Marin rested for a while, and after about five minutes, he stepped out of the train, using the twigs of the World Tree as hooks, and dragged the corpses of the two wormmen back to the front of the train.

Compared to the corpse of the young man before, these two corpses are more like monsters, which makes Marin have the illusion that 'they are evolving', and takes out his dagger, Marin is not in a hurry to dissect the large corpse, he first pulls away its mouthparts - yes, mouthparts, according to the young man, if it happened four days ago, then Darwin is afraid that he will go crazy on the spot.

Everything here is evolving at a rate that defies Darwin's laws of evolution.

"Deep distortion, we're in a big trouble." Mentor Merkel walked over.

Marin nodded, and then used a knife to cut the chest of this insect man, unexpectedly, it was not cut, and the cut clothes revealed the texture of a carapace.

Simply ripping off his clothes, Marin looked at the completely distorted body and shook his head: "I can't imagine that this was four days ago. ”

With that, Marlin slashed through the gap between the carapaces, and the dagger made of Oriel steel pierced through the gap, and Marlin pried open the armor with all his strength.

Green blood flowed out, and what appeared in Marin's vision was a slimy secretion, completely different from human organs, and most importantly, Marlin saw the small sac on its chest, and the small worm fetus in the center.

"I never learned what it was in church." Marin cut open the sac and put a glove on his left hand, and then picked up the little worm fetus.

"I swear, I've never taught this what it is in church." Tutor Merkel turned his head to look at Mentor Emmett Selke.

"Maybe ask the local churches in Silent Hill and they'll know more about this than we do." Mentor Emmett Selke shook his head as well.

Marin pinched the worm to death with one finger.

In an instant, Marlin's eyes were dark for a moment, and a voice like a child cried.

The voice was also fleeting, Marin was silent for a moment, and turned his head to look at the two mentors: "Did you feel anything just now?" ”

Mentor Emmetselk shook his head, then looked at the insect corpse in Marin's hand, "What did you hear or see?" ”

"There was a black eye, and then there was the cry of a toddler, and it was also a matter of moments." After Marin finished speaking, he thought of his comments when he did the inspection - not to be vain.

Even if it is such a physique, I have heard something just now, this is definitely not an ordinary evil fetus foreign body, it is definitely an evil god: "We are in big trouble, if it is really only four days, I am afraid that this city has fallen in these four days...... Once I've dissected the worm, let's go to the train station again. After Marin finished speaking, he pulled the small insect corpse in front of him.

"Why?" Mentor Emmet Selke asked.

"Find the newsstand and see what has happened in Silent Hill recently, this should be the best way for us to save ourselves, and it is indeed the best way to find a living person to interrogate, but in this situation, who of us can be sure ......" poked the dagger into the gap, and then pried open the carapace with force, looking at the worm fetus in it, Marin simply pierced the worm fetus with the dagger.

This time, there was no black vision, and it seemed that Marin had resisted the vision, but the crying still echoed in his ears.

"There are still cries, let's go." Shaking off the slime from the dagger and returning the knife to its sheath, Marlin got up and took the shotgun from Logan's hand: "Are you okay kid?" ”

"I'm fine, Mimian has a cold." Speaking of this, Logan looked at Marlin, a little excited: "There shouldn't be any monsters at the station, I watched those bugs flee to the city from the car, so let me help." ”

"Your apprentice has a heart, though I think he's more like he's here to die." Mentor Merkel smiled and shook his head, "Boy, this is not for you, I'm serious. ”

"Logan, go back, this is not the place for you to be reckless." Marin patted the young man on the shoulder: "Take care of Mimian, wait for us to take care of things." ”

"But, but I really want to do something, if Mimian dies, there is no point in my life." Logan said this with a categorical look.

Looking at this peer, Marin felt like he had seen himself when he was young.

Obviously, I wanted to tell him that no matter how sincere my feelings were, they would become incomplete, but when I thought of myself, Marin felt that I couldn't let such sincere feelings fade...... At least he couldn't let it fade in front of him, so he nodded: "Yes, you can come with us, but I must give you a signal before you can come." ”

"No problem."

