Black sails

Chapter 52 LII. Showers

In Linden City, Menglan Hotel.

Zahak's mood fluctuated like a roller coaster throughout the afternoon.

Around two o'clock.

The military police who went to a secret port lost contact, and the senior non-commissioned officer sent to check later did not reply.

At half past three, I received the news.

Edmund has captured Gloria and the target of his pursuit, and will soon come to Linden City to join forces and return to the imperial capital.

And now.

Caruso and Claude killed dozens of gendarmes, but two of them had their morale broken and escaped. They used the falcons raised by the gendarmes to report that Edmund was alive or dead, and that the target might reach the coast through Lavender Town.

It was almost nightfall now, and if Edmund had brought people over quickly in the first place, they would have arrived long ago.

There is only one possibility.

"Edmund...that kind of man is actually dead."

The two-and-a-half-meter-tall Leopard Man couldn't believe it. He knew that he had come to the rescue, and he shouldered the extra large knife weighing more than three hundred kilograms. It sounded like he was going to intercept him on the road to Lavender Town.

"Only I took action myself."

Zahak's tone was calm. He had laid a dragnet. The official port of Linden City was airtight, and the other secret ports were also patrolled.

Thinking of the team of military police who lost contact at noon, Zahak had an idea.

"Now go to the Admiral's house and ask the Admiral to send troops to the main road of Lavender Town. It is said that it is the command of the commander of the Imperial Military Police. Due to legal constraints, he will second some troops here."

With a cold expression on his face, Zahak stood up and ordered the Ys girl.

Although many of the soldiers stationed here are just related people who want to brush up their resumes, there are also elites they brought with them.

All means will lead to the same goal in the end. Even in internal politics, it is important to make friends at a distance and attack closely.

Within the same organization, every colleague at the same level is an enemy and a competitor that hinders one from climbing to the highest position in the current organization.

People in other agencies have to unite and unite with each other to deal with competitors in friendly departments. Often the people they have under them are not all their own, and the people who are stuffed into friendly agencies are the most capable. Trustworthy.

Only in this way can they operate flexibly in the imperial court, and the iron barrels can slowly erode the upper-level power and continuously consolidate it.

However, almost everyone with skill would do this, leading to murderous plots within the imperial court.

Zahak must take care of the people brought in by his political allies and let them brush up their resumes. Of course, he must also fight tough battles. He has about two hundred highly qualified soldiers here.

"It's urgent, let's set out immediately."

Zahak immediately set off and took the Leopard Man with him. Although this Leopard Man only had the rank of colonel, but because he had no military merit, his actual level was not much worse than Edmund.

After quick preparations, Zahak led the gendarmerie team out on the street. Along the way, the people of Linden City cast hostile glances. They felt uncomfortable with foreigners running amok in their homeland, and they dared not speak out in anger.

ten minutes later.

It's almost night on the coast, and the winter monsoon is extremely biting.

At the fork of the main road eight miles outside Linden City, there are many trees and weeds swaying in the wind, creating a chilly atmosphere.

The mighty team of two hundred people all held torches, illuminating everything within a radius of several hundred meters.

From here, you can take a branch road to Lavender Town and another town, or you can take a rammed earth path deep in another branch road to go to a secret port patrolled by the missing team at noon.

When Zahak arrived here with his troops.

All the patrolling military police here have been killed, and the death conditions of more than a dozen corpses are horrific. It seems that someone is proficient in anatomy skills. The ulna and radius bones of the arms of several corpses were split from the middle. This kind of chop is extremely weird, and other The parts were also like spare parts of ribs hung on hooks in a butcher's shop. The blood had been drained out very well, leaving only fresh meat. It was extremely weird and unheard of.

The rest were disemboweled alive, with claw marks on their bodies, as if they had been killed by ferocious beasts.

"It's kind of scary, holy shit."

