She thought Eugenie was frightened to death by this scene... If it was a normal pursuit, there might be a chance to escape, but this was a breakout battle! They surrounded the entire manor from the beginning!
So there's nowhere to escape to... at most you can just delay the time of being caught, but you still have to find a way to break out, or wait for possible reinforcements.
She and Xia Yibing guarded the two wings, and the team retreated little by little to the corridor entrance under the threat of a group of villains.
These people were not in a hurry at all. They did not shoot at them immediately or rush up to attack them frantically. I think they knew that people were coming quickly from the other side of the corridor.
As long as the people behind come over and completely block this retreat route, Yougeni will surely put down his gun to protect his wife, and they will be able to succeed without suffering any casualties.
Being suppressed like this, the Kopperfields were already feeling a little breathless.
Eugenie simply closed his eyes - he felt that this might really be his fate, to escape to the end and lose his life less than ten kilometers away from the railway line to the Wind Outpost.
Is this fate's punishment for the Copperfield family for abandoning their ancestral land?
But my father just wanted to save more people.
Those shadows of death... those deep fears...
I don't think he did anything wrong, but why does the so-called destiny never show mercy to mortals?
Faintly, without even realizing it himself, his faith was wavering.
Hitzfeld was going to ask Xia Yibing if she was really sure that Russell could arrive in time.
She did say that.
Said those people's methods could not hypnotize a machine... said something similar.
As for the man with the mechanical right arm, if there was any stimulation mechanism in his mechanical body that could wake him up when something went wrong with his brain, then he would indeed be impossible to be hypnotized and controlled by any means.
As long as the letter can be delivered to the Thorn Birds branch, they are not without hope.
Just as she was thinking this, she suddenly heard an undisguised sound of footsteps coming from behind her - deep in the corridor.
The faces of the villains closest to them were filled with joy; they had also heard it. There was no need to ask, it was definitely the people on the other side who were completing the encirclement.
The girl's face turned a little blue. She moved behind the woman and leaned against her, aiming one gun at the surrounding villains and the other gun at the inside of the passage.
Gradually, the footsteps got closer.
Hitzfeld's expression changed slightly.
She heard it very clearly... She was also sure that there was nothing wrong with her ears, but why did it sound like the footsteps belonged to just one person?
The imagined scene of a large group of people... a group of thugs gathering together... why did it turn out like this?
Suddenly, a vague figure emerged from the darkness.
He was a thin old man wearing a dark brown traditional suit and a dark gray felt hat.
He was not tall, only 170 cm at most. The hair on his temples that showed through the brim of his hat was already snow-white. In his hand, he held a black wooden cane that was probably more for self-defense than for functionality.
Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing glanced at each other quickly. Neither of them had expected the situation to turn out like this.
The villains were also bewildered... They didn't know the old man, had never seen him before, and didn't understand why he could come from that side.
Aren't there more of them down the corridor?
"What have you done to our people?" one of the burly men shouted fiercely, "You don't want to fight the Undead themselves in Metz..."
"It's understandable to give up some things in order to survive and have a better life." The old man interrupted him, "But you have given up too many things. When all the virtues in the world flee from you, all that is left is a body, a walking corpse claiming to be a 'dead spirit'."
Damn thing!
The sturdy man's face suddenly twisted, he raised his gun and pulled the trigger hard.
"boom!"
Several people on the steps looked at him in astonishment, because he didn't point his gun at them... but instead shot his companion in the head.
"Bang! Bang bang bang!"
Without any warning, dense gunshots began to echo around. But what was equally strange was that every villain who fired the gun ignored this side, with anger and ferocity on their faces, as if they wanted to pour all their malice into the bullets and then use them to shoot through their companions' bodies.
crazy……
Eugenie opened his mouth and stared at the scene.
They are killing their own people...killing each other?
"Do you want to be hit by a stray bullet if you don't come in quickly?"
The old man used teasing to wake them up, and took them into the corridor as quickly as possible. He didn't feel relieved until they hid in the hallway.
