Bang!

The wooden door of the hotel room was "slammed" open.

Although it was a collision, it was actually unlocked with a key, but the force when pushing the door was extraordinarily large, and the door was pushed down against the wall by a huge force, making a noticeable rebound sound.

"Coming back?" Devany was teaching Hera how to write the lingua franca of the continent, and when she turned around, she saw Hodge panting outside the door, and couldn't help but frown, "How did you get wet like this?"

At this point, Hodge seemed to have been doused with a basin of water, and although there were no signs of wetting in his heavy coat, his hair and face were covered with water marks.

Or rather, sweat marks.

His entire body was in a state of intense sweating.

He leaned against the doorframe and looked at Daphne very seriously, "Let's go." ”

"Huh?" Daphne apparently didn't understand the meaning of his words.

"We can leave the Stone Fort and go wherever we want. ”

Devany said in surprise, "It's a cold spell. ”

"Yes, but there is no custom of sealing the city gates during the cold spell, although it is a little troublesome, but it is still possible to get out of the city. ”

Devany thought for a moment, "May I ask why?"

Hodge smiled bitterly: "It's better not to." ”

He believed the woman's advice, and although the woman had a strange and dangerous aura from the time she appeared to the time she disappeared, he miraculously believed the woman's last words under the tutelage of intuition, believing that she was not lying about this.

In other words, there is no need to lie.

It's paradoxical, there's no reason for it, but he just believes.

"Well, then I won't ask. Daphne nodded, took Hera's hand, walked over to the bed, and began to pack up.

As a companion, she is really the perfect choice, don't ask much, only leave almost unconditional trust, there is no possibility of getting angry with her at all, and she is in a very comfortable state from beginning to end.

He also walked over to help clean up.

The dull sound of the bell reached their ears through the cracks in the windows.

Knock-knock-knock.

Exactly three times.

Hodge's face darkened, Hera shook her head blankly, and Daphne spread her hands rather helplessly: "It seems that it can't be done." ”

The meaning of the bell may not be the same in each city, for example, the ringing of the bell in Thuran is a wedding, while in the Stone Fort, the ringing of the bell is mourning.

But there are exceptions, and in all cities on the entire continent, the meaning of ringing the bell three times is the same.

That is, to enter the whole city under martial law.

And this means that people from outside the city can't get in, and people from inside the city can't get out.

......

Dunbar stood at the gate of the barracks in the lower city, looking at the corpses lying on the ground in the camp, his face was as heavy as the corner of the night, his hands were tightly clenched into fists, his body trembled slightly, and his irrepressible emotions spread everywhere.

This made several generals standing behind him tremble, they could feel the hysterical anger from this little man, even though each of them was more than a head taller than Dunbar, and their bodies were obviously strong, but in the face of Dunbar's anger, they still felt the majestic pressure, their bodies were slightly bent, and they could hardly stand upright.

When the generals were about to be unable to bear the tension caused by the long silence, Dunbar quietly released his fist, and with this movement, the feeling of oppression around him finally disappeared.

"Dr. Rockbell is the best person I know, he witnessed my birth, but I can only witness his death. ”

"It's a pity......," Soth, who was standing beside him, whispered.

"The soldiers in this barracks are all excellent talents, and even if they rarely really approve of me, it is undeniable that as soldiers, they are dedicated to their duties and deserve the name of elite. Dunbar said, clasping his hands behind his back.

Suo Xi nodded slightly: "Yes." ”

"Now Dr. Lockbell is dead, and the barracks of five hundred men, three hundred and seventy-one elite soldiers are dead......" he turned his head to look at Sosey, "it's you, and it's my fault." ”

"Yes...... We all underestimated the gravity of the situation, and it was up to me to go to the scene to examine the strange corpse from the beginning. ”

Dunbar waved his hand and began to walk slowly towards the camp: "When did you learn the hypothesis that fools like? Pale language is useless, no matter how high-sounding it may be, but the dead will never hear it. ”

Looking at the corpse that he would encounter every step he took, Dunbar had a vague feeling of nausea vomiting, but he didn't show it, as a leader, if he vomited on such an occasion, even if he couldn't control it, it would still have a very bad effect.

With the exception of the heads, each corpse was riddled with holes, and some of the entire corpses were charred and blackened, apparently burned.

Dunbar beckoned, summoning one of the soldiers who had survived the barracks.

"You can see how these people died, right?"

The survivors' eyes were wooden, and they had not yet fully recovered from the battle that almost wiped out the entire barracks.

Dunbar shook his head, found another survivor who was slightly more in spirit, and asked the same question.

The survivor's tone was full of horror: "Bugs, an overwhelming number of bugs poured in, one or two bugs burrowed into those people's bodies, and then countless bugs came out and directly dressed their bodies to shreds. ”

"Bugs?" was too vague to meet Dunbar's expectations.

"It's a gray firefly. Sossi crouched down and twisted a small piece from the charred corpse: "This is the corpse of the Gray Firefly." ”

Dunbar continued, "You said that one or two bugs burrowed into a dense number, how long did this process last?"

"That's it...... In an instant, it came out in the blink of an eye. ”

Terror of the ability to reproduce......

With the existence of such bugs, the defeat of the Imperial army may not be impossible.

"How do you deal with these bugs?"

"Fire, you can burn them to death with fire, but you can't burn them clean, there are too many insects. ”

Dunbar heard the words, "And how did you survive?"

"No, I don't know. "The voices of the survivors were trembling, and suddenly the bugs stopped moving, and fell to the ground, and then we went to see them, and they were all gone, only the burned bugs remained.

"Good work. He patted the survivor on the shoulder and continued to walk forward.

Walking to the center of the camp, a unique corpse caught his attention.

It was an equally mutilated corpse, but instead of falling to the ground, it stood with a long sword in both hands, propped up.

This man's face is not unfamiliar.

"Sir Pike Kingnes......" said Dunbar, who was the commander-in-chief of the Lower Town Barracks and one of the most quarrelsome of the generals of the Fort Stone, but the brave old general was one of Dunbar's few men in the castle whom he felt worthy of respect.

Now that he is dead, even if he is dead, he still stubbornly stands still.

"Did Sir King say anything before he died?" he asked, asking several of the survivors who were preparing to collect the remains of the old general.

Several people glanced at each other, and finally said: "The commander-in-chief only left one sentence before he died......

"Burn me. They faithfully restored Kim's tone and expression before he died.

Dunbar was silent for a long time before he said to Soxi behind him and the generals of the rest of the city: "The whole city is under martial law." ”

"The war has begun. ”