Chapter 8: The Strange Tale by the Campfire

After entering the forest, I soon met Kar Anji, who took the initiative to pick me up from the back of the palace. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Riding side by side with him, Karl said gratefully: "Marshal, everything is my fault!" Because of my recklessness, our army suffered a crushing defeat and put the marshal in unforeseen danger...... I have repeatedly failed, and several times against the marshal, the marshal not only did not think it was resentful, but did not hesitate to risk himself alone in order to save the life of the last general. ”

"Karl," I patted him on the shoulder and said gently, "you are inexperienced in combat, and it is inevitable that you will make mistakes, and as long as you can learn from your failures, you will definitely grow from the flames of war." And leading troops to fight is not your specialty, you are a rare transactional talent, and placing you on the battlefield is a relic! It's great that you're able to behave like that, so you don't have to blame yourself too much. In the future, I will need to rely on your talent in many ways. ”

"Go to the soup for the marshal, Kalwan will not give up!" Karangie said excitedly.

"Carl, don't talk about life and death lightly! Only by living well can you do things for me in the future! Binglan regards you as her own brother, and I also regard you as my good brother! I said sincerely.

"Yes, Marshal!" Tears of emotion gleamed in Karanji's eyes, and his voice became hoarse with excitement.

As we spoke, we had joined the army. The next problem to be solved is how to return to the fortress of Fengrong Valley safely.

After a moment's deep thought, I said, "If you leave from the northern part of the forest, it will undoubtedly be the easiest way back to Fengrong Valley, but the enemy will definitely garrison the edge of the forest with heavy troops, holding all the key roads, so that will undoubtedly be a self-defeating trap." ”

"Does the marshal have a plan?" Karangie asked respectfully.

My handsome eyes flashed with a terrifying gleam, and I said leisurely: "We went down the lower reaches of the Liuhua River, looked for shallow water to cut down trees to cross the river, and after reaching the south bank, we made a detour from the enemy's rear to the north, crossed the river again, and looked for a way back to Fengrong Valley from the mountains and forests in the upper reaches of the Liuhua River. This is time-consuming but safe. ”

"The marshal is wise! This plan will be beyond the enemy's expectations! How could the enemy have imagined that we would dare to go backwards from their rear? Carl said excitedly.

The rest of the people worship me like a god, and they have no objection to my plan.

We threw away all our weights, removed all the heavy armor on our bodies and on our horses, and proceeded lightly.

A few days later, we arrived at a shoal on the Liuhua River, where we cut wood for a raft and crossed the river.

Liuhua River, as the name suggests, is named because a large number of wildflowers from the mountains and forests in the upper reaches and blue glass flowers on both sides float down the river and drift along the river.

The flowers in the middle of the river are sprinkled like stars, forming a colorful seven-color splendor, and like a flowing natural garden, plus the blue glass flowers on both sides of the river are in full bloom in spring and summer, like a sea of flowers, and the scenery is quite beautiful and charming.

But at this time, we who are fleeing are not in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

When we reached the south bank, we did not take the wide avenues, but tried to choose the path from the woods or the hills, and practiced day and night, wrapped a thick cloth on the horses' hooves, avoided the eyes and ears of the enemy, and when approaching the enemy's barracks, it was forbidden to make any fire to cook or open fire at night, and to eat raw game, and to eat and lodging in the wind and dew, and to be miserable.

But in order to survive, in order to return to their hometown, everyone silently endured this inhuman life.

Despite this, we were almost discovered by the enemy, but thanks to the low alertness of the enemy soldiers in the rear, we were able to divert the enemy's attention by various means and avoid danger after crisis.

As a result, many of the soldiers fell because they could not support it.

Some of the soldiers who were wounded in the battle finally died in a foreign land because their wounds were festering and inflamed due to the lack of timely medical treatment, and the hardships of running for days, the hardship of fleeing, and the mental pressure of facing crises at any time.

We had to bury their bodies on the spot and mark them so that they would have the opportunity to come back and collect their bones and transport them back to their hometowns for reburial, as well as their clothing so that they could be returned to their wives, children, relatives and friends in their hometowns after the war, so that the families of the dead soldiers could erect graves for them.

Twenty days later, we finally crossed the river from the upper reaches of the Liuhua River and returned to the north bank again.

