In the past few days, all the great knights of the Holy Crusade have been a little uneasy, as if something big is about to happen, but they can't figure out where the uneasiness comes from.
The big knights who usually stay in the territory are pretty good, but those stationed on the border are inevitably suspicious.
The area controlled by the Holy Crusaders is now very peaceful, and wars of various kinds rarely occur.
The southern area bordering the Blood Parliament is also in a temporary peaceful stage due to the civil war in the Parliament.
The great knight Tyron, who presided over the war in the south, also tried to launch an attack, but was beaten into disgrace and never dared to act rashly again.
The Dark Dragonriders stationed in the north are still neutral and have not participated in the civil war, and their strength is basically intact.
Although the high-end combat power is insufficient and unable to attack, the defense is more than enough.
Moreover, during the period of Persephone's rampage, she pushed back the Holy Crusaders nearly a hundred kilometers and captured several very important strategic strongholds, which greatly improved the defensive situation on the northern front.
At the same time, three of the four great knights originally stationed on the southern front were lost to her, and the strength of the Holy Crusaders was greatly damaged as a result.
Tyron was originally a great knight stationed at the rear, and was brought in to fill the vacancy on an emergency basis.
Different from the self-growth of the Dark Dragonriders, all the great knights of the Holy Crusade must undergo an initiation ceremony to become great knights.
The great knights who have successfully gained enlightenment have some ability to predict danger.
Therefore, although the great knights are not much stronger than the high-ranking officers of the Dragon Riders in terms of ability, they rarely fall in battle.
Killing three great knights in a row under Persephone was something that had never happened to the Holy Crusaders since the Founding War.
In front of Persephone, the sense of danger that the great knights relied on most seemed to have completely lost its effect.
The cause of this situation is still under investigation by Shenghui Cross, and there is no conclusion yet.
Only after knowing that Persephone was missing did Tyron dare to attack the Dark Dragonriders.
But the experienced General Kaplan did not give him any opportunity to take advantage of him.
Just when everyone among the great knights was feeling uneasy, an order was suddenly issued from the headquarters to raise the alert level to the highest level of total war.
Tyron, who was guarding the south, was fine, but Stella Knight, the supreme commander in charge of the defense of the west, couldn't understand this order.
To the west of the Holy Crusaders are vast and sparsely populated mountains, primeval forests and lonely snowfields.
It is freezing cold all year round and the environment is extremely harsh.
The severe cold and scarce food turned the vast snowfield of millions of square kilometers into a no-man's land.
Just for the mineral deposits and pre-war resources there, several permanent settlements were built in Shenghui Cross, but maintaining them was expensive, and every year there was a lot of debate about whether it was worth maintaining them.
Who would attack from this direction?
Not to mention that there are not many people in this direction.
Even if a large organization wanted to launch an unexpected attack from here, the supplies would not be able to keep up.
Unless it was just a small team composed of a few ability users, it would be possible to cross the snowfield.
But a few people who dare to challenge the Holy Crusade, which has a population of half a million and thousands of troops, are really looking for death.
Due to the actual needs of the western defense line, apart from combat, Stella's specialty is perception, and her danger intuition is stronger than that of ordinary knights.
He believed that no one could make trouble under his nose.
When another night fell, Stella read the last few chapters of an old-time novel by the fireplace as usual, drank a glass of red wine, and fell into a deep sleep.
The night was very quiet, and the snow outside the window was floating silently.
His sense of danger never changed, allowing him to sleep peacefully until dawn.
But Stella didn't know that the three people came through the snow, passed by the fortress where he was stationed in the night, and disappeared in the direction leading to the resting place.
After the alert level was raised, the Holy Crusaders arrested a group of internal unrest, but they were all petty thieves and petty corruptors, and they did not find any valuable outside infiltrators.
However, the alert level has not been lifted.
Since the alert order came from the headquarters' highest organization, the Temple, no one among the great knights stationed in the four directions dared to question this order.
The number of troops used for security and patrol tasks can only be increased to five times the normal level in accordance with existing regulations.
Thirty kilometers away from the resting place, there is a small and peaceful village.
There are hundreds of residents scattered here, many of whom are family members of soldiers in the nearby Beta 3 security fortress.
Other residents also make a living by providing services to the guard fortress.
There are nearly a hundred soldiers in the Beta 3 alert fortress.
