Chapter 36: The Return of the Dead
The Great Wall of the Northern Regions. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Perhaps it is not appropriate to call it by that name.
Because this face rose from the ground four hundred years ago, the wall of black steel rock stretched around most of the human realm, isolating the northern and eastern regions from the land bordering the outer circle on the mainland.
People in the Northern Regions naturally call the section of the city wall that guards them the Great Wall, while those in the Eastern Region are accustomed to calling the section of the city wall in front of them the Holy Wall. In short, it actually refers to two paragraphs of the same thing.
There are many theories about the origin of this tall wall that guards all mankind, and there are all kinds of theories.
Some say it's built by man, others say it's made by divine power.
But the truth has long been buried in history, whether it is manpower or divine power, in short, this huge wall with a height of nearly 50 yards and a base thickness of about 15 yards has been standing here for more than 400 years.
Old Walker yawned heavily, and leaned sleepily into a watchtower at the top of the Great Wall of the North.
Because he liked the feeling of looking down on everything from above, he chose to become a sentry on the wall after graduating at the age of twenty.
Although his main duty was to watch out for the movements of the demons outside the circle, it was also a matter of great satisfaction for him to turn around and see the people of the lower city crawling under his feet like ants.
"Behold, as long as you stand here, the nobles will prostrate at my feet!"
But unfortunately, no matter how interesting things are, their fun will be diminished.
At the moment of nearly fifty years old, he is about to retire, and he has long lost the sense of novelty and satisfaction he had at the beginning. Looking into the circle from the giant wall again, he could only feel bored.
He rarely turned his gaze out of the circle, which in his eyes was more boring.
There nothing will appear there, except for a few inferior demons that appear sporadically and can't even see clearly, an offshore exploration team that has nothing to do, and a few capable teams that have returned home.
As for the Demon Tide, this kind of legendary catastrophe has not even been seen by his predecessor, let alone him.
......
"Well, what's that?"
Suddenly, something that was moving with difficulty came into his sight, and the bored old Walker's eyes widened.
"People!"
"That's a man!"
Old Walker, who vaguely realized that the other party was a human being, rubbed his eyes fiercely, so that he could wipe away the tears that had oozed from his yawning as soon as possible, so that he could see more clearly.
"That's ......" he frowned, squinted his eyes, and then opened in disbelief, "That's a girl!"
"Langdon, Langdon!" he turned to the dozing young guard under the watchtower, shouting, "Damn bastard, don't doze off, I see a girl outside!"
"Uncle Walker, don't make me happy. The young man who was suddenly awakened suddenly shook his head and muttered: "How can there be girls outside the circle at this season." Your eyes should have retired a long time ago. ”
"Bastard, your eyes are much better than yours!Don't believe it, you can come up and see for yourself!" Seeing that the bastard boy below was even more derelict than himself, Old Walker suddenly cocked his beard: "There is a girl with blond hair outside, looking at the clothes, it may be a student of the academy's trial team who is separated outside, we have to have someone go and pick her up!"
"How is it possible? The survivors of the academy's trial team have already returned, aren't they the last ones from the previous days? How can there be any students stranded outside. Reluctantly, Langdon climbed the watchtower and pouted to look out.
"Hey, there's really someone!" he exclaimed, and he noticed that there was really a girl staggering in the direction of the city wall, staggering.
"Am I going to lie to you?" cried Old Walker dissatisfied.
"Although it looks a little tattered, that kind of outfit should not be an outcast" Langdon, who realized the current situation, hurriedly jumped down from the watchtower and ran towards the stone stairs on the city wall: "I'll go and inform the guards and ask them to bring the girl back!"
"This rabbit cub, when he saw the girl, he suddenly became energetic. Leaving behind, old Walker blew his beard and glared.
Unfortunately, the young man named Langdon was not at all on his bad old man, and he ran down the stone stairs as quickly as he went, and rushed to report the situation to the city guards below.
Bill, the commander of the Northern Walls Guard, sent a rescue team after listening to the young man's report.
