Starry Sky Railway: Twin Origins

Chapter 304 A Slash from the Sky

As soon as those words were spoken, the cleaners hidden in the crowd instantly drew their daggers and pressed them against the necks of the innocent residents.

The residents who were initially unaware of the situation gradually showed expressions of terror on their faces the moment they saw the dagger.

Feeling the sharp chill on their necks, the residents began to tremble uncontrollably, repeatedly pleading for mercy.

"no, do not want!"

"Don't kill me!"

"Help...help me!"

In an instant, cries and pleas rose and fell among the crowd, and fear spread like a plague across the circular plaza of the Demigods' Council.

Hearing the commotion around him, Lin Qiong, disguised as a cleaner, couldn't help but frown. The thing he was most worried about had finally happened.

The other side is indeed willing to use any means necessary to achieve their goals, even sacrificing the lives of innocent residents to force Aglaia to submit.

Lin Qiong turned his head slightly and glanced at Sai Feier to the side.

Her face was as cold as ice, and her right hand was gripping a black cat-ear coin, her hand trembling slightly from the force of her grip.

It seemed as if he was trying his best to restrain his inner impulse.

"...Kainese!"

Sai Fei'er stared intently at the middle-aged woman in the center of the field, whose face was full of arrogance, and a low growl full of anger squeezed out from her throat.

Almost at the same moment she finished speaking, Katniss's icy voice came from the arena.

"Go, bring that traitor Na Kexia here. I'm going to teach him a lesson about the price of betrayal!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the two cleaners closest to Xia moved and immediately acted on his orders.

The two worked together seamlessly to separate to the sides, and then ruthlessly reached out to grab Xia.

"Tsk."

As the two cleaners approached, Xia immediately showed a look of disgust, as if she had seen something filthy.

He instinctively raised his short-barreled shotgun and pointed it at the two cleaners, intending to shoot them to drive them away.

But before he could pull the trigger, Katniss's voice rang out again, interrupting his current action.

"Na Ke Xia, I advise you to stay put. You don't want to see those citizens lose their lives because of your stupidity, do you?"

"And you too!"

As she spoke, her gaze suddenly shifted, and she continued to warn the other two, "Aglaia, and that outsider."

"Drop your weapons immediately! Otherwise, every second that passes, an innocent person will lose their life!"

Katniss sneered and held up three fingers, her smugness growing more pronounced, as if she were enjoying the moment.

"I'll only give you three seconds... three!"

As Katniss bent her first finger, the people around her instantly erupted in a frenzy.

In an instant, a deafening chorus of cries and screams came from all directions, and the face of every resident was filled with fear of death.

"two!"

Seeing that Katniss had already bent her second finger, the three people in the encirclement had no choice but to throw their weapons to the ground.

"Haha, very good!"

Seeing the three obediently disarm themselves, Katniss couldn't help but burst into triumphant laughter, "If you had cooperated like this earlier, wouldn't we have avoided a lot of unnecessary trouble?"

But the next second, her laughter stopped abruptly, replaced by a cold and ruthless command:

"Now, go and take care of Aglaia for me. Remember, try not to make her suffer too much!"

"As for that outsider... just lock him up for now... or better yet, let's just kill him too."

As soon as Katniss finished speaking, the atmosphere seemed to freeze, instantly falling into a deathly silence.

Besides the two Cleansers who had rushed towards Naksha earlier, several more Cleansers emerged from the encirclement, carrying daggers and walking step by step toward Agrea and Danheng.

At this moment, seeing his companion's life threatened, Lin Qiong, hidden among the Cleansers, felt a sudden tightness in his heart.

He couldn't stand it anymore!

He had to act immediately to rescue Danheng!

With these thoughts in mind, his muscles tensed, power surged into his legs, and just as he was about to unleash his full force—

A deep female voice, filled with anger and anxiety, suddenly rang in his ear.

"Hey! Grey, you said before that you would do one thing for me unconditionally, right?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Qiong paused, turning his head as if electrocuted to look at Sai Feier beside him.

He did make that promise... and just recently.

"Why bring this up all of a sudden?" Lin Qiong asked anxiously.

At this critical juncture, he was too anxious to listen to Sai Fei'er's requests to save lives.

So he quickly said, "Saving lives is the priority right now, we can talk about everything else later..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sai Fei'er interrupted him and made her request:

"Listen carefully! My request is simple: save the seamstress, and then bring Katniss to me!"

I'm going to give her a good beating!

After hearing Sai Feier's words, Lin Qiong was slightly taken aback, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

This requirement... doesn't seem to contradict the rescue, it just adds an extra step of capturing Katniss.

"no problem!"

With this in mind, Lin Qiong agreed to Sai Feier's request without any hesitation.

He lightly clenched his right hand, and then exerted force with his legs. The moment the Calamity Annihilation appeared in his hand, he immediately leaped into the sky like a rocket!

"What...what is that?!"

"A red fireball...is it the sun?"

The moment Lin Qiong leaped up, the raging flames that erupted from the Calamity Annihilation instantly attracted the attention of a large number of citizens on the scene, and a burst of incessant discussion immediately broke out among the crowd.

After all, the firelight was so intense and dazzling that it made people temporarily forget their fear of death.

In the center of the arena, Katniss's smug expression froze instantly, then was replaced by incredulous astonishment.

Clearly, she had also noticed the fireball.

Even more shocking is that the massive fireball... is currently hurtling towards us!

"boom!"

It was accompanied by a deafening roar.

Lin Qiong plummeted from the sky like a fiery meteor, landing precisely beside Dan Heng and the others.

Before anyone could react, Lin Qiong immediately flipped his wrist and swiftly swung his sword forward, creating a curtain of fire.

Swish!

The flames surged forward like ocean waves, instantly engulfing several cleansers who were standing nearby.

The cleaners didn't even have time to scream before their bodies rapidly melted away in the terrifying heat, eventually turning into ashes and dissipating into the air.

After Lin Qiong unleashed his sword strike, he didn't even bother to check the final result. Instead, he turned around and looked at the three people behind him.

He asked with a smile, "I'm not late, am I?"