Li Tianrui woke up early the next morning, he had just had a dream, he dreamed that his troops were attacked, he seemed to be guarding this house, the enemy had a horde of masters rushing towards this house, these enemies were invulnerable, braving the fierce artillery fire to break through their line. He saw an enemy jump into the window in response to his shot, swinging his fist and striking him in the face with a thud. He had to swing his fist to meet it, and the two scuffled together, punching to the flesh and hurting to the bone marrow.

Then he woke up, there was a real banging sound in the room, it turned out that someone was knocking on the door. Li Tianrui shook his drowsy head, glanced at his watch, and found that it was only five o'clock in the morning. It was half past two in the morning after the meeting yesterday, and I only slept for three hours in a daze.

The place where he lived was a guest room in the Duke's house. Because the Duke's Palace is now the garrison of the three regiments, there are a lot of people staying in it, and most of the rooms have been converted into barracks, after he and a few other people have a meeting, except for Cao Lu and Kai Sha who went to sleep in the room of the female soldiers, the other participants all slept in one room. The bed passed the lottery and let Xu Tianle, who won the lottery, sleep. He slept on the floor with the rest of the people.

Everyone in the room was woken up by a knock on the door. Li Tianrui was the first to get up and open the door. It was found that outside was Song Hongyang, the leader of the second company and the first platoon who was in charge of guarding Baron Baucus yesterday.

I saw him say anxiously: "Report to the head of the regiment, Bocus is dead!"

"What? where is he and how did he die?" Li Tianrui rubbed his face vigorously, it hurt a little, this is not a dream.

"It's in the room. Song Hongyang said, "Yesterday he was placed in a small room, and I personally took someone to guard the outside. But just now I smelled something strange in the door, and when I opened the door to check, I found Baucus dead in bed, like that...... It seems to have committed suicide by taking poison. ”

"Suicide by taking poison?" Wang Zifeng also climbed up, "Could it be that he sacrificed the city, and then felt ashamed and embarrassed, and finally committed suicide?"

"Don't guess. Let's go, let's take a look. Li Tianrui said.

The group went upstairs to Baron Baucus's room. The door was closed, and four soldiers stood guard at the door. As soon as Li Tianrui opened the door, he smelled a strange smell coming from the room, not a stench, but a slightly spicy sour smell.

He turned his head to look at Song Hongyang, who said, "That's what we smelled, I had just opened the window, but I didn't expect the smell to be so rushing." ”

Li Tianrui saw that the window opposite the door was indeed open. He went through the door and saw Baron Baucus lying on the bed in the light armor and cotton shirt of the day. His legs were off the edge of the bed, and he was still on the ground, with nothing on his body. With his hands on his chest, he clutched the coat of arms that the Duke had given him.

It looks like he was sitting on the edge of the bed and then collapsed.

Baron Baucus's face was a strange grayish-brown color, and his face was covered with dark black markings, each of which was of different sizes, ranging from the size of a fingertip to the size of a gold coin, and the more dark spots on the lower part of his body, the denser the denser the spots. Since he was lying on his back, it was all black from the cheek bones to the ears, and only the front of his face had fewer black spots, which could not be connected.

The same is true for him physically, he has fewer black spots on his hands, but it gradually turns completely black from the upper arms, and the calves he rests under the bed have become pure black.

Along the circle around the baron's body, there were black water stains on the linen sheets, the bed had been penetrated by some unknown liquid, and even the side of his boots had a puddle of black water.

"I'll go, what kind of poison is this? Xu Tianle said behind Li Tianrui.

"Lao Tzu is really a bit back, what kind of is this. Li Tianrui muttered, but now as the head of the regiment, he must control his emotions. Li Tianrui knelt on the ground and leaned a little closer to the pool of black water that had accumulated on the ground, and the strange smell suddenly became much stronger.

He stopped looking, stood up and said, "The strange smell is coming from this black water. It seems that this poison will not only kill him, but also dissolve part of the corpse?"

"Commander, what should we do?" asked Song Hongyang.

"Lock down the room first, go and call Kaisha, and if there are any mages in the group who know a little about alchemy, and if any of our people are studying chemistry or biology, call me to take a look. Let's see if there will be a way to find out. Li Tianrui said, "After a while, I will also ask a few more active captains of the city guard army to see if they know about this situation." ”

"Commander, don't you block the news of Baron Baucus's death?" asked Xu Tianle.

Li Tianrui said: "The blockade will not bring him back to life, it will make others suspicious and have bad guesses." Letting them see for themselves will reassure them. There's no reason why we can't tolerate Baron Baucus, and we can't kill people like that. ”

"Yes!" Song Hongyang took the order and left.

It didn't take long for Kai'Sa to come and see with a few other chosen mages, alchemists, and professionals. But no one could see what the poison was. After seeing the scene, Kai'Sa shook her head again and again, "This room is really disgusting, I have never seen such an evil poison." ”

"Evil?" Li Tianrui felt that her choice of words was very special, "Why would you describe it like that?"

"Yes, it's evil, and although I don't know about this poison, we, as children of the World Tree, are more sensitive than you to this cursed magic. Generally, if there is such a feeling in magic, it must be magic with various curses and poisoning effects. The same is true for this potion, but if it were the High Elves who were more sensitive than we were, they would probably find this room disgusting from a distance. ”

"High elves?" Li Tianrui suddenly thought of those high elves who had closed their doors to the elven community yesterday. Is there any other reason why they are so vigilant?

However, at this time, Zheng Da, the platoon commander of the second platoon of the third battalion, interrupted his thinking, Zheng Da is a junior majoring in biology, and he said with some concern: "The regiment commander may be too worried about me, but will this poison enter the liquid he discharges, and then volatilize into the air, so that we people are poisoned?"

Kai'Sa said, "Captain, although I don't feel much curse magic in the air, we had better not be careless. We should first remove this body from the room. Otherwise he would be a threat to the entire camp of the Duke's Palace. ”

"You're right, let's isolate this corpse first. Li Tianrui said.