[Attack on Titan] super boring world

Lowe was very tired from fighting today, even harder than when he fought the giant Yani. After crying a few times in Levi's arms, he fell asleep unconsciously.Levi looked down at Lovi's little face with tears, and pulled up the cap of his cape.

"Captain, what should we do next?" Elder asked beside Levi.

They have almost run around the entire south, killing all the giants they encountered, but after a whole day, based on the premise of "giant invasion", the number of giants they killed was pitifully small, and the largest batch was still He was beheaded when he rescued Luo Wei just now.

It is impossible for the number of giant invasions to be so rare, otherwise Maria's Wall would not have fallen 5 years ago, and there is no information about any wall holes.The garrison corps has been searching for holes in the city wall since the morning. It stands to reason that the signal smoke bombs should have been sent out long ago. We can't let the survey corps run around without a clue, right?

Levi looked at the dizzy sky and pulled up his cloak: "Before it gets dark, find a place to spend the night, and we'll talk about everything tomorrow."

Giants will not die without eating for many years. They have no reproductive system, no digestive organs, and no pain. Their weakness, except for the back of their necks, is that they can only move in the sun. Once it is dark, the giants will fall into a deep sleep.It's just that some giants fell asleep immediately, but some giants could last until midnight.

But this weakness has no meaning to human beings, because human beings only have oil lamps and torches as their lighting tools, and they can't see anything at night.Even if you want to fight at night, it is impossible. The visible range is too small, and you will not know if you walk into the giant's mouth unknowingly.

Now that the sky is getting dark and the activities of the giants are about to stop, the survey corps can finally take a good rest.

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On the other side, when the time went back and separated from the survey corps, the Nan team left Connie's village as a whole, and Connie, who was walking at the end, suddenly heard a familiar voice: "You... are back..."

That voice seemed to come from the mouth of the giant lying on his back.Connie turned his head and stared blankly at the giant's blue pupils. Those eyes were so familiar.

"Ah... just now..." Is... the giant talking?

"Hey, Connie!" Reiner slapped Connie hard: "Move fast, or you won't be able to keep up with them!"

"Ah, Reiner." Connie yelled, "Did you hear that? That guy just now..."

"I didn't hear anything!" Reiner interrupted him: "Don't worry about talking now, concentrate on performing the task!"

"But, I heard just now...although it's hard to imagine..." Connie's voice trembled slightly: "I think...he and my mother..."

Reiner turned his head, unable to look directly at Connie's face, and interrupted him with closed eyes: "Connie, don't you understand what's going on now? Our actions now affect the lives of tens of thousands of people! Or Do you think that kind of unreasonable delusion is more important? As a soldier, you should try your best to perform the task?"

"Yeah... That's right..." Connie gritted his teeth and accelerated his horse: "I know!"

Reiner and Berthold rode their horses and followed Connie, looking sideways at Connie from time to time, with unclear meaning in their eyes.

The Nan group searched for holes along the city wall until night, lit torches, and proceeded cautiously.The torch can only shine within 1 meter in front of it. I don't know where the hole is or where the giant is. Maybe in the next second, I will find myself surrounded by giants.

Despite such fear, no one proposed to retreat. There are hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians behind them. They cannot give up at this time.A little bit of starlight suddenly appeared in front of him, and Nanaba raised his hand to signal the troops to stop. After a while, the starlight approached, and it turned out to be the Mick team who was also holding a torch.

The recruits in Mick's team include Allen, Mikasa, Armin, and originally Lovi, but Lovi is now missing in order to distract the giant.

The two sides exchanged information and confirmed that the other party came all the way along the city wall. According to this way of walking, it is equivalent to walking the entire city wall of the southern district, but no one found the gap.It was supposed to be confirmed again, but after running for a whole day, the horses and people were already exhausted, so they could only choose to rest for a few hours and try to run again before sunrise.

There is an abandoned castle ruins near the city wall, it is not known when it was built, and the sign says Ertegal City, but no one has heard of this name.There were traces of people living in the castle, and everyone found wine in the box.

After lighting the bonfire, everyone just sat down for a while, and heard the sound of horseshoes outside.After a while, another team came in one after another. They were the North team. After notifying the villagers to evacuate, they followed the city wall to find a gap and came here to rest.

Among the recruits of the northern team are Rang, Helista, Ymir, and Sasha.The recruits and the veterans naturally lived in two rooms. Jean walked into the room, took off his cloak, looked around, and asked Allen, "Hey, Allen, where is Lovi?"

"Ah, Luo Wei..." Alan's face was full of worry, and he lowered his eyes: "He left the main force in order to distract the giant, and he hasn't returned yet."

"What did you say?" Jean grabbed Alan's collar: "Bastard, you actually let him lead away the giant alone? Then what are you doing now? You just left Lovi behind?"

This matter has nothing to do with Alan at all, and he didn't order Lowe to do it, but who told Alan to dislike him the most.

