Chapter 647 The Identity of the Dark Lady
These days, the border has become lively, and one team after another of carriages has rushed over with supplies that the locals have never seen in their lives, and then they have left diligently, and the crowd of people who come and go has different eyes and different identities, but they are all regarded as soldiers without discrimination. There was a bustling noise in front and back, and another terrible army called the eggs of the recruits drove up nearby, and the farmers of the surrounding fields were working in the direction of their labor, they should not have come into contact with the existence of war.
Among the crowds around the carriage were apprentices who had been trained since the morning, most of them were Ueno's companions or classmates, including Lothermar. By luck or something, Lothermar and Beverline, along with Holden and Lillett, were divided into the same batch, and they could slow down their pace and gather around the carriage to discuss what they had seen and heard in the morning.
There is no doubt that the discouraging news is that the order to attack cannot be stopped, and that a large proportion of the apprentices who are forcibly treated as soldiers are children, such as Beverling; Not only their age, but also the daily lessons of the army, rookie mages are inevitably flawed, they are more immature than those who were originally mercenaries like Lothermar, and they will lose their lives more easily on the battlefield, or lose their will to fight before a powerful enemy arrives.
Along the way, as a mercenary, Lothermar is full of experience, telling everyone that it is often not necessary to be dazzling to survive war, and it is precisely the inconspicuous but resilient people who will face the war better. And the most lethal and most helpless point is the mentality, those who can't face the exam well on weekdays, once they get to such a battlefield, the war will completely defeat a person and turn it into a prisoner. Drawing on her experience on the battlefields of the past few years, Lothermar warned Sù Beverin to beware not only of the madmen who are blinded by the desire to kill, but also of the poor creatures who are frightened by the fear of war and death, who often make the right betrayal and make a battle laughable.
As young Lothermar recounted his previous mercenary mission. The sound of horseshoe Gordon sounded nearby, and before Beverin could think clearly about what it was, Lothermar, who was obscuring her vision, subconsciously threw down the girl. The young Lothermar cried out and lay down, and with great experience, he squinted his eyes and looked across from the bottom of the carriage, and sure enough, a large number of horses galloped in to stop the carriage procession, indicating that the procession, which was a symbol of national goods, should not be able to intercept the horses.
However, it was the actual situation that happened outside of what it should be, and the tall horses that stopped the baggage team had black hair, and the muscles around them were hard and skilled, like a machine qì people were more than flesh and blood. The knight was heavily armed almost to the teeth. It was impossible to see who the leading knight was from the position of Lothermar, but the insignia on their clothing and the flag symbolizing military power still made everyone feel a false alarm.
It is impossible for the horse to appear so boldly, and there will be no enemy outflanking the baggage from this rear hinterland, this is his own people, to be precise, the knights to which these knights belong are the personal soldiers of the Darth Lema family, just like the Michel family also has a personal army like zài, which is a terrible warrior with the highest status and the highest loyalty.
The pro-guards who survived as dead soldiers had their own rights and glory, which was the envy of Lothermar. He is a mercenary. Always on the run, always taking risks for all kinds of experiences, but only to get recognition and benefits, the pro-guard has a sense of existence that mercenaries dare not imagine in their lives. Because they are not shadows.
After stopping the supply troops, the knights at the head of the team rationed the tasks to the head of the division to which the team belonged, and it seemed that the ideas from the higher ranks were at work, so that the administrator had to bow his head before the heralds. After the exchange is over. After confirming that the instructions were clearly conveyed, the knight who fluttered the horse's hooves once again let his lovely companion step out of a cloud of smoke, and the yellow sand all over the ground would not be willingly controlled by the soft grass under the stirring of the horse's hooves. The flying sand and dust looked even more imposing, and when the smoke and dust disappeared, Lothermar and his companions only noticed a few sparse shadows in front of the sky, and finally disappeared.
"God forbid, Michelle's troops are also full of such majesty, and if we really start a war in the future, we will definitely become the head of the horse, and the cannon will be dusted." Lothermar's fears were indeed justified, because Hou Cunxin, who was far behind, had already sensed the terrible events that were about to take place here, and it was too crazy to involve the poor and the underage apprentices in the war.
