Chapter 229: Skeletons
"If you stay in a hotel at night, won't you not see the beautiful night view of Bali?" Balk said with a tone of regret, "That's a shame. ”
"It's a pity, but if you want to go to other tourist resorts in the west for sightseeing, my sister advises you to stay in the hotel obediently, so the safety factor will be much greater, well, where do you live now?" Ophelia laughed.
Harvey said that they were all students and not wealthy, so they lived in a very ordinary low-level hotel, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to stay here for a few days with the high cost of Balina.
They don't know what the Hotel Graffran is like, but Avenue de la Concorde is one of the most famous streets in Bali, and all the shops and hotels on this street are all boutique shops in Bali.
Harvey and the five looked at each other, this gift is too valuable, even if they take out all the money on them, I am afraid they will not be able to open a room in this hotel, not to mention that as soon as Francisco opened his mouth, there were two rooms for them to stay in for five days: "Sister Ophelia, this gift is too expensive, we really can't accept it." Tina said with a snort.
"Take it, it's rare that he can see you so pleasing to the eye and take the initiative to bring it up, you can accept it with confidence, just remember that you must leave in five days." Ophelia smiled and waved her hand, motioning for Harvey to put the pieces away, "Alright, let's go inside." ”
"Forget it, according to the Oriental saying, seeing each other is fate, we see that you are also very pleasing to the eye, go out of here today, you will go to the hotel and move here." Francisco pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Harvey, "You can ask them for two rooms without having to pay for everything, but you can only stay for five days, understand?" ”
"Five days, that's also very good, enough for the five of us to turn around the places of interest around Bali." Harvey thought to himself, "This will save us a lot of money, so that the five of us don't have to do any odd jobs, and we can go straight to Marseille for sightseeing." He thanked him as he respectfully accepted the piece of paper from Francisco's hand.
As soon as he got the piece of paper, Harvey found that this thing looked like paper, although it was as light as paper, but it shimmered silver in the dim light, and it looked very beautiful: "Hotel Graffron, 198 Avenue de la Concorde." Harvey whispered the words aloud.
"I haven't found it yet, except for being a little more stale, there is nothing abnormal here, and there are a few smaller underground burial areas in Bali than here, after reading here, let's go over there and take a look, maybe there will be some gains." Francisco replied in the same way.
It turns out that the two are not ordinary people, they are knights and priests from the Divine Court, because the dark forces led by the Blood Clan have been ready to move recently, the Divine Court sent them out to patrol the catacombs in the Bali area to prevent the necromancers from making any big moves.
Now that the entire west has been terrified by the invasion of monsters from the east and the deadly plague, if the dark forces are allowed to raise their heads, the whole of the west will be plunged into unprecedented fear.
Harvey put away the pieces of paper as if he had found a treasure, and then took the overjoyed four people to follow Ophelia behind them, and crossed the arched bridge made of human skulls, which is a corridor made of human skulls more than 20 meters long, tens of thousands of skulls are neatly placed in two rows, and many of the skulls still have very obvious scars, which are obviously left behind before their deaths.
Seeing this strange scene, even Harvey and Balk, the most daring of the five, couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, after all, such a spectacular scene was the first time they had experienced it in their lives, but Mark's performance was quite satisfactory to several people, although their faces were pale without a trace of blood, but finally did not scream.
"Fran, do you notice the aura of darkness?" Ophelia asked Francisco in a voice that no ordinary person could hear, "This is the largest catacombium in Barry, and those hateful necromancers will not let it go if they want to do some tricks in Barry." ”
In the mountains of Rimbaud, there were a series of corpse mutilation cases, the victim's body was torn into a terrible strip of meat by unknown beasts in the mountains and forests, which shocked the whole country, according to the personnel sent by the Divine Court after the field investigation, it has been confirmed that it was done by the orcs, judging from the traces left, at least ten to twenty adult orcs were active in that area, after the communication of the Bishop of the Divine Court in Lan, all the residents of the mountainous areas in that area have been withdrawn, and the passages in the mountains have all been closed, A team of fifty men was there, searching for the orcs.
In the north, witches who have disappeared for many years have reappeared, and although their methods are not bloody or intense, the disappearance of a large number of young girls still makes the people of the northern countries panic, and parents dare not let their young daughters go out alone, and usually lock them in their homes, but even so, the number of missing people is still increasing dramatically every day.
In the law of virtue and law, there have been many grave robbers in the cemetery, a large number of corpses have been dug up from the tomb, and the whereabouts are unknown, but this is a foreign statement to deceive the common people, and people with a little insight will find that after looking at the cemetery, those stolen tombs look like they were dug up from the inside, and this is the necromancer's best trick.
