Chapter 184: Not Wine in the Bottle (Part 2)

Chapter 680 Nothing in the bottle (Part 2)

For... the Blood Bottle Gang?

Upon hearing these words, Kathleen's pupils shrank!

The next moment, the laughter of Red Viper came faintly.

"Two against one," Nekra's arm gradually gained strength and pressed down the sleeve claws of the Phantom Blade. He said with a sinister smile, "No objection, right?"

On the left, Fogg snorted softly. He exerted force with his long knife, causing Kathleen's hand to start to tremble:

"Catherine, do you know how difficult it is to lure you out of the royal capital, from the heavily guarded crowd, and into the Emerald City?"

Hook into the Emerald City...

At that moment, Kathleen understood something.

She took a breath angrily and called out the names of her two most trusted subordinates:

"Matthew! Sedat! Quickly——"

But before her men could react, Ping from behind tugged on her left hand again.

Ding dong…

The next second, the chaos weapon puppet that was knocked to the ground by Fogg opened it again and fired out the next round of blades.

This time, Kathleen, who was firmly held by the two men, could not dodge. She could only watch as these blades flew towards her and were all embedded in her abdomen!

"Uh-huh!"

Katherine groaned in pain, but she insisted on gritting her teeth and turning around, breaking away from the two people's attack with a crackle in her arms, bringing out a bloody spray.

But her luck ran out.

As if he knew what she was going to do, Fogg turned his long knife and intersected with the spinning arm of the Phantom Blade.

laugh!

Flesh breaks open.

Katherine clutched her left shoulder and fell into a pool of blood. A second later, her severed left arm, which was still holding the weapon, spun around in the air and landed in front of her with a crackle.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"

Kathleen's screams shook the entire warehouse - and then the pain in her abdomen and arms reached her brain.

This time, everything happened in just a few seconds.

Everyone was stunned amidst the howl of the Phantom Blade.

"Big sister!"

Matthew, Kathleen's thug, roared and charged forward.

But Nekra, whose face was covered in blood, had already come to him with a grin.

This time, he no longer held back and used all his strength to chop Matthew down to the ground with two seemingly easy knives, and then struck him in the throat again, staining the blade with blood.

On the other side, Sedat had already fallen under the siege of Fogg's men.

What's this?

Glover looked at all this in surprise. His eyes kept going back and forth between the indifferent Fogg and the dying Catherine:

This is... the Blood Bottle Gang?

He was not the only one who was surprised. After a few seconds, everyone came to their senses. Franco from Emerald City was the first to exclaim:

"Boss, Boss Fergus! Why, why--"

Fogg sighed and turned around.

laugh!

Franco looked at Fogg in disbelief at the sound of the knife cutting into flesh.

"I've wanted to do this for a long time," Fergie pulled out the knife from Franco's chest without changing his expression, pushed him down, and wiped the blood on his face, "Franco, you annoying person "It's a bad scene. Among all the fish, you are the most cunning, and you can't even catch one."

"Sister-in-law! No!"

Roger howled angrily and split open the two people blocking the way:

"Fergie, you bastard—"

But the next second, he encountered an obstacle.

"You shouldn't regret it, shit," Gutierrez firmly held Roger's arm, "You shouldn't."

Just when Roger was about to say something, Garmandia gritted his teeth and stepped forward, took a deep breath, and stabbed him in the abdomen.

On the other side, Taremi, who also regretted joining Kathleen's camp, turned pale and looked at everyone:

"You...all of you, all of you?"

Fogg looked at him silently, like a dead man.

Nekra, who was covered in blood, looked at Tarimi and showed a ferocious smile: "What do you think?"

"No, Boss Nekra, no, no, no, I'm sorry, I just, I just..."

But before the panicked Taremi could speak, she was surrounded by several of Fergie's cronies, and then she screamed and fell down.

Among the figures, countless blades were moving up and down with a mixture of cold light and bloody light.

Among the remaining people, Jaga screamed and tried to run out of the warehouse, but Gutierrez knocked him down with a punch. Sangare stepped forward with a tut and drew a dagger:

"It's about business, old man."

For a time, Franco, the recorder, Jaga, the bad shoemaker, Zeka, the newspaper seller, and Tommy, the good guy, all fell down screaming.

"Fergie, you have to die a good death - ah!"

"If you want to kill me, I'll give you a painful cut - tsk!"

"Please, I didn't do anything--yah!"

In this way, Fogg's men cooperated with Nekra's men, and some local rebels in the Emerald City. They followed the plan and began to encircle and suppress the forces loyal to Catherine.

Not long after, the only sounds left in the warehouse were the heart-stopping sound of breathing and the smell of blood that was hard to dissipate.

"So……"

Beside the round table, Balta the Barber, who had been huddled in the corner during the battle, raised his head and sighed: "Is it over?"

"It's still far away."