"Let!" Armin stopped him: "Calm down, Luo Wei may not be in trouble, this is inside the wall, even if we can't find us, Luo Wei can still ask the garrison for help."

Everyone was not too worried about Luo Wei's safety. After all, he was really strong, but the possibility of getting lost was very high-fortunately, this place was inside the wall.

"Tsk!" Jean shook off Allen and sat down by the fire, still with an unhappy expression on his face.

Allen has become accustomed to Jean's tit-for-tat. He used to quarrel with Jean a few times, but after experiencing so many things, he is gradually becoming mature and stable, at least he will no longer argue with his friends over any trivial matter.Because maybe tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, as long as the giant is still raging, he may lose his friend at any time.

"Speaking of which, where's Sasha?" Armin asked Jean.Among these recruits, Lowe and Sasha are the only ones missing now.

Helista replied with a smile: "Sasha is with her father now, and the captain has granted her permission to retreat with the villagers in her hometown."

"Really? That's great." Armin smiled, remembering that Connie also said that he was from the Southern District, so he turned to Connie: "Connie, your hometown..."

Already...no need to ask any more...

The answer has already been obtained from Connie's face. Everyone wants to avoid mentioning Connie's sad things as much as possible, but Connie has many doubts in his heart, but he can't help but say it: "My village has been destroyed and was completely trampled by giants. .”

Ignoring everyone's shocked and worried eyes, Connie lowered his head and said expressionlessly: "But there is no trace of blood, and I can't find a single murdered villager. However, I always feel very concerned... the giant who fell in my house can't move , then why is he lying at my house...and...I always feel that that guy is a bit like my mother..."

"Connie, are you still talking about this?" Reiner interrupted Connie, "I see, are you crazy?"

"Ahahaha, Connie, what are you talking about?" Ymir laughed: "Do you want to say that your mother is a giant? At least she must be like Alan? And Alan is a human figure studied by the military department Weapon, is your mother too? Your thinking is too illogical."

Allen said to the public that it was a humanoid weapon researched by the military. Connie knew nothing about the truth of the matter, and was ridiculed by Ymir, so he could only hold his head: "Ah, it's so noisy, I also feel that I It's crazy..."

Allen didn't say a word, his eyes were fixed on Reiner and Berthold.Since suspecting that they were giants, Allen has been monitoring them through daily relationships, but found nothing.Until just now, when Connie was talking, Allen noticed that their expressions had changed, and they seemed very nervous.

Thinking back to what Connie said just now, Allen grabbed his arm and forced himself to calm down.

no...impossible...

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Levi's troops entered the southern sector too far, and when they withdrew, it was completely dark.Light the torch and move on. Suddenly, there are lights shining in front of you. When you get closer, you find that it is a castle ruin. Several rooms in the ruins are lit with fire, indicating that there are people living inside.

Levi guessed it was Mick and his gang who led the soldiers in. It was indeed Nanaba who stood guard outside the castle. Seeing Levi, he immediately started the three-dimensional maneuver and jumped down to salute: "Captain Levi."

"Hmm." Levi dismounted with Lovi in ​​his arms: "Where's Mick?"

"The squad leader is in the castle."

"Yeah." Levi went straight to the gate of the castle, kicked open the gate, and saw Mick sitting on the floor, squinting his eyes and staring at him with murderous intent: "Hey, Mick, what are you doing here? What about the gap in the city wall?"

They ran for a day, waiting for the garrison corps and Mick to find the gap in the city wall, but until now there was no signal, and the brat Lowe was left behind. What the hell is Mick doing?

Mick looked up, and the first thing he saw was the person in Levi's arms. Although the cloak covered his face, judging from his petite figure, it was undoubtedly Lovi. "Levi, why is Lovi with you, is he okay?"

"Just too tired to fall asleep." Levi put Lovi next to the fire and asked Mick, "You haven't answered my question yet."

Mick shook his head: "We didn't find a gap. We plan to rest temporarily and continue searching 4 hours before sunrise."

"Yeah." Levi nodded: "I leave it to you. Also, what happened to Lovi, why is he alone, he was almost eaten by a giant."

Mick lowered his eyes and looked apologetically at Lovi, who was curled up and sleeping deeply.The boy's skin is too tender, so the traces of crying on his face are particularly obvious. He must have encountered many dangers. "It was supposed to be me who led the giant away instead of me."

"Is that so?" Levi stopped questioning, no one was right about this matter.They are all soldiers. When facing giants, there is no one who cannot be sacrificed.

When Allen and other recruits were preparing to rest, they suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes from outside the castle. They lay on the window and saw the troops led by Levi come in. Levi was still holding a man who seemed to be Lovi in ​​his arms. Stopped, and Armin and Jean ran downstairs together.

"Captain Levi." After the salute, Jean asked immediately, "Excuse me, Lovi...?"

"Just fell asleep."

"Then I can take him..."

"Go!"

