There are guards on both sides of this road

The bone cart passed the narrow passage next to the cargo box first.

Herman's chest band was stained black with blood. With each jolt of the wheel, his hand, which was resting on his live armor, sank down a little. Moen followed the car, occasionally brushing away the broken beard that was reaching towards his wound.

Jiang Luo let the doctor waiting at Gate 4 come over, while he walked on the other side and pried open the sheet metal that was still hooking onto the wheel.

The doctor carrying the bone box glanced at it, then told everyone to stop, and used his long, thin forceps to remove a piece of grayish-white debris from under the Hermann's plastron.

It was clamped into the glass bottle, and it was still twitching slightly when it touched the bottom of the bottle.

Moen looked at Jiang Luo, and neither of them urged the car to go faster.

The doctor pressed the wound back down and had a porter kneel at the back of the vehicle to secure the armor plate before signaling to continue forward. The bottle was then locked separately in a small compartment on the outside of the bone box.

Jiang Luo contacted Long Zhanye and told him that Herman had been delivered to the person who was supposed to meet him.

She received a response from the other end, and soon heard a call for teammates to fill in. She didn't linger on the phone and turned to look at the truck behind her.

The truck bed was covered with a thick blanket, and the lightly injured people who had come out of the park first sat on it. Song An squatted at the back of the truck to check the number of people. Elizabeth finished checking the fixed handrails and had just put the panel on when the ground shook.

The distant railway tracks emitted a piercing screeching sound.

Jiang Luo looked up and saw that the row of utility poles at the end of the freight yard was slowly tilting, the stone path across the road had moved to the left, and the drainage ditch that had been covered by wooden planks was now exposed again.

This time, it wasn't just the groove that cracked open.

The gravel leaked downwards, and one end of the two horizontally laid wooden planks lost its support, causing the steel plate pressing on them to also lift up.

"Stop the car, and don't follow!"

Jiang Luo raised his hand, and bone spurs pierced through the broken ends, blocking the sliding wood and preventing the steel plate from falling under the wheel.

The driver applied the brakes, and the people inside the car held onto the handrails, preventing them from pushing forward any further.

The crow crouched down by the roadside, glanced around, measured the empty space below the ditch with the tip of its whip, and immediately turned back to call for people to move materials.

"Don't use those short ones, the bottom is hollowed out. Take the two longest ones from behind the pavilion, and stretch them across the entire area on both sides!"

The movers carried the timber and ran this way. The rescue team from Gate 4 also pushed over a trailer. One of them reached out to take it, touched the sharp corner of the bone armor, and then moved to a position where he could hold it firmly.

Jiang Luo pressed down on the bone spurs, allowing the two long wooden stakes to pass under the steel plate.

The wood settled firmly, and then another cracking sound came from below. Her left arm was also pulled down slightly.

The soil is still loosening outwards.

Continuing to drive the bone spikes in would only cause the entire patch of broken ground to slide into the ditch. She pointed to the thick pillar behind the stone pavilion and told Elizabeth to look at the base of the pillar.

The mechanical maid used a crowbar to check and confirmed that the base was still connected to the entire stone foundation, then pulled the steel cable off the truck.

The rescue team caught the other end, and instead of tying a knot to the bone spike, they passed it under the two long logs, caught the point of stress, went around the pillar, and hooked it onto the winch of the trailer to tighten it.

When Moen returned from Gate 4, he went to guard the side closest to the stone pavilion.

He rolled his cloak up to his elbows and, together with two porters, weighed down the timber. Blue flames spread out along the ditch, stopping several grayish-white larvae crawling out from behind the shed.

Jiang Luo slowly loosened a bone spur.

The steel cable tightened, and the timber sank only a little, which was caught by the stones placed underneath. Elizabeth stood by the board and dragged away the last loose piece of sheet metal.

"Let the empty cars pass first, then follow the middle path. Call the next car after each one has passed."

Jiang Luo told the people on the truck to get off first, hold onto the railing and walk along the other side, and also told people to leave the stretcher waiting in front of the garden gate and not to rush over with the truck.

When the empty truck drove onto the steel plate, everyone stopped.

The wheels rolled slowly over the joint of the long wooden planks. The driver did not suddenly accelerate until the two rear wheels landed on solid ground at the other end. Only then did he lean out of the car window and wave vigorously in this direction.

Jiang Luo collected the remaining bone spurs one by one.

There was no sound of wood breaking.

The lightly injured people who had walked over got back into the truck on the other side. Song An was the last to climb into the truck bed and tucked the blanket that had been left on the edge inside.

She lowered her head and shook her stiff left hand. Han Ya was already holding up the wooden sign she had found on the spot, standing at the mouth of the ditch, letting people who wanted to cross first line up on her side.

