Heart of Empire Chapter 375: Cinderella Massacre (Part 2)

On December 10th, Cinderella was already in mourning. [No pop-up novel network]

Firmino hid in a dry well. He didn't dare to come out until it was dark and there was no more movement outside.

Three years ago, he was just a scout in the White Wolf Fort, with good skills, but he was only a small captain in the army. Later, he was fortunate to be valued by Chapple and became one of Chapple's adjutants. Later, after Chapple began to work with Dane, he naturally followed Chapple into Dane's influence.

In the past, he thought that he would continue to do his old job, that his boss would definitely be the general who directly led the troops, and that he would continue to be an adjutant to Chapple. He had no complaints about it, Chappelle had always been kind to him.

But later, instead of becoming a general, Chapple became the chief of logistics, and began to manage the secret intelligence network of White Wolf Fort. And he also ended his adjutant career.

As Chapple's confidant, coupled with his good skills, Firmino became an agent of the White Wolf Fort Intelligence Network, which had just been established at that time and was basically not in shape.

He changed his job to become a secret agent.

After working for a while, he found that he seems to be quite suitable for this job. In the next year, he was a scout, but by accident, he became a gold medal detective in Chapple's hands.

As a gold medal agent, he was given a task when the situation in Schindler changed drastically some time ago - to infiltrate into Cinderella and collect all usable items in this city. Information on the Internet, and pass the information out.

Yesterday, Firmino, who has a keen sense of smell, was one of the first people in the city to notice that Governor Conley was about to make a big move. Before the massacre began, he quickly dispatched his men to deliver news to Dane. At the same time, he also hid himself, intending to find out more information.

But who knew, such unlucky luck?

On the tenth, it was the second day of the massacre. Governor Conley's frenzied actions are still going on. In the past two days, he has seen too many corpses everywhere.

He felt that he hid it quite well. A small businessman who came to the metropolis of Cinderella to do business with a humble chamber of commerce would not attract too much attention to reason. But bad luck is bad luck. This chamber of commerce has several guards who once served in the army during the Bernier era.

He dared to swear by his identity as a 'Gold Medal Agent' that those few guards who made their living in the chamber of commerce were absolutely impossible to have anything to do with the so-called 'remnants of Bernier'. Those few people really just served as soldiers in the past, but they couldn't become soldiers later, so they relied on their martial arts to make a living. In their daily chats, they didn't show any attachment to their old masters.

But just because of the excuse of "been Bernier's soldiers", they were regarded as the so-called "residual forces" by the soldiers of Governor Conley who went crazy.

At noon today, two squads of heavily armed soldiers broke into the chamber of commerce. Without saying a word, he raised his crossbow and shot at anyone he saw. Firmino looked at the guards and was shot as a hedgehog at the first encounter. Then, those soldiers with knives started killing people everywhere. It didn't have any rules, and it didn't matter the identity of the person who was killed. Anyway, in this house where the "Bernier's remnants" were once hidden, all the living people were their targets.

With Firmino's skill, of course he can kill a few soldiers, and then walk away. However, the situation in the whole city is almost the same. If he dares to kill any soldier at this time, he will face the pursuit of the whole city.

Based on balance, he didn't dare to do that, so he escaped from the Chamber of Commerce's residence, found a dry well outside and hid in it, and didn't dare to emerge until it was too dark.

When he came out, the well-decorated chamber of commerce had turned into a mess. Furniture was overturned, and there were knife marks and blood all over the walls.

Only, very strangely, he didn't see any corpses.

This is different from what he expected. He didn't believe that when the soldiers were in such a hurry and there were so many targets to clear, there was still someone who had the time to clean up the scene and clean up the corpses? In fact, according to his earlier judgment, the place should be full of the corpses of the chamber of commerce's buddies, guards, and small businessmen. Those corpses should not be cleaned up unless they stink.

Firmino, who is not too tall, cautiously poked his head out of the window of the chamber of commerce, and looked out.

Although the place he is in is not the city center of Cinderella, it is more or less a prosperous place in normal times. But now, there isn't even a single light on outside, it's pitch black, and gusts of cold winter wind are blowing, making people feel a little bit of coolness, mixed with a gust of it that is very obvious and pungent The smell of blood, that feeling is simply hair-raising.

Under the terrifying atmosphere, Firmino didn't have much to worry about. He could be regarded as a person who had been killed from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood. He had smelled this smell a lot when he was a scout, and when he was born and died with Chapple in the battle on the Eastern Wasteland.

Looking around, there was indeed no one, so he simply turned out of the house.

There were bloodstains on the street, many bloodstains hadn't even dried up, obviously it hadn't been long since someone was killed.

But at the same time, he had never seen a single corpse on the street.

This strange phenomenon made him feel very strange and vigilant.

It's so abnormal!

He stood in the middle of the street, thought about it left and right, found a building with a higher floor, turned over and climbed up.

Standing on the top floor, his vision widened, and he looked around.

The city that should have been brightly lit at this point in time is now dead silent. Except for the location of the central palace in the city, where there are still some lights, the rest of the place is pitch black.

Firmino scratched his head a bit. Rao, he had been working in frontline intelligence for almost a year and was considered a gold medal agent with rich experience. At this time, he didn't know where to start. Continue to find out the situation.