Ask the recruits to bring Lovi upstairs, and Levi and Mick sit aside to exchange today's information.Judging from the number of giants encountered and the results of Mick's inspection of the city wall, Levi had an intuition that the city wall was not destroyed at all.

The only puzzle is, where did the giant come from?

The recruits were resting by the fire with their eyes closed, when they suddenly saw Alan and Jean, Armin ran downstairs, and after a while came back with Lovi in ​​his arms, Hollistan immediately got up worried: "Jean, what's wrong with Lovi ?”

"It's okay, I'm asleep." Jean placed Lovi next to the fire, and put his cloak under his head.

Ymir slapped Luluowei's face: "This guy, he slept really deeply."

"Ymir." Helista whispered.

"No way." Alan interfaced: "He led away 9 giants by himself today."

"Isn't it?" Connie showed an incredulous look: "This kid is too messy."

Because they had to continue their mission after a few hours, everyone fought for time to rest. Except for the sentinels on duty, everyone slept next to the fire.Levi disliked the dirty floor, found a clean chair and wiped it several times before leaning on the back of the chair and closing his eyes to rest.

After an unknown amount of time, Mick, who was sleeping, suddenly moved his nose and woke up: "Hey, everyone, get up, there are giants!"

Levi opened his eyes and immediately went to the door and called, "Nanaba, all the sentries come in!"

The night was dark, and nothing could be seen except the light brought by the bonfire in the castle.Everyone retreated to the castle and climbed to the top of the tower.Although nothing was seen, everyone believed Mick's nose.

Mick raised his head and sniffed the air: "Many giants are approaching, at least ten, very close."

At this time, the moonlight just came out from behind the clouds, and everyone clearly saw a group of giants approaching silently. The ruins of the castle were surrounded by giants without knowing it.

Standing on the edge of the tower, Liwell looked down at the giants who gathered towards them, and frowned: "It's strange, it's been so long since the sun went down, why are these giants still moving?"

The other buildings in the ruins of the castle are not tall and have long been trampled under the feet of giants. Only this tower is more than 20 meters high and is not in danger of being caught by giants for the time being.

A ten-meter-level giant slammed into the high tower, trying to knock it down, while the short two- to three-meter-level giant below was breaking the door under the castle.

Levi waved his hand and ordered: "The recruits go downstairs to deal with the giant who broke into the castle, and the others are ready to fight."

The recruits were ordered to go downstairs, Jean hesitated, and put Lowe, who was still in a deep sleep, in the corner of the top of the tower.It's just a few two- to three-meter-level giants, so it shouldn't matter even if you don't wake up Luo Wei!

Levi looked at Lovi, and didn't bother to call him, the kid has killed enough giants today.

The giant's sudden siege surprised everyone at first, but it didn't make any waves.Compared with the encounter with giants on the plain during their investigation outside the wall, the number of these giants is small, and they are on the high tower where they have the advantage. The combat-experienced survey corps dispatched only 5 soldiers and almost eliminated all the giants.Allen and other recruits guarded downstairs to deal with the two or three meter giants who got in, and it was easy and effortless.

Levi crossed his arms and stood motionless on the edge of the castle watching the battle below. Mick next to him asked, "What are you thinking, Levi?"

Levi narrowed his eyes: "I just want to know, who can make these giants move at night."

Just when he was about to deal with the giant, he suddenly heard a loud bang, and the stable below was hit by a boulder, killing several horses on the spot.Immediately afterwards, a huge boulder fell from the sky and hit the soldiers on the tower.

"Mick." Levi jumped up, and Mick followed him. The two turned the gas to the maximum, and kicked hard at the boulder flying in the air.

Click!

Both of their feet cracked, but they managed to kick the boulder down.

"Who is it?" Levi didn't care about his foot injury, and stood up as soon as he landed, looking coldly at the direction where the boulder was flying.If this boulder fell, at least half of the soldiers present would die.

The boulder flew over from the direction of the city wall. Under the moonlight, Levi saw clearly what was on the top of the wall, and was stunned: "What is that?"

Sitting on the top of the wall was a strange giant that had never been seen before.Unlike the naked body of all giants, this giant has thick hair on its body, looks like an ape, and is about 15 meters tall by visual inspection.Except for the limbs, the giant's body should have white hair, but at this time the hair was dripping with blood, covered with wounds one by one.Because the white hair is so conspicuous, it can be seen clearly even at night.

The most conspicuous place is a huge blood hole in his abdomen and a broken right arm.Seeing the severed arm, Levi intuitively looked at Lovi who was still asleep.

He remembered that when he rescued Lowe before, Lowe cried and said "the giant ran away". At that time, he thought he was talking about ordinary giants, but he didn't take it to heart.But combined with the fact that the giants were besieging Lowe as if they were being driven, and now that this group of giants is also being driven, then the giant that Lowe said "run away" before is not the giant of the ape, right?

As if answering Levi's question, the ape giant roared in the direction of the castle, the voice was full of anger and hatred.