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She took a deep breath and tried to calm her voice: "I have sought the help of a great sage, as long as we can persist until his arrival, we can solve the current problems.

"I hope all of this can last until the great sage comes."

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Chapter 272: It’s dawn, it’s getting dark

The defender didn't continue to follow Raphshini's trail. After losing the first time, he already knew that it would be difficult for him to catch up with her.

After all, he is not an evoker, and without the assistance of vexed ghosts, it is a bit unrealistic for him to find a person who sneaks into the shadows in a city.

Moreover, as he said, although it may be difficult to find the trace of the opponent directly, there are always other ways to force the target out.

It's just that these plans need to change their layout. Even if the timing is not the node where those plans can be implemented, the situation has already developed into this way, and there is no longer any delay.

"Not yet mature, but I don't care about so much anymore."

The defender walked quickly in the warehouse. He walked deeper, passed through many doors, and finally stopped in a dark room: "It's a pity that we have to give up Xiaoqiu County and Shenchi in advance... ...No, maybe there is still an opportunity to take advantage of it.

"Dead people are equally useful."

A flame ignited in the dark room, and under the light of the flame, a complete lower realm portal was standing in the dark room.

It can be seen from the surrounding ground that this is not a Nether portal that has never been activated, but that every time the user passes through the portal, he will directly close it and shatter it to prevent the pollution from spilling out.

The flames fell on the door frame like fallen leaves in the wind, and the abyss-like portal block undulated quietly, enveloping the figure of the guardian and sending him into the distant realm of purgatory.

In the vast sea of ​​magma, the guardian sat in a train and began to let the train transformed from the Terra subway train run on the track.

There doesn't seem to be a real end to the train line, and the chaotic composition of the Nether makes it hard to pick out a single iconic landmark.

However, on this train line, there are still other train stations that can be used.

At the same time, it can also be seen from the notice map inside the train that these train stations are named after the existing cities of Victoria, and their meaning is self-evident. These stations represent the Nether Portals deployed in these cities , and the disaster villagers who are active in those cities.

It can also be seen from the notice map that the sites in Carraton and Birminghamshire have been cancelled.

The train stopped and went, and after a while, several disaster villagers gathered on the train.

Their identities and occupations are different, and their physical appearance and aura are also different, but it can also be seen that the defender is the leader among these disaster villagers.

"Your Majesty, what is the purpose of holding this meeting?" A predator asked first.

"I will activate the doomsday clock early."

The guard looked around and said slowly: "Although the timing is not ripe, due to the ignorance of the Ender Queen, we have to implement a plan in advance to recall my lord's will to the earth."

The old witch's voice was sharp and disturbing: "Your Majesty, what happened?"

"The egg of the wither symbiote was lost, and the ender queen's indecision probably exposed herself to the eyes of the dying ender dragon."

The guardian swung his arm vigorously, and slammed his fist on the table in front of him: "Now, we have to consider whether that Ender Dragon will spoil our good deeds."

Many disaster villagers looked at each other, and finally the oldest witch among them took up the conversation: "This is indeed a hidden danger, but if it is just the ender dragon, it may still be within the scope of our control. "

"I'm not afraid of the ender dragon itself." The guardian understood the other party's concerns: "The ender dragon has lost her body now, and she can only live on the body of an ender man, without the majesty of the past .

"And with the help of the Transcendents, we have stolen some of the power of the Ender Dragon. After going back and forth, the current Ender Dragon will not pose much hindrance to us."

Daoist Daoist paused, and then tapped the table with his fingers: "But that is the Ender Dragon after all, and now no one is sure about the relationship between the Ender Dragon and "Him", so it's better to have one less thing. "

When talking about him, all the disaster villagers showed varying degrees of silence. From their expressions of anger or fear, it's not hard to see that Him's remaining prestige is still there.

Moreover, this existence, which is equivalent to a nightmare to them, is also active in this new world. How can this not make them feel complicated?

Even in essence, the fate-severing plan made by the calamity villagers headed by the guardians is aimed at the existence of Him.

Since Him is with the world, let's destroy this world too.

"So, who else has objections?"

The defender's last question was affirmed by everyone, and no one made any objections.

"Then let the end begin."

The Taoist stood up, walked to the front of the train, reset the golden clock placed on it to zero, and then pointed the hour hand to one o'clock.

There are no exact numbers on this special gold clock, only twelve different skulls as references.

And it can be seen that if the hours, minutes, and seconds all point to twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, it means that the doomsday that cut off their fate is coming in their hearts.

