"Are you sure that's all the secrets A'man has?"
Hitzfeld felt that something was not right.
Why does it feel like the vortex is getting bigger and bigger?
It's just a small offshore country. Is it necessary to mobilize such a large force?
"Perhaps the secret that Aman knows is too important to some people." Baliu also speculated, "...I think there is a high probability that it is related to the mystery of the gray fog."
Neither of them spoke.
They also knew very well that the mystery of the gray fog - not to mention solving the mystery behind the gray fog, even if they only analyzed a little bit, that mystery was more important than the entire Goliath Dynasty.
At this moment, the prisoner on the ground suddenly trembled and kept stretching his head to reach Hitzfeld.
"Let him open his mouth and try." The girl's heart moved.
Baliu removed the seal from his mouth.
But her expression changed instantly, and she quickly blocked Hitzfeld behind her, and witnessed with her... the black flames rising from the man's body.
"This isn't the first time we've played against each other."
An obscure, stiff, hoarse sound came out of his mouth.
"You always surprise me. I have to say you are pretty good."
"But can you escape from the pursuit of the Black Flame Knight?"
"Keep up the show...Detective."
Chapter 28 Black Flame
After saying these words, the man's tremors became more and more intense, and finally he kept screaming, curled up his body, and was burned into ash by the strange black flames.
It was really scum... everything, including the branches that were wrapped around and bound him, including his muscles and bones, was burned to ashes, leaving only a handful of black ash on the carpet.
"It can burn my limbs..." Bariu's face turned very ugly.
Her actual strength was not much higher than that of these branches, and the black flames were enough to pose a fatal threat to her.
"Have you ever seen this kind of method before?" Hitzfeld reached out and pinched a handful of ashes on the ground and asked her.
"Never!" Bariu replied in a tone that could even be described as a bit out of control, "What black flame, black flame knight... something I've never heard of!... We'd better leave now!"
No matter how stupid or slow she was, she could see that the person who said those words was not the living person himself, but a mysterious person who was conveying the message through the air.
Such a method was simply horrifying. The Black Flame Knight might have the means to kill her. She was no longer sure she could protect Hitzfeld from these people. The most urgent thing was to run away.
It would be best to run back to the capital directly and seek more companions for help.
"Wait." Hitzfeld also knew that the situation was urgent, but she still couldn't help but take out a small potion bottle from her arms and put some ashes into it. Only then was she pulled up from the ground by Baliu who couldn't wait any longer.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry!” The tree girl kept calling out to Ashley, asking her to stop worrying about the wounded on the bed. “If you really want to do good for them, leave quickly. Don’t let the battlefield stay here!”
As Ashley complained, "Why is Barrieu as talkative as Heath?", the three of them and the dog quickly went downstairs and returned to the street directly through the entrance.
There was no movement outside. There might have been some screaming and noise at the beginning of the attack, but as time went on, everyone in the Red Leaf Hotel either hid and dared not make a sound or had already fled. The whole street looked almost empty.
Hitzfeld could notice a few pairs of eyes peering over here from behind some signboards and store counters. She ignored these innocent guys and asked Bariu, "Are you the only one in Blackwood who owns the Wheel of Fortune?"
What she asked was not "Are you the only tree man?", but "Are you the only person of this level?"
"Yes!" Bariu nodded, and turned around quickly to look on the street. "Other places are also short of manpower, right? Blackwood has been calm recently. Who knew that Aman would come here from Wayne?"
"You haven't seen him in Wayne before, how can you be sure that he has always been in Wayne?"
"He has his own people and has been in contact with us."
"Then it seems that I was right to send that telegram."
"You--" Bariu turned back and glared at her, "You also said in the telegram--"
"Yes." Hitzfeld nodded calmly, "I'll ask them to send more people."
Reaching out and tapping her, Baliu suddenly grinned.
All her complaints and dissatisfaction finally disappeared at this moment, and she found that she began to like this person.
