When Owen woke up, he found himself no longer on deck, but in a dark, damp, stuffy room

It seemed that it was already dawn, because the sunlight was shining in through the gap between the wooden planks, Owen saw with the scattered light that there seemed to be more than two dozen people around him, some of them were men and women, ragged, and in very poor spirits, and some of them seemed to be very sick, lying on the floor and groaning in pain, Owen raised his hand, but found that his hand was handcuffed by iron chains

You wake up with a man's voice calling out to Owen

The child looked in the direction from which the voice came, and saw a man with a bloody face crouching beside him, who seemed to be a soldier, with strong muscles, wearing a tattered piece of armor, half of which was stained with blood, because the blood had long since dried up, and sometimes it was dark red, his hair was messy, one eye was blind, his face was bloodless, and a light beard grew around his mouth

Where am I Owen asked weakly

On a boat, the man said we were all caught

Arrested

Yes, the necromancer saved our lives and then captured us again

The necromancer shuddered when he heard this word, and in the eyes of the world, the necromancer was synonymous with horror and evil

Unexpectedly, they even fell in love with a soldier as a child as young as you, and sighed

Why did the necromancer arrest us, Owen sat up tenaciously

Who knows what the military said

Owen chatted with the soldier, the soldier's name was Walker, he was a light foot soldier in the Ban Urging Gate King's team, Walker only remembered that four months ago, his army was fighting with the troops of the Fayeru Empire on the battlefield on the border, Walker was hit by four arrows, and he was slashed several times in his body, and then he lost consciousness...... By the time Walker woke up, he was already on board

Later, Walker learned that the owner of the ship was a necromancer wearing a black cloak, and the necromancer drove the ship through the waters near the three continents of Olopa, bringing hundreds of people to the ship, who were all half-dead when they first boarded the ship, some of them were soldiers who had been seriously wounded on the battlefield like Walker, some were drowning people who had fallen into the sea like Owen, and there were hunters who had stumbled off cliffs, people who survived fires, fugitives who were being hunted, and gamblers who had been beaten to death...... Although they differ in age, gender, origin, and experience, they all share one common characteristic: these are survivors who have suffered fatal injuries and are teetering on the brink of death, but have survived with an astonishing will to survive

After the necromancer rescued these people, he threw them into the cabin of the ship, but did not give any means of healing, only gave each person a live fish as food every day, and left them to fend for themselves, they wanted to survive and could only rely on their own perseverance to overcome their physical wounds, and after a few months, although there were more than a hundred people who were brought to the ship, many of them died of their injuries because they did not receive enough treatment, and all the dead people would be driven by the necromancer with dark magic, and resurrected into zombie puppets in the state of the undead, as guards or sailors who would never rebel

No one knows what the necromancer's intention was to save so many immortal people on the ship, but it will definitely not be a good thing, some people can't even stand this kind of life is worse than death, and choose to cut off the way of liberation by themselves, and then their corpses will be driven into zombies, and there are only about twenty people still alive until now

The ship sailed on the sea for several days, and finally docked, the door of the cabin was opened, and more than two dozen living people who were handcuffed in chains left the cabin under the escort of dozens of zombies that had been dead for a long time and had a strong stench of corpses, walking on the soft sand, and there had been no sunlight for several months, and everyone couldn't help but raise their hands to block their eyes so as not to be burned by the fierce sun

A mysterious man wearing a black cloak and holding a cane made of human bones walked over, and Owen recognized this mysterious man as the guy who stepped on his stomach and pressed the sea water out of his body at that time, and from the person's dress, it seemed that he should be the necromancer in Walker's mouth, and dozens of zombies escorted the group of captives strung together in chains under the magic control of the black cloak, and followed the footsteps of the black cloak

This team of dead and living people weaves through scorching sand, cool coconut groves, dense rainforests, wet swamps, ...... Because they were trapped in the cabin for too long, they had not been active for a long time, and an old man and a middle-aged woman could not endure the march without rest for more than ten hours, and finally fainted and fell to the ground, and the black cloak untied the handcuffs on the two people, but instead of being free, they became two new members of the zombie team