After saying that, Marin took a step and walked carefully to the door of the station with the two mentors again, the gate of the station had been smashed by the bugs, and Marin could clearly see the dead insect corpses inside.

After taking two steps inside, Marlin stopped, and his movements made Mentor Merkel immediately look around, and then he looked at Marlin with some confusion: "I don't feel anything unusual, Marin, why did you stop." ”

"Don't you think it's important that so many bugs don't die from the flames?" Marin pointed to the insects who had fallen to the floor, without any signs of flames.

"We'll know with one shot." Mentor Emmett Selke pulled out his revolver, but was stopped by Marin: "I have a better way." ”

With that, Marin pulled out the combination of Bloodroar and Fio - you're all older, it's time to learn to rush up and cut off your head yourself.

Mentor Emmett Selke watched as the axe with dozens of legs rushed up and cut off a head with an axe, and in silence took out a handkerchief and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.

Mentor Merkel glanced at Marin and finally let out a long sigh, "I never thought that the blood roar and the twigs of the World Tree could be used like this. ”

Bloody Roar chopped off a dozen heads in one go, and Marlin finally snapped his fingers to stop.

"It's safe." After Marin finished speaking, he turned around and waved to Logan, and the two mentors had already walked into the station first.

Logan trotted all the way over, he deliberately bypassed the corpses - the existence of the worm made Marlin have to be careful, who knows if this little thing will continue to act after the death of the host, or eat everything in its host like a dying worm and forcibly hatch itself.

Thinking of this, Marin beckoned to Bloodroar and Fio, who immediately jumped into Marin's hand with Bloodroar.

"What did you find again?" Mentor Merkel, who was rummaging through the pockets of the corpse, turned his head and asked, wanting to get information.

"I want to see what the difference is between a bug that is burned by fire and a bug that dies without injury." With that, Marlin will split the breastplate of the insect that has been burned by the fire, and although it can block the dagger, it cannot block the combined blow of a legendary battle axe and its owner.

All this split its chest directly, and Marlin reached out, having previously confirmed that the mucus was not corrosive, so Marlin bluntly peeled off the carapace and pulled out the worm fetus from the sac.

The burned worm is completely inactive, and does not wriggle like the one dug up from the shot worm, and it is certain that the worm is not resistant to high temperatures, and the flame can kill them in a relatively easy way, and the worm is obviously 'steamed' to death.

Marin turned his head, and with one look, the tender limbs of the World Tree on the other arm shot out, tying back the crow that had fallen on the corpse outside the door.

Marlin is going to do an experiment to see if it can be infected.

The twig of the World Tree made the crow open its mouth through its 'appeasement', and Marlin threw the worm into the crow's mouth.

Motioning to tie the crow up, the twigs of the World Tree immediately tied it up, and Marlin turned and pulled over an unburned corpse and pulled out a dagger - the burned insect man obviously wouldn't have that much slimy slime to splash on, but this one was not necessarily, and in order to avoid the danger of uncertainty, Marlin peeled off the carapace in the old way.

The fetuses that had been expelled from the sac were still inactive, which made Marlin wonder why they had died if they had not been hit by bullets or even burned by flames.

The impact of the shock bomb on the high-frequency sound wave? It shouldn't be. Thinking of this, Marlin turned his head to look at the crow, and found out where it was still croaking, the twig of the World Tree twisted off the crow's head under Marin's consciousness, Marlin dissected the crow's corpse with a dagger, and after confirming that the corpse was in its stomach and not somewhere else, he threw the corpse in his hand and the corpse he took out to the ground and stepped on it: "Logan, I have one thing I will give to you." ”

"What's the matter?" The peer who had been vomiting all the time after coming in turned his head to look at Marin.

"First, you go out and vomit; Second, call a few senior students to collect the bodies of the dead bugs with Molotov cocktails and burn them. ”

"Okay, okay...... Woo......" Before Logan could speak, he lowered his head and vomited again.

