Dawn of the Grey Tower

Although the group left early in the morning, in order to maximize the search for survivors, the cheese and others followed the sweet water town and detoured nearly four villages without deviating from the road. Most of these villages scattered between Tianshui Town and Valley City were originally used to provide for the consumption of horse-drawn carriages. Since the earliest generations of Earl of Salon have encouraged residents in the territory to open up wasteland, these small post offices have begun to appear near The fields, and then the wasteland area gradually expanded, formed these settlements. However, these sparsely populated settlements have long been empty, and the group has not found anything valuable.

"I'm curious, why do you still need a lot of horses and horses for freight transportation in the territory by a large waterway like Dragon Blood Creek?"

Asked the cheese after learning the reasons for these settlements. This problem is equally confusing to Elsa and others who spend most of their time in the small town below the mountain. Looking at the river with great water potential, the mage couldn't quite understand why such a waterway still needs to build these stations.

"Almost all of the water flow of Dragon Blood Stream comes from the Longji Mountain Range, which is also the origin of its name. The melting snow water and the groundwater of the mountain range are the main components of the Dragon Blood Stream. However, I heard that you have been to Longji Mountain and the climate You should know. "Heather replied on the horse. Seeing the cheese nodded, the headwoman continued.

"The snow in Longji Mountain is not melted all the year round, and the cold weather in the north makes it easy to freeze the upper stream of Longxuexi, so although the weather has melted these snow and snow in recent days, it is often after a snowstorm , The water potential of the Dragon Blood Creek will become smaller or even cut off. Although there were some small fleets that used the Dragon Blood Creek for cargo transportation, they finally gave up because of the changing water flow. "

"You can't believe that you, the Duke of the Hammer, know the North Realm so well." The female warrior Mona said after listening, but there were other flavors in her words. Without him, as a soldier, the reason why Heather knows Northland so much is definitely because it may become a battlefield for her to fight, and only the Northlanders have been targeted by the Empire in the Northland.

This is not the first time such a conversation has occurred. Although it has only been a short day, the cheese has also discovered the hidden hostility of the northerners to the southern imperial army. Of course, this hostility is not because of any armed conflict between the two, but the Frost Guards feel a little uncomfortable with these southerners who treat themselves as time bombs. In this regard, Heather can only smile embarrassingly. The female knight does n’t hate the straightforward character of the Northlanders, but she has been in the aristocratic circle for a long time. These straightforward complaints about her for a while. There is no way to refute.

"Okay, anyway, Ms. Heather's intelligence is still of great help to us now." The cheese was helplessly playing in the round, he was not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, let alone reconciling the two forces. Between the gap. Fortunately, Mona didn't mean to continue, but Elsa took a hard look at the mage while others were not paying attention, and seemed to blame him for helping Heather.

"Compared to these insignificant geographical knowledge, I heard that you have confronted those ratmen head-on, can you tell me more about them? Especially in terms of combat, this may be helpful for our next actions "Heather said, although it also means diverging the topic, but the female knight is really curious about this kind of human beings.

Since the other party asked, and in the foreseeable future these knights will definitely fight the squirrel, there is no need for the cheese to hide his experience, although he has explained the cause of the squirrel with the female knight, but at the time because There are many things to discuss, so there is no detailed introduction to the fighting power of the Ratman, and although the cheese has fought against the Ratman, but that is only Gloria. The Master decided to only Pick some characteristics that I think are common.

"Well, the first thing I want to say is that these people who are distorted by the plague should be called native ratmen. In contrast, I have successfully stabilized a case of native ratman mutation, this new species that is no longer mutated. It can be called the Ratman. "

Looked at the confused eyes around him. The cheese knew that these knights might have difficulty understanding their words, and while slightly disappointed, the mage continued.

"Then what I want to say is that although these native ratmen are mutated from infected people, I hope you do n’t just treat them as hairy humans. As I said before, the plague virus has been completely Changed their bodies. So please do not use human standards to infer their physical functions. "

"Do you mean that the physical qualities of these native ratmen may have surpassed that of normal people?" Heather asked after thinking a little about the cheese.

"Theoretically, this is the case. Although it is still not possible to draw conclusions, there is no doubt that the strength and responsiveness of the native ratmen have been greatly improved than before they were infected." The mage nodded, at least this time he said Some people understand.

"Besides this, it is also important to note that the virus in the native mouse has not lost its infectivity. Their teeth and paws have secretions with plague virus attached to them, so once they are scratched or bitten by them If you are injured, you must dig out nearby tissues as soon as possible to prevent the spread of the virus. "Once these words were spoken, the knights, including Heather, looked a little unsightly.

Although Elsa and others had already been informed of this by the cheese before, they did not laugh at these southerners this time because it was indeed terrible. Injury will be infected. The only way to prevent it is to remove the injured part as soon as possible. This may make the soldiers become squandered in the face of the battle of the ratmen. If they are scratched, they will lose a piece of meat. The painful price.

At this time, the scout walking in front of the team suddenly turned back.

"Your Excellency! A dead body appeared in front!" The knight's face made everyone's instincts feel wrong, that is not the expression that a battle-knighted knight would make when facing a normal human body. A few people didn't think much about it and quickly speeded up to look at the body in the scout's mouth.

The corpse was in the shade not far in front of the team. From the smell, it may have been dead for some time. It may be because of the cold climate in the north and the shade of the tree. The shape of the corpse is still complete. The horses refused to advance at a distance of fifty steps from the dead bodies. These trained horses are theoretically not afraid of the smell of corpses, but now, they refuse to advance because of a dead body lying on the side of the road. Frustrated, several people had to dismount and walk. They took out a cloth soaked in water from their arms to cover their noses and noses. This is the precautionary measure recommended by the cheese.

"This ... is incredible."

Walked to about ten steps, the corpse was already in a glance, but as the picture became clearer, several people felt even more horrified by this strange corpse. The black hair drilled out from under the epidermis of the corpse, making the originally flat skin full of holes ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ The dark brown pus flows out along the cracked wound on the skin, exuding terrible The stench.

"I believe that even carnivorous insects are unwilling to touch this corpse." "Monkey" whispered in whisper, and as he said, there were no traces of insects on the corpse.

The cheese put on a pair of strange gloves, took off the robe and gave it to Elsa, and walked forward to see the details of the corpse. Although the rest of the people did not want to approach the corpse, they also approached the corpse with their noses because of the safety of the mage. For the mage, he was dissected in the teacher ’s less terrible and disgusting body, so the pressure on the eyes and smell alone does not make the cheese flinch. He carefully examined various parts of the corpse with his hands, especially inside the eyes and nose and mouth. He even asked Heather to borrow a knife to open the body of the corpse and examine the infected organs.

Mage's actions made people around feel uncomfortable, although they also know that this is to study the plague, but it is still physiologically difficult to accept. Soon, besides the boss, she could stand around the cheese, helping the mage who needed help because one hand could not move. Others, including Heather, kept a certain distance from the body after confirming that there would be no danger.

Time passed quickly. The cheese research on the body continued until dusk. Others had already started to camp, and they knew that it was impossible to reach Valley City today. As the sun disappeared at the end of the distance, the torch and the starlight became the only light between heaven and earth, and the cheese had to stop his research. After carefully cleaning the gloves and other appliances, he returned to the pale Elsa. To the camp not far away.

"There are native ratmen here, please be prepared for battle." With the mage's words, a lively night began.