Kingdom’s Bloodline Chapter 180: 24 (top)

Chapter 677 Twenty Four (Part 1)

Water, water ghouls?

Tales glanced at the monsters in the sewers in disbelief-they were densely packed with different shapes, and they kept making inhuman roars.

"Human, what does your meat taste like? Is it the same as the last one?" The tumor-covered worm deliberately wandered a few feet around him with malicious intent.

Tales swallowed his throat.

Why, these ghost legends of the Emerald City Wharf are still true?

Do they really eat people?

Since Mallos' "safety rope" just now works, can they find it here?

Even if they found it, would they have a way to deal with this group of monsters?

No, it's too late to count on them, now the most important thing is...

Tales took a deep breath, and in the increasingly strong stench of the sewer, he looked at Shi Lai at the end of his line of sight - she was still lying alone on the troll's hand, with blood on her face, not knowing whether she was alive or dead.

The sin of Hell River began to burn, and the sewers lit up like day before his eyes.

"Thank you."

Amid the roars of the monsters, Thales clenched his teeth.

"Why thank you? To eat you?" The worm giggled, and several pairs of worm limbs twitched back and forth.

"Thank you for the art design," Thales said calmly, bending his knees slightly, "I just made you look disgusting, at least not as scary as the black trail."

"What?"

The next second, without waiting for the insect monster to react, Thales roared angrily and rushed towards it like an arrow from the string!

As always, a chance.

The worm screeched, but Thales saw the opportunity and rolled over, passing by it!

Whoa!

Amid the roars of the monsters, large swaths of water splashed, and Thales, who was covered in sewage, got up from the ground and moved forward without stopping!

He rushed left and right, passed through the gap between the two rows of monsters, and continued forward.

Frightened, the non-human monsters were in a commotion, their roars increasing instead of decreasing.

The sin of the Hell River is burning more and more. The colors of the monsters in the senses of **** are very strange. Some places are red of flesh and blood, and some places are cold and dark-huh?

Before Thales could think clearly, a tentacle was thrown from the side like a whip!

Clap!

At a moment's notice, Thales flipped forward to avoid the whip, and the water splashed behind him.

But he didn't pause, just flew out and kicked the spherical monster that threw out its tentacles, who shrank back with a roar.

Water ghouls aren't as tough as you might think, right?

Tales' confidence increased a little, he kept walking, and continued to dash forward!

"How dare he, human!"

The angry roar of the insect monster came:

"Catch him, eat him! Catch him, eat him!"

The sewers were filled with different roars, and another monster's forelimbs fell like a scythe, but the sense of **** allowed Thales to see the time. Slip out of the gap in the limbs!

Finally, after breaking through this scythe-limbed monster, Thales was left with only the ugly-looking monster who had captured Shi Lai, who whimpered and seemed to turn around and run away.

Get closer to her, get closer to her!

Tales roared and quickened his pace!

The next second, the ugly troll suddenly turned around and swept its huge arms fiercely!

Sure enough, as expected.

The crime of Hell River crackled in his body, Thales clenched his teeth and jumped into the air!

The troll roared and smashed into the air, its arms scraping through the sewage, causing a two-person spray.

But Thales didn't stop. Under the blessing of the crime of Hell River, he swung a dagger in mid-air, nailed the monster's arm, and swayed it on its shoulders!

If, if Yara were here, she would also praise the timing and movement of the jump, right?

In midair, Thales couldn't help but think so.

After all, this is the big sister of the bartender in the underground street, the most profound silhouette in his heart.

But unfortunately...

The next second, Thales roared angrily and swung his elbow out in the fall, hitting the monster's forehead!

Boom!

The monster's ugly features shrank for a moment, and a second later, it staggered to the ground.

Tales landed in front of it, and a roll removed the momentum.

Very well - he stepped forward and caught the girl slipping from the troll.

"Xilae, are you okay? Wake up!" Thales shook the motionless girl anxiously, and couldn't help reaching out to probe her breath.

Ok, still breathing, just passed out.

