Through the observation window, Lebius paid attention to the wounded lying on the hospital bed. Under the rescue of the border sanatorium, they were all out of danger, but due to excessive injuries, most of them were still in a coma and were under follow-up observation.
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Looking back, the wide and silent corridor was filled with heavy pressure. Everyone's face was gloomy, and there was uncontrollable sorrow between their brows, but no one sighed. Everyone held their breath in their throats and suppressed it.
The smell of disinfectant and blood lingered on the tip of the nose. The smell was unpleasant. Although no knife or gun was used, it felt like a war.
Lebius was leaning on crutches, tapping the solid ground, making the only noise in the silence. Jeffrey followed behind Lebius, and at this moment he also had a serious face and frowned.
At the end of the corridor, Team Six, the leader of the riot control operations team, Yas stood there with his arms folded. Next to him stood Hart. His thick muscles and fur made him look special no matter where he appeared.
Attractive.
A few people made eye contact, and Lebius pushed open the door on one side of the corridor, and the others followed Lebius.
The smell of disinfectant and blood in the ward became stronger, as if it had just undergone a major operation and Rachel had been waiting here for a long time.
Lebius asked, "Can we start?"
"Okay," Rachel nodded, and said a little worriedly, "His condition is not good, it's best to end it as soon as possible."
"Well, I understand."
Rachel left the ward and handed over the space to the field staff.
Opening the curtain, there was an injured field worker lying on the hospital bed. His face was pale, his breath was weak, and his entire right foot disappeared out of thin air, leaving a flat cross section.
Mallory, the unlucky guy whose leg was broken by Palmer's mouth, if he had entered the winding path just a few seconds slower, Mallory would have broken half of his body instead of his leg.
Relying on the emergency rescue from the border sanatorium and various excessive doses of alchemical potions, after several hours of hard work, they finally snatched Mallory back from the hands of death.
Mallory's body was tortured, but his mental state was still good enough to stay awake and talk to a few people.
"Hello, everyone."
Mallory smiled bitterly and nodded to the two team leaders. They were more or less old acquaintances.
Lebius moved a chair and sat down next to Mallory. Looking at Mallory's broken leg, Lebius should have comforted him, but now there are more important things than comforting him.
And since we are all field staff, this kind of thing is completely normal.
"What happened?"
Lebius asked. Since the incident in Group 10, the Field Service Department has sent several teams to investigate the situation, but there has been no reply so far. In Lebius' view, it is better to ask directly than to wait for them.
these parties.
After a simple weighing, Rachel agreed with Lebius's idea, and the doctors reluctantly revived one of the team members, and this person was Mallory in front of them.
Mallory sighed. Sure enough, although he hadn't seen him for a while, Lebius still looked like the workaholic he was familiar with.
Others were also used to Lebius's appearance. Jeffrey, standing behind Lebius, nodded apologetically to Mallory.
Mallory tried hard to contain the pain in his body and collect his thoughts.
“Everything was normal at the beginning, and every step was carried out strictly according to the plan.
We surrounded the town of Iris, which is an important stronghold of the Orangutan Sect in the Hazama Kingdom, and an extraordinary disaster, the Eternal Rot Land, has occurred inside. According to the disposal regulations, we poured hundreds of tons of red into it.
The mercury is so high that the fireworks soaring into the sky can be seen dozens of kilometers away.”
Mallory felt depressed as soon as he recalled the difficult battle. The tenth group's operations against the Orangutan Sect lasted for several months. During this time, they had been in high-intensity fighting, and this final siege,
It was undoubtedly the craziest one in the long battle.
The flames burned the earth dry and cracked, and all flesh and blood was burned away. The air current easily raised the foehn wind, and the ashes all over the sky blew towards everyone like a blizzard.
"Just as the regulations stipulate, every time we destroy a piece of eternal rot, we move forward one step further. The whole process goes smoothly. The flesh and blood monsters that the Orang Rot Sect is proud of are burned to ashes by red mercury. Those who condense
They also died in the fire.
Only a few high-level sublimation practitioners have resisted the intrusion of the fireworks, but those few high-level sublimation practitioners cannot resist us at all, let alone the fact that we have a defender on our side."
Mallory was referring to the leader of the tenth group. Under the protection of the defenders, their offensive was furious and easily crushed the enemy.
"To be honest, it's unimaginable that everything went smoothly. We just solved these bastards so easily."