Aside from those minor issues, it's not bad to work with her.
At least, he's not like those losers who hold her back every time she takes action.
"Come here." Seeing a parked car at the corner of the road, Baliu sped up. "The noise just now was too loud... We need to find a fast enough means of transportation."
"...Do you have a driver's license?" Seeing her pull the car door out of shape and tear it directly off the car body, Hitzfeld's mouth twitched.
"I took it five years ago." Bariwu frowned and looked like he was reminiscing. "I think I haven't forgotten it yet... I think."
Hitzfeld knew this was the answer.
"Heath." Ashley suddenly spoke up.
"What?" Hitzfeld turned to look at her and found that she was still holding the bag of pork belly strips, staring at the north corner of the street.
"..." Hitzfeld gradually stopped talking.
"Woof! Woof woof woof woof! Woo-woo-woo..." Lily began to bark loudly at that direction. For the first time, this fearless Sheldon dog lowered its body and let out a low beast roar from the depths of its throat.
"Oh great, this guy forgot to take out the key!" Bariu got into the driver's seat directly, "What are you guys dawdling about?"
"I don't think this thing can help us escape pursuit..."
"what?"
After a moment's pause, Baliu looked up and saw the rearview mirror.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
In the endless snow and dust, a monster nearly four meters tall, made entirely of machinery and gears, was walking out little by little.
Coincidentally, it also has a "centaur" shape.
It is taller than the centaur incarnation of Bariu, wearing an iron helmet, a layer of black armor wrapped around its mechanical body, two rows of huge steel pipes similar to exhaust pipes protruding from its back, and in its hands is a shield with an emblem and a long conical lance.
But the most eye-catching thing is the center of its body - in the middle of its raised chest, one can vaguely glimpse flesh and blood squirming - and the black flames gushing out from the top of its helmet and from the pipes on its back.
This is a perverted guy who you can immediately determine that you "definitely can't beat" just by looking at him.
Without saying a word, Bariu jumped out of the car and transformed into a wooden horse form.
The other party was no more than a hundred meters away from here. She didn't think she had time to tell the two people and the dog to climb up, so she simply changed the model when constructing the body, leaving the abdominal cavity empty, and extended branches from the inside of the abdominal cavity to entangle Hitzfeld and Ashley, forcibly wrapping them up.
"boom!"
A cloud of snow and fog exploded in the distance.
Baliu's pupils shrank slightly.
In just a few breaths, the steel monster rushed in front of her from a hundred meters away, almost face to face with her.
At this distance, she could clearly see the remaining facial features of the other person... and analyze the original appearance of the face from those components that had not yet been completely replaced by the machine.
But it was too late—
"boom!"
There was another loud bang, and the sharp black conical lance pierced into her chest fiercely. Combined with the inertia, it knocked her out into the air, and a big hole was torn in her chest and abdomen by the lance.
What the hell is this!
Hitzfeld hid in the belly of the Trojan horse, trying his best to keep Ashley behind him, and looked at the situation outside through the gap, feeling frightened in his heart.
Flesh and machinery...
The Eclipse Church actually has this kind of technology?
Before she could get a closer look at the enemy's structure, Bariu had already turned around and tried to escape.
She was also very fast. With a kick of the horse's hooves, the explosive force was enough to send her body seven or eight meters away from the original position.
"boom!!!"
This was undoubtedly a wise move, because the moment she jumped away, a ball of raging black flames gushed out, enveloping the ground and the houses on both sides.
"Ding! Ding!"
The shaking of the earth caused snow to fall from the storefronts on the entire street. The ice prisms hanging from the eaves fell down like crystals, occasionally colliding with each other, making a series of crisp noises.
"Oh……"
Hitzfeld caught a glimpse of this scene from inside the shaking horse's belly and couldn't help but widen his eyes.
She thought she might know what the murder weapon that ultimately killed Yanke-Temperley was.
Chapter 29 Fighting
At 8 ., the snow-covered streets were deserted.