At this moment, Xilai's face was covered with blood and sewage was all over his body, and behind them, the howls of water ghouls were deafening:

"Stop him!"

At this moment, Thales felt a shock around him—the fallen troll started to move.

Damn, I knew that legendary water ghouls weren't so easy to kill.

Tales couldn't care less. He supported Shi Lai with one hand and let her lean on his shoulder, while the other hand held the JC dagger and aimed at the troll's neck.

But just then, a gloved hand grabbed his wrist.

"Sh-Wyana?"

Tales was both surprised and delighted, but as soon as he lowered his head, Shi Lai, who was awake in his arms, couldn't help but snort and sprayed his face with sewage!

Damn.

Tales had to raise his sleeves to wipe his eyes, and Hillary broke free from his embrace, kneeling in the water and coughing desperately, coughing up a lot of sewage.

"Listen to me, we can't stop, there are still a lot of water ghouls that ghosts know what they are..."

As he spoke, the troll beside him sat up and shook his head.

Tales's expression froze, and he was about to run away with Shi Lai, but Shi Lai pushed him away rudely.

"No, wait," Hillary said weakly.

"What? Why?"

Thirsten was stunned, but the monster slowly woke up, it raised its huge arm leisurely and shrouded them!

Fuck!

Tales subconsciously took Xilai's hand, dragged her behind him, and raised a dagger at the monster.

But at this moment, Hillary looked up sharply.

"No!"

Sheila was covered in dirt and the blood on her face was terrifying, but she grabbed Thales' arm, looked at the ugly troll tremblingly, and tried her best to make a sound:

"Bobo, no!"

At that moment, the monster's arm stopped in mid-air.

What?

What's the matter?

Tales stood in front of Shi Lai, looking nervously at the monster.

I saw the monster in front of me tilted its head and approached them, its small eyes blinking on the ugly face.

"Woooo?"

The monster muttered something Thales couldn't understand.

"Yes, Bobo," Hillary coughed again, gasping for breath, "I'm fine, fine."

"woohoo!"

The next second, the monster put down its huge arm and stepped on its feet happily.

"You, do you know this thing?" Thales frowned, but did not dare to put down the dagger.

"He's not a 'thing', put down his weapon." Shi Lai exhaled and shook for a while, Thales quickly grabbed her.

Right now.

"Big guy!"

The piercing male voice of the bug monster rang out, and it took a large group of monsters to kill from behind: "Kill him, eat him!"

Before Thales frowned, Hillary sighed. She leaned half of her body on Thales' arm and staggered around to the troll:

"And you, Woniak!"

She shouted hoarsely:

"Wrong person!"

Shi Lai's female voice was particularly clear in the roar of monsters in the sewers. For a time, the noises from the monsters were reduced.

"Stop, stop, stop everyone!"

The half-human, half-worm monster shouted to let its fellows get out of the way, and it appeared in front of them with the sound of water.

Unknown, Thales nervously protected the girl behind him.

Shhh!

A torch was lit, and Thales squinted his eyes.

"Twenty-four?"

Under the light of the fire, the insect monster's face is still full of ugly and disgusting tumors, but its voice is full of doubts:

"You, are you all right?"

"Isn't it," said Ciel angrily, wiping the blood from her face, "that's how you welcome me?"

What's going on here?

Twenty-four?

Tales looked at Shi Lai and then at the bug monster, at a loss.

The worm named Voniak held up a torch and looked warily at Thales, and eventually, under Hille's stern gaze, it sighed and began to reluctantly "molt"—exactly In other words, it is to take off the holster full of carapace, spikes and insect limbs, revealing the body of a normal person.

Tales opened his mouth wide.

Behind him, the troll who had just received Thales' elbow shook his hands and pulled his arms out of a pair of fake giant arms, but his face was still twisted and crooked - I'm afraid it was born .

More and more torches were lit to illuminate the sewers: The monsters behind Woniak also began to move and "molt" in the commotion. They took off different monster masks and hoods, removed their skins, Throw away the prosthesis, revealing a figure.

