Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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"Airship! Look! It's Avalon's airship!"

The roar resounded in the air, and the falling shadows gradually covered the temple tower. Everyone in the airport exclaimed loudly, lying on the window and waving to the airship in the air.

"Here! Here we are!"

"Hurry up! Hurry up and save us!"

The four speakers came to the outskirts of the airport, and the huge airship landed steadily above the city of Tinis, but they couldn't get close because of the broken protective cover.

The Democracy seat ordered: "Remove the shield immediately and let the airship enter the city!"

"Minyizuo, if we remove the shield now, the last line of defense in Tinis City will be..."

The public councilor slapped his palm on the table angrily, and his face trembled following his movements: "It doesn't matter if there is this broken net or not! The alien beast has already invaded the city of Tinis, if you don't leave, you will die!" It's us!"

He Yizuo also said sarcastically: "General, you have to know that without the Council of Elders, you would not have your current status and rights. At this juncture, if something happens to the Council of Elders, can you bear it?"

Diana clenched her fists tightly. Under the temple tower, flames and wind and sand rose and fell in the ruins of the western district. The waves in the harbor in the eastern district continued. The sound of artillery fire in the city became thinner and thinner. The prosperity and hustle and bustle of the past have left only a dilapidated wasteland.

"General! What are you waiting for!"

The Democracy seat scolded, Diana could only hold down the headset, and ordered with hatred: "Everyone listen to the order, remove the protective cover..."

There was silence in the headset, and only the messy electrical sound responded to her.

Diana was in a hurry. She pressed the headset and kept calling: "Hey, hello, everyone, please answer if you hear it, please answer if you hear it!"

"Hiss, hiss..."

After a brief noise, a voice finally came from the headset: "Hello, hello, this is the laboratory...it's the laboratory..."

"Can the laboratory hear it? This is the airport, please answer if you hear it!"

"...Yes, is that Diana?"

An old man's voice came from the headset.

"Kafka?" Diana said hastily, "This is Diana, please close the protective net in the city, close the protective net!"

There was no inquiry or questioning from the other end of the communication. After a while, there was a sound of "boom" in the city, and the light blue protective net disappeared, and the city of Tinis was completely exposed to the air.

At that moment, the strange beasts in the city roared like boiling, and at the end of the sky and the earth, dense black shadows were gathering in the direction of Tinis City.

The disaster is inevitable, and the fortress city has been sentenced to death.

Diana was supporting the wall with one hand, her hair was hanging down, and infinite remorse was outlined on her face.

However, no one cares.

They could easily abandon the entire fortress city, let alone the insignificant temple tower and her puppet general.

Baixue's airship fell slowly, hanging above the airport, the wing hatches opened, and the bridge of the airship passed through the eroded water barrier as thin as a cicada's wings, extending all the way to the boarding platform of the airport, the two teams Wearing white battle armor and masked guards guarding both sides of the boarding platform with their guns raised, a man dressed like a diplomat boarded the airport surrounded by two guards, and made a gesture towards Titania. Gentleman courtesy.

"I'm sorry, Holy Maiden, I'm a step late for my humble job, and I deserve death."

"Excuse me, Sanderson, you've done better."

"Thank you, Saintess Haihan."

Titania turned to look at everyone, and said calmly and solemnly: "Please board the ship as soon as possible, the airship will safely escort you to Avalon for refuge."

"Thank you! Thank you Saint for saving my life!"

"Go! Let's go!"

"Hurry up! We'll be safe once we're on board!"

Everyone was grateful to Titania, and the four speakers boarded the airship without looking back, and the rest of the people flocked to them, fearing that if they were too late, they would miss the 'ticket' for refuge.

Diana saw it and stood silently aside.

"General."

Suddenly, a young man appeared beside Diana.

She recognized this young man, and she remembered that when Seth left the temple tower and the city of Tinis, this young man was always by his side.

"General..."

Diana waved her hand to interrupt the boy's words, and glanced at the flames in the ruins of the West District: "Let's go, this is not a place you should be nostalgic for."

The boy didn't leave, he stayed beside Diana, looking in the same direction as her.

Another woman in green gauze was also silently watching the ruins.

Until everyone boarded the airship, Titania's voice reached their ears.

"Three, the airship has remaining seats, three please..."

"No," said Carmelita, "I'm waiting here for the ambassador to return."

Diana said: "I will not leave either, please ask the saint to take him to evacuate as soon as possible."

Titania didn't say much, and stretched out her hand to the boy.

