After spending so many days in the Fourth Neutral Country, Song Lan fully understood a truth - the power of hornworms has a limit.

With the power of a horned insect, it is obviously unrealistic to rob the law field in front of two rebel leaders with a bounty of more than 100 million.

What's more tricky is that Lu Xiang doesn't have much such experience.

However, the intelligence department did not intend to leave them time to plan, and as soon as Song Lan and Lu Xiang were talking, they took the blindfolded, handcuffed and shackled prisoners out of the prison, and passed through the busiest streets of the capital in full view of everyone, all the way to the square.

During Verdo's tenure, the square was originally used as a place to address the city's inhabitants, but it was transformed into an execution table thanks to Artem's improvements.

Artyom and his men don't like to give speeches, they are action-goers.

For example, the culprits who have endangered the underground shelters are sent to the execution table and hanged in front of all the citizens.

Not everyone has the opportunity to be brought to the execution table, only those who are known and important are given this "honor", and those who are not important citizens are usually secretly killed and made permanently missing.

Over the past decade or so, Verdo's henchmen have been sent to the execution table one by one on different charges.

However, the citizens who were forcibly summoned here today were apparently not interested in what the intelligence services considered a "celebration", and most of them were thinking about leaving this place of right and wrong, or hoping to hear some explanation from the intelligence services, such as why the ghosts that had been confirmed dead crawled out of their graves.

But the intelligence department is still the same intelligence department.

Even in such a turbulent situation, the best solution they could think of was to execute someone suspected of being a spy.

Song Lan mingled in the crowd of onlookers, and in this crowded square, no one would deliberately pay attention to the movement of a horn worm.

The good news is that neither Artem nor Eschinvig himself were present, and it was Artem's army cadres and the entire intelligence department responsible for overseeing the execution.

He was still wearing the uniform of a pre-war ranger, and he faced the coming trial with a solemn countenance, as if for him it was not just the execution of a prisoner, but more like some solemn and sacred ritual.

Song Lan assessed the distance between herself and the execution table, in the state of activating the overload system, it was not difficult to cut the noose to prevent the execution, the difficult thing was how to take Lu Xiang's teacher away from this place of right and wrong in full view.

All exits throughout the city are under martial law, and it is difficult to get out of the city under the nose of the intelligence services.

There is less than a quarter of an hour left before the official execution.

There was a dead silence in the crowd, and the minutes passed minute by minute, until there was a sudden commotion in the front row, and a man who suddenly boarded the execution table made everyone's eyes widen in surprise, even the head of the intelligence department who oversaw the execution.

Verdo.

The former leader, who had been missing for more than a decade, trembled onto the execution table.

As if because of his long imprisonment, Verdeaux walked in an extremely uncoordinated manner, squinting, and the light outside the prison put a great load on him.

"Who, who let him out?"

The head of the intelligence department was furious, and he looked around, but no one could answer his questions.

"That's it, killing her won't solve anything."

Verdo scrutinized the head of the intelligence service, who was so disappointed that Artyom had lost his heart for more than a decade.

It is their common mission to protect the Sun and the legacy of the Underground Sanctuary, but in the process, Artyom has gradually forgotten the original purpose of protecting this secret, and even pushed himself against the people.

What was happening now was at stake for the future of the country, and he knew he couldn't stay in his cell anymore.

But accept the invitation of the coalition government and put the "sun" in their hands?

Doing so would undoubtedly make him a sinner in the Fourth Neutral Nation.

Just as Verdo was in a dilemma, things took a turn for the worse.

A high-ranking general from the Eschinweg Army, who calls himself "Rat", brings him some intelligence from the ground through the jailers.

The coalition government and the Neutral Covenant were not their only options, and not so long ago, the Twelfth, as the trade center of neutrals, was freed from the control of the coalition government, and they were actively looking for allies.

Both sides are in a similar situation and are both in the stage of regrouping.

Not only that, but after the loss of Dr. Shiratake, the Sixth Nation also had the idea of withdrawing from the Covenant, and the situation on the ground was far less bad than they imagined.

Once an alliance of the three neutral powers has been created, the coalition government will have to consider many things if it wants to go to war again.

Verdo realized that this was both a crisis and an opportunity to return to life on earth for the Fourth Neutral State, and that the real purpose of the Essinweg Army's trip was not to help Artyom consolidate power.

What they rebel against is all unreasonable rule.

This includes not only the puppet rule of the coalition government over neutral countries, but also countries that have deviated from the trajectory, such as the fourth neutral country.

History has proven countless times that no matter how strong the wall is, there will always be a day when it will be broken, and if it cannot keep up with the trend of the times, then when the coalition government or other forces really come here, they will only be left with exploitation and suffering.

Verdo did not know who the "mouse" was, and he guessed that the other party was most likely a diplomat in Eschinvig's army.

The jailer only handed him a document, but this seemingly inconspicuous document made his blood boil for the first time in a long time.

If possible, he wished he could sit down with "Mouse" and have a long talk.

Unfortunately, in order to achieve the picture that Mr. "Mouse" paints, they also have to climb over an impassable wall.

"Shut up, traitor!"

The head of intelligence reprimanded, and at his signal, a row of guns pointed straight at Verdo.

His heart was burning.

Because of the peculiar circumstances of Verdo, Artyom gave a clear order to leave this man alive, and even if this person was the culprit who had been proclaimed to live on the surface in the first place, they could not put Verdo to death in front of the citizens.

As the founder and head of the intelligence service, he was both puzzled and dissatisfied with Artyom's orders.

Now, however, it seemed that an opportunity lay in front of him.

If Verdo had become an escapee, and had even intended to prevent the execution in full view, they would have had enough reason to shoot the sinner in public, or they would have lost face in front of the people.

Thinking of this, the head of the intelligence department gave an order, "He is a prison escapee, shoot him!" ”

However, he was not responded to by gunshots, but by the howls of wolves and the panicked screams of the crowd on the periphery.

A giant figure leaped high from the crowd and swooped straight onto the execution table.

This scene made the person in charge a little stunned, and his mind went blank for a few seconds before he confirmed the situation in front of him.

Cry wolf.

More precisely, mutated creatures hovering outside the city attacked them at this juncture.

(End of chapter)