The refugee procession advanced at a pace slower than a crawling snail.
Everyone was crowded onto the main road leading to the inner gate; the people in front couldn’t move, while the people in the back were still desperately pushing forward.
Ellie mixed into the crowd and pretended to be a little refugee for half a day, her legs almost numb from standing, before she managed to even move forward just a short distance.
Moreover, her current height was simply too short!
All around her were panicked adults running blindly, and no one paid any attention to the little girl at their feet at all she was knocked around left and right, several times, and was sent to ground multiple times.
“No, I cannot keep dawdling along with them!
If this goes on, even if I am not caught by a Titan, I will be trampled flat by the crowd!”
Ellie muttered inwardly, her cute, large eyes rolling around in a circle.
Coincidentally, there was a half-collapsed abandoned post station nearby!
Taking advantage of the moment when everyone around was fighting for a well by the roadside, she secretly slipped inside.
Walking into the post station, the front hall had long been rummaged through and left in a mess, and almost anything that could be taken away had been emptied out.
In the backyard of the post station, the stable doors were wide open, yet the snorts of horses came still came from inside.
“Hmm?”
Ellie’s eyes lit up, and she immediately felt her way over, following the sound.
As it turned out, a brown horse with glossy fur was restlessly stamping its hooves and pacing back and forth.
A large chunk of its reins was broken, but the saddle was fitted onto its back, completely undamaged.
As for its original owner…
either they had already met with misfortune, or when fleeing, they thought riding a horse was too conspicuous, so they abandoned their mount and slipped into the crowd to run away.
Ellie approached the side of the saddle and reached out to rummage through the leather bag hanging on the side, inside, not only was there a small half-bag of clean water, but there were also a few hard biscuits wrapped in oiled paper!
“There’s food?!” she exclaimed in pleasant surprise.
However, this brown horse was clearly startled, its four hooves anxiously stamping on the ground and approaching rashly now might get her kicked away by it!
Fortunately, these four years of horseback riding training were not practiced in vain!
Ellie slowed her pace, inching over little by little from the side.
“Good little horse, do not be afraid!
Be good, I wont hurt you.”
She took half a hard biscuit out of the leather bag, broke it into tiny pieces, spread them out on her palm, and slowly handed them over.
The brown horse retreated two steps vigilantly, but it had probably also been hungry for a long time so after a brief stalemate between both sides, it ultimately failed to resist the temptation of food and cautiously stepped forward sniffing Ellie’s palm with the tip of its nose.
Confirming there was no danger, it extended its tongue and rolled all the hard biscuit crumbs into its mouth.
“That is right.”
Ellie seized the opportunity to stroke its bridge of the nose, then gently soothed it along its mane a few times.
Once the brown horse no longer resisted her touch, she stepped onto the stirrups, grasped the reins tightly, and vaulted onto the horse’s back. The source of this chapter is g.com.
“I am counting on you from now on!”
Ellie leaned her body forward and gently squeezed the horse’s flanks with her legs.
“Giddyup!”
The brown horse let out a long neigh, then unleashed its four hooves and rushed out of the post station’s backyard!
With a mount, Ellie instantly felt like the flash!
Not long after, she had run several miles, leaving those refugees who had not reacted yet far behind and although a Pure Titans did not run slowly, they ultimately could not catch up to a horse galloping at full speed.
What was even more amazing—
Ellie was now running even faster than the news of the fall of Wall Maria!
She galloped wildly all the way north, and the villages and towns she passed along the way were unexpectedly still in complete peace.
The residents were actually still leisurely basking in the sun and chatting and judging by their expressions, they had no idea at all that the outermost Wall Maria had been kicked open.
This gave Ellie the opportunity to crazily exploit loopholes!
Passing by a fairly large town, she stopped abruptly in front of the church at the town entrance and pulled out an exquisite badge engraved with the pattern of three walls from her bosom.
“Hello, there is an emergency ahead, and we need to requisition some supplies!”
How could the priest in the town have ever seen such a spectacle?
A dusty, blond little girl suddenly rode in on horseback, and happened to be holding a genuine church token in her hand.
He didn’t dare to ask too much and quickly had people fetch a large bag of fresh bread, dried meat, and two bags of clean water.
“Are these enough?
Do you want me to prepare another horse?”
“Enough, this is enough, there are still people coming from behind, leave the remaining supplies for them!”
Ellie hung the supplies on the saddle and rode away grandly, leaving behind a string of arrogant hoofbeats.
With these supplies, the rest of the journey became much more pleasant!
After galloping wildly for several more hours, Ellie suddenly discovered a very strange thing.
Her body was surprisingly still full of energy!
“Strange…
It stands to reason that after riding a horse for so long, the inner sides of my thighs should have already chafed raw, right?”
“Unexpectedly, there is nothing wrong at all right now?
And gone run so far, I haven’t even began to sweat?!”
Ellie touched her thighs and clenched her fists.
Although her strength was not exaggerated enough to punch through a city wall with a single blow, the kind of strength inside her body was not on the same level as before.
“Hehe…
This is the benefit of inheriting the Power of the Titans!”
“However, although I hold the Power of the Colossal Titan, this is only completing the first step of the plan.”
After the wave of excitement passed, she began to think calmly in her mind.
“Next, I definitely have to sneak into the Training Corps, but how should I do it?” Eren, Mikasa, and Armin will definitely all join the 104th class.
If I can naturally blend into their circle, many things will be much more convenient in the future.”
“Mikasa and Armin should be relatively easy to talk to.
The most troublesome one is Eren…
After knowing my true identity, will he also cut me down, treating me as a Titan?”
“And Annie and Reiner…
Tsk tsk, Bertholdt was eaten by me.
If those two guys find out i killed him, they will probably be furious and go berserk, right?”
“Especially Reiner, that advanced-stage schizophrenia patient, he might just go completely crazy.”
Unwittingly, the brown horse’s speed slowed down.
On the horizon ahead, a large dark mass of camps appeared, this was a large refugee gathering place on the outskirts of Wall Rose.
People fleeing from all over Wall Maria were almost all crammed here, waiting for the Garrison Regiment to verify their identities before passing through the city gate ahead in batches.
As soon as Ellie approached, the surrounding environment visibly deteriorated, the air was mixed with the stench of sweat, the smell of blood, and the foul odor of excrement, choking people to the point where they could barely breathe.
Tattered tents temporarily formed a continuous patch, and everywhere were refugees who had lost their homes and the adults sat on the ground with hollow eyes, while the children wailed from hunger.
Not far away, two families were arguing fiercely over half a piece of black bread that had fallen on the ground, and looked like they were about to resort to a fight.
Compared to those town residents earlier who were still basking in the sun and chatting, this place seemed to have already become another world!
Moreover, they were still not safe right now!
Only by passing through that city gate ahead and entering the interior of Wall Rose could they temporarily get rid of the threat of the Pure Titans.
To avoid drawing attention, Ellie dismounted, led the reins, and wove through the crowded people to get to a temporarily established resting point to tie the horse to a wooden stake.
“Phew—I have come back to life.”
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Just when Ellie was about to rest, relying on the sensory enhancement brought by the Power of the Titans, she could clearly feel— that in the dark corner of the tent at her rear-left ten o’clock direction, there was a pair of eyes sizing her up.
Who is it?!
Who is peeping at me?!
================================================================ its a mystery…..
gotta be someone relevant.
im rewatching south park atm for the new seasons and its just reminded me of how bad the Garrison Trump saga.