Chapter 921: Rumors
Hafen plus collar, lonely city.
The cat man was very comfortable and stepped like a gate under the gaze of the undead guard, and walked all the way inside. The most prosperous city in the skyline is still thriving, but it feels much more serious than before. The townspeople felt that their guards had become much more rigorous than they had been. According to the statistics of the Boss of the Blink Snowy Rat, in the past few months and nearly a year, not a single guard has come to visit his temple. In the past, when the patrolling guys passed by their door, one or two of them were eager to stop for a while, but now these guys basically don't go into the crowd. They smell of being unapproachable.
Recently, there has been more and more gossip about Dugu City, about Hafen Gardling, and even about Ivsis, the queen of Dugu City. In the blink of an eye, the snow mouse boss himself didn't know whether to believe these messages or not.
Take a look at these:
"Hauffinga has been controlled by the undead! The Ephris Lords will turn the entire realm into a realm of the undead! ”
"Epsis has awakened the sleeping demons for his own desires, and the undead are lurking around you and me!"
"The three remaining human territories of the Half Moon Domain, the Phocles Domain, and the Rift Territory, have joined forces to fight against Efcis's undead tactics!"
…… There are many other things that are hard to believe just by listening to them.
Believe it? The believers have already fled to the three remaining human territories mentioned above. Whether they made it or not is unknown. Recently, there has been new news that the residents who fled before have become nourishment for the undead, or have simply been transformed into undead!
Don't believe me? The owner of the tavern glanced at the cloaked strange man who had just entered the door, and then quietly glanced at the guard who had just walked past the door through the crack in the door that had not yet been closed, and then continued to chat with the drinkers in front of the bar: "...... As for why I call it the Blink Snow Rat, because I had a snow rat when I was a kid and ......"
"Boss, come to a big bottle of mead, help me add ice cubes!" The person at the door walked to the bar and directly interrupted the boss who was chatting with the guests.
The boss glanced at the visitor, shrugged helplessly at the guest in front of him, and turned around to prepare the drink.
Saying...... I don't know why, although I don't believe it, but in my heart I believe eight points of those rumors. That's a feeling...... But what's the solution? According to the rumors, escaping now can only send sheep into the tiger's mouth, and those guys and the undead will definitely not be stingy to turn their two hundred catties of meat into their food or directly into their own kind......
Moreover, taking 10,000 steps back, Eposis's not doing anything to the residents proves that she does not want a kingdom of the undead, she is just a shopkeeper, as long as she continues to open honestly, at least her life will not be threatened.
What's more, those previous ideas are just speculation, after all, rumors are just rumors, although there must be a source for groundlessness, but it is still possible that some foreign territories maliciously instigated it? These spies in the outer realms must be maliciously inciting the inhabitants of the Havengar Territory to give them a chance.
"I'm not guilty! Why are you arresting me?! I just saw the face of a withered undead beneath the guard's mask! On the street, a miserable cry was heard, and passers-by looked sideways. What I saw was a group of people dragging a well-dressed young man towards the guillotine at the door. He was accompanied by an executioner with a black-faced kini.
"Woo......!" The young man tried to keep shouting so that he could get the attention of the people around him, but the captain who escorted him was very decisive and came to his stomach with a knee, and then grabbed a mass of rags and gagged his mouth.
It's a pity that the captain's reaction was still a little late, and the young man's words, coupled with the increasingly fermenting small rumors, directly made the surrounding spectators more and more.
"Let him speak! Why are you depriving him of the right to speak?! A passer-by couldn't stand it anymore and shouted. This sound came out, just like the voices of the people around him now, which resonated with many people, and there was a sudden commotion under the guillotine.
The captain of the prisoner was stunned, he looked at the people below, and then slowly took off his helmet, revealing a slightly pale face in the look of surprise.
"We're in a state of hostility with the Half Moon Collar, the Snow Man Collar, and the Rift Drape Collar! And in front of you, this person on the guillotine is the spy sent by the three of them to cause internal strife in our territory! The captain's voice was a little hoarse, but as he spoke, his voice grew clearer - he must have not spoken in a long time, which is why this happened.
"We're going to listen to him!" It was still the passer-by who spoke, he pointed to the young man whose face was flushed with excitement, and said very persistently.
The captain of the ...... was silent for a moment, looked at the passer-by deeply and smiled: "Very good, since you want to listen to him, then listen to it......"
So saying, he turned around, walked up to the young man in three or two steps, and removed the rag from his mouth.
"They are the undead! These guards are undead! After going to the guillotine, the young man was visibly a little frightened, but the words in his mouth remained unchanged, and he kept saying what he had said before.
"The guards have it, take off the helmets!" Looking at the increasingly solemn atmosphere below, the captain suddenly gave an order that surprised everyone. "Didn't you say that we all have undead heads under our helmets? Then we'll take it down and give it to you to take a good look at! ”
With the captain's order, whether they were passing by or standing guard, all the Hafinga Leader guards stopped one by one and took off the helmets on their heads in unison.
Looking at the movements of the guards in front of him, the pupils of the young man on the stage suddenly dilated, and he seemed to be muttering to persuade himself, as if he wanted to explain to everyone: "No...... No...... That's not true! What I saw was the face of an undead! I cut off his helmet with my sword and saw the face of the undead......"
Under the helmets of those guards, there are naturally not the faces of some undead, but the faces of normal people...... Except for the face is a little pale. The originally chaotic public discussion was immediately suppressed, after all, facts speak louder than words.
Maybe...... Is it really a spy sent by a hostile territory to fool us?