"Are you..."
Eugenie opened his mouth to question the old man, but he fell into a daze before he could finish his sentence.
The others were just like him, stunned for a moment, then their facial expressions returned to normal, and they started lining up to go upstairs without saying a word.
They came to the second floor, the third floor, and all the way to the top attic. The old man walked to the front and opened the door for them, watching them come to where he lived one by one.
"Mr. and Mrs. Culberfield were really influenced by me."
As he closed the door, he suddenly spoke.
"But you three... act so much like you want to kill me."
He was answered by four guns.
Two pistols, a rifle, and a shotgun... Hitzfeld, Xia Yibing, and Sixus blocked his retreat from three angles. The woman in the middle asked him, "Who are you?"
While speaking, Xia Yibing was also looking around.
This attic is not small and is filled with the breath of life everywhere.
Whether it's the connected stove pipes that are most likely used to keep warm, or the green onion potted plants placed in the corner, or the several plates of unfinished food on the table next to them that have not been cleaned up yet... all of these show that the other party has lived here for a long time.
But this is very strange...
Such a big mansion, this is the county governor's mansion! This old man doesn't look like a member of the Boris family, how did he do all this?
Why would he do that?
Hitzfeld said nothing.
She has been squinting her eyes since she came in, and I don't know what she is planning.
"One is a God Devourer, and the other is a half-evil species." The old man's eyes quickly swept across the girl and Xixus's faces, and finally fell on Xia Yibing.
"Only you and I can't see clearly... Why can you not be affected?"
"That's a simple matter."
Beside him, Sixus, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke.
"As Latadians who came from time, it is impossible for them to be deceived by the illusion of time."
"Just tell me which generation of Time Dragon you are from."
"Sally's...little kid."
Chapter 34: Changes in Alliance
As soon as the little boy said this, Xixu immediately became the center of attention.
Hitzfeld's playful eyes, the confused eyes of the ponytailed woman, and the thoughtful eyes of the thin old man gathered together... watching the childish-looking mixed-haired loli throw away the spray gun, find a chair and sit down.
"Half-evil species usually have shorter lifespans than ordinary people, like dream monsters... but there are indeed half-evil species that can live for many years." The old man murmured in a low voice, "You don't seem to be fooling me... May I ask who you are?"
"Conte-Sixus." Sixus signed up directly, "Sarah Homeland Security Bureau, Pollution Inspection Division, if they don't plan to change people during this period... I have always been the director."
“I’ve never heard of this name.” The old man shook his head. “But it doesn’t matter—as long as you are sent by Sarah, we can sit down and talk.”
Hitzfeld narrowed his eyes slightly.
Sixus just called this man the Time Dragon. This is Metz, the territory of Talignan, so it can only be the Time Dragon's Sally family that he was talking about.
This is one of the three Dragon Guard families. When these three families work together, they can even hold out against the Undead Party.
After thinking for a while, Hitzfeld suddenly interrupted and asked, "That 'Forgotten Zone', as well as the fact that the two of them were able to survive and wait for us today, this was all planned by you, right?"
"Oh?" The old man had been mostly interested in Sixus before. He grinned and looked over, seeming to be very excited about her analysis. "When all the known clues are connected together, it's not hard to guess. But you've only seen it once after all..."
"In that respect, Hitzfeld, I admire your decisiveness."
"Evidence is something that only needs to be seen once." The girl pursed her lips. "You are the only one who has the ability to create such a situation on a large scale, and you happen to be one of the Three Dragon Guards, and you have a need for Baron Copperfield."
"So you think I followed them all the way here, and I used my power to influence Baron and Baroness Copperfield and imprisoned them in the 'self-perception of Boris and Reese', and I hid here only because it was difficult to take them away?"
"Of course that's impossible." Hitzfeld looked around, "After all, you've lived here for more than a year."
The dirt accumulated on the edges of the potted plants and the dirt buried deep in the cracks of the floor were impossible to clean... so the owner had to resort to the second best option and almost cover the entire floor with old newspapers.
