The twilight of late autumn came quickly, and the gray smoke rose in a curling air.

The smell of broth wafted from the campfire, and the mercenaries who had set up camp waited eagerly, but the mercenaries sent out to patrol had not yet returned.

The empty plain had no other obstacles except for the gentle hills and sparse woods, and the mercenaries finally appeared in the field of vision, which was the largest forest near the hills.

Dinner began, and Brown fidgeted as he held the food in his hand, like a thorn in his buttocks.

Barrow swept a piece of pie into his stomach with a bowl of minced broth, then stood up with a mace, "I'll go find them." ”

He walked towards the deputy.

"Boss!" His lieutenant saw Barrow coming and hurriedly put the food down.

"I'll go find someone, you be more vigilant." Barrow commanded in a deep voice, and called two more of his men.

Just as he was about to leave, the deputy suddenly looked in the direction of the grove and said in surprise: "Oh, they are back!" ”

Barrow looked back, and sure enough, he saw that the three mercenaries sent out before were quite a few, revealing their figures in the sparse woods.

The direction they came back was facing away from the setting sun, and they staggered back in Barrow's sight, not in a hurry or slow, and the deputy breathed a sigh of relief and cursed, "These fools, dinner is halved!" ”

Obviously, I told them before, let them not go wrong, and come back as much as possible!

Barrow didn't relax, "Pence and the three of them are not the kind of people who don't know what to do. ”

As they spoke, the faces of the three Pence had gradually appeared clearly in their sight, and the mercenaries who had not put down the broth by the campfire shouted, "Hey, Scarface, Pence, you're late!" The broth is gone! ”

In the past, even if they didn't scold, they would speed up their pace and rush over, but this time they didn't react, and they didn't even seem to change their expressions, and they still staggered towards the camp.

"!"

The deputy also felt that something was wrong and cursed. Lifting the heavy three-headed flail, the two or three mercenaries around him also wiped their mouths and stood up with their weapons.

It was getting closer and closer, and then the dim twilight was enough to see the blank expressions of the three of Pence, and the weapons in their hands were gone.

"Pence!" The deputy shouted, and at the same time, the three of them had already approached the camp within ten feet.

Roar!

As if smelling something, the transformation of the three of them from wooden to hideous was very abrupt, and their stiff upper bodies pounced forward. I saw a dazzling flash of white light!

The three figures hit a solid wall at the same time. There was a terrible howl. Flying upside down, my body sizzling, emitting a foul smell!

The whole caravan was alarmed by this movement!

"Don't worry, it's fine."

Andrei's voice rang out near them. "In such a short period of time, it is not so easy to transform the living into undead at once, at most they have been eroded by some negative energy and have been accused."

His words freed the mercenaries who had been suppressed by the mutation, and Steward Brown muttered, "Undead? ”

This sentence made the mercenary who immediately ran towards the three companions after reacting solidify again, and Barrow clenched the mace, but he had a bottom, "Is it the necromancer?" ”

Andrei ignored Barrow. He turned around and called An, and flicked his hand at Barrow, "Don't let your subordinates go out of the enchantment range, especially if you haven't practiced fighting spirit, otherwise there will be an accident." We don't necessarily react. ”

When did you set up the barrier?

Barrow subconsciously thought, but didn't ask, after knowing that there was an enchantment near the camp, the sense of security in his heart also improved a lot, and the mercenaries who heard the necromancer's words nearby said one after another:

"That's right! We have a mage on our side, too! What are you afraid of! ”

"That white light just now is really powerful!"

"Go see Pence!"

When Lin An and Sidney arrived, Andre was crouching beside the three mercenaries.

Barrow and a few mercenaries who had cultivated their fighting spirit surrounded them a few steps apart.

The bodies of the three mercenaries were controlled by Andre with a spell, only their heads were left to move, desperately stretching out to the people around them, screaming like madmen, their eyes were smaller, they rolled up abnormally, the protruding whites of their eyes were bloodshot, their faces were pale, they were delirious, and they didn't look like normal people no matter how they looked.

"It's a living puppet."

Sidney made up his mind as soon as he saw the man, and wondered, "How can it seem that the transformation is not complete?" ”

As an expert in pulling hatred, he efficiently used one sentence to get the collective angry eyes of Barrow and other mercenaries.

"Sidney!" Lin An scolded and glared at his followers warningly, "I just want to know, how can I try not to hurt them and expel the negative energy?" ”

"Oh, living golems are all incomplete transformational failures, these people are still alive, just find out the control core that entered their bodies and destroy them, and then expel the negative energy."

Sidney didn't take much of this low-grade product seriously, and turned his head to look in the direction of the woods.