After a while, the blonde girl who had been discovered was taken to the care room under the giant wall of the Northern Regions.
"How's that kid?" asked Old Walker as he ran down and toward Langdon.
"By the time we arrived, she had fainted, and her body was as cold as ice. Langdon said as he recalled the feeling he felt when he picked up the girl.
"Can you get it back?"
"I had already seen it when I rescued it, and although my body temperature was not quite right, I was still breathing. Ms. Morissa had already gone into the room to take a look. ”
"That's good. Hearing the news that Lady Morissa had gone in, Old Walker nodded with emotion. He knew that the woman, who had lost her husband six years earlier, was the best doctor in the entire colony: "I remember that she had a daughter of about the same age, and she should have looked more detailed. ”
"Ah, we found the Albert Academy Psychographic Closure Device on her, and she is indeed a lost student of the Albert Academy Trial Team. Langdon added.
"Oh, so we said that because we found out and saved a capable man!" said Old Walker excitedly, "It seems that there is a bonus this month." ”
"Yes, it's just ......," Langdon said with a little hesitation in his delight, "when we found the girl, she was holding a demonic corpse with many tentacles like a ball in her hand, and she couldn't break it off. ”
"Wait a minute, did you bring that corpse back with you?" said old Walker's heart.
"Hmm," Langdon nodded, disapprovingly, "It's just a corpse after all, isn't it?" I've heard that many capable people will bring back the corpses of rare demons from outside the territory to study. ”
"Damn it. Old Walker, who was faintly uneasy, made a decision after hesitating for a moment: "I'm going to go in and have a look." ”
"Wait. Langdon raised his hand to stop him, "Uncle Walker, the commander is inside." ”
"What about him in there, I taught this kid how to stand guard when he first became a city guard!" Old Walker felt more and more uneasy, and he pushed away the young man who tried to stop him, and rushed straight into the care room.
Langdon scolded badly, and hurriedly rushed in, and put a hand on Old Walker's frozen shoulder: "Uncle Walker, you are too ......"
Before he finished speaking, the scene in the room made the young man unable to make a sound anymore, and only felt a deep chill penetrate his bone marrow.
Dense tentacles spread throughout the room, and several corpses were hung from the ceiling with their heads tightly wrapped around their tentacles. The young man could vaguely identify it from his clothes, as Commander Bill, the physician Morissa, and a few familiar guards. The tentacles that stretched out from top to bottom dangled from them, and the source of these tentacles, the ball-shaped demon that was supposed to be dead, was gently held in the hands of a blonde girl.
The blonde girl, who had been unconscious, had woken up at this moment, and she knelt gracefully and serenely on the hospital bed, looking softly at the ball demon in her palm, like a mother looking at her own child. And the "child" in her hand also stretched out a few tentacles from her left chest and pierced into her body, as if a real child was absorbing the nutrients of its mother.
"I'm sorry. Seeing that someone had come in again, the girl raised her head and said apologetically, "This child is so hungry that I didn't intend to kill people here." ”
"You ......"
Langdon trembled and died, and he didn't dare to move a finger.
"Run. Old Walker in front of him forced out the word to the young man behind him, and then raised his voice to the maximum as if he had let it out: "Langdon, run!"
Old Walker used all his strength to throw the stunned young man out of the room, and then lunged forward, trying to fight for his chance to escape and warn!
However, the blonde girl obviously did not want the young man to escape from here, and the tentacles in the room stirred violently, and several of them were bound to the old Walker's body, and a few whiskers closer to the door reached out of the room and pulled the young man who had just fallen out of the room back at once.
"Ahh
"You monster, what do you want to do, what do you want to do?" Old Walker shouted as he saw the tentacles reach out to his face.
"Monster?" the blonde girl frowned, as if she hated the word.
"I'm not called a monster. She stood up gracefully, her hands behind her back, and the ball demon that had been held in her hands suddenly climbed up her left breast and retracted into the girl's heart.
Then, the girl approached old Walker lightly, admiring the other's eyes that implied regret and fear.
"My name is Li~Li~Si~. ”