Chapter 74: Ghost Tide
The carriage stopped at the edge of a gravel path covered in dust, and Donald's eyes lingered for a moment on the weeds that had already covered the axles of the wheels before turning his gaze to the ruined town in the distance.
Nearly half of the sun was below the horizon, and the remnants of the blood-colored sunset poured over the town's odd and jagged buildings.
When the wind blew, some dust and sand and gravel tossed up, and after a few steps of progress, the sound of the group sent a flock of scavenging crows from a bush beside the road to a flock of wings flapping into the distance.
"I don't believe this place if it's fine. ”
Donald, who was barely cheering himself up, looked at the ruins in front of him, sneaked a look at Lilo, who was eager to try, and said helplessly.
"If it were okay, the government would have started to rebuild the town here a long time ago, how could it be left unused and covered with weeds. ”
In any case, the foundation of this town is there, although it has been uninhabited for nearly twenty years, the streets and buildings in the city have not crumbled into dust because of this time, and it is better to spend time repairing and caring for it than to find a place to rebuild a city.
There is no doubt that the government of Emerald County has ignored this place for so many years and regarded it as a forbidden area, and there must be something wrong with it.
"I've seen 'Special Zone' The above description of this place, the city was originally a medium-sized town with a population of about 80,000, but because of the emergence of a special disease, the death toll of the entire town increased rapidly in a short period of time, the book said that at the beginning, Emerald County seemed to have sent quite a lot of people here to carry out rescue operations, but in the end less than a third of the people left I guess it should be infected with the disease, there is no way to leave, and then the Emerald County government in order to ensure that this disease will not spread to other towns and cause a larger epidemic, choose to lock down the town"
Anthony pulled a brown-covered book from his backpack and flipped a few pages to find what he had stumbled upon earlier.
The so-called blockade of the town, the government's statement must be for the safety of Emerald County, and put it in the town itself, it is enough to make people chill.
"I think we still have to think carefully, we don't have a doctor in the team and we don't know if there is still a residual virus in that town, the mechanical mask on the hand has no function of filtering the virus, in case it gets contaminated on the body, we have no means of treatment in a short time, we can only go back to the nearest Komur, you don't want to go back to Komur, right?"
Entering a place like this with unknown dangers and not being prepared seemed to Anthony to risk his own life.
What's more, even if they want to prepare now, they don't have the conditions, first of all, they only know some superficial information about this epidemic ruin, and they don't know anything about what has happened inside.
Secondly, not to mention the city in this vicinity, because of the existence of epidemic ruins, there is not even a village, and there is no chance to find someone nearby to ask about the situation, so you can't go to other cities in Emerald County for this purpose, you must know that according to the map, the nearest city takes two days to take a carriage, and then counting the search for insiders and obtaining information, a back and forth may not take at least a week.
They didn't come out for an outing
"I understand what you mean, and I understand that the ruins of the epidemic are dangerous, but now it's not that I want to go in, but Lilo wants to go in, she said that there are things in the ruins of the epidemic that strengthen her body, and you didn't see the urgency when she woke me up before, to be honest, I can't stop her, and I'm not qualified to stop her. ”
Moved two steps to the side and sat down on the stone next to him, raised his hand and kneaded his eyebrows, he had been forcibly called up from his state of mental rest, Donald's spirit had only recovered about fifty percent at best, and he was still dizzy, and Lilo's condition was even more of a headache for him.
If this high-ranking undead really didn't listen to the command, could Donald still be able to forcibly stop her?
"Lilo wants to go in? Is it possible for her to take a break for a while, maybe we can wait until we get back from our mission, and then we'll have enough time to prepare. ”
At the mention of Lilo, Anthony was also a little stunned for a while, no wonder Donald would suddenly turn the carriage and couldn't wait to come here, it turned out to be the request of this "big guy".
Ever since he learned that Lilo was a high-level undead and had saved Donald many times, Anthony's impression of her was that of a hidden powerhouse.
Lilo has helped too much along the way, and it can be said that if she hadn't been there, the two of them would have had a big deal in the sewers of Corta, and the commendable thing is that she usually doesn't ask for anything at all, neither money nor other strange things, as if lemonade and ice cream are enough.
However, it was precisely her previous lack of demands that made Donald and Anthony not know how to refuse on the premise of her unprecedented first request.
That's why Donald said he wasn't in a position to refuse.
"Shall I try?"
In the end, Donald could only look at Anthony with a tangled face and asked.
