Kingdom’s Bloodline

Chapter 676 Twenty-Four (Part 1)

Water, water ghoul?

Thales glanced at the monsters in the sewer in disbelief - they were densely packed, of different shapes, and kept making inhuman roars.

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

Thales swallowed his throat.

Why, these ghost legends at the Emerald City Pier are still true?

Do they really eat people?

Now that Mallos' "safety rope" just worked, can they find this place?

Even if they are found, will they be able to deal with these monsters?

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

Thales took a deep breath, and amidst the increasingly strong stench of the sewer, he looked at Hille at the end of his sight - she was still lying alone on the troll's hand, her face covered in blood, and she didn't know whether she was alive or dead.

The Sin of Hell River began to burn, and the sewers were as bright as day before his eyes.

"Thanks."

Amidst the roars of the monsters, Thales gritted his teeth.

"Why thank you? To eat you?" The insect monster chuckled, and several pairs of insect limbs twitched back and forth.

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

"What?"

The next second, before the insect monster could react, Thales roared and rushed towards it like an arrow from a string!

As always, a chance.

The insect monster screamed, but Thales saw the right moment and rolled over, barely passing by it!

Wow!

Amidst the roars of the monsters, large swaths of water splashed up, and Thales, covered in sewage, rose from the ground and moved forward without stopping!

He darted left and right, continuously passing through the gap between the two rows of monsters, and continued forward.

Frightened, the inhuman monsters made a commotion, and their roars increased instead of decreasing.

The sins of the Hell River are getting stronger and stronger, and the monsters show strange colors in the hell sense. Some places are the red of flesh and blood, and some places are cold and dark - Huh?

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

Snapped!

At the critical moment, Thales turned forward to avoid the whip, and water rose up behind him.

But he didn't pause, he just flew out and kicked hard on the spherical monster that threw out its tentacles. The latter roared in pain and shrank back.

The water ghoul is not as difficult to deal with as imagined, right?

Thales' confidence increased slightly, and he kept moving forward!

"How dare he, human!"

The insect monster screamed angrily:

"Catch him and eat him! Catch him and eat him!"

The sewer was filled with different roars, and another monster's forelimb smashed down like a scythe, but the sense of hell allowed Thales to see the time correctly. He did not retreat but moved forward in the water splash, and put his legs together and retracted his arms, and passed through the gap between the scythe limbs. Slide out!

Finally, after breaking through the sickle-limbed monster, all that was left in front of Thales was the ugly-looking monster that had grabbed Shilai. The latter whined strangely and seemed to turn around and run away.

Get closer to her, get closer to her!

Thales roared and quickened his pace!

The next second, the ugly giant monster suddenly turned around and swept across with its huge arms!

Sure enough, as expected.

The Sin of Hell River crackled and exploded in his body, Thales gritted his teeth and jumped into the air!

The giant roared and smashed into the air, its arms scraping away the water and causing a splash as high as two people.

But Thales didn't stop. With the blessing of the Sin of Hell River, he swung the dagger in mid-air, nailed the monster's arm, and took advantage of the situation to swing onto its shoulder!

If, if Yara were here, she would also praise the timing and skill of this leap, right?

In mid-air, Thales couldn't help but think so.

After all, this was the silhouette of the bartender in the underground mall that remained in his heart the most.

But alas...

The next second, Thales roared angrily and swung his elbow out while falling, hitting the monster in the forehead!

Boom!

The monster's ugly features shrank for an instant, and a second later, it staggered and fell.

Thales landed in front of it and rolled to remove the momentum.

Very good - he took a step forward and was able to catch the girl who slipped from the troll's hand.

"Hilai, are you okay? Wake up!" Thales anxiously shook the motionless girl and couldn't help but reach out to feel her breath.

Fortunately, I'm still breathing, but I just fainted.

At this moment, Xi Lai's face was covered with blood, and his body was covered with sewage. Behind them, the roar of the water corpses and insect monsters was deafening:

"Stop him!"

At this moment, Thales felt a shock around him - the fallen giant wheezed and moved.

Damn it, I knew the legendary water ghoul wouldn't be that easy to kill.

Thales didn't care much. With one hand, he supported Xi Lai and let her lean on his shoulder. With the other hand, he held the JC dagger and aimed at the neck of the troll.

But just then a gloved hand grabbed his wrist.

"Xi——Huiana?"

Thales was surprised and happy, but as soon as he lowered his head, Shilai, who was slowly waking up in his arms, couldn't help but spat sewage all over his face!

Damn it.

Thales had to raise his sleeves to wipe his eyes, while Hilley broke away from his arms, knelt in the water and coughed desperately, coughing up a lot of sewage.

