Volume II, Chapter 5

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An unnamed prefect was standing outside the town, and behind him were several soldiers of the Marvil Republic looking around warily. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It is the westernmost city of the Republic of Marvel, bordering the ocean to the south and the largest city of the Republic in the desert to the north.

The nameless officer slowly crouched down, picked up some sand with one hand, put it to his nose and sniffed it, and even licked the sand with his tongue. This smell is different from the smell of ordinary people - people who live here have long been accustomed to the days when the wind and sand are blowing in their faces, so the smell of sand is clear to everyone.

Today is the fourth day of strange traces, and the nameless chief has received a report from the inhabitants of the town three days ago. They said that there were traces of animals passing in the sand somewhere outside the city, as if a huge sand snake was swimming in the desert outside the city, leaving very obvious footprints.

The Nameless Governor was the best soldier in the town, and the city's mayor had given him some men to investigate the matter. All the mayors to the west of the Republic of Marveil have received news from the City of Honor - the uninhabited desert further west has confirmed the presence of alien people who will attack the people of the Republic, and unknown monsters along with them.

Of course, this was the news received by the city magistrates, and most of the citizens living in these desert towns had only heard of the presence of uncivilized savages to the west. They only need to cooperate with the soldiers' investigation and do not stay far from the town at night to ensure their safety.

Although the nameless prefect had not obtained the real information obtained by the city officials, with his keen insight, he had already guessed that those alien peoples were not as simple as ordinary savages. In addition, the nameless prefect also inadvertently learned that the Senate of the Marvil Republic had decided to hire mercenaries to deal with these savages, and it was also a mercenary union that had never had anything to do with the Marvil Republic.

Such news only circulated among the soldiers defending the city, but such gossip was enough to reassure the soldiers here. Most of the soldiers living in the western part of the republic were not well-trained soldiers, but were mostly able-bodied citizens. However, the nameless commander is different, he once won the runner-up in the Arena of Honor, because he later injured his knee, so he came to this remote town and lived an ordinary life.

But this time things were so strange that even the nameless chief, who had always been bold and careful, was a little uneasy.

The sand on the sand trails had been "tasted" by the nameless chief, and there was a strange fishy smell mixed with it, as if a great snake had been bleeding through the sand. Secondly, the nameless commander also found that the traces of the sand had a specific pattern, and there were many tubular sand holes that went deep into the ground on both sides of the sand traces, which was very intriguing.

Everyone in the town said they didn't see what made the sand like this, but most of them looked at it with fear when they saw the traces and shapes of the sand. The more ignorant he is, the more frightened he becomes, and the Nameless Governor knows that he must find out the truth as soon as possible, and then inform the city magistrate and even the senators of the Senate so that his home and family can be truly safe.

"Is there any news from other towns?" the nameless prefect asked his lieutenant.

The adjutant immediately reported: "It seems that I have just received news that one of the survivors of the accident escaped from the west, but when the other party returned here, he immediately fainted, and no information was obtained." ”

The nameless officer frowned, his hand gripping the hilt of his saber at his waist as he gazed out over the endless desert to the west. The yellow sand seemed to have always been still, but recently it suddenly became moving, slowly approaching.

"Ordered all soldiers to intensify their patrols, and to send Rangers to the west at dawn to prevent the aliens from attacking us. The nameless chief said to the adjutant.

"Aliens don't come to attack us in droves, do they?" the adjutant remembered a man of the alien race he had encountered, all parts of his body were white, and he had no clothes on his body. It's just that when he saw the other party, the other party was already a corpse lying on the sand, and he didn't even have a chance to get to know those wild people.

"It's hard to say, no one knows what's further west of the desert," the nameless commander didn't believe that the navigator Hecot said that there was an end to the west, and that the whole continent was just a huge island, "maybe this time, with the help of those mercenaries, we can wipe out the alien races, and by the way, find out what's on the west side." ”

Seven days later, on the evening, the nameless prefect was in charge of tonight's vigil. He waited until his son was asleep, then came out of the house, changed into cowhide armor and an iron helmet, and slowly walked up to the city wall.

The people who worked with him joked that it was windy tonight, and that he should not be blown off the city wall by the wind if he was not careful.

The nameless prefect stood alone on the wall, enjoying the moonlight and stars in the sky, and letting the night wind blow his face. It was his favorite feeling, but it didn't last long before the cool wind subsided.

Suddenly there was a tremor from the ground, and the nameless commander immediately drew his sword vigilantly, and he raised the torch that was set aside to illuminate the outside of the city. He looked intently at the sand outside, and found a trace of the sand that appeared under the city like the sand trace that appeared before, and that trace turned into a passage, slowly extending into the small city.

It's a serpent! A terrible picture had already appeared in the mind of the nameless chief, and this imaginary picture immediately became real.