The fortress has two main guns with a large range of fire, four anti-aircraft missile launchers, and an advanced radar warning system, giving it powerful firepower.
There are four fortresses of the same size guarding the resting place.
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Under tight defense, even if a dozen nuclear missiles attack at the same time, they will be shot down in flight.
In such heavy snow weather, the small village is very quiet.
The villagers are widely scattered, with more than half of the residents living on their own farms, separated by hundreds of meters or even nearly a kilometer from each other.
Only the faint smoke coming from every house showed the warm atmosphere.
At this time, everyone would like to stay with their family, drink a cup of tea by the warm fire, or read a few books.
The life of the citizens of the Holy Crusaders is no different from the old times.
It can be described as happiness.
Even many residents in Dragon City do not have such good living conditions.
After visiting an ordinary villager's house inside and out, Su came to this conclusion.
This is a three-story building with five bedrooms and up to seven function rooms.
The large living room on the first floor is warm and comfortable.
The owner of the house, an old man, lives here with his wife and four children, and makes a living by farming.
The storage room on the first floor contains enough food to last the whole winter, and the three large farm machines in the garage also have a certain amount of stored oil.
And there is a large amount of dry firewood piled up, which is enough to meet the needs of heating.
There are enough forests in this area and there is no shortage of firewood.
If this family's life were placed in the Blood Parliament, it would definitely be better than 90% of ordinary people.
This is not to say that the Blood Parliament's wealth accumulation is higher than that of the Holy Crusaders.
In fact, from what Su saw along the way, the technical level of the Blood Parliament may have been an era ahead of the Holy Crusaders, and the huge wealth is not what the Holy Crusaders have.
Can be compared.
However, more than 90% of the Blood Parliament's technology, resources and wealth are concentrated in the hands of giants, wealthy families and families, and most ordinary people can share less than 10%.
And most of these 10 are owned by the followers of the Dark Dragonriders and the ability users under various forces.
In the Holy Crusade, the distribution of wealth is much more even.
Only the treatment of great knights is significantly different, and the wealth difference between ability users and ordinary people is not very big.
There is faith here, so with the support of faith, capable people and ordinary people are equal in many aspects.
However, within the scope of the Blood Parliament, if we divide it from the perspective of ability users, then the ability users who only account for less than 10% of the population occupy more than 95% of the wealth or resources.
The remaining 5 is the minimum consumption required to maintain the survival of the rest of the population.
At this time, Su roughly understood why the old man told him that only the Holy Crusade had its own answer.
Should we give ordinary people a better life, or should we allocate more resources to those with greater abilities?
Politics can be simplified to the distribution of resources and interests, but the trade-offs can be infinitely complex.
Su sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace, folding her hands and resting on her chin, covering half of her face.
She stared at the dancing fire with her deep left eye, not knowing what she was thinking.
Madeline was walking upstairs.
She was like a curious girl, looking here and touching, obviously very satisfied with this clean, warm and cozy home.
There was the sound of heavy objects being moved upstairs.
Sylvanas was dragging the unconscious family upstairs one by one and throwing them onto the bed in the guest room.
This family is basically composed of ordinary people, and only the strong second son has first-level strength.
They were sitting around the fireplace in the living room, drinking tea, reading and chatting.
However, at this moment, Su suddenly appeared like a ghost, tapped everyone, and used bone spurs to make a small wound.
Trace amounts of venom invaded their bodies along the wounds, rendering them unconscious within seconds.
These toxins do not cause fatal damage, but only cause them to sleep for a few days, with only slight discomfort when they wake up.
The task of moving them to the room upstairs naturally fell on Sylvanas.
The young man was already very conscious and took on this task without any reminder.
Because Su planned to stay here for two or three days, the boy piled the whole family into one guest room.
After Sylvanas dragged the last person into the guest room, Su finally stood up and walked upstairs, quickly reaching the third floor.
Madeline was also on the third floor.
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She was standing in the master bedroom, looking at the details in the room.
On the cabinet next to the bed, there are some handicrafts of various styles, which seem to have been collected by the owner with a lot of effort.
The room was warm, the flue carrying heat from the living room fireplace into it.
She was watching in trance when she suddenly felt something strange behind her.
She turned around quickly, only to see Su standing at the door.
