After learning that there was an accident in Wangcheng, Duanmu Huai took a few people to take a Valkyrie gunboat and flew directly towards Wangcheng——— sending people to investigate was too slow, it was better to go over and see for yourself.

However, when the group reached the sky above the royal city, the scene in front of them did shock them.

I saw that the entire royal city was dead silent at the moment, there was no human population at all, black smoke was emitting everywhere, and many buildings had even collapsed, looking like ruins!

"This ......... What's going on? Could it be a demon invasion??? ”

Rolex asked in surprise, while Kriolev shook his head.

"The situation is not right, you look carefully, if it is a foreign invasion, then it should be the most serious loss on the periphery, but you look here, there is still here......... It is clear that the enemy attacked from the center......... So what we should consider is ........."

"That doesn't mean much."

Hearing this, Kanami silently snorted.

"At the beginning, Prince Patton of Herman joined forces with the demons and suddenly appeared in the royal city of Lisas through the portal, so that we could not make effective resistance at all..............."

“…………………”

Kryolev also had nothing to say.

Indeed, Lysas is a lesson from the past, you have to say that it is not a demon.........

"Huh? That's a lot of fun. ”

However, just as the cabin fell into an awkward silence and silence, Duanmu Huai's voice suddenly sounded.

"What's wrong? Your Excellency the Inquisitor? ”

"I scanned the whole city with a bird's eye and found that there was a ......... in the royal city There are few life signals. ”

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Kanami and the others couldn't help but be stunned.

"What does that mean?"

"To put it simply, there are very few living people in this city."

Duanmu Huai spread out his hands.

"If I want to be more precise, there are probably only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight left in this city at the moment......... There were seventeen living people in all. ”

"How is this possible!"

Hearing this, both Kriolev and Rolex were stunned.

"There are hundreds of thousands of people living in the city, where have all those people gone?"

"Maybe I ran away, maybe I ......... He's dead? ”

"The Senate ......... What the hell did Stether do........."

"We don't know, but I think someone here does."

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai opened the holographic map and projected the entire royal city, and then he stretched out his hand and pointed to a few small points of light here.

"These are the signs of life reactions, and as of now, there are about twelve or thirteen signs of life in the fortress of the royal city. The rest were scattered all over the place, and there were a few underground waterways below, and they might be survivors, or maybe some......... But it doesn't matter, as soon as we find them and arrest them and ask them, we'll know what's going on. ”

Saying this, Duanmu Huai turned his head and looked at Kanami and Suzume.

"I'll leave it to you, no problem."

"I see."

Kanami nodded with a serious expression, while Suzume grinned.

Soon, the Valkyrie gunboat circled in the air and descended, then hovered in a square. Then Suzume and Kanami slid down the rope and started moving.

"That's a ..............."

Although she had seen the ruined sight of the royal city from the air, Kanami was still quite shocked when she was in it and looked at the ruined statues and houses.

However, compared to Kanami's shock, Suzume looked a little confused, she looked left and right, showing a strange expression.

"It's weird..............."

"Strange?"

"That's right, Kanami, didn't you notice? There is not a single body here. ”

"What do you say......... Indeed........."

Hearing Suzume's reminder, Kanami also trembled and reacted. Indeed, as Suzume said, it is clear that the city is under very serious attack at the moment. Logically speaking, this place should be full of corpses, if not a river of blood. However, as far as the eye could see, there was not a single corpse in the square, on the street, or even in the alley.

The whole city was empty, as if it had been abandoned for a long time.

"W-what's going on?"

Kanami swallowed a mouthful of saliva, only to feel her hairs stand on end.

"No, it can't be haunted!"

"This is not the time to discuss this."

At this moment, Duanmu Huai's voice also came from her ears.

"You should act as soon as possible!"

"Good ..............."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's contact, Kanami nodded, then glanced at Suzume, lowered her body, and ran forward as fast as a gust of wind.

According to the indication on the map, the life signal is located in the underground waterway, fortunately there are two veterans who are familiar with the royal city, Kriolev and Rolex, who had been in the royal city garrison at the beginning, and cleared all the doors here, under his guidance, the two quickly found the entrance to an underground waterway, and then drilled in.

