Chapter 82 Falling Into a Trap

The sound of the explosion spread in all directions, and one of the contractors walked out of the room and looked in the direction of the sound source, only to see a huge fireball rising into the sky in the distance.

"What's going on? Could it be that the monsters came in again?"

"Is there anyone in the human empire who dares to cause trouble?"

All eyes invariably focused on the rising fireball in the distance, either surprised or puzzled.

Many contractors have already set off to rush towards the direction of the fireball. Although they don't know what is going on, they can't help but intervene when they see chaos. After all, chaos and benefits are often intertwined with each other.

Compared with the tranquility like stagnant water, they prefer the high returns of taking chestnuts from the fire. Chaos is the ladder, and most of these people are afraid of the world being unstable.

In a remote corner of the outer city, a group of five people were also attracted by the movement outside. As soon as they came out of the hiding place, they saw billowing black smoke in the distance and contractors on the street quickly gathering towards the source.

"Sister, should we go and have a look too."

One of the five contractors, who was rather fat, was also a little ready to make a move at this moment, and asked the tall woman at the front.

The woman did not reply immediately, but turned her eyes away from the street and looked at the still quiet and dark houses around her.

There was such a big commotion outside just now, but none of the civilians came out to watch the excitement. This was very wrong. It was impossible for everyone to be so asleep.

"Something's wrong, Xiaoxue, let your summoned beast go explore the situation in the surrounding residences."

"Okay, big sister."

There was a reply from behind, and then more than a dozen little squirrels sprang out and scattered in all directions. After a while, Xiaoxue's brows in the team slowly frowned.

"There is indeed a problem, big sister. All the civilians nearby seem to be unconscious and cannot be woken up at all."

The tall woman was not surprised when she heard the reply. After a few dexterous jumps, she jumped to the top of the building and looked down at the entire outer city from a high place.

It was discovered that in addition to a thick black smoke rising from the place where the previous explosion occurred, there was also a faint smoke rising from other places in the outer city, but it was extremely thin and inconspicuous in this dark night.

Apart from the smoke, the entire imperial capital was eerily silent, dark, and depressing. Every building was looming in the shadows, giving off a sense of coldness.

Except for some contractors running sporadically on the streets, the rest of the civilians and many mercenaries living in the outer city seemed to have disappeared at this moment, and the entire outer city seemed to have become an empty city where only the contractors existed. , even the knight guards who were supposed to maintain order have lost their traces.

After looking around at the group, the tall woman jumped off the roof, but her face was as gloomy as water.

"There's a problem in the outer city. We can't delay it any longer. Leave the city now."

"Sister, but the outer city will be under martial law in the afternoon, and the defense must be stronger at night. Besides, Sister Xue and the gunfire injuries..."

Hearing this, the tall woman turned to look behind her. A girl with wheat-colored skin was pressing one shoulder with her palm, but even if she blocked it, a faint holy light emerged from between her fingers. Matthew was fighting for his life. A blow is not that pleasant.

After the girl realized that she couldn't hold it down anymore, she simply stopped trying to hide it. She moved her left hand away and openly displayed her right shoulder, which was tightly wrapped in a bandage. It was emitting a faint white light, as if there was a small light bulb stuck inside.

After letting go of her hand, she glared viciously at the fat man who just spoke, then gently moved her injured right arm and smiled brightly at the eldest sister in front of her.

"It's okay, big sister, it's just a little bit of holy light left. If you can't kill me, don't worry."

The tall woman was silent for a moment, staring at Xiaoxue's smiling eyes for a while, and then turned to face the direction of the city wall.

"It was my poor decision-making that caused this situation. I will definitely help you survive safely."

