Love, Gun, Cupid

“There’s nothing there,” Korobochka said.

When the phone rang, Korobochka listened for a few seconds and said, "An unexpected element has intruded. I'll deal with it first."

The so-called "unexpected element" is naturally the few guardians of the holy land led by Henrietta. In Korobochka's plan, there will be separation and fighting tonight, but no magical girls/women/young women/grandmas to save the world with love and courage.

Therefore, she agreed to meet with Henrietta but postponed the meeting, but unexpectedly, Henrietta still came looking for her... Henrietta, that idiot, is now so stupid that it's almost admirable.

So she put on a mask of indifference mixed with surprise and said in a reproachful tone, "You have intruded into the identification zone airspace and attracted half of our superhumans."

While they were engaged with you, unidentified armed men released the previously kidnapped civilians and stormed our outer defenses, while their core forces fought us at the second line of defense near the hospital.

Henrietta didn't care about that; whether as a magical old woman or an ordinary person, she was very good at blaming others for mistakes.

"I'm here for your own good. I want to tell you that there's a cult on the dark side of the Holy Land, and they've been creating monsters for years. The recent unrest in Fuxing City is also their doing!"

Korobochka feigned surprise, but she knew far more than Henrietta. She had to listen with bated breath before saying, "Could you help reinforce the hospital's defenses? Our people are suffering greatly against the dark forces of the Holy Land."

Henrietta said proudly, "And the Guardians of the Holy Land are experts in this area."

“Yes, you are undoubtedly the best in this regard.” Korobochka bowed his head. “This time, I implore you, for the safety of the city of Renaissance, please put aside our personal grievances for the time being and help us with your team. I am willing to apologize to you.”

Korobocchia's humble attitude greatly satisfied Henrietta's vanity, allowing her to temporarily make up for the respect she couldn't get in her ordinary life.

The magical old woman waved her hand magnanimously: "For the sake of Fuxing City, we can talk about our own affairs later. Human lives are more important right now."

She and her team took off, and several golden flashes appeared in the sky. Korobochka looked up at their figures with a cold smile.

Chapter Ninety: Lying (Seventeen)

Along with the guardians of the holy land came a golden blessing, and the guards, who had been being beaten down by the cultists, suddenly found themselves invulnerable to swords and spears.

Even though the guardians of the holy land did not launch a direct attack, the balance of power had been reversed. As a result, the cultists, who were already at a disadvantage in terms of overall quality, were forced to retreat one after another. In the midst of the chaos, it was the ordinary people on the periphery who were still going crazy who caused the most trouble for the police.

The situation was very favorable, and some people even felt that the fortress-level shield attached to the hospital, which was the last line of defense, did not need to be activated. After all, although that thing was powerful, it was very expensive.

At this moment, one of the guardians of the holy land returned. Everyone had already accepted these strange allies, so the anti-aircraft weapons and the superhumans did not shoot her down immediately.

Even as they approached the hospital entrance, the Holy Land Guardian did not slow down. Only then did Korobochka look at his subordinates with some confusion, and then ordered, "Take her down!"

Her orders were decisive, but it took time for the orders to be transmitted and executed. As a result, only one superhuman managed to hit the opponent with his disarming spell, disarming the opponent's wand. However, the guardian of the holy land still fell into the hospital, smashing the glass door with a crisp sound.

“Henrietta, I need an explanation!” she said.

Henrietta hurriedly answered the phone, saying, "I don't know, Rosa was usually very well-behaved... she just suddenly broke away from the group."

Why did she act on her own?

"I don't know, my God, how could she be so rebellious!"

However, Henrietta had been through some things, and she suggested sending one of her men to the hospital with Gladiolus's men to catch Rosa. Gladiolus's questioning was just to find a scapegoat for his performance review, so he nodded in agreement.

Soon, she personally led six extraordinary individuals drawn from the reserve team, along with a Holy Land Guardian sent by Henrietta, into the hospital to conduct a search.