Tales suddenly realized: So it is, what the **** senses saw just now were actually flesh and blood people wrapped in skins.

Fuck the water ghouls.

"Hey," Thales breathed out helplessly and put down his dagger, "It took a long time, and it turned out to be scary."

Fortunately, he thought that his martial arts had improved, and he was able to jump and leap in the sewers full of water ghouls, killing seven in and seven out—huh?

Tales blinked in amazement and watched Woniak remove the monster's skin to reveal his true body:

He doesn't look very old, but the tumor on his right shoulder is as big as two or three heads, like a ball stuffed in his body, not only squeezing his figure into a mess Bulging obliquely, arching his head to the left, pulling his right shoulder and right arm a foot higher, the whole person walks up and down, uncoordinated and irregular, and what's worse, the pus-filled tumor still stretches to Woniak's face, making half of his face look swollen.

To be honest, it's even more impressive than the image of the half-human half-worm...

Tales frowned subconsciously.

The weird Woniak seemed extremely sensitive. He noticed that Thales was staring at him, and suddenly cast his eyes:

"What? Never seen a monster?"

Woniak said viciously. When he spoke, his shoulders went up and down, and the big dazzling tumor around his neck twitched up and down, making it uncomfortable.

Tales showed an embarrassed smile, and he whispered to Hillary: "What is this..."

"Ah, so it's your little scourge, twenty-four!"

Before Thales could finish speaking, a short figure dragged a pile of soft leather covers with difficulty and waded in front of them.

Tales had to lower his head to see this figure clearly - this was a short-handed, short-footed man, only three feet tall at most, but his head was unusually large, with a face full of forty years old, a, um ,dwarf?

"Why are you back! Party day hasn't come yet!"

The oddly short man raised his head, revealing a battered face.

"Uncle Hauser," Hillary said weakly, "would you like me to come back early?"

Woniak snorted, and the tumors on his face and shoulders shuddered.

The little Uncle Hauser stood on tiptoe, squinted at Hillary, and then at Thales, then he snorted, turned around and walked back, waving his short hand. :

"Go back and go back, it's not an invasion, it's my own people who have come back and scattered, don't eat?"

There was a large sigh of relief in the sewer, and the people who took off their holsters turned back and scattered away.

Uncle Hauser patted the ugly "troll" with surprisingly small eyes and kicked him up:

"Yes, Bobo, you also go back, go back, go back to eat, nothing to do with you, yes, you stupid big man..."

"woohoo!"

"Okay okay, you sweet big guy..."

"woohoo!"

Tales looked at the "monsters" who were dragging their holsters back in amazement: some of them were ugly, some lacked arms and legs, and some had strange shapes...

This is...

"By the way, what about Slimani?"

Sheila reacted and asked quickly:

"Woniak, where's the man who came down with us?"

Woniak leaned over, shrugged his only left shoulder that could move freely, and raised the torch to clear space:

Behind him, Slimani lay upright under the corner of the wall, eyes closed, and he fainted from fright.

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A few minutes later, Thales and Shilay sat around the fire and sat beside a large long-abandoned cistern. The sewage was flowing quietly in the low ground a few meters away from them, and the wellhead above their heads cast a few beams of light.

“What can I do?”

Woniak sat across from them, waving his hands, the tumor on his shoulders like another head:

"The emergency exit suddenly opened, and you were brought back by Bobo, your face was covered in blood and unconscious, and then two people came, the second one was still holding a weapon, and everyone else was able to cause trouble for you outside My son is being hunted down...you say, twenty-four, what can I do?"

"Maybe you can be friendly instead of starting to be scary."

Sheila changed into a slightly cleaner set of clothes and had a bandage on her head. She held up a container that was more like a tin box than a cup, and drank the strange-smelling potion inside:

"I haven't been back for a long time. I stepped in the air when I turned, and hit my head and fainted. Hiss, it hurts!"

Sheila touched the wound on her head with a pained expression.

Tales sat beside her, frowning at the potion in his "cup".