Nekra snorted coldly and turned his head:

In a pool of blood, "Phantom Blade" Kathleen, who was seriously injured and had only one arm left, crawled towards the wall with blood on her face, trying her best to sit up.

Glover subconsciously looked back at Rolf: the latter was sitting in the corner blankly, looking at the phantom blade that was struggling endlessly.

Before the zombies could react, Tsimikas suddenly stood up from under the two corpses and pulled Glover down: "It's okay, it's okay. I finally understand the situation. We belong to Boss Fogg." My subordinates, it’s okay…”

On the other side, Kathleen trembled and tore open her clothes, tightly wrapped her broken arm, trying to stop the bleeding:

"Why, Fergie, why?"

Tread, tread, tread, tread.

Fogg stepped forward slowly and dropped the long knife.

"Because he wants you to taste it."

The wanderer's eyes at this moment are extremely complicated:

"The taste of betrayal."

Katherine was distracted and was shocked when she heard this:

"who?"

Fogg smiled and said nothing.

Katherine was silent for a while, smiled desperately, and turned to another person:

"Nikla, so you pretend to seize Fogg's power, and then ask Fogg to come to me for help..."

Red Viper tutted and shook his head:

"I told you, I'm just here to help."

help?

Katherine turned back tremblingly.

"Xiaohong, your brain is not that good," her voice was broken, as if she was enduring great pain every time she breathed and breathed, "and you, Fogg, you are not so courageous..."

Kathleen, who was covered in blood, hugged her shoulders and showed a weak smile.

"Tell me, who is supporting you? And who is behind the bad idea? Is it Polaris?"

Glover frowned upon hearing this.

Right now.

"What about you, Little Knife?"

A voice that had never appeared before came from the darkness of the warehouse:

"Who gave you support and came up with the idea in the first place?"

This is……

Hearing this voice, Glover was stunned for a moment, feeling inexplicably familiar.

Following this voice, a figure gradually approached from the darkness and slowly came to Kathleen.

Neither Nekra nor Fogg spoke, they just stood there silently.

"You, who are you?"

Katherine looked at the approaching figure and frowned:

"Why, why are you covering your face?"

Masked?

The figure gradually became clearer:

The visitor was wrapped in airtight black cloth from head to toe, and even his eyes were protected by a pair of black goggles.

The next second, Glover's pupils shrank!

It's him.

he!

"Who is that? Is it from our gang?" Tsimikas asked doubtfully.

Glover ignored him, but subconsciously turned to Rolf in the corner, looking anxious.

Rolf also frowned fiercely and nodded to him.

That's right.

he.

It's that... black-clad killer with super powers.

The one who broke into and killed the wool merchant...

Then the Star Lake Guards came and beat them to a pulp!

"Damn, no wonder I was distracted for a while, I thought..."

Glover sighed and knocked his head hard.

Oops.

If he finds out...

Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about it...

Wait, the killer in black... what is he doing here?

Thinking of this, Glover pulled Tsimikas in front of him and lowered his body further to avoid attracting attention.

The black-clothed killer passed by each gang member, and everyone was in a trance as he passed by.

Finally, he came to Kathleen and looked down at her unable to struggle.

"The reason I'm masked is because I'm ugly - revenge always makes me look ugly and hideous."

revenge……

Kathleen's eyes barely focused.

etc.

"Your voice sounds familiar...Who are you? What grudge do we have?" She forced herself to sit up.

The black-clothed killer sneered.

"Guess, little knife," he whispered to the seriously injured woman at his feet, "who am I?"

Small knife, small knife...

Kathleen's breathing quickened.

"You, why did you call me that?" There was inexplicable panic in her tone.

"Have you forgotten? I've been calling you that for many years," the black-clothed killer said calmly, as if he was chatting at home, "If you didn't like it, why didn't you say it from the beginning?"

He lowered his head and spoke in a friendly tone:

"Pocket knife?"

I have called you this for many years...

Katherine struggled painfully to get up, but eventually fell down again.

"Take off the mask! Who the hell are you?" She began to panic, subconsciously looking at Red Viper and the Wanderer.

But Nekra and Fogg just turned away and remained silent.

There was silence in the warehouse.

Until the man in black spoke again:

"I remember that we specifically picked that day to do it because it rained heavily that day and we could better hide our whereabouts."

It's raining heavily...

Katherine was stunned.

"Cenza, Roda, Morris, and even other masters in the royal capital at that time... As usual, we are fully prepared for every enemy that may obstruct us." The man in black said softly.

Kathleen's eyes slowly opened.

The man in black continued: "As for the location of the attack, we first chose an underground street, but later the intelligence changed and changed it to an abandoned house - the intelligence said that the more irrelevant people present, the more they can interfere with the Black Sword's action pattern... …”

Black sword?

Katherine looked at the man in black in disbelief:

"impossible……"

The man in black chuckled, seeming to sigh and feel sad:

"I remember that everyone was there at that time, working step by step, dividing the work and cooperating, including you, Xiao Daozi."

