Chapter 17. Disposal of corpses
Before Captain Orr could give the order, the vice-captain flew directly onto the roof, picked up the magic hammer and looked around for the place where the sound sounded.
Just as the deputy team jumped on the roof, the cry for help came again: "Help, anyone, help."
The deputy team immediately jumped to another roof. Immediately, he spotted a man with a wounded and bleeding right arm, running briskly down a small alley in the ghetto, while chasing a skeleton soldier armed with a cleaver.
He immediately set up his magic gun and prepared to fire. But suddenly, in the alley on the right side of the man being chased, a blonde man suddenly appeared.
The blonde man took a broad-handled axe and slashed at the demon. The demon was chopped to pieces on the spot and dissipated.
The "Cut" deputy team unhappily put away the magic weapon. And stood up and prepared to go back.
At this moment, a female soldier from the same team came up behind him, "Vice-team, is there any situation?"
"It's okay, go back." The deputy team didn't explain much, and took the female swordsman back to Orr's side.
After returning, Orr didn't ask, and still helped repair the house with a few other team members.
After the house was repaired, Team Orr moved on to the next damaged house.
This time, however, they were presented not only with a slum building that was nearly half destroyed, but also with 14 bodies that had died in the building.
At this moment, a garrison team of 12 people, together with a poor man, was helping to transport the body outside. Among them were the wounded pauper whom the vice-captain had just met, and the blonde adventurer.
"I'm Captain Orr, you can go back to garrisoning. We'll take care of that here." Orr stepped forward and spoke calmly, as the rest of her team began to help carry the body outside.
"Ah, it's Mr. Orr." "Teacher!" Several young boys and girls who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old and were using traction magic to carry corpses greeted Orr after dropping the corpses hanging in the air.
"Teacher, why are you here? Shouldn't you be stationed in the Inner Ring? You've come to us."
"If you have any questions, I'll ask them later, and now you will give me back to my post. Don't waste your time."
"Uh...... Got it" "Yes" "Understood"
The volunteers of these military schools did not dare to disobey Orr's order, and they all nodded in agreement and left in a hurry.
"Then there's Captain Law. Let's go." Other non-volunteer garrisons followed suit.
After these people left, only an ancient paup with blood on his hands was left, standing in place.
It was clear that the hands were stained with blood from helping to carry people.
"You're from this house?" Orr looked down at the ancient species and asked calmly.
"yes, yes." The face of the man who froze in place was full of fear, and his eyes looked at the wreckage of the houses and the corpses on the ground in a trance. He was short of breath, as if he was about to faint at any moment.
The air was filled with the smell of blood and the musty, dusty smell characteristic of the ghetto.
"Do you have anywhere else to live?"
"Yet...... Yes," the man replied, still in a trance.
"Then you go first, we'll take care of it here." Orr gave the order in a cold tone.
Houses in slums generally do not have title deeds, and they are all crowded together by poor people. Help each other and barely get by.
This time, the pauper did not answer, his head swayed slightly from side to side, his mouth slightly open, and his wheezing grew stronger. His eyes were fixed on a corpse.
"Report to the captain, the bodies have all been removed. There are 14 in all, all of them of ancient species."
"Hmm." Orr turned back to the reported soldier and nodded, "Ready to burn."
"Huh?" The man was stunned for a moment, "You—what are you going to do?"
Only then did he raise his head and look at the Red Demon Lady who was higher than him in front of him with a look of despair.
"Please calm down, I know there are people you hold dear. But they're dead, so in order to prevent them from becoming demonic, I need to dispose of their bodies as soon as possible."
"No! You can't do that," the man said, falling onto the body of a woman whose leg had been disemboweled. "They are my relatives, you can't burn them like this! Please, please, sir, please......"
The man knelt on the ground and looked up at Orr in a cry that was close to collapse.
"Ahh Before the man could finish speaking, she raised her hand and cast two magic spells without saying a word.
First, there is the pale red pranayama calming magic array (most unrelated magic, whatever magic power is used, it is the color). The man's expression almost collapsed for a moment.
Then the Tranquility Circle disappeared. Then a swirling flickering golden-red magic appeared, which was a low-level hallucinogenic magic.
"Stand up. Get out of here now. Find a place to stay and have a good rest." Orr snapped his fingers after speaking, and then the hallucination circle shattered.
"Hmm......" The man did as he was told, like a marionette, and stood up to leave.
Looking at the back of the man leaving, several members of Orr's team turned their heads sideways, unwilling to look at it again.
"Start burning." Orr's tone was tinged with a lamentation that was not easy to find.
"Understood." x7
With this jagged response, the rest of Orr's team began to magically pile the corpses in one place.
In the next moment, the four magicians teamed up to activate the 'incineration' magic, and a crimson circle with a diameter of 2 meters appeared below the pile of corpses, and immediately ignited a golden-red light up to 10 meters high.
On the periphery of the Pillar of Flame, a thin barrier can be seen to keep out the heat.
The light of the pillar of fire enveloped the 14 tattered corpses. But instead of being burned black, the corpses began to glow.
Dazzling gold enveloped the shattered entities, red, black, purple, all turned golden in an instant.
Then, the gold began to decompose, like a sugar cube thrown into water, melting little by little, little by little.
The process of 'burning corpses' takes about a few minutes, so during these few minutes, the other members need to continue to guard their surroundings to avoid being attacked by the demon plant and demons.
At this moment, in Pengmai City, there were about 10 of these red-gold 'burned' pillars of light. Under the influence of these pillars of light, the surrounding buildings are also illuminated like the afterglow of the sunset, full of brilliant gold. It makes this blue-white city, which was originally wrapped in a pillar of light for the Prayer Festival, a little more 'lively'.
"Tsk, this year's pillar of light is a little bit too much......
A Red Devil uncle, frowning and holding a cigarette in his mouth, stood on a city tower, looked at the pillars of light in front of him (and the glowing residential area), and muttered.