"Listen to me, we can't stop. There are a lot of water ghouls behind us..."

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

Thales looked serious and was about to run away with Xi Lai on his back, but Xi Lai pushed him away rudely.

"No, wait." Xi Lai said weakly.

"what why?"

Thales was stunned for a moment, but the monster slowly woke up. It slowly raised its giant arms and enveloped them!

Hold!

Thales subconsciously took Hilli's hand, pulled her behind him, and raised his dagger towards the monster.

But at this moment, Xi Lai suddenly raised his head.

"No!"

Hilley was covered in dirt and the blood on her face was frightening, but she held Thales's arm, looked at the ugly giant tremblingly, and tried her best to make a sound:

"Bobo, no!"

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

What?

what happened?

Thales stood in front of Heeley, looking at the monster nervously.

The monster in front of them tilted its head and came closer to them, its small eyes blinking on its ugly face.

"Woo?"

The monster mumbled something that Thales couldn't understand.

"Yes, Bobo," Hilley coughed again and wheezed, "I'm fine, I'm fine."

"Woo!"

The next second, the monster lowered its giant arms and stepped up its feet happily.

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

"He is not a 'thing', put down your weapon." Shilai exhaled, shaking, and Thales quickly grabbed her.

Right now.

"big guy!"

The insect monster's sharp male voice rang out, and it led a large group of monsters from behind to kill him: "Kill him, eat him!"

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

"And you, Warniak!"

She yelled at the top of her lungs:

"Hit the wrong person!"

Hilley's female voice was particularly clear amidst the roars of monsters in the sewer. For a moment, the noise made by the monsters became smaller.

"Stop, stop, everyone stop!"

The half-human, half-insect monster shouted loudly to its kind to get out of the way, and it appeared in front of them with the sound of treading water.

The situation was unclear, so Thales nervously protected the girl behind him.

Uh-huh!

A torch was lit, causing Thales to narrow his eyes quickly.

"twenty four?"

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

"You, are you okay?"

"Isn't that right," Xi Lai said angrily, wiping the blood on his face, "Is this how you welcome me?"

What's going on?

twenty four?

Thales looked at Hille and then at the bug monster, confused.

The bug monster named Warnyak held a torch and looked at Thales warily. Finally, under Shilay's stern gaze, it sighed and began to "slough" reluctantly - to be precise, It is to take off the leather sheath full of carapace, spikes and insect limbs to reveal a normal human body.

Thales opened his mouth wide.

Behind him, the giant monster who had just received an elbow from Thales shook his hands and pulled his arms out of a pair of fake giant arms, but his face was still twisted and crooked—probably because of nature.

More and more torches were lit, illuminating the sewer: the monsters behind Warniak also began to move and "slough" in the commotion. They took off different monster masks and hoods, removed their skins, and threw away their prosthetics. , revealing a silhouette.

Thales suddenly realized: So, what the hell senses just saw were actually flesh-and-blood people wrapped in skins.

Fuck the water ghouls.

"Hey," Thales exhaled helplessly and put down the dagger, "After working on it for a long time, it turns out that the person is scary."

Fortunately, he thought his martial arts had improved, and he could leap and jump in dangerous sewers full of water ghouls, killing seven in and seven out - Huh?

Thales blinked in surprise and watched as Warniak removed the monster's skin and revealed his true body:

He looked young, but the tumor on his right shoulder was as big as two or three heads. It was like a ball stuck in his body, not only squeezing his body into a bulging mess, He even arched his head to the left and raised his right shoulder and arm by one foot. The whole person walked up and down, uncoordinated and irregular. To make matters worse, the pus-filled tumor also extended to Warney. Yak's face made half of his face look swollen.

To be honest, it's even more disturbing than the half-human, half-insect image just now...

Thales frowned subconsciously.

Warniak, who had a strange figure, seemed to be extremely sensitive. He realized that Thales was staring at him, and he glanced at him suddenly:

"What? Never seen a monster?"

Warniak said viciously. As he spoke, his shoulders rose and fell, and the large, dazzling tumor on his neck twitched up and down, making people uncomfortable.

Thales showed an awkward smile and whispered to Hilley: "What exactly is here..."

"Ah, it turns out it's you, the little troublemaker, twenty-four!"

Before Thales could finish speaking, a short figure dragged a pile of limp leather cases through the water and waded in front of them.

Thales had to lower his head to see this figure clearly - this was a man with short arms and legs, only three feet tall at most, but with an unusually large head and a face that looked about forty years old. He was, um, a dwarf?

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

The surprisingly short man raised his head, revealing a weathered face.

"Uncle Hauser," Hilley said weakly, "don't you want me to come back early to take a look?"

