Three days later, the flood receded, leaving behind a world of devastation.

Villages washed away by the torrent are in ruins, swollen bodies are swollen with moldy beams in their hands, farmland is in shambles, and fish are spitting bubbles in the depressions, occasionally struggling to flick their tails and splashing shallowly.

Claire tiptoes onto a piece of gravel, then crouches down to find the core of the Scourge.

After a while, he shook his head, "No, the power of the plague is almost the same, and I still can't determine the exact location." ”

The people behind her, including Charlotte, were not interested in answering. It was a team of about ten people, and they were dressed in dirty armor, and General Allen was among them.

"Are there any living people here?" Alan was horrified when he asked.

Charlotte's face darkened, and Claire glanced at Charlotte worriedly, before replying, "I'm sorry......"

Alan and Charlotte had sad expressions at the same time.

Claire hesitated for a moment, he was not the kind of active character of a confidant brother, and he rarely comforted others when he was silent. If it was only Alan who was there to wreak havoc with pain, Claire would not have paid attention to it, but since it was Charlotte, he had to try to solve it.

"It's not your fault. If you hadn't decisively chosen to release the floods, these villages would have fallen long ago, and the dead would not have been able to rest in peace, and this would have become a kingdom for the dead. So no matter how you look at it, you haven't done anything wrong, and you don't need to blame yourself for it. ”

"But we still couldn't hold out for five days. This is the reason for Allen's real pain, "Even if the flood turns this river basin into a flood, we can't hold out until the reinforcements from the Legion Commander arrive. ”

That's right! In the middle of last night, when the flood finally subsided, the Scourge returned. Dealing with the floods for several days took a lot of energy from the Lighthouse soldiers, and the more severely affected Scourge Corps had no physical problems at all. So this time, Allen's legion was almost crushed, and although he himself planned to die in the line of duty, he was forcibly taken away by Claire.

According to Claire, Alan's valuable experience will be a great asset for a beacon against the undead scourge. In fact, he was just worried that Alan's death would deal a bigger blow to the depressed Charlotte.

"But we've at least slowed down the Scourge Legion's aggression and expansion. Claire said cautiously, "Although it is not appropriate to say this, if it were not for the flood, sooner or later the people of these villages would have been assimilated by the Scourge Legion and turned into a world of necromancy." ”

He looked at Allen, "General Allen, you should remember the scene you saw during the day the day before yesterday? ”

Allen's face turned pale, and his remaining soldiers all showed a look of fear.

"The Scourge is a plague that spreads death, and the living creatures they kill will also be corrupted by the power of the necromancy, turning into terrible necromancers who cannot rest in peace. In this way, they continue to invade and expand, spreading death in the world. If it hadn't been for that flood, the people of these villages would have been transformed into new necromancy by the Scourge legion. So, even if the ending is not perfect, you are still heroes. And what reason do you have to remorse your heroic deeds?"

When she said this, Claire looked at Charlotte all the time. The latter pulled out a cigarette, took a sharp puff, and then silently patted Claire on the shoulder.

Words like 'thank you' don't make sense at all, and brothers can understand each other with just one action.

Seeing that Charlotte finally cheered up, Claire said with relief, "The top priority is to find the heart of the disaster, Charlotte." ”

Charlotte took a full third of the cigarette in one breath, and he exhaled a cyan smoke, "But in the meantime, we still have to find a way to limit the expansion of the Scourge Legion." I've asked Vivien and Lolita to tell Moon the news of our defeat and the general situation of the battle. However, we still need to know where Zenas has been, what is going on on Elbert's side, etc., and the alliance must exchange information in order to twist each other's forces together. ”

Alan replied dejectedly, "yes......" It seems that he still hasn't come out of the blow of total annihilation.

A few people talked as they walked, and made a plan to return to Dominco City immediately. Suddenly, Claire flipped the scepter in her hand, and a little black light flickered on the tip of the scepter, just in time to hit a floating corpse in the puddle. Immediately afterward, Charlotte sensed that something was wrong, and he took out an enchanted sword from the space and plunged it into the chest of a floating corpse at his feet with one hand.

Unlike the floating corpse that had been hit by Claire's spell at first, this floating corpse struggled like a living creature for a moment, and then twitched and lost its breath.

This change made the faces of the people present cold, Alan broke out in a cold sweat, and asked repeatedly, "It's difficult, are they all ......?"

Claire nodded with a calm face, "They were completely infected by the plague before the flood. Judging from the fact that they will be transformed into necromancers after drowning, they are at the end of their illness before they die, and they may erupt at any time. ”

Speaking of which, Claire emphasized, "So there is nothing wrong with your choice, if it weren't for your decisive flood release, this area would have erupted in the undead natural disaster. Those who are not yet infected, or not deeply infected, will be killed by the Scourge in an instant, becoming accomplices of the necromancy. ”

When he said this, both Charlotte and Alan were somewhat relaxed. The man who was burdened with many lives glanced at each other, but in the eyes of the other party, he saw the deep guilt hidden in the lightness, which was undoubtedly the color in his own eyes.

At this moment, the Eagle Scepter, who was named Quinn, suddenly opened his mouth to remind, "Claire, be careful, there are signs of a large number of undead activity in the north!"

Claire glanced at Charlotte, who snuffed out the cigarette and nodded in response.

Alan didn't understand the tacit understanding between the two, and was about to ask what kind of dumb riddle they were playing, when he saw Charlotte making spell gestures on the spot. Alan was surprised to notice that the figures of everyone around him gradually became blurred, and even the aura on his body was cut off by the mysterious power.

It wasn't until the spell stabilized that Alan saw his companions again, and his soldiers all showed incredible expressions, and they seemed to be amazed at the strange change in the figure of their companion just now.

Claire raised her index finger at them, a simple gesture that anyone could grasp. Guided by Quinn, the group came to a ruined area, where they hid behind the ruins of a flood-washed, blackened house, quietly peering for changes to the north.

First the zombies, then the black knights, and finally even the Bloods appeared in the ruins of the village. They were undoubtedly members of the Scourge Legion, an army of death-surging as they made their way south from the village with the sound of decaying pain, awakening many of the floating corpses that had previously been infected by the plague to the end of the Scourge in the process.

They seemed endless, and the people hiding in the ruins watched for an hour and could not wait for the end of the army.

The group left the area hand in hand, and everyone's face became extremely pale and cold.

When he reached the relatively safe area, General Allen couldn't wait.

"We have to get south before they do, and inform the people to evacuate as soon as possible, and after our defeat, the whole area north of Fort Dosse is out of danger!"

There was a tremor of fear in his voice.