Chapter 147: The Funeral

The knights of the Blue Knights, together with a large number of adventers who understood that only their own individual strength was strong, and that they could live a better life in this new world, swept frantically like chicken blood, and the remnants of the ghoul tide in the Baal City area were finally cleaned up after two days.

And as the people's spontaneous rescue team found a desolate corpse from the rubble, some of which were eaten by ghouls beyond recognition, and stood aside, some surviving family members couldn't help but let out a burst of grief.

For the past two days, it seems that the whole city of Baal has been filled with a sad and oppressive atmosphere.

In order to vent the hearts of the people, this kind of mood that is brewing and will inevitably occur, a solemn and large-scale funeral, that is, under the auspices of the female city lord, kicked off in the early morning of the next day, on the bank of the Attali River in the north of the city.

The corpses, often mutilated by ghouls, wrapped in a white cloth and showing only their pale faces, were carried to the shelves of dry firewood that had been erected.

The dead man's closed eyes and eyelids were also placed with two bronze coins, or two silver coins, so that the deceased could pay for the boat ride with the extraditer before going to the Styx of the underworld.

Of course, according to custom, the relatives and friends of the deceased should be responsible for placing the last coin.

However, it is often in this sudden disaster that many of the deceased are in the disaster of this ghoul tide, and the family is not spared, and at this time, it is really the case of finding relatives who are related by blood.

This kind of work, which is similar to sending the deceased on the last journey, can only be done by others.

As the crowd of onlookers grew, a slight cry slowly spread.

Standing next to the wooden shelves of the deceased, the soldiers of the garrison who had survived before, with torches, stepped forward one after another to light the dry wood under the deceased.

In the blink of an eye, in the midst of a burst of squeezing sounds, as the human flesh fat and the white cloth wrapped around the body were continuously burned by the flames, and the black smoke wafted up, the crowd of onlookers finally broke out into a long-suppressed cry at this time.

On the other side, Ophelia, who saw this scene, was only at this time facing the nobles who had been waiting for a long time, and who were often present in black clothes, nodded, indicating that this side could also start.

With the cabin of a ship, lying flat on the flat side of a man wearing the family armor in front of him, his arms were naturally flat on his abdomen, a long sword was held in his hand, and on the closed eyelids, there were also two small boats of the noble corpses of Jin Muton, slowly flowing downstream.

A young man who was obviously a junior in his family, a nobleman who had lost his life in the tide of ghouls, walked up to the dock and took the longbow from a squire at the signal of an old knight on the side.

He took another arrow and wrapped a circle of feathered arrows soaked in oil cloth behind him, and he raised the longbow in his hand as he pulled the string.

Obviously, if you want to shoot a rocket from a longbow and ignite the dry wood under the corpse in the cabin of the small boat, which has already floated thirty or forty miles away, without shooting the arrow on the plank on the side side of the ship, the young man at this time can only choose to use the hanging shooting technique.

And this is often used as a battlefield in which archers move in groups, striking at a certain target or enemy force in a general area. The reason why it is called "skill" is naturally because it is difficult for ordinary people to do it without long-term and arduous practice.

Especially when you're shooting at a single moving target.

If you don't have more than ten years of dealing with the longbow in your hand, you will naturally not be able to do such a job.

And this young man, who obviously only wanted to show his face on this occasion where almost all the nobles gathered in the city of Baal, in order to get those noble ladies who came with his parents, a certain noble lady kissed Mei, naturally did not realize that he would actually hoist the first arrow directly into the river four or five meters away from the boat.

Fit and embarrassed, he could only pull out a rocket from the quiver in the hand of the attendant beside him, light it on the brazier beside him, and obviously decided to try again.

At the same time, standing in the crowd in the distance, at the urging of the female city lord, Huang Laixin, who came to watch the ceremony with Ye Qi and Wang Anyi, suddenly opened his mouth and said to the two people beside him at this time: "I bet 200 gold Muton, this guy will definitely not miss." ”

On the other hand, although I know in my heart that as long as you have more than 40 points of proficiency in basic archery, at this distance, in the face of a huge target like a boat, you can almost hit every shot.

However, at this time, Ye Qi was obviously not optimistic about the dock in the distance, the young man who was wearing a full set of inlaid armor of more than ten kilograms, and who stepped forward before, was a little unstable.