"The situation in the outer city tonight must be related to our previous actions. We killed members of the Knights of the Guards and the Sleeping Temple, but we only sealed the outer city, and did not even specifically want or hunt us. Thinking about it this way, it is most likely The reason for doing this is that they are sure that as long as we cannot leave the outer city, we will definitely die, so there is no need to waste other efforts. "

"But tonight there is such a big battle, but the empire has no response. This can only be the military's own handiwork, and they are not just targeting the five of us, but all the contracts in the imperial capital that do not belong to the empire. Or, they want to clean up the entire outer city!”

The more she analyzed, the firmer the tall woman's tone became, and the last word "clean up" was even more eloquent. After listening to the eldest sister's explanation, the people behind her looked around at the lifeless environment and felt a chill coming from the bottom of their hearts. It gushed out, causing chills all over the body.

"Just because of the team we killed before? Not really."

"The dragon is about to wake up..." The woman's voice was low. "We are just the fuse. Soon the army will set off to the Dark Valley. With Bescord's character, he will not allow any threat to exist in the imperial capital after the Knights of the Guard leave."

"So we can't delay and must leave tonight. The holy paradise is now a fishing urn."

"If you want to avoid being eaten, you must first mess up the fish in the urn before you have a chance."

"Let's go! Let's first investigate the blockade at the outer wall. Then we will incite all the contractors to attack the outer wall. Seize the opportunity and we will definitely be able to escape."

"Okay, I hear you are right, eldest sister."

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In the courtyard after the mecha exploded, the flames and impacts brought by the explosion had been vented, but the metal walls on all sides became incomplete, with dozens of deep cracks crisscrossing the walls.

Inside the wall, the entire courtyard had become dark, and the ground was covered with charcoal formed by the burning of flesh and blood. The strong smell of gunpowder and burnt smell lingered, and wisps of black smoke rose everywhere.

In silence, there was no sign of life in the entire courtyard, but on one side of the courtyard, a huge deep pit was heard with several coughs at this moment, and then three dark figures jumped out from the bottom of the pit.

The three shook off the black ash on their bodies and revealed their faces. They were Xu Yue, Mandel, and Elro.

At this time, the three of them looked embarrassed. Xu Yue's silver skin was a little red, while Mandel and Elro were full of burn marks. Mandel's armor was fine, but Elro's priest robe was damaged beyond recognition.

In the previous explosion, Mandel used the Holy Light Shield to withstand the impact of the first wave of explosions, and then Xu Yue blocked most of the fire damage at the outermost part of the deep pit, while Elro kept using the recovery skill to maintain the health of the three people.

It can be said that in this round of explosions, they survived entirely by relying on the division of labor and cooperation among the three people. Without any one person, it would be impossible to survive alone.

"Thank you, Chief Xinhuo."

After jumping out of the deep pit, Mandel and Elro took the lead in thanking Xu Yue. Without Xu Yue's initiative to block them, even if the two survived the impact, they would have been burned to a charred corpse.

"Nothing." After a simple response, Xu Yue looked up at the black smoke that formed a column in the sky with a serious expression.

"The isolation shield is broken. With the explosion just now, the entire outer city should be alarmed. There will be no good thing of breaking each one down next."

After that, he took out the beggar chicken in the space. Now his health value is almost at the dangerous line of 30%, and he needs to replenish it as soon as possible. After all, the subsequent battle will only be more intense.

As for asking Elro to treat him? The opponent's mana is basically empty now, and it's hard to make a spark, let alone treat him.

Xu Yue first tore off two chicken legs, threw one on the left and one on the right to the two people beside him, and ordered:

"Eat it, recovery product."

"Mandel, gather all the troops immediately, the next is the real battle royale, they escape, we kill."

"Elro, restore your mana as soon as possible."

"Yes!" The two took the order, Mandel chewed the chicken leg and bones together and swallowed it, then walked towards the crack of the city wall, Elro ate slowly and sat cross-legged, speeding up the recovery of mana through meditation.

After Xu Yue explained to the two people, he jumped onto the city wall several times by leveraging the force. The large and small cracks on the wall were the best leverage points. Standing on the top of the city wall, Xu Yue swallowed the beggar chicken in his hand and looked down.