"Hey, you came up with the idea of ​​scaring people away!" Woniak protested.

Tales looked around nervously:

This is a long-abandoned sewer. The condition is poor, but the area is not small. There are various, various, um...

"The phantom in the teacup today shows 'Return', and I knew something was going to happen, haha," on the other side, a small dwarf woman scooped a stinky potion from a tattered bucket, Going to Slimani, who was huddled in the corner and woke up even more terrified, "Keep drinking, unless you want to get sick or get infected and die! You know, that was just sewage from the sewer!"

"Thank you, Madam Gadama."

Sheila sighed and drank the foul-smelling potion without hesitation.

"Anyway, Twenty-Four is back, this is the best thing, just in time, let's have lunch with us!" Beside the fire, a girl stirring the pot took over, her voice was sweet and clear , with long black hair.

"Thank you, Dorothy, I can't wait." Sheila smiled back, her voice extra soft.

Tales couldn't help but glance at Xi Lai. This was the first time he had heard the other party speak with such a good attitude.

But for some reason, the other girl named Dorothy kept holding the back of their head at them—huh?

Tales was surprised and found out:

The girl's face was covered with dense hair from the forehead to the eye area, from the nose to the chin.

So from a distance, it looks like the back of the head.

Dorothy felt that Thales was staring at her, and she trembled suddenly, she covered her face and turned her head to avoid his sight.

"Hey, where are you looking!" Woniak on the side said angrily, and Thales quickly lowered his head.

"It's okay, Dorothy, he's my friend," Hilley comforted Dorothy while looking at Thales reproachfully. "He doesn't understand."

"Friends?"

Wonniak was angry and hostile to Thales: "We have no friends!"

"Oh, don't be stupid, you little bum," Aunt Gadama put down a spoon that was taller than her and turned around, "Of course you have friends, all over the tunnel!"

"Woohoo!" Bobo on the outer edge—a strange-looking, rare-looking giant with a child-like intelligence—nods his head.

The entire tunnel.

Tales turned his head: In this abandoned sewer, there are some, um, "peculiar" people living in every corner and cave. Now that it was time for dinner, they were busy back and forth, shadowing each other in the firelight.

"Not the same! You, me, Twenty-Four, Dorothy, Bobo, and Uncle Hauser, we are all the same, we belong here," Woniak pointed at Thales unhappily, "but He, he's not one of us!"

One of our...

Tales frowned.

"Oh, of course he's one of us! See if you don't believe me."

Xile raised her head, turned around and hit Thales on the back of the head.

"Ow!"

Tales hissed: "What are you doing?"

But instead of stopping, Xilei hit him several times in a row.

"Ow! Ah! Ouch!"

Thales couldn't bear it anymore, he moved three steps away, turned his head and covered his head, staring angrily at Hillary.

"See?"

Sheila looked at Woniak and Dorothy and shrugged:

"This is Wyah, he broke his head as a child and is a brainless man."

Everyone was taken aback, and a few seconds later, Woniak turned his head angrily, and Dorothy giggled.

"I'm so happy for you, Xiao Liu!"

Aunt Gadama waved her spoon and laughed:

"You finally have a boyfriend!"

"woohoo!"

The peculiar tunnel dwellers by the fire were booing back and forth, but only Woniak remained unwilling.

Facing their eyes, Thales was extremely embarrassed.

"He's not my boyfriend," Hillary said listlessly.

"Really? But the way he just saved you is so handsome!" Aunt Gadama blinked.

"Yes, that's what it says in the storybooks!" Dorothy continued.

"What about him?"

Uncle Hauser emerges from another hole with a load of goods. He comes to a table that is clearly a workbench, stands on the ottoman, and gestures to Srimani, who is hiding in the corner with a forced smile.

"Okay, he's a passenger, from up there," Siley sighed. "Fugitive."

When the voice fell, Thales felt that the eyes of everyone looking at Slimani immediately became vigilant, full of rejection and hostility.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that the few blows on the back of the head just now were the guarantees made by Xi Lai.

"Well, Slimani is an advocate."

