The overturned bonfire, the obvious signs of blunt impact on the stone walls, the corpses of the men on the walls of the city, and the lost upper body of the man who fell from the walls into the city.

Next to Gunther's upper body lay a dead deer-like creature. The main reason for the use of this word is that even ignorant children know that the snow deer does not grow eagle wings, especially since these wings are so large that they curl up and wrap the deer's body like a shield after it dies.

There were a few scattered corpses left, as well as scattered bows, crossbow arrows, and longswords and wooden shields.

It was the price to pay for hunting the monster that looked like a deer.

"How many people died?"

Dunbar pressed his hand to the position of the center of his eyebrows, he spent a lot of energy for the mobilization of the city defense corps in the past few days, although the generals of each legion can share the specific task assignment for him, but the general direction still needs him to control, and many problems that arise from it also need him to solve, these three days he has not slept as long as the previous day, but even so, there is still a change in front of him that caught him off guard.

"Seven soldiers were killed and three wounded, including the sentry who was killed in the first place, a total of eight people died. The lieutenant reported the data on the battle to Dunbar.

"Such a monster has replaced the eight of us...... "Intense exhaustion hit, and Dunbar held on to the wall tiles so that he didn't let himself fall in front of his subordinates.

"The result?"

Dunbar's question was Thorsi, as the witcher opened the dead deer's closed wings, took out the dagger he carried with him, completely dismembered the strange snow deer, and observed the internal organs, etc.

This was supposed to be the job of Dr. Lockbell, but now that he is dead, fortunately, as a witcher who needs to find clues from corpses, he is not too unfamiliar with anatomy, under Soxi's dagger, all the organs in Snow Deer's belly are taken out and neatly stacked next to him, Soxi carefully pinched Snow Deer's heart and lungs with his hands, felt the soft touch from his hands, and turned his head to look at Dunbar.

"It's all normal, just looking at the internal organs of this corpse, it is no different from an ordinary snow deer, even a common breed in the forests outside the city......" The witcher looked at the huge fleshy wings on the back of the snow deer, "except for these wings." ”

"In other words, this monster is likely to have mutated from an ordinary snow deer?" asked Dunbar.

"Mutation is a complex and difficult task to master, even witchers have mastered this technology after years of experimentation, and it is only used in humans, and there is no accumulation in animals, so it stands to reason that no one can master more in-depth and comprehensive mutation technology than we do. ”

"But yes, this is the most likely explanation, as evidenced by the ashore dragon lizards and the terrifying gray fireflies that preceded it. ”

Adjutant Mu stood beside him, not knowing what the conversation between the two meant, but Dunbar gasped and cried out, "The beasts in the forest outside the city are in the thousands!"

Just one mutated snow deer replaced eight soldiers in Stone Fort, if the entire beast of the jungle became a mutated monster......

"The mortality rate of mutations is high, and in the case of the Demon Hunter's Trial, there may not be even one out of ten boys who can finally pass the trial. ”

"Even if there is a 1 in 10 probability of mutation, we still can't resist it!"

Dunbar was quite familiar with the garrison regiments at Stone Fort, and the permanent garrison was still relatively intact, and although the barracks in the lower city were heavily killed and wounded, there were still about 1,600 ordinary soldiers.

What was really lacking was elite power, as the most important castle of the Raymond family, the Stone Fort itself had a complete armed army of three hundred knights, but most of the knights were taken away when the Marquis of Raymond left the city, and the number of knights in the city at this time was only twenty-seven.

Sixteen hundred soldiers plus twenty-seven knights, including disabled individuals and logistical personnel who had never been officially on the battlefield at all.

Even if it was a thousand—no, even five hundred, like the appearance of this mutated snow deer monster in front of him, could easily conquer this ancient castle.

"How many inhabitants are there in the castle?"

"Including the temporary population, it should be around 20,000 people. The adjutant replied.

"Twenty ......thousand," thought Dunbar, "make do with it, let the soldiers go out and knock on the doors from house to house, and inform everyone in the Stone Fort, even the sailors in the cabin, that the Stone Fort requires every man to take up clubs and swords to guard the castle with the city defense legions, and that every woman is required to take over the logistics, weaving winter clothing, cooking, and caring for the wounded." ”

The adjutant was stunned: "Temporary conscription, I'm afraid this will cause dissatisfaction and even resistance among a considerable number of residents, and even if they respond to the conscription order, it will only be 20,000 mud-footed barbarians who have not even picked up a long sword." ”

"Even if it's 20,000 stinky fish and rotten shrimp!" Dunbar's words were resolute and stern that could not be denied, and after a pause, he said sharply: "When the fish pond where I live is about to be scuttled and the water source for survival is about to collapse, I have to give me enough strength to fight!"

"If anyone refuses, take your soldiers and subdue him, and then tell him what I said as it is, understand?"

"Yes!"

......

"Name?" a deep, rugged male voice rang out in the crowd.

"Parker. ”

"What did you do before?"

"Fishing at sea. ”

With a clang, a rusty shovel was thrown at Parker's feet.

"Hopefully, you'll have half the strength you did when you shovel snow, and if you still have to, this shovel will save your life. ”

"What about you?" said the stout man as he walked toward another burly man.

"Majeri, the blacksmith of the blacksmith shop in Xicheng District. ”

"You can see that the strength is good. Dahan nodded with satisfaction, picked out a pair of copper hammers from the weapon rack and handed them to him, "Then play your usual place, when the monster attacks, smash it for me!"

"You boy. ”

"Oliver, I'm a hunter. ”

The pot, spoon, and knife were thrown at Oliver's feet, and then the voice of the big man came, "The hunter's cooking skills should be good, and you will be responsible for the cooking in the future." ”

Oliver raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "I'm a hunter, and I should be holding a bow, not a pot and a spoon." ”

"Boy, do what I tell you to do, you will do it for me, this is the army, not a place for you to play in the woods, where only the best archers are worthy of a compound bow. Really, every time you recruit, you can recruit a bunch of stinky fart kids who haven't grown all their hair. ”

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