Halfway through, someone suddenly said, "Wait a minute, there's something unusual." ”

The troops immediately stopped, Bai Lingche turned his head in some surprise, the person who spoke was Edith. She was holding her hands up in the air, looking firmly at Diane and Thorin.

In normal times, this kind of behavior would definitely be considered nervous by Diane. But this time, she asked, "Tina, what did you find?"

Edith dismounted, then took a folding torch from his waist bag, lit it, and held it to the window of a nearby house. The situation in the dim room became clearer, and Bai Lingche vaguely saw a person sitting at the table. It's just that the man sat there motionless, giving people a very stiff feeling.

"I don't know exactly what it is, but I found a layer of rock on that man......" Edith narrowed his eyes and handed Diane the torch. After looking at the window for a while, Chief Diane said to the group, "This man must have fallen under the witch's magic, otherwise it would be impossible not to notice us." ”

"That's petrification. A girl Bai Lingche had never seen before was standing next to him at some point, and Bai Lingche guessed that she might be about the same age as him. The reason why a "maybe" was added was because there was no such person in Bai Lingche's novel.

"Oh, Bell, what do you think of that?"

"Well, I've probably touched this range of books because of my interest. This condition is known as 'petrification', and a person touched by this power will be transformed into a statue in just a few days. This man's petrification reaction should have just begun, so the epidermis was only a thin layer of rock. Scraping that layer of rock off with a knife will stop this reaction. It's just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that because the rock grows out of the skin, the victim's skin is cut off along with the rock. This approach has come at a heavy cost, but it's the best I can come up with right now. ”

Bai Lingche's eyes became more and more surprised when he looked at Bell, this recruit not only did not use honorifics on his superiors, but also expressed his opinions to his superiors without any advice. The eyes of the other team members were also the same as Bai Lingche's, and no one seemed to know this girl.

Diane pondered for a moment, then agreed, "Okay, that's it." Let's get a few strong men to slam this door open!"

The door was easily slammed open. There was a strong smell of dust in the room, which made people want to sneeze, and the man just sat there, motionless. The slightly bulging breasts made Bai Lingche conclude that she was a woman. The room was cold, and there was no change in the breath of life.

"Hey, Kailot, where are you going?" Bai Lingche was grabbed by Diane's arm, and even so, he broke free and retorted.

"Huh, then you still need to ask, of course it's to save people!"

"I know you're concerned about her life, but have you ever thought that there might be a witch hiding here? ”

Bai Lingche wanted to refute, but was stopped by Avino: "Please...... This city is very abnormal, Albert, you can cooperate, and when you get to a safe place, you can be as willful as you want. ”

Bai Lingche bit his lower lip and suggested that Edith next to him also have a negative attitude towards his behavior and had to give up. Bow your head and say softly, "I'm sorry." ”

Chief Diane walked into the room with Edith's folding torch in his hand, and after making sure there was no danger, he put his finger under the bridge of the woman's nose. After a few seconds, she nodded to Bell and said, "This person does have a faint snort, let's move her outside first, and then check if anything similar is happening in other houses." ”

Two hours later, the results of the examination came back, and more than 200 stone carvings had been excavated in a small town less than fifty miles away. And the stone statues all maintained the same expressions as they had been before they were petrified. There was no trace of the witch in the district, and the only reliable thing was the magic detector in Bell's hand that kept "snapping" in her hand.

"Are you sure this little stone will be useful?" Bai Lingche walked up to her and asked, this was the first time he had spoken to Bell.

"I can vouch for it with my life because it's the research I'm most proud of. Bell spread her hand to Bai Lingche, and the obsidian-like stone was rolling and trembling in her hand. He wanted Bai Lingche to explain that the stronger this tumbling was, the more magic power existed around it.

"That's ......" Before Bai Lingche finished speaking, Betsy froze her index finger to her lips, and pointed her other finger behind Bai Lingche: "Shhh

The sky turned dark at some point, Bai Lingche looked at the pocket watch in his clothes, it was still very early, and there was no sign of rain in the air. A soldier stumbled over from a distance: "Sir, sir. ”

Diane saw something in the soldier's eyes, but she asked, "What's the situation?"

He snatched the other soldier's jug and gulped it down, and when he finished it, he wiped his mouth and began to narrate. During this time, Diane and Thorin waited patiently and listened attentively. Bai Lingche noticed that her fingers kept tapping her arm during this time.

"A screen appeared above the sky, covering the whole area. We tried several times to force a breakthrough, but we didn't succeed. And even the troops are starting to have a 'petrified' reaction!"

"So we're trapped now?" said Diane, grinning instead, "All right, witch. Treat us like caged birds - immediately gather people for a large-scale manhunt! It's a kind of self-protection magic, and the practitioner will also trap himself in the screen!"

"No, no. Even if it is too late to implement it now. Thorin ignored Diane's questioning gaze and sighed, "Because it's getting darker." And now there is a 'petrification' in the troops, isn't it? Let's finish rescuing these soldiers first, and then slowly figure out a way. We'll stay here tonight and wait until tomorrow morning. ”

Bai Lingche and the others set up a tent in a square in the center of the district. The weather was clear tonight, and the moonlight was pouring through the screen. But Bai Lingche didn't like this—he always felt weird.

He hadn't slept for five minutes when someone woke him up. Bai Lingche burst out with a swear word in the sleepiness that had not yet fully arrived but was dispelled by a sudden swear.

"Hey!" Bai Lingche felt the person twitch his head again, and opened his eyes suddenly, but what he saw was Bell squatting beside him.

"You're crazy, what are you doing in the middle of the night?" Bai Lingche scratched his head and yelled, every time he was woken up and got up, his anger would become very loud.

"Aren't you afraid to wake up the guy next to you? Bell gestured to Heather and Avino, who were sleeping like pigs, their snoring was not ordinary.

Bai Lingche suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, this sentence should be what he was going to say, right? He is the one who will seriously go to crusade against the witch early tomorrow morning! He rubbed his fluffy black hair and asked, "Okay, okay, what's the matter?" After that, I'm going to have a good rest. ”

Bell leaned down and whispered in his ear, "I know where the witches are, do you want to go and see them together."