People are too lazy to go out in winter, let alone it snowed all night.
The prerequisite for going out to work is to clear the thick snow at the door, but this kind of work is very inefficient if it is done before the snow stops. Some of the thin snow that has just fallen will be trampled and squeezed to form a dirty ice surface, which will greatly increase the difficulty of walking.
Because of this, the chase that started from the entrance of Hongye Hotel was not discovered by people. Most people were still immersed in their dreams, and perhaps there were a few unlucky people in the suburbs whose lives had been stolen by nightmares.
"boom!!!"
At this level of chase, every drop of the horse's hooves is like a bomb exploding out of thin air.
Thick snow flew everywhere, and in the pure white snow fog, the centaur body of Baliu turned into an afterimage and rushed out. The upper body of the man twisted around while turning, and he bent his bow and drew his arrow towards the back.
Almost at the same time as she was ready, a large mass of deep black flames swept through the snow mist. It seemed not to be just a flame, and the ground shook as it fell, and all the materials wrapped in the black flames solidified and decomposed.
Solidification is because those things will freeze quickly at the first opportunity, and they are burned after frosting or crystallization.
This is an extremely rare phenomenon. As far as Baliu knows, only the legendary undead fire has similar characteristics.
However, the undead fire only has two characteristics: low temperature and burning, and its nature is not so intense.
Seeing the snow mist - especially the snowflakes in it starting to crystallize and burn, Baliu couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
Moreover, the undead fire has always been dark blue... I have never heard of black flame!
"Zheng!" She pulled the bowstring to the full moon, let go and released the arrow, and a loud bang suddenly burst out in the air.
With the ground she was supporting as the center, the vibration of the bowstring was transmitted along her body. As the arrow flew out, countless snow was shaken away, revealing most of the concrete ground.
This time she did not take the risk and shoot five arrows, but only one arrow, concentrating all her strength on it.
Even after shooting the arrow, she did not stay where she was. After letting go, she took advantage of the recoil force to soar into the air. The sturdy centaur body completed a movement in mid-air that seemed close to "drifting" to Hitzfeld, and then slammed into the ground and turned directly.
But despite this, Baliu still twisted his upper body, trying to see if this arrow could kill the opponent.
At the very least, we should create some trouble for it.
However, the reality made her heart extremely cold... Her arrow could even pierce through the armored vehicle, but the black flame centaur just raised his shield to block it casually -
"boom!!!"
The impact of the two forces caused the snow and fog to explode suddenly, the ground shook even more violently, and a large amount of snow on the houses on both sides tilted and splashed onto the road.
But soon, Heiyan's figure appeared again in the snow fog. Half of the shield was blown off by her arrow, but the main body of the shield was intact.
What level of engineering capability is this?
Not daring to even look, Baliu turned around and ran desperately, converting almost all of her inner fear into motivation.
Generally speaking, the more sophisticated the machinery, the easier it is to break down. According to her observation, this thing has countless gears, bearings, and cables in all its major joints. It is a structure that could be scrapped if it receives even a little vibration, but how could it be unaffected?
She remembered the sight of the other person's chest and abdomen, and the flesh and blood that peeked out from the armor and the gaps in the machinery.
Is this stuff working?
Overly sophisticated machines can indeed be easily damaged and scrapped, but if they are connected in series based on flesh and blood...
But - that's what it said: Baliu had never seen or heard of such a skill mastered by Sarah's enemies!
"It's not inexplicable..." Hitzfeld in the horse's belly had a different opinion.
With small batteries and various industrial technologies that were not in line with this era as evidence, she could conclude that in Sara before the gray fog fell, the country's industrial technology level was higher than it is now.
And it was much higher, close to the modern times she was familiar with. If the other party also dug up prehistoric ruins containing industrial crystals, and added some things that could not be explained by scientific common sense, such as those extraordinary things...it would not be difficult to tinker with this kind of killing weapon.
The only thing she couldn't understand was the black flame.
