[Attack on Titan] puppet

Before dawn, the members of the survey corps who participated in the expedition set off from the branch, and it took less than an hour to reach the Trost area. Faintly saw the first ray of faint morning light.

They have to hurry up. Considering that this is the first expedition for the recruits, Ewell does not plan to arrange the itinerary too far. Gabi Town, which is about four hours away from the Trost area, is the starting point for this expedition. The goal, as far as possible... No, it is necessary to arrange the supplies before dark and return from Gaby Town.

Because when the night falls completely, it is considered to be in real danger.

While there are reports of giants sluggish or even stop moving after dark, there is no conclusive evidence that this is the case for all giants.

During a stay at night many years ago, a large number of giants were attacked because a bonfire was lit in the wild, resulting in a situation that was almost wiped out. Giants are not completely unable to move at night, they will be attracted by light and gather together. So for the survey corps stranded at night, even a faint light of fire would be fatal.

Human beings who have lost their lighting are far more disadvantaged than giants in terms of mobility at night.

Human eyes can only see a short distance in the darkness, the three-dimensional mobile device is almost paralyzed, and although the giant's actions are restricted by the night, that doesn't mean it will disappear, it still exists There, so if you are unlucky and run into a giant, even experienced veterans will face a near-death situation.

If there was a night stay during the first expedition, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the death rate of the recruits would rise directly from [-]% to [-]%.

Ewell thinks this will be a meaningless sacrifice. Considering that there are no fort-like buildings in the itinerary of this route, he has already prepared even if the supplies are not fully arranged, in order to return to the Trost area before dark. Prepare for a forced evacuation, otherwise the loss of personnel may be more than double that of arranging another trip to Gaby Town to resettle supplies.

"It's starting to light up! We don't have time to slow down, we must speed up so that we can come back for dinner before dark!" Aiweier roared out an order mixed with encouragement, and led the members of the survey corps to cross the street quickly. At the gate of the city.

It was supposed to be the early morning when everyone was still asleep, but the streets were already bustling with crowds of people watching the fun, all of them with smiles on their faces, happily pointing at the passing investigative corps, and from time to time sending out "Please do Take back the wall from the giants" and something like that.

It has to be said that the enthusiasm of the masses hindered their progress to a certain extent.

Following closely behind Aiweier, Levi, who was in the front row, glanced dissatisfiedly at the smiling people around him and said, "We are going out to kill them, not acrobatic monkeys."

Han Ji on the side waved his hands carelessly after hearing this: "Don't worry about it, I think this is much better than before, Levi, you may not have experienced the previous expedition before the wall of Maria was broken, unlike Now, it’s almost all opposition, and I was once hit in the head with an egg thrown by some radical crowd, and my hair was sticky during the whole expedition.”

"It's disgusting." Levi gave Han Ji a disgusted look, then looked ahead and said calmly: "But in the end, as long as one's own interests are involved, everyone will start to worry."

"There's no way around it, Levi, aren't you worried about your students? They're just as anxious as I am when I'm about to meet all kinds of giants, hahaha." Waiting for the picture on the wall The garrison first used shells to clean up a wave of giants close to the wall door, Hanji reached out and patted Levi's shoulder without fear of death and said.

"I think you'll need two pairs of spectacles to cure your worsening nearsightedness."

Levi snorted coldly, this trip required speed, so he was arranged to be at the forefront of the formation, just in case the giant blocking the way could be dealt with in time without affecting the progress of the whole regiment.

Unlike when there was an accident in the training camp, he could reach out to help them. Now Levi doesn't think he can go back to save them out of personal feelings. The time for acting like a baby is completely over. , Whether they can survive or not depends entirely on themselves.

Located in the rear of the team and near the right side, Truth heard the shouts of the name "Levi" coming from the people on both sides from time to time, and couldn't help sighing: "Captain Levi is really amazing."

I didn't have any real sense of "the strongest human being" before, but now the truth deeply understands how important Levi is in people's hearts. Those eyes full of fanaticism and dependence seem to have blindly worshiped to the point of almost degree of faith.

Do not monopolize the hope of mankind, that may destroy the future of all people.

There was always such a sense of truth in those eyes, though she hadn't thought of it that way.

She remembered that Levi once denied love* and described it as "a time bomb that makes you impulsive and irrational, and loses the ability to think". negative?

"Compared to that Douding, I think it's better for you to think about yourself. At that time, don't be eaten by giants with missing arms and broken legs, and then lie on the ground crying in pain." Looking at Ai Bo from the position of the long-distance enemy formation Te is almost on the same level as Truth, so for the convenience of waiting for the formation to unfold, he naturally lined up beside Truth.

