Chapter 147 Rail Car Leading to Death
Helot and Melis took Filolo and took a taxi to the southern suburbs.
The entire industrial area is shrouded in a layer of fog. On both sides of the road are factories next to each other, with chimneys continuously emitting thick smoke upwards. Rail cars ran down the middle of the road, carrying workers to and from get off work, as well as ore and slag.
This is a symbol of the national power of the Glory Oath Empire, and even the air smells of steel.
Meilis gave Helot a hemispherical mask: "The air in Iron Stone Community has a very high concentration of poisonous and demonic gases. Put this on."
Helot took the mask and put it on.
Melis took out another mask and put it on for Filolo: "Be good, put this on, Dr. Lano will cure your disease."
The taxi stopped at At the entrance of a mine, the driver said to Hailot, who was sitting in the back seat: "Sir, I can only send you here. In front of you is the entrance to the Iron Stone Community. You need to transfer to the rail car to get in.
< br>If you are not familiar with the Iron Stone community, I suggest you choose a guide outside the entrance. They can help you reduce some unnecessary trouble."
"Thank you for your advice."
Helot paid the fare and got off.
Ahead is a downward mine, which is one of the many entrances to the Iron Stone Community. The excavated earth and rocks have piled up a hill on the other side of the cave entrance. There are many old rail cars parked outside the entrance. You can rent one for just a little money. If you don't want to spend money, you can walk in, but it will take a long time.
There are also some teenage children gathered near the entrance. They are all from the Tieshi community and make money by working as guides and carrying things. They wore found clothes, their skin was rough, and their faces looked mature beyond their years.
Seeing a wealthy family getting out of a taxi, the children were all eager to try, hoping to be selected to earn today's meal.
Helot held his cane and whispered to Melis: "Let's find a guide. Although I have been living in Covenant City, this is my first time in the iron ore mining area."
Melis, who had already put on a mask, held Filolo's hand like a dedicated mother: "Although I have been to Iron Stone Community many times, finding a guide is indeed in line with our current status.
Let’s choose the one in the red vest. The tattoo on his neck is the pattern of the ‘Super Fire Gang’. It’s a fairly well-behaved gang.”
Helot looked at the guide Melis had chosen. , that is a tall and thin boy, wearing a red canvas vest, with well-proportioned arm muscles exposed. Wearing a pair of fingerless gloves on his hands, he looked like he had practiced fighting techniques and tactics.
Then there is the tattoo on the right side of his neck, which is a fire-shaped pattern, which is a symbol for gang members to identify each other.
At this time, Helot felt his clothes being pulled.
He looked down and saw that it was Firollo tugging at the corner of his clothes, glaring as if he had something to say.
“You are allowed to speak!”
Firoro pointed at the boy in the red vest and said, “He is going to die!”
Helot: “Filro Luo, don’t say weird things.”
“They are all going to die!”
Helot quickly looked at the group of children. Fortunately, he was a little far away and could not be heard by them.
Ask Feroro again: "What did you see?"
Filoro replied: "I just think they are all going to die."
Melisse Question: "Is it just a feeling?"
"Yes!"
Melis looked at the group of children. They all looked healthy.
Helot couldn’t see anything strange either. But this is the judgment of death by an undead ultimate creature. If the "death" of these children is not due to their own health problems, there is an external cause that caused their collective death.
"Okay, I understand. Continue to remain silent and obey my orders."
"..."
"It seems that when we come to Tieshi Community this time, we will find something unexpected."
Helot sighed with emotion and walked towards the children.
Call the boy in the red vest and ask for his name and the price of the guide.
Helot took out two banknotes of different denominations: "Billy, I gave you one hundred imperial guilders, which is twice the price you quoted. I hope you can do your best to be our guide, so that My wife, daughter and I can leave the Iron Stone Community safely.”
Billy happily took the banknote, folded the one hundred-denomination Imperial Shield and stuffed it into his underwear pocket, and waved the other ten-denomination one. The Imperial Shield said: "Don't worry, sir. I'm the famous Fire Fist Billy in the Iron Stone Community. As long as you listen to me and don't go to dangerous places, I promise to get you out safely.
Come on, I'll rent a clean rail car for you. ”
Billy quickly pushed a rail car and expertly aimed it at the mine’s rails.
The rail car is just a square iron box with a roof welded on and guardrails can transport people and goods. The power relies entirely on downward inertia. Fortunately, the slope of this section of the mine is relatively gentle, so there is basically no need to worry about accidents.
The four people sat in the rail car. The rear rail is raised, sending the car into the descending track.
The speed of the railcar slowly increases, and the rumbling sound echoes in the dark mine tunnel.
Billy turned on the chandelier on the roof of the car, illuminating the car that was traveling in the darkness, and introduced enthusiastically: "Sir, madam, in ten minutes we will arrive at the Iron Stone Community, which is an urban area with more than ten large mines connected in series. Yes... there is... there is..."
Unfavorable shook his head and didn't know what he should say, and then he felt a darkness enveloped him, and then he fell down on the seat.
Melis asked Herot: "What did you do to him?"
Helot stepped forward and opened Billy's eyes and looked at him: "I was just interfering. Let him sleep for the time being."
Helot recited a spell and touched Billy's eyebrows with his fingertips.
Billy's body convulsed violently.
As Helot's spell continued to be chanted, Billy's twitching became more and more severe, until a light green mist shone from the top of his head, forming a flickering ball of light. .
Melis stood next to Helot, watching him use spells to examine Billy from body to soul, with a look of surprise in her eyes.
Is this the necromancy of the Claulund family?
It can actually summon people’s souls to look at them!
Melis realized that she was being watched, and then she saw Ferolo staring at her with her dead fish eyes. Melis smiled and asked: "Tell mother, what kind of undead are you?"
"..."
Helot used magic power to conduct a comprehensive examination of Billy and found that the problem appeared in him in the blood.
There is an unknown substance that is constantly undergoing an energy conversion. It absorbs life energy and converts it into life force. It may sound like there is no difference, but life energy is contained in the soul, and life force provides the functions of the body. Therefore, when the life energy is rapidly consumed, these children's bodies cannot be seen to become weak. Instead, because the vitality becomes strong, they look energetic and have inexhaustible energy.
When the life energy is consumed, the soul will collapse, thus producing death energy.
This reminded Helot of the "Soul Extraction and Crushing Technique" he saw on the fire scene of Lai Covenant City.
(End of this chapter)