The originally dead silent outer city has now become lively. Through the cold moonlight, you can see that there are many more figures on the street. Some are rushing towards Xu Yue's location, and some are rushing to the outer city wall. There are definitely many contractors who find that the atmosphere in the outer city is not right. Although they don't know what happened in the city, it is always a good thing to find a good way out first.

After eating the whole beggar chicken, feeling the warmth coming from inside the body, Xu Yue threw away the packaging, clapped his hands, and looked at the contractors coming from all directions, with a smile on his lips.

"Come on, the more the better, and I don't have to look for them one by one."

Not too long has passed. At this time, the knights outside the courtyard have completed the formation, but there are only more than 40 riders. The cavalry team is in a strict formation. Although most of the armor has many blood stains and cracks, it does not look embarrassed. Anyway, it highlights its iron-blooded and brave temperament.

In the distance of the Knights, pairs of eyes appeared in the darkness, quietly looking at the Knights in front and the damaged metal building behind them.

"It is indeed the Guards Knights, it looks like they have just been through a fierce battle."

"What's the situation with the building behind? Did the contractor build it? Good guy, built a metal fortress in the imperial capital, it's too cruel."

"It should be the bomb madmen of the Mechanical Corps. I am impressed by their handicraft. Now it seems that the bomb madmen are mostly dead."

"So it's not because of the monsters, but because the Mechanical Corps is too arrogant. The news of privately building a fortress in the imperial capital was leaked, so they were surrounded and suppressed?"

"At present, it should be like this."

"Damn, I thought I could get some benefits, but now the fight is over and they have withdrawn."

Seeing the situation in front of them clearly, whispers came from everywhere, speculating and discussing the cause of the explosion, but because the metal wall behind the Knights was too conspicuous, most of the speculations were misleading.

Some contractors who thought they had understood the situation felt bored and prepared to go home after seeing that there was no benefit to be gained.

As for the dead silence of the surrounding environment, they did not care. It was normal for the environment to be quiet at night. Besides, there was no such thing as a night market in the Holy Heaven. The residents here had no entertainment activities late at night, so what else could they do besides sleeping?

Some contractors were ready to retreat, while the other more daring contractors looked at the knights in front with shining eyes. A magic contractor holding a staff stood up first. His voice spread through the staff in his hand, but it was only heard by the people around him, and the knights in the distance did not hear it at all.

"Friends, don't be in a hurry to leave. A group of lone knights with only more than 40 riders are right in front of us. What a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Now there are nearly 70 contractors on our side. It is not a problem to gather together and swallow the opponent."

"That is the Guards Knights, and there are many priests among them. Think about it, if we can blow up the opponent, how many good things can we get, career templates, various excellent equipment, various skills of the Holy Light and Healing Departments, which one is not valuable."

"I know you may be worried about the revenge of the Guards Knights, but think about it, what time is it now? In a few days, the Guards Knights will set out to the Dark Valley to crusade. Monsters, as long as we work together to break out of the city after destroying this cavalry, when facing the threat of the black dragon, the Knights will have no time to deal with us small shrimps. "

"I think no one here plans to join the army to participate in the battle of Dark Valley, otherwise they would not be wasting time in the outer city now. Anyway, sooner or later we will leave the Holy Heaven, why not work together to finish this job before leaving, what do you think?"

The legal contractor's words of clear pros and cons quickly spread among the contractors, and some contractors who were about to leave also stopped involuntarily. The huge benefits and not too high risks made these contractors who were originally ready to come here to make a profit start to be tempted.

Yes, anyway, I am about to leave the Holy Heaven, so why should I worry about the Guards Knights? Facing the black dragon, it is good enough for the Knights to protect themselves. Moreover, since they are here, they always feel a little bit of loss if they don’t make a fortune.