That night, we set up camp again in the mountains and forests, and because we were far away from the enemy camp, we lit the first bonfire since we fled, and our men gathered some game and barbecued around the bonfire.

It is very pleasant to eat the roasted meat of wild beasts, wild fruits picked in the forest, and drink the sweet spring water. Although the barbecue is bland and tasteless because of the lack of salt, everyone still eats it with relish.

After a month of living in blood, I finally had a good meal.

Sitting in front of the campfire, looking at the haggard faces of my subordinates, the original shiny armor has long been torn and worn, and the body is worn like a beggar, and a sour feeling can not help but come to my heart.

These are the elite of the Empire, the glory of the Empire, and now they have been in such a bleak and embarrassed situation because of the incompetence of their commanders, but they still follow me without complaint......

But tonight, just as we were about to return to the Valley of Grace, another group of soldiers had died of wounds or illnesses.

When we broke through, there were nearly 30,000 people, but now, there are less than 20,000 left, and the double torture of mental and physical torture finally made one-third of the people unable to survive the last part of the way home, and most of these people are soldiers who have just experienced the battle.

We had to temporarily park the body in the open space in front of the campfire and bury it again tomorrow morning.

I fell asleep wrapped around the campfire, but I did not sleep well, and I always felt restless, and all kinds of sentimentality haunted my heart, and I thought of my wives so strongly......

In the past month, because I was always living in tension and anxiety, I didn't have time to think about it. After people settle down, they suffer from the pain of lovesickness. Binglan, Vivian, Liuli, are you okay now? Are you washing your face with tears and haggard face night after night because your husband's life and death are uncertain......

I suddenly woke up from my hazy consciousness. There was a burst of rustling and scolding voices.

It was late at night. The campfire flickered in the wind, the night wind whined and whistled in the forest, the leaves rustled, and the shadows of the trees around them showed a blurry illusion in the firelight, and in the depths of the forest that was hidden from the starry sky, there was a thick and deep darkness in the place where the campfire could not reach, in the depths of the forest that sheltered the starry sky.

The eerie atmosphere made me feel slightly uneasy.

As I got up and dressed, I asked my subordinates, "What's the matter?" ”

The sleepy-eyed subordinates around me couldn't answer the question, so I immediately shouted, "Everyone, get up, there may be a change!" Can anyone tell me what just happened? ”

Everyone staggered to their feet, they were still in a state of confusion and confusion, obviously drowsy, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.

At this time, Karanji hurriedly ran to my side, gave a military salute and said, "Report to the marshal, there was a spy just now, and I ordered someone to arrest him!" ”

"Spies?" I couldn't help but frown.

"Someone just tried to steal the corpse!"

"Corpse robbery?" I couldn't help but be amazed at this strange thing.

"Yes...... When we caught him, the man was sneakily moving the corpses of the soldiers in the open space where our army was mortuary, and he had already confessed that the purpose was to steal the corpses...... Marshal, do you want the last general to order someone to bring him over and let the marshal interrogate him himself? Carl stammered a little, and the expression on his face was also strange, obviously he felt unbelievable that such a strange thing happened.

I thought about it, and couldn't understand whether there was anything behind this sudden strange thing to do with us, so I waved my hand and motioned for Carl to bring someone in.

That strange corpse snatcher was brought to me by a big bundle.

I glanced at the man by the light of the fire.

Judging by his appearance, this man was about thirty and forty years old, of medium height, because he was wrapped in a black coat, so it was impossible to tell whether he was fat or thin, the coat and hat that was originally put on his head had been removed, revealing an unusually pale, bloodless face, a handful of unkempt black hair on his forehead was attached to the pointed face, and the eyes sunken into it were almost only white with fish belly, and he could not see the black eyes, as if he was blind, and his lips were tightly pursed into a line, as if he did not like to talk.

This person has a rather eerie and eerie feel.

"Who are you?" I said to this uncomfortable man.

But he turned a deaf ear to my questioning, and the expression on his face remained frozen.

When I asked three times in a row, the nerves in his face suddenly twitched, revealing a weird smile, and then his eyes opened and his eyes became blood-red, and the muscles in his body suddenly swelled, and he suddenly broke the thick hemp rope mixed with the silk!