In this city, he is not the only one who belongs to the intelligence network of White Wolf Fort. Just based on the intelligence personnel he knows and has contact with each other, it is estimated that there are no less than twenty. Yesterday, when the massacre just started, and before the city became so miserable, these intelligence personnel had contacted in some specific ways, and roughly estimated that the number of people involved in the massacre was probably no less than Fifty thousand—that's almost half the population of the city!

But looking at it now, the situation seems to be more than that simple. If only half of the city's people were killed, then Cinderella should still have a population of 50,000 to 60,000. Where have all those people gone? Why didn't you even cry? You know, since he hid in the dry well for half a day, the cries in the city, the light from the flames, and even the sound of some explosions have never stopped, and it didn't stop until dusk. .

I really don't have a clue, and I don't understand the situation. He sat on the roof and thought about it, and decided to go to the palace in the center of the city.

Firmino didn't know what would be near the palace, nor did he know what he was going to investigate. However, judging from the moment of looking at the roof, other parts of the city, it seems that there should not be much difference from the block I am in. It is definitely difficult to find out the results in a rough way. Why not try your luck in the middle of the city?

Don't tell me, he did see something.

After walking cautiously in the silent city for a while, he couldn't move on any more when he was only a few hundred meters away from Cinderella's central palace. The street in front of him was blocked by two groups of soldiers. The soldiers carried weapons and guarded the road ahead under the torches on the side of the road.

Although he hasn't tried it yet, Firmino is sure that as long as he dares to show his face under the light of the torch, those soldiers will definitely take them back if they see a living person. The blood-stained weapon stabbed at his body.

As for breaking in... Although he is quite confident in his own skills, he is not yet confident enough to stab the dozen or so people in front of him just by relying on a small dagger pinned to his waist. Ten heavily armed soldiers.

He twitched his nose, and his eyes fell on the next room.

A moment later, in the ears of the soldiers guarding the block, they seemed to hear the sound of cats or mice passing by. Except for two complaints, they didn't attract any more attention.

After bypassing the guarding soldiers from the roof, a smile appeared on the corner of Firmino's mouth. However, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was almost vomited by a strong stench coming from the pavement.

"Where did such a strong smell come from? Could it be that all the corpses in the city were gathered here?" He complained casually like this, but the thought that flashed through his mind was so keenly felt by him. I got it back.

He realized that his casual complaint was very likely to be true.

Those disappeared corpses...

However, this is nothing more than a guess. Firmino decided to continue walking forward to see if it was as he had guessed.

This time, he didn't even need to find the direction, he just followed the direction guided by his sense of smell.

After climbing through two defense areas guarded by soldiers again, he finally found the source of the smell.

"My God!"

Firmino, who was looking out from the window on the second floor of a certain house on the street, was stunned by the scene he saw!

Corpse! All dead bodies! A mountain of corpses!

Sure enough, just as he expected, all the missing corpses in the city were gathered together. What he saw in front of him should have been the clean corner of the outer wall of Cinderella's palace, but this corner, which has been guarded by many soldiers and would never allow idlers to approach, is full of people at this moment—people corpse.

The corpses are already piled up to be close to the height of the outer wall of the palace, and it is not only this one that has piled up corpses. Can't see it!

He didn't know why Governor Conley gathered so many corpses. This should be almost the population of the whole city!

Of course, in a city as big as Cinderella, it is impossible for everyone to be killed. Just like him, Firmino, didn't he just escaped? It's just that those who can save their lives in this massacre must be very few. Looking at the scale of the pile of corpses, even though he only saw this small corner, he only needs to calculate according to the situation he sees in front of him, and he can make a general judgment in his heart.

Based on the length of the outer wall of Cinderella's Palace, if there were such piles of corpses in every part of the entire outer wall, the number would be almost 100,000.

This means that Kang Li slaughtered the entire city by himself!

Firmino gasped, feeling numb all over his body. His knowledge is not small, but this is really the first time he has seen so many corpses piled up together!

Although, from a long distance, he couldn't see the specific appearance of any corpse, but he could imagine how thick the accumulated grievances were on these countless corpses?

This must be the scariest scene he has ever seen in his life.

After being intimidated for a few minutes, he slowly regained his senses.

After regaining his calm mind and starting to think again, deep doubts filled his heart. In his impression, killing 100,000 people in the city is not a small siege~IndoMTL.com~Even though, these 100,000 people are all unarmed civilians, but they are human beings, they have legs, can run and hide . Even, not all civilians are unarmed, for example, the guards of the chamber of commerce where he was hiding before also had swords in their hands.

Five thousand people, killing so many people, two days? It's incredible.

Moreover, even if all were killed, how did so many corpses be transported from various parts of the city to the corner of the palace within a day or two? This is also a problem that Firmino can't figure out.

However, these are just 'little' problems. For him, the more important thing is to figure out why Conley did this? What good would it do him?

He realized that this was very important information, and it would definitely be a great achievement to figure it out. Moreover, even without mentioning credit or anything, just unraveling such a shocking secret is a very fulfilling thing for an intelligence officer like him.

He dispelled the fear that was shrouded in his heart, and planned to start to further find out the truth.

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Still a two-in-one chapter. (To be continued.)