After that, the baggage was in the right place, and as Lothermar had predicted, they weren't kicked out as pawns escorting the mother. All of them were reorganized and put into their own phalanx, which included mages and warriors, including ranged and melee troops, who didn't care about the combination of people at all, just marked the increase in numbers, in other words, everyone might be ordered to go out like magic cannonballs, attack places they were not familiar with, or even enemies, no matter what, the war might really begin.
In the center of the academy, where there was no smell of gunpowder smoke and border dust, the atmosphere was still very tense, and even in the original dean's office, it had lost its original sense of peace and comfort, and the terrible premonition became stronger and stronger. Under the tense atmosphere, Hou Cunxin continued to talk to Dan. The apprentices themselves discuss how to survive the war, and they seem to be looking for a way to crack it for their own sake, when in fact all of them are worried about the academy itself. The academy that was considered stable and magical could lose all its new vitality as a result of this transfer, and what else could a academy that had lost its apprentices and professors be an empty city, a ruin.
In addition to this, Hou Cunxin not only could not directly stop the war, but also in Freud's surprised tone just now, the young man knew that the three living corpses underground were by no means simple.
"Mr. Freud, who are these three people?" The boy asked anxiously, his tone expressing tension and pain, for he was genuinely worried about the future of everyone in this academy and the happy life of the academy.
"If I'm not mistaken," Floyd narrowed his eyes, looking like a faint ache from the recurrence of an old wound, but he only slyly tossed his gaze to the dean.
"That's right, not long ago, there was an incident of the death of a nobleman in the academy, you heard about it." Ignoring the reactions of the crowd, the dean continued: "Then, no more than twenty-four hours passed, and the security team immediately discovered the disappearance case from the home of another nobleman, and the two personal attendants and the nobleman himself disappeared. This case has the same traces of the secret room invasion barrier as the previous one, the burning marks of the enchantment in the shape of fiery red leaves, which reveal the identity of the perpetrator. We only know that the two events were committed by the same person, but such an invasion is too dangerous, and it can cross the barrier and directly take the life of the target. We couldn't figure it out, but then I made a simple guess. What if the murderers behind the disappearances and homicides were using spatial jumps, rather than breaking the barrier? ”
Hou Cunxin digested this topic, and he roughly understood a little. In other words, the enemy did not take action to break the protective barrier of the house, because from the beginning he did not belong to this world, but a traveler from other parallel spaces, such a murderer deliberately left a signal to break the barrier, so that people are willing to think so, so that people can shift their attention to the barrier, in fact, the enemy's ability to transform space can reach anywhere.
"Is this possible for people from other worlds? I've heard that even if you can see each other in parallel spaces, if you want to intervene with each other," Hou Cunxin questioned very seriously, and they began to carefully examine the whole process of the case.
"If you have a remote control, you can combine the virtual with the real, and the seamless connection will make it difficult to distinguish between the dream mirror and the reality, and then just take out the things that are not available in reality in the dream, you know? The reason why the enemy will still leave traces after committing the crime is most likely that he did not get the best experience of the remote control artifact, if it is in the state of the best experience, then the murderer with the remote control is really easy to kill. Floyd added, and looked earnestly at the dean himself. He and the dean both knew that the so-called most suitable time to jump between spaces was actually when the power of the academy could not be controlled, if the factory in the lower space of the academy was destroyed, then the academy would inevitably go berserk, and the collapsed academy would open the passage of parallel spaces, so that the murderer could use the artifact unscrupulously.
It all makes sense, that is, from the very beginning, Virgil sent his subordinates to put the Dark Lady's Yuan Shen into Dark Xiang's body in the form of injections. With a strong chaotic power, the immature girl can't control the woman, which of course becomes a gap in the academy, and then the woman waits for the opportunity to go underground, and wants to control the factory before everyone else, so that the academy collapses. By the way, that makes sense, because the nobles who were killed, or taken away to be infected with the virus, were also part of the ritual release, and the Dark Lady couldn't attack the powerful dean, so she had to start killing from the weak.
In that case, the event would have become more authentic for the Dark Lady, who has actually been lurking in the rear since Virgil appeared. Hou Cunxin really doesn't know why the dark lady has a crush on the dark incense, why the dark lady can attach to the dark incense, why the dark lady has a unique way to sneak underground, after all, the door can only be opened by the key given by the dean, and the reason for the investigation is to know who that woman is. (To be continued......)