When she saw Su closing the bedroom door and walking towards her, Madeline's body suddenly stiffened and her face became a little pale.
She raised her hand slightly, then put it down a little helplessly, and she didn't know why she held her breath.
And on the tip of her nose, there were thin beads of sweat.
Madeline's eyes were fixed on the floor, and her field of vision was only narrowed to a one-meter radius.
She saw Su's feet appear in her field of vision, and knew that Su was standing next to her.
Then, there was a warm touch on her shoulder.
What does this feel like?
Is it Su’s hug?
Madeline's body was already as hard as steel.
When Su's arm touched her, her whole body shook suddenly.
An invisible shock wave immediately spread out with her as the center.
It was like a storm was blowing in the bedroom, and all the handicrafts and furniture were They all exploded in an instant.
This was a sign that her power was instantly raised to the extreme, yet it was forcibly controlled within her body.
"What's wrong?"
Su's voice rang in Madeline's ears, and the air flow disturbed a few strands of her hair.
Madeline still maintained her original posture, motionless, like a petrified statue.
She only squeezed out a few extremely blunt words from between her teeth: "Nothing."
"Then relax."
Su was as gentle as ever.
Madeline had completely transformed into a statue, and her posture had not changed at all.
Even with the digital camera, she could not be seen shaking at all.
But the body that was as tight as steel slowly softened.
This damn tenderness The moment she relaxed, the back of her neck suddenly went numb, and a few strands of sharp energy suddenly rushed into her body and hit her central nervous system.
When Madeline felt slightly stunned, her vision had gone dark and her body fell softly. , lost all consciousness.
Su carried Madeline to the bed, pulled the quilt and covered her.
Then, Su sighed silently as he stared at her beautiful sleeping face that contained a classical sculpture style.
The girl has developed a comprehensive sixth-level fighting domain ability, and has enough evolution points to generate two seventh-level abilities.
If she develops a single ability, such as strength, the evolution points consumed will be enough to support the emergence of ninth-level abilities.
For some unknown reason, the girl did not develop her abilities in a straight line.
Instead, she evolved all the first-level conventional abilities and then moved on to the next level.
But no matter what, due to the strong basic strength of her body, Madeline's fighting power was now extremely fierce.
If she was to fight at close range, Su could only rely on protracted fighting to find a way to wear her down.
For example, although Su himself had already had seven levels of strength enhancement, and the internal structure of his body had been modified beyond recognition, in terms of absolute strength alone, Su was still not as good as Madeline, who only had six levels of strength enhancement.
It was almost an impossible task to knock down the current Madeline unexpectedly.
It was only possible if she willingly gave up resistance.
Just like she just did, open everything to Su.
Sue knew this very well and why she did it.
He is not stupid, and his senses are very keen, but he usually doesn't think about it at all.
In fact, before taking action, Su had already decided to use this method to break down her resistance.
This was also the only way.
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Before approaching her, Su did have a strong urge to hug her, and she did not restrain or hide it.
Madeline could feel this impulse, and this was also the effect Su wanted to achieve.
Everything was as Su expected, she gave up resistance, let herself go, and then fell into a deep sleep.
Looking at the sleeping girl, Su smoothed out a few stray hairs on her face, ran his fingertips across her smooth skin, and gently pressed a very thin bone spur on the side of her ear.
Inject half a drop of venom.
This will allow her to sleep a little longer, and the girl will wake up a day later if not disturbed.
Su smiled as usual, but there was something bitter and inexplicable in her smile.
The girl fell asleep, but he planted a fire in her, a fire that might one day burn down the entire world.
Since it can burn the world, it can also burn her and him.
And Su himself was a little confused as to how much of the spontaneity at that moment was part of acting.
A full eight years have passed.
Eight years can change a lot of things.
Often when you are shocked, things have changed.
Su stood up, and the smile on his face became calm and calm again.
He raised his hand and pressed the air.
Sylvanas, who had just placed the last person, suddenly went limp and fell to the ground, falling into a deep sleep.
Su walked out of the bedroom, closed the door gently, and walked out.
His steps were precise, light, determined and fearless.
The fire has been cast, and even if it turns into a prairie fire, it will only be after he comes back alive.
Su Xing walked on the snowy field, his green eyes like swords, breaking through the night sky, falling towards the resting place shrouded in heavy fog.
He prepared to take down the mysterious resting place alone
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