Warniak on the side snorted, and the tumors on his face and shoulders trembled.

The short Uncle Hauser stood on tiptoes, glanced at Hilley with squinted eyes, and then glanced at Thales. Then he said yes, turned around and walked back squeakingly, waving his short hand:

"Go back, go back, it's not an invasion, it's our own people who have come back, dispersed, and don't want to eat?"

There was a loud sound of relief coming from the sewer, and the people who took off their leather jackets turned around, whispered to each other, and dispersed.

Uncle Hauser patted the "troll" with an ugly face and surprisingly small eyes, and drove him to his feet:

"Yes, Bobo, you go back too, go back, go back to eat, it's none of your business, yes, you stupid big man..."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

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

"Woo!"

Thales looked at the "monsters" dragging their leather jackets back in surprise: some of them were ugly, some were missing arms and legs, and some had strange shapes...

This is……

"By the way, where's Slimani?"

Xi Lai reacted and asked quickly:

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

Warniak leaned forward, shrugged his only free left shoulder, and raised the torch to make way for him:

Behind him, Slimani was lying upright under the corner of the wall, his eyes closed, and he had long fainted from fright.

————

A few minutes later, Thales and Hilley gathered around the fire and sat on the edge of a long-abandoned large reservoir. The sewage flowed quietly in the lowland a few meters away from them, and a few beams of light were cast from the wellhead above their heads.

"what can I do?"

Warniak sat across from them, waving his hands, and the tumor on his shoulder looked like another head:

"The emergency exit suddenly opened. You were carried back by Bobo, unconscious with blood on your face. Then two people came, and the second one was holding a weapon. Anyone else would have thought that you caused trouble outside and were chased. Kill...you say, twenty-four, what can I do?"

"Maybe you could be nice instead of going straight to scary."

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

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

Xi Lai touched the wound on his head with a painful expression.

Thales sat next to her and frowned at the potion in his "cup".

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

Thales looked around anxiously:

This is a long-abandoned sewer. The conditions are simple, but the area is not small. There are all kinds of people living in it, all kinds of, well...

"The phantom in the tea cup today showed 'Return', so I knew something was going to happen, haha." On the other side, a short dwarf woman scooped a spoonful of unpleasant potion from a broken bucket and walked towards the huddled room. In the corner, Slimani was even more horrified after waking up, "Keep drinking, unless you want to get sick or die from infection! You know, that was sewage from the sewer!"

"Thank you, Madam Gadama."

Hilley sighed and drank the unpleasant potion without hesitation.

"Anyway, twenty-four is back. This is the best thing. Just in time, come and have lunch with us!" Beside the fire, a girl stirring the pot took over. Her voice was sweet and clear, and she had long hair. The hair is black and shiny.

"Thank you, Dorothy, I can't wait." Healy smiled back and his voice was particularly gentle.

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

But for some reason, the other girl named Dorothy kept pointing the back of her head towards them - Huh?

Thales was shocked and realized:

This girl's face was covered with dense hair from her forehead to her eyes, from her nose to her chin.

That's why when viewed from a distance, it looks like the back of the head.

Dorothy felt Thales staring at her and suddenly trembled. She suddenly covered her face and turned her head to avoid his sight.

"Hey, where are you looking?" Warniak said angrily, and Thales quickly lowered his head.

"It's okay, Dorothy, he is my friend," Hilley comforted Dorothy while looking at Thales reproachfully, "He is ignorant."

"friend?"

Warniak said angrily and was full of hostility towards Thales: "We have no friends!"

"Oh, don't be stupid, you little naughty kid," Lady Gadama put down the spoon that was taller than her and turned back, "Of course you have friends, they are all in the tunnel!"

"Woo!" Bobo, who was more peripheral - a giant with a strange face, a rare appearance, and the intelligence of a child - nodded in agreement.

The entire tunnel.

Thales turned his head: In this abandoned sewer, there are some, well, "strange" people living in every corner and cave. It was dinner time, and they were busy going back and forth, shadowy in the firelight.

"It's different! You, me, Twenty-Four, Dorothy, Bobo, and Uncle Hauser, we are all the same and belong here," Warniak pointed at Thales unhappily, "But he, he Not one of us!"

One of our...

Thales frowned.

"Oh, of course he is one of us! Look if you don't believe it."

Hillai raised his head, turned around and hit Thales on the back of the head.

"Ouch!"

Thales screamed in pain: "What are you doing?"

But instead of stopping, Heeley hit him several times one after another.

"Ouch! Ah! Ouch!"

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

"See?"

Hilley looked at Warniak and Dorothy and shrugged:

"This is Wyatt. He broke his head when he was a child and is mentally retarded."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. After a few seconds, Warniak turned his head angrily, and Dorothy giggled.

