Chapter 392 Something happened again (I forgot to write it down, two chapters combined into one)
The military camp of Nofland City is in the north of the city near the North City Gate. It can be reached by walking for more than ten minutes through the drying field. .
Compared to yesterday when we entered the city, the atmosphere in the drying field was more tense today. Many farmers gathered in the drying field and shouted, and there were some more eye-catching people on the roadside. Their clothes were closer to those of Lynch and others. , should be the travelers stranded in the city that Dr. Swain mentioned. These travelers also looked irritable, but instead of discussing with the farmers, they gathered together and muttered among themselves.
"The ghoul is right outside the door. The end is about to come. We don't need to struggle. Life and death have been decided, the Lord said..."
The voice of the crazy old man came as expected, but no one stopped around except him. The man stood alone on the grain pile, dancing and shouting at the top of his lungs.
Lynch shook his head, retracted his gaze and followed Dr. Swain closely until he walked to a stone fortress inside the north gate, which visually gave people a very solid feeling. There were still a few leather-armored soldiers standing guard at the door. When they saw Dr. Swain coming, they immediately saluted respectfully, asked a few simple questions to the four accompanying people, and then let everyone into the fortress.
In a barracks, the body was placed on the table, and there were several soldiers guarding it nearby.
A man wearing a metal ring armor, said to be one of the city lord's knights, was whispering to Dr. Swain about the experience of the incident. Judy, under Lynch's instruction, fell into a daze. Yu listened carefully to the conversation between the two in order to verify it later.
And Lynch, together with the two ladies, observed the corpse on the table from a distance.
Along the way, Lynch kept thinking, how weird could a corpse be? Could it be any weirder than the deaths I encountered when I first woke up?
I come from the Fifth Age, is there anything weird that I haven’t seen before?
When Lynch and the other five entered the military camp and saw the soldier Kemit with their own eyes, Lynch had to doubt one thing.
Do people in this era have any misunderstandings about the word weird?
In the eyes of the four people, it was a very ordinary corpse. At most, the corpse had no clothes on, and there were a few more wounds on the body surface.
Hmm, or a little bigger?
"Eight old wounds, and probably some more on his back. These should be from yesterday's attack. Fourteen, no, fifteen old scratches and bruises. Hmm... It seems that his companions brought him back yesterday. He fell off his horse on the road, more than once. May the Lord forgive him, oh, forgive them.”
Although it is inconvenient for an outsider to go over and touch the body, at least he can observe it head-on, Diana. The young lady explained in a low voice with a professional eye next to Lynch and Natalie.
"He was actually thrown to death. It makes me feel miserable just thinking about it." Lin Qi's mouth twitched, "However, there were only eight wounds from the attack? What about the rest?"
"New." The countess showed a confused look, as if she was a little unsure, but she still judged, "It will not appear for more than three hours at most."
"Huh?" Officer Natalie He raised his eyebrows, "Including two sword wounds on the stomach, one puncture wound and two cutting wounds on the neck, and one puncture wound on the chest?"
Miss Diana added seriously: "There are also more than a dozen cuts on the limbs and those on the torso."
"Is this a farewell etiquette unique to this era?" Lin Qi exclaimed, "Or is it a custom unique to this city, just like the custom of mincing the dead and feeding them to animals in a few areas in the mythical age. Or is it the soldiers and soldiers here? What hatred does he have?"
Natalie glared at him, but Miss Diana still replied seriously: "I think not."
"There is only one explanation. "Lin Qi's lips were a little dry. "He suddenly went berserk before he died. The new wounds on his body were the cause of his death. The soldiers around him fought with him for a long time, leaving dozens of fatal wounds before he fell. , this is more powerful than my death denial.”
"That's pretty much what you guessed."
The three of them were muttering, and Dr. Swain had finished talking to the knight and came over. Although he didn't understand the last few nouns, he still understood most of the first ones. He took the initiative to explain:
"They said that last night he suddenly had a high fever and convulsed. The other soldiers thought it was a normal reaction and didn't pay attention. By the time the silver moon rose in the middle of the night (two to three o'clock in the morning) , he suddenly woke up, and the two soldiers guarding him came forward to check, and found that his eyes were red, his mouth was drooling, and he kept growling. Before the soldiers had time to react, he suddenly burst out and bit a soldier in pieces. He bit another soldier in the throat, and chased him until he was stopped by other soldiers. At first, the soldier wanted to control him, but his strength became extremely strong, and it seemed as if he couldn't hurt at all. Unable to knock him down, even fatal attacks were ineffective, and he bit several soldiers before being completely killed. "
"Nothing."