Mallory's expression turned ferocious mid-sentence. Hart quickly walked over, picked up the sedative, and injected Mallory for a while. After waiting for a few minutes, Mallory's condition improved a lot.
"According to your reports, after several months of pursuit, the power of the Orangutan Sect has been greatly weakened. The Orangutan Sect in Iris Town is only a remnant of strength, relying on the eternal rotten land to survive. You are attacking
Smooth and within a reasonable range.”
Lebius said that before coming, he carefully read the report of the tenth group and knew their actions well.
Mallory nodded in agreement with Lebius's words, and said, "Then...then we started to clean up the scene. You also know that we must not leave any flesh and blood of the Orangutan Sect on the scene, even if the fire has burned it.
Check it again."
"In the hinterland of its core, we found a cellar. That cellar was extremely important to the Orangutan Sect. They built a several-meter-thick wall of flesh there to resist the burning of red mercury. When we found it,
It was not affected by the fire at all.
We broke into it, and a battle broke out. After the battle, we found that there were not only the cultists of the Orangutan Sect in the cellar, but also another group of uninvited guests."
Lebius asked, "Who are they?"
Mallory explained, "The Gray Trade Chamber of Commerce and those strange merchants were also there. We inferred that they should be trading with the Orangutan Sect, but before the transaction was over, we were surrounded by merchants and cultists.
Still having no way to escape, he hid in the cellar."
"There was no mention of this in the report after the operation of our tenth group."
Yas wondered, as the leader of the sixth group, he also checked the action report of the tenth group, but there was no mention of the Gray Trade Chamber of Commerce in it.
"Don't be anxious yet, let me speak slowly."
Mallory had already anticipated the doubts of several people, and he had enough reasons to explain them all.
"It was Gold's instruction. He ordered us to keep the appearance of the Gray Trade Chamber of Commerce a secret."
Several people fell silent. The Gauld whom Mallory mentioned was the leader of the tenth group, located in the fourth stage, the chariot guarding the base.
"The battle in the cellar was fierce. They acted as if they were protecting something and had a strong desire to resist. However, under our team leader's offensive, their defense line collapsed in an instant and they were defeated.
During the subsequent cleanup of the scene, the team leader discovered something, which should be the goods traded between the Gray Trade Chamber of Commerce and the Orangutan Sect."
Lebius realized that the cause of this incident may be the trading items discovered by Gauld. He did not rush, remained patient, and listened to Mallory's story.
"I think you want to ask what the transaction item is now?" Mallory showed an ugly smile, "I'm sorry, I don't know what it is."
"Judging from the reaction of the team leader at that time, the trading item must be very important. He has always been a stable person, but after seeing the trading item, his emotions rarely got out of control, and he drove us out of the cellar.
Leave him alone.
The team leader spent some time alone with the trading item. When he came out, he carried the trading item and ordered us to return to the Bureau of Order as quickly as possible."
Mallory felt a headache. He covered his head, took deep breaths repeatedly, and tried his best to control his will. Hart wanted to inject Mallory with another sedative, but Mallory refused.
"Phew...this feels so bad."
Mallory gasped for breath. After suppressing his breathing, he said in a weak voice, "Now it seems that the team leader thinks that the transaction is extremely important. He didn't even write it in the report. Instead, he kept it secret and escorted it personally.
That transaction item is returned to the Bureau of Order."
"For this reason, he even disrupted the original plan. You know, in the action we planned, we will have to patrol the Hazama countries for a week before returning to the Order Bureau."
"Will the entire tenth team escort this transaction item?"
Lebius said as he felt a burst of pressure. This was a force that should not be underestimated, but it was used for escort.
But even so, something went wrong during the escort operation.
"The next thing is as you know very well. We were in the stronghold of the Hazama Kingdom and were preparing to use the winding path to return to the Bureau of Order. However, during our return, we were attacked by an unknown group."
Mallory murmured, "It seems that this trading item is really important... Maybe the actions of the Orangutan Sect during this period are also for this trading item."
Lebius nodded. Now that they knew enough, it was time to report to the decision-making room.
"The original thing."
Suddenly, Mallory threw out an unknown word. He looked at Lebius and continued, "The team leader didn't explain to us what the trading object was, but he called it the 'original thing'."
"Okay, we get it."
Lebius nodded to Mallory again, and Mallory passed out after holding on for a few seconds.
The willpower maintained by drugs can no longer hold on at this moment.