Truth was stunned for a few seconds before answering: "This is indeed something that needs to be paid attention to. It is more painful than biting to death." Missing arms and legs?She touched the scroll that was packed in the bag with the signal flare, if possible, she really didn't want it to appear.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and finally a gap was slowly opened in the heavy city gate.

"Start—" When the gate was fully opened, Aiweier pulled the rein and rushed out of the wall first. Behind him, a support team wiped out the remaining giants around. : "Long-distance enemy search formation unfolds!"

"Albert, think about your daughter-in-law who hasn't been married or even hasn't appeared yet. Don't be impulsive. Saving your life is the capital of the revolution!" Truth pulled the rein and commanded * Maliwei to move to the right, although Before setting off, she had told him and Vicky mother-in-law, but after finding the correct position, she couldn't help but reminded Albert loudly.

Albert turned his head and looked at the direction from which the noisy voice came from, his eyes with royal blue pupils narrowed slightly like a sly cat, "Stupid——" made an exaggerated mouth shape and nodded. Without looking back, he rode on the horse and ran away at a faster speed.

It was precisely because of this that she was worried, why was Albert still so nervous.

Truth glanced at his little friend Roger, who was placed in the same position as him, his facial expression became stiff with fright, and his whole body trembled slightly, as if he was playing horse tremors, but this should be a normal reaction, "It's okay What Roger? Your complexion is not very good, take a deep breath."

"Ha-huh-no, it's okay, I'm just a little nervous, my parents were eaten by giants right under my nose, so I still can't overcome the fear of giants... I can't help being afraid when I think about it. I have to tremble and want to escape back into the wall, isn't it? I want to be like Albert too...but I..." Roger said as if he was about to cry, holding With the reins, the free hand scratched his hair vigorously, as if to vent his helplessness for his cowardice.

It seems to be from the Xiganshina District. She suddenly remembered Albert when she mentioned Albert. It seems that she has never heard of his family situation or even where his hometown is after getting along for so long...

Truth looked around to make sure there were no unusual signs, and tilted his head to look at Roger, a little at a loss: "You don't have to learn from Albert, really, that's not a positive teaching material, I think it's good for you, I mean It’s actually quite normal to be afraid of being out of the wall for the first time, I heard that senior Oluou and Petra, who look very powerful now, actually peed their pants in fright when they participated in the investigation outside the wall for the first time.”

This is what I heard from Levi when I just woke up this morning. The reason is "Hey, kid, remember to go to the toilet before you leave, and don't be scared to pee your pants when you see the giant."

After listening to the dark history of the two, Roger raised the corners of his mouth and smiled reluctantly. He began to try to chat with the truth to relieve the pressure in his heart: "Mary, you don't seem to be scared at all, can I ask you Why did you join the Survey Corps? By the way, I wanted to kill all the giants and take back the invaded hometown of Higanshina.”

"Of course I am..." Truth choked suddenly, wait, this topic seems a bit sharp.

Now that I think about it, although she has been in the investigative corps for so long, she never hated giants at all in her heart from the very beginning, no, she may not even be considered disgusted...

I just want to be friends with them.

Stretch your fists and fight to protect humanity?A great preacher who ignites people's fighting spirit by propagating the idea of ​​resistance with rhetoric?After all, she didn't have such a lofty ideal, she didn't have the ability to correspond to it, and she never swore to donate her heart for it. It was just that the person she donated her heart chose to do so, so she didn't think about it followed.

"Mary!" Roger pointed to the right in horror.

A series of black smoke bombs pierced the sky, and a slowly enlarged figure could be vaguely seen from not far from the plain approaching here, the strange species missed by the right wing?

"Roger, I'll leave the launch of the flare to you, and I'm going to pull the monster." Truth followed Levi's mane, pulled the reins and rushed towards the giant on the right, "Hey, Levi , be smart, rush towards the direction of the crotch of the big guy without [beep——]."

Originally, it was extremely inefficient for her to kill monsters with a bloody, thick-skinned and low-output anti-monster character, but Truth felt that she could only bite the bullet. There were no experienced seniors nearby, and Luo Jay must have narrowly escaped death with a fear he hadn't quite overcome.

"It's really tall. Captain Levi will be very happy with this height even if he is given even a little bit." Truth looked up at the bloated figure about 12 meters tall. He ran forward intently with clumsy steps, with funny and ridiculous looks, ignoring the 1.61-meter short man who brushed past his toes.

Didn't have any attack response to her, is it because this is the reason of the strange species?

Truth didn't have time to think about it. She turned her horse's head to catch up with the giant's pace, pulled out the operating device and equipped it with a blade, and then shot the rope towards the back of the giant's neck. When the rope contracted and brought her whole body close to the giant, she suddenly thought of Doing this yourself is actually wrong and completely contrary to what the textbooks teach.