In the past few hundred years, the Divine Court has always occupied an absolute advantage, except for the deep-rooted Blood Clan, the other dark forces have been hunted down and killed by the clergy of the Holy See, and they can only survive under the protection of the Blood Clan one by one.
But now, mankind's belief in the gods has sunset, and the power of the divine court has also fallen, far less than in the Middle Ages, but many dark forces have recovered after years of recuperation, once again posing a threat to the human race in the west.
Especially in the recent period, in many countries in the west, as if everywhere the signs of dark forces appeared, in Ronia, a dozen remote villages and towns have been attacked by the blood clan, hundreds of people have been turned into blood slaves, if it is not for the bishop of the divine court in Ronia, immediately send people to exterminate all of them, the disaster will be further expanded, but the lack of the blood clan in trouble, the success of this operation is greatly reduced.
"Harvey, you better go back here, and if you go inside, it may be colder." Francisco stopped and said solemnly, "You guys are not in good health, and if you stay here for a long time, you may get sick, and delay the rest of your trip, which is really worth the loss." Ophelia also persuaded on the side.
Harvey, whose limbs were cold, looked at his companions with earthy faces, and sighed softly, although he wanted to go to the deepest depths, but looking at the appearance of his companions, he decided to follow Francesco's advice and go home, if someone was really sick, it would be a big trouble.
"Aren't you going back?" Tina asked, "Haha, it's our job, and do you think we're in trouble?" Francisco chuckled, the two of them were indeed the same as just now, not the slightest bit cold.
Due to the vast land area and large population of the two countries, various cemeteries can be said to be all over the country, especially in major cities, and many large cemeteries are located in the center of the city, which is exactly what necromancers mean. Therefore, the divine court did not dare to be careless, and sent a large number of clergy to support, Ophelia and Francisco were two of them, on the surface, the two seemed to be strolling around, but in fact, they were carefully probing every suspicious place, and a group of seven people smoothly passed through the skull corridor and walked towards the depths of the cemetery, and the timid Mark was surrounded by the rest of the people in the middle.
The deeper you go to the cemetery, the fewer tourists you encounter on the way, and most of them rush out of the cemetery in a panic and run towards the exit like smoke, obviously frightened one by one. But it's no wonder, the deeper you go, the more dim the lights inside become, the more stale the atmosphere becomes thicker and thicker, plus there are not many tourists in the entire cemetery, there are white bones everywhere, and the timid people feel as if they have entered hell inside, when they go inside for a hundred meters, there is no longer half a figure in front and behind, under Chen Sensen's light, only seven of them remain.
"It's so cold in here." Mark clasped his hands on his shoulders and said with a blue face, and the four Harvey also nodded in agreement, although it was already deep underground, and the five of them were wearing a lot of clothes, and there seemed to be nothing abnormal around them, but several people just felt chills all over their bodies, as if they were in the ice and snow.
Francisco also put away his smiling face, and was about to answer, only to hear a series of miserable screams behind him, followed by a chaotic footsteps: "It's not good, it's Harvey and them." Francisco blurted out, "Something happened to them." The two hurriedly turned around and ran, and as soon as they turned the corner, they saw five people running over with shouting and rolling, led by Mark.
Before the two of them could ask, Mark had already fallen at Francisco's feet, grabbed his trouser leg, and held on to him, and the other four, although they were better than him, were all colorless, their limbs trembled, and they were obviously greatly frightened, and the five of them sat down on the ground with a sigh of relief, and it took a while to recover their breath.
It turned out that after the five of them left Francisco and them, they didn't go far before they felt a great chill around them, coupled with a gust of old wind blowing, and Mark, who was walking in the middle, suddenly howled miserably, turned around and hugged his head, so frightened that the four of them also ran back.
"Alright then, Mr. Francisco, Miss Ophelia, we are returning from here, thank you both for taking care of us, and wish you both all the best in your work, and we will see each other again in the future." Harvey chuckled.
The two groups shook hands and said goodbye, Francisco and Ophelia continued to walk deeper into the graveyard, and the Harvey five turned and walked briskly towards the exit, they did not want to stay for a minute in this cold place of Chen Sen, and now they deeply understood the true feelings of the people they had just laughed at.