Before we could react, his body had already moved strangely and rapidly, turning behind a soldier who was escorting him, and his miserable white hands suddenly tightened the soldier's throat like iron tongs!

"Let go of my people! Otherwise, I'll put you in a dilemma! I groaned in rage.

By this time, our soldiers had surrounded him, and I drew my sword and pointed it at him, but I did not dare to make any further action because of the rat trap.

The man suddenly lowered his head as if he were on the shoulders of the soldier under control, and half of his face was behind the soldier's neck, and the soldier suddenly began to tremble violently, and his throat made a "gege" sound, but he could not make a sound, his face seemed to be distorted and deformed from the great pain, and his feet stomped on the ground, and he struggled strongly and hopelessly, and in a moment he suddenly stiffened, and his feet stretched out, as if he were dead.

At this time, the man grabbed the soldier's neck with one hand, and hung down his crotch with the other, and with a terrible strange force, he pulled the soldier's entire body off the ground with one hand, causing the soldier's feet to hang in the air!

When he raised his head and showed his whole face facing us, a pair of long, white and pointed front teeth stretched out from the blood-stained mouth, the tips of which were as sharp as needles, and the slender front teeth were glistening with blinding blood!

It's not a tooth that should belong to a human, it's like the tusks of a beast!

At that moment, he suddenly threw the soldier's body at us!

I took a step forward, stretched out my left hand and gently lifted the soldier's body, resisted the strength above, caught him steadily, and then lightly lowered it to the ground, stretched out my hand to probe the soldier's breath, but there was no breath, and my face still maintained an expression of great pain and fear, and my eyes were staring at him.

My men had already shouted and attacked the man, but the man avoided all the attacks with his strange posture and high-speed movements, and the sword that happened to slash at him was like a mid-arm, and it didn't even penetrate half a point, and bounced out!

In the blink of an eye, our soldiers let out continuous screams, and several soldiers had already suffered, and he broke their necks and killed them on the spot!

I couldn't help but be furious, my body moved forward, suddenly accelerated, the figure disappeared in space, and then suddenly appeared a meter in front of the person, "Weiming" shot a flying stab, piercing the person's heart at once, and at the same time stretched out his right leg and kicked him violently, and then the long sword was around, with a piece of blood splashing out of his chest.

The man had been kicked by my tremendous force, and only after flying out of the air for a few feet did he fall to the ground with a "poof", but the blood in his chest stopped at the same time at this moment, no longer seeping out, but the man was silent, as if he had died.

"Marshal, the death of the first soldier is very strange......" Karl came to report to me at this time, his voice trembling slightly, his face pale with fear, as if he had witnessed something extremely terrible.

When I went to the soldier's body, I found that the whole body had withered, as if it had been drained of all the blood at once, and when I opened his body, I saw that near the major artery in his neck, there were two shocking blood holes, on which the blood had coagulated into black blood clots.

Seeing this, even I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.

Sky! Is that corpse thief the devil?

"Marshal!" Just as I was thinking about it, someone suddenly screamed in a panic.

I looked towards the source of the sound, only to see a few soldiers who were about to move the corpses of the robbers suddenly retreat in panic.

And the monster that was already dead suddenly slowly got up from the ground, stood upright, and then walked towards here step by step, with a strange smile on his mouth.

He was able to rise from the dead!

"I don't believe you really can't be killed! If you're the devil, I'll kill the devil! I sneered, suppressing the chill in my heart, the "unnamed" long sword lightly touched the ground, and rushed towards the comer, and when it was close to the person, suddenly the long sword rose from the ground and slashed out diagonally, with a blue blazing flame on the sword body!

Under my invincible sword, the man's body was split in half at a forty-five degree angle, half of the head, neck, left shoulder, and left hand, and the other half of the right shoulder, right hand, and lower body, scattered on the ground, and the pungent scorching stench of burning from the incision.

This time there is no more myth of resurrection from the dead.

I grant this strange monster an equally strange death.

My men all looked at me with god-worshipping eyes, and I had gained all their loyalty—they had fallen into Carlos's trap because of me, but they had saved their lives because of me.

Not only did I keep them alone at bay and lead them out of thousands of battles in order for them to escape, but I also repeatedly showed great strength - I could kill even undead enemies, and these days of life and death together, day and night, deepened our mutual trust.

