Chapter 406 July 22
“What’s the date today?”
The peasants, soldiers and guards receded like a tide. Catherine stood on the wall, wiping the blood on her spectacle lenses with a handkerchief, and whispered softly asked.
Around her, red blood-sucking vines were lying on corpses, sucking blood greedily.
"July 22nd."
Erin Duo, Catherine's senior partner and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, bowed.
"Are there four days left?" Catherine looked down at her hands. There was a double image of her hands in her eyes, and there were even weird spiral patterns, crawling like a little snake.
After using spells at high intensity for many days, and being exposed to divine spells from time to time, she began to have mental problems to a certain extent.
She seemed to have returned to her wandering days. Whenever anyone got sick, she would be considered the source of the disease.
The refugees dare not disobey her, let alone do anything to her. That is not respect, but fear.
"I don't feel right." Catherine's voice had a lot of breathiness.
“Why do you say that?” Elindor handed over a hot towel.
“Today’s offensive ended extremely quickly.” Catherine wiped the sweat off her face with a hot towel. “Yesterday, we stopped the offensive for another day, and today we only have a tentative attack.”
< br>"Maybe it's because we are tired." Elindor took the towel from Catherine's hand half a step away and covered his arms. "Or maybe there are not enough supplies. This is what happens often."
< br>Unlike before, he put on flesh-colored leather gloves this time. Even when he took the towel back, he subconsciously took it with the side that he hadn't wiped his face with.
Forget it if you didn’t know it before, but now that you know it, you must pay more attention.
Otherwise, if you accidentally contract the witch disease, it will be fatal.
Elindur, who was serving Catherine, was still cautious, but Catherine could see that this caution was much different from the caution in the past.
Is it because you are a witch?
The few vampire vines lying on the corpse swayed, snaking on the ground like red snakes, as if they were choosing people to devour.
Catherine closed her eyes hard, and the blood-sucking vine that was aiming at Elindur's back like a cobra lay softly on the ground.
She didn't know if Elindur noticed, but a drop of cold sweat ran down his forehead.
"I always feel something is wrong." Catherine took two steps back and sat under the makeshift straw shed on the wall. "Do you have any clues?"
"They are going to retreat. I heard that Valenteil was still very impressive."
"Impossible, the main force of Alman's church army has not been lost, and there is Prince Condai on top, so he will never escape in despair. ”
After sitting on the chair and thinking for a long time, Catherine put on her glasses again: "Call Mittern, take those wizards, go to several city gates, and catch all the traitors in the city."
"Yes, Lord Consul." Elindur faced Catherine and took a few steps back before walking quickly down the city wall.
Sitting under the thatched hut, Catherine watched Elindur go away, then fell on the couch and closed her eyes to meditate.
She could feel strange eyes scanning her body, and Catherine could even feel the fear and suspicion in them.
The straw shed avoids direct sunlight and is much better than other locations under the bright sun. The only disadvantage is that it takes up space.
Originally, Catherine was unwilling to treat her differently, but the citizens and soldiers were afraid that she would be affected by the hot weather and go berserk.
So even if she disagreed, the straw shed was still put up.
This shed is like the embodiment of the attitude of the entire Rapid City citizens towards her.
She didn't think that she would go berserk, but people in the entire Rapid City thought that she would go berserk. It was just a matter of time.
The entire Rapid City is speculating on how many strange plant seeds are contained in the warehouse of the Magedy Chamber of Commerce.
It is speculated that with Catherine's ability, once she goes berserk, what kind of hell will Rapid City become in an instant.
Why? There are no signs of becoming violent for decades. Just because she is a witch, will all her past achievements be erased?
She heard more than once, "It turns out that Lady Catherine is a witch, what a pity." "How nice would it be if Catherine was not a witch?"
If she was not a witch, Rapid City announced more than a week ago It's time to be conquered.
The citizens of Rapid City were on the one hand afraid of the intrusion of the church army outside the city, and on the other hand they were afraid that Catherine would go berserk and destroy the city.
They dared and could not express any opinions. They could only pretend to turn a blind eye to the witch and bury their heads in the sand like ostriches.