So, this group of contractors who were afraid of chaos in the world began to gather. The increasing number of people gave them enough confidence. A pair of eyes with strong greed joined together and scanned the members of the Knights opposite, as if they were looking at green treasure chests.

No one present mentioned the question of how to divide the spoils. They were just a group of hungry wolves hunting together, not a team that cooperated seamlessly. Whoever grabbed it would naturally own it.

Under the metal fortress, the Knights who had already formed a team were preparing to leave. Suddenly, dense footsteps came from the front. Contractors in different clothes walked out of the darkness and surrounded the entire Knights tightly. The man walking in the front was holding a long-handled staff. He was looking at the Knights in front of him with a smile.

"My lords of the Knights Guard, it seems that you have just experienced a fierce battle. I wonder if you need the help of our enthusiastic mercenaries."

Behind him was a metal wall blocking the road, and in front of him were a large number of contractors. Facing the situation of being surrounded, the leader Mandel's face was obviously a little nervous. He shouted coldly at the legal contractor who had just spoken.

"Get out of the way, wizard, you are gathering a crowd to besiege the members of the Knights Guard in the middle of the night, are you trying to commit treason!"

"Treason? No, no, no, we are not..."

Before the smiling legal contractor finished speaking, a big hand suddenly stretched out from behind and grabbed his shoulder. Caught off guard, the legal contractor was pushed away directly, and a strong man holding a huge axe appeared in the original place.

"I've seen you're really annoying for a long time. You're talking so much nonsense. Brothers, let's kill the other side and get the treasure chest!!"

As soon as the strong man's deep voice fell, he picked up the giant axe in his hand and rushed towards Mandel with a grim smile. Seeing that the strong man had already started, the people behind him who had been ready to go also started.

The melee contractors started to charge forward with a roar. To surround and kill the cavalry, the first priority was to prevent them from running and gathering momentum, so they had to limit the scope of the battlefield. Now this position was just right. They had to force the knights in front to a position closer to the wall.

The melee contractors charged, and the ranged ones behind were not to be outdone. Various guns, arrows, spears, fireballs, hailstones and other ranged attacks fell from the air to the top of the knights' heads. The magic contractor who was pushed away by the strong man before looked unhappy in the crowd. After cursing a reckless man, he also waved his staff and threw out a huge wind sickle.

For a moment, the Knights were on the verge of despair, with all kinds of attacks flying from all directions, but the leader Mandel showed no panic on his face, and even the previous tension disappeared.

"Defend!"

At the command, one-third of the forty knights took out short-handled staffs, and a protective shield almost condensed into a substance appeared, blocking all the long-range attacks. The swords and axes of the melee contractors who had rushed to the front hit the protective shield, but only a few sparks splashed.

On the top of the metal wall, Xu Yue held the Bolang hammer he had picked up again, looking down at the battle that had already begun below, his eyes kept moving in the darkness behind the contractors, and after confirming that no one had joined, he nodded with satisfaction.

"It's almost done, there should be no more fish to take the bait."

After muttering, he jumped off the wall with the heavy hammer.

"Boom!!"

Before the roar exploded in the center where the remote contractors gathered in the back, the broad and heavy hammer face first crushed the bodies of the two contractors from top to bottom. The scene was like a hydraulic press falling on a piece of raw meat, and blood burst out inch by inch. In the splashing blood, the heavy hammer finally made contact with the marble slab on the ground.

Instantly, it was like a landslide, the earth began to tremble like waves, the marble shattered into countless fragments, whistling in the air, bursting out, bringing blood flowers around, the air waves spread with huge sound waves, making all the contractors in the back blank for a moment.

Before the mind could get rid of the panic, a Fang Tian painted halberd was swung in the crowd, with a whistling sound, the long halberd crossed the eight directions, and swung out a circle of blood with a radius of three meters. The blood and minced meat covered the entire battlefield under this blow.

With a smash and a swing, Xu Yue almost wiped out all the enemy's long-range contractors in less than three seconds.