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"Take it away! What's the use of wearing this! The burly Lord Sischant waved his hand and threw the heavy helmet that the waiter had brought to the ground. He understood what he was going to face, and the armor was simply ineffective.

A large number of archers in the south had been deployed, plus his own more than 1,000 elite archers, and a small number of hoplites, and an army of 3,000 was ready to go outside the city. This momentum was like a war, but everyone's faces were pale.

It was a sad pity that he had always looked down on archers, but now he had to rely on reinforcements from Nan Shangjue. But there is no way.

With an order, the mighty army set off, not at the source of the incident, but to bypass the dangerous "drill village" and go to the "architect town", which is closer and less damaged - in other words, the "drill village" is long gone, but the "architect town" can be rescued again.

Hopefully, it's still too late.

This morning, since receiving the communication magic of the guards of the "Drill Village", Xi Shangjue quickly lost contact with him. The normal process is to send troops, and deal with it as if it were a robber attack.

At this point, the entire village had been taken over by the sparrows. When all the eggs had been laid, the sparrows manipulated their hosts to gather the wagons in the village, and the villagers loaded with the mature sparrows headed east. There are fortress cities there, with a large population, which are best suited for them to breed.

At the same time, a guard of fifty men was rushing towards the village, meeting the motorcade not far from the outskirts of the village and engaging in a fierce battle.

…… It's not so much a massacre.

Xi Shangjue is a warrior by profession, which leads to a bias in the allocation of his military forces. This time, the guards only had 4 archers and 1 shock mage, and the rest were all melee combat, and the swords and stabs could not hurt the sparrows in the slightest, and they could not rush to the side of the host villagers under the wide range of the sparrows' sucking magic. The end result was that only one of the sparrows was injured by the mage, which was not a big problem, and the host villager was killed by the archers, while the guards were all wiped out, and one by one they were possessed by the sparrows.

Several carriages broke down and were dumped outside the village. Hundreds of villagers and guards possessed by the sparrow continued to advance towards the fortress city.

As long as it is close to two hundred meters, the sparrow can fly over and lay all the humans one by one. The eggs hatch into baby sparrows, which mature and lay eggs – a cycle that takes five to six hours, but can be shortened to five or six minutes if a mother bird feeds a large amount of human life.

All four fortresses have the same urban structure, with the overcrowded lower town beyond the towering massive facades, exposed in an unprotected suburb. As long as a sparrow rushes close enough, all of the lower city will be possessed by the sparrow in the blink of an eye.

One can lay five or six eggs at a time, and the number will increase at a geometric rate after a few minutes.

The Western Fortress City was originally dead, but the Western Shangjue made a very wise decision at the time to evacuate all the civilians of the lower city into the walled commercial district.

Despite the panic caused by the population, despite the overcrowding of the commercial districts, despite the slow pace of evacuation, and despite the questioning of the need to evacuate civilians, Sishanjue has always been resolute and stubborn.

Thankfully, it was evacuated.

The more than 200,000 civilians in the lower city only died 80,000 or 90,000, not all of them. It's really gratifying.

In conclusion, all the survivors should be grateful to Dai Xingquanli, but no one knows. Dai Xingquanli manipulated Andrew to inform the king, and the king issued martial law, and this sudden martial law made Xishangjue feel inexplicably uneasy, and took "unnecessary" excessive action - evacuating the people.

Continent-wide martial law? Something must have happened. In order to better prevent the people of the lower city from going out, Xishangjue concentrated them within the city walls.

A large number of restless civilians poured into the four gates of the south, east, west, and west at the same time, and this speed was still not fast enough, at least not fast enough for the sparrow to rush to the evacuation at this time.

Standing on the outer city wall to personally inspect the mass evacuation, the sparrows had already rushed into the crowd with the wagon. Exclamations and shouts came one after another, and even the distant Xishangjue could hear them clearly. Centered on several wagons, all civilians fell in unison as if they were harvesting wheat, and the others fled in fear.

His first instinct was to encounter a magical attack, and he decisively ordered the archers to snipe anyone still standing in the distance below. There were a large number of people in the area, and the targets still standing were very obvious, and they all had strange shapes of red fluorescence...... Looks a bit like a bird?

"Lord Shangjue, doing so may injure civilians by mistake, they may be alive although they are down!"

Xi Shangjue immediately slashed and killed the captain of the archers who raised the objection, and shouted: "Shoot arrows immediately, otherwise there will be more civilians sacrificed!" ”

Arrows rained down.

But it didn't work much.

The bird-shaped red glow seemed to be aetheric, and could use its wings as a shield to block arrows.

Can't stop it at all, useless archers! But the city gates were all crowded with people, and the knights of Sishanjue could not be sent out. There is no other way but to continue archery.

A few minutes later, the red light in the lower city had spread from 100 meters in diameter to 5 or 600 meters, like water dripping into ink. Although many enemies had been killed, many more people had fallen, and they all stood up with the red light and joined the attackers, comparable to the outbreak of the plague.

When he noticed that the effective range of the magic invasion was less than two hundred meters, he decisively gave the order to close the city gate.

"My lord! There are still a lot of innocent civilians who didn't come in! You're going to give up on them! ”

"Shut up!"

He bit his lip and bled out, his hand gripping the hilt of his sword trembling. He didn't know that closing the city gates at this moment was tantamount to slaughtering those civilians with his own hands.

The order was given insistically.

The three huge and heavy metal gates in tons slowly fell, ignoring the cries for help of the people directly below the doors, and slowly pressed the crowd that was crowded at the city gate too late to enter into meat sauce, staining the shoes and boots of everyone inside and outside the gate red.

There was a wail.

Some of the soldiers couldn't help but cry when they saw this.

"You have time to shed tears and snot, why don't you go to the east gate to speed up the evacuation!" A steely roar roared from the mouth of Xi Shangjue, "Pass my order, and the east gate will also be closed in five minutes!" Violators will be killed! ”

The sparrow came from the west, and the east gate had not yet been attacked, for the time being.

Xi Shangjue and the others standing on the city wall had actually already entered the magic range of the spirit sparrow, but all the city walls had strategic-level mana isolation measures, and they were safe.

Looking down at the tragic situation below, it was full of vermilion fluorescence. Everyone rushed to the gates in a frenzy, and the people outside the gates were crying and begging to open the gates. Some of the guards couldn't bear it anymore and were so excited that they wanted to open the city gates to save people, and no less than 100 people were killed for disobeying military orders alone.

The red light covered the door like a tide, dyeing the last bit of vermilion.

Tumbling can only be described by the word churning. After tens of thousands of sparrows had captured the last human to lay eggs, they began to take off and crash into the barrier of the city wall with their own frenzy. The shape of the birds turned into puddles of mud, and then recovered, and once again tirelessly slammed into it. Like a raging wave.

In front of his eyes was a transparent wall-like barrier, like a huge piece of glass, on which rotten tomatoes were constantly thrown.

Behind Xishangjue, several frightened guards who couldn't help but retreat accidentally stepped on the air and fell into the city wall.

Nightmare......

Xi Shangjue watched the tens of thousands of sparrows almost close to the tip of his nose continue to crash over, and he only felt that this was a nightmare - he had buried nearly 100,000 innocent lives with his own hands, and now he could only wait for when the sparrows would run out.