Chapter 20: The Mist of Death

The incident occurred on the outskirts of the Wild Dog Wasteland, a remote mountain village of more than 600 miles (not a straight line) away from Lei Man City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Wild Dog Wastes are more than 8,000 square kilometers, the size of a viscounty, but this size is still a little far from even the medium-sized wilderness in the entire Federation. But with the sudden outbreak of the kobold plague ten years ago, the Wild Dog Wasteland suddenly became known to the entire Federation.

The Dingo Heath was initially not very dangerous, and caravans traveling between the Federation and the Karachi Empire often passed through the Dinso Heath. Although there are also demonic beasts in the Wild Dog Wasteland, they are relatively rare in both number and species, and the most common thing in the Wild Dog Wasteland is groups of wild dogs, and thousands of wild dog packs can be found everywhere. However, to caravans armed to the teeth, these wild dogs are completely harmless.

But ten years ago, on the night of the full moon in June, a change occurred in the Wild Dog Wasteland that no one could have foreseen - all the wild dogs in the Wild Dog Wasteland evolved into kobolds overnight!

Kobolds belong to half-orcs, except for the dog's head and dog's tail, the rest of the parts are already completely similar to humans, and their intelligence level is much higher than that of beasts, and even some kobolds can evolve into kobold warriors and kobold thieves, among which the strongest kobold king is comparable to the fourth-order oath of human beings. But if the number of kobold warriors and kobold thieves reaches tens of thousands, it will also be an extremely terrifying force.

And how many wild dogs there are in the Wild Dog Wasteland, I'm afraid no one can count, but it's definitely above million! And among these millions of kobolds, tens of thousands of them evolved into kobold warriors and kobold thieves! One can imagine how serious the kobold disaster was -- thousands of villages were burned down, even small cities were destroyed, and at least 100,000 people died in that disaster!

However, the seemingly unstoppable kobold army was torn apart in less than half a month after the Thunderman Knights were dispatched, and in the end, 300,000 kobold captives were killed in one fell swoop! And it was in that battle that Hade, who was not yet thirty years old, began to emerge -- with the strength of the first rank of the Demon Sealer, he simply killed the kobold king at the level of the Oath of War! When the news of Hede's record came out, the entire Federation was in an uproar.

Now that ten years have passed, although many mercenary groups have spontaneously come here to hunt wild dogs, the number of wild dogs in the wild dog wasteland has gradually recovered. However, after the outbreak of the Kobold Plague, several Arcanists, Conquerors, Spectre Blades, and Wind Bards jointly visited the area, and finally came to the conclusion that the Kobold Plague was only an accident caused by a change in the sky, and that it was impossible to happen again. So most people don't care about any changes in the number of wild dogs in the Dingo Wasteland.

It took more than two days for Lei Qi to rush to Hongshui Village. To Leitch's surprise, there was no blood-like river outside the village of Hongshui Village (which he had previously obsessed), and there was not even a stream.

Outside the village of Hongshui is a cemetery, and when Leitch passes by, there is a burial of the dead, and next to it, a priest of Amber, the Lord of Death, is praying for the dead.

"****** dies by day and is reborn at night, old bodies are destroyed, and they die in the homeland of the soul*******"

In the Dawson Federation, there is no religious organization like the Inquisition and the Lunatic Cult that is above all the religious orders, except for Augustine, the god of war, the most believers are the five holy spirits - Patrick, the god of light, Amber, the lord of death, Swana, the god of wealth, Caroline, the goddess of luck, and Nazaire, the god of logic.

Legend has it that the Lord of Death is the master of the home of the soul and values death and burial. Amber's clerics claim that the souls of the dead can only rest after they are buried, and that necromancers who use necromancy to turn corpses into undead creatures are undead predators.

After the priest had finished praying, Reich walked up to the families of the two deceased.

"Are you a comrade-in-arms from the Thor Guild? Thank you, Amber! My poor Melissa******" Seeing Leitch wearing the standard armor of the Thor Guild, the couple who were originally full of affection suddenly became excited, but before they could say a few words, the wife of the two began to cry incoherently.

Through the priest named Peel next to him, Leitch learned that the couple's husband was named John and his wife was Pasha, and the two only gave birth to Melissa when they were in their forties, and their lives were quite happy. But bad luck struck seven days earlier, when Melissa, who was less than five years old, disappeared in the evening, and John and his wife searched for the whole night but could not find it. When I found Melissa, it was noon the next day, but it was not the lively and lovely little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John who was found, but just a cold corpse that had lost all her blood!