Abandoning this place and dealing with it when you come back is the same thing that Donald did with Salazar, the wielder of the Power of Destruction, which is undoubtedly the best option right now.
Seeing that the sun was about to sink completely into the horizon, Donald knew that he couldn't continue to grind here, so he could only stubbornly walk to Lilo, who was standing on the side of the carriage, as if looking at the ruins ahead.
"Lilo, can we?"
"Come!"
Donald approached and was about to speak, when Lilo suddenly spat out an obscure syllable that he could understand, but not what Lilo meant.
Come?
Is this to let yourself pass?
"Say, I'm listening. ”
Moving some distance closer to Lilo, Donald simply said in Lilo's language.
Who knew that Lilo turned her head at this time and looked at him in surprise, and still said indifferently: "I'm not talking to you." ”
It's embarrassing.
"Then who do you want to get to come, and I'll call them?"
Since he wasn't talking to himself, he was talking to Anthony and them, and although they didn't know what Lilo was going to do with them, at least it was okay to pass on a message.
"They're already here. ”
This time, the words appeared in Donald's mind in the form of a spiritual power transmission, and the latter subconsciously glanced at the few people behind him.
No one is going this way.
In fact, their eyes were focused on the location of the ruins of the plague.
"Donald, there seems to be some accident in the ruins of the plague. ”
Anthony raised his finger forward with an ugly face, and then said,
"Should I say our luck was too good or too bad?"
Stephanie and Julia didn't say anything, they took two steps and ran straight to Donald's side, pulling at his clothes, their faces pale.
"What the hell is going on, in the ruins of the plague"
Donald opened his mouth to look at the ruins in the distance, and the words in his mouth stopped halfway, but the second half of the sentence was speechless.
About 500 meters away, outside the ruins of the plague, when the last rays of light left behind by the setting sun sank into the horizon, a large blue-green light suddenly lit up at the beginning of the night, and was constantly moving towards them.
When they got closer, Donald could see their true appearance, and then he trembled lightly as if he had been electrified, and the scalp on the back of his head involuntarily tingled.
Translucent spirits of dark blue or pale green, Donald knew their origin at a glance - ghosts.
But that's a lot of that
Thousands of ghosts are piling up in dense clusters, approaching them!
"Donald, I think I know why this is a forbidden place, we have to go, it's too late to retreat!"
Faced with such a huge wave of ghosts, Anthony prepared to retreat without thinking, and Stephanie and Julia did not hesitate to turn around and board the carriage.
"You called this?"
Combined with Lilo's sudden shouting of "come" before, Donald smacked his lips, and only after a long time did he hold back another sentence,
"Your friend?"
As a high-level undead, Lilo had already sensed the extremely strong death aura here even from a distance of several kilometers, so she forcibly asked Donald to turn around, and she found these ghosts.
To be exact, the special energy that exists in the bodies of these ghosts.
On the other hand, these ghosts who had been sleeping in the ruins of the plague for a long time were suddenly awakened by orders from the high-ranking undead, and they did not come out of the ruins to reminisce about the past, but to completely eliminate the alien undead who had trespassed into their territory!
In terms of individual strength, they can't compare to Lilo, so drown her with a ghost tide!
Most of the undead are ordinary humanoid ghosts, with their hands stretched forward, blurred from the waist down, their faces floating forward with hideous complexions, and some of them are extremely tall and bloated like a huge translucent lump of flesh, and their eyes are glowing with dark green luster Resentful spirits, as they walked forward, they grabbed the ghosts beside them and kept filling their stomachs, and their bodies were still rising.
There are also some female ghosts floating in the air, whose body is extraordinarily solid compared to other ghosts, and underneath them, there seems to be an extremely strange and twisted collection of ghosts, but most of them are obscured by the bloated ghosts around them, and their true appearance cannot be seen.
Wow~
As the distance closes, a piercing scream erupts from the ghost tide, resounding throughout the surrounding wasteland!
"They're all going to die!"
Lilo didn't have any thoughts of backing down from the intimidation from the other side, these were the materials she fancied.
Drawing the long sword at his waist, the golden light burst into flames, and then, regardless of Donald's reaction, he held the holy light weapon and galloped towards the ghost tide.
Limbs, chest, head, and a set of white bone armor emerge from the skin and quickly take shape.
Herod~
A white horse rushed out of the ground beneath her feet, shaking off a body of mud and sand and becoming her chariot.
At this moment, Lilo seemed to have turned back into the high-level undead who were killing endlessly in the underworld.
Single-handedly, a "death" charge in the true sense of the word!