CH 102.2

Chapter 102.2 – Elton

Lu Tinghan asked again: “How did the king die?”

“I heard it from Teacher Gerald! At that time, the capital was in chaos.” A younger mole man gestured with his hands dancing, “They were outside the capital city, and Di Wen said she wanted to find the king and talk to him. Di Wen was smart enough to take the mole people into the city through a dark tunnel at once. Unexpectedly, the city was full of monsters, and the army was busy fighting. They took advantage of the chaos to come to Sunrise Square.”

Another mole man answered: “It was also a coincidence! As Di Wen guessed, the king was in the square. Most of his guards were already dead and there were not many people around him, and they were evacuating to the underground city.” He paused, recalled something, and gritted his teeth, “Our relatives were executed by the king after they became mole people. That’s how my sister died. She was only 7 years old at the time. Obviously, she could still talk to me…”

Another mole man smiled sharply: “It was a good opportunity for revenge. We rushed up and tore the king and his guards to pieces! Telling them it was retribution for hunting mole people every day!” He turned his head to look at Di Wen again, “Without Di Wen, we would not have survived, nor would we have entered the city to find the king! Di Wen is our hero!”

The Mole people cheered slightly, shouting “Di Wen the Kingslayer!”

And Di Wen stood on the ruins.

She never said a word, staring at the ruins of Sunrise Square for a long time. The rain soaked her thin body, and a drop fell on her eyeball, but she didn’t notice it.

When the cheers of the mole people were over, she whispered: “…keep looking for the entrance.”

She staggered forward, and before she had taken a few steps, the wind suddenly changed.——

Lu Tinghan suddenly turned his head and looked to the northwest of Elton: “The monsters are coming.”

His judgment was never wrong.

The joy of the mole people came to an abrupt end, and a group of dark shadows appeared at the end of the city.

The beasts came riding a thunderstorm, like mountains surging through the clouds. There were too many of them, covering the sky and the earth, and coming straight towards them, it was simply impossible to contend with.

Shi Yuan gave a small “ah” and asked Lu Tinghan in a low voice: “Lu Tinghan, what should I do? Can I kill…”

“Wait,” Lu Tinghan interrupted him suddenly, “Wait a minute.”

The monsters were approaching at high speed, and everyone turned pale. Lu Tinghan listened, and said a few seconds later: “There are other sounds, the sound of machines.” He paused for a moment, “Run! Move!”

Everyone didn’t know why, they subconsciously escaped from the ruins after listening to his instructions. Stumbling all the way, as soon as they left the ruins of the square, the earth trembled, causing them to stagger one by one!

Shi Yuan barely hugged Lu Tinghan’s waist, his feet numb from the shock.

He thought, ‘What’s happening? How come there are still monsters coming out of the ground?’

He soon knew the answer.

“Boom—!”

With a loud noise, the ground was cracked inch by inch, the ruins were lifted from the center, and tons of sediment and steel bars poured into the surroundings!

Sunrise Square was the face of the palace, the ground was so solid that it would not crack even if several heavy tanks were stacked on top of each other, claiming to be undaunted by any aerial bombardment. It was wide and open, with flags flying. Now its proud solidity was shredded like paper. The entire square cracked, and the behemoth slowly broke out of the ground.

Shadows spread across the sky, obscuring the city and enveloping everyone.

Shi Yuan opened his eyes wide.

Weapon turrets, laser weapons, a full 120 meters high. The gears rotated, the core surged, and the machinery was indestructible.

The Empire’s proudest and most fearsome war robot, the “Blazing Sun”.

Shi Yuan had seen the scrapped “Blazing Sun” on the ancient battlefield, but who would have thought that there was another one here that could move?

The Blazing Sun stood in the square, and the ruined walls rolled off its body and fell to pieces. It was two or three times taller than the city walls, slowly turning its head to look at the swarm of thundercloud beasts that were rushing towards it.

“?!!”

Before Shi Yuan could react, he was pressed to the ground by Lu Tinghan!

In the next moment, the center of the Blazing Sun’s chest turned red like molten iron, as if there was really a heart. The air was distorted by the high temperature, and at this moment, the laser shot through the rain curtain like a sharp sword and directly into the monster group. It was decimated, burned through the thunderclouds, and a large amount of water vapor rose from the sky, mixed with the roars and screams of monsters, and the smell of burning flesh and blood.

Thunder and lightning, laser beams, like heavenly punishment.

The rising water vapor formed a high wall, covering the mountains and fields, and it was extremely spectacular. If someone stepped into it, they would surely be scalded to death. The monsters were burned beyond recognition, and fell to the ground black, like countless pieces of rotten meat.

“…f*ck.” Chi Yongge murmured, “What kind of monster is this?”

The Empire lived in thunderclouds and sandstorms.

A hundred years ago, their thermal weapons conquered nature, and it was the same now. This was a man-made monster, and the war robot was really like a round of blazing sun, igniting thunderstorms.

It guarded the city.

After an unknown period of time, the clouds completely calmed down, and the monsters were all dead.

The chest of the war robot was still flushed.

It slowly turned its head——

This time, it was looking at the people on the ground.

The red light in the mechanical eyes flickered for a while, and it said in a mechanical voice: “Human intruders detected, proceed to expulsion.”

Its voice was deafening and extremely cold.

When there was no high-level command from the battlefield, war robots were strictly prohibited from attacking humans, but this didn’t mean that things were good. The Blazing Sun slowly lowered its upper body, stretched out a hand, and pushed towards the crowd, as if to force them to leave.

Everyone thought of it: there is a Blazing Sun here, and they probably will not be able to move into the city. For such a killing machine, if they were judged to be a threat, then they would die faster than anyone else.

There was no way to reason with the robot. It didn’t know that the country was dead and the city was extinct. It only knew to stay here, kill monsters, and drive away the so-called “intruders.”

Even though these intruders might be the last human beings on Earth.

What can be done? What to do?

They traveled all the way here, Elton was at their feet.

The giant mechanical hand stretched out, and the eyes of the Blazing Sun gleamed red, everything was unquestionable.——

“Wait!” Di Wen said suddenly, “We are not intruders, we have authority!”

The Blazing Sun’s hand stopped suddenly.

It said: “Please prove your authority.”

The rains shot down fiercely. Di Wen was drenched in rain, her hands trembled because of the cold…or for other reasons.

“No need to prove it.” She looked at the Blazing Sun, raised her head high, and said word by word.

“My name is Alicia von Cavendish and I am the master of this city. I have returned.”

In the eyes of the Blazing Sun, red and blue lights jumped one after another.

It scanned Di Wen’s… No, rather, Alicia’s iris, skeleton, fingerprints, and voice patterns.

The infection had changed her too much. She was hunched and old, her face was deformed, and her limbs were covered with black fur. But there were still some characteristics that would not change, and there were still some traits that could prove that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t get rid of the past, she was still the one she used to be.

The proud king died dramatically at the hands of his people, and his ambitions turned into dust. Many years later, in the heavy rain, in the capital of the kingdom, the princess of the dead country raised her head high, stood among the ruins, and looked at the killing machine made of gears and metal.

The light in the Blazing Sun’s eyes turned blue.

The gale stopped for a moment.

It mimicked a light tone in a mechanical voice and said, “Welcome home, Your Highness.”