"Young people don't push themselves too hard." Mentor Merkel said with a smile.

Marin shook his head, walked over and dragged his old friend out of the station hall: "Logan, hurry up and get things done." ”

Then he ignored the kid and returned to the inside of the station hall: "Did you find the newsstand?" ”

"Found it, but your Molotov cocktails burned the newsstand." With that, Mentor Emmett Selke pointed to the newsstand behind him, which was already in a state of ashes.

Marin smiled helplessly - his first thought when he threw the Molotov cocktail was to point at the harder places, and if he broke the Molotov cocktail, he could expand the fire, and who would take a look at it first, who would know what it was.

"But it's okay, we found a couple of newspapers from the benches." Mentor Emmet Selke threw one of them to Marin: "Let's go out and see?" ”

"No problem." After Tutor Merkel finished speaking, he raised the notebook in his hand: "This should be the diary of the station master, we may be able to confirm the problem from it." ”

So the group of three walked out of the station, Marin saw several senior students moving corpses, a few Marin didn't know, it should be the Church of the Goddess of Love, they piled the corpses together, Logan held an oil drum in his hand, it looked like he was ready to pour oil.

Marin opened the newspaper and flipped through the first pages—at Fort Carter, no, it was the whole Sidney Union, the first and second pages of the newspaper were international events, the third page was the place where the pen was stirring up, and the fourth page was the beginning of what the general public needed to know.

The content of the fourth edition is very simple, the lord of Silent Hill, Lord Cel Kate, the transcendent, the eleventh level swordsman got married a week ago, and is currently spending his honeymoon in the lord's mansion, I heard that the bride is a very cute forest spirit girl, transcendental, seventh-level marksman (the marksman is the original profession of the elves, a non-human potion sequence, and the kind that will definitely not shoot if you shoot the earring under your left ear within two or three hundred meters).

Although it sounds like the bride is only level seven, considering that Lin Jing can live for three hundred years even if he is not an extraordinary person, His Excellency Sail has earned it to some extent, not to mention that Lin Jing's marksman has almost no barriers, three hundred years, as long as she does not die unexpectedly, it is enough for this girl to rise to at least fifteen or above.

It's a pity that judging from the current situation, whether these two have the destiny to get married or not is a very realistic question.

Thinking of this, Marin sighed, for the young and promising Lord Cell, and for the lovely Miss Lin Jing.

At the same time, the exclamations of the two old men sounded.

"You're watching the fourth edition, huh?" Then the two old men asked questions in unison, and then said in unison that it was really terrible.

"Do you know what kind of person Sal Kate is?" Marin had never heard of this person, and there were not many nobles who could be called by Marin for the Sidney Union, so he could only turn to the two mentors for help.

Mentor Emmetselke shook his head, he obviously didn't know, but Mentor Merkel spoke: "He is a young man from the Church of the God of War, he shined on the Northern Front at the age of sixteen, and in seventeen years he went from a small soldier all the way to the position of the commander of the legion, and finally retired because of war wounds, and our King gave him the position of Lord of Silent Hill, he fell in love with the marksmen in his company and finally got married, and their wedding was even blessed by Queen Lin Jing and Emperor Gaojing, Lady Anna also said that if one of his children has a talent for plasticity, she will accept the child as her apprentice, which is a more important promise than ordinary gifts. ”

Marin nodded—indeed, no matter how good a blessing or gift is, it can't compare to being able to become an apprentice of a legendary battle mage, which almost represents a legend's kindness to your family, and at this point, the next stage is whether this lord and his wife can fight.

Hearing this news, Marin was relieved that His Excellency Cel Kate was able to clear his suspicion in his heart, but also expressed regret for his luck again.

After turning two pages, all trivial matters, Marin even noticed a headline on the sixth page - the rooster crows in the middle of the night on Quinine Street, and Mr. Oldham is beaten three times, all of this is a lack of humanity or a loss of conscience.

