"Don't step on my feet, boss!" Robert grumbled, turning his head and whispering.

"When is it, be serious. Stannis scolded him without changing his face, even though he did step on his little brother's boot just now.

"Damn, you're still dragging people like this. Robert didn't speak again, his hand already unconsciously gripping the hilt of his sword.

No one has ever been able to go so far into the Black Forest, at least not for a long time.

Following the bloodstains along the way, under the leadership of the ranger Kanye, a group of four people pursued all the way, these bloodstains stretched for more than ten miles, Stannis was surprised that the guy did not die of excessive blood loss, did that guy deliberately scatter a few drops of blood at intervals to facilitate their tracking?

According to Stennis orders, Kanye left a code along the way that could only be understood by Zhebotai so that the large army could track it down, and as for why the two guys were so tacit, Stannis had a bold idea.

When the trail of blood finally disappeared at the end of the snow, everyone stopped in surprise, because a huge city rose out of thin air, like the legendary sin city Gomorrah, its black shadow projected over the earth, and it was daunting to stretch and elongate.

Surrounded by vast farmland, the city is lined with dense Romanesque apartment buildings in Insula, with drainage works, squares, lighthouses, large libraries, palaces, and other buildings that would look grand even to modern times.

The city was not built overnight, because it is absolutely impossible for these huge stone buildings to settle without a hundred years of history, let alone in such a deserted forest, it is really a miracle that even stones cannot be transported in.

Who built this mysterious city, and why no one ever knew it was located there, as incredible as the crown jewel that was ignored.

"Robert, do you know anything like that?" Stannis asked in a trembling voice.

No one answered him, and the city was completely comparable to the royal city of Teiste, except that there were no walls.

What's even more amazing is that this huge city doesn't feel a trace of life.

"Gollum. The fears of the past began to creep up to Stennis, and the tragedy in Claude's realm resurfaced before his eyes, and how many people repeated the tragedy of the butterfly.

While he was still reminiscing about the past, Kanye had already walked forward to the fields, and he put his hand under the snow, and when he stretched it out again, his hands were covered with black ash, he sniffed it, and said, "This is the grass ash that was burned, and there will be people taking care of these fields at least a week ago." ”

Stannis hadn't heard of a tradition of monsters that seemed to have cultivated land, which meant that the city was undoubtedly inhabited by humans.

"It seems that there must have been a drastic change in the city, and it is not the same tragedy as last time, so this time we must learn a lesson and not rush in. Stannis said thoughtfully, but when he looked up, he saw that the other three had reached the edge of the city.

......

"How can you cultivate, have you listened to me?"

Robert turned around and beckoned apologetically to him, "Don't worry, boss, there's no smell of blood in the air here, so there's no threat." ”

But Stannis walked over anyway, and to be honest, the city that appeared out of thin air was more eerie than the silent forest.

Although it was Chinese New Year's Eve, there were no lights anywhere, and the four people walked through the gaps between the stone walls by moonlight, and they did not meet a single creature along the way, as if the city was a forbidden place for life.

Getting more and more panicked, Stannis wanted to back down, he felt that he had to say something as a lord.

"I said ......"

Suddenly, the other three reached out and gagged him, and they whispered in unison, "It smells of blood." ”

Stannis sniffed the air with his nose, and indeed a thick and pungent smell of blood wafted from ahead.

Then, a terrible human scream pierced the quiet night.

"Please, let me go! You have turned my wife and daughter into monsters! Just let me go, I don't want to die, I don't want to become a monster!"

One of the most despicable pleas for mercy came from the direction from which the blood came.

The four of them exchanged colors in silence, then immediately dispersed and walked in different directions towards the source of the sound.

When Stannis finally sees what is happening under the moon, he is witnessing the most terrifying secrets of the dark world.

Where the moonlight can't reach, a black-armored warrior appears in the shadows, and Stannis feels a little familiar, as it is the armor that Batesmore wore when he fought the black dire wolf (though he doesn't admit it).

It's just that the black-armored warrior didn't use a sword, but carried an axe, and his eyes revealed blood.

In front of him was a frightened peeer, who lay on the ground and did not dare to move, apparently so frightened that his liver and gall were broken, and yellow urine flowed from between his crotch.

"Please spare me, please spare me......" the man could only repeat the phrase now.

There was another sound in the darkness, and Stannis looked there, and from under the shadows appeared a creature as white as a spider, and it was a Chaos Ministre, but it was not like an ordinary scythe monster, this monster was more like a spider, with two thighs and two arms on each side, exactly eight limbs rubbing back and forth on the ground, and at the same time there were two women's heads, one large and one small, in front of them, they should be the wife and daughter of the man's mouth.

The spider monster crouched meekly at the feet of the black-armored warrior like a pet, and it seemed that she was completely at his command.

But no, aren't the Chaos Folk supposed to be brainless monsters? how can they listen to human intelligence, unless, hiding under that armor is also a monster!

The black-armored warrior slowly raised the axe, and only then did Stannis realize that the handle axe was so huge, it was so tall that only a monster could lift it!

The man lying in front of him had not yet noticed the coming of death, and was still begging for mercy.

Without the slightest pause, the warrior dropped the great axe, and the poor man was immediately split into pieces before he could scream, and the entrails, stumps, and bones flew everywhere, like a bloody painting in the moonlight.

The 'spiders' rubbed their limbs and arms excitedly, and couldn't wait to pounce on the pieces of human flesh, trying to surprise their husbands and fathers.

But the black-armored warrior kicked the monster over with a rough kick, and then he reached out and black water seeped from his armor and dripped onto the corpse.

Scenes that Stannis never imagined appeared.