The stars, but they become the gray wind

Outside the car, the assassins still tried to continue shooting at Mary's car, but a purple-haired figure wearing a hooded cloak hiding in the dark had already raised the sniper rifle in his hand.

With a loud "bang", the head of one of the assassins was instantly blown into a pile of minced meat by the .50BMG armor-piercing incendiary bullet fired by the M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle. The other assassins around him looked at him in horror as their companion's head was intact one second, and turned into a pile of minced meat with brain matter splattered all over the place the next second.

Hiding in the shadows, Carlisle skillfully turned the muzzle of her gun and aimed at the next target. As the trigger was pulled, another assassin's head turned into a pile of minced meat under the powerful force of the .50BMG armor-piercing incendiary bullet. Seeing that the second companion also fell because of the attack from unknown source, the assassins hiding behind the car began to retreat in a hurry.

Just as several assassins turned around and tried to escape, another .50 armor-piercing incendiary bomb opened a big hole in the chest of one of the assassins. The assassin who was hit didn't even have time to scream before he lost his life.

Seeing their third companion being knocked down, the remaining two assassins began to run wildly in panic, but this was obviously of no use. Two whistling .50 bullets instantly hit the vital points of the two men. In the end, the two assassins who tried to escape also fell to the ground and turned into two cold corpses.

Chapter 76: Watch me use tanks to send you all to the sky! (5000-word chapter)

"Her Highness Mary!!!" The female secretary, holding a pistol tightly, rushed to the overturned car and shouted anxiously to the inside of the car through the broken window glass.

"We're fine!" After the assassin's attack suddenly stopped for some unknown reason, Olivia, who was kneeling on the ground in the car holding Mary, heard the anxious cry of the female secretary outside the car and shouted to the female secretary outside the car.

"Hurry! Rescue Her Highness Mary and Miss Olivia!" After hearing Olivia's answer in the car, the female secretary hurriedly ordered the two armed personal maids and bodyguards who had just rushed over from the car behind.

Two well-trained female bodyguards who worked part-time as personal maids quickly climbed onto the overturned vehicle and pulled open the door that was severely deformed in the attack. The two female bodyguards who opened the door saw Olivia kneeling on the ground holding the trembling Mary. Neither of them looked injured.

"Your Highness Mary, it's okay. We are safe now."

Olivia stroked Mary's head in her arms and comforted her softly.

"Her Highness Mary!" At this time, the female secretary also climbed into the car. Seeing that the two people in the car were not injured, the female secretary who was in charge of the security mission also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Woo...Olivia..." Mary, who had been holding her head tightly and lowering it during the gunfire between the two sides, called out softly to Olivia.

"What's wrong, Princess Mary?"

"My forehead hurts a little..." Mary reached out and touched her forehead, and felt that there seemed to be a small bump in that area.

"Oh... when the car overturned just now... I think it accidentally hit the ceiling..." Mary said, touching the small bump on her forehead which felt a slight sting.

"Ah, sorry, Mary, I was so focused on protecting myself from kinetic energy and shrapnel that I forgot there are no seatbelts in this car." Aze's apologetic voice echoed in Mary's mind. (Note 1)

.........

A moment later, with the help of two female bodyguards, the female secretary and Olivia in the car carried Mary out.

At this time, a team of military police who had previously chased the escaped assassins also returned to the crime scene.

"Report, we have caught up with those assassins...but..." the leading gendarmerie captain answered hesitantly.

"But what?" the female secretary asked anxiously.

"But... by the time we found those assassins, they were all dead?"

"What? Dead? How did he die?"

The captain of the gendarmerie in front of him recalled the horrific corpses of the assassins they had just discovered, swallowed his saliva, and then continued: "Their heads... were like... they were hit by heavy machine guns, and they turned directly into a pool of minced meat. Because of this reason, we can't identify the identities of those assassins. Except for one assassin who seemed to have been hit in the chest by a heavy machine gun bullet, the faces and brains of the other assassins were all destroyed." The captain of the gendarmerie answered honestly to the female secretary in front of him.

