Chapter 470 Dead City


    After learning that there was an accident in the Royal City, Duanmu Huai took a few people on the Valkyrie gunboat and flew directly to the Royal City - it was too slow to send people to investigate, so it was better to go and see with his own eyes.


    However, when the group of people arrived over the royal city, the scene in front of them really shocked them.


    ?The entire royal city was completely silent at the moment, with no signs of human habitation at all. Black smoke was rising everywhere, and many buildings had even collapsed, looking like ruins!


    "What...what''s going on? Is it a demon invasion???"


    Rolex asked in surprise, while Kriolev shook his head.


    "The situation is not right. Look carefully. If it is an invasion by a foreign enemy, then the losses should be the most serious on the periphery. But if you look here, here and here...it is obvious that the enemy attacks from the center...so we should consider yes……"


    “That doesn’t mean anything.”


    Hearing this, Kanami said silently.


    "Prince Barton of Herman teamed up with the demons and suddenly appeared in the royal city of Lisas through the portal, which made it impossible for us to mount an effective resistance..."


    …………”


    ?Kriolev had nothing to say.


    Indeed, Lisas has learned from the past, you have to say that you are not a demon...


    “Huh? This is interesting.”


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


    “What’s the matter? Lord Judge?”


    “I scanned the entire city with an auspicious instrument and found that…there are basically few life signals in the royal city.”


    "Why?"


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


    “What does this mean?”


    “To put it simply, there are few living people in this city.”


    Duanmuhuai spread his hands.


    "If I were to be more precise, there are probably only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven-eight people left in this city right now...a total of seventeen living people."


    “How is this possible!”


    Hearing this, both Kriolev and Rolex were stunned.


    “There are hundreds of thousands of residents in the city. Where have all those people gone?”


    “Maybe he ran away, maybe... died?”


    “The Council…what exactly did Stisser do…”


    “We don’t know, but I think someone here must know.”


    As he spoke, Duanmu Huai opened the holographic map and projected the entire royal city. Then he stretched out his hand and pointed at a few small light spots here.


    "These are life reaction signs. As of now, there are about twelve or thirteen life signs located in the Royal City Fortress. The rest are scattered everywhere, and there are several underground waterways below. They may be survivors. Maybe they are...but it doesn''t matter. As long as we find them and arrest them and ask them, we will know what''s going on."


    After saying this, Duanmuhuai turned his head and looked at Kanami and Suzume.


    “Leave it to you, no problem.”


    "I see."


    Kanami nodded seriously, while Suzume smiled.


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


    “This is really…”


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


    ?However, compared to Kanami''s shock, Suzume seemed a little confused. She looked left and right with a strange expression.


    “It’s so strange…”


    "strangeness?"


    “That’s right, Kanami, didn’t you notice? There isn’t a single body here.”


    “If you say so...it’s true...”


    Hearing Suzume''s reminder, Kanami shuddered and reacted. Indeed, just as Suzuomei said, it is obvious that this city has been severely attacked at present. Logically speaking, even if this place is not a river of blood, it should still be littered with corpses. However, looking around, there was not a single body in the square, in the streets, or even in the alleys.


    ?The entire city is as empty as a dead city that has long been abandoned.


    “Here, what’s going on?”


    Kanami swallowed a mouthful of saliva and felt the hair on her whole body stand up.


    “No, it can’t be haunted!”


    “Now is not the time to discuss this issue.”


    ?At this moment, Duanmuhuai''s voice came from her ears.


    “You should act as soon as possible!” ?????“Okay…”


    Hearing Duanmuhuai’s contact, Kanami nodded, then looked at each other with Suzume, lowered her body, and ran forward as fast as a gust of wind.


    According to the mark on the map, the life signal is located in the underground waterway. Fortunately, there are two veterans here, Kriolev and Rolex, who are familiar with the Royal City. Rolex even served in the Royal City Guards and knows everything about this place. Under his guidance, the two quickly found the entrance to an underground waterway and got in.


    In the underground waterway, it was dark.


    …………”


    The man held his daughter tightly, holding a knife, and hid in a small hole in the sewer. The cold, smelly sewer was not a good place, but he didn''t dare to light a fire, let alone go out to find food. Because the man knew that there was a group of terrifying monsters outside... Although he was not sure whether they would find them here, the man did not dare to take the risk.


    “Dad…feels bad…”


    The daughter''s voice in his arms was so weak that he could hardly hear it. Of course, he could feel that her petite body was already hot, but he had no choice.


    ?Perhaps, in the end, your own ending will be to die tragically here together with your children?


    ————!


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


    Who is it? !


    “Don’t make a sound, meow.”


    At the same time, a leisurely girl''s voice appeared in his ears.


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


    “Even mice won’t fall for such a simple trap.”


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


    “That’s him?”


    “That’s right.”


    “You, are you not an accomplice of those monsters?”


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


    "We are here to save you, and we also want to know what happened to this city. Well, come with me. Your daughter doesn''t look like she''s doing well."


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


    For him, maybe this is the last chance!


    Without any danger, Kanami and Suzume took the man and his daughter back to the Valkyrie gunboat. His daughter was seriously ill and was taken for treatment. As for the man, he stayed and reported what he knew to everyone.


    In fact, according to the man’s statement, he himself didn’t quite know what happened. He is just a poor sewer cleaner who is responsible for cleaning the sewers and at the same time finding some things from them to sell to make a living.


    ?However, just a few days ago, his fate changed 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 the news that the whole city was under martial law, announcing that the rebels were about to attack the royal city... At that time, this kind of news was naturally very disturbing to a low-level person like him. Even if he heard that, no matter it was the rebels or the council, no matter who was in power, the sewers still needed to be cleaned, and he believed that no one would compete with him for this job...


    ?At that time, the man also talked about this matter with his colleagues who were changing shifts, but apart from worrying about rising prices in the next few days, they didn’t think too much about it.


    Then, disaster happened.


    ?A group of terrifying soldiers suddenly appeared and killed everyone they saw!


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


    Recalling that scene, the man could not help but tremble. Moreover, those soldiers did not wear black armor like the Hermann soldiers. On the contrary, they wore a very strange golden armor and wrapped their bodies tightly, almost airtight, giving The person feels more like walking armor than a human being.


    Not only that, the cruelty of these soldiers is unspeakable.


    “They are like a group of terrifying monsters. They don’t look like humans at all. They will kill even the elderly and children!”


    “But we didn’t see any bodies in the streets.”


    “This is another strange thing I want to say, those terrible monsters just took away all the corpses!”


    “Took it away? Where was it taken?”


    “In the castle of the royal city...”


    …………”


    ?Kriolev and Rolex looked at each other with solemn expressions.


    ?Now it seems that this is indeed more planned by the council, and if what this man said is right, the other party only started killing people after blockading the entire city in the name of "resisting the rebels." So what is all this for? If it was just killing people, why would they bring their corpses to the royal city?


    What exactly does the council want to do?


    No one knows, but... everyone has an ominous premonition.


    “What should we do next? Lord Inquisitor?”


    ?Wuluze frowned and looked at Duanmuhuai uneasily.


    “Not much to do.”


    Duanmu Huai made a decisive decision.


    “Act immediately and prepare to attack the royal city! By then, we will know what the **** the council is doing!”


    (End of this chapter)