In fact, the expressions of the four of them were a little stiff, because Dr. Swain's description made them feel very familiar.
The reaction of the victim is too similar to what is happening in the mortal world at this time. It is extremely aggressive, biting and scratching all living creatures, tireless and painless, and can continue to move even if it is fatally injured.
Why do things that happen in the outside world also appear inside?
Or is it that the hidden plot of the incident that year, the so-called transformation ritual of ghouls, is actually this disease?
Lynch took a deep breath and tried to calm down. He realized that it was very likely that they were all related to the ghoul and were all Mordiggian's power. It was not surprising that they were exactly the same.
"It's just that in the past two years, a similar phenomenon has occurred in our hometown. This Ms. Diana has also had close contact and has a certain understanding of it."
"Really?" Dr. Swain asked. The knight also called over, and after explaining a few words, he said, "Normally, this phenomenon will not occur when being killed by a ghoul. I have never seen it before. Fortunately, you have been in contact with it. Do you know the specific reason?" < br>
“Not sure, but it should be related to the evil god behind the ghoul.”
Diana explained a few words vaguely, and used her eyes to indicate to Lynch that he would decide how to deal with it.
Lin Qi lowered his head slightly to hide his twinkling eyes. After quickly sorting out his experiences from yesterday, he secretly made up his mind.
There must be at least one person who can be relatively trustworthy, otherwise there are only four days left, and it will be too difficult to find and kill the troublemaker if you are not familiar with the place. As the only person with a clear ending, Dr. Swain now seems to be the most credible.
But if he guessed wrong and she was actually the one who caused the trouble, then it would really be true to the saying in his hometown that he would seek skin from a tiger.
But it’s okay, sometimes alerting the snake is also a tactic. Gritting his teeth, Lynch called Dr. Swain aside, and the five people gathered around, signaling Judy to translate the official word-for-word translation. This was the firepower. Fully opened, he said vividly:
“I know the specific reason.”
"I acted like I didn't know the ghoul before, but I was actually pretending. In fact, I know the ghoul very well. I just don't know you, so I don't want to be exposed easily. But since such a thing has happened here, and you are in their My status in my heart is not low, so I won’t hide it from you.”
“This incident is probably man-made, and there is one or a group of believers who worship evil gods hiding behind it, trying to transform humans into food. Ghoul, and his target must not be Kemet alone, but everyone in the city. I am only telling you this now, doctor, don’t tell anyone else, no one else can be trusted.”
Doctor Swain's face became nervous: "What should we do now? Should we ask the city lord to ask for help from the capital?"
"It's too late. It's already very late at this stage. I estimate that his goal will be achieved in three to four days at most. It's too late to call for help. And what if the city lord is the murderer?" Lynch lowered his voice, "We can only rely on our own strength to find them and destroy them in these few days..." As Lynch was talking, a scream suddenly came from the depths of the fortress.
Something happened again.
The armed knight's expression changed, and he immediately shouted and rushed out of the barracks with a few uninjured soldiers.
"I'll go take a look."
Doctor Swain was calmer than the knight. He motioned to several injured soldiers to wait for her to come back for treatment before turning to follow. The four of them looked at each other and nodded. , also followed empty-handed.
"There is a care for us when we work together. If we dare to go out for trade, we are not without fighting power."
Lin Qi said and winked at Judy. Judy still looked blank, but raised her hand There was a burst of fire rising from the fingertips.
This girl is not like Miss Diana, who only practiced a few secret arts. She is a real mystic and cultist, and her level is no worse than Dr. Swain.
Dr. Swain immediately showed joy and stopped trying to stop him. The five of them followed the armed knights and ran out of the barracks. Before they ran far, the chaotic sounds deep in the fortress were getting louder and louder. Several people shouted in unison, and even There was also the sound of metal colliding.
Then I saw several panicked soldiers running towards me, protecting a bloody wounded person.
The armed knight shouted loudly, roared with the soldiers who were coming, and then looked at Dr. Swain. The doctor just waved his hand, said a few words casually, and let a few people pass.
Relying on Judy's translation, the few people understood that there was a man named Mag in front who suddenly went crazy and was chasing people to bite him. Just like Kemet before, he couldn't stop him. When the doctor saw that the injured person was not fatal, he Let a few people go to the barracks to wait. She followed the armed knights and went to deal with the scene first before going to treatment.