An outsider who was only considering a short-term stay would not have been able to do this, so Hitzfeld thought he must have lived here for a long time, but she really couldn't figure out what his motives were.
"A qualified detective." The old man nodded and sat down at the dining table opposite Sixus.
He snapped his fingers, and Eugenie and Jerry, who were standing next to him, suddenly woke up as if from a dream. After trembling violently, they looked around in surprise.
"How do you feel?" Xia Yibing asked them in a low voice.
"I don't know..." Jerry shook her head. She couldn't describe her feelings in simple words after being so frightened.
"It was a bit like an illusion..." Eugenie analyzed calmly, "It was a continuation of reality. I saw us continue to break out and leave here. I had just taken Jerry to the train station before he woke me up."
"Like an illusion?"
"Yes, I don't think it's an illusion." Eugenie nodded. "An illusion is something that is based on self-perception, but it doesn't qualify as an illusion. I found a lot of loopholes in it."
This means that it is not a hallucination scene based on Eugenie's own cognition, but more like it is based on the cognition of others - he noticed that there are many things in the hallucination scene that he does not understand.
For example, those trees that look much younger than I remember... and those sheds that have not yet been demolished.
He had probably heard of those buildings. When the Metz train station was first built, there were many slums around it. It wasn't that the station was built here to seek death, but the refugees would gather here spontaneously, because they knew that those who would come out of the station were "rich people".
"That's what I saw myself," the old man interrupted to explain.
"My name is Moore. Moore-Sally, you can just call me Moore if you like."
"Strictly speaking, the reason why I am here is that my ancestors, starting from my grandfather's generation, have lived here, all because of a prophecy."
"prophecy?"
"'The descendants of the dragon will fall apart after the gray fog descends. Under the dark clouds, the successor will come from the east with fire. The rise and fall of the Dragon Kingdom depends on a single thought. After that, either the dark clouds and gray fog will fade away, or the Dragon Kingdom will turn to dust.'"
With an ups and downs in his tone, he actually read out the so-called "prophecy" directly.
But it was obvious that nothing could be learned from just listening to it. From Hitzfeld's personal perspective, this passage did not point out any characteristics of the "heir" at all - she would not be so arrogant as to think that it was referring to herself.
Yes, she is. Oh, it should be said that she can be basically confirmed to have inherited the blood of the Sun King, and the concentration is even higher than that of the other party's genuine descendants.
However, she still didn't think that the Sun King had any connection with the "Dragon Kingdom".
The Dragon Kingdom here should refer to Talignan itself, right?
Xia Yibing noticed the change in her expression, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly. She couldn't help but lean over to her ear and whispered, "Don't forget the Sword of Ahoyin."
Hitzfeld stiffened.
Ahoyne, Eye of the Green Dragon.
The green dragon... after all, it is a real dragon in mythology. Although it is just a myth, it is indeed... connected.
Thinking of this, the girl felt a little uneasy.
If possible, she didn't want to have anything to do with any prophecy.
"At this point, we are not sure who the prophecy refers to."
The old man, that is, Moore, added.
"This is a very old prophecy. It comes from before the Grey Mist Era and was left by Sally's ancestors."
"And my grandfather firmly believed in this prophecy. When my father was still alive, he emphasized that the heir to the Dragon Kingdom must set out from Sara, and the first city he would arrive at must be Antames."
"Antames?"
"Oh, that was another name for Mace a long time ago."
The old man nodded.
"So you have been living here all this time?" Xia Yibing frowned, "The old house of the Boris family, is it actually your property?"
"Definitely not!" Sixus interrupted, "There are rumors outside about how mysterious the Time Dragon Family is. In fact, the favorite thing for these dragons is to imitate Dujuan and live in other people's homes... Their blood spirits allow them to simulate and observe scenes from the past and the future. As long as they can implant some fragments of them into other people in the form of illusions, it is easy for them to live like this without being discovered."
