Imaginary reinforcements, of course, are not available. In the face of a large and menacing army of rat people, the ten people who only relied on Cheese didn't even have the ability to break through. Even as he looked numbly at the enemies that were still appearing in the buildings in the distance, Cheese was very suspicious that even if Heather and them were here, they would only delay these proto-nezumi for some more time.

Having said that, despite their absolute numerical superiority, these nezumi did not rush into attack. As a large number of nezumi approached, the mage also discovered that there were mutants among them, and the most common and largest number of mutants were the kind of giant nezumi that had been caught before. These mutants with powerful flesh accounted for more than half of the mutants the mage observed, and he had seen that some of the giant nezumi were wearing well-fitting iron armor! So the only plausible explanation is that these proto-nezumi themselves forged these armors for themselves.

"Cheese, I remember you said earlier that these nezumi are just beasts controlled by instinct, right?" asked Jack. I couldn't believe that Cheese was not the only one who saw him, and the good order displayed by these proto-nezumi surprised all the humans present.

"They should have lost any ability to think rationally after being infected by the plague, and even the animal's instinct to survive will be weakened by the gradual invasion of the virus...... That's how it should be. ”

The mage felt like all of his previous knowledge of these creatures had been transformed by the plague was rapidly crumbling. If the good discipline shown by the nezumi in the night battle outside the city was due to the command of the gray-haired nezumi, the behavior of these nezumi in front of them was much more than that. In front of the crowd with almost no ability to resist, these primitive rat people did not rush up and eat a few people, but they showed strong self-discipline. It's unbelievable.

And even more terrifying things happened, those mutants except the giant nezumi slowly approached the gray-haired nezumi who escaped from the cheese, and these mutants communicated in a voice that was incomprehensible to humans, and from time to time they would let out some screams, as if they were arguing about something. Cheese noticed that the nezumi would occasionally glance in the direction of the humans as they communicated, but the way they looked at them made Cheese feel as if they were looking at the goods on the shelves.

Soon, the mutant rat-men seemed to have a result, and the gray-haired rat-man approached the human with a disgusting smile on the corner of his mouth, and threw a large lump of things at the cheese man. At first, everyone thought that the gray-haired rat-man had thrown some kind of lethal weapon, so in an instant all the knights raised their shields, and even Mona and the others hurriedly blocked the cheese behind them, ready to use their bodies to fend off the mage's attack. But the expected danger did not come, only the malicious laughter that came from the nezumen. The humans dropped their shields in front of them in a daze, and it was only then that they finally saw what the gray-haired rat-man had thrown in front of them. It was a big ball of rope.

However, seeing what the nezumi threw at them did not make one understand their intentions, and the group looked at each other without knowing what it meant. Only Cheese stared at the rope for a moment, then looked up at the gray-haired rat-man.

"I'm afraid these ropes are for us to tie ourselves up. The mage said.

Although Cheese was the caster of the squad, almost all of the members had full trust in what he said, but what the mage had just said was so unbelievable that the eight, including the two Frost Guards, had a hard time accepting his words. Elsa looked at Cheese in shock at first, incredulous at the mage's words, but the proprietress looked around at the surrounding army of rat men who were not attacking, and the gray-haired rat man who still had a weird smile, and she finally gritted her teeth and decided to believe the mage. So in the bewildered eyes of the others, Elsa picked up the rope, helped Cheese, who had difficulty moving with one arm, tie her hands in front of her, and then handed the rope to Mona, motioning for the other party to help tie her up as well.

"Are you crazy?" said the female warrior, taking the rope. In her opinion, drowning in these nezumi and dying in battle was an acceptable way to die, but surrendering to these twisted monsters, and in such a humiliating way as binding her own hands, was simply unreasonable.

"If I could, I would choose to fight these guys here to the death. However, the purpose of our trip is not to kill these proto-rat people, we are here to find a way to stop the spread of the plague. Don't forget, these monsters in front of you, they were all the same humans as you and me before. If we fail here, how many more people will become like this, don't you think?" said Cheese, who met Mona's gaze without evading his actions, telling the warrior that he was not lying.

“...... I hope what you say is true. It's not an excuse you make up to survive. Otherwise I wouldn't mind chopping off your head before I die, mage. "Cheese's words are true, and fighting such a large number of enemies right now is tantamount to suicide. Although I still feel resistant to surrender in my heart, I think of the people in the small town below the mountain and the comrades in the legion. The female warrior also had to admit that she didn't want to see them turn into these rat-like aliens in front of her.

With Mona and Elsa taking the lead, the "monkey" naturally has nothing to say. Although this northland man was also humiliated by the surrender, he was willing to make a compromise in order to carry out his mission to protect the mage. As for the other five Hammer Knights, as proud knights, they showed great resistance to surrendering to the nezumi. Although Heather gave them orders to protect Cheese, they didn't know as much about the mage as the three from Yamashita Town, and while Cheese tried to persuade them, the rat men who had been waiting for a long time seemed to get impatient.

"Squeak! Ka Ka Ka ......" came out of his mouth a series of incomprehensible sounds, and with some kind of command from the gray hairy rat man, three huge armored nezumi came out of the rat group, they silently walked in front of the humans, ignored the five hammer knights, and directly took the four cheeses who had been tied to a rope, and pulled them into the nezumi team. It seems that the original target of these proto-nezumi should have been mages, because when Cheese was brought into the rat pack, it was obvious that the gray-haired nezumi was relieved. Then, the mutant nezumi who had single-handedly planned the ambush followed the giant nezumi who escorted Cheese and them away with a satisfied expression.

Cheese and the others were surrounded by five or six giant nezumi in front of them, surrounded by these terrible creatures infected by the plague. And the proprietress couldn't bear to look back and want to see the fate of those knights, but she was also blocked by layers of nezumi, and she couldn't see the figure of the five hammer knights. Only the smell of blood wafting in the wind told their end.

"Under the wind and snow, in the mountains, may your heroic soul be with your ancestors......" Mona and Jack spontaneously sang a sad song, their singing voice was not good, and it could even be said that the pentatonic was incomplete, but this ancient tune, which had been sung by the Frost Guardians for a hundred years, still carried the nostalgia for the dead and the dedication to battle in their mouths.

Elsa had heard the song, and whenever the Frost Guardians were killed in battle or died in an accident during a mission, all the legionnaires present at their funeral would be led by the commander to bid them farewell with this song. The proprietress remembered that when her grandfather died, Commander Jon, who had come to hold his funeral, sang the song. With this desolate song, some white crystals fell from the sky, and it began to snow in Valley City.