"Don't push! Walk the stretcher past me. Put the boxes down first, and we'll move them when the empty truck comes back!"

A strange creature carrying two large bags tried to push forward, but she held it against her chest with her shield, pointed to the group behind it, and it finally retreated dejectedly.

Jiang Luo watched for a while, but didn't go over to call out for her.

Gu Nanchuan's message came later: the pick-up vehicle on the freight road was in place, the annex had cleared space, the human medical staff took away the ordinary wounded first, and the other side was left for the strange team that brought the doctor. If they encountered any wounds that neither side could handle, they should report immediately.

"This road isn't very stable yet, so don't drive all the cars over here. Send someone to keep watch on your side, and stop if the ground moves again."

Gu Nanchuan agreed, and then asked who would stay in the freight yard section.

Jiang Luo turned to Moen.

"This area needs someone to keep watch, and you can't just go into the burned sheds. Since you're going back to the highlands, could you leave a team of people who recognize these things?"

Moen glanced at the mouth of the ditch, ordered the bone caravan to leave six men behind, and then contacted his own men to have another team bring lighting and iron frames for blocking the road along the route they had come from.

"I will tell Shura that this way is open for now. If others need to use this route, they should do as you just said. Someone also needs to take care of what's going on in the car."

Jiang Luo raised his chin slightly towards the stone pavilion.

The two bound monsters are still there, but the porters guarding them have changed.

Moen went over, confirmed the injured man's whereabouts, and ordered his men to take the two assailants and Bone Hook away. He also left a message saying that he would send someone to deliver the necessary medical supplies, and that the two sides could settle the matter in person once the man could clearly state his requirements.

Jiang Luo forwarded the communication to Gu Nanchuan before heading towards the garden gate.

Song An called out to her from the back of the car and turned to the last page of the passenger list.

"It turns out the people on the bus matched up. Two people are still waiting to be transferred in the park. I wrote their names down for the nurse. Once I get off this trip, I won't be coming back."

Jiang Luo noticed that his hand, which was resting on the edge of the car, was still clutching the piece of paper.

"Then sit tight. When we get there, remember to change your dressing first."

Song An nodded, sat back in the back of the cart, and didn't look into the garden.

As Jiang Luo and the other trucks drove off, they had barely crossed the delivery door when the nurses inside had already rearranged the stretchers according to the severity of the injuries. Two robotic maids stood guard beside them, telling the next group of people who could walk to stand up first.

Xiao Bai was still at the front gate, waving to her from half a yard away. When she saw that Xiao Bai also raised his hand, he turned back to catch a box of medicine that almost slipped off the cart.

Stella came over from under the canopy, first looking at her hands, then at the dusty hem of her skirt.

Jiang Luo stopped and pointed to the cleared space outside the wall. He asked someone to bring an iron tray to hold the filth. Only after the dust stuck to his shoes and clothes was cleaned did he go into the shed and sit down.

"My lord, you clearly changed this bandage when you left."

The head maid untied the knot, lowered her eyebrows beside the blindfold, and Jiang Luo looked down at her hands, her voice also becoming a little softer.

"Lolo mainly used his left hand this time; he didn't use his right hand much."

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Stella ignored the explanation, lifted her wrist, and began to tend to the reopened wound. Nyarlathotep kicked an empty stool to her feet so she could put her legs in a proper position.

Jiang Juechen's message arrived at this time.

There was no lengthy title, nor a ready-made method to become a god; what came first was his account of a failure.

He tried to mix the borrowed power into his own domain, and he could barely maintain it when he withdrew the power. However, when he withdrew the power, the force did not stop with the domain and continued to impact his body. In the end, he could only stop the backlash by giving up that part of the power.

"Don't inhale it anymore. Today, use your original strength to practice stopping and retracting properly, especially when you're injured or distracted. I'll explain to you again how you broke the connection back then."

Jiang Luo did not try it immediately.

She looked at the blood seeping out again on his right hand, placed the chip on her lap, and asked him where he was injured when he gave up his power, and how long it would take before he could re-expand his domain.

The answers came intermittently. Nyarlathotep sat down to listen, while Stella put her bandaged hand back on the cushion and placed a warm bowl into her uninjured left hand.

Jiang Luo looked down; in the bowl were several pieces of pastry that hadn't softened yet.

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She had just scooped up a piece when she received a report from the first pick-up vehicle: everyone had disembarked and the empty vehicle was returning.

Immediately afterwards, the crow replied from the delivery door that the second batch could go through.

Jiang Luo put the spoon in her mouth and didn't stand up again while holding the bowl.