Seeing the ten Valkyries take to the sky with the children, Randall slowly closed his eyes and stayed where he was for a while.

When he opened his eyes again, there was a lot more determination in his eyes.

Back in the hall on the first floor of the bell tower, Randall avoided the remaining children, walked over to his companions who were fighting alongside him, and whispered, "We need to hold out until their next arrival." ”

Kellogg wagged his tail and said, "The zombie tide has entered the slums, and we are running out of time. ”

Bourville shook the huge wooden pillar in his hand and said in a muffled voice, "Standing here, I can even hear the howls of those corpses. ”

Carroll suggested, "Maybe I can go and be a decoy again to buy some time." ”

Randall immediately rejected the proposal: "The number of corpses is too large for the bait to lure away too many enemies. ”

"And what can you do?"

Randall said: "We blocked all the doors and windows of the bell tower hall so that there was no sound or light, and then waited. ”

Carroll wondered, "Block all the doors and windows?"

"Hmm. ”

"How are we going to get out when the Valkyrie lands on the hills?"

Randall pointed to the top of his head: "We don't go out, we go up." ”

"Up?"

Everyone looked in the direction Randall pointed, and a spiral staircase followed the cylindrical hall wall all the way up, and finally disappeared into the top of the tall tower.

"It won't be long before the horde of corpses arrives on this hill. If we had chosen the flat ground outside the gate as the landing site, we would not have been able to stop such a large number of enemies. ”

"So, we'll have to choose another location for the Valkyries to land. At the top of this tower, there is a small rooftop that was previously used to ring bells, and now the bell frame is broken, but the platform is still there, and the Valkyrie can land there to pick us up. ”

Kellogg thought for a moment and said, "There's a problem...... I've been to see the platform on the roof, it's so narrow that you can only hold one griffon at a time. This means that we need a lot of time to land the griffins. ”

Randall nodded: "You're right, that's why I blocked the doors and windows before, it will buy us a little time." If the zombie tide breaks through the gate, we can also fight and retreat, and take advantage of the terrain of the stairs to retreat to the top of the building. ”

Carol thought about it and said, "This might work. ”

Seeing that the others had no problems, Randall began to divide the work.

"Carroll, Aldenan, and Bourville, you and I are in charge of gathering supplies and blocking doors and windows. ”

"Barbara, you take all the children and tell them not to make any noise and go to the roof quietly. ”

"Kellogg, you go to the top of the building, you have two tasks, one is to choose a suitable landing place, and the other is to signal the Valkyries to descend to the rooftop when you find them coming. ”

Soon, everyone started to get busy with their work.

Twenty minutes later, Aldenan's voice rang out in the halls of the bell tower.

"They're coming. ”

With a deafening howl, the ground shook slightly.

Randall ducked behind an erected table and made a stealthy gesture to the team members next to him.

A huge shadow enveloped the entire bell tower, and the light cast from the doors and windows was blocked by the constantly swaying figures.

Through the gap under the gate, countless feet wander and wander outside the bell tower, as if looking for something.

Carroll lay on the ground and whispered to Randall, "I've always thought it was strange. ”

"Strange?"

"These resurrected corpses, obviously unconscious, seem to have a fixed purpose, just like ......"

Randall added in a low voice, "Puppet." ”

"That's right, it's a puppet. Like a bunch of manipulated puppets, these corpses attack populous and weakly defended places, and when they reach a certain level of strength, they attack military buildings or noble mansions. ”

Randall shook his head and said, "If there is really someone behind the scenes, then who is he?"

"Whoever it is, it's not a good thing. ”

Aldenan pricked up his wolf ears and suddenly said, "Listen!

Bourville grabbed the weapon in his hand: "Kellogg has seen the Valkyrie." ”

Randall raised his sword: "They're coming sooner than expected, everyone, get ready!"

Kellogg's signal not only caught the attention of the Valkyrie, but also caused a complete commotion of corpses near the bell tower.

Tens of thousands of parasitic corpses screamed and rushed towards the gates of the bell tower, and a loud crash resounded in the sky.

Seeing the gate crumbling as it was blocked by debris, Randall nodded to Carol beside him.

The two approached the gate one left and one right, and when the gate was slammed open, they cut the first parasitic corpse that rushed in into three pieces.