Inside the underground waterways, there was darkness.

“……………”

The man hugged his daughter tightly, held a knife, and hid in a small hole in the sewer. The cold, foul-smelling sewers weren't a good place, but he didn't dare to light a fire, let alone go out to find something to eat. Because the man knows that there is a terrible group of monsters outside......... It wasn't certain if they would find it, but the man didn't dare to take any chances.

"Daddy......... Uncomfortable ..............."

The voice of the daughter in his arms was so faint that he could barely hear it, and of course he could feel that the petite body was already hot, but he couldn't help it.

Perhaps, in the end, his end will be to die tragically here with his children?

“———————！”

Just as the man closed his eyes and waited desperately for death, suddenly, he felt a tightness in his throat, and a dagger silently stretched out from the side and pressed against his neck!

Who is it?!

"Don't meow."

At the same time, a leisurely girlish voice appeared in his ears.

"You, who are you? I set a trap at the door! ”

"That kind of simple trap, even a mouse can't fall for it."

At this time, Kanami, who had finished dealing with the trap, also walked over and looked at the man in front of her.

"Is that him?"

"That's right."

"You, aren't you an accomplice of those monsters?"

Looking at Suzume and Kanami in front of him, the man suddenly became excited.

"We're here to save you, and we want to know what's going on in the city, so come with me, your daughter doesn't look well."

Without the slightest hesitation, the man nodded and stood up with his daughter in his arms.

For him, maybe this is his last chance!

Without encountering any danger, Kanami and Suzume took the man and his daughter back to the Valkyrie gunboat, while his daughter was seriously ill and was taken for treatment. The man, on the other hand, stayed behind and reported to the people what he knew.

In fact, according to the man, he himself didn't quite know what was going on. He was just a poor sewer cleaner who was responsible for cleaning the sewers while finding something out of it to sell to make ends meet.

However, just a few days ago, his fate changed on that day.

The royal city was attacked.

The man himself did not know the specific situation, he only knew that he had just gone to work at that time, and then the council suddenly issued a message of martial law in the whole city, claiming that the rebels were about to attack the royal city......... At that time, this kind of news was naturally heard by low-level people like him, even if it was the rebels or the council, no matter who was in power, the sewers still needed to be cleaned up, and he believed that no one would rob him of this job.........

At that time, the man also talked about it with his colleagues who changed shifts, but everyone didn't think much about it except that they were worried about rising prices in the next few days.

Then, disaster struck.

A group of terrible soldiers suddenly appeared, and they killed anyone they saw!

"They killed everyone, even the soldiers of the same Herman Kingdom and the garrison!"

Recalling that scene, the man couldn't help but tremble. Moreover, the soldiers did not wear black armor like the Herman soldiers, on the contrary, they wore a very strange kind of golden-colored armor, and they also wrapped their bodies tightly, almost airtight, giving people the impression of walking armor more like walking armor than humans.

Not only that, but the cruelty of these soldiers is also indescribable.

"They're like a bunch of terrible monsters, they don't look like humans at all, even old people and children, they can kill them!"

"But we didn't see a single body on the street."

"That's the other strange thing I'm going to talk about, those horrible monsters just took the corpses away!"

"Taken away? Where did you take it? ”

"......... in the castle of the royal city"

“………………………”

Kriolev and Rolex looked at each other, both with solemn expressions.

Now it does seem that this is more like a plan by the Council, and if the man is right, the other side only began to kill after the entire city was blockaded in the name of "resistance to the rebels". So what is all this for? It's just killing people, so why take their bodies to the royal city?

What exactly does the Council want to do?

No one knows, but ......... Everyone has a sense of foreboding.

"What's next? Your Excellency the Inquisitor? ”

Uruze frowned and looked at Duanmu Huai uneasily.

"Don't do it."

Duanmu Huai made a decisive decision.

"Act now and prepare to attack the royal city! By that time, we'll know what the hell the council is up to! ”

(End of chapter)