Chapter 81: The Dawn of Shadows!
Even though the sky is covered in clouds all day long, for all who live here, the glimmer of light in the sky at dawn is still the same as before, announcing the beginning of a new day for the new Tristram, and also heralding more hope and more unknown possibilities!
"Jingle Bell! Jingling! "A series of hurried bells rang on the watchtower!
The rare tranquility before dawn was torn to shreds in an instant with the shrill sound of the bell!
"Heaven is above! Something happened! ”
"I don't know! Let's hope nothing terrible happens! ”
"It must be those terrible monsters coming! Oh my God, what are we going to do! ”
"Shut up! You idiot! Coward! ”
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People who were awakened from their dreams poured out of their rooms, and they were talking a lot! While casting your eyes in the direction of the bell! It was difficult to hide the panic in their eyes and faces.
I don't know how long it has been since the last time New Tristram rang such an urgent bell!
"Get out of the way! Get back in the house! Drive! ”
The road was dusty, and the sound of horses' hooves, accompanied by the roar of the knight on horseback, came from far and near!
Moments later, more than twenty hoplites in heavy armor, with a ribbon on their coats and a swastika on their left shields, raised their spears and swept through the panicked crowd.
"It's the Templars!"
"Hell! What exactly happened to alarm these noble knights! ”
"They're heading to the fortress to the east!"
"Stupid mother-in-law, what are you doing in a daze? Take the kids into the cellar! ”
The appearance of the church knight made people's panic and uneasiness even worse! As the guardians of the church, unless the church is threatened, these hoplites, wrapped in heavy and ornate magical armor and armed almost to the teeth, will never be easily dispatched.
Things are anything but ordinary! Maybe it's even more terrifying than you can imagine!
"Heaven is above! Are the gates of hell opened? ”
Above the castle tower of the East Gate Fortress. Captain Ramford muttered to himself, his eyes filled with deep disbelief!
"Captain Rumford! I...... Oh, my God! What exactly is going on! Eve's words, which had hurried from the city floor, came to an abrupt end. Looking out of the city, a pair of blue eyes were full of surprise!
The wide road leading to the cathedral outside the city, large enough for three carriages to travel side by side, was now crowded with countless skeleton warriors with swords in their hands and a ghostly blue spiritual fire burning in their eye sockets! The swaying spiritual fire in the wind is like a summer night sky with stars, so many that it is impossible to count, stretching out along the road into the distance, and you can't see the edge at a glance!
"It's Leorik's undead legion!" Ramford's face was as calm as water, and he said word by word.
"Skeletron? Is that damn monster out again? Eve's pretty face was even more shocked. The name of Skeletron Leorik is a nightmare, imprinted in the deepest fears of everyone who lives in this land!
"I don't know, but I'm afraid we're going to have a tough battle next! Eve, you should go to the Cattle Slaughter Hotel now and tell Conan the news of the undead army's invasion. Also, try to convince the mercenaries and adventurers who live in the hotel as much as possible. For now, we must use all our strength. ”
"Those guys with heads full of ale and women's bodies? Captain, I'd rather face ten times more undead monsters than deal with these maggots! ”
"You're right, Eve. While most of them were ruffians who should be hanged alive, there were some good ones among them. For example, he rescued Lady Miriam, the young man from the East. ”
"Okay, I'll go, but I'm not sure these guys won't have their heads smashed by my shackles before they're torn apart by the undead outside the city!" Hearing this, Eve's expression on her face froze slightly, and she couldn't help but think of Zhou Qi killing the Alanya spider in her mind. Then he nodded reluctantly, turned and walked down the tower.
Glancing at the beautiful knight's beautiful back, as a soldier's intuition, Ramford had a deep premonition. The survival of New Tristry may depend on the group of adventurers who poured into town yesterday!
At the same time, inside the camp of the Sensai Academy. Häagen-Dazs, who had just finished meditating, suddenly opened his eyes. The deep and wise eyes were half doubt, half surprise! The mental perception that had been inexplicably suppressed since last night suddenly returned to normal just now.
"Strange!" Häagen-Dazs tilted his head and pondered for a moment, then shook the sleeves of his robe and suddenly got up. He walked out of the room quickly, raised his hand and applied a levitation technique to the soles of his feet, and flew up to the tallest tower in the camp.
"Good day, Lord Häagen-Dazs." The apprentice on duty on the tower performed a mage salute. Said in a respectful tone.
"Jonah, what special did you find?" Häagen-Dazs nodded back. Apparently Jonah was very pleased with the courtesy.
"The Wizard's Eye is as disturbed as psychic perception and cannot be used. However, from the second half of the night to dawn, the magic induction crystal had three violent reactions. ”
"Oh? When was the last reaction? Häagen-Dazs's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked.
"Just a quarter of an hour ago."
