A hint of chill lingered in my heart.

Joe's heart beat inexplicably several times, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

It was surrounded by soldiers and knights with torches and lanterns, but Joe still felt cold, a little weak, a little scared...... The surrounding black pine forest seemed to be suddenly filled with countless ghosts.

……

Well, it's the fear that the word 'inhuman' instinctively generates for Joe.

And the root of it all...... It can only be said that when the child is young, the story before going to bed, it is better not to tell 'ghost stories'!

When Joe was a child, Leah would occasionally tell some folk tales in order to lull him to sleep.

There are a lot of legends about 'non-humans'.

'Inhuman'!

Everything that is not human, everything that can be described is a sea monster, everything that is intelligible, everything that is intelligible, something that cannot be accurately described in human language...... Everything that is 'weird' and 'terrifying' can be called 'inhuman'.

There are a lot of extremely 'terrifying' and 'evil' existences.

For example, in the port of Tulun, there are folk sayings, such as 'walking huts', 'small fireplaces for eating children', 'slippers for gnawing on toes', and so on...... All of these can be classified as 'non-human'.

Joe listened to a lot of these 'non-human' bedtime stories as a child...... One can imagine how serious the psychological shadow left by these things on him.

Even though he was already eighteen years old, he suddenly heard this Hydra secret guard say the word 'inhuman', even if there were so many extraordinary combat forces around him, Joe still subconsciously shed a layer of cold sweat.

"Inhuman?" Joe looked at the Hydra Guard.

"There is no entity, but it is extremely powerful...... We've come across something like that. Hydra's guard's face was a little ugly: "The tall and thin figure of the black pine forest...... Shadow ...... who specialize in child trafficking In the last dozen years, near Hydrerabad, he has become famous. ”

Joe's eyes widened as he stared at the Hydra guard and motioned for him to continue.

"We have captured three, and now they are imprisoned in the Claustrophobic Temple for His Excellency Mediga to study...... We've killed seven ...... But they keep coming. The Hydra secret guard whispered in a somewhat gloomy tone: "Their strength is strong and weak, the weaker one has just entered the fifth order, and the one just now is the absolute senior sixth order. ”

Joe took a soft breath of cool air, and he squinted, frowned, and looked through the car window at the dark black pine forest.

He muttered under his breath, "Hurry up and get back to Hydrderabad...... The spirit of corrosion can make such a big mess......"

Joe didn't finish his words.

Big Ivan and his group, in the Miller family's house, were about to attack and kill Sharpe, who had left the Golden Hammer Club, and in the Miller's house, they met Archbishop Arya of the Hill Church, as well as Mia and Michael's party.

Today's Hyderabad, except for the corrupting spirits that escaped...... But there is also the heresy lurking in the Hill church.

Escort Ferdinand back to Hyderabad.

Qiao Ke didn't want to admit that it was because of inexplicable fear that he didn't want to stay on this dark forest road for a while.

Ferdinand suddenly 'giggled': "Little one, what are you afraid of?" Ah, ah, the story of the 'inhuman'...... Those scary bedtime stories? Hahaha, when Salian and Conrad were kids, I told them a lot of these stories......"

"Oh, oh, you don't know, what a funny thing it is to look at your precious son, so frightened that he huddles in the bed and doesn't dare to move, and obediently sleeps until dawn!"

"Let me think about it, my favorite bedtime story to tell them at that time was about the 'inhuman'...... It's a 'bedside table that crawls out of the imps...... Hey, 'will climb out of the imp's bedside table', Salian and Conrad love the story. ”

Joe rolled his eyes and glanced at Ferdinand.

This one...... Old bastard.

Subconsciously touching the hairs standing up on the back of his neck, Qiao instinctively glanced at the black pine forest.

Outside the prison cart, Hydra guards, as well as those high-ranking knights, let out a sharp whistle at the same time, and they all drew their weapons and formed a battle formation beside the prisoner cart.

As far as Qiao's line of sight could see, in the black pine forest, more than a dozen black figures about nine feet tall, thin as bamboo poles, wearing bowler hats, and holding slender crutches, were standing in a row more than 100 feet away from the avenue.

They stood there quietly, their bodies cold and evil.

A group of soldiers raised their new rifles, and at the same time the soldiers pulled the trigger as a captain officer gave the order.

These soldiers are all elite of the field army near Fort Hydrderabad.

The new rifle in their hands is a new gadget that is trial-produced in small batches in the arsenal under Salian.

Half-inch, that is, the metric caliber of 12.5 millimeters, ten-round magazine, semi-automatic. Combined with mechanical sights, this new rifle has extremely high accuracy at nearly 2,000 feet.

And within a thousand feet, this new large-caliber rifle is enough to pose a deadly threat to extraordinary warriors below the fifth order.

More than 300 soldiers raised their guns and aimed at the same time, 'bang, bang, bang'...... A large-caliber steel core was whistling out of the chamber by copper bullets, and with a sharp sound of breaking the air, it hit more than a dozen black shadows in the dense forest.