Hilay Road:

"He has money."

Slimani had to smile in fear and nervousness at the sight of so many peculiar gazes.

"Two coppers an hour, 20 for the night, and extra charges if you include food," Wonjak said, "Don't look at it, you're not the first person to flee here!"

Slimani froze for a moment, until Bobo next to him snorted angrily:

"Wow!"

Slimani then reacted and quickly said, "Okay okay, I'll give it, I'll give it, damn..."

But his act of withdrawing the money stopped.

"Uh, I, I, all my money..." Srimani pointed to the top of his head awkwardly.

Under the unkind gazes of the residents, Thales sighed, took out the purse that Wyya -- True Wyah -- gave him, pulled out a handful of coins, and handed it to Woniak.

Everyone's gazes eased, and Dorothy and Aunt Gadama began to share bowls of food—even if it was just plain oatmeal and stew.

"Thank you, thank you, this is a sewer? What the **** is this place? Also, who are you guys?"

Slimani is no longer as nervous as he used to be, but maybe because of circumstances, maybe because the environment is too dirty, he is still uncomfortable.

"This place is our home," Mrs. Gadama dragged the pot, put a spoonful of porridge into his broken bowl, and then slid it in the pot a few times, carefully placing the next spoonful Into Xilai's bowl, "It's really not good, you understand it as: our gang,"

"The Overlord Gang!" Woniak held up the bowl, extremely proud.

"The Sewer Gang!" said Uncle Hauser sarcastically, who was picking out used goods.

"The Brutal Gang!" Woniak said in disbelief.

"Scary gang!" Aunt Gadama laughed.

"Super Horror Gang?" Woniak hesitated before offering another suggestion.

"Ouch!" Bobo on the other side responded.

"Underground Monster Gang!" Woniak wanted to struggle again.

"Helping people help!" said Dorothy, the face full of hair.

"Okay," Woniak sighed and gave up arguing. He touched the lump on his shoulder, "After arguing for more than ten years, we still haven't reached an agreement on the gang name."

"You're the only one arguing," Uncle Hauser struggled to open an old ripped umbrella and began to remove the rib. "In the tunnel, everyone is busy with their lives, and no one cares about this."

"Of course we care!" Wonjaka argued. "How did the Blood Bottles and the Brotherhood come to be known? Yes, starting with a majestic name!"

Tales was silent, watching their back and forth bickering, but felt a familiar feeling.

As if he had returned to the sixth house of the beggars.

Maybe the outside is dangerous, but as long as you go inside and hide in your own nest...

"So, the legend of the water ghouls in the Emerald City, are you?" Thales suddenly said.

"It's the other way around," Uncle Hauser shook his head. "We used the legend of the water ghoul to scare away unrelated outsiders and stay away from danger—Twenty-Four's idea."

Tales leaned closer to Hillary's ear and whispered, "Why do they call you twenty-four?"

Hilay's eyes lit up and raised her left hand, the six fingers on it bouncing back and forth.

"Oh." Thales suddenly realized.

But the next moment he realized: At some point, Hillary had taken off his gloves.

Miss Kevin Deere is just like this, with her twelve fingers on, holding her broken bowl, sitting relaxed and free, sitting in the dirty and smelly abandoned sewers, around the fire, Going back and forth with Dorothy, with Woniak, with Popo and the rest, joking around.

There is no splendor~IndoMTL.com~ There is no splendid clothing and jade food, and no people's attention.

But she, Hilla Cavendell, or, twenty-four, sat on them--great man with peculiar intellect, young man with tumor, dwarf couple, hairy girl, Maybe there's more - in the middle, but with such a good laugh.

So comfortable.

It seems that this is her home, her fortress, her empty palace.

At that moment, the mutilated faces and bodies of the people in front of them suddenly became much more pleasing to the eye.

Tales suddenly understood how Hillary got involved here.

In contrast, does he, Thales Shining Star have such a place?

Mindis Hall?

Star Lake Fort?

Thiers thought so, and gradually lost consciousness.

(End of this chapter)