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

Madam Gadama waved her spoon and laughed:

"You finally have a boyfriend!"

"Woo!"

The residents of the strange tunnel next to the fire were booing back and forth, but Warniak was still unwilling to give in.

Facing their looks, Thales was extremely embarrassed.

"He's not my boyfriend." Healy said listlessly.

"Really? But he looked so handsome when he saved you just now!" Madam Gadama blinked.

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

"What about him?"

Uncle Hauser appeared from another hole with a pile of goods. He came to a table that was obviously a workbench, stood on a step stool, and motioned to Slimani who was hiding in the corner and forcing a smile.

"Well, he's a passenger, from above," Hilley sighed, "a refugee."

After the words fell, Thales felt that everyone's eyes on Slimani immediately became wary, full of rejection and hostility.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that the few blows he had received on the back of his head were made by Hilley as a guarantee for him.

“Well, Slimani is a defense attorney.”

Hilley said:

"He has money."

Seeing so many strange looks, Slimani had to smile amid fear and nervousness.

"Two coppers an hour, twenty coppers for the night, and food is included." Warnia lowered her face, "Don't look, you are not the first person to escape here!"

Slimani was stunned for a moment until Bobo next to him snorted angrily:

"Woo!"

Only then did Slimani react and quickly said: "Okay, okay, I'll give it, I'll just give it, damn..."

But he stopped taking out money.

"Well, I, I, all my money is..." Slimani pointed to the top of his head awkwardly.

Under the unkind looks of all the residents, Thales sighed, took out the money bag that Huai Ya—the real Huai Ya—gave him, pulled out a handful of coins, and handed it to Warniak.

Everyone's eyes softened, and Dorothy and Lady Gadama began to pass out bowls of food to everyone - even though it was just some ordinary oatmeal and stew.

"Thank you, thank you. Is this a sewer? Where is this place? And who are you?"

Slimani is no longer as nervous as before, but maybe it is due to the situation or the environment is too dirty, but he is still very uncomfortable.

"This place is our home." Madam Gadama dragged the pot, put a spoonful of porridge into his broken bowl, then carefully raked the pot a few times, and carefully put the next spoonful into Xi Lai. In the bowl, "If it doesn't work, just understand it as: our gang,"

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

"Sewer gang!" Uncle Hauser, who was picking through old goods, sarcastically said.

"The Brutal Gang!" Warniak said unconvinced.

"Scary gang!" Madam Gadama laughed.

"Super terrorist gang?" Warniak hesitated and made another suggestion.

"Woo!" Bobo on the other side responded.

"Underground monster gang!" Warniak wanted to struggle again.

"I love helping others!" Dorothy, whose hair covered her face, said softly.

"Okay," Warniak sighed and gave up the argument. He touched the tumor on his shoulder. "After more than ten years of arguing, we still can't even agree on a gang name."

"You are the only one making noise," Uncle Hauser struggled to open an old umbrella with holes in it and began to disassemble the ribs. "Everyone in the tunnel is busy with their lives, and no one cares about this at all."

"Of course we care!" Wonyaka argued, "How did the Blood Bottle Gang and the Brotherhood get their name? Yes, it starts with a majestic name!"

Thales was silent, watching their bickering back and forth, but felt something familiar.

It was as if he had returned to the sixth house of beggars.

Maybe everything is dangerous outside the house, but as long as you enter the house and hide in your own nest...

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

"On the contrary," Uncle Hauser shook his head. "We used the legend of the water ghoul to scare away irrelevant outsiders and keep them away from danger—Twenty-Four's idea."

Thales came close to Xi Lai's ear and whispered: "Why do they call you Twenty-Four?"

Xi Lai's eyes lit up, he raised his left hand, and the six fingers on it flicked back and forth.

"Oh." Thales suddenly realized.

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

Miss Kevin Deere was just like this, with her twelve fingers flashing, holding her broken bowl, with a relaxed posture and an air of ease, sitting in the dirty and smelly abandoned sewer, gathered around the stove, and talked to Doro Xi, Warniak, Bobo and the others were back and forth, making noises and joking.

There is no splendor, no fine clothes and fine food, no attention of thousands of people.

But she, Hille Kelvindir, or Twenty-Four, sat among them—the big man with the strange face and weak intelligence, the gnarled young man, the dwarf couple, the hairy girl, and maybe More - in the middle, but smiling so happily.

So comfortable.

It seems that this is her home, her fortress, and her Kongming Palace.

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

Thales suddenly understood how Xi Lai was related to this place.

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

Mindis Hall?

Star Lake Castle?

Thales thought this and gradually fell into a trance.