Blue Sword

According to historical records, when the Venetian ship loaded with Frankish knights suddenly and unreasonably broke into the Golden Horn, the first reaction of the defenders of Constantinople was confusion.

When the news reached the Golden Palace, the two majesties also looked confused, and even subconsciously asked the ministers to confirm whether the alarm was a mistake.

After all, Constantinople had not been invaded for hundreds of years.

The Franks landed on the unprotected Galatia Peninsula opposite the main city of Constantinople along the Golden Horn, and quickly occupied the nearby industrial park.

The sporadic police and vigilantes were no match for these knights.

The remaining defenders could only retreat to the main city along the Galata Bridge, and together with the Capital Guard who came after hearing the news, began to set up a machine gun defense line along the Galata Bridge.

Not far away on the Thracian plain, the girls were horrified to find that black smoke was burning over Constantinople behind the city wall.

"I have been teaching and training your martial arts all this time." Aske Youyou, who was walking at the front, said, "However, in a real war, in addition to one's own force, strategy is also a very important factor."

"When you encounter such an emergency, you must immediately adapt to the situation: 1. Quickly judge the situation; 2. Decide how to respond; 3. Implement countermeasures immediately."

"Now, let's discuss these two questions: 1. What happened? 2. How should we deal with it?" He looked at the girls leisurely and asked two questions.

Seeing Asik's calm expression, everyone who was originally uneasy also calmed down. Mia was the first to speak:

"What's the point? It's all on fire. There must be unrest in the city! Maybe the Seljuks have already arrived and started to attack the city!"

"Impossible." Medea immediately retorted, "We are located so close to Constantinople. If the Seljuk army has arrived at the city, they will definitely send scout cavalry to roam behind the siege array - but this We didn’t encounter any enemies along the way.”

"So we rule out the possibility that the Seljuks attacked the city." Ask crossed his arms and said, "Continue."

"Is there any possibility of civil unrest in the city?" Nora asked.

"This is the greatest possibility." Eleanor analyzed. "It is said that when Constantinople was founded, it was often attacked by mountain giant tribes from the direction of the Thracian plain. Therefore, Theodore of Constantinople The west city wall is extremely huge. It is more than 100 meters high and has three floors. There are a large number of machine gun towers, mortar points and watchtowers distributed among them. Any position outside the city wall will be subject to the interlaced shooting of more than 3 machine guns at the same time. Therefore, it is almost impossible to successfully invade from the outside."

"Not necessarily." Ask said, "There is no invincible fortress in the world."

"Another famous saying is that a fortress is always breached from within," Eleanor added, "so I think civil unrest in Constantinople is most likely."

"The possibility of foreign enemies is not impossible." Medea put forward a different opinion. "The world's largest container terminal is built along the Golden Horn Bay. Frequent trade and logistics flow in and out makes it impossible to cover this direction with a city wall. It is possible to achieve perfect city defense and security.”

"If there is an invasion by a foreign enemy, they will definitely choose the direction of the Golden Horn Bay to break through."

"There are navigation locks on the outside of the Galata Bridge, and the chains can be pulled up to block the river at any time." Eleanor retorted, "Would the defenders of Constantinople not be aware of this?"

"Please, you are also someone who has only half-stepped into the mysterious world. You should know that there are too many extraordinary methods to deal with this situation." Medea disagreed, "Disguise yourself as a friendly ship and sneak in, use psychic power to control the operator, etc. I can list 10,000 ways to prevent this navigation lock from falling."

Seeing that the two of them were having a heated debate, Aske quickly said:

"So, it is obvious that there is unrest in Constantinople. The difference is whether it is internal unrest or foreign invasion."

"No matter what the reason is, the order in the city will inevitably get out of control. So what should we do next, which is in the best interest of our team?"

Everyone looked at each other in shock. Eleanor and Medea thought of the key at the same time and screamed:

"Potion ingredients!"

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Asik and the others were naturally not the only ones to have their mind set on Constantinople.

Almost all cities that are dominated by mercenaries will encounter similar problems: during strong periods, mercenaries can greatly supplement your combat power; during weak periods, mercenaries will in turn reveal their ferocious fangs.

The last emperor of the Western Solomon Empire was killed by a foreign mercenary leader, causing the entire country to collapse overnight.

With the deterrent power of the giant wall of Constantinople placed there, most of the mercenaries today still do not believe that the capital will fall, so they remain content for the time being.

Only a few profit-seeking mercenaries - probably only a thousand in total - began to plunder the city.

Then they were basically ruthlessly suppressed by the Paladin troops sent by the church.

As the headquarters of the Orthodox Church, Constantinople has stored countless spiritual materials, but its supernatural power is also among the best.

Even if power armor can no longer be built, the existing inventory is enough to crush these thousands of mercenaries hundreds of times. High-frequency shock swords and jet engine war hammers will directly send these lawless people to meet God.

Every time Asker and others walked a certain distance, they saw the bodies of dead mercenaries on the roadside. Basically, their heads were missing, or their bodies were shattered into pieces. Each one of them died in a cruel manner. In the spiritual channel, Nora’s worried voice sounded:

"Ask..."

"It's okay." Asik replied, "Everyone, calm down."

So everyone could only pretend to be calm and walk under the vigilant gaze of the police on the roadside.

Nowadays, Constantinople has become much depressed. Most of the shops have been closed. Pedestrians on the street are also scattered, wearing hats and masks and walking in a hurry, but they cover themselves tightly in the summer. .

Arriving at the Coliseum of Constantinople, the nearby streets were actually clean, without any wreckage, corpses or blood stains after the riots.

After all, the arena is full of vicious people who are accustomed to killing, and no hot-headed mercenaries dare to attack the arena yet.