Let the injured person pass, the armed knight and several soldiers had already drawn their swords, and quickened their pace with livid faces. Lynch noticed that Dr. Swain was also quite shocked, and asked quietly: "Mag Is there a problem?"
The female doctor looked solemn and whispered: "He is the one whose neck was bitten by Kemit just now."
"Huh?"
"Yes, Mag was bitten to death by Kemit, just a few hours ago, but he stood up again and became as crazy as Kemit "
For a moment, Lynch's mind was in confusion. He was too familiar with this plot, but before he had time to think about it, the group had passed through the dark, windowless fortress and arrived at the center of the fortress. An open-air training ground.
There were five or six soldiers on the training field at this time, surrounding a burly man. The man looked too much like the lunatics the four of them had seen in Rhine City. His expressions and movements were almost exactly the same, but the degree of craziness was even greater. Several of them were fully equipped Even the armed soldiers could not control the situation.
“#￥@#￥”
The armed knight roared and raised his one-handed sword. Several soldiers immediately made way to expose the crazy Mage. However, When the armed knight was about to rush towards the opponent, Lynch suddenly grabbed him, and then he had time to shout: "Tell him not to get close to the opponent, let alone get hurt."
"Then I'll do it."
Leaving Judy to translate slowly, the female doctor stepped forward, raised her right hand to the madman, recited a few syllables of unknown meaning in her mouth, and at the same time fiercely Clench your fists. Then a huge fist condensed with dazzling light fell from the sky and hit the madman hard, making a small crater on the ground with him.
[Secret Technique: Fist of Yog-Sothoth]
Amid the exclamations of the surrounding soldiers, dust was flying in the small pit for a while, but the next moment, a figure broke through the dust and rushed towards Dr. Swain.
This punch should break at least seventeen or eight bones, but the madman still moved so quickly that the armed knights on the side did not react. Dr. Swain was even more stunned for a moment, seeing the irony directed at her. Rushed over.
Then she saw the tall lady, who had been silent before, rush to her side in an instant and put her foot on the ground.
[Power, protection, ability, resistance]
The madman who rushed over was only one step away from the two of them, but he hit an erupting halo first, just like being hit by the front of a high-speed steam locomotive, directly He was bounced back several meters and hit the ground heavily.
At this time, Lynch secretly poked the dazed Judy, who immediately raised her hand and pointed it at the lunatic who had just landed.
[Secret Technique, Cthugha's Embrace]
Whoosh, a cone-shaped pillar of fire swept ahead instantly. The soldiers along the way screamed and slapped the flames on their bodies. As a target, the madman had just landed and could not avoid it. , was directly swallowed by the flames, howling and twisting in the fire, but still full of vitality, and still wanted to struggle to get up.
Judy's eyes were fierce, her lips squirmed, and the flames sprayed from her palms immediately changed from orange to incandescent. Everyone felt a wave of heat coming towards their faces, and they had no choice but to retreat, but the madman in the fire only had time to speak out With a howl, he was burned to a black mass on the spot.
Even the ground was roasted and turned a little red.
The battle lasted only a few seconds, but it was so thrilling for the soldiers present that they couldn't react for a moment and could only look at Lynch and the four of them with admiration. The armed knight was even more shocked, and then he looked happy, and his attitude towards the four people became obviously respectful.
"It's amazing, it turns out you are all mystics." Dr. Swain smiled apologetically at Officer Natalie, "I thought you were a stubborn person."
If you say anything again, be careful she will beat you up. Just as Lynch was thinking about it, Dr. Swain had turned to him: "What did you mean just now? Why didn't you let me get closer?"
The other three ladies also looked puzzled, but Lynch's face was gloomy. This plot He was too familiar and had seen it countless times before: "I suspect that this man came back from the dead and went crazy because he was infected after being bitten by Kemet. I also suspect that all the people who were bitten may be infected. Infection."
Under Dr. Swain's translation, everyone looked at each other and shook their heads. It was hard to believe such an incredible statement for a while.
"Impossible, I've never heard of such a thing." Dr. Swain said in a dry voice, "Is it possible that you are overly worried? Is this an accident?"
However, there was someone who had no clue. Without doubting Lynch's judgment, Miss Diana suddenly remembered something and said with a change of expression: "If it is true, then those injured people in the barracks and the one who was just sent there, are they not..."< br>
(End of this chapter)