Chapter 574: The folk customs are simple and the people of the Far South
"Damn, how did the 'death knell' ring at this time?" A team of five survivors heard the bell again and panicked into a nearby warehouse that had been cleared.
Although the last person had slowed down as much as he could when he closed the door, the door that was unattended still made a lot of noise.
"Do you want to kill us? Noor? "The leader was dressed in a merchant's attire, and the pattern was covered with dried blood, and it was almost impossible to see his true color.
He lowered his voice and looked at the thin man who closed the door, and said viciously: "If there will be an immortal coming to block the door, you will be the last to go!" ”
The thin man named Nur was pale, swallowing his saliva hard, and nodded a little stiffly: "I understand." ”
Several of the other survivors also looked at the thin man with disgust, begging for a living in this hell, and making a mistake is equivalent to death.
No one wants to risk their own lives because of someone else's mistakes.
They were scouts from the Steelwalker camp this morning, and the middle-aged man in the lead was Scott, who had been the leader of a small caravan and settled in Storm's End after saving up enough money.
Years of experience in traveling from south to north have made him braver than others and his mind is also flexible.
Scott was one of the first scouts to go out, and in order to maximize the coverage and search area, Camp Steelwalker had a rule that the scouts were not allowed to form teams.
But this prohibition is just a piece of paper outside the camp, and no one will really abide by it, not even the governors will really hold them accountable.
So Scott hid in a hut not far away, examining scouts coming out of the same direction, and when he saw what he thought was suitable, he would invite them to join him in order to increase his survival rate.
Scott was even considering taking these temporary teammates to apply for a permanent team and join the search team if they were still good.
In the small team of five people, in addition to Scott himself, there are three people who were personally selected by him and looked very shrewd and tough, only this Noor was met halfway.
If it weren't for the fact that he shared that he had found a cellar where dried vegetables were stored, Scott wouldn't have wanted to take such a drag bottle with him.
Scott cautiously peered through the gap in the door.
At the highest point of the city is a bell tower, originally built to demonstrate the metalworking workings of Storm's End, on which a large iron bell is placed.
After the disaster, the big iron bell somehow came back to life.
Some survivors said that a circle of eyes had grown on the surface of the iron bell, and some people swore that the originally hollow iron bell had been filled with human corpses, and now the bell mouth was a big mouth, devouring a captured survivor every day.
The big iron bell is also known as the death knell.
Scott had never seen the bell in its true form, and even though it hung from the highest point of the Lord of Storm's End, it was impossible to see the details with mortal eyesight.
He didn't believe what these frightening ordinary people said, but during his time at Steelwalker's camp, he remembered that when the death knell sounded, it was time for everyone to fight for their lives.
Most of the time, the Death Knell will remain quiet like a normal iron bell, but once the Death Knell sounds, the undead in the entire Storm's Rest will briefly regain their senses.
This does not mean that the humanity of the undead will return to the corpse with their sanity, and the undead will be stronger, faster, and more importantly, they will become as intelligent as humans.
They are even able to speak and communicate with other undead people they know well, as if their lives were the same as before, and nothing has changed.
If, by chance, you meet an undead person who knew you before at this time, Scott is reluctant to recall that scene.
The 'death knell' never rang in the morning, it was a pattern that the survivors had concluded by observation, and it was always quiet until the nobles' wake-up time.
So the Scouts will take advantage of this time to search for supplies and find other survivors.
But this rule was broken today, and in the morning the 'death knell' emitted a roar representing death.
"Poof! ...... Poop! ......”
"I heard the door slamming here!" A rough female voice suddenly appeared outside the distance gate, causing Scott's cold sweat to soak his clothes in an instant.
"Maybe you just misheard, you don't even have ears, how can you listen." Another man's voice mocked the woman who had spoken earlier.
"If you hadn't eaten my ears, how would I have no ears! I just heard it! The woman's voice became extremely sharp: "I want to eat meat, I'm going to die of hunger!" Give me meat! ”
"Don't worry, we'll find the meat." The man's voice soothed the woman: "This is the trade zone, maybe that warehouse is full of meat!" ”
"You always have an idea, I listen to you." An older voice suddenly joined the conversation.
This caused Scott to feel his calves start to cramp, and he turned his head to look at his temporary teammates behind him, and saw that they didn't have to perform much better than he did.
All of them trembled in the corner, their faces pale, and one of them was already on his knees, his hands folded and praying silently.
But Noor, who Scott had always looked down on, looked about the same as before, although he was a little timid, but he clenched the sharp knife in his hand.
Scott looked around, this damn warehouse is not large, it stores unprocessed iron ore, and there is not even a window to ventilate, and he can't help but feel that his luck is a little bad.
Now one can only pray that these undead will not find themselves, Scott has seen the speed of these undead in this state, and it is impossible for a few of them to escape the pursuit of the undead.
It's just that Storm's Rest has been assigned to its own territory by the Chaos Evil Gods, and the gods in the sky are obviously unable to bless these survivors.
The door was pulled open from the outside, and the huge force directly ripped the entire door off the door frame!
"I'll just say, some warehouses might be full of meat!" A tall undead man stood in the doorway, and Scott was choked by the fact that the other party had three heads!
A grown man's head grew where he was supposed to be, and an old man's head grew out of his chest, and his neck hung upside down on his chest as if it had no muscles, swaying with the movements of the undead.
The most terrifying thing was the head of a woman, growing from the back of the undead, with a slender neck hovering in mid-air like a snake, her entire face gnawed beyond recognition, the position of the two ears turned into two black holes, and only the blonde hair was left to prove her gender.