Chapter 440 1 Stick
Chapter 440: One Stick
It seems that junior high school geometry is still valuable...
After getting off the carriage that only traveled within the inner courtyard of the palace, Lyon looked at the outer wall of the bedroom that was already coated with a layer of iron sheets and confirmed his previous judgment again.
The abnormal object that caused the changes should be in the palace, and its location is similar to what he calculated. It is most likely the bedroom in front of him.
In the square and streets outside the palace, only "living things" such as pedestrians and horses were affected, but after entering the inner courtyard of the palace, even "dead things" such as the city walls and buildings began to turn into iron sheets.
The stone pavement under my feet still had the texture of stone slabs when I stepped on it, but the dust and dirt on the surface of the stone slabs had turned into dark brown rust at some point in time.
Although the garden in the distance was still green and lush, it felt less lively, and the leaves on the treetops no longer swayed in the wind. Rather than a carefully built garden, it looked more like a huge metal bonsai made of cast steel and iron.
The biggest change was the bedroom in front of him.
The originally simple and solemn architectural style with a heavy sense of history suddenly became rounded and frivolous. Large pieces of dark red iron sheets appeared on the top spire. The tall and delicate exterior windows also became short, fat and round, losing their clear edges and corners, and it looked almost completely different.
This strange change was like gluing a human hand with distinct knuckles together with some extremely strong glue, and then kneading the bones and flesh into a ball. There was a strange smell everywhere, and compared with the other surrounding buildings, it seemed so out of place...
"leader!"
Just as Leon was touching the black goat's head and checking the palace with his soul vision, Joshua, who had gotten off the carriage, quickly followed and said with a shocked look on his face:
"What on earth is going on? Why did the palace suddenly become like this?"
You ask me, who should I ask? I still want to know!
After glancing back at "Joshua" who still had the slap mark on his face, Leon answered:
“Something abnormal must have been triggered.
I just looked carefully and didn't see any obviously abnormal souls, so the thing that caused the palace to become like this probably didn't have a 'user', but was an abnormal object that went berserk because it lost control."
"Then...what should we do? Shouldn't we abort the operation?"
“It cannot be stopped.”
With the help of the black goat's soul vision, Leon discovered the princess's pulsating soul flame in her bedroom. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then stepped forward and said:
"This should be the only chance for you, the people with abnormal objects, to participate in the coup. If we stop now, I don't know how difficult it will be to achieve the current level again.
In addition, Princess Veronica is still within the range of this anomaly. Her succession to the throne in place of the old king will result in the least damage to the entire kingdom. If something happens to her, we will have to prepare for the worst.
If that happens, even if we succeed in the end, a lot of people will die, and the entire kingdom will be seriously damaged. It may take two or three generations to recover, so we can only bite the bullet for now."
"I understand!"
After nodding vigorously, "Joshua" asked nervously:
"Then, Chief, should we go protect the princess first and make sure nothing happens to her, or should we knock out the captain of the guards first and let me control his body to divert the guards so that our people can break in?"
Should I save the princess first or find the captain of the guards first?
Looking at the princess's panic and fear, the soul flame that was beating wildly in extreme anxiety, but remained in the room without moving at all, Leon spoke decisively:
“Let’s do these two things together!
Let's split up. The situation with the princess seems a little strange. I have to go check it out first to make sure nothing happens to her.
As for you, Luke, you are now using the prince's body, so the captain of the guards won't be too defensive against you. If he launches a sneak attack, it won't be difficult to knock him out."
"Okay! I'll be there right away!"
After hearing what Leon said, "Joshua" nodded. Just as the two of them had already reached the door of the palace, he took a deep breath, imitated the freckled prince's usual behavior, walked up to the guard on duty, and said arrogantly:
"Where is your captain? I need to see him for something, take me there quickly!"
After hearing what "Joshua" said, the iron soldier who was standing guard blinked, and then as if awakened from a dream, he raised the ceremonial stick in his hand and hit "Joshua" on the head with it.
No one expected that the palace guards would actually attack the prince. Caught off guard, the stick hit Joshua's head hard, knocking him to the ground with a thud. What the hell? ! ! !
Confused by this senseless blow, Lyon hurriedly pulled "Joshua" up from the ground, and found that he was knocked unconscious by the blow. He then looked at the guard with an incredible look on his face.
"No...why did you hit him?!"
"Your Excellency!"
Facing Leon's angry question, the guard holding the ceremonial stick hurriedly saluted, then blinked his glass eyes and said with confusion on his iron face:
"He is a civilian, and he is wearing the clothes of a criminal. If he dares to approach the bedroom like this, he must be beaten!"
This is clearly Joshua's body, what nonsense are you talking about?
Leon couldn't help but frowned when he heard this, but just when he was about to say something, he suddenly remembered something.
Luke and himself, who occupied Joshua's body, were both holders of abnormal objects with "infection values", so their cognition was not affected and they still had normal human senses and could distinguish between humans and tin men.
Even when checking one's own body, the self in sight is completely normal. If one does not touch it, one may not even realize that one has become a tin man. It is also normal for one to look at another.
As for Joshua... although he didn't have any abnormal objects, he had been to the headquarters of the Cleanup Bureau and saw a lot of abnormal objects. Just from that trip, he probably had a contamination value of a few tenths of a percent on his body, and also gained the ability to distinguish between iron and humans.
But the iron soldier in front of him was different.
Since these ordinary people who were affected by abnormal objects and thought they were tin men did not show any doubt when they saw him, it proved that in their eyes, he and Joshua were probably also tin men.
The mutual observation among these iron people does not seem to be based on the flesh. Their senses and judgment methods seem to be more inclined to the soul level, or things like identity, status, and occupation.
So even though Luke occupied Joshua's body, in the eyes of the iron guards, he was not Prince Joshua, but a "civilian criminal near the bedroom", so they raised their hands and hit him with a stick without hesitation.
This is really troublesome...
Looking at Luke who lost consciousness after being hit by the stick and automatically separated from Joshua's soul, Leon couldn't help but sigh, then reached out and pinched Joshua's philtrum hard.
"what!"
After unconsciously yelling, the unconscious Joshua suddenly sat up, and the iron guard next to him rubbed his eyes, then said in shock:
"Your Highness? You...just now you were clearly..."
"what!!!!!!!!"
A scream from high above interrupted the Iron Guard's words.
A tin doll in a long red dress screamed and fell from the outer window of the bedroom. It hit the ground in the distance with a bang, which really scared Leon.
"what?"
"Reporting to His Excellency the Prince."
After hearing Leon's question, the iron guard blinked his empty glass eyes, and then answered respectfully:
"If you're asking who the person who just fell was, then it should be Her Majesty the Queen."
"..."
"what?"
(End of this chapter)