Back in the morning of the day Lucia was taken to Ikonatney prison, Louis Grande, the captain of the Royal Janissaries of the "Deep Springs" faction, had finished a night of overtime and dragged his slightly tired body back to his mansion behind King Street. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Not long after he lay down, the maid knocked on his bedroom door without interest.

"Miss Enops came to visit, and she said she had an urgent ......"

Louis rubbed his hair and patted his face, trying to make himself more sober, he motioned for his subordinates to leave, quickly changed his clothes, and went to the living room. The blonde girl has been waiting for her for a long time. When she saw Louie coming, she stood up and saluted. looks like he wants to speak and stops.

Louis Ping stepped back, and then gave her a warm hug: "Grace, why are you here early in the morning." Looking at your anxious eyes, could it be that something has happened to the Earl?"

Grace Enopus's eyes were red, and she frowned: "Father is fine, I have to worry about it." I ......" Grace bit her lip, "Louie, where's Rod?"

"Which Rod?" Louis had just sat down on the couch, before he could take a sip of tea.

"It's Rod from Pandora!" Grace said eagerly, "Yesterday I went to see their performance, and suddenly the Praetorian Guard came, and we were kicked out, and then I heard that Rhodes was arrested as a thief!"

"Oh, he's here. Louis then remembered that this little sister who had been playing since she was a child had been obsessed with the "Pandora" pillar Rhodes for a long time.

"Rhodes isn't a thief!" Grace's eyes flushed slightly, "You must be mistaken!"

So that's the case, Grace mistakenly thought that the capture of Rhodes was the Praetorian Guard of the "Deep Spring" faction, but that was also inevitable, how could a young lady like this from the earl's family understand so many things.

Grace grabbed Louie's arm and shook it coquettishly, "Please, let him go." While talking, tears are dripping down.

Louie had no choice, so he hurriedly took out a handkerchief to help her wipe her tears: "Grace, you listen to me." It wasn't me who caught Pandora last night, it was Alex Sandra. ”

Hearing the name, Grace's crying stopped all of a sudden: "Is that the big villain?"

Louis nodded, suddenly realized something, and immediately shook his head: "He is also here to maintain law and order, how can he be a big villain?"

"No, he's the big bad!" Grace pouted, "That'...... Doesn't my Rhodes have any hope of being saved?" she said as she began to cry again.

Louie, who lacked sleep, was buzzing in his head by this cry, and he quickly explained: "Don't worry, Rod ran away." ”

"Huh?" Grace's crying stopped again, staring at Louie with teary eyes.

"Alex Sandra said he didn't catch Rhodes. Louis added, "It is said that he ran long before the operation. ”

Grace blinked: "That means Rhodes is fine, but, but, why did he run away, if he wasn't a thief, why did he run away?" After a series of broken thoughts, seeing that Grace was about to cry again, Louis couldn't help frowning.

At this time, the maid walked in at the right time.

"The Praetorian Guards say there is something important, please go immediately. ”

As if he had been granted amnesty, Louis stood up and took the uniform handed over by the huddler: "Grace, I have an urgent matter now. I'll help you find out about Rhodes, and all you have to do now is get home and get some sleep, you know?"

Grace nodded with tears in her eyes.

Leaving the mansion, Louis made a beeline for the Palais Reino. In the office of the Praetorian Guard, his subordinate handed over a file with the word "urgent": "In the northwestern forest, it was discovered by the people while they were logging. ”

Opening the file, Louie's face sank suddenly: "You guys come with me." With that, he rushed out the door.

"Where are we going?" asked the members of the Praetorian Guard of the Deep Springs.

"Misty Forest!" Louie's voice came in the distance.

On the other hand, after Mark and the villagers escaped from the forest, they immediately reported the situation to the local security officer, but the local security officer did not believe the content of their report, and asked them to lead the way, but they refused, saying that they would never step into the misty forest again. It could have been taken inappropriately, but the common people made a lot of trouble. The local security officer had to report the situation upwards, but fortunately Egrem was a small country, and the news soon reached Louis's ears. When he arrived with his men, Mark and a few villagers were still shivering in the local sheriff's house with a cup of hot water.