"Tsk, Prince Edward's matter is not over yet. Is he targeting Princess Mary again?" The female secretary with a worried face looked at the accompanying doctor who was treating the swelling on Mary's head and said to herself.

"Are you going a little too far?" Aze said to Carisi in the communication channel of the Mind Network.

"It's not that bad. I just took out those guys with my anti-material sniper rifle."

"However, this death is a bit too brutal. He was just shooting at a few assassins who only had pistols and didn't even have bulletproof vests. Was it really necessary to use .50 caliber armor-piercing incendiary bullets?"

"I'm already being merciful by leaving them with intact bodies. If I had used the plasma cannons on the drones, those assassins wouldn't even have been able to leave their bodies intact. I'm afraid they would have been reduced to ash."

"And letting them die tragically can also serve as a small warning to Richard, right?"

"That's right. Anyway, since those guys dared to attack Mary, it means they are ready to die. For guys like that, I will probably decisively send them to hell."

"Also, what if Richard still plans to go his own way after receiving this small warning?" Aze asked curiously.

"If Richard still dares to act so stubbornly, then he can only experience what it feels like to kick a piece of iron plate that is full of nails and electrified?" Carlisle said in a deterrent tone.

"I've already ordered Yuki to move the Hundred-Armed Titan formation near London. With a single command, the Hundred-Armed Titan formation and thousands of escorting fighter jets will decisively charge into London and militarily intimidate and suppress the entire kingdom."

"By the way, speaking of this, I remember there is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft parked in the hangar of the Hundred-Armed Titan?" When Aze heard Calisi mention the P1112 airborne cruise control aircraft, he suddenly remembered that before leaving Taylor Island, Calisi and Yuki stuffed several transport aircraft with vertical take-off and landing capabilities into the hangar of the Hundred-Armed Titan in case of emergency.

"There is an Osprey. What? Do you need to use it?"

"I remember that Osprey had a 7.62mm Gatling cannon on the bottom?"

"It does have a 7.62mm Gatling cannon, but Yuuki and I both think that thing's firepower is too weak, and its positioning is very awkward. In terms of accuracy, that machine gun is completely inferior to the plasma cannon mounted on the drone, and in terms of fire suppression, that thing can't compare to the 12.7mm caliber GAU-19 Gatling cannon. If you expect that thing to provide fire support, you might as well carry the M2 Lao Ganma yourself." Calisi obviously had no expectations for the Osprey's too weak fire support capability.

"This is always relative. If you ask the Osprey to use that 7.62mm machine gun to deal with heavily armored targets, you are seeking death. But to deal with a group of gendarmes and police forces who only have bolt-action rifles or pistols, the 7.62mm Gatling machine gun is more than enough." Aze, after hearing the merciless criticism of the 7.62mm machine gun on the boat of Calisidon, you answered in a very objective manner.

"A firing rate of 5000 rounds per minute is more than enough to suppress the military police."

"Anyway, it's not safe for Mary to stay in the kingdom anymore, so let's just do something tough." Aze, who was leaning against the overturned car and maintaining optical invisibility, watched the accompanying doctor apply ointment to the swelling on Mary's head.

"Hey, it looks like you're planning to do something big over there too?" On the other side, in a dark and deserted alley, Kalisi, wearing a cloak and a hood, looked up at the sky where raindrops were falling continuously.

"Richard's assassin failed to kill Mary. He will definitely not let Mary go, but will use various means to murder her. So, I have no choice but to reluctantly take Mary and her most important immediate family members to a safe place."

"As for some insects, we have no choice but to take some pest control measures."

At the same time, in the palace, Charlotte glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, then turned around to look at her brother who said he had called her for an urgent matter, but was now lying leisurely on a recliner by the fireplace not far away, as if nothing had happened. Charlotte was very confused about this.

"Brother Richard...um...didn't you say you had something urgent?" Charlotte became even more confused when she saw her brother lying on the recliner and even lighting a cigar, smoking it leisurely.

"Oh, yes, it's okay, you can go." Richard looked at the clock on the wall, thinking that it was almost time, and did not make any excuses to force Charlotte to stay.

