Chapter 678: Entering the City [First Update]
Time flies, and another day passes in the blink of an eye.
After the treatment of several priests and doctors, his internal injuries have been completely healed, and the epidermal tissue burns on his face and chest have been repaired by the special medicine contributed by the alchemists of the Dark Order.
In the evening, after dealing with the problems of several paupers and nobles brought by Patton, Dudian called Noyce and asked him to accompany Patton here to preside over the overall situation, and the outer wall area was not at peace these days, although the problem of the migration of the paupers did not cause as fierce resistance as at the beginning, but there was still a lot of controversy, but due to the pressure of the Holy See and the military department, it was not too obvious.
"I'm going to the inner wall, don't make a noise." Dudian said to the two: "No matter what the problem is, calm it down first, and then talk about it when I come back." ”
"Yes, young master." Barton nodded.
Noyce agreed and said to Dudian: "Young Master, are you going alone?" ”
"Two people." "Don't worry. ”
Seeing this, Noyce said no more.
As the night darkened, Dudian changed into his stealthy night-walking armor and donned the Ripping Knife he had made from the bladed limbs of the Splitter, and left Mount Utopia with Helissa, walking down the outskirts of the secluded area to the edge of the wall. Everywhere near the giant wall, the population is relatively sparse, all of them are dilapidated villages and small towns, most of which are inhabited by old people and children, and young people have left the village to work in the business district, and at night the village is pitch black, only a few are lit by stars.
Dudian led Helissa to the bottom of the wall, activated the remnants on her back, and grabbed her arm to climb up the wall.
The wind on the giant wall was a little strong, whining, and Helissa's hair was blown up, she was not injured in the explosion, but her clothes were burned, and her body was protected by dragon scales, unlike Dudian and Genice, who were directly burned to the ground.
Dudian led her along the giant wall in the direction of the inner wall, looking at the gray clouds overhead, and the desolate night scene outside the right wall, she could vaguely see some monsters crawling in the night, and from time to time there were sharp screams, which were extremely loud in the wilderness.
Du Dian's originally nervous heart gradually calmed down, and her eyes fell on Helissa beside her from time to time, her face was expressionless, and she couldn't see the slightest emotion in her pure black eyes, a little dumbfounded, as if she was silently thinking about something.
Du Di'an's fingers tightened slightly, and he said softly: "When you get to the Monster Research Institute, you can find a way to make you recover." ”
Helissa was silent.
Du Di'an's pace gradually accelerated, and soon he saw the wall of sighs that was nearly half lower than the giant wall, and found that the number of soldiers stationed on it was even less than half of the previous times when he came in and saw it, and he couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, it seemed that the corpse chaos in the inner wall area was even more serious than he expected, and the military department estimated that it was difficult to deal with it at this moment.
He stooped short and dived with Helissa over the place where the Wall of Sighs had been erected, and continued more than two thousand meters before jumping off the wall and landing in the grass. He dragged Helissa into the nearby official road, thinking that he must not meet the pioneer woman here, but that she had already touched the city.
Walking along the official road for more than thirty miles, Du Dian suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in front of him, he immediately stopped, looked at it, but saw that it was a convoy, with three carriages and more than a dozen horses, not like an army.
When the distance was closer, Du Dian saw clearly, there was a pattern totem inserted on the three carriages, although the style of the totem had not been seen, but this kind of dress was very similar to the nobles of the outer wall area. And on the armor of the dozen or so knights who escorted the carriage, they were also engraved with the same shoulder emblems as the pattern totems.
A trace of darkness flashed in Du Dian's eyes, and he suddenly saw the heat in the bodies of these knights, and found that the strongest was only the high-level boundary. He breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the convoy.
A middle-aged knight with blond hair at the head of the convoy quickly noticed Dudian and Helissa in the lane, immediately reined in the horse rope, reduced his speed, and said loudly: "What person?!" ”
Dudian waited for him to stop before asking, "It's so late at night, where are you in such a hurry?" ”
"You want to take care of it?!" The middle-aged knight shouted angrily, and suddenly noticed Helissa next to her, who was veiled at the moment, and was wearing a cheongsam specially made for her by Du Dian, which was made according to the style she originally liked, and it fit perfectly.
Seeing Helissa's outfit, a trace of surprise flashed in the eyes of the middle-aged knight, this unique style of clothes, he had faintly heard some rumors, and his face changed slightly.
Dudian noticed the change in the middle-aged knight's eyes, squinted his eyes and said, "When you leave the city at night and run out of the fortress, aren't you afraid of being attacked by the beasts outside?" ”
The middle-aged knight turned his head to look at Du Dian, and was just about to speak, when a fiery voice came from the carriage behind, "Why are you still stopping, don't run yet!" ”
"Yes, sir." The middle-aged knight turned around and nodded respectfully to the convoy, then turned to Du Dian and said, "Please get out of the way, now that there is an outbreak of corpse plague in the city, I advise you to leave as soon as possible and not return to the city." ”
"Did you flee?" Du Dian put away the killing intent in his heart and didn't say anything more.
The middle-aged knight flapped his mount, rode past Dudian, and led the carriage all the way forward.
Dudian led Helissa and walked forward, according to the drawings brought back by Ginies, he remembered that more than ten miles ahead, there was a city called Carmen, and the monster research institute he was looking for tonight was in this city.
Ten minutes later, Dudian saw a fortress in the distance, lying in front of the plain, and at this moment the gate of the fortress was completely open, and some dark shadows wandered in the doorway, walking in strange postures. Although he didn't see his eyebrows clearly, Du Dian recognized them at a glance, these were walking corpses, and he had seen too many of them outside the wall in this shaky way of walking.
"It seems that the fortress has also fallen." Du Di'an's eyes flickered slightly, the drinking water sources of the fortresses in various cities, he had arranged for people to poison them, and now it seems to have worked, but on the fortress, some living people can still be seen fighting, and at the same time, there are roars and screams.
Du Dian's eyes flickered slightly, at this moment, the city of Carmen in front of him has probably turned into a sea of corpses, and he doesn't know if the Monster Research Institute can resist it, but the water source near the Monster Research Institute, he didn't send people to poison it, if they detect the situation outside in time and use the research institute as a cover to hide inside, they should be able to resist for a while.
After all, in addition to the researchers who are responsible for studying monsters, there are also some strong people in the Monster Research Institute.