In the spiritual world shaped by this church, witches are a kind of original sin. "Lord Consul, the message to the Salvation Army has finally been sent." Karl's voice sounded amidst the clash of armors.
"I just hope they don't imitate the coalition forces in Koike City." Catherine opened her eyes, her eyes full of exhaustion, "I would rather arrive slower than make another mistake."< br>
"If you can't arrive on July 22, don't talk big." Karl looked at the scorching sun above his head and sat on the bench next to Catherine dully, "Didn't you say we would arrive today? It's noon Okay, where are the people?”
Putting her greasy hair on her head, Catherine hadn't washed her hair in almost seven days, so she could only endure it: "If you arrive too early, it will be a forced march. It will only repeat the mistakes of Koike City. Rapid City cannot bear it." The second blow of the destruction of the reinforcements."
After saying this, there was silence under the straw shed, and only the more and more joyful chirping of cicadas was left.
"Can you still hold on?" Karl asked confusedly.
Catherine looked at Karl's face and did not tell her about seeing two pairs of eyes.
"Just hold on for another five or six days. If I really want to go berserk, I will commit suicide in advance or jump to the city."
"Sir, how could you say such a thing?" Karl was startled by Catherine's words.
Catherine smiled self-deprecatingly, got up from the couch, and walked to the city wall. There was still no sign of activity from the church army.
So far, Ming Jin has not ushered in the second wave of attacks after withdrawing his troops. If nothing goes wrong, the offensive should end here.
“When do you think they will arrive specifically?”
“I estimate that they set off on July 12th and it is expected to take 13 days to arrive, that is July 25th. ”
Looking at the cloudless sky above her head, Catherine murmured to herself, not knowing who she was talking to: "There are still three days..."
As long as these three days can be passed, the last three days... …
But what happens after these three days? Her identity as a witch has been exposed, can she still control the entire chamber of commerce as before?
Can the city council still accept itself? Can the Megdi Chamber of Commerce still be obedient?
"Forget it, you go back first." Catherine turned around, her pale face getting paler in the sun, "You go back to the south gate and be more vigilant. After all, this is the second main attack direction."< br>
"Okay...South City Gate?" Karl, who was about to leave, was stunned for a second, "Isn't Hesperon guarding the South City Gate?"
"Hesperon? He is guarding West City Gate." Catherine was also stunned, "Isn't that what Pettier said in the meeting yesterday?"
"But didn't you give me a warrant..."
"I never wrote a warrant for you..." Before Karl could finish speaking, Catherine's expression suddenly changed and she interrupted Karl eagerly: "Who gave you the warrant?"
"You I was not given a warrant, but...Holy Father! Rial?" Karl exclaimed mid-sentence, "How could he?"
"Are you sure it was Rial who gave it to you?"
"Yes, him, he also said that this is your personal warrant." At this moment, Carl's brain was like a ball of paste, Rial was The person least likely to betray.
If he wanted to betray, he should have betrayed the Megdi Chamber of Commerce when the Church had three of its fingers cut off by the Temple Knights.
Had Catherine not arrived in time, this loyal follower of Juanoism would have died of blood loss.
He will never betray anyone!
Karl was still confused here, while Catherine's hair seemed to stand on end. The inexplicable order removed the general in the second main attack direction...
"Karl, Karl!" Catherine shouted sternly. Carl was brought back to reality from his daze.
"Rial, Rial is a traitor..."
"This is not important, we will talk about it later."
Hit Karl's chest hard, The blood-sucking vines around Catherine seemed to scream: "You are no longer guarding the south gate, and Hesperon is not guarding the south gate, so who is guarding the south gate now?"
Karl seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw: "There are three gatekeepers in charge of the capstan and the city gate. He can't do it so quickly..."
"Dong-dong-" The continuous and rapid bells The bell rang, and the source of the bell was the South City Gate not far away.
After these five bells rang, the whole city seemed to be quiet.
Karl's words slowly stopped, and his whole figure stood in place as if frozen.
On a hot day, Catherine's hands and feet felt cold, and she broke out in cold sweat.
Of course she knew what the rushing bells meant. It was a signal she had set personally, and the specific meaning was very simple - the city gate was broken.
(End of this chapter)