"Note that the target Rosa possesses a spell called Private Space. This spell can drag her designated target into a virtual space she creates. That space is similar to the reality when she casts the spell, and the fluctuations are minimal. Ordinary light and heat modes cannot detect this spell, so put on your night vision goggles in advance and adjust them to energy observation mode."

Everyone was wearing night vision goggles… Despite the hospital lights being on, there wasn’t a single shadow in the corridor. Korobochka handed his to the Holy Land Guardian sent by Henrietta, who explained, “If she uses Holy Land magic, I can vaguely sense her location.”

“You two still have this kind of connection?” Korobochka raised an eyebrow. “Speaking of which, I also know a guardian of the Holy Land.”

"If it's the Ice Cave, that probably won't work, and we don't intend to actively monitor her life," the Holy Land Guardian said, mustering his courage. "How is she doing in the Ice Cave?"

"From her personal perspective, she has achieved her wish."

"That's good. She's our youngest sister, and we all hope she can be happy."

When the police on the perimeter were attacked, West Ham Hospital sounded the alarm, and the professionally trained doctors, nurses, and caregivers retreated into their rooms, while the patients calmly returned to their rooms as well.

The hospital was quiet, with some department doors open to allow for on-site treatment of the injured. Outside their sight, the hospital temporarily stripped patients of their privacy; surveillance equipment was fully operational, but no intruder was found.

The moment Rosa fell into the hospital, she used magic to create a virtual space that targeted herself, making her disappear from regular detection and swaggering around the hospital.

She had a mission: to find the previously captured Alchemist and kill him. Because she was the guardian of the Holy Land, she had an extremely strong connection to the Alchemist, who possessed the dark energy of the Holy Land, and pinpointed his location after only a few steps.

She arrived at the third floor. To avoid suspicion, the ward for the man who turned gold into stone was nominally on the seventh floor, but that was just a smokescreen. His true form was placed on the third floor, mixed in with the ordinary patients. And the ward where Hehuan stayed happened to be on this floor as well.

So when Mumian took Lin Jiade and Jasmine out, they bumped into Rosa in stealth mode, but they didn't notice.

Rosa bypassed them. Her next challenge was how to get past the guards in front of the Alchemy ward without them noticing. She thought for a few seconds, dispelled the spell, and then reactivated it. This time, she enveloped the guard and made him the sole target. So, in the guard's eyes, although something was amiss (Rosa's spell fluctuations), the scene before him appeared normal.

Indeed, with Lord Korobochka, the spider-like mechs, so many superhuman colleagues and mortal support teams, and the hospital's fortified shields, what kind of enemy could break through the entire defense line, breach the shields, defeat Korobochka, and enter the hospital?

Rosa controlled the guard, but she could only maintain one spell at a time, so she exposed herself. Fortunately, Lin Jiade and the others had already gone upstairs, so she glided to the guard's side, just like Conan near Kogoro Mouri, missing him as if she had entered the bushes.

She opened the door smoothly, and there lay Midas lying inside. He had just woken up. Considering his physical condition, directly interrogating him with torture might be too much for him to handle, so he was temporarily left to his own devices.

Nevertheless, he was still placed under a restriction: if he used energy, his House of Representatives would explode. The intense pain would be enough to interrupt all spellcasting. If he was lucky enough not to faint at that time and had the ability to continue casting spells, then he would lose his limbs.

The person who cursed him, who dared not gamble on the fact that he could turn gold into stone, was merely trying to scare him. So he stayed put, contemplating life, why the hospital meals were so unpalatable, and the Greek organization and his companions.

He had already disconnected from the plan, and when the ward door opened unexpectedly and a strange woman walked in and gestured for silence, he briefly thought it was his chance to reconnect.

As it turned out, he was overthinking it. After closing the door, the newcomer approached like a ghost, raised her hand, and grabbed the dagger that had slipped from her sleeve, plunging it straight into her neck.

"Greek swearing!"

Turning gold into stone, Rosa rolled off the bed, making a huge commotion as she screamed like a pig being slaughtered. When her first attack missed, Rosa used the power of the Guardian of the Holy Land. Golden light surged from beneath his feet, burning him and rendering him unable to move.