When encountering a giant in a plain battle, especially a tall giant, the most correct way is to try to break its hamstrings and force it to crawl on the ground. Without any other support points on the plain, it is difficult to escape the giant's counterattack if the range of movement is limited.

Cutting giants is not as easy as imagined... The truth will not be like Levi's single-rope spinning top whirlwind. The knife at the back of the neck is obviously shallow, and it did not cause a fatal blow to the giants .

Just when Truth was about to adjust its position and give it a last shot, the giant's palm suddenly slapped over when she didn't expect it, as if trying to slap a scurrying mosquito to death, and she It was obviously the kind of demented mosquito that sucked in blood and forgot to dodge in time.

The giant's two hands held her upper body with one hand and her lower body with the other, and it didn't intend to swallow her.

Covered by the giant's palm, the truth is completely blinded in the darkness. Didn't you promise that you won't attack?

When I sat on their shoulders outside the wall at first, I didn’t see them have any sense of attack. Giants don’t have a digestive system. They eat people for the purpose of killing, so even if she has a human skin on the surface, it’s very difficult for them. It should be a lifeless dead person...

Wait a minute, the intelligence we know so far doesn't seem to cover the response of giants to being attacked by species other than humans, and it seems that giants may be intelligent creatures.

Regardless of whether this is from the self-defense instinct of the giants, or the giants actually have the ability to remember, they already naturally think that the humanoids that operate the three-dimensional mobile device and inflict damage on their back necks are human beings who are the target of the attack. Compared to considering these things, Truth felt that the most urgent thing to do was to figure out how to take care of the funeral. Although the giant was not going to eat her, it was obvious that he wanted to break her legs in the middle.

The torn flesh contains chakra lines that are tied to the heart, and the heart will feel a lot of pain after breaking.

"It's really painful, but do you think this will kill me mentally retarded." Truth couldn't help cursing. As the saying goes, dogs that can bark don't bite people. The reason why she said this was because she knew very well It's come to an end.

"I think it's you who is mentally retarded!"

"Ai..." Before the truth was finished, there was the sound of a knife cutting through the flesh and the roar of the giant. In the darkness, the body felt the weightlessness caused by the fall. The giant's hands seemed to be cut off directly, and then came The heavy muffled sound of the giant falling to the ground.

It was so messy, rather than cutting off the arm, the back of the giant's neck should be cut off first, otherwise the giant's bite would be extremely lethal if it was bitten down.

But since she made a bigger mistake, she is not qualified to blame Albert. She can feel the palm of the giant holding her is gradually evaporating, and the sound sounds like barbecue.

But the lower limbs have no feeling at all. I don’t know if it was directly crushed or torn off. Thinking that everything will be exposed to Albert’s eyes after the giant’s palm evaporates, Truth feels an unprecedented panic .

"Albert, are you okay?" The moment the giant's palm disappeared, the only thing Truth saw was the silver blade glowing with cold light, and then came complete darkness, "Wait...how are you?" what are you doing!"

This time I was really blind.

Albert withdrew the blade, his breathing was rapid, and his voice was a little weak, but he was very righteous: "It's just gouging out your monster's eyes, do you hate me? It happens that I hate you very much. I hate you so much that I wish I could kill you right now. Solve you, but that is too disgusting, even more disgusting than killing giants, I want to vomit."

"Hey, to be honest, I've been used to this kind of thing for a long time. I can't say I hate it. In fact, I can quite understand your Albert. I still regard you as a friend." Although the truth can't see anything , but she could imagine from the direction of Albert's voice that he was looking down at her at this moment, with what kind of eyes?disgust?hatred?despise?

There was no more time to spend with this idiot, Albert came to Levi who was obediently standing aside, took out the cylindrical object contained in its package, and threw it on the truth: "Close Your mouth, you write your suicide note with this thing and wait here to die slowly."

"This is..." Truth was stunned. The scroll that can revive her with full blood on the spot, even the eyes that have been gouged out, should have a spare. As long as they are installed again, they can see again. It belongs to the puppet. Convenience.

But why such a coincidence?She would never have gotten it if it hadn't happened to be thrown over.

"Wait a minute, Albert!" There was no response.

After taking a last look at the truth, Albert summoned his own horse. The brown steed considerately gave his little master his head and tried to help him when he was struggling to get on the horse's back.

There is still a giant wandering in front of the right, it looks like it is coming here, you have to deal with it before you can rest, it is really troublesome, Albert frowned hard, he patted the horse's neck and said softly Say, "I'm running out of time, grab your speed partner."

Under the green cloak that was blown up by the wind, the blond boy had already lost a left arm.