Kathleen rolled over suddenly, screaming in agony.

But she seemed to be trying her best to stay away from the man in black in front of her:

"You, you, who are you?"

"who!!!"

Phantom Blade screamed, fear in his tone.

No one answered her.

Nekra tilted his head, as if he didn't want to look at the man in black, while Fogg frowned, hiding everything in his eyes.

Damn it.

Glover thought quickly: It seems that this black-clad killer is related to the Blood Bottle Gang, but... what is the relationship? What kind of hatred does he have with Kathleen?

The man in black chuckled. He raised his head and looked at the dark and dim warehouse.

"A century ago, Red King John was tyrannical and ruthless, resorting to militarism, banning alcohol and levying food, which caused the entire Star Kingdom to be in dire straits and the people were in dire straits."

He suddenly started telling a story, his tone was ethereal.

Kathleen was stunned.

"In poverty and desperation, a retired soldier risked his head by smuggling grain and alcohol from the desert to support his family."

"The world is difficult, people's livelihood is difficult, people need wine, need to get drunk, need to dream, need to be numb and self-deception, so Dabing's business is getting bigger and bigger, the trade routes are getting wider and wider, and the number of people in the team is getting more and more..."

The next second, the man in black suddenly changed his tone:

"Until one day, he was finally caught by the king's pickets."

Katherine trembled uncontrollably as she listened to this story.

"The pickets carried his smuggled wine and asked him if he knew what was in the bottle. They also asked him if he knew that the prohibition on alcohol was issued by the king himself..."

"And the soldier, he pulled out his sword for the last time and laughed loudly..."

There is an indescribable coldness hidden in the words of the man in black:

"There is no wine in the bottle, only the blood of the people."

He stopped talking and looked at Kathleen, whose face was bloody, hair was disheveled, and shaking tremblingly against the wall:

"So, do you remember the second half of his sentence? Little knife?"

Katherine raised her head in a daze and looked at the black-clad killer in disbelief.

She seemed to be controlled by some force. Even if she was distracted, she finished the second half of the sentence:

"Country, country, country, country..."

But she didn't know whether it was fear or nervousness. She was in a daze and couldn't say anything.

The next moment, the man in black spoke angrily without warning:

"explain!"

Katherine trembled suddenly, as if she had seen the most terrifying thing in a fantasy, and she was dripping with cold sweat.

Fogg on the side couldn't stand it anymore. He sighed deeply and took the next sentence:

"There is no king in the country, only a tyrant."

Fogg sighed:

"This is the story that Gang Leader Turnbull told that night while wiping the scarred old armor before setting off to ambush the Black Sword - the origin of the Blood Bottle Gang."

There is no king in the country.

Just a tyrant.

Blood Bottle Gang?

Katherine gradually came back to her senses. When she heard this, she gritted her teeth and looked at the man in black angrily.

"No, this is impossible, what are you..."

This time, the man in black didn't hesitate anymore. He pulled down his mask, revealing a delicate face.

Glover frowned: he didn't know this person.

But depending on his age... he must be in his thirties at most.

Who is he?

But Kathleen was different.

She studied the face carefully, her expression becoming more and more shocked.

The next second, Kathleen shuddered and collapsed to the ground.

"No, no, no, it's not wine in the bottle, it's not wine in the bottle..."

Phantom Blade's voice softened, and her eyes were dull and unbelievable:

"How is this possible?"

The man in black snorted and pulled up his mask again.

"Have you tasted it, little knife, the taste of betrayal?" He turned around, "Let's do it."

Fogg nodded slightly.

Glover, who was watching, closed his eyes and sighed slightly.

This is "coming out to fool around".

Just like Mertesa who was guarding the abandoned house in the capital.

Okay, now, it's finally time for them to go and report the situation back to—

A breeze blew past, blowing up Kathleen's messy hair.

Well, wind?

Glover, who was hiding behind the gang, was shocked.

He subconsciously turned his head and looked at the corner:

At some point, Rolf was no longer where he was.

"Hu~hu~"

The wind became louder and louder, causing the door in the warehouse to clang.

Glover anxiously searched for traces of the Ghost with the Wind, but he suddenly discovered that on the wall in front of him, a few dust spots were blown away by the breeze, leaving a blank space that could be used to form two words:

【You, run away】

At that moment, the zombie understood something.

He took a deep breath, pushed away the frightened Tsimikas, and stood up suddenly!

No no no no……

No!

Damn it! That bastard, stop it!

“Hoo, ho, ho—”

Amid the sound of the wind, the man in black was the first to raise his head alertly.

"This is..." Fogg said doubtfully.

And when the noise became unusually loud, everyone felt something was wrong.

Amidst the harsh sound of the wind, the desperate woman lying in a pool of blood hugged her broken arm and raised her head with dull eyes.

At that moment, "Phantom Blade" Kathleen, the former number one member of the Blood Bottle Gang and the eldest sister, realized in a daze:

got windy.