Blood tax

Chapter 387 Is it like this?
After Miss Laura boarded the carriage, the four of them immediately rushed to the suburbs.

At this time, the battle of the chosen ones had already begun to spread to the residential area, and there were even signs of becoming more intense.The city defense troops stationed at important intersections all looked like they were facing an enemy.

The carriage was stopped by the defenders before it had gone far. Before the officer leading the team could reprimand, the maid who drove the carriage waved the small flag with the family crest, showing that she was the Chosen One and was not included in the curfew restrictions.

The surrounding city defense troops quickly dispersed, removed the roadblocks, and let them pass.

"They're pretty quick." Miss Launa leaned against the car window, watching the city defense troops hurriedly remove the roadblock.

"As long as you cherish your life, you will try your best to avoid encountering the chosen one. After all, if you are affected by the battle, it will be too late to regret it," the female knight Heidi said as a matter of course. A dozen or so chosen ones hid in the dark, staring at the two battles, and would pounce and bite their prey's necks whenever they had the chance.

"We rested in the safe house after we left the city. Resumed operations after the second hot spot marker started at [-] am."

She pointed to a small town with intricate roads outside the city on the map: "Here, 5 minutes can only let the chosen one know our location, but not our direction. We will decide the direction to go when we get there .It will be like this for the next few days. Sifelico, you and Nora will take turns driving."

"Yes." The maid with black hair and twin tails sat obediently opposite Miss Laura and her female knight.She was tall in a black and white maid's skirt and boots, and she kept looking out the window when she wasn't asked.In such a once-in-a-century event, only one of Miss Launa's trusted personal maids could be kept by her side.

"We can't keep hiding like this!" Miss Laura showed her wand, "With our strength, even an extraordinary person can take it! If we can sneak attack and capture an emblem, it will be very beneficial in the future."

Heidirich seriously rejected this suggestion: "According to the information obtained by the family, the second stage will be a long-distance and dangerous maneuver. We have to hide until that time, and then join the other chosen ones.
"The curfew is not enforced during the day. In public, the honorable chosen ones still have to maintain their decency and will not fight in public. You can choose to ally with one of them in the second stage to help him win the final victory, or even You can sell your emblems in exchange for rewards.

"According to my estimation, the most powerful candidates in the first half are Sequence 6 'Templar Knight' His Royal Highness Commodus, Son of Prophecy 'Mystery Peeper' Aaron, Canaan's Dual Path Extraordinary Galadia, and The mysterious people who killed Lord Avignon. They are not only powerful in person, but also have overwhelming manpower and material support behind them, and their advantages are difficult to shake.

"However, the resource advantage cannot be maintained until the third stage. The final trial is only open to the chosen ones. At that time, every emblem may be decisive.

"Laura, as long as you can persist until the third stage, your value will be unimaginable now. If it works properly, the future leader of the mysterious world will offer you unimaginable conditions, not to mention that you can still use this Peeping into the origin of the world, the Lockhavert family will reach unprecedented heights."

"Yes, yes, yes," Miss Laura puffed her cheeks, "In short, for a salted fish like me, the tactic for maximizing profit is to hang on~"

"Please don't say that, honor depends on the end not the means..."

"Okay, okay, Heidirich, you are right, I will listen to you!"

The matter that the two talked about was also a major event that was earth-shattering.However, when watching them talk, it always gives people the feeling that little girls are chatting.

The carriage bumped a bit, and seemed to have entered a section of uneven road.

"Is it close to the outskirts of the city? So fast?" Heidirich lifted the curtain and looked out. "We should have just crossed Dumbasser Bridge, and we haven't left the Westminster area yet."

It was pitch black outside the window, and there were no recognizable landmarks, not even many houses.

The carriage was passing through an open space, bumped up and down by the bumpy road.The jagged and abrupt shadows under the moonlight are reminiscent of vultures watching their prey on dead branches.

"Is this the road leading to the suburbs?" Heidirich became wary.The roadside scenery is getting more and more hazy and dark, and there are even mausoleums and tombstones.

Unknowingly, they came to a desolate cemetery.

The scale of Bayeran City is so large that even the cemetery can accommodate it.

"Stop! Laura, Sifelico, don't come out."

Heidirich jumped out of the carriage, and when he looked around, he could only see gloomy dead wood and burial mounds. From time to time, two crows wailed, making the atmosphere even more abnormal.

"Nara, what's the matter? How did you come here?" The female knight drew out her sword, pointed at the maid driving the carriage and said, "Come down, raise your hands above your head, and let me see your face."

But no one answered her.The female knight rushed to the driver's seat, only to find that it was empty and there was no one there.