From that day on, a person would go missing every night, and the body of the villager who disappeared the next day would be found not far outside the village, without exception, without exception, not a drop of blood remained. In a few days, six people had already lost their lives, and now the entire village was shrouded in a terrible shadow of death.

Since three days ago, several families have moved out of the village. If Leitch doesn't show up again, the whole village will probably lose its popularity completely.

Through Priest Peel, Leitch learns that there is still a body in the village that has not been buried. Leitch was going to check on the body before making a decision.

Walking into the village, Leitch found that several families had two burning white candles hanging in front of their doors - which is also one of the funeral customs of the Federation - the burning of white blood to light the way home for the deceased.

The idol of Amber, the Lord of Death, is an old man holding a white candle in his left hand. In ancient legends, the soul of the first living after death is confused, the endless darkness makes the dead fearful, the evil in the darkness will devour the lost soul, Amber sympathizes with the helplessness of the dead, so he draws out the white blood all over his body, condenses the first white candle, the light produced by the burning of the white candle allows the dead soul to see the way forward, and can return to the soul homeland******

"My comrades-in-arms are here!"

Someone saw Ricky enter the village and cheered. And Leqi was a little inexplicably shocked in his heart, these ordinary people who had not awakened any power system, when they saw the warriors of the Thor Guild, they showed cordiality and excitement, it seems that the status of the union in the entire federation is definitely much higher than he originally guessed.

Led by the village chief Sandy, Richie went to check on the corpse of the village name that had not yet had time to be buried - although he had only died yesterday, the skin of the deceased was very wrinkled and dry as paper, and Richie even used water and fire to check it, and found that it had indeed been sucked dry.

This puzzled Leitch, as far as he had learned, vampires were fond of sucking human blood, but they were rarely heard of sucking up all the blood—weren't the vampires the ones who did evil*******?

"Lord Leitch, can you have the confidence to solve it?" Sandy's old village chief's question was undoubtedly very interesting, neither caring about Leitch's doubts, nor caring if Leitch had any way, but asking if he had confidence, obviously he didn't have much confidence in Leitch, who looked too young, and maybe subconsciously hoped that Leitch would leave how to send a master over.

Lei Qi glanced at the old village chief with a smile, but didn't care, and said casually, "I'll take a look around", and then walked out of the old village chief's house.

Leitch walked very slowly, even stopping directly around a corner. After a while, a **-year-old bear child ran in front of Leitch out of breath. This bear child's name is Carlo, the grandson of the old village chief, when he was at the old village chief's house just now, Carlo seemed to have something to say to himself, but was quietly stopped by the old village chief.

Carlo was undoubtedly surprised to see Leitch waiting for him, but before he could say anything, he saw the extremely tempting doughnuts handed over by Leitch, and his favorability instantly exploded.

"Donuts are really a big killer for bear children. Seeing the successful suppression of a bear child, Leitch thought proudly.

"Brother Leech, I wanted to say something wrong when you asked if there was anything unusual in the village, but I was stopped by the hateful grandfather," yes, if the old village chief knew that his precious grandson had sold him because of a doughnut, he would probably vomit blood," once I got up in the middle of the night to pee, and found Haven sneaking out of the village, oh, you asked who Haven was? You don't know this, doesn't it mean that my comrades know everything, it seems that I can no longer believe that there is true love in this world*******"

Leitch resisted the urge to beat up Carlo, the bear child, and gave three donuts in a row before he could finish the bear child's words - to put it simply, Carlo found Haven leaving the village in the middle of the night, and Haven was a bitter young man in the village, whose wife had unfortunately died three years ago, and then Haven left the village and did not return until half a month ago, and became a noble mage******

Although the information obtained from Carlo does not prove anything, in general Haven is indeed the most suspicious, and Leitch plans to go around Haven's house to see if he can make any new gains.

Haven's house is a wooden house, perhaps because no one has been home for the past few years, which makes Haven's house look rather dilapidated, with no freshly harvested wheat straw on the roof, but a decay that resembles black mud, and some sparse ears of wheat seedlings.

"Boom. ”

Leitch was about to knock on the door, but when he touched it easily, the door opened automatically, and then a pungent smell of rancid rot rushed out of the house, making Leitch frown.

Inside, empty wine bottles were littered on the floor, there were some leftovers on the table, and even a mouse fell off the table with a scream when Leitch first entered. Looking at the walls again, Leitch could see four or five cobwebs at a glance, the wardrobes and drawers were covered with a thick layer of dust, and if it weren't for a messy humanoid creature lying on the bed, it would be unbelievable that this would be a living house.

"Diary?"

Seeing the notebooks scattered around the bed, Leitch's eyes lit up.

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