The low temperature froze the black pine trees extremely hard, and the large-caliber bullets hit the frozen black pine trees, bursting into large craters the size of human heads.

These soldiers were well-trained elites, and only a small half of the bullet hit the trunk of the tree, and the other half of the bullet hit the strange black shadows.

The black shadows' bodies appeared and disappeared, and when the bullet hit their body, they instantly became transparent, and when the bullet flew by, they reappeared again.

In just a few breaths, the soldiers ran out of bullets from one magazine, and they unloaded them one after another, pulled out new ones from the ammunition pouch hanging from their waists, and quickly finished reloading.

Gunfire rang out again.

There were tall grenadiers who threw heavy new grenades into the dense forest.

A huge explosion sounded, shrapnel flew everywhere, and small steel balls continued to hit the trunk of the tree, causing the bark of the black pine trees to crack, and countless dense small pits were punched out of the trunk.

Ferdinand, who was sitting across from Joe, stood up at the moment the shots rang out, leaned on the window, and looked at the soldiers who were firing fiercely outside.

"The shape of this gun...... Wrong. ”

"The power of this gun...... Wrong. ”

"The rate of fire of this gun...... What's more...... This is not a flintlock rifle, this is ......"

Joe looked at Ferdinand and lowered his voice: "The new rifle, a good thing developed under the auspices of His Highness Salian." ”

Ferdinand looked at Joe suspiciously: "Merit to Salian?" No, you lied to me...... Salian is my son, and I know him better than you...... He's a good heir to the throne, but to say he can invent such a thing? Do you think he's one of those mechanical lunatics at Second University? ”

Ferdinand narrowed his eyes, and he pointed to Joe, "Ah, those boxes that were taken out of the Royal Bank headquarters...... Also, the Jules Silverhammer family that Salian bought from me...... Well, and, you little one! ”

"You little one, it's funny!" Ferdinand pursed his lips and nodded vigorously, his eyes swept over the medals and badges worn by Joe: "It's interesting...... If you will lend me a million gold marks. ”

Joe rolled his eyes, and he pushed open the door of the prisoner's cart and shouted loudly.

The carriage shook slightly, and several Hydra guards quickly got into the carriage and sat down next to Ferdinand. Joe stepped on the pedals of the carriage, stepped out of the prisoner car, and then slammed the door shut: "You guys are optimistic about him...... Ha, I'm here to meet these uninvited friends. ”

Jo breathed deeply, his pupils glowing red, and he gritted his teeth and walked a few steps towards the dense forest, despite the obstruction of Mr. Sterns and Lan Mujin, and came to the junction of the avenue and the dense forest.

Crimson instinct quietly floated, and Joe felt great humiliation and anger in his heart because of the inexplicable fear just now.

How could he ...... Afraid of these ......'the scum of the three scum'?

Joe's two eyes quickly turned red, flashing a faint red glow in the night. With a slight sound, his two sleeves quietly shattered, and the Titan Fist turned into streamers, quickly enveloping his two arms.

"Hey, what are you guys...... What are you doing here? Well? ”

"I heard that you are very good at abducting children?"

"Hah, we don't have any kids here...... We're all big guys here! ”

The gunfire and explosions stopped.

The soldiers were helpless to find that their guns, grenades, and grenades did not do any damage to these black shadows.

The soldiers clenched their rifles tightly, and like Joe before, they breathed heavily and broke out in a cold sweat.

A tall, thin black figure silently took two steps forward, raised the thin cane in his hand, and gently pointed at Ferdinand's prison cart.

Silently, with the movement of this black shadow, a layer of faint mist rose in the dense forest on both sides of the avenue. After only a breath or two, the mist in the dense forest quickly thickened, gradually becoming a thick milky white like milk.

The front and back of the avenue where the team was located were also blocked by white mist.

In the white mist at the front and back ends of the avenue, there were also thin and tall long black shadows faintly.

Joe lowered his voice and asked the two Hydra guards who came to his side, "There are so many of them?" Right on the edge of Hydrderabad? Damn it! ”

The faces of the two Hydra guards were also very ugly.

Because these shadows are related to some of the children's disappearances, the Hydra Secret Guard, as well as some other powerful departments of the Empire, have joined forces to encircle and suppress them.

However, after more than ten years of encirclement and suppression, the total number of black shadows they found was less than twenty.

Some of them were killed, some of them were captured, and in recent years, the disappearance of children seems to have disappeared, and everyone still thinks that these black shadows have been completely exterminated.

Unexpectedly, there are so many of them who actually appeared at the same time today.

Gritting his teeth, Joe looked at the black shadow that was only fifty feet away from him, he clenched his right fist hard, and then threw a punch.

With a loud bang, the dense forest in front of him shook violently, countless falling pine needles on the ground were shattered, and a fist the size of a water tank condensed by red light hit the black shadow squarely.