"A quarter of an hour! It seems so, yes! Häagen-Dazs was not surprised. Walk quickly to a crystal ball placed in the middle of the tower to connect with the Wizard's Eye. With a wave of the sleeve of the robe, a glow flashed on the surface of the crystal ball the size of a basketball, revealing the situation around New Tristram for hundreds of miles.
"Looks right, the interference has been lifted! Wait, what is this? The smile on the corner of Häagen-Dazs's mouth had not yet bloomed, and then instantly froze on his face!
In the image of the crystal ball revealed, in the morning light! In addition to the unknown condition of the forest near the north due to the obscuration of trees, the fortress leading to the cathedral to the east, the wilderness of suffering across the river from the Avenger camp to the west, and the black pressure and dense ground in the direction of the Weeping Valley and the Spider Cave to the south, are full of undead creatures!
"Jonah! Fast! Tell the others to rush to the magic towers around the town immediately! Open the protective barrier with all your might! ”
"Yes, yes! Häagen-Dazs Court, Your Excellency! Jonah's mouth trembled, and he answered. The image reflected by the crystal ball was so terrifying that even in the deepest nightmare, he would never have imagined that so many undead creatures would suddenly spring up around the town overnight, and the most damning thing was that these undead who were never tired and hated life were so close!
Häagen-Dazs stared at Jonah as he ran down the tower in a hurry, and with a wave of his sleeve, he closed the crystal ball. As soon as his mind moved, he appeared outside the camp gate in the next second. You must take Zhou Qi to the Sanctuary immediately! A large group of undead creatures appeared, and the Nephilemic Obelisk in his hand was especially important to New Tristram at this moment!
"I'll go! It's only six o'clock! That's better than an alarm clock! ”
On the second floor of the Slaughtering Cattle Hotel, Zhao Daming rubbed his sleepy eyes, turned over and got up from the bed, scolding in his mouth. Anyone who is woken up early in the morning will inevitably be unhappy for a while.
"I said fatty, why are you really sleeping?" Zhang Dingjun sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, perhaps under the influence of Fu Yunsheng, he got a half-new white cloth out of nowhere, and coaxed a rough heavy sword in his hand like a child, which was the solemn oath of Bulkeso handed over to him by Zhou Qi.
"Cut, why can you sit while lying down?" The fat man glanced at him disdainfully, and yawned back.
"The boss hasn't come back yet?"
Fu Yunsheng glanced at the fat man with messy hair like a chicken nest and shook his head. This guy's nerves are really big. Seeing that the second phase of Ren is about to officially start, he can still sleep. There was no one in the team but him.
"Hehe, maybe Bacheng is back, I see, maybe the head is next door......" Zhao Daming's small eyes rolled, and he muttered in his mouth, and the expression on his face smiled quite obscenely.
At that moment, there was a bang, and the door was pushed open. Outside the moaning door frame, two slender figures flashed, and in the next second, Xia Ruobing and Huang Yueying had already walked in.
"Say what? Laughing so badly? Xia Ruobing's lacquered eyes swept over the three people in the room, and finally stopped his gaze on the fat man, glared at him, and asked in a fierce tone.
"I didn't say anything, I'm not wondering, when will the boss come back......"
"Flutter ......" Fu Yunsheng and Zhang Dingjun looked at each other and smiled. In addition to Zhou Qi, the ice beauty can cure this dead fat man. If Xia Ruobing heard what he just said, I am afraid that there will be excitement to watch immediately.
"The bell is ringing to warn, I'm afraid that as Zhou Lang expected, the second-stage mission is to help defend this city." Huang Yueying coughed lightly and brought her words to the point. At this moment, Zhou Qi has not returned, and it is at the time of the alternation of tasks, so you must not be careless.
"Why don't you go out and see what's going on? Anyway, stay in the city, and the boss will definitely find us once he returns. ”
"Well, that's exactly what Sister Ruobing and I came here for. Once the task is started, it is better to follow the previous agreement and go separately. ”
"Miss Yueying is right, but if this kid doesn't come back, without Luoli, I'm afraid it will not be easy to pass the suffering wilderness."
"It's okay, then you just need to use the power of Sister Ruobing to take the two of us for a ride......"
While the five of them were talking, they walked down the corridor into the hall of the cattle slaughtering inn. In the huge hotel hall, apart from some of the contractors who heard the news, there was not a single aborigine. Outside the hotel gates, on both sides of the muddy streets, families are closed, doors and windows are closed. Even the oil lamp hanging in the doorway extinguished the flames. Except for the occasional neighing of horses and the sound of soldiers marching in the distance, there was a different kind of silence in the town. It's nerve-wracking and depressing.
After walking a short distance along the road, what you see is the same. The morning fog is like an ominous shadow enveloping New Tristram!
"I'll go, what the hell is this?"
At this moment, in the team channel, the fat man suddenly screamed. The little eyes widened and stared in disbelief at somewhere ahead!
Everyone followed his gaze, and then their faces were shocked!
This! How can it be!