Despite all the preparations, Gloria's appearance surprised Cheese. You must know that the actual location of the Gray Tower can be said to be extremely deep in the Northland, and it is almost an impossible task to reach Longji Mountain from the Gray Tower by relying solely on the strength of one person. Not to mention that before Cheese left for the last time, he also specially asked An Lina to help take care of Gloria. How could she be here?Wait, who did I leave her to take care of...... An Lina's smirked face flashed in his mind, and Cheese suddenly felt that Gloria's presence was not so difficult to accept.

The former count's daughter was also surprised to see Cheese, she didn't expect to meet the mage here, but just as she was about to get up and approach the mage, the mutant nezumi sitting next to her stopped her.

"Squeak ......" Cheese watched in surprise as Gloria communicated with the mutant nezumi around him in the manner of a nezumi, he didn't expect that Gloria, who had been captured by him after the mutation, could also use this kind of language similar to a tweet.

"So, communication is an instinct?" whispered to himself, and Cheese had a new understanding of the nezumi. The mage then understood why the nezumi had brought him here, and with Gloria acting as an interpreter, communication with the nezumi became feasible. Of course, he didn't just notice this, all the mage's attention was attracted by Gloria when he first entered the room, and now while the latter was still communicating with the other mutants, Cheese was able to observe the rat people in the room through the candlelight.

"All of them are mutant ratmen, there are about thirty or forty of them, and there are not many giant ratmen, they should just be responsible for guarding. "According to the proportion of mutant ratmen observed before, the number of these mutant ratmen in Valley City should be about a hundred, including the giant rat people, but since it is not certain that all the mutant rat people present are all, this number is only an approximate estimate. This had to make the mage think about a problem, in the face of the huge number of these mutant ratmen, even if all the residents in Valley City had become proto-ratmen, such a conversion rate would be too high.

However, without waiting for Cheese to think deeply about this issue, Gloria's side seems to have finally convinced the mutant rat people, and judging from the results, the two sides should have reached some kind of concession. Cheese was brought to Gloria about fifty paces away, and the exchange began, guarded by four giant nezumi. This is the first time humans have spoken to a nezumi group, though this time the conversation has not been recorded in any way.

"Gloria, did Sister Lily send you here?" As for the question of how Gloria ended up here, although Cheese already had a rough guess, the mage thought it would be better to ask clearly.

The count's daughter nodded and said.

"Yes, after you left, Ms. Allina and I have done a lot of research about my current state. She thinks some of this material might be useful to you. So she's sent me to deliver these materials to you. Merely...... Lady Allina didn't seem to tell me how to find you, so I'll have to come to Vale first. And then I got caught by these guys......"

Needless to say, Cheese could have imagined that the senior sister must have casually opened a portal in the county and threw Gloria over. As the first individual to be healed by Cheese and Ann Lina, although Gloria did not turn back into human form, she also had the ability to be immune to the plague, and it can be said that in the current county, Gloria is almost unharmed.

This is also the reason why An Lina is relieved to let the former return to the county alone. However, since this is Cheese's own adult mission, although Ann Lina can "release" Gloria back here, she can't tell her where to find the mage. But it didn't matter, because Ann Lina knew that Gloria would go to Vale City for whatever reason she returned to the county, and Cheese would definitely go there to investigate, so the meeting between the two was almost certain. The situation must have been more than Miss Vampire had expected, but it turned out to be true.

"Okay, but it doesn't look like it's the time for you to hand me over the information, so let me hear what these guys are going to say when they tie me up. "Obviously, although these mutant rat people are polite to Gloria, her status here is actually no different from that of a mage. The reason these mutants showed up with Gloria was because they wanted her to act as an interpreter for communicating with the mage, and the conversation between the two had already made them irritating. Cheese didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to communicate with the nezumi.

After the two stopped talking, some of the mutant nezumi began to speak something to Gloria in their particular language. The count's daughter nodded after hearing their words, and relayed it to the mage in human language.

"They want to know if you can cure them. ”

Unsurprisingly, Cheese thought for a moment and decided to answer truthfully.

"Unfortunately, I can't get you back into human beings right now, in fact, from the information available, this mutation is irreversible. In other words, you may never be able to go back to what you used to be. After the mage finished speaking, the rat people present suddenly seemed to explode. You don't need to translate cheese to know what they're talking about, because even though they have become a very different species, I'm afraid all sapient beings will not be much worse off in response to such questions.

These nezumi must have heard from the gray-haired nezumi who was caught by Cheese before, that the mage was here to try to cure the plague, so they arranged this meeting with hope, but when they heard Cheese admit that he couldn't make these nezumi turn back into humans, then the impact can be imagined. Even the mages felt that the nezumi reacted too rationally, and although their commotion was loud, none of them made any actual moves. This also shows that perhaps these nezumi have foreseen this outcome. And Cheese noticed that there was a black-haired nezumi who was in charge of the order of the mutant nezumi, and with its appeasement, the small commotion quickly quieted down.

It seems that this black-haired rat-man is most likely the leader here, which is good, a group of rat-people led by someone is at least much easier to communicate with than a group of rats with the ability to think. The next behavior of the black-haired nezumi seemed to confirm the mage's suspicions, and after all the nezumi had quieted down, the nezumi opened his mouth and asked a second question.

"They want to know, can you treat them as you heal me. That is, to stabilize their condition so that they are no longer in pain. ”

Another piece of meaningful information, the mage had speculated about what these mutant rat-men were before, and at first he thought that the plague virus had stabilized in them, so as to explain why they were still capable of thinking instead of being swallowed up by instinct, but now it seems that this is not the case.

All the nezumi present were waiting for Cheese's answer, and they had vaguely accepted that they could not turn back into humans, but if the mage didn't even have the ability to suppress the pain in their bodies, then perhaps the nezumi would have to reconsider the value of Cheese. Cheese himself knew this, and he said after looking around the room at the rats.

"You're not like Gloria and the people out there, and I think you know that. I can stabilize the mutation in Gloria, but I'm not sure I can stabilize the virus in you 100%. Because I've never tried it before. So, if you want to know the answer to this question, I can't assure you, I need you to cooperate with me, trust me, and even obey me. Only then will I have a chance to free you from your suffering. ”

Silence, unlike the previous restlessness, when Cheese finished speaking, the whole room fell into absolute silence, and everyone in the rat man was thinking, thinking about whether what Cheese said was trustworthy. Their eyes were fixed on the mage, as if to see him from the outside in. These glances made a cold sweat break out unconsciously behind the cheese. He knew that his answer was not satisfactory, but it was a gamble, and the mage did not want to exist as a mere healing tool among the nezumi, he wished that he could have the status of an equal dialogue with the nezumi so that he could do more.

For a long time, almost just as Cheese was about to give up, the black-haired rat-man let out a whisper.