"Fran, the yin qi here is too thick, it's really abnormal." As soon as she left the sight of Harvey and the others, Ophelia said to Francisco with a worried face, "Shall we inform the Bishop and ask him to send some more people?" ”
Francisco and Ophelia glanced at each other, and shook their heads helplessly, it seems that without the company of the two of them, this Mark said that he would not go out by himself, Francisco's mind was racing, it was obviously a little weird here, and the Chen Qi was extraordinarily heavy, even Mark, an ordinary person who was slightly more sensitive to Chen Qi, also sensed it, and the two of them went deep again, the danger was probably not small, it was better to take this opportunity to send these five people out and bring some more people smoothly.
Just when the seven people decided to exit together, suddenly from the dim exit direction came a slight sound of "da-da-da", when the seven people were still confused, the sound had become a lot louder, and it became more and more dense, Francisco and Ophelia immediately changed their faces, they had already felt a breath of death approaching here from the direction of the entrance, and the dense "da-da-da" sound was undoubtedly the sound made when the skeleton soldiers' bones collided.
Francisco and the two could no longer hide anything, throwing off their cloaks, Ophelia took out seven silver crosses of different sizes from her arms, and stuck them on the ground at lightning speed, Francisco drew a half-human tall long sword and protected it in front of everyone, and the small silver cross gradually glowed with white light, forming a shield to protect all seven people in the middle.
After listening to Harvey's explanation, Francisco and Ophelia couldn't help but laugh, and then looked at Mark, who was still holding Francesco's calf tightly, still shaking and still not calming down.
"Scared the hell out of me." It took a long time before Mark said in a trembling voice.
Seeing that he was frightened like this, Francisco didn't want to say anything more about him, so he had to help him up, and it took a lot of effort to pick Mark up, but he grabbed Francisco's sleeve and said that he wouldn't let go.
The "white toad" soon came to the outside of the shield, and after the continuous impact of a bone joint, countless skeletons were officially "assembled" and lined up on both sides of the passage, most of them lined up towards the entrance, Francisco and Ophelia could only watch them away with helpless eyes, although they knew that their target might be humans on the ground, but now they really had no time to care about themselves.
"Quack quack......" There was an unpleasant laugh from a distance, like a brain-filled magic sound, causing Francisco and Ophelia to frown in pain.
"Let me see what kind of good prey my darlings have caught for me." A man covered in a black cloak flashed out of the group of skeletons and said in a hoarse voice that seemed to be made by the friction of the joints, "Quack, a knight and a priest of the Divine Court, and five young men and women full of youthful vitality, it seems that my luck is quite good, and you have sent it yourself without me looking for it." ”
Ophelia only felt that cold sweat was flowing on her jade back, these seven silver crosses were given to the two by Lord Iago, the bishop of the Divine Court, for self-defense, and had the function of alarming, but at that time, only two guards were considered, but now there are five more people, and the area of the shield has expanded a lot, and it will cost more holy power, under the attack of the necromancer, God knows if they can hold out until the arrival of reinforcements, the five Harvey looked at all this with their mouths open while shivering: "Is this reality?" It's like a plot in magic. ”
As the sound of "da-da-da" approached, the pile of white bones next to the seven people also seemed to have life, and they all "jumped" down from their original positions, and after a series of dazzling "assembly", countless headless skeletons stood in front of everyone, and from the direction of the entrance, the skulls of the dead who could not be seen at a glance were jumping here like white toads.
Francisco and Ophelia's hearts also raised their throats, such a spectacular scene even they had only seen from the description of the past wars in the Divine Court, but that was at least four or five hundred years ago, Francisco only felt that his heart was beating like a big drum, every heartbeat shook his brain dizzy, and the long sword in his hand became heavier than ever, he couldn't lift it, his palms were covered with sweat, Ophelia's appearance was not much better than him, Her hands gripped the placket of her clothes as if it were her long-cherished enemy.
"Necromancer, you are so bold that you dare to blatantly cause trouble in Bali, and Bishop Iago, who has been alerted by us, will soon send someone to exterminate you evil creatures, so that you will die without a place to bury." Francisco forced himself to calm his mind and pointed with a halberd.
"Iago? Quack, that old fellow won't know where you are now, when I came down, the entire exit of the cemetery was closed, and it was impossible for your message for help to reach him. The necromancer said in a smug tone, "I can't imagine that after all these years, your method of reporting is still this old-fashioned method, and we have already figured out a way to target it, and it is only a gesture for us to make it invalid." ”
Ophelia couldn't help but lose color after hearing this, at this time her heart was like a mirror, with the strength of herself and Francesco, she was by no means the opponent of the necromancer in front of her, if there was no shield, she would have been overwhelmed by the skeleton long ago, reinforcements could be said to be their only hope, if it was really like what this necromancer said, this time they were probably in a catastrophe.