May this author be in the neighborhood where the pandemic is worst.

The seventh edition, only one page away from the eighth edition of the advertisement, Marin opened it with the last hope, and the first thing he saw was a line of bold headlines - Quinine Street Renovation and the discovery of the Second Age tomb on the spot, which archaeologist Professor Odham Sherington said was the greatest archaeological discovery in the entire western human world.

The Second Age? That is, in the era after the First Age, Marin was a little curious, because he knew that most of the evil gods only began to appear at the end of the Second Age and the Third Age, and before that, there were not all evil gods and chaos in this world: "I saw a news that I found an ancient tomb in this city. ”

"I've seen it here, it's very interesting, it's the ancient tomb of the Second Age era, and there was no chaos and evil gods in that era, maybe there will be some very strange treasures in it, for example, I saw a book in which the protagonist got an ancient musket that could fire in bursts from the ancient tomb, and used it to join the army and fight all the way to the top." Mentor Merkel said with a smile, as if nostalgic for his lost youth.

And Mentor Emmet Selke sneered: "That author doesn't know what science is at all, even if the ancient musket can still be used even if it is properly maintained, it is at least a thousand years ago, our revolver gun can polish the rifling within three hundred rounds, this gun has been used for ten years, but I am afraid that even the barrel will not be hit." ”

"Hey, Mentor Kwasel, can you not look for the truth in the illusory world, that book is just a good book to watch, to pass the time."

"It's too cheap to pass the time, Mentor Merkel, we should do something more interesting, like find a map of Silent Hill, find out where Quinine Street is, and then we'll take a look at the tomb, I instinctively think that this bug is probably in there."

"Why do you feel that?" Tutor Merkel asked with some curiosity.

And Marin thought for a moment and decided to guess: "Mentor Emmett Selke, do you think that the people of the Later Era sealed this evil in the tomb of the Second Age, and now the workers of Silent Hill dug it up while building the road, and the archaeologist Professor Odham Sherrington broke the seal during the salvage excavation. ”

"You're such a detective, oh my God, why didn't I think so." Old Merkel looked suddenly excited with a look of realization: "It must be so, this is an insect evil god, the long-term seal makes it very weak, so that it can only use the method of insect fetal infection to control the city, in this way, it also says why the young man did not mutate at the beginning, because it takes time for the insect to possess and manipulate the human body, if he hadn't found the problem, the insect would not have forcibly deprived him of control of his body, that is, as long as the will is high enough, or he has extraordinary abilities, The bug, on the contrary, is not of much use, because it is too weak to possess the body of the transcendent. ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Marin nodded: "Our train came to this city, and many people on board had a fever...... Oh, damn it, I have three kids in my car. As soon as Marin told the story of this, the three of them immediately ran into the carriage, only to find that the three children showed no signs of fever at all, and eventually, Marin controlled them and let several senior apprentices watch them.

"Why aren't they possessed and infected...... I think maybe it's still incubation, the tomb was dug up a month ago, and the young man said it started four days ago. ”

Tutor Merkel, who sat at the table, wrote on a piece of paper.

Marin sat across from him: "Not necessarily four days ago, the young man said that our two trains were the only two trains that stopped in the past two days, that is to say, it is very likely that the insect evil god has an ability similar to the space lock, and the time they are in may be different from what we think, and the reason why this evil god chose us is because there are many children on the train, which are very suitable as its food." ”

"If that's the case, why haven't the bugmen come to attack us yet?" Tutor Emmett Selke sat by the window, and he looked at the city in the distance: "It's like a city asleep. ”

“…… What time is it now? ”

Marin suddenly thought of a problem, he was so scrambling to find his pocket watch, only to find that he had forgotten to wear it, but luckily Mentor Merkel pulled out his pocket watch: "10:12, morning." ”

"The bugs didn't make a move until we opened the door and woke them up, and they were afraid of the flames, they were afraid of loud noises, that is...... They are nocturnal creatures! They don't move during the day! There may be survivors in the city! We have to race against time! Two of you! With that, Marin looked at the two mentors.