"You asked me to come over, but it turned out that you only wanted to invite me to tea?" Charlotte was a little confused by her brother's behavior.

"That's what I mean. I just want to see how much you can accommodate me." Richard smiled and smoked a cigar while answering Charlotte's question.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and finally the man with the Indian face that made Charlotte a little scared walked in with a serious expression.

The man with the Indian face walked over to Richard who was sitting in front of the fireplace, leaned over and put his mouth close to Richard's ear, and said something in a voice that Charlotte could not hear.

Richard, who was originally lying leisurely on the recliner, slowly frowned after hearing what his subordinates said in his ear.

After speaking to Richard, the Indian-looking man stood up and walked out of the room. Richard, lying on the recliner, inexplicably put on a serious face and said to Charlotte, "Charlotte, it seems that the car Mary was riding in was attacked on the way to the ceremony."

"What?!" Charlotte was shocked by the news and was stunned for a few seconds. Then she suddenly remembered Richard in front of her and what he said to her not long ago, which almost directly stated that he was the murderer of Edward. Charlotte suddenly stood up from the chair with an angry expression.

"Brother, did you give Mary to me?" Charlotte questioned Richard in front of her with a tone that was five parts angry and five parts shocked.

"Don't say such harsh words. At this point, when I'm sure to win, why would I do something unnecessary like that?"

"And I heard that Mary seemed to be lucky enough to be safe and sound in the attack. I heard that she is on her way back by car. Why don't you go and pick her up?" Richard answered Charlotte with a smile.

Anxious Charlotte couldn't wait to run out to check on her sister Mary.

After the anxious Charlotte ran out, Richard, who was sitting in the room, slowly put away his smiling face, and his left hand, which was originally on the armrest of the chair, unconsciously clenched and clenched his palm tightly.

“Tsk… who killed those assassins I sent out?

Could it be my uncle's people?"

"That damn old fox...does he want to get in my way too?" Richard frowned at the empty room.

I'm so tired, I can't help myself...

Charlotte hurried to the palace courtyard and saw the maids gathered around several cars not far away. One of them was the familiar Olivia.

"Olivia!"

"Her Highness Charlotte?"

"Olivia! Where's Mary?" Charlotte asked anxiously.

"Her Highness Mary...she suffered some minor injuries, but it's nothing serious." Olivia, whose hair was wet by the rain, looked at Charlotte who was holding her wrist with a nervous expression.

"Is Mary okay?"

"We are very lucky. Your Highness just hit his head in the explosion and suffered some scratches." Olivia comforted the nervous Charlotte in front of her, and randomly turned her head to look at the open back door of the car behind her. Mary, with a plaster on her forehead, was looking timidly at the crowd outside the car.

"Mary!" Charlotte rushed over anxiously and hugged Mary.

"That's great, you're okay, you're okay... It's good that you're okay... It's good that you're okay." Charlotte murmured after confirming that her sister in her arms was only slightly injured.

.........

A moment later, in a deserted corner of the palace, Dorothy looked at Charlotte in front of her with some shock.

"What, let Mary escape?"

"Are you serious, Charlotte?"

"It was all my fault for procrastination and misjudgment that led to Mary being attacked." Charlotte said with some fear.

"If Mary continues to stay here, her life will definitely be in danger!"

"So, it was the Duke of Arkham who did it?" Dorothy asked.

"I was planning to go to the ceremony today with Mary...but my brother suddenly told me he had something important to ask me to go, so I couldn't go with Mary..."

"I learned about the attack on Mary's car in my brother's room. I saw Richard smile for a moment when he heard the news."

"Tsk... Did I do it on purpose to show you?" Dorothy said unhappily about the Duke of Arkham's despicable behavior.

"Although I would like to say that such matters should be reported directly to the royal family...but..."

"The authority to deploy the royal guards and gendarmerie lies with the Ministry of the Interior, that is, the Duke of Normandy." Angel continued Dorothy's words.

