Alien Knights

Taylor City, ghetto.

Randall was carrying a girl with an injured ankle on his back and urged the children around him: "Speed ​​up!"

Climbing on the old moss-covered wall, Kellogg hooked his tail on the bricks to keep his balance, looked forward for a moment, then lowered his head and shouted: "I saw it!"

Bulwer rubbed his sore shoulders and took a deep breath: "We're finally here."

After walking forward for a while, Randall straightened up and finally saw the safe house that Karin mentioned through the layers of plant stems and leaves.

A long-abandoned clock tower located on low hills in the slums of Taylor City.

Glancing at the exhausted children around him, Randall encouraged them: "Cheer up, our destination is ahead, and someone will pick us up and leave the city soon."

A smile of hope appeared on the children's faces, but Randall's good mood did not last long.

"They're catching up."

Carroll walked to Randall's side and lowered his voice: "At least three large zombie waves have merged together and are moving quickly towards here."

Randall glanced behind him. The devastated sky was filled with black smoke. A dense black shadow gradually engulfed most of the city and was slowly eroding in his direction.

Gritting his teeth, Randall whispered to Carol: "Let the children enter the bell tower as soon as possible, search for all available supplies inside, delay time, and wait for rescue."

Everyone quickly walked through the dilapidated paths, stepped into the door of the bell tower, and entered a hall full of broken walls.

The stone statue of the Virgin fell to the ground and was broken into several pieces; the long-dry fountain was covered with moss and fungi; the big bell was covered in rust and half buried in the earth.

Randall looked up at the top of his head. There was a spiral staircase built along the wall, which extended to the rooftop above his head.

Randall nodded and said, "This is indeed a good and hidden place."

After all the children were arranged, Barbara could no longer support her tired body and fell to the ground.

Randall looked back when he heard the sound. He was so frightened that he quickly ran to Barbara and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, I just need to rest for a while."

Barbara's lips were so white that no blood could be seen. She patted the back of Randall's hand: "Do what you should do. I can take care of myself."

Randall helped Barbara to a clean open space, helped her sit up, and kissed her forehead gently.

Aldenan was lying on the ground in a "big font", looking at the sky with his eyes blankly.

Carroll threw a pot of water in his face and said in a deep voice: "If you want to survive, get up and help me."

Aldenan rolled his eyes and looked at Carol, and asked calmly: "I've always had a question."

"explain."

"Why should I live?"

Carroll picked up the kettle and took a sip: "If you want to die now, I will never stop you."

Ignoring the orcs' sarcasm, Aldenan asked slowly: "For more delicious food? A more comfortable residence? Or for fame, wealth, and women?"

Carroll was silent for a while and then said: "You should have something more cherished..."

Aldenan said self-deprecatingly: "When I was eleven years old, I was sold into an underground fighting ring. In order to survive, I did everything, good and bad."

"When I was beaten to pieces and fell to the ground again and again, I would often ask myself, why am I lingering in this hell-like place?"

Aldenan turned to look at the others: "Each of you has something you believe in, and you are willing to fight endlessly for that thing, but I am different from you. I live in chaos and can never find a way to struggle. direction. I just want to live, living without any purpose..."

There was a rare softness on Carroll's face, and he patted Aldenan on the shoulder: "One day, you will find it, find that thing that is more important than life."

Kellogg walked up to Randall, pointed to the thing in his hand and said, "I found this in the storage room in the back."

It was an old oil lamp with a jar for storing kerosene underneath.

Randall picked up the oil lamp and shook it. There was a banging sound coming from the jar. He nodded and said, "There is still half a pot."

At this moment, Bulwer suddenly rushed in from outside the door and shouted to Randall: "They are coming!"

Randall froze, then ran out of the bell tower impatiently, came to the hills outside the door, and looked up at the sky.

In the distant horizon, a few small dots slowly grew larger in the sky, accompanied by a clear cry of gryphons, and finally reached the top of the bell tower.

The leader of the Valkyries, Ashley, controlled the gryphon to slowly land in the open space. When she saw Randall walking towards her, she immediately asked: "What the hell are in the city?!"

Randall shrugged and said with a wry smile: "I don't know."

"Useless guy, I know it's useless to ask you." Ashley waved, indicating to the sisters that everything was fine and they could land.

Randall looked at the Valkyries landing one by one, frowned and asked while counting: "Only ten people came?"

Ashley turned around after hearing this and looked at Randall in a funny way: "What? Ten people are here and you think it's not enough? Do you blame me for not bringing you a red carpet and a guard of honor?"

Sifulai, who is the deputy commander of the Valkyrie team, explained to Randall: "The Valkyries are assisting the Crusaders and Knights in attacking Taylor City. We not only have to undertake bombing, sniping, and reconnaissance tasks, but sometimes we even I have to make a guest appearance as a messenger, so I really can’t recruit more people..."

Randall shook his head in embarrassment and said, "But..."

Ashley flipped up her golden wavy hair and said, "If the Alien Association hadn't used the emergency signal, do you think we could have rushed over so quickly? And... wait, who are they?!"

Several small heads protruded from the door of the bell tower, looking curiously at the gryphons who were resting on the hills with their eyes closed.

In Ashley's surprised look, Randall explained to her the cause and effect of the matter.

"Thirty-seven kids?! Are you crazy?!"

Ashley looked in disbelief and yelled at Randall: "With so many children, plus a few of you, taking so many people out of the city, what do you think we are riding on?! A flying carriage Really? Listen! I only promised to take you back!"

Randall said firmly: "Bring the children with you. I have obtained the consent of the Dragon God for this matter."

Ashley grabbed Randall by the collar and shouted: "You bastard! What do you think the supreme god is!"

Randall looked fearlessly into Ashley's eyes and said word by word: "Let the children leave first, followed by my partner, and I leave last."

Ashley was stunned for a moment, then she pushed Randall away and said viciously: "I will settle this account with you when I return to Muxi City!"

Looking back at her sisters, Ashley said loudly: "Everyone clear the baggage! Get the chainmail ready and reinforce the reins!"

She then turned to Randall and said: "Each of us can only take two children away at a time. In other words, we will take away twenty children this time, and the rest will have to wait for us to come next time."

"How long will it take to get here next time?"

"Forty minutes." Ashley first pointed in the direction of the city center, where a huge tide of corpses was slowly approaching the clock tower.

"You don't need to remind me, you should know that if those ghosts occupy the hills in forty minutes, we will lose the open space for landing. At that time, I will abandon you without hesitation and immediately return!"

Looking at the black corpse tide getting closer and closer in the distance, Randall gritted his teeth and said: "I promise you, we will be able to survive these forty minutes."