Marven sniffed the dull and hot air, and it seemed that the heat in the air had also entered his lungs through his nostrils, burning his chest like smoke.

"Really, it's only been a few days, and Dewei has actually become like this, is this still the imperial capital of the empire?"

After receiving the news that Baron O'Brien led his army into Dweide, the head of Pitt made a quick decision and asked the Imperial Capital Guard to also enter Dweide. After all, the old prime minister had a lot of experience, and he quickly sensed that Baron O'Brien's coalition forces in the western provinces were a little too active, and it stands to reason that after Guderian sent staff officers in the western suburbs, the troops there should wait for instructions from Guderian or the cabinet. This time, however, the coalition forces in the western provinces were too proactive, and it was easy to say that they had defeated the army of the Ministry of the Interior, but taking the initiative to enter Germany had some special implications, especially for an old-fashioned politician like Prime Minister Pitt, the political sensitivity of such a thing was too high. Entering Dewei first means the great merit of advocating righteousness and King Qin's great feats, coupled with Baron O'Brien's great victory in the western suburbs, it seems that the O'Brien family has suddenly obtained a little too much political capital.

Therefore, Prime Minister Pitt urgently ordered the imperial capital garrison to enter Dewei quickly, even if Ernest was unable to go out because of his injuries, he also asked Marven to enter De Wei with 2,000 soldiers, at least not to give all the credit to Baron O'Brien. The old prime minister has realized that giving Baron O'Brien the position of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces in the western provinces, and allowing him to get such a great credit, is obviously behind this series of events, no matter what the purpose, the rise of the O'Brien family will inevitably cause political turmoil in the future, and will pose a great threat and instability to Alexander.

Marven led his troops from the town of Lanz, from the south of the imperial capital into the city, this side is the location of the imperial capital station, bypassing the railway station, you can see the gateway of the imperial capital "Bagh Tower", behind the tower is the Triumph Avenue, leading to the Tiamat Palace.

When Karin I rebuilt the Tiamat Palace, he also replanned the city of Deweide, with the Tiamat Palace as the center, and several main roads radiated to the surroundings and connected the roads leading to Deweide. In other words, no matter which direction you enter Deweide, the end of the journey must be Tiamat Palace.

Looking at the empty station, Marven was inexplicably nervous. Compared to the western part of the city, which is close to the Astrad I School and Karin Castle, the southern part of the city, where the Imperial Capital Station is located, is one of the busiest areas in Germany, and it is overcrowded on weekdays, so how can there be such an empty scene as it is now.

"Search carefully!" Marven instructed his subordinates, "Beware of the enemy's ambush, this place is too wrong, don't be careless!"

Even if Marven didn't say it, the soldiers of the Imperial Capital Garrison had already felt the strange atmosphere here. The empty train station, and even the surrounding city don't look like people, as if it's a ghost town, which makes the soldiers not nervous.

He crawled on the ground, feeling the red lines on the ground, the marks were so conspicuous that he noticed them as soon as he came to the station. However, how can a rough person like Marven figure out what these lines are used for?

"Sir, sir!" a soldier hurried over and reported to Marven with a panicked expression, "We, we found and found ...... in the train that stopped at the station."

The soldier kept repeating the word "discovery", but he just stuttered and couldn't say it here, which really made Marven anxious. He stood up, grabbed the soldier by the collar, picked him up, and yelled at him viciously: "What the hell are you going to say!

was yelled at by Marven, but the soldier slowly calmed down, and finally stopped stammering. "We found a large number of dead bodies in the carriage!"

"Dead body?" Marven shook his hand and threw the soldier down, "What dead body, whose dead body?" Or is it from the troops we lost earlier?"

"No, it's not the corpses of the army...... "the soldiers hesitated," the soldier said, "it seems, the corpses of civilians." ”

"The corpses of civilians?" Marven was a little confused, "Take me to see it immediately!"

Led by the soldiers, Marven came to the carriage where the body was found. Because of the hot weather, most of these corpses already stink, and a foul smell could be smelled from a distance.

Marven covered his nose, walked to the open carriage, and glanced inside. To be precise, the carriage was stuffed with corpses, and the people who stuffed the corpses into it simply poured the dead corpses into it as rice, rather than a corpse lined up inside.

Marven thought of the corpse truck on the battlefield in Silesia ten years ago, that thing was loaded like this, all the corpses were stacked together, no matter who was who, they were transported to the crematorium like sand and incinerated, and in the end they couldn't even distinguish their ashes.

"What the hell is this ......"

It took a long time for Marven to recover from the scene in front of him, judging from the clothing of the corpses, these people were undoubtedly civilians, and if he thought about it this way, it would also explain why Dewei had become so dead and silent that there was not half a figure in sight on the street. But this is a little too appalling, this is Deweide, the capital of the Siliur Empire, one of the most populous cities in the world, how many people have to be killed to make the streets here so quiet, and how to deal with so many corpses?