"My brother must be aware of this, which is why he forced me to make a choice. After what happened today, I understand that as long as he finds out that I don't act according to his ideas, he will kill Mary without hesitation to force me to submit!" Charlotte said almost in tears.

"So please help me, Ange!!" Charlotte, who was determined to protect Mary, almost begged her lover.

In the control room meeting room, several senior executives were urgently called together to discuss how to deal with Charlotte's request to allow Mary to seek asylum in the Republic.

"The risk is too great! She is the first in line to the throne, and she is just a child. Even if we allow Princess Mary to escape to the Republic, the Kingdom and the international community will think that we abducted her." L's assistant 7 objected vehemently.

"That matter can be solved with sufficient intelligence and news public relations operations." But the major who was also sitting at the conference table obviously didn't think so.

"Besides, we still have the princess as a card. If all else fails, we can just ask her to make this matter public."

"Even if the operation succeeds, it will definitely cause a huge disturbance." Dolly Shope beside L also gave cautious advice.

"Report to our country and analyze the consequences of helping the princess escape to decide whether to carry out this mission. The important thing is how to use the cards we have in our hands." L announced to everyone present in a steady voice.

.........

Inside Mary's bedroom in the palace, Charlotte held Mary's hands and said to her solemnly with a worried look on her face, "Mary, I'm going to tell you something very important. I hope you can make a decision according to your own wishes..."

Charlotte then slowly told Mary her plan to let her flee to the Republic to seek political asylum.

Jun Yangluo IXwu roast master Lin Wu…

On the other side, Anjie and others who were preparing received new orders from the control room.

"The control room has agreed to help Princess Mary escape." Dorothy announced to her companions.

"This decision is really quick and decisive." Qianshi sighed.

"As long as the threat from the Duke of Arkham is not resolved, Mary's life cannot be guaranteed. The safest thing for her is to escape to the Republic, which is outside his sphere of influence." Anjie analyzed calmly.

"After Princess Mary successfully escapes, as long as she declares her life threatened by Duke Arkham, the kingdom and the royal family will launch an investigation. Furthermore, we still have Johnson Carter as a card. If we can force him to testify about the explosion of the Londinium, we can help Princess Mary escape, legitimize her escape politically and legally, and also take the opportunity to eliminate Duke Arkham."

"But no matter what, that will happen after the operation is successful. Now Mary has stopped all her official duties and is recuperating. After this attack, the royal family has strengthened their vigilance again. We have to find a way to get Princess Mary out of the room. As long as we can pass through the most heavily monitored areas, the rest of the route will be easy." Dorothy made a preliminary plan for the operation.

In the bedroom, Mary was sitting on the bed, calling out to the angel sister in her mind.

Angel sister, are you there?

【Don't worry, I'm always by your side】

Angel Sister, Sister Charlotte said she would take me to escape to the Republic. I'd like to ask if this is the method you mentioned before to help me escape from here?

[Hmm… well, it is, but not entirely.]

Qi II Shanlinshi Wine Paint Umbrella Division [Huh?]

[To be more precise, having Charlotte help you escape to the Republic was just one part of my original plan.]

[Helping you escape to the Republic isn't all I need. I promised to take you to a freer place. Since I've made that promise, I'll definitely keep it.]

[No matter what the impact and consequences may be.]

【???】 Mary, who knew nothing about what Aze was planning to do, had even more questions.

In the clouds at an altitude of 18000 meters above London, the Hundred-Armed Giant was flying at a low speed. In the hangar, Yuki was checking the artificial intelligence autopilot system of the Osprey transport aircraft.

"Hmm...it looks fine, but..."

"Since you plan to take those children away, why don't you just use teleportation?" asked Yuki, who did not use the mind network but used the communicator on his ear to communicate with Kaleesi and Aze on the ground.

"Of course it's to give the kingdom a sufficient deterrent. This is a good opportunity to show our true strength." Kawuyi Qiba's voice came to Yuki's ears through the communicator.

"By the way, have you two figured out how to evacuate?"

"As for the evacuation route, we can just use the Osprey to fly out at top speed. It'll take forever for those slow airships and aerial battleships to catch up to the Osprey."