A huge white centipede burst out of the ground and let out a high-pitched chirp!

The nameless prefect was almost frightened by the sight before him and fell off the city wall, the huge centipede had two tentacles several meters long, and countless centipede feet half a meter long! The centipede came out of the sand and immediately lay down on the streets of the small city and began to swim towards the small city. I don't know how long the body was still in the sand, but just now the nameless chief had seen dozens of eyes as big as goose eggs on the head of the giant centipede, and those eyes seemed to be controlled by countless brains, turning rapidly.

"Don't!" shouted the nameless chief, who immediately rushed down the wall and ran in the direction of his house.

By this time the alarm bell in the town had been sounded, and all the soldiers had woken up. Oil lamps were lit in all the houses, and they wanted to see what was going on outside.

But before the nameless commander had time to shout to everyone to tell everyone not to go out of the house, the giant centipede began to attack the soldiers with swords! Seeing a soldier trapped by the centipede's tentacles, he was trapped by the huge tentacles in less than two seconds, and suffocated to death; a soldier picked up an axe and tried to cut off one of the centipede's legs, but when he swung the axe and slashed down, the centipede's leg actually plunged directly into the soldier's chest and pierced through the belly! The soldier was not dead, but his axe-wielding hand had become weak, his face had turned purple, and black blood had come out of his mouth.

"It's poisonous!" the nameless commander shouted to the approaching soldiers, telling them to stay as far away as possible from the legs of the giant centipede. The other soldiers picked up their bows and arrows, and set the arrows on fire, intending to kill the giant centipede. The rockets were shot at the centipede's back, but the giant centipede's back was so hard that the rockets slid off the centipede's back as if they had hit a stone. Although the giant centipede's hundreds of legs were terrified of flames, the centipede easily dodged the rockets fired at its legs as if every part was controlled by a brain.

At that moment, a large number of spiders the size of a man burst out of the hole that the centipede had come out! The spiders were pure white and looked hideous and disgusting. The swarm of spiders immediately rushed at the soldiers in the streets or the civilians in the houses, injecting some anesthetic drug into the human body with their tails, and then spitting out spider silk to bind the human body.

Realizing that they could not defeat these terrifying monsters, the Nameless Commander immediately rushed to his home to save his family.

On the way home, the Nameless Commander slashed and killed two spiders who wanted to catch him. The blood that came out of those spiders was white, and the skin was white, as if the spiders had contracted some disease. But the nameless chief couldn't do that much, and as soon as he got home, he picked up his two-year-old son, who had just been awakened by the shouting. His wife, who was so panicked that she didn't know what to do, rushed to the back gate of the town with the nameless chief, and now the only thing she could do was to run for her husband for her life.

The nameless chief ran fast and left the spiders behind in a short time, but his wife lost contact with him and disappeared as she fled out of the city. It's just that the nameless prefect can't think anymore at this time, he looks back at the small town behind him where the screams come from, and all he can do now is to save his son first.

I don't know when the back door of the small town was opened, and some civilians from other small towns are fleeing to the back gate. However, to the despair of the nameless chief, some giant spiders also appeared at the back gate, and they had already anesthetized and tied up some of the fastest fleeing humans.

The nameless commander took advantage of the dozen or so spiders rushing towards the few people in front of him, and immediately broke through in a direction where there were no spiders. One of the spiders noticed the nameless chief, and it immediately rushed over with a "snap, snap" sound, and some spider silk slipped out of its mouth, looking scary.

The nameless commander raised his saber and aimed it at the eyes of the rushing spider, and threw it violently! The spider did not know how to dodge, and was directly stabbed by the saber, let out a strange chirp, and then died on the sand.

After an hour of escaping, the Nameless Commander and his two-year-old son were finally away from screams and terrible monsters. They had long since lost hearing the shouts from the town, and there was only a small river in front of them, and he had lost his direction from running wildly, and he did not know where he was now.

The nameless commander threw his iron helmet aside, and placed his son on a small rock. The two-year-old son stopped crying and fell asleep obediently. The nameless chief took one look at his son, then walked to the river and washed his face.

But when he turned around and wanted to pick up his son and continue to run away, a naked boy who could see in the dark night was holding his son!

"Let him go!" the nameless officer immediately drew a dagger from the leg guard.

"Your child... It's cute," the white boy said in the common language of the mainland, whose pronunciation is not standard, "I like it very much, and my brother will definitely like it too." He completely ignored the sharp weapon in the hands of the nameless chief, and only caressed the pink cheeks of the sleeping child with his own hands.

The nameless chief gritted his teeth, knowing that the man in front of him was one of those alien peoples. I obviously ran here with all my might, why would the other party catch up? Could it be that I have already entered the area of a different nation?!

Just as the brains of the nameless chief were racing, another white boy suddenly appeared on his left hand, "Brother, you wait for me!"