The train started to turn around, sending those disaster villagers back to their original places one by one, and as the initiator of this meeting, the guardian was naturally the last to get off.

Before leaving the train and preparing to enter the nether portal, the Vindicator suddenly stopped.

He turned his head to look at the train, and shook his head after hesitating for a while.

According to the agreement between the disaster villagers, in order to ensure the safety of this track, when starting various actions, insurance measures must be installed between the train and the track to sink it directly to the bottom of the magma lake.

For example, if a timed TNT detonation trap is used, as long as no one comes over for overtime, the entire station will be destroyed directly with TNT.

As the proponent of the plan, Daoist should also do the same at this time, but after thinking for a while, he still feels that he can do nothing this time.

He has the confidence to take everything in Xiaoqiu County under his control.

Even if the ender dragon rushed over looking for a taste, the Taoist didn't think the other party could take him down, after all, the ender dragon was too badly injured now.

After putting aside this sudden whim, the defender walked out of the lower realm portal.

After returning to the real world, the Taoist turned around and directly removed the portal of the lower realm, and closed the portal hard to prevent the related pollution from spreading.

But then he realized that he did this before so that those people from Shenchi who worked nearby would not become fools, but now it seems that there is no need for that.

"Forget it, letting them die sober can be considered a good deed."

The guard came to the center of the barn, and he looked outside the house. At this time, after a night of preparation and discussion, the sky outside had already lit up with dawn, which meant that the dark hour before dawn had passed.

The sound of people moving around could be vaguely heard, informing people that a new day was about to begin.

The defender smiled, he thought the timing was pretty good.

Later, he brought another shulker box, from which he took out a large number of soul sand cubes.

Around these soul sand cubes, there are faint blue phantoms that can be observed by the naked eye, as if countless souls are trapped in this sand, suffering but unable to find a way out.

The guardian placed these soul sand cubes one by one, and used scaffolding to build a huge T-shaped structure to accommodate the soul sand.

After the soul sand was all set, the Vindicator took a deep breath, pulled out a bottle of regeneration potion from his waist bag and poured it into his mouth, and then took out other items stored in the shulker box.

Those were scorched black skulls, and each skull showed a feeling between human and non-human. Their distorted facial bones made it look like they were in the current state. A general howl of pain.

These are the carefully selected wither skulls, and they are the only skulls that can satisfy the ritual.

The guardian put the skulls on both sides of the T-shape first, and then respectfully held the last skull and stood in front of the middle of the T-shape.

"My lord, project your mighty power into this container."

After all, he put the skull on it.

In the early morning of this day, everyone living in the mobile city in Xiaoqiu County felt the ground shake violently, as if an earthquake had passed through the huge shock absorbing belt of the mobile city and reached the ground of the city same as above.

Then, the sky that had just been bright, turned dark again.

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Chapter 273 This is the responsibility of the great witch

For the mobile city of Xiaoqiu County, although it is in a state of turmoil all year round, it is like a dynamite barrel surrounded by torches, but it has not yet been ignited.

If calculated according to the original plot of Arknights, this high-pressure environment will need to continue for at least three more years. It will not be until Rhode Island sets sail and a group of Stormtroopers members come to Xiaoqiu County due to the case of missing Source Stone components. It will end completely.

——That is of course the complete end, because under the madness and flames of war, the only thing that can survive is the existence called ruins.

However, the current state of high pressure will end several years in advance, and this sudden earthquake is the starting point of everything.

The fire brigade in Xiaoqiu County received a call to the police as a matter of course. Due to historical problems, in fact, the public security system in Xiaoqiu County is also in charge of the Tara people, because the local Tara people have a natural dislike for the Victorians. A sense of trust, so this kind of position that requires credibility cannot naturally be handed over to those "outsiders".

On the other hand, the big guys are actually well aware that if these positions are really handed over to the Victorians, they will definitely have no choice but to run away.

Especially if, as it is now, the location of the fire is still in an urban area where the Tara people are active, the fire brigade composed of those Victorians will definitely slow down.

The fire brigade members dispatched immediately after receiving the call. On the way to the destination, these front-line fire alarms listened to the information provided by the headquarters.

According to the caller, the fire in the warehouse seemed to be caused by an earthquake, and there was also a risk of explosion.

For this reason, the firemen began to take out those precious protective masks, because in this case, there must have been leaks related to the source stones at the fire site, and these highly polluting source stones The mixture of the particles and the toxic gas after burning is a deadly weapon.

Even an ordinary fire oxygen mask can't stop this level of pollution, so they can only use more expensive and scarce protective equipment to protect themselves.