Suddenly, she heard a sound—a sound quite different from the crackling or chattering of a dead candle.It was a faint voice, a creepy, breathless, cold and vicious raving.

A dilapidated small lamp hung on the cold wall, shining a dim yellow light.A few figures, step by step, slowly walked out of the abandoned stone house in the distance, and then disappeared into the darkness.

Heidirich's heart rose.She saw foot-sized words smeared with blood on the ruined walls, which were unrecognizable under the flickering light of the fire.There was a chilling scream.That voice never came from a human throat, not even of this world.

What followed was a pungent stench and the terrifying screams of a large group of night owls.

Heidirich Himmeier felt a chill run down his spine.She has participated in wars and witnessed tragedies that can make people crazy.However, after a few years of pleasant study at Homeworthy, she gradually got used to decentness and elegance, and those scenes that only appeared in nightmares had long been deeply buried in her heart.

However, at this moment, those awful, terrifying shadows that people couldn't look at directly dug up the dusty soil from the bottom of her heart again, and crawled out bit by bit with rotten bones without skin and flesh and blood.

So did Miss Laura in the carriage.Although she is a well-known daring adventurer, she still cannot escape the trembling and fear of being choked by an unknown fear.She stared at the screaming darkness, and realized that there was something watching her in the darkness over there.

This unspeakable weirdness captured his maid and took everyone to a dark and weird cemetery.In the swamp-like viscous atmosphere of fear, there is still a bit of doubt
Laura rallied her spirits, clenched her wand, and talked to herself to mobilize her emotions:
"I'm afraid, it's very strange, even if I'm lost in the ruins of the ancient evil spirits, I've never been afraid. Could it be that there is some kind of fear-inducing quality hidden around here... Well, I want, ah——!"

A cold, snake-like slippery sensation rolled over her wrist, and Laura let out a cry of fright.

"What's the matter, Miss Laura?" Sphilico, the maid with twin ponytails, asked with her cute head tilted.

She didn't panic at all, and she was so calm that even Laura was a little ashamed.

"Something, like a snake, touched my wrist. I didn't see it clearly..." Laura said while checking the seats and the compartment, but found nothing.

Could it be my own illusion...

"Miss Laura, is that so?" The maid raised her hands, pinched her cheeks and pulled them to the sides, making a funny expression.

The thick and thin tentacles of earthworms and centipedes entangled and stirred, and emerged from the beautiful maid's mouth and hair, turning into fleshy tentacles with mouthparts.The maid's face also melted like wax, turning into a dark puddle of slime with an inexplicable glow, rolling towards Laura from all directions.

This scene broke Laura's psychological and cognitive defenses.

"what--!"

The scream from the carriage awakened Heidirich, who was stupefied and frightened by the abnormality.She was just about to open the car door, and the delicate car was like a mouse's purse, jumping up and down amidst Laura's heart-piercing screams.

At the same time, dense footsteps appeared in the darkness.A creature in outline and shape like a misshapen wild dog lunged at the female knight.Some of them are human, with human hands and heads, overdeveloped brains squeezing the skulls, ugly faces that are extremely distorted, and pale bone tails trailing behind, all limbs sprinting towards the ground.

Heidirich suppressed the loathing and fear churning in his heart, raised his saber, and chanted with almost crazy persistence and calm amidst the screams of horror and the rustling of monsters rushing.

……

"Isn't it a little too much? They are senior sisters~"

On the ruins of the cemetery overlooking the carriage, Lana was tearing up the maid outfit and replacing it with hideous black armor.His body is also gradually changing from a young girl's appearance to a resolute and mighty trainee knight.

"If you feel sorry, please don't curl your mouth when you speak," Griffith wrapped himself in a black robe, tapped his finger on the conviction, "Laura de Lockhavert, fourth grader at Homeworth , Sequence 7 witch, very active and well-known archaeologist and explorer. However, whether it is family or personal strength, she is only limited to the degree of eye-catching, and is completely different from the chosen ones like Galadia and Aaron. Not at the same level. Then, why was she selected for the list of 24 people?"

"Maybe it's the grace of the ancient inheritance." Lana had finished dressing, grabbed a two-handed battle ax and held it in his hand, "Lockhavert is one of the earliest 500 elder families in Bayerland, just like the Xialong family. It has a mystery buried by time."

Griffith pulled up his hood, put on a mask, and covered his face: "Facing such an opponent, we can't be careless. We don't know how much background and cards she has. I have cast fear and let Minos and Cannibal The ghosts have trapped them, and this won't last long. It will take both of us to take it down completely."

"Good!" Lana put on the helmet, and a creepy phantom of a black giant wolf appeared behind him, "Heidirich gave it to me, I like this one."

(End of this chapter)