The young man stared at the slender hand in the snow-white silk glove, which was in his pocket and clenched tightly.

"I, I don't want to go, I want to..."

Before the boy could finish his sentence, Diana suddenly grabbed him, dragged him and threw him onto the airship. The boy wanted to escape, but was caught by the soldiers stationed at the door.

"Don't go! I don't want to go! I want to stay! I want to accompany my elder brother!"

His shout was ignored, and the people who fled to the airship were full of contempt and contempt for this young man.

"If he wants to go down, let him go down!"

"He wants to die, there is no need to implicate us all!"

"Hey, can you sail the boat, I don't want to stay in this place for a second!"

"That's right! Let's sail! Hurry up and sail!"

Likewise, they get no response from the rest of the ship except those who have taken refuge.

Titania glanced at the boy who refused to enter the cabin. Sanderson and the guards had retreated into the cabin, and the two maids behind her also boarded the airship first under her order.

Sanderson nodded slightly to Titania, indicating that all the staff are in place and ready to go at any time.

Titania invited again: "General, don't you want to come with us? You should know that this attack on Tinis City is beyond hope."

Diana smiled, the wind from the engine messed up her hair, she was a little embarrassed, but more of aging and vicissitudes.

"I am the general of the Temple Tower, and the Temple Tower is with the city of Tinis, how can I run away."

Diana glanced at the young man who was deadlocked with the soldiers at the cabin door, and pleaded in a low voice: "He is lively and quick-witted, but he is easily impulsive. When we get to Avalon, please take care of the saint and take good care of him for me."

"Does the general know him?" Titania asked.

"I don't know," Diana said, avoiding the boy's eyes, "but he is a citizen of my city, and I can't take care of him, so I can only entrust it to the saint."

"Since that's the case, then I wish the general good luck."

"It's work."

Diana escorted Titania onto the airship, the bridge gradually retracted, and the airship slowly moved away from the sky above Tinis City.

Looking at the leaving crowd and the approaching horde of alien beasts, Diana tore off the hair rope, coiled it up again, and pulled out the sword at her waist.

Diana caressed the blade lightly, the blade was a bit dim, reflecting her aged face.

"Old man, after all the calculations, you have been with me the longest."

"Don't you regret it?"

Behind him, Carmelita asked.

"Regret what?"

Carmelita walked to Diana's side, looked at the tide of alien beasts approaching the city, and sighed softly: "The fortress city you pledged allegiance to was wiped out in an instant, and you lost a lifetime of youth, and this is what you got in return. does it worth?"

"If it's not worth it, why don't you do it?"

Diana asked rhetorically, "If I told you that 40 years later, Corvinion would also be bloodbathed by alien beasts. You would allow them to wreak havoc in the city, and you would still hold on to the city and fight until the last moment."

"I will run away," Carmelita said. "Even a soldier has the right to save himself a way out at the last moment."

"What if you win?" Diana asked.

"What if you lose?" Carmelita asked back.

Diana smiled, and took two steps back into the airport, looking at the posthumous photos on the surrounding walls: "How do you know whether to win or lose until the last moment; if you die in battle, it's not me who wins or loses." It's up to you."

"So, you're still going?" Carmelita asked.

"As long as there is one person in the city who needs my protection, I will never take a step back."

"I don't understand," Carmelita said, "what's the point of such a sacrifice?"

"Meaning is reserved for living people to think about. I'm a rough man, and I'm dying. If it's meaningless, it's fine anyway."

Diana looked at Carmelita, and handed her her gun and ID: "Go quickly, go to the Bishi Hall under the Temple Tower, it may be the safest place in Tinis City."

"Thank you."

Carmelita took two things and bowed slightly to Diana before leaving: "General, may you and your city of Tinis last forever."

The wind blew into the airport, and dust brushed past her combat boots.

Diana stood on the temple tower, staring at the strange beasts in the city, and pressed the headset.

"Doctors, can you hear me?"

"Hiss, hiss...you can hear me, General..."

Diana smiled: "Don't call me General, Dr. Kafka."

"Hehe, then don't call me Doctor."

"Well," said Diana, "Kafka, please give Franz the headset."

"He is listening by the side, what's the matter, tell me, do you want to restart the protective cover?"

"No, there's no need for that."

"Then you want to..."

Diana said, "Activate the sword of Brionac."

"...General, are you sure," said Franz's voice in the headset, "Once activated, we will have no way out."

"Sure!"

Diana said: "I will bear all the consequences."

"Yes, General."