Except Asker.

Staying late at night in a nearby hotel, Ask and Mia went outside to the street.

There were still flames blazing into the sky in the distance in the direction of the Golden Horn, and vague gunshots and explosions could be heard every few minutes.

It seems that the Franks have not yet broken through the defenses of the Galata Bridge, otherwise the main city would not be as peaceful as it is now.

Taking Mia into the arena, Asik climbed over the iron fence with ease and walked towards the inner glory room.

Suddenly he stretched out his arm to stop Mia, and pointed at the ceiling in front of him with his other hand.

There are cameras.

Mia patted her chest confidently, meaning: The camera is nothing, I have rich experience in handling it, just go back to Fire Island first.

Asik suddenly shuddered. God knows how he could read so many meanings from her movements.

Could it be that my thinking is already in sync with this little girl's?

Ask, who had been here last time, had already memorized the internal route, so he gave Mia the map he had drawn in advance, and then started to teleport back to Hearth Island.

Mia tiptoed to the shadow in the corner, activated the extraordinary properties of Shadow I, and slowly "melted" in.

In the shadow horizon, her life form has been transformed into a gray spirit body, and she can move forward freely in the darkness.

The light in the environment turns into countless dense line clusters, as sharp as knife lines. Once her spirit body comes into contact with these line clusters, she will suffer certain spiritual damage.

Bypassing the surveillance range of the camera in the darkness, there is a corridor in front. The moonlight outside shines on the ground through the window lattice. In Mia's eyes, there are countless sharp and dangerous lines, so she can only exit the shadow vision and return. Come to reality.

There is a surveillance camera pointed at the end of the corridor. If you move forward rashly, you will definitely be captured by surveillance cameras.

Mia doesn't dare to bet on whether there is anyone in the monitoring room now, but she has rich experience in dealing with this situation.

Take the chewing gum out of your trouser pocket, tear off the package, put it in your mouth and chew it hard a few times, then take it out, pinch it with two fingers, and apply super glue to the remaining area.

leave!

The chewing gum stuck firmly two centimeters away from the camera and was thrown crookedly... Mia silently sweated, but luckily Asik wasn't around.

There were still two dozen chewing gums in her trouser pocket, so she took out another piece of chewing gum and applied it again. This time, the chewing gum stuck to the camera accurately.

In the control room, a certain display screen suddenly went dark without warning. The staff on duty stood up in confusion and planned to check that location.

The camera probably broke... or so he thought.

Following the map route given by Asker, Mia re-entered the shadow horizon and soon arrived at the door of the glory room.

Here is where the "one-day champion" receives his prize every day, and the prize is in the warehouse in the room next to it. The spiritual pressure generated by the piles of many spiritual items makes Mia, an extraordinary person, win the prize from more than ten meters away. When I noticed it, my heart suddenly surged.

However, the bigger problem is that the warehouse is covered by a spiritual wall and an infrared surveillance network. No matter how you break in, it will immediately alarm the entire arena.

That's not the trickiest part. According to Ask, the master behind this arena is a demigod.

In today's demonic tide stage, demigods generally will not take action because the consumed spirituality cannot be replenished.

However, once his property is looted, the demigod of the arena will definitely not sit idly by.

At that time, everyone will have to face the pursuit of a demigod and the city-wide manhunt by the Constantinople Church.

This is not a fun thing. In the game world of "Iron and Fire" in the previous life, if you provoke a demigod, you should commit suicide as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if you fall into the other party's hands, your account may be useless.

Demigods have no shortage of means to cause permanent harm to extraordinary beings.

Reviewing the "strategy" plan Asik had prepared for her in her mind, Mia took a deep breath and took out the lock pick from the bag.

The wages of avarice is death. Fight!

The lockpick was inserted into the keyhole, Mia fiddled with it twice, and the door opened - at the same time, a shrill alarm sounded suddenly, almost alarming the entire arena.

Mia rushed inside without having time to see what was in the room. With a sudden movement of her spirit, she teleported everything she saw to Hearth Island.

cabinet? Teleport!

box? Teleport!

stool? It's too late to judge, teleport!

In only five or six seconds, Mia ransacked the entire room. Then she turned around and ran out of the warehouse, just as a figure turned around the opposite corner.

The enemy came much faster than she imagined.

She jumped up, huddled up in the air, and slammed into the window glass!

The glass window shattered, and she jumped from the third floor. Ignoring the damage of the moonlight outside, she entered the shadow horizon in the air, and then quickly extended her spirituality and teleported herself back to Hearth Island.

Only the ancient artifact book "Absurd Dreams" was left, which fell in the shadow vision and fell into the garbage pile below.

The next second, the owner of the arena, the demigod Williams, appeared on the ground floor with a gloomy expression. He stretched out a hand, and his solid spirituality quickly swept across a radius of several hundred meters.

No one, as expected.

He slowly brought his five fingers together, and his spirituality began to scan the secondary planes that overlapped with this space, such as the shadow horizon, the collective subconscious, etc.

Although his own sequence does not have these abilities, as a demigod, he always has some extraordinary items accumulated to deal with various situations.

Shadow horizon, no one.

Collective subconscious, no one.

…

How could it all be fruitless? ! Williams' expression became increasingly gloomy, and he scanned everything again without giving up.

Let alone a living body, there are no spiritual bodies or mental bodies in the surrounding secondary planes, as if the little thief has never been here.

Williams continued his search, but found nothing.

And in the shadow's vision, an inconspicuous ancient book lay quietly in the garbage pile, mixed with other waste papers, mineral water bottles, and worn shoes and socks.

If you don't lock your spirituality on it and scan it carefully, you won't find that there is a demiplane fragment entrance hidden inside.