Chapter 173: The Church Bells
Stannis looked up again at the castle hall, and found that the reason why it was so dark was because all the windows had been blocked, not only blocking the sunlight and sound, but he pushed open one of the blocked windows, and the cold wind around the castle instantly poured in with a whistling sound.
"Look, that's Viscount Klaus!" Hayworth shouted as he pointed to the pile of corpses, and in the direction of his finger, Stanis saw that at the top of the pile of skulls piled up into a pyramid, like a Beijing view, there was a severed head, and only half of the head was wrapped with a gold badge with black humor, symbolizing his status before his death.
Vane walked over, his brow furrowed as the smell of blood in the air intensified. He crouched down and searched, "It looks like the Claus family is here, the baron, the baroness and his three minor children and all the soldiers under his command, but where are the servants?
Seaworth nodded in acceptance of the explanation, and now what he needed was not what the truth was, but some reason to reply to his servant master and make him confess to the duke.
But Stennis who knew the truth didn't think so, he didn't want these people to die blindly, so he took a step forward, "I said, in fact, I think the person who did this kind of thing is ......"
Before he could finish speaking, suddenly from the window that had been pushed open, the bell in the distance came from outside the castle, and by the timbre it was the bell of the church!
The four of them exchanged glances, they had clearly checked that there was no one in the church when they had just entered, so who was ringing the bell again, and why was he doing this in this deserted village!
Without the slightest hesitation, with Robert first, the four of them ran towards the gate of the castle at the same time, and on the way, except for Stannis, who was still carrying his broken knee because of the weight of his shackles, the rest of the people drew their weapons one after another, and no matter who did it, they needed to catch him and ask for everything.
Stannis exhaled a long breath and ran out of the dark red blood-colored corridor with his eyes closed, and then the clear sunlight made him feel reborn as he breathed fresh air, and at the same time he immediately looked into the church opposite, and found that the bronze bell hanging in the tower was shaking violently, and the sound coming from it was irritating, and a restlessness like a beast spread throughout his body, and this feeling made him suddenly want to kill!
Stannis hurriedly shook his head, forcing the desire to kill back in his heart, he secretly glanced at the others, and found that the three were still grim.
And on the branch of a large dead tree next to the church, the raven that had been hovering was now perched on it, and it also held its cry, as if something big was about to happen.
At that moment, the small door of an equally sealed hut next to their left hand opened, and a man ran out of it.
It turns out that there are still people in the village! It's just that he didn't come out just now, is this guy afraid of anything?
"Hey, what the hell is going on!" Stannis shouted to the man running past him, but the guy didn't answer him, and Stannis tried to catch him, only to find the guy running straight towards the church like a ghost.
"What's going on?" Stannis shouted strangely, but the others watched as the guy ran into the church, and they seemed to know that something was going to happen.
A second after the creature stepped through the church door, one of the most poignant screams Stannis had ever heard came from within, as if the creature had been torn apart......
Then the whole village returned to dead silence, except for the bell still ringing, or the next person stepping into it.
The long cry of mourning chilled the hearts of Stannis, who was far away from the church, for he had never heard a human let out such a twisted wail, as if his soul had been drained away.
The other three exchanged glances, they all decided that all this happened had something to do with the church, and the bell was strange, and if they hadn't been strong enough to be drawn in, the author of all this was definitely hidden in it.
Robert was the first to attack, holding a long sword on credit from the blacksmith at the entrance of the village, and was the first to rush to the church, but before he could step into it, he felt a dangerous aura coming him, so a handsome single rolled 180 degrees on the ground to avoid the sudden attack.
Stannis wanted to applaud him for this difficult move, but what happened next made him swallow back his cheers.
Two scythe-like blades swept past where Robert had stood, but luckily he dodged in time, otherwise he would have been cut in two.
Then a hobbling humanoid creature emerges from the darkness, his movements extremely uncoordinated, like a puppet of manipulation. But Stannis recognized at a glance that it was the wild man they had captured in the Black Forest last time, it was still a splicing of the bodies of two people, the ribs were turned out, the internal organs were hollowed out, the thigh bones formed a scythe, and the guy on the upper half was not fully mutated and still had a residual head, and it could be seen that it was the person who was attracted by the bell and ran in just now.
Although Stannis and Robert were not too shocked when they saw this strange creature, the rest of Syworth and Vane were different, and even if their reactions were not as strong as those of the timid lord last time, the shock was still palpable, and it seemed that they would not recover anytime soon.
And this is the effect of this 'sickle monster', it raises two bone blades or sickles and rushes towards the two people who are standing, although it has just fused, causing its movements to twist and be difficult to coordinate, but the speed is still extremely fast, but in the blink of an eye, its two deadly weapons are about to fall.
"Turnip, protect them!"
Now, Stannis also had to strike, the closest to them he didn't have time to unload the shackle but took the lead in drawing his sword and slashing towards the scythe monster, it seems that this monster's vigilance is not very strong, until the blade slashed into the arm It did not react, although it struggled to withdraw but it was still too late, one of the monster's scythes had been cut off by Stennis's blade. But the latter was not pleasant, he did not expect that the mutated thigh bone would be so hard, not only his arm was sore and numb from the reaction force, but even the blade of the sword that had just opened was curled up!71