Without too many pleasantries, Louis got to the point: "What happened?"

The villagers talked nonsense, and finally nominated Mark who was the first to find out. Although it was already autumn, the temperature during the day was still very high, but Mark felt the cold to the bone, and he shivered incessantly when he remembered that scene.

Mark began his narrative with a sip of water: "This morning, the forest was foggy. You must know that this forest is evil, especially when it is foggy. But after all, we still have to live, so we formed a team to go into the mountains to cut wood. Nothing had happened before, but this time ......," he said, lowering his head and brewing for a long time before continuing, "the fog has always been thick, and we have groped our way forward, and I have always been at the forefront, so when the 'little urchin' appeared, I was the first to notice. ”

Hearing this, Louis couldn't help but interrupt Mark's words: "What is 'little urchin'?

A local clerk standing next to him leaned over and explained, "It is said to be a kind of yokai that looks like a child, hence the name." But I haven't seen it. ”

Louis was silent for a moment, motioning for Mark to continue.

"As the chief said, the body of the 'little urchin' is very similar to that of a human child, and it eats carrion for a living. Those of us who often go into the mountains see them occasionally. It's not uncommon to see only one, but ......" Mark stopped again.

Louis asked, "But what?"

After gathering his thoughts, Mark said, "This time, we first heard their cries, which were unbearably loud. Actually, I should have thought of it at that time......," Mark said intermittently, "and the fog was still thick at that time, and by the time I actually saw it, it was very close. It's, no, it's them, they're eating! they're eating corpses, they're human corpses!"

Louie's eyes narrowed, in fact, everything Mark said had already been recorded in the file. But he still wanted to hear Mark tell it himself.

Mark swallowed a mouthful of spit: "I saw a corpse first, but I couldn't see it really. Then I realized that something was wrong, the 'little urchin' was screaming too loudly, so I was curious and came forward. Only then did it become clear that it was a human corpse, and there was more than one 'little urchin' lying on the corpse and gnawing on it......" he tugged at his hair in pain, "two, three, four...... More and more, and then the fog suddenly cleared......"

As Mark said this, the villagers behind him also had pained expressions. Louis didn't speak, he waited for Mark to continue.

"At this time, we realized that we were in hell!" Mark's face became more and more distorted, "Hundreds of 'little urchins' are distributed within a radius of about ten meters, and they are eating at the same time, making deafening screams!"

Although Louis already had a general idea of what Mark was going to say, and although the most important sentence had not yet been spoken, he still felt his scalp tingle and a cold wind swishing in his back.

"So......" Louis said, "you see more corpses?"

Mark nodded heavily along with the villagers. Three or five "little urchins" can eat the corpse of an adult, so if hundreds or thousands of "little urchins" eat at the same time, that kind of scene is too bloody for anyone.

Louis gasped, he couldn't imagine the scene, but if what the villagers said was true, then at least a hundred people had died, which was the first event in Agrim. He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then grabbed Mark's arm: "You, follow me into the Misty Forest!"

The other villagers exclaimed, and Mark's eyes widened even more, and he shook his head vigorously: "No, no, it's terrible! I will never step into that forest for the rest of my life!"

Seeing this, Louis neatly drew the sword from his waist and put it on his neck: "Disobeying the orders of the Royal Praetorian Guard will be a hardship! Believe it or not, I will kill you now!"

Louis was not a ruthless man, but it was impossible to go to the scene without finding a man leading the way. And most of the time, this seemingly inhumane scare is quite effective, sure enough, Mark nodded again and again, and asked Louie to promise his personal safety, Louie is very confident in his swordsmanship, and those little urchins are said to not hurt the living, in fact, in Louie's heart, this should be a thrilling action.

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