Chapter 3 Expeditionary Force
A group of soldiers in black uniforms came from the direction outside the town, although there were only a dozen people, but everyone had a strong smell of blood on their bodies. Their armbands had muskets crossed with blood-stained bayonets, the insignia of the Imperial Expeditionary Force!
The town's gates had completely collapsed, broken pipes were spewing steam in vain, and several houses around the town gates had been torn open by the blast's air currents. The bald sheriff, half buried in the rubble, moaned lowly.
Just because the town gate was blocking the way of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, they simply blasted the gate of Lighthouse Town open.
Behind the soldiers of the expeditionary force, there were dozens of staggered men, covered in bruises, their hands bound with wire, and chained in a string. The rusty wire dug deep into their flesh, and the wound was still dripping blood. If these people walk a little slower, the soldiers of the expeditionary force next to them will whip them up.
In the darkness, the glowing signs of Manshusava and the dim lights in the broken windows stood out, and the group of Imperial soldiers turned around and walked towards the bar.
Two tall warriors walked into the bar first, glancing around.
Their eyes were as sharp as eagles, and no one in the entire bar dared to look at them. The automatic rifles in the hands of these two fighters were so powerful that they could turn an entire bar into corpses in less than a minute.
One of the warriors pointed to Chiya and said coldly, "Prepare something for twenty people to eat." Be quick!"
Another soldier pointed his gun at the scavengers and shouted, "You filthy pigs, clean up the table, and get out of the way!"
The scavengers laughed desperately, wiped the tables clean at lightning speed, and fled the bar. Others consciously gave up the best tables and hid in the corners. The Imperial Army didn't let them go, and none of them dared to move.
A tall officer walked slowly into the bar, bowing his head as he passed the doorframe.
He had a pair of heavy sword eyebrows, and his eyes were like the most ferocious and cunning nighthawks in the Eternal Night Realm, and he swept everyone in the bar with his prey eyes, and then chose a table in the center and sat down.
There was a rush of beatings outside, and the dozens of men were driven in by the soldiers of the expeditionary force, and then crowded into the corners.
The officer glanced at the people in the bar, and said in a low, hoarse voice, "Look at them! These are the creatures tainted by the blood of darkness, and what awaits them will be a dark mine! They will mine there until they die, until the black blood attacks and turns into monsters who only know how to thirst for fresh flesh, and then they are killed by the guards." Open your eyes and take a good look! Anyone who falls to the side of the eternal night will be the end of this!"
Fear was in everyone's eyes.
These captured people all have a common appellation, blood slaves. Anyone bitten by a vampire will be contaminated by the blood of darkness and become a deprived beast. When it's time to eat, they crave fresh flesh and blood, and when ordered by their superiors, they will attack their targets in a frenzy until they die in battle.
Anywhere under the Empire's rule, whenever a Blood Slave is found, it is always summarily killed. The few who have not yet had a seizure will be sent to the black mine to mine until they die in the pit.
Purebred bloodlines are very rare, but blood slaves are also high-risk creatures, and legend has it that as long as they are scratched and bitten by blood slaves, or even close to them, there is a high chance that they will be contaminated by the blood of darkness. The original guests and women of the bar huddled together and shivered, desperately trying to get away from the blood slaves.
At this time, a middle-aged man suddenly rushed out from the captured blood slave, knelt down in front of the officer, and shouted: "I am not a blood slave, I am not polluted by the blood of darkness!"
A somewhat distorted smile appeared on the officer's face, and he said, "I know the way." ”
The middle-aged man was stunned and looked up, unable to believe his ears. But he was greeted by a dark muzzle!
There was a loud bang, all the bottles and glasses in the bar were shaking, and the middle-aged man was still kneeling, but his head had been completely shattered, and blood and brains were splattered on the ground.
The officer blew out the muzzle of the smoke and said to the headless corpse, "I know that you are not a blood slave, but the sin of harboring a blood slave is the same. ”
A soldier stepped up and asked, "Lieutenant Colonel Liu, do you want his two sons to deal with it together?"
The officer glanced into the group of blood slaves, where stood two young men with pale faces, the sons of middle-aged men. They cowered, trying to hide behind others.
The officer surnamed Liu pointed to them and said, "You two come out, throw this corpse out of the coffin and feed it to the dogs, and then wash the ground! ”
The two young men came out trembling and obediently carried their father's body out of the city. Everyone here knows that if they resist, the Imperial Expeditionary Force has hundreds of ways to make life worse than death.
Just when the eyes of the officer surnamed Liu and the imperial soldier were all attracted, a person in the group of blood slaves suddenly screamed, "I don't want to go to the black mine!" and rushed to the back door of the bar, trying to escape from there.
The officer grinned again, took off a strange rifle from his back, and aimed it at the back of the fleeing blood slave. His movements seemed to be slow and fast, and when a few blue lines lit up on the rifle, the blood minion rushed through the middle of the hall.
At this time, Qianye was holding a plate and just walked out of the door.
At this moment, the muzzles of the Thousand Nights, the Blood Slave, and the Officer were connected in a straight line!
