Chapter 22: The Mass Grave
Although there are 10,000 reluctances in my heart, it is impossible for Hei to disobey Bai, and at dusk the next day, everyone came to the mass grave that Hei said. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
You can smell a rancid smell from a long distance, but to get here, you have to walk through a dense forest, and this place is indeed the territory of the Duke of Apollo, and ordinary people don't come here, so it has not been discovered.
The carriage could not drive in the forest, so Comber stayed to take care of the carriage and did not come together, and under the guidance of Hei, several people walked into a valley, and as soon as they entered, a strong smell of corpses greeted them, and what was imprinted into everyone's eyes was the mass grave that Hei said...
Dolina's face turned completely white, and she finally couldn't help but turn around and run a few steps into the grass and vomited.
The others were okay, Arthur had been training outside all the year round, and corpses had become commonplace, and his white face was a little pale but not as bad as Dolina.
Leon gloated and looked at Dolina, who almost vomited yesterday's meal: "I told you to wait with Comber in the forest honestly, and you have to be strong." ”
But after all, it's no wonder that Dolina is in front of her, and the scene in front of her is simply purgatory on earth.
The valley is full of corpses, although they are also buried hastily, but the burial is too shallow, many corpses have been picked up by the beasts in the forest and gnawed everywhere, not far from the five people, there are a few wolves while chewing on the mutilated corpses while looking at them vigilantly, although it is autumn now, but there are still a large number of flies wandering here, and its "buzzing" sound lingers in people's ears, making people particularly irritated.
Even Black and Arthur, who had killed many people with their own hands, turned a little pale when they saw this.
"These people are ordinary people," Leon looked at the corpses around him unaffected: "And the time span of abandonment of corpses is very large, it is estimated that there is about a year as early as possible, and maybe it is two days ago..."
Leon looked through several corpses on the ground in a row, and they all had a brand on the back of their necks, and they were all blue and purple: "Slave brand... I'm afraid these are slaves, but slavery has already been abolished on the mainland... How can there be so many here..."
"Because this is the fief of Duke Apollo," Dolina covered her mouth and nose and walked over with a pale color: "Duke Apollo was also against the abolition of slavery at the beginning, so he and my grandfather were especially unwelcome... Now that His Royal Highness the Imperial King is seriously ill, the slave trade has increased again in this duke's fiefdom. ”
"Now you believe it. Hei looked at Leon who looked indifferent and walked around the corpse, and couldn't help but be furious, whether this guy was too bold or too much corpse.
Dolina and Arthur can completely understand, this guy's full body armor is a skeleton, how can a skeleton be afraid of corpses, maybe there is a sense of intimacy...
"It's a strange thing," complained the pale-faced Dorina from afar, "this is the private domain of Duke Apollo, and it is impossible to say that this mass grave has nothing to do with him." ”
Leon asked thoughtfully, "Could it be that Duke Apollo is a murderer?"
"It looks quite similar," Dorina nodded thoughtfully: "I saw him when I was a child, and I felt that he was very violent, and he didn't fit the type of big fight, I remember that he was also resolutely opposed to His Royal Highness the King's plan to coexist peacefully with the Inhuman race, in short, he was a thorn, and His Royal Highness's orders have always been disobeyed, but their Apollo family is also a family of founding heroes, and they also occupy the most fertile Danube Plain in the empire, and His Royal Highness has always been unable to deal with him." ”
"There's still a strange place..."Bai who was squatting next to a corpse suddenly spoke: "These corpses are all infected with the "Ten Dead and Alive", no exceptions. ”
"Why does it have anything to do with "Ten Deaths and Lives"..."Leon also has a headache when he hears this name now: "Could it be that there is no money to buy "Ten Deaths and Lives" and then die when the drug addiction attacks?"
Bai shook his head: "No, there is no reason for so many people to die together at the same time. ”
"Wait," Leon's voice changed suddenly, "This one seems to be alive over here!"