Therefore, for Huang Laixin's bet, he just rolled his eyes and didn't answer.

And then, in fact, as Ye Qi and Huang Laixin expected, the young man on the dock in the distance missed three rockets, and in the whispered discussion of the nobles present, his face was as black as the bottom of a burning pot.

Seeing that the boat carrying the corpses of the nobles had not been ignited, it was about to disappear from everyone's sight at the far corner of the river seventy or eighty meters away.

On the side, the old knight, who really couldn't look down on him, stepped forward with an expressionless face, snatched the longbow from the young man's hand, pulled out a rocket from the quiver carried by the attendant on the side, and stretched it out to the brazier to light it.

First, he held back his eyes at the flags on the pier, representing various families, fluttering in the breeze, and the old knight who had a bottom of the wind direction at this time in his heart took an arrow and bent his bow, and shot an arrow high at the boat on the river in the distance.

Then, without waiting for the rocket to be shot up from the high, it fell in the air, and directly stuffed the longbow in his hand back into the hands of the young man on the side, and then turned around and returned to the position where he was standing confidently.

"Do~"

With a sound coming with the wind, in the ears of the strong people above the red bronze rank present, it was also extremely slight, and the sound of arrows falling on the wooden plank.

The dry wood under the corpse, which was also a small boat with fire oil, ignited a raging fire.

Not to mention how the young man who was standing on the dock with a wonderful face at this time left the scene in disgrace under the discussion of the nobles present and the gloating eyes hidden in his eyes.

At the same time, this large-scale funeral will naturally not end because of this small episode.

As another boat, also carrying the body of a nobleman, was pushed from the dock to the surface of the river, and in the process of drifting downstream, the funeral continued.

Standing in the crowd, I remembered that at dusk yesterday, because for the past few days, Ye Qi, who had been practicing with the real world and was worried that something would happen, took all the rangers whose injuries were not serious and did not affect their combat effectiveness, and advanced towards Qingshui Town (pioneer base) where there were still many ghouls more than ten kilometers south of Bal City.

There were no surprises on the way.

It wasn't until they emptied the pioneer base that all the ghouls and ghouls came to the edge of the maple forest to the south, next to the Order Crystal, to discuss who to report back to the real world, and casually explain that Baal City had been attacked by the ghoul tide in the past few days.

Huang Wenbo, it was by accident that he found a black sword that made him feel very familiar under the corpses of many ghouls!

And this black-eyed sword, which I don't know was abandoned here by the night watchman, is naturally the same as the night watchman, Chen Wei's sword.

It's good that this is not found, once there is such a discovery, it is driven by instinct, under the corpses of the ghouls, they rummaged for a while, and found ten weapons that are obviously in the hands of the ghouls, which are often because of the corrosion of the years, with a lot of rust on the blade, which are very different and brand new in appearance!

The rangers, who realized that something was wrong, instinctively looked at each other, and then tacitly formed a circle around the Order Crystal.

They all pressed one of their hands on the smooth and smooth surface of the Order Crystal, and they were waiting for Ye Qi's order.

"Something is wrong with the situation, as soon as you return to the real world, if you find that it is really an alien race that has arrived in advance, then return to the world of Aya as soon as possible, and then we will discuss. An Yi, you and the people of the second and third teams stay, go back to explore the way, you don't need so many people. ”

Under Ye Qi's above words, Wang Anyi, who nodded at this, was next to the Order Crystal, and the rangers who belonged to the second and third squads took a few steps back.

In Ye Qi's "3, 2, 1! The countdown sounds.

In a burst of golden light that was not dazzling, in front of Wang Anyi and the others, Ye Qi and the others disappeared, but five minutes later, they returned to the world of Aya.

Looking at the other rangers who stayed behind, Ye Qi, who just waved his hand at this, just opened his mouth and explained: "It's just a false alarm, but when the ghoul tide besieged the city, Chen Wei, who returned to the world of Aya, was seriously injured, and Wen Nan stayed there." ”

At that time, Ye Qi, who was worried that Wen Nan alone and couldn't cope with it, was facing Zheng Yunpeng in the second team, signaling that he would also return to the real world first, until Chen Wei's injury was fine, and then come back with Wen Nan.