Chapter 148 I Want to Make a Final Deal with You
"What's going on?!"
Chalmers hurried back to the headquarters of the Skeleton Corps. His face looked extremely ugly and his body was covered in blood.
"Two gear trains collided in District 4. Why hasn't anyone come to help yet?"
Chalmers shouted at the skeleton knights who stayed at the headquarters: "Are you just going to watch?"
The few skeleton knights who stayed behind looked at each other, and saw confusion in each other's eyes.
"A gear train collided? When did it happen?"
“We didn’t receive any notification.”
The anger on Chalmers' face immediately turned into astonishment.
Half an hour ago, he witnessed with his own eyes two gear trains colliding and burning on the track. Shocked, he immediately took three members of the Tenth Team to rescue them, trying to reduce casualties as much as possible before the large group of skeletons arrived.
However, the main force never arrived.
The three of them alone could not save anyone and could only watch the two trains burn in the flames and then be suppressed by the brighter fireworks in the night sky.
"You don't know?!" His tone was filled with uncontrollable anger. "How could you not know?! Where is the observatory?! Where are the station guards?!"
The remaining Skeleton Knights looked at each other again.
"I don't know. We haven't received any reports at all."
At this moment, an indescribable fear rose in Chalmers' heart.
But before he could say anything, there was another burst of intense footsteps. He turned around and saw the captain of the ninth team hurried over.
"What are you doing?!" As soon as he entered the room, the captain of the ninth team yelled at the knights who stayed behind at the headquarters, just like Chalmers did just now. "There was a serious stampede in the block of the second district. Why haven't you sent any reinforcements?"
Now, Chalmers also joined the group that was looking at each other in confusion.
"Chalmers? Why are you here?!" The ninth team leader saw Chalmers and immediately came up and said, "Quick, take your people and follow me to the fourth district. Damn it, where are all the people tonight?"
"No, Li En..." Chalmers shook off the hand of the ninth team leader and pointed to the door. "I think we can't go."
Li En subconsciously turned his head and saw the captain of the fourth team also walked in with a dark face.
Five minutes later, the three team leaders finally understood the current situation.
Not just one place, not just two places...accidents are happening everywhere in Tianqin right now.
There was a collision between two cog trains in District 4, a stampede in District 2, and an explosion at a prosthetics store in District 3, which caused two stores to catch fire.
This kind of accident, which would have only happened once in the past few years, has occurred three times tonight.
And there is a high possibility that it will happen more than three times.
Because these three times were only witnessed by the three team leaders.
What about what they didn't see?
Why, with such a big event, the Skeleton Knights' headquarters didn't receive any news?
The staff at the observatory and the gear train seemed to have suddenly disappeared.
Even in the entire Skeleton Knight headquarters, there were only a few people on duty tonight, and most of the positions were empty.
"What the hell is going on?!" Li En grabbed one of the skeleton knights by the collar, his eyes looked like he wanted to eat him, "Where are the others?!"
"I don't know." The Skeleton Knight replied tremblingly, "I only know that some people were assigned to guard the towers in each district, but that's only a part of the people. There are also some people..."
He looked at the empty seats around him and said with a wry smile.
“They just didn’t come.”
"Why?!"
The Skeleton Knight pursed his lips and said nothing, but everyone present could understand what he meant.
Those skeleton knights also joined in tonight's "carnival".
This made Rean's face darker, and he almost couldn't help but punch the opponent, but was stopped by Chalmers.
"It's no use taking your anger out on him," Chalmers said. "After all, he's the one who's staying here, isn't he?"
Li En glanced at Chalmers, then put down his raised hand and paced back and forth anxiously: "What the hell is going on?!"
Chalmers pursed his lips tightly.
what is going on?
Isn't it obvious?
The order of Lyra...collapsed.
Of course, it was not just the order that collapsed, but also countless products closely related to the Lyra gods, such as the gear trains and those prosthetic limbs shops.
They suddenly get out of control, causing disasters and claiming lives.
It's like... intentionally killing someone.
Yes, it was as if Lyra was killing people.
Chalmers felt a little dazed.
Is this the price of killing God?
...and none of these are as serious as the collapse of order.
Right now, disasters of varying sizes are happening everywhere in Lyra City.
But the problem is that no one knows about these disasters except the people involved and those around them.
The Skeleton Knights who were supposed to provide disaster relief didn't know, and neither did the residents.
The observatory was out of service, the cog trains were stopped, and coupled with the revelry that almost overturned the entire night, it was very likely that there would be trampling, fire, and death on one street while people on another street were still reveling, or that the wreckage of the two cog trains in front had not been cleared yet, and a new cog train would depart from the back, carrying a full load of passengers.
The captains present shuddered at the mere thought of such a result.
"Where is the minister?" Chalmers looked at the knight on duty again.
The knight smiled bitterly again: "The minister is not here either."
Li En clenched his fists again.
"...Go to his home and find him now." Chalmers was very calm. "At least tell him the current situation."
The Skeleton Knight nodded repeatedly and then left quickly.
"What about us?" Li En asked, "We have to do something, right? Which side should we save first?"
Chalmers shook his head: "No, it can't be saved."
"It can't be saved?" Li En asked, "What does this mean?"
"It means exactly what it says." Chalmers looked into Rean's eyes and spoke word by word, "We are short of manpower and have no way to save those who are already in trouble. What we need to do now is to avoid new disasters as much as possible. We must let all of Tianqin know as soon as possible... at least let as many people as possible know what is happening tonight. The revelry needs to stop, and those devices related to my lord... the old gods must also be stopped immediately."
"Including the cog train?"
"The most important thing is the cog train," Chalmers said. "It must not be used again... No, it can't be used."