A gust of wind blew, the torches swayed, and the Leopard Man couldn't help but complain, this ghost place on the east coast is really evil.

"It's the person who takes care of Caruso and the others. He's quite capable."

Zahak looked at the branch road leading to the sea cliff cave more than ten miles away, and seemed to remember something. Marcus actually... really has some kind of divine power? The location of that place was clearly the direction where the bloody hand stretched out under the "Petition Umbrella" tree.

Zahak had already made up his mind. He and his group were going to intercept Caruso and the others. Marcus was naturally stationed here. To be on the safe side, he sent a hundred people to the secret port to support them. Among them were several senior non-commissioned officers who could become an official. .

From now on, the troops will be divided into two groups.

The news said that Gloria and the target were caught, but they must have been rescued by the responders. Zahak led the remaining people to continue to Lavender Town to intercept people.

At this moment.

Secret Harbor.

Micah woke up Fen, who was thinking too much. The people Archer brought back came back with two reports, saying that a group of heavily armored priests and a five-meter-tall giant were coming here.

"Damn it."

Wollman never expected that he would be facing someone from the Vatican.

Fen also had no intention of using his spirit body to support the other two groups, and the plan could not keep up with the changes. It seemed that something had happened on Li Site's side. Those people actually locked up the secret port and concluded that this ship was the one to take over.

"Uncle, I like to kill people in the church the most."

Haywood mimicked Wollman's words.

"Don't worry, I have this thing in my hand."

Fen took out a sack from his arms, which contained the fragments of the underworld stele with magic sealing stones. Although he had never tried it before, he did not dare to try it easily. If he retreated 10,000 steps and was defeated, if he used the fragments of the stele as a medium to cast Death Spiritual arts, unless the person on the other side is the high priest of the Eternal Sect, he is not an opponent.

Micah was in awe. This warlock was obviously super powerful but too cautious and too stable.

at the same time.

the other side.

Zahak had already marched for some distance on the main road to Lavender Town.

This road was built along the coast and gradually penetrated inland. At this time, the air was a bit muggy and a heavy rain was about to fall. Thick clouds covered the celestial bodies in the starry sky, and the visibility was so low that it seemed like it was midnight.

At this time, screams came from the troops in front of the longitudinal line.

Zahak immediately ordered to stop advancing.

"What's wrong?"

Zahak rode to the front and saw a horse on the ground whose belly had been disemboweled and its contents sprayed all over the floor. The throat of the soldier riding on the horse had also been scratched. He was not dead yet, but blood was spurting out intermittently. He is already in a dying state and cannot be saved.

"I didn't see it clearly. A black shadow rushed over and disappeared again. It looked like a giant wolf."

The soldier who was being questioned was frightened by the scene just now and spoke awkwardly.

"What a giant wolf... it must be a werewolf from the western plateau."

The Leopard Man also came to the front, and he was probably one of the murderers who just killed the patrolling military policeman.

The black shadow suddenly came out of the forest again.

Renn kept the strategy in mind, killing the small characters directly and delaying the big fish as long as he could. If he couldn't buy time, he joined the main force of Morrison and Oakes.

This time Renn was not so lucky.

Zahak was right in front of the army. In an instant, he drew his sword and slashed, and the blood-red sword energy roared like a dragon.

Ren stretched out his arm armor to block, and his elbow joint was almost dislocated due to the shock. There was also a scratch on the steel arm armor.

"You are the apprentice of Sword King Aram, right."

Ren didn't dare to wait long. Human foot strength was nothing compared to his own. No matter how strong Zahak was, if he ran into the forest, he wouldn't be able to catch up.

He whistled and ambushed a dozen pirates behind the troops, not to kill, but to harass and weaken them.

These pirates slaughtered a few people in the rear and immediately ran into the woods.

Ren himself galloped forward on the road on all fours. It was time for the real macho to slaughter.

"Chase."

Zahak understood that the situation had now become a life-and-death battle of annihilation.