makes the people of two hostile countries share the same weal and worn, and turn hostility into peace? Andre didn't know, and neither did Lilia.

"That's it. Andrei smiled stupidly, like a big child, "I, ahem...... I've forgiven you a long time ago. ”

"But I wanted to kill you in the first place. Lilia understands that if she had shot herself, she would never forgive herself for the rest of her life, no, the saddest thing is to do something that she will regret for the rest of her life, but she will never know, "You are really kind, unlike the other guards, I'm sorry." ”

"I should be thanking you for not shooting me, let me, let me live until now. Andrei changed the subject, "By the way, that little ghost......" He tried to sit up, how could he forget about Silo, "That little ghost." Damn, we have to save him. ”

- Knock knock.

Suddenly, the two of them heard the sound of banging on the glass, which seemed to come from the open small private room, crisp and loud, and sounded like someone was gently hitting the window with something sharp.

I shouldn't have seen anyone just now, but is there anyone in the café?

"Don't speak. Lilia cocked a finger at Andre's lips, "I'll go over there and have a look." She picked up a table knife and held it horizontally as a dagger in her hand, and walked cautiously like a civet cat towards the room where there was a sound.

The voice began again.

Lilia leaned against the wall outside the door, poked her head slightly inside the door to observe, and ......

"Sir, sir!" a black creature screamed and flew out of the way, nearly hitting Lilia's forehead head-on.

- It's the mechanical crow! It's here!

The mechanical crow flew around the artificial tree in the middle of the "Log Tree House" café and finally landed on the branch, its "sneaky" searchlight eyes constantly looking at Lilia's face.

"What's the matter, who's talking?" asked Andrei curiously on the other side.

"It's the mechanical crow I saw in the subway lane. ”

The crow's little head was bursting with white steam, and he began to pout again, "Sir, sir, Dr. Orlandi is a bastard!"

It chirped and screamed, and Lilia even wondered if the person who made it couldn't tell the difference between a crow and a starling......

Wait, the crow seems to be repeating something. Lilia thought for a moment, maybe this crow "knows" something!

Lilia tried to wave towards the tree, "Well, can you understand what I'm saying?"

"Sir, sir!"

"Okay, what's your name?" Lilia scratched her eyebrows, it was nerve-wracking, wouldn't it seem a little silly to talk to the robot crow.

"Sir!" the raven still chirped.

"Then call you 'Little Sir,'......" Lilia smiled and held out her hand to the crow, "If you can understand me, please fly to the back of my hand." ”

The mechanical crow tilted its head, as if puzzled for a moment, and then stubbornly raised its pointed beak like a lively general, as if to say, "I won't come down from the throne." ”

It's really not quiet when it's supposed to be quiet, and not silent when it's not supposed to be quiet.

"Sir, can you come down?" Lilia pondered, perhaps, the mechanical crow would have to lure it with food like ordinary animals, but what did it eat, screws?

Or, this mechanical crow can't communicate with people at all, it's just a simple repeater.

"Who said that!" the crow suddenly screamed, startling Lilia in thought, "Hell Girl won't be so easily controlled by you!"

What is that......

Lilia's mind inexplicably conjured up the appearance of the white-haired girl, her words and smiles, and her purple eyes that were exactly the same as her own, both strange and familiar.

"Little sir, what is the Hellgirl?" Lilia couldn't help but ask.

"Dr. Orlandi, what if the Hellgirl wakes up?" the raven replied, flapping her wings, "Humans will ...... Destruction?"

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." ”