Chapter 1419 - 41: A Brutal Rescue Method

Chapter 1419: Chapter 41: A Brutal Rescue Method

Ambela City, a clean and prosperous city.

In the perception of the outside world, the Sun Kingdom is a country with moral purity, and its people are upright and cannot tolerate even the slightest dirt and filth.

Is this really the case? Clearly not. In this war-torn era, except for countries like the Geya Alliance that are madly invading externally, most of the surrounding countries have civilians living in some poverty.

If the residents of the Sun Kingdom were really so upright, that middle-aged driver Su Xiao had tied up earlier wouldn’t have taken his pocket watch and vintage car to flee.

Essentially, most civilians in Blue Sea Star countries are similar; compared to national image, they care more about their families. They just want enough food to eat — only then would they have the leisure to gossip about the affairs of great powers.

Sun Kingdom’s upper echelons indeed have a moral purity, but it’s not evident among the commoners. The main roads of Ambela City are indeed spotless, but this city also has dirty alleys, slums, etc., with a crime rate only about 2% lower than cities of the same scale within the Geya Alliance.

It’s not that Ambela City is ’spotless’, but rather, a surface is maintained by the Royal Family and the Divine Court, unlike the Geya Alliance, where the dirt is exposed, and even no-go zones have appeared.

The first sun slowly rose, and the residents of Ambela City began a busy new day. But before the rush, they would pray, at home or in factories, to their Goddess of Dawn. As for whether the Goddess of Dawn, whose ’godly’ avatar was just devoured by someone, could hear them, that was unknown.

Smoke rose above many residences, the streets became bustling, the aroma of food wafted through the air, and occasionally a vintage car drove by while steam engines roared inside small workshops on the street, making the city more lively.

Su Xiao mingled in with the crowd on the streets, holding a paper bag of freshly baked bread, still warm. The bread was soft, but Su Xiao didn’t care for the taste of the jam inside, a blend of sour, sweet, and astringent flavors.

Su Xiao was strolling along a main street in Ambela City, or rather, he was looking for someone.

Beep, beep, beep...

The signal receiver in Su Xiao’s hand emitted a rapid electronic sound, indicating that the small assistant was nearby. After precise positioning, Su Xiao raised an eyebrow; the small assistant was underground.

After moving a few hundred meters through the crowd, Su Xiao arrived directly above the small assistant. The light representing the small assistant was green, indicating that she was still alive.

Quickly, Su Xiao entered a narrow alley between two tall buildings, easily lifting the manhole cover, and he jumped into the sewer.

With a splash, sewage splattered, and Su Xiao, chewing on bread, didn’t care at all. He could eat lunch even sitting on a pile of corpses, let alone in a sewer.

Throwing away the empty paper bag and brushing the bread crumbs off his hands, Su Xiao took out a thick tablet.

There was no satellite network in this world, so Su Xiao could only rely on the two-way signal receiver to find the small assistant. Fortunately, the signal transmitter swallowed by the small assistant was an item certified by Reincarnation Paradise, with a wide signal radiation range.

Wading through the sewage, Su Xiao reached a cement platform beside a drainage channel. A few mice were startled away; these were as large as house cats, and it was common for them to attack humans when they gathered together.

Su Xiao was, of course, not worried about being attacked by mice. When they saw him, they turned and fled, some even feigning death by staying motionless in the sewage.

The underground drainage system of Ambela City was very complex. To sustain a large city’s drainage, it takes more than a dozen or even dozens of sewers.

meters away from Su Xiao, in a low sewer.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

A dry cough sounded, and a frail figure curled up in an iron pipe at the sewage outlet, with drops of fresh blood oozing from her fingers.

"Huff, huff, things actually went south, what bad luck."

The one curled up in the iron pipe was none other than the small assistant. She had successfully entered the airplane earlier, but due to lack of opportunity, she could only wait. However, when the plane landed in Ambela City, the wing broke during the taxi.

Du Bo · Yi Si, sitting in the front cabin, wasn’t much affected, but the small assistant in the rear cabin hit her head on the door and passed out.

When the small assistant came to, a few soldiers from the Sun Kingdom had just entered the rear cabin. After a brief firefight, she managed to kill eight people and took two gunshots, escaping into the city. Luckily, she was clever enough to smear some colored resin on her face after entering the plane, and since it was night, the enemies did not clearly see her appearance.

Regardless, the small assistant couldn’t go to any medical institution for treatment; the entire city was secretly searching for her, making her afraid to venture groundside. She was a marked person and would rather die in Ambela City than elsewhere.

Blood dripped from the small assistant’s fingertips; she extended her hand to let the blood trickle into the sewage.

A few black beetles rose to the surface, drawn by the smell of blood.

"Not bad luck."

Tearing off a piece of clothing, the small assistant grabbed those black beetles, wrapped them in the fabric, and quickly rinsed them. After doing all this, she bit into the clothing at her abdomen.

There were two penetrating gunshot wounds in the small assistant’s abdomen, with signs of infection. She picked up a black beetle and placed it near the wound.

Attracted by the smell of blood, the black beetle opened its mandibles and bit through her skin, starting to suck blood.

After placing several black beetles, the small assistant exhaled deeply. Although Creta Beetles are bloodsuckers, the saliva they secrete while sucking blood has a disinfectant effect.

Just as the small assistant was about to rest, she heard faint footsteps.

The footsteps drew nearer, and the small assistant pulled out the handgun at her waist, flipping the safety off, her gaze fixed on the entrance of the iron pipe. Severe blood loss blurred her vision.

With a clatter, something unknown was tossed into the pipe.

"It’s over."

The small assistant let out a bitter smile, realizing that the enemy was more cunning than she thought.

Bang!

With a burst of white light, the small assistant, her vision a complete white, was just about to pull the trigger when an irresistible force tugged at her hand, pulling away her gun. Next moment, she felt something wrapping around her ankle, pulling her out of the iron pipe forcibly.

After about ten seconds, the white light in front of the small assistant’s eyes faded a bit. The previous item seemed not to be a shock bomb.

"Judging by the vital signs, you won’t die anytime soon."

Su Xiao pulled up the small assistant’s clothing, assessing her injuries. Hearing Su Xiao’s voice, the small assistant was stunned for a moment, then understood what was going on. If Su Xiao had shown his face at the pipe’s entrance earlier, there was a high chance he’d have taken a bullet.

"Sir, I found the target’s location."

The small assistant lay sprawled in a large spread on the cold cement platform, beginning to feel drowsy.

"Oh."

Su Xiao hoisted the drowsy small assistant, stepping toward the sewer exit.