The nameless officer immediately swept his eyes to the side, unaware of the sudden approach of someone. And the boy who appeared was exactly the same as the person holding his son in front of him, and even his height and appearance were exactly the same. With the light of the moonlight alone, the nameless commander didn't see any weapons in the hands of the two, and he immediately made a decision.

The nameless commander picked up his dagger and rushed at the young man on his left, trying to grab him as a hostage in exchange for his own son. But before he could rush over, the young man who arrived later actually dodged and stood behind the nameless chief! The speed of the other party's movement was unbelievable, it was not the speed of a human at all!

It's just that the nameless commander has no way to think, and he immediately takes the dagger and swings it back.

"Huh!" the boy let out a cry of surprise, and then bit the arm of the nameless commander with his mouth! The nameless commander tried to break free, but the strength of the other party's teeth was very strong, and his arm was bitten so hard that he couldn't move at all.

"Don't kill him. The young man in the distance, who was holding his son, moved quickly and hit the nameless chief with his knee on the head, and the nameless commander immediately passed out.

By the time the Nameless Officer came to his senses, he didn't know how long he had been unconscious. Everything in front of me is very unfamiliar, as if you are in a cave, but there are some strange and unpleasant smells in this cave.

The nameless officer found himself completely bare, and his hands were stuck with some spider silk, and there was no way to break free. But he barely supported himself with his legs and the wall, and slowly stood up against the wall.

He noticed the sound of water dropping on one side of the cave, and he slowly walked over the wall to look over there. There was a man sitting on the ground in the cave where the sound of water droplets was coming from, with his back to him. The other party seemed to be eating something with his head down, completely oblivious to the nameless chief who was just behind him.

Then the nameless commander noticed that there was a dagger next to the man, which was his own, and he began to think about how to subdue the man as quickly as possible, and then use the dagger to untie the spider silk that bound his arm. But just as he was thinking of a solution, the man suddenly spat something out of his mouth and into the ground - it turned out to be some hair!

Those brown hairs are exactly the same as my son's hair, could it be that my son has been...

The Nameless Commander slammed into the man sitting on the ground with all his strength, and the other man was knocked to the ground by the Nameless Commander without reacting at all. The nameless commander pressed the man's neck with his shoulders and arms, and only then did he see that the other's skin and hair were white. He pressed the other party's neck hard, but what he didn't expect was that the spine of the person under him was extremely fragile, and when he pressed it like this, the person's neck made a "click" sound.

By the time the nameless commander moved away from the other's body, the white-skinned savage was dead. The nameless officer grabbed the dagger between his feet and slowly untied the spider silk from his arm. He endured his grief and turned the dead wild man over, who looked a little like the two teenagers, but was distinctly different. Moreover, the other party still has some brown hair in his mouth that has not been spit out, but under the inspection of the unknown commander, this foreign wild man does not look like a monster that drinks blood, and there is no obvious human flesh in the other party's teeth.

At this time, the nameless chief calmed down, picked up the dagger, and planned to search for his son in the cave. His love for his son overcame the fear of the unknown, and he didn't know why he was able to grope his way through this gloomy and damp cave. What happened in the town has long been forgotten by himself, he has become numb to the loss of his wife and home, and now he just wants to find his son and get out of here.

He found the cave to be very complex, with many connecting passages and many connections to the lower and upper levels. Each cave didn't look like it had been dug by humans, but more like rat holes dug by giant rats. The nameless chief shuddered at the thought of the giant centipedes and spiders, and he wondered if a monster would jump around the corner in the next second and feast on himself.

However, he searched for a long time and found no surprises, but after walking a few floors up, he found an exit with sunlight shining in.

He slowly walked out of the burrow, the sun shining fiercely on a large expanse of the wasteland outside. The nameless chief didn't realize that this was not a desert, and there was a forest and some hard rock blocks in the distance.

Just then, there were footsteps behind him!

Three white weirdos appeared behind the Nameless Chief, all of them unclothed, just standing in the distance watching the Nameless Chief.

The nameless commander immediately picked up the dagger and slowly walked out of the cave, standing in the sunlight.

The white-skinned eccentrics seemed to be afraid of the sun and stopped at the entrance to the cave.

"Hah, they're afraid of the sun!" the nameless officer continued to retreat.

"Are you alright?!" a human voice came from behind him.

The nameless commander immediately turned to look over, and a knight-like man wearing purple plate armor was riding on a war horse--it was Malvin, the deputy head of the knight mercenary regiment of His Majesty!

"Great! the mercenary guild has come to my rescue!" Before the nameless officer could finish speaking, a strange wind blew behind him, and when he turned his head to look, he was so frightened by the sight before him that his whole body stiffened, like a zombie.

A man with white skin and hair and a pair of black wings on his back was waving his wings and flying through the air.