Of course, also because of the political and economic blockade, the equipment of the firemen is definitely not complete, including the protective equipment against the Originium.

Therefore, the fire police in Xiaoqiu County can only use one piece of equipment for several fire police to use in turn, so that people can rest and equip without rest.

The first batch of fire engines soon arrived at the periphery of the fire scene. Regardless of the high temperature and poisonous gas around them, these well-trained firemen quickly organized the tasks of each team and began to charge into the fire field with water guns and hoses.

After a period of struggle, they gradually controlled the peripheral fire and began to try to enter a slightly deeper area.

And in this process, these fire alarms gradually discovered a problem.

That is, there seems to be some kind of black particles floating in the air. The expression of these particles is very strange. They do not look like the kind of ashes after burning, nor do they look like some kind of particles blown by the heat wave. Light residue.

They are like black dots that appear directly on the retina, directly ignoring the shielding of the mask and coming to the eyes of the firemen, and then absorbing all the light projected on it, gradually expanding and forming an extremely conspicuous black spot.

This is an unprecedented situation, and even these fire alarms have difficulty finding the source of the problem through their own experience.

In the end, they could only think that these were abnormal origin stone reactions, and it might be because of some rare reason that the origin stones in the fire field formed a magical reaction.

According to the normal process, at this time, the frontline firefighters should change their disaster relief strategy and focus on controlling the surrounding fire, because rushing into the high-concentration Originium spell reaction is likely to lead to a more catastrophic disaster. as a result of.

However, the on-site command of the fire alarm decided to look inside and collect more data. After all, at this stage, these surgical reactions only affect the line of sight, and it seems that there are no other phenomena.

Finally, these heroic fire alarms broke through the outer layer of fire and entered the area closer to the center of the fire.

Then, the fire alarm officers saw the most horrifying scene they had ever seen in their lives.

It was clearly the center of the fire scene, but there was no flame here, and the ashes that had been completely burned were everywhere.

The darkness of nothingness filled the eyes, as if the light couldn't scatter outward.

An indescribable cold is flowing here, but this kind of cold does not seem to be acting on the physical level. Obviously, the firemen feel that their blood will be frozen in their bodies, but the sweat on their faces can still Flow down normally.

And within the darkness of this endless abyss, a colossal monster is quietly floating in the very center of the entire area. Its body is also dark and dark, but it can be clearly separated from the surrounding environment.

It seemed to be a huge skeleton, without limbs and lower body, only the bones of the chest cavity and the spine.

But on its shoulders and neck, there are three ferocious heads growing strangely.

There seemed to be some kind of flame burning in these heads, sucking everything around them into it, and then burning them into dead ashes.

"what!!!"

Shrill screams came from the mouths of the fire alarms. Some of the fire alarms fell to their knees on the ground and began to twitch. The surrounding fire alarms who had not lost their minds reacted and dragged their companions back, as if they were running away. Trying to get out of here.

And these leaving fire alarms, after running outside for a while, clearly felt that the weight in their hands was getting lighter and lighter.

When they reacted, those companions who had collapsed on the ground had turned into charred corpses.

Afterwards, these corpses opened and closed their jaws, and the same flames as the horrified thing burned in their eye sockets.

They have been reborn again, in another form.

……

dong dong dong-

Ye Yan raised her head vigilantly. She first looked at the entrance, and then turned her head to look at Aurora beside her.

After receiving a signal from the great witch to confirm that there was no danger, Ye Yan quietly walked to the door of the entrance, and looked outside the house through the cat's eyes.

Standing there was an orange-haired Vaifan girl. She looked very anxious. The cheerful and confident expression she used to have no longer existed, and there was only uncontrollable worry and a little panic.

"Bagpipes?"

Ye Yan called out, and then slowly opened the door a crack: "Today is not the agreed communication day."

"I can't even think about exchange days now!"

This young and promising storm commando rookie pushed the door open. From her frizzy attitude, it can be seen that some very dangerous things have indeed happened in Xiaoqiu County:

"Big Witch! There is an urgent matter!"

Aurora has also come to the corridor in front of the entrance at this time. In front of outsiders, this witch, whose expression is often distorted due to stomach pain, can still put on a poker face: "Don't worry about the bagpipes, Speak slowly, what happened?"

"Wartime emergency!" Vaifan, who was called into the bagpipe, pointed to the door: "Wartime emergency will only be adopted when the city is completely invaded! All the war preparation personnel in Xiaoqiu County have been mobilized. Even the city garrison is going to gather in the city!"