Am I destined to die here?

Turning gold into stone, he closed his eyes, unable to understand why a guardian of the holy land would sneak in to kill him. Wouldn't it have been more valuable to let him live and then torture him to extract information?

Chapter Ninety-One: The Secret Alliance

"Who sent you?!" Dianjinchengshi managed to ask, "Why do you want to kill me?!"

Rosa ignored the other party's words. She only wanted to complete her master's task and could disregard everything else. So she reversed the dagger in her hand and once again turned gold into stone.

Rosa ran toward the Midas Touch, but at that moment, a loud crash came from the doorway. A sword pierced through the gap in the door hinge and slashed downwards, severing the hinge. Then, a muffled thud spread across the door, and the door flew toward her.

Rosa used the magic of the superhumans; a cold, dazzling light appeared on the surface of her wand. With a gentle wave, the door split in two, and through the opening, she saw the figure of Kapok holding a sword.

The door, split in two, fell in opposite directions. Kapok slashed at Rosa with her sword, who rolled to the side. Kapok's sword energy triggered an alarm on the wall, and a chill rushed in through the window... This was a sign that Korobochka was approaching.

Lin Jiade withdrew the sword that had severed the door hinge, and Jasmine withdrew the foot that had kicked the door toward the enemy. Fighting the enemy was Mian's task, as they had agreed beforehand.

They didn't see Rosa pass by, nor did they sense her presence directly. It was only when Lin Jiade's phone was out of battery and he had to go back to get a power bank that he saw the guard diligently standing guard at the door of a certain ward.

By this time, they already knew that a battle had broken out near the hospital, so Lin Jiade glanced at the guards with concern.

The security camera couldn't see the guard's face, and Lin Jiade's angle was the same. He saw that the guard was motionless. When he retrieved the charging device and wirelessly charged it, the guard was still motionless. His aura was somewhat dull and stiff, which made him feel that something was wrong.

He activated his soul vision to see if the other person was human, but Jasmine was more direct. She walked over and waved her hand in the other person's face, but the other person didn't react at all.

“There’s probably something wrong with that ward,” Mu Mian said. “You and Jasmine are injured, so you’re in charge of cutting the door off the frame and knocking it away. Then I’ll hide behind the door and launch a surprise attack on the ward.”

"it is good."

The three put their plan into action. With just one sword strike, Mu Mian realized that her opponent was not a melee fighter. Just as Rosa was about to cast a spell, she raised her hand and used a thunder spell to interrupt her opponent, then closed in on her.

Seeing that things were going to fail, the second part of Ragnar's instructions to Rosa was triggered. She dodged the cotton tree's attack, turned around and smashed the glass and the iron fence outside the glass, rode away on her wand, and threw a dagger at the Philosopher's Stone at the same time.

Just as the dagger was about to strike the man's throat, Lin Jiade thrust out his sword and deflected it. Then, he awkwardly shook his arm, because he was used to gripping the hilt of the sword with both hands to exert force.

Seeing that her final attack had failed, Rosa fled on her wand, but she ran headlong into the ice spears constructed by Korobochka. She dodged the first ice spear with her own movements, the second ice spear grazed her body, slowing her down, the third and fourth ice spears blocked her escape route, and the decisive fifth ice spear pinned her to the wall.

"Be thankful you're not dead yet." Korobochka stood on a path paved with ice spears in the air and looked at Rosa. "Your captain and I will find out why you betrayed us. Outside, those cultists and monsters who might have been your accomplices have been wiped out, and those ordinary people who were causing trouble have been suppressed."

Despite Korobochka's deliberate restraint, Rosa still died because the monster parasitizing her body seeped from her flesh. With chewing sounds, blood dripped continuously from Rosa's wounds. Her limbs convulsed involuntarily, she lost control of her bladder and bowels, and her eyes bulged out, revealing a horrifying expression.

“Lingard,” Korobochka said, “run away, run as far away as possible.”