If I can return to Fengrong Valley safely, these 20,000 cavalry will become the foundation and core of my establishment of the invincible Alex Legion. They will be a very precious treasure for me to dominate the world.

At this time, my subordinates had already dealt with the aftermath of the emergency, and I was about to sleep with my clothes, but suddenly I felt that I was caught in a very strange atmosphere, and there seemed to be a strange energy fluctuation in the surrounding space.

My whole body tensed, and I immediately adjusted myself to the tense state before the battle, and immediately ordered everyone: "Formation! Prepare for battle! ”

Everyone did not hesitate to take my orders, and formed several large phalanxes in the vast clearing of the forest as quickly as possible, which was sufficient to deal with any sudden situation and crisis.

After completing the formation, I said coldly to the darkness in the northern part of the forest, "Who is it? If you don't show up to show your intentions, don't blame me for killing! ”

"It's not fun to be found out so quickly! In vain I put all my thought into arranging. ”

With a soft, slightly hoarse but magnetic, unique voice sounded, hundreds of figures "swished" out of the forest.

All of them were dressed in black robes, and their heads were completely covered with hoods, making it impossible to distinguish their faces. The strange clothes are like those mysterious heretics on the mainland, and although the costumes are slightly different from those of the corpse thieves who were killed before, the strange atmosphere and dark temperament are the same.

The one in the center, although also dressed in black, was slightly different: he was dressed in a more bizarre outfit, with a black gown and trousers, silver-white lace on the collar and cuffs, a silver pendant in the shape of a star and moon around his neck, and a black cloak on the outside, giving the impression that he was wearing a gorgeous evening dress for a feast. His head is also covered in a hat.

It was from his mouth that the magnetic and infectious voice came out. Neutral attire, neutral voice, I can't tell his gender.

He suddenly took a few steps ahead of his companion and stood lightly more than ten meters in front of me, then suddenly took off his hat, revealing a girl's face.

The facial features on that face are as delicate as fine porcelain, the short black hair is soft and proper to the ears, the thin lips, the pretty little nose fully express her strong personality, and the bridge of the nose is a pair of black narrow-rimmed glasses, full of quiet bookish atmosphere.

It's not particularly beautiful, and it doesn't have any fat powder on the face, maybe it's not a woman's beauty, but a neutral beauty, but it also has the moving atmosphere of a flower girl.

The only thing to regret was that her face was too pale to see a trace of blood, and even her lips were pale—the unhealthy whiteness of the sun that had not been exposed to sunlight for a long time. The black clothes, black-rimmed glasses frames, and short thick black hair show this paleness even more.

"Explain your intentions!" I said coldly. Although there was not much malice in the girl's previous statements, I was still very wary of these mysterious visitors who came unexpectedly.

"Ah...... So, you have captured our man, and it seems that he has been killed by you. We're here to ask for an explanation. The girl said softly.

"You're a companion of the former Body Snatchers? He robbed corpses late at night and killed our people, and he deserved his own fate! I said with a frown. Although I had guessed a few points from the outfit and appearance, I still didn't want it to be true, after all, I had a crush on this strange girl.

"Well, that's not going to happen...... What to do? We're going to have to get some price back from you, right? After all, it was our companions who were killed! ”

The girl's face was innocent, and she stretched out her snow-white fingers and gently played with the pendant, as if she was contemplative, and as if she was distressed about something, but the show eyes in the lenses clearly flashed a narrow light.

"That doesn't seem to be a peaceful solution to the dispute!" I said coldly as I ordered my subordinates, "Soldiers, raise your sword!" ”

Countless bright swords were unsheathed, held high in the air in a row, under the reflection of the firelight, glowing with a cold cold light, and the strong killing intent and vigorous momentum spread throughout the space.

One by one, the soldiers stood motionless and cold, their eyes firm and fearless, fully demonstrating their high fighting spirit, their courage to the death, their confidence in victory, and their unswerving trust in their commander. If you don't move, it's enough, and if you move, it's an overwhelming fierce killing!

No one would doubt that as long as I gave the order, this silent and dark forest would immediately turn into a Blood Sea Slaughterhouse and Shura Purgatory!

The crisis is imminent. The shadow of death looms over this group of uninvited guests, even though they may all be monsters that can't be killed.

However, how many of our officers and men will die because of this......

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