Verse 196: The Shadow of the Tree (3)

Perhaps in order to give Marin a chance to perform, the two mentors invariably chose to have him explain to the Silent Hill Bishopric.

So Marin 1510, from the train to the station, until he said that he had gone up to the city wall, and at the same time told the habits of the insects and his suspicions about the ancient tomb.

Mentor Emmetselke's brother nodded: "We already knew the habits of the bugs thoroughly on the first night, but you just came here this morning, and you can understand their habits by now, which is very rare, maybe that's why you were able to come to the temple area, the old Hoffman of Carterburg is so lucky, he has a wonderful apprentice." ”

His words drew the unanimous approval of the bishops, and one of the dwarven bishops stepped forward: "I have heard your story, the old bluestone is lucky, and I, a devotee of the lord of the dwarven forge, in my own name, offer you my personal and insignificant respect. ”

Marin hurriedly replied: "There, the relationship between me and the dwarves is more about transactions, and I can't stand your respect." ”

"No, this respect of mine comes from my old friend, who died when you returned his relics to his children." After speaking, the old dwarf turned his head to look out of the wall: "There is indeed a problem with that ancient tomb, we have been almost ten days from the first day to now, a few days a day, none of us dare to sleep, until it was later confirmed that the insects are nocturnal monsters, this is a little relieved, but in the direction of the ancient tomb, there are too many insects, I led the team three days ago, I wanted to go over and take a look, but I was beaten back by the insects." ”

After saying that, the dwarf raised his bandaged left hand: "We want to conduct another armed reconnaissance, but we don't have enough manpower, we need to protect the temple area, and a lot of civilians who don't seem to be infected have also come in," the old dwarf sighed at this: "If I don't separate my hands to look at these poor innocents, maybe it only takes a few distortions to kill them all before we can react." ”

"Now it's the prison that is overcrowded, and we put civilians in it as a family unit, but there are too many people." A tall elf added here and nodded at Marin, "The Church of Justice, from the Clover family, welcome to Silent Hill, I'm sorry to show you the ugliest side of the city." ”

"It's not your fault, can you confirm what kind of bug this is?" Tutor Merkel asked, "We have two train apprentices outside the city, and if we can't solve them tonight, we'll have to bring them into the temple area." ”

"My suggestion is to bring it in, it's still early, there are hundreds of apprentices, at least we can have more bandages, potions and healing procedures, so that the children will have no problem doing this." A middle-aged man who looked fat said this, smiled and made a gesture to Merkel with the emblem of the goddess of mercy: "Good afternoon, my parishioners, and two parishioners of the Goddess of Harvest Church." ”

"Good afternoon, parishioners." Mentor Merkel gestured back.

Mentor Emmet Selke and Marin also smiled and nodded.

"Three, our problem now is the lack of manpower, some veterans of the civilian population have joined the battle, our muskets can effectively kill the bugs, but there are too many of them, and we are losing manpower every day, today we have less than a thousand fighters left, if the bug attack is still like last night, then tomorrow night we may have to hold on to the Great Chapel of the Just Church." The middle-aged man wearing the special plate armor of the God of War Church sighed: "The infection situation of civilians in the prison is still a problem, and we can't deal with the bugs hiding among the civilians. ”

"I have a solution, maybe it will work." Marin looked at the old men and said, "As I said before, the shock bombs of our Harvest Goddess Church can interfere with or even block the control of insects over the human body. ”

"But we have at least two thousand civilians, how many stunners do you have, kid." The elder brother of Mentor Emmet Selke asked.

"No, we can use the technique, the sonic technique, to adjust its frequency so that it works for the same reason as the shock bomb, and in the case of flashes, using high-frequency flashing light in a dark hall can also produce the same effect." Marin looked at the old people in front of him: "Now we can divide the troops into three ways, you go to screen the civilians, give my two mentors some people, let them bring the apprentices into the temple area, and I, go to the ancient tomb to have a look." ”

"It's too dangerous! Child! You're kidding with your life! The old dwarf said preemptively.

"I'm only one person, small and easy to overlook." Marin said as he took two steps back, and in everyone's sight, Marlin began to blur and eventually disappear into the background.

"Stealth? I can feel the spell activating, but it's definitely not stealth. The fat man of the Goddess of Mercy turned his head to look at his companions.