"Don't get blood or flesh on the corpses!" Randall picked at the shredded corpses with his toes, then slammed the second parasite out with his shield.

Aldnan jumped onto the wall of the hall, lifted a half-man-high boulder from the ground, and struggled to crush a parasitic corpse that had broken through the window into a meatloaf.

Dodging the black parasites scurrying around the ground, Aldenan shouted, "Don't patronize the gates!"

Bourwer lifted the wooden pillar, stabbed the parasite that had crawled into the window, and said in a deep voice, "I'm watching." ”

Hearing the sound of griffins flapping their wings in the air, Randall perked up: "They see the signal, they will soon be on the platform of the tower!"

Before he could finish speaking, the door, which was no longer able to withstand the impact, suddenly collapsed, and dozens of parasitic corpses rushed into the hall like a tidal wave, brandishing parasite limbs and attacking any living creature they saw.

Randall kicked away one of the parasitic soldiers and shouted at the others, "The hall can't hold on!

The group fought and retreated, relying on the terrain advantage of the spiral staircase, fighting more with less, and trying their best to delay time.

The griffon's chirping came and went, and Randall knew that every minute he held out would ensure that a Valkyrie would take both children safely.

Eventually, Randall and the others retreated to the last step of the staircase, with the small, dilapidated roof of the clock tower behind them.

Barbara puts the last child on the back of the griffin and yells at Randall's back, "All the children are gone, it's your turn!"

Kicking a parasite down the stairs, Randall shouted without looking back, "You go first!"

"If you don't leave, I won't leave!"

Listening to the conversation on the roof of the bell tower, the Valkyrie Ashley, who was flying in the air, shouted in annoyance: "Look down for yourselves!

Randall held his shield and retreated to the edge of the rooftop, glancing downward, and the scene in front of him couldn't help but make him gasp.

As far as the eye can see, within a kilometer radius of the bell tower, there are parasitic corpses everywhere.

They were erecting human walls from all sides, looking like ants from a distance, and one stepped on the other's shoulders, slowly climbing up the wall of the clock tower, and saw that they were about to reach the edge of the rooftop.

"Carol, Aldenan, join me in clearing out those who climb the wall!" Randall ran to the edge of the rooftop, kicked down an enemy who had just climbed up, and shouted to Barbara, "Get on that griffin!"

Barbara glanced at Randall, gritted her teeth, rolled over and mounted the griffon.

The griffin had just taken off when a shocking change struck.

Bourville smashed the head of a parasitic corpse, but accidentally let the blood splatter on his shoulder.

Feeling the black blood burrowing into his skin like a worm, the minotaur roared in pain.

He swung his weapon with a force and swept it away, knocking the enemies in front of him into the air, and then one stumbling to the ground.

Shocked by Kellogg, he hurried to Bourville's side and pulled out his dagger to rip out the black blood.

"It's useless...... I could feel it getting into my body......" Bourville gasped, his eyes bloodshot as he grabbed Kellogg's arm and said, "Help me ......"

For the first time, the lizardmen, who had always been calm, showed a panicked look on their faces: "Listen! You'll be fine! Just bring you back to the Holy Army, where there are the best doctors......"

Bourweil tried his best to suppress the sharp pain in his body, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Look at me! I can't go back! At least! At least let me go to the dragon god with dignity!"

Kellogg froze in place, and after a moment, he whispered, "I see." ”

Kellogg untied the oil lamp from his waist and poured all the oil on himself and Bourville.

More and more parasitic corpses rushed up the stairs of the bell tower, screaming and roaring towards the rooftop.

Looking at the tide of enemies in front of him, Kellogg first supported Bourville with his body to help the latter stand up, and then he asked in a low voice, "Are you ready?"

Bourville looked down at Kellogg: "You don't have to ...... with me"

Kellogg smiled and said, "The journey from here to Heaven is long and difficult, and you need a companion on the way......"

Bourville silently closed his eyes and said no more.

Kellogg took the flint from his bosom.

"For the glory of the dragon god!"

A crisp impact, a brilliant red flame.

In the midst of the raging fire, the two rushed to the tide of corpses, blocking the exit of the staircase with their bodies, turning their lives into the last light, completely isolating the darkness from this small high platform.

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