bestfiction Chapter 258 What Dark Cloud Couldn't Understand
Chapter 258 What Dark Cloud Couldn't Understand
The group looked at each other, completely baffled.
Everyone gathered around Akame, anxiously asking her what was wrong.
Matt really wanted to say that she didn't like having so many people around her, and that if they all disappeared, she might be able to heal more freely. But... there was something he had to say first!
"Hey, hey, hey, you bunch of ungrateful bastards! I'm the one who's seriously injured! I'm bleeding all over the place, why don't you take a look at me first?"
Zhong Ming limped over to his side, slowly squatted down, let out a long breath, and asked, "Can you still move?"
"Just barely."
"What are you yelling about if you can move? Heal yourself! I'm going to check on Akame..."
Watching Zhong Ming's departing figure, Matt felt a surge of sorrow and anger. "I... I'm not going to skimp on the money anymore," he thought, "I still have to use the good medicine..."
A dozen minutes later, several people gathered together, staring blankly at the collection of scales.
Having learned from their previous experience of bone spears emerging from the ground, they found a large rock, spread some tattered clothes on it, and sat down on it.
"The conclusion is clear: this is not a puppet; there must be a human inside."
"So, someone disguised themselves as a merman to assassinate us?"
The expressions on their faces were quite different. Yue Kaishan was furious and roared, "This is a betrayal of humanity! We risked our lives to defend this city, and we came out to find survivors. We are all human, and they actually came to kill us. This is a betrayal of the entire Yunzhou people. I will turn them all into mincemeat!"
The second captain disdainfully picked up a broken scale and sneered, "A cowardly rat hiding its head and tail, it couldn't even beat us in a sneak attack."
Akame remained seated at the very edge of the circle, silent, watching her comrades.
The relationship between Matt and Zhongming is quite subtle.
When you're out and about, everyone has enemies.
The two team leaders went through everyone they had offended since the team was formed, and they felt that everyone was a suspect.
Zhong Ming's face was terribly gloomy. He waved his hand and said, "Maybe they just happened to see it and were tempted by the money. They might just be simple robbers."
Looking at his expression, no one believed him, including himself.
"In short, this matter needs to be reported. Other forces disguised as merfolk have attacked and killed Yunzhou soldiers. I suspect it was an operation carried out by Yunzhou's enemies."
"Regardless of the truth, let's agree on a story and report it to the authorities in this way."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Matt held up a relatively intact scale, patted Zhong Ming on the shoulder, and asked, "Do you want this scale?"
"Too weak, and the damage it suffered was too severe."
"Aww." Matt responded, preparing to dispose of the scales, but saw Zhong Ming quickly collect all the scales with the speed of a whirlwind.
"Oh, didn't you say you didn't want it?"
"Don't you understand the saying 'every little bit counts'? What if we can trade with someone else?" Zhong Ming muttered as he stuffed the storage bag to the brim.
"Let's go, fill it up... and go back to report to the dynasty."
Matt rubbed his forehead. This guy is really reliable when he's fighting, but it's really disheartening when he's not.
"Then what about our original mission..."
"Passing on urgent military intelligence is more important, and besides, the planned search area has been covered, and there are indeed no living people left."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
Mountains of bones, countless pieces of evidence of crimes.
"Once I break through, I will definitely settle accounts with them. I will fight all the way to their merfolk homeland and leave no one alive!"
.....
Dark Cloud was panting heavily.
He almost died in the very place he was best at.
He instantly unleashed all his spiritual power and slid downwards, luckily escaping this terrifying killing move. The problem was, he buried himself deep underground and exhausted his spiritual power.
I almost, I almost got buried alive underneath.
He pressed his hand to his heart, which was still pounding and wouldn't calm down.
The disheveled man hid behind a tree, like a child who had made a mistake and was afraid of being punished, peeking out to observe Captain Dark Cloud's mood. If he suddenly attacked, he would immediately disappear and run away.
On the other side, an ordinary-looking man took off his mermaid skin. With just a gentle peel, countless scales shattered and fell off his body, never to be pieced back together.
It was originally a merman who was killed by a Foundation Establishment stage sword cultivator. The sword energy had destroyed everything inside it. It was fortunate that it was facing a human. If it had faced other mermen, they probably would have seen it as no different from a zombie or a vengeful ghost.
"She almost died."
"Ok, I know."
Should we continue?
"You know the methods the Yan family uses."
The man remained silent, but An Yun picked up where he left off, saying calmly, "According to the assassin's code, we've been exposed. They already know that someone is disguised as a merman to assassinate them, so this mission has failed."
"Should we prepare to launch the next round...?"
"Failure is failure. Go back and accept your punishment honestly." He suddenly felt relieved.
The torment they endured these past few days was unimaginable to others; they had to assassinate a group of soldiers fighting for the weak while the merfolk were slaughtering the people of Yunzhou.
They are assassins; their senses are better and stronger than this group's, and their intelligence network is more effective.
them.....
I witnessed more of the merfolk's sins, saw mortals crying out everywhere, and saw the merfolk acting with unbridled arrogance.
The key point is that many merfolk don't seem to have any intention of going back, or rather, they already know they can't go back.
They indulged themselves, enjoying the killing, the looting, and everything they had seized, before calmly setting off on their journey.
why?
An Yun couldn't understand it. They acted like brutal bandits who would die tomorrow, but he could see and feel that there was something more resolute and something more "faithful" in the eyes of the merfolk, which made them face death calmly.
An Yun couldn't understand it, so he didn't want to stay here.
He refused to carry out dangerous missions in unknown circumstances, which is not the way an assassin should do.
“Let’s go back,” he said softly. “There’s a private room for us on the Cliff of Despair.”
The disheveled man, his face ashen, said bitterly, "It's over, too late, gouge it out."
......
The merfolk were killing each other, speaking a language that no one in Yunzhou could understand.
They said, “Our contributions are meaningful. Our lives are illuminating the path for the Merfolk. Our descendants will remember us. Our names will be engraved on monuments. The cunning humans who rewarded our sacrifice have given us... a clan leader at the Nascent Soul stage.”
"Long live the Merfolk! May the Merfolk live forever!"