"I don't feel like I am, but I don't feel like stealth, because there's no place to sneak under the sun." The tall elf clapped his hands as he said this: "Suggestion." ”

"Yes, I know the Five Rings, I've learned the sword dance, and my two World Branches will allow me to climb to the roof of the house as quickly as I can, and then escape." After Marin finished speaking, he reappeared in everyone's eyes: "I have only one person, Mr. Dwarf, and you, maybe there are hundreds of people, do you think your goal is big, or my goal is big." ”

“…… You convinced me, you guys. The dwarf turned to look at his companions.

The bishops nodded their heads, then looked at the two mentors.

Merkel turned his head to look at Mentor Emmett Selke, who looked at Marin: "Marin, you followed me to the Central Province, Mentor Hoffman agreed to your request, and I must tell you that if you die here, he will definitely skin me and use my head as a toilet." ”

"Don't worry, for the sake of your beautiful hairstyle, I will definitely try to come back alive." Marin smiled and said, "Now, let's split up, by the way, do you have any communication equipment." ”

"If you don't say it, I almost forgot, come on, dwarf tech." The dwarf, who had never spoken, suddenly spoke, and he threw a stone to Marin: "Definitely not going to explode." ”

"Uh...... How do I use it? Marin took one look at the stone and felt that it really didn't have anything to do with technology.

But considering that his life was at stake, Marin had to ask how this thing was activated.

"Fill in the psionic energy, then think about what you want to say, and we'll get the news here, and we'll repeat it so you know what we're talking about." Speaking of this, the gnome's face was full of pride: "Mr. Marin, our god of dwarf craftsmen welcomes a pioneer in engineering and technology like you, maybe we will have a lot of topics, we can have a good conversation, forget about those dwarves whose brains are crushed by muscles." ”

"You talk a lot!" The dwarf scolded.

"I'll go first." Feeling that if he didn't leave, the dwarf and the dwarf might fight, Marin could only smile wryly and nodded, and then signaled that he was leaving.

"Have a nice trip, kid." Mentor Emmett Selke's brother smiled at Marin, and he made a gesture of emblem on his chest.

Marin gestured in anticipation, and then, out of the curiosity of a child, he asked, "By the way, I don't know your name yet." ”

"Rahabrea." The old man replied with a smile.

Hey, that's what you really call it.

………………

Tell a few people, Marin was lowered from the city wall by the hanging basket, holding the map that everyone had redrawn for him, Marin didn't drill the alley, followed the avenue to the corner, looked at the insects under the slope, Marlin threw out the twigs of the World Tree, and the changing Fio finally hung the bulge on the upper floor, and then pulled his master to the upper street.

That's convenient, isn't it.

With such a pleasant thought, Marin kicked away a corpse and confirmed the cause of his death, and found that this guy had a wound in his chest, combined with the equipment on his body, it should be a member of the commando team who followed the old dwarf to the ancient tomb, after the failure of the operation, this one failed to escape, and finally died here.

What a poor fellow.

With such regret and regret, Marin closed his eyes, and at the same time opened the crossbow bag around his waist, took out the remaining three crossbow arrows and put them into his own crossbow bag, and untied a crossbow from the other side of his waist and hung it on his waist.

Then he thought about it for a moment and finally took two coins out of his pocket and placed them above both of his eye sockets.

This is the little tribute that Sidney unites the dead to enjoy.

Standing up, Marin cautiously began to move forward, the corpses along the way were like beacons to guide Marin, and after walking for a while, Marin saw a burned block.

This is what the bishops say, the street that was set on fire to stop the insects from chasing them, and in this street, there were a large number of burned insects, and Marlin did not touch them, but bypassed the corpses - the carapace of the burned insects would become brittle accordingly, and Marin did not want to attract a large number of insects by stepping on or touching something.

Along the edge of the street, through the burned area, the bugs began to increase gradually, which forced Marin to be more careful.

At the same time, he also witnessed a new breed - unlike the insects that are similar to humans, the new breed of insects has completely changed to the appearance of the insects, and can confirm the compound eyes and limbs, which means that there is another change in the bugs that Marlin has seen before, and Marin does not even know if this will be the final change.

But...... Maybe that's the final change.

Because if it changes, Marin really can't figure out what it will become.