As he spoke, he suddenly shook his head and then murmured.
"The gear train still needs to be used, otherwise we won't be able to get the message to every place in Tianqin in the shortest possible time. So the gear train must be used, and it must be used by... our people."
When the captains of the other two teams heard this, they looked at each other, but said nothing, just nodded.
"But that's not enough." Chalmers said, "We also need to inform Bishop Oliver..."
When he said this, Chalmers paused subconsciously.
If everything that happened tonight was the price of killing God,
So did Bishop Oliver, who first proposed the idea of killing God, foresee all this?
As soon as this idea popped into Chalmers' mind, he quickly dismissed it.
Because he knew that he didn't have any extra time to think about things that couldn't be answered in a short period of time. You have to know that at this moment Tianqin... was killing people.
"We still don't have enough manpower." Chalmers whispered, "So we need to send someone to contact the Devil Army."
"Devil's Army?"
"Let them enter the city again." Chalmers said word by word, "Right now, only the organized devil troops can stop this..."
Before he could finish his words, the door of the Skeleton Headquarters was pushed open again. The three team captains turned around and saw a fully armed devil knight hurrying towards them.
"Bishop Weisen's order!" The devil knight shouted at the three captains, "Skeleton Troops! We need your help!"
…
In the fifth district, Yuri looked at Bishop Weisen, who was sitting in front of him and trying hard to maintain his trembling body, and suddenly felt a sense of admiration.
This bishop, who had been tossing and turning in the amber of his mind for ten years, was almost collapsing both physically and mentally when he came out of the amber. However, he was able to recover in such a short time. The willpower he relied on was not just talk.
Although his body was still shaking uncontrollably, and even though he was wearing thick clothes and holding a cup of hot chocolate in his hands, he still looked like he was going to freeze to death in the next second.
But his face, as pale as paper, was full of calmness.
"I see." After learning the general situation, he said softly, "The one who betrayed us was that old fellow Oliver. I was wondering why I couldn't feel his power in the amber of thought. Logically, he should be the most powerful among us."
There was a brief flash of sadness in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared.
“But the reality is probably not what he wants.” Weisen said, “I can feel that the Lord has gained a powerful strength, which allows Him to fight against that evildoer.”
"But this city will be destroyed by the power of the two gods competing with each other, right?" Yuri asked.
Visen raised his head and glanced at Yuri.
"You said you are a devil's army?"
"Yes."
"Sorry, my memory is still stuck in ten years ago." Weisen said lightly, "At that time, my direct unit was still the Evening Star. I thought I would see that guy Gerald when I woke up."
Yuri didn't say anything, just watched Visen drink up the hot chocolate in the cup.
"My previous description may be a little wrong." Weisen said, "The Lord is not angry, but... has lost his mind. He does not want to kill the Lyrans, but wants to kill... everyone."
"With all due respect, it doesn't seem to make any difference."
“No, there is still a difference.” Weisen shook his head and said, “If all this is not his subjective idea, then there is still room for redemption.”
Yuri asked subconsciously: "How to save it?"
"The Lord is losing his mind, so let's restore it to Him."
Yuri raised his head and looked at the huge piece of thought amber behind Visen.
"Like you did before?" Yuri asked, "Enter the Mind Amber again?"
"Yes... but no." Weisen shook his head and said, "The Lord is waking up from his deep sleep. We can no longer maintain the Lord's sanity just by being inside like before."
He paused.
"Something more extreme has to be done."
Yuri seemed to have guessed something, his pupils narrowed slightly: "Then can you come back?"
Before Visen could say anything, the amber of thought behind him suddenly exploded, and several tentacles emerged from it and flew towards the two of them.
Yuri was shocked and was about to draw his sword, but Visen had already taken a step forward and threw the cup in his hand away. He then made a hand seal and hummed with divine power.
"【Divine Art: Sword of Order】."
Holy light burst out from his body. That holy light seemed to contain a huge suction force, which directly sucked those tentacles to his side.
After a series of "puff" sounds, the tentacle pierced into his body, almost tearing it apart.
But at the same time, the holy light emanating from his body also calmed down these restless tentacles.
But Vison's magic had not yet ended. His pierced body was rapidly stretching and gradually turned into the shape of a sword.
Yuri watched in amazement as Visen transformed half of his body into a sword and nailed the tentacles to the ground.
Yuri naturally knew about [Divine Art: Sword of Order].
Using one's body as a sword to suppress all sources of uncleanness is an extremely powerful divine art, but it is also... an irreversible divine art.
In other words, there is no way to transform from a sword back into a human. The moment the whole body turns into a sword, one is already dead.
"This is the only way right now." Weisen said slowly, "As long as the sword doesn't fall, the Lord won't completely lose his mind. Once the sword falls, it's all over... Do you understand?"
After a brief shock, Yuri nodded slowly.
"I understand," he said. "We're not going to let it fall."
"That's good." Weisen opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but facing this unfamiliar subordinate, he found that he had nothing to say, so after a brief silence, he just said softly, "I'll leave it to you guys from now on."
"good."
This brief answer could not be heard by Weisen.
He transformed his entire body into a pitch-black sword and stood there quietly.
It looks like a giant tower reaching into the sky, and also like a silent tombstone.
…
"Visas."
"Um?"
“How many people will die tonight?”
“A lot, but also very little.”
"What's the meaning?"
"There will indeed be a lot of people, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands is not impossible, but it is indeed very small, at least one-third of the total number, which is nothing compared to the millions." Bai Wei said, "This is already the best result."
Gerard looked at the fireworks that continued to bloom in the night sky and whispered softly: "The best result..."
After a brief silence.
"Visas."
"Um."
"I want to make one last deal with you."
(End of this chapter)
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