The officer saw Qianye, but the corners of his mouth moved, and he still pulled the trigger!
The muzzle of the rifle spewed not bullets, but a cloud of red light!
A huge hole suddenly appeared in the center of the blood slave's body, and in the blood foam and minced flesh, the red light was not exhausted, and it continued to move forward, it blasted through two walls one after another, and then it disappeared with all its strength. The power of this red light is unusually great, and it can be compared to a large-caliber cannon!
Chiya's body was not shattered, not even injured. At this moment, his body was strangely tilted forty-five degrees, and his feet were stuck in the ground like nails, just past the officer's firing line.
With a soft click, a drop of blood fell from the sky and landed on Qianye's face, blooming a small blood flower. Against the backdrop of pale skin, this bit of blood is particularly dazzling.
Qianye's breathing suddenly became heavier, and an imperceptible crimson flashed in the depths of her eyes. However, this strange state was only fleeting, and Qianye's body stood up straight again as if pulled by an invisible thread, and not a single drop of wine was spilled from the plate.
With a plop, the blood slave's body fell to the ground at this time, and a hand that desperately stretched forward was only a few centimeters away from Qianye's toes.
The officer surnamed Liu's eyes shrank, and he suddenly laughed, saying, "I really didn't expect to see a real master who has awakened the Force in such a small place!
Qianye whispered, "It's just barely alive." ”
The officer's gaze was as sharp as a knife, staring at Qianye and asking, "You're not even eighteen years old, are you?"
"Early seventeens. Chiya replied.
The officer circled around Qianye a few times and said, "I ignited the Force node at the age of seventeen, this talent is quite good! With the Force and so young, you could have a lot of future, but hiding in this small place, why does it seem so difficult?"
Chiya was silent and did not answer.
The officer took out a metal nameplate with the badge of the expeditionary force, threw it on Qianye's dinner plate, and said, "My name is Liu Jiang." I don't care who you are or what you've done. If you want, you can take this nameplate to the fortress of the expeditionary force and go to Lieutenant Colonel Chuxiong. He's been running out of manpower lately. As long as you join the Imperial Expeditionary Force, no matter what you have done in the past, even if you kill nobles in the upper continent, it doesn't matter, understand?"
Qianye bowed slightly and said, "Xie Lu Xie!" Faced with this recruitment opportunity that many people couldn't ask for, he didn't react much.
Liu Jiang saw that Qianye didn't seem to be very interested in joining the expeditionary force, and he didn't mean to be reluctant, so he returned to his seat and sat down. Chiya placed a large glass of liquor and a plate of potatoes and bacon in front of him.
The officer picked up the wine glass and sniffed it, his eyes lit up, and said, "Good wine! I really didn't expect to be able to meet such a good wine in this small place, if Chu Xiong knew your craftsmanship, he would definitely have to ask you." However, he immediately put down his glass and said, "All right, go and change my glass of water, I never drink when I go on a mission." ”
Qianye then took away the wine glass and replaced it with clear water for Liu Jiang.
This is the Empire's expeditionary force stationed on the Eternal Night Continent. On the one hand, they are cruel and tyrannical, fierce and tyrannical, and murderous. On the other hand, throughout the Realm of Eternal Night, the Expeditionary Corps, numbering in the millions, are the mainstay of the fight against the dark race. With them, Terran gatherings like Lighthouse Town won't be hit by a large number of dark races.
Qianye brought out plates of food, and the imperial soldiers munched on them, but no one spoke. The bar suddenly fell silent, and everyone felt depressed, but no one dared to move, let alone leave the bar.
The Imperial soldiers were only halfway through their meal when the door to the bar suddenly opened silently, and two men in black trench coats entered.
They were spotlessly clean and tidy like the wilderness. And the weird thing is that between their appearances, no one noticed their arrival.
As soon as they entered the bar, the two of them glanced around, frowning even more with each sight, as if there was nothing here that would satisfy them, including the Imperial Army.
When Liu Jiang saw a sign on the corner of their trench coat, his face changed, and he immediately stood up. But as soon as he wanted to say something, a man in black said coldly, "Did you get you up?"
Liu Jiang was furious, but when he touched the man's gaze, he suddenly seemed to have been hit hard, and he snorted at the moment, sat back in place, and his face became pale all of a sudden, obviously he was not lightly injured in this blow.
The man snorted and said contemptuously: "A bunch of waste, no wonder they can only stay in this hellish place, if it were really up to you to deal with the dark race, the empire would have perished long ago." ”
The corners of Liu Jiang's mouth twitched, wiped away the oozing blood, raised his hand to signal his warrior not to move, and asked in a dumb voice, "What are the two adults doing in this abandoned place?"
The other said coldly: "You don't deserve to know the way! If you say a word, I will kill you all!"
The green tendons on Liu Jiang's neck kept beating, and his hand moved to the Force Gun behind his back, but he still stopped wisely.
Seeing this scene, the two men wrapped in black trench coats were even more disdainful.
At this time, an old voice sounded outside the door: "Miss, this place is not clean, there are not only blood slaves inside, but also some dregs of the expeditionary force. You'd better not go in, right?"