“…… I know where the temple area of the city is, and I'll take you there. After speaking, Mentor Merkel stood up: "Mentor Kwasel, Marin's analysis makes sense, we must act immediately now. ”

"Of course, Mentor Merkel, let's act together to get everything done before it gets dark, for we can't live until the next day when the Goddess of Dawn tears the veil of the Goddess of the Night with her light." Mentor Emmett Selke nodded, so the two of them called the mentors of both teams, arranged for them to protect the child, and then began to fully equip themselves.

As usual, Marin chose to replace the barrel of his shotgun with a short barrel (it is too inconvenient to fight indoors), and let out the Blood Roar and Fio as automatic combat weapons, while the twig of another World Tree turned into a piece of breastplate armor - the most important part to protect.

He borrowed a dragon leather jacket from the senior and put it on, fastened an alloy helmet to his head, tied a bullet pouch around his waist, stuffed twenty-four rounds of ammunition into it, hung the shotgun on his left waist, and then took an all-metal pulley hand crossbow, and hung the twelve armor-piercing arrow pouches on the other side's waist.

"I've got the sketch done." Old Merkel said as he beckoned Marin and the two to come over.

Standing in front of his sketch, Marin noticed that it was a route from the south gate, and Tutor Merkel began to introduce "We enter through the south gate, go north, if the road is safe, we will walk through the avenue and go directly to the temple area, but here we will cross Quinine Street, this Quinine Street is a northwest-southeast slope, and the way we are going to go is through its overhead layer, Marin, you just said that they are nocturnal creatures, I am afraid that they will form a nest underneath." ”

"Is there another way?"

"The other way is to take the city wall, but there are also backlit places on the city wall, and there are more places, so I also have a route, that is, if the bottom of the empty shelf layer is blocked by bugs, then we will use this path to bypass Quinine Street, the path is not long, only two hundred meters, if there is a suitable technique, maybe we can pass safely." Merkel said this, looking at Marin and Emmett Selke: "Before we act, we would do well to confirm the behavior patterns of these infected worms during the day. ”

"They used to chase us, but they ran away after being beaten to death by our apprentices in front of the train, and I don't think it was on their own, there should be bugs of a higher class than them controlling them." Mentor Emmett Selke said.

"Mentor Merkel, what you want to know is how they react to us when we don't alarm them, right?" Marin asked, looking at the old man.

Mentor Merkel nodded vigorously: "Yes, if their reaction is inert, it will be very beneficial to us, and if they attack after seeing us, we will have a lot of trouble to deal with." ”

"At least we won't be face to face with them under the sun...... Let's go. Mentor Emmett Selke stood up, and Mentor Merkel reached out and rolled up the hand-drawn map, while Marin followed them to the car door.

"Marlin." The voice behind him made Marin stop, he turned around and looked at Faye in his coat, the girl was blushing, it should be the infection that made her fever: "Promise me, you must come back." ”

Marin nodded and walked up to her, Marin reached out and kissed her on the forehead: "Don't worry, we'll be able to end this before nightfall, I swear to me." ”

"I trust you, go ahead, we'll wait for you to come back." Faye smiled as she let go of her grip on Marin's wrist.

Marin turned, walked to the car door and jumped off.

Mentor Merkel stood not far away and looked at him and smiled: "It's good to be young, Mr. Marin, your affectionate appearance reminds me of when I was young. ”

"Everybody has a young time, Mentor Merkel." Marin smiled and walked past him: "Maybe one day, I will also stand in the place where you are standing and say the same exclamation to some young man." ”

"Time is like a knife, never forgiving, my southern Thai mother-in-law always said so." Perhaps thinking that Marin did not speak Thainan, the old man repeated it again in the lingua franca.

Marin repeated it in Thainan with a smile, then looked at the old man who was a little puzzled and beckoned with a smile: "Let's go, Mentor Merkel." At this point, Marin paused, then said in Thainan: "Time is like water, and it never waits for anyone." ”