Owen walked in the middle of the group, he was behind Walker, who had not eaten anything for a day and a night, and on the way, Owen only felt that his body was getting heavier and heavier, and his consciousness was getting more and more confused, and when he crossed the swamp, everyone had to wade through a shallow area of water that reached waist high, and for Owen, an 11-year-old child, he suffered a big loss in height, and the water level flooded his chest, Owen only felt the pressure on his chest, difficulty breathing, and the hindrance of the mud on the soles of his feet, the whole person lost his balance, and fell into the water with a thud - he once again felt the sense of despair caused by drowning and suffocating

Soon, Owen felt his body leave the water under the pull of an external force, and returned to the air, and Owen, who had escaped death again, looked back and saw Walker who was following him nodding to him, and Owen confessed that it was Walker who saved his life at the moment of life and death, otherwise the end of the old man and the middle-aged woman would befall him

Finally, the team came to the end: under a steep cliff, the atmosphere here is very different from the place just passed, whether it is the beach, the woods, the swamp, it gives people a sense of anger and paradox, but here there is no grass, the sky is covered by a layer of thick fog, the air is cold and dignified, and the smell of rotting corpses is everywhere, and after seeing the scattered human bones at the foot of the mountain, Owen knows that this tropical island with birds and flowers, wind and sunshine is what people call the terrifying island of death - belongs to the land of necromancers

The living people in the team were brought into a cavern, and in the dark cavern, the cold wind was biting, the black cloak raised the human bone cane, and the tip of the cane emitted a strange green light, this little light source was not enough to illuminate the cave, it was actually a signpost, indicating the direction of the living people in the team

Walking along the cave for more than 400 meters, everyone was brought into a circular cave, this cave is extremely wide, about 800 square meters wide, in the center of the cave there is a huge fire plate, which seems to be some special magical substance, burning forever, bringing the only source of light and heat to the originally dark and cold cave

After the black cloak drove everyone into the cavern, he turned away with the zombie and the stone door locked with a thud

At this time, Owen realized that in addition to the twenty or so people who had been there, there were other people in the cave, and a rough estimate was that there were at least 200 or so people lying on the ground in a disorderly manner, these people were all alive, and they could not see any anger in their dim eyes, they were like a group of completely hopeless nerds, careless and resigned to fate, and even if a new member broke into their lives, it was only a glance, and no one had come to pay attention to it, and it seemed that it was commonplace for this

Owen never thought that he would live in such a dark cave for a year, compared to the food on the ship, the food here is much better, the necromancer sends bread, refried beans, meat and other common foods of the Olopa people every day, on the premise of being able to eat enough, Owen's physical condition is gradually improving, new injuries and old pains are gradually healing, but Owen does not feel happy at all, he knows that he is like a captive animal, the lifeblood has long been firmly grasped by others, and there is no hope for the future

All the people in the cave were necromancers, and every once in a while the necromancers would send a new batch of prisoners, and at the same time they would take a group of people from the cave, so that the number of people in the cave would always be around 200, and those who were taken away would not come back

No one knows where those people will be taken, no one knows whether they are dead or alive, and the prisoners can stay in this cave for a year at most, which is the fate of everyone, maybe people think that it is a very lucky thing to escape at the hands of death, but if they have tried the taste of life is worse than death, they will understand that death is very happy

In this gloomy, depressing, and decadent atmosphere, some people died of illness, some committed suicide, Someone goes crazy, but a lot of strong-willed people choose to rely on each other to keep their sobriety selves, they chat almost every day, no one will remember the content of the chat, people just chat with others to prove their save, as a child, Owen has been cared for by more people, he is most grateful to Walker, from Walker's words, he learned that he joined the army for his younger brother, because his younger brother once stole a nobleman's wallet because he was naughty, for this reason, as an older brother, Walker must serve in the army unconditionally for at least 6 years, otherwise his younger brother will have a finger chopped off, Walker joined the army at the age of 16 and has served in the army for 4 years, Walker's greatestThe wish was to return home after the rest of his military service, and when he left home, his brother was the same age as Owen is now, and he saw the shadow of his brother in Owen...... Maybe for Irving, Walker wasn't a friend, but without him, Irving couldn't have survived

A year of peaceful life passed quickly, and on this day, Owen, Walker, and two dozen others were taken out of the cave by the necromancer, and Owen knew that he would never return to this place, so he looked back at the cave where he had lived for a year, and then followed in the footsteps of everyone and embarked on that dark road full of unknowns.......