Just when Marven was puzzled, a change suddenly happened.

The red lines on the ground suddenly emitted a scarlet light, dyeing the entire imperial capital into an extremely disturbing red, and even the originally clear sky turned into a fiery red color under the reflection of this light.

"What, what's going on?" The sudden change made Marven startled, and this sudden and sharp change was like the end of the world, which made the already tense heart.

"Sir, sir. The corpse, the corpse moved, ......" The soldier before suddenly shouted at Marven, if it was normal, Marven would definitely give this fuss guy a slap, but now, Marven himself was unsettled, and when he heard this, he subconsciously looked at the carriage stuffed with corpses.

It was really as the soldier said, the corpses in the carriage really moved slowly, originally these corpses were already rotting, and some parts were still broken, but now, these people who were already dead and could no longer die got up again, with rancid stench and bloodstains, like monsters that had just woken up after a long sleep, mechanically walked out of the carriage and walked slowly towards Marven and the soldiers.

Although the corpses are very sluggish, like puppets, they have to pause after a movement before they can continue moving. However, this terrible scene alone scared Marven and the soldiers of the imperial capital garrison enough, for them, how could they have never seen such a thing, and fortunately they had enough psychological quality as soldiers, otherwise they would probably be scared at this time.

"Fire, fire!" After being frightened by this sight for a moment at first, Marven immediately ordered his soldiers to fire, he didn't know if the bullets had any effect on these zombie-like things, but he had no choice, if he didn't do something, the fear in his heart alone was enough to crush them.

Hearing the commander's order, the soldiers who were already nervous immediately subconsciously pulled the trigger and shot at the dead bodies who got up, and the fire continued to pour down on these poor people who came back from the dead, until the soldiers of the imperial capital garrison ran out of bullets.

However, as they feared, the bullets had no effect on the corpses, whether they had pierced their brains or broken their bones, these unnatural, unscientific things were already moving slowly, and nothing seemed to stop them.

"Damn, damn!" Marven scolded, he thought something would happen this time when he entered Deweide, and now it really confirmed his prediction, not much way forward, this kind of thing happened.

"Retreat! Retreat!" he shouted, since the bullets were useless against these dead bodies, Marven didn't plan to dwell on them, but fortunately, the speed of these corpses was very slow, and he should not be able to catch up with them.

The soldiers who heard the commander's order to retreat also breathed a sigh of relief, facing this kind of thing is also a huge mental burden for them, who would want to fight against these things that don't know whether they are dead or alive?

Marven quickly exited the station with his troops, surrounded by a scarlet light curtain that seemed to divide the space.

"Go back to Lanz Town immediately, Deweide's investigation can't continue at all!" As he spoke, Marven rushed towards the south, although there was a light curtain rising from the red line in front of him, but now Marven didn't care so much, and escape was the most important thing.

He ran over and rushed through the red curtain, but before the follow-up soldiers could catch up with him, Marven, who had rushed through the red curtain, suddenly fell, and before he could land, his body shattered into pieces and fell to the ground in pieces.

The soldier who was about to rush through the red curtain immediately stopped, he looked at Marven's body in horror, who would have thought that Marven, who was still running so fast, would become like this after a red curtain.

However, although he stopped, the soldiers behind him were still rushing forward, they didn't see Marven's miserable appearance, these soldiers who were left behind just wanted to rush to the front as soon as possible, so they pushed the soldiers in the front row, so that the people in front couldn't stand at all, and could only be pushed forward by the people behind.

The group of people who rushed to the front were pushed through the red curtain in this way, even if they wanted to stop and explain loudly to their companions behind them, but how could people who were eager to survive have the time to listen to other people's nonsense? As a result, the group of people who ran the fastest became the ones who died the fastest, and once they passed the red curtain, they immediately had their bodies torn apart and died a miserable death.

And with the demonstration of such a group of people, the people behind finally discovered that something was wrong, this red curtain was like the sickle of death, and everyone wanted to stay away from it.

However, when the murmur behind them sounded, the soldiers suddenly realized that they were facing not only the obstacles ahead, but also the hardships behind.

Turning to look at the dead bodies that had caught up, there was a look of despair on everyone's faces.

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"How many people in the imperial capital have you killed?"

Swain asked Manfred with a frown as he looked at the corpses walking around a few blocks next to him.

"Maybe thousands, maybe tens of thousands. The killing efficiency is too low, so I have a better way. Manfred laughed, and bared his white fangs, "It's much easier to trap the people in this city with the light curtain of the magic circle, and then resurrect the dead and let them kill themselves, and then the slain will be resurrected, and so on." ”

Swain glanced at Manfred, the disdain in his eyes not concealed.

"It's a bad taste. ”