Chapter 669: No Hope, Wait for Death
On the airship, Beatrice held on to her broken body and finally turned to look at Rhine.
The towering churches that overlap one another, the exquisite corridors and squares, and the sunlight shining on the white marble inlaid with gold edges make it seem like heaven.
But in her memory, the city was not like this.
Rhine, where she was born. At that time, there were not so many churches here. There were simple factories everywhere. The sky was always gray. The workers were covered with a thick layer of coal dust, but their white teeth could be seen when they smiled.
But now, this place has become an exquisite cage, imprisoning her.
The medical staff on the airship immediately bandaged her wound, but the bleeding could not be stopped.
Her injuries were from the inside out.
The ritual broke down the walls of reality, connecting the sea of unconsciousness with the present world, allowing the sea water to flow in and into her body.
But it stopped abruptly without any follow-up.
Most of the seawater in her body had inexplicably disappeared somewhere, but a lot of it still remained.
The water in the Sea of Unconsciousness is not real "water", but it can directly affect the world. For extraordinary people, it is basically equivalent to pollution.
The reason why she has not been corroded now is purely because of her unwillingness to surrender. It can even be said that her body is dead, but she is unwilling to accept it.
This unstable world also has its advantages. As long as your will to refuse death is extremely firm, the execution can really be postponed.
But the price is this torture every moment.
"No need. Don't treat me. It's useless."
She squeezed out words one by one from between her teeth, but there was a hint of happiness on her face.
This may be the only time in her life when she has gained freedom, although it is just a struggle before death.
The medics soon discovered that what she said was true. Most of the medics of the Imperial Truth were trained by the Knights Hospitaller and were more like field doctors. It was their basic skill to determine which wounded soldiers were beyond help.
So I turned to check on Gaia and Zoe.
The two of them were now lying on the ground exhausted, and no one dared to approach them.
If the extraordinary person is in an unstable state, he will easily be swallowed by the Sea of Consciousness. If he acts rashly, it will only cause more trouble.
It just so happened that both of them had only been extraordinary beings for a short time, and they had already overdrawn their energy in this battle, so it was even more difficult for them to cope with it at the moment.
"What's the situation now?" Zoe recovered faster and turned to look at Erwin who was guarding on the side.
"Well, actually, there's no problem for you guys to get on the airship. While we were docked and waiting, we received a message from Beatrice telling us that the banquet hall dome would be opened and asking us to go meet you, so we brought you aboard."
He glanced at Beatrice beside him, and his expression became a little serious.
This young lady of the Pope was truly decisive. She abandoned all her status and position and chose to flee, and even trusted outsiders like them.
Apart from anything else, he still has the courage.
"I saw them shoot at the airship. Was there any damage?"
"Damage? Just those small water pipes?" Erwin laughed. "Miss Zoe, you've had little experience with these machines. You don't know how powerful airships are these days. To put it simply, even if we don't ascend, we can just stay there and withstand their fire without any problems."
Erwin tapped the wall of the crew compartment with his fingers. "After all, an airship is a combat unit. Its lower body is armored."
Castel's airship is not the same as the one on Blue Star. In this world with weak anti-aircraft firepower, the airship can be used as the main force in air combat after being equipped with heavy armor, and its bulky characteristics have little impact.
Therefore, Castel's technological route gradually shifted after the war in the north. Not only did the airships begin to be armored, but they also strengthened their ground defenses in an all-round way.
Today's main combat airships can completely force their way forward despite the ground fire and directly bomb the ground. However, the airship that their delegation was riding on did not need to carry bombs, so it left the spare load for more and thicker armor plates, and took off directly despite the volleys of musket fire.
It is said that Tata is also researching a new airship that does not carry any bombs at all, but instead piles them all on the armor, and instead of bombing, directly drops the entire airship from the air, relying on weight to crush the enemy.
It can be said to be a bizarre idea to add ramming horns to the airship.
Zoe worked in a clerical position and had obviously not been exposed to the novel ideas of the R&D department. At this moment, she just nodded blankly.
Gaia on the side also took a deep breath and gradually calmed down.
She ignored the battle, as Erwin was much more professional in that area than her, and instead observed Beatrice's injuries.
"She won't be able to hold on much longer."
Will can indeed interfere with the world, but will does not come out of thin air; it must at least have a physical body as a carrier.
The problem for Beatrice now is that her body is about to break down.
Now what was flowing out of Beatrice's body was not just blood, but the black blood carried a dangerous aura - the pollution was about to completely corrode her.
After being completely corrupted, the extraordinary people can easily turn into monsters. A team of heavily armored soldiers of the Crusaders are fully equipped and ready to fight at any time.
Beatrice gave a bitter laugh and said with a weak breath, "Throw me away. As long as it's not in the Rhine."
"No, there is a way." Gaia said in a deep voice, "Her biggest problem now is that the pollution erosion is too severe. We just need to suppress the pollution."
Beatrice's eyes flashed.
Of course she knew her problem, but knowing and solving it were two different things.
If pollution were so easy to suppress, the Storm Ocean would not have become a forbidden area for extraordinary people.
The major churches do have some methods to suppress pollution, such as the moon candles of the Candlelight Society and the special "sugar" made by the Silent Church.
But most of these things are only auxiliary in nature, can only take effect slowly, and the effect is just so-so.
"It's useless. No need."
"Stoker, put her into the boiler of the steam engine and find a machine spirit with the worst temper to fight her, the one who scolds everyone he sees!" Gaia ordered in a deep voice.
“???”
Beatrice's head was full of question marks. She felt that she might have been severely eroded and was already hallucinating. She understood the meaning of every word she had just heard, and when combined together they became a strange and distorted whisper.
As expected, she had lost control and was even having auditory hallucinations. Beatrice closed her eyes resignedly.
Then she was picked up by the stoker next to her and thrown into the boiler - of course, the unlit one.
Even when the furnace door slammed shut, she still looked confused.
(End of this chapter)
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