Lin Jiade didn't know what had happened, but seeing Jianlan's solemn expression, he carried the Alchemist's Stone and left with Kapok and Jasmine. Korobochka sealed the doorway with ice, his solemn expression relaxing and returning to calm.

“Can you please stop contacting me in such a disgusting way, Ragnar?” she complained.

“This is not something I can control,” Ragnar’s voice emerged from Rosa’s body. “And save it. For someone who murdered a classmate at school when he was thirteen, calmly dismembered and disposed of the body, creating a headless case, you’ve experienced far more disgusting things than this. Why pretend in front of me?”

“If a pedophile did this in front of me, I would indeed be disgusted,” Korobochka sighed. “I was originally planning to play with a necromancer inhabiting the power of the Holy Land’s guardian, but now she can rest in peace.”

"There are always plenty of alternatives. There are several good materials in your field of vision, aren't there? Anyway, in your family, apart from you and Lin Jiade, the rest are all corpse parties."

"Including your daughter? Actually, I really like her, but I've been holding back, waiting until she can give birth to a baby before I make a move."

A sword shaped by flames stopped in front of Korobochka. Korobochka's eyes lit up with blue light, and the sword froze, crashing to the ground and shattering into countless pieces.

“Don’t even think about it!” Ragnar warned.

Korobochka sighed, "I understand. Even bad people have the same weaknesses that good people have, and then another bad person can exploit them."

But I must say that in the series of deals we made to steal power from the Holy Land that resembled divine protectors without being restrained by the celestial observers, I always said that Lin Jiade, as a member of my family blueprint, my happiness, and the father of my future children, was not allowed to lay a hand on him.

But just half an hour ago, you broke your promise.

“If I wanted to kill him, wouldn’t it be more convenient for me to do it myself? However, my son, Little Melon, wants to die a glorious death, while my other son, Dolphin, longs to be the first to pick up his brother’s soul and let him accompany him in another form.”

Iphigenia yearns for death and the right union, the Miniature Yeti wants to avenge her past humiliation, and as for the Squat Man, she always listens to the Miniature Yeti... I seem to have overlooked the Earth Peach, the madwoman of the Hart family only wants to kill her sister, or die by her sister's sword, I wonder if her wish has been fulfilled.

So when Iphigenia sent them there, it was tantamount to fulfilling all their wishes at once: "On your territory, with his helpers and my daughter... Hmph, you or my daughter, why him of all people?"

Korobochka knew a little, but she wasn't going to tell her unreliable ally. She still hadn't forgotten the psychological trauma this pedophile had inflicted on her. Conversely, Ragnar wouldn't tell her everything either; he had his own secrets to keep.

Chapter Ninety-Two: Limitations of Healing Magic

"So, are you ready?" she asked.

Ragnar took out a gold compass. As the fighting raged near the hospital, the number continued to rise. He glanced at it and replied, "Still a little short."

Korobochka frowned: "Blood sacrifices are an important means of pleasing the celestial observers. Without enough deaths, we can enter the Holy Land, but we cannot truly open it to us."

The various personalities of the celestial observers determined their different faces before mortals, while the authority they left behind shared a similar instinct: a thirst for more energy, and therefore a thirst for more sacrifices.

“Just a little bit more,” Ragnar said.

"It's not enough. Even if we digest all the monsters and cultists you brought, and take into account the casualties that my men can reasonably bear, we are still a little short of completing the sacrifice and opening up 100% passage to the Holy Land."

"If we miss tonight, we probably won't find a better opportunity. In such a chaotic time, no one will notice our long-planned scheme."

Ragnar said with some melancholy, "So, it must be time for sacrifice."

"They are your allies."

"Allies can also be sacrificed."

Korobochka nodded: "If you have no problem, I have no problem either."

She connected the last syllable of the conversation with the first syllable of the spell, and as she uttered the incantation, everything in the ward seemed to come alive, suspended in the air and shaped into ice spears, densely shooting at Ragnar.

“All these years,” Ragnar said helplessly from within the corpse, “is this the only move you’ve ever made?!”