The vegetation in this plain is sparse, Lin An's perception is not very keen, or Titi first noticed that the forest is wrong, and they have already entered when Pence and they have not come out of the woods, Sidney is being pulled by Lin An, otherwise he doesn't bother to pay attention to this group of mercenaries.

Lin An's elemental affinity and the power of life are both negative energy nemesis, but this time the purpose is to save people rather than take out negative energy, she doesn't know this aspect after all, so she asked the latter first, so as not to rashly expel the negative energy, but make the energy in the three of them unbalanced, killing people in vain.

The situation of the three of them was nothing that could be hidden in her perception, and to find out where the negative energy was most concentrated, Barrow and the others didn't notice that the green light flashed under Lin An's palm, Pence tilted his head, and a large mouthful of yellow-green liquid spit out of his mouth, and the stench was tangy!

The mercenaries retreated, except for Barrow to glance forward.

Caught in the food scraps was a finger-thick black nematode, which had just been exposed to the air, and immediately squeaked black smoke, convulsed twice and stopped moving.

André also sprinkled a handful of white powder on it, and the nematode actually writhed violently again, and after a while it was completely dead, and the stench was gone.

"! This thing will play dead! A mercenary cursed.

"This kind of corpse insect refined with negative energy is not so easy to die, if you encounter a similar situation, you can kill it with fire or fighting energy, but it is best not to come into contact with living creatures, otherwise the corpse worm may take advantage of the opportunity to get into the body, or lay the eggs into the human body." Andrei said casually.

Barrow made a secret note, looking closely at the residue that Burns had spit out, and there were indeed some small black eggs in it that were not easy to detect.

"Thiago didn't catch anyone, the necromancer's body isn't in that woods." Drove out corpse insects and negative energy for the three of them, Lin An suddenly said.

"So what do we do now?" Barrow asked hurriedly.

He realized that he had made the right decision not to alienate Andre before, otherwise when passing through this grassland, in the face of such a strange and terrifying thing, and a necromancer peeping in the dark, few people in the entire caravan would probably survive.

"Let's camp as planned, it's okay, it's impossible for the other party to enter the enchantment."

Andre knew that ordinary people were afraid of necromancers, even Barrow, a martial artist who was about to enter the Black Iron Sword Saint, and had to pat his chest and show a confident look.

The mercenaries were really relieved, Baro thanked Lin An, asked someone to carry the three of them away, and immediately strengthened their precautions when they turned around, and replaced the people who kept vigil tonight with mercenaries who had cultivated their fighting spirit.

On the other side, Lin An and the others returned to their camp.

Simon's family was shocked by the previous situation, and followed Shiryl and Salin who remained in the camp like frightened birds, and even Athena was regarded by Miss Simon as a safe dependent.

Andre and Lin An comforted them a few words, and the understatement made Simon's family feel a lot more at ease, and Lord Simon and Mrs. Simon returned to the carriage, only to feel tired, their eyes could no longer be opened, and they fell into a deep sleep on the seat of the carriage.

Outside the carriage, Athena, who had finished casting the spell, jumped back briskly, and Lin An and others gathered around, including Thiago and William.

Thiago said that the forest had become a nest of corpses. Lin An said, and everyone showed a disgusted expression.

"No wonder there are so many ravens there, they're not doombringers, they're cleaners!" Saleen said.

Ravens are strange birds that often congregate in places where negative energy gathers, and when people see them, people either die or resentful spirits appear nearby, so they are disgusted by ordinary people. In fact, in the eyes of sophisticated spellcasters, they are often warning of danger, such as witches, who like to use ravens as their pets.

"Also, I found this on one of the mercenaries when I was expelling negative energy just now."

As soon as Lin An flipped her hand, a pure black oily crow feather appeared in her hand, and when the crow feather appeared in her hand, everyone immediately sensed a thin and pure layer of negative energy on it.

If the negative energy that infected the mercenaries before was like two drops of ink casually dripping from a glass of water, then the negative energy on this crow feather, the pure and thick ink made of the finest pine smoke ink, attached to this crow feather is not a secret ambush, but a manifestation of identity.

Sidney stretched out his hand, and a rich ball of negative energy appeared in his palm, and the purity of the essence was no less than that crow feather, but Sidney slowly shook his head, and the ball of negative energy was retracted.

Several cultivators present understood the difference:

The energy under the control of the mage himself is obviously not comparable to the attachment to the object after leaving the body, not to mention that this crow feather is not a special material, nor is it attached to the magic circle, it is completely an ordinary raven feather.

"It seems that this is what we mean by not being nosy." Saleen said.

"I haven't hit the small one yet, the old one has come out!" Andrei muttered.

At this moment, the crow feather left Lin An's palm and floated gently.

(To be continued)