Everyone was stunned, there are still living people in this kind of place?
Leon pulled out a man from the pile of dead people, a middle-aged man in tattered clothes, pale with a pale face and chapped lips, buried under a pile of corpses, so lucky not to be eaten by the beast, but he was already angry.
Leon carefully placed the man in the clearing, and Shiro quickly rushed over.
Bai Ban knelt on the ground, put his hands on the chest of the middle-aged man, and a faint white light slowly covered his whole body, sacrifice is a special profession in the magic envoy, it is generally an auxiliary nature, proficient in healing, dispelling abnormal states, etc., to put it bluntly, it is a wet nurse.
Leon asked in a low voice, "How is it, is there still salvation?"
Bai sighed: "I'm afraid there is no way, "Ten Deaths and Life" almost exhausted his vitality..."
"Ahem... Ahem..."The middle-aged man suddenly coughed violently, a slight flush appeared on his pale face, and he opened his eyes with difficulty.
"You... You guys..."
Bai sighed: "If you have any last words, just say it quickly, the "Ten Deaths and Life" has completely overdrawn your life, and there is nothing I can do..."
The middle-aged man's gaze drifted suddenly, and finally gradually came to his senses: "That's right..."Ten deaths and life"... We've all been lied to... All of them are dead... They're all dead..."
The middle-aged man suddenly became hysterical, crying and laughing.
"Calm down," Leon forcibly suppressed the middle-aged man, "what the hell is going on?"
"There are so many "Ten Dead and Alive" flowers..."The middle-aged man's eyes were still a little wandering, but he finally said something intermittently: "We were taken away... A lot of women and children were sold, and then we were all taken to a valley where the mountains were full of brightly colored "ten deaths!"
"Impossible!" Black interrupted him: "The planting conditions of "Ten Dead and Alive" are very harsh, how can it be all over the mountains..."
"It's because of the soil..."The middle-aged man's words gradually became clear: "The soil for planting "Ten Deaths and Lives" is not ordinary soil, it is very uncomfortable, it feels very uncomfortable on it, it feels very cold, the kind of cold from the heart, if we don't take "Ten Deaths and Lives" every day, we can't stay in that kind of soil for a moment, they force us to work, force us to plant those "Ten Deaths and Lives"... Someone keeps falling... Many of the people who fell were buried directly in the soil as nourishment for the "ten deaths"... But more and more people are falling, and they can't even bury them..."
Speaking of this, the light in the middle-aged man's eyes gradually dimmed, and he seemed to realize that the last bit of life was leaving him: "Don't... I don't want to die... Don't..."
This may be an ordinary farmer, who has no ambitions all his life and just thinks about the life of his wife and children on the hot kang, guarding the one-third of an acre to live, if there is no accident, he may die of old age in his old house, his son and grandson cry and bury himself and then repeat this life, but he never thought that he would die in this strange land in this way.
In other words, "Leon was the first to break the deathly silence: "Someone has planted a large number of "Ten Deaths and Lives" here!"
"But this is Duke Apollo's private domain..."Dorina frowned: "Could it be that Duke Apollo himself planted the "Ten Deaths" to harm the people of his fiefdom? This is simply absurd and the worst..."
"No, this is an opportunity," Bai said slowly: "No matter who planted the "Ten Deaths and Lives", as long as the mastermind is found out and revealed to the world, the war between humans and Inhumans can be stopped..."
"It's too dangerous!" Hei hurriedly stood up: "I'll go back and inform my father first, and then bring someone here..."
"It's too late," Shiro shook his head, "War can break out at any time, we can only rely on ourselves, but..."
Bai raised his head and looked at Arthur and the others: "This is dangerous, but please forgive me for my selfishness, please help me..."
"Don't say as if you owe us anything," Leon smiled, "We're adventurers, as Black said, as long as we give money we can do anything, I don't think you mind paying more... By the way, if you can join my "Ass God Cult", you can get free."