Chapter 50: Implications
The sharp black horns plunged upside down into the ground, and the filthy body, which had been split in two, fell to the ground.
Lydia knew the vitality of this monster, and the light of her fingertips was fast, and the black goat messenger had no room to resist, and her entire body turned into countless sparks and ashes in an instant.
Among the scattered and flying ash fragments, the female knight's eyes were as cold as a cold pool, and she stepped forward with an arrow, grabbed Goethe's collar, and lifted the man into the air:
"If you get stunned any more, I'll throw you into the monster horde. ”
"Uh-huh. ”
Goethe rolled his eyes and nodded desperately, then pointed to his neck:
"I'm out of breath. ”
“......”
Lydia's blue eyes regained some warmth, and then she let go, and her eyes fell on the monster that was being surrounded and suppressed by the guards in the distance:
"Regardless of where these monsters were hidden, we are responsible for the lack of supervision of this accidental attack, and the only thing that can be remedied now is to dig up all the places where they are hiding, and at the same time take the opportunity to conduct a thorough search of the western suburbs. ”
After Goethe landed, he hurriedly took a big step back, touched his sore neck, and said with palpitations: "This matter must be related to the cultists, and only they will launch such a shameless terrorist attack." ”
"Mostly. ”
The female knight nodded, then raised her hand and shot a dark red light, passing through the surrounding guards and piercing the head of the last black goat messenger.
However, she still had some doubts, as a place close to the royal capital, the western suburbs had always had a strong atmosphere of ancestor worship. How did those cultists who were obviously different from ordinary people after believing in religion lurk here for so long?
......
The gray cemetery was empty and lonely, and there was no one in it. The end of the secluded path was covered by a gray mist, as if it did not know where it would lead.
Rows of dilapidated tombstones, like silent backs, stand coldly in the wind. The last row of tombstones looked as if they had been hit by an external force, and they were covered with a large number of hollows, like a pair of resentful eyes, staring fiercely at visitors who were out of step with the environment.
Yalei greeted the gloomy cool breeze. He walked slowly along the cemetery path, and did not stop until the overgrown walls reflected the black eyes.
"The owner of this cemetery is the Earl of Treves. They are now extinct, and in any case, this family was once a wealthy family of the Highland Kingdom. For the sake of the rest and dignity of the deceased, the cemetery was taken over by the local government...... But obviously. Not too well maintained. Alcia followed behind the black-haired knight. Explained in a whisper.
The blonde boy didn't mention the reason for the extinction of the Treves family, as he and the black-haired knight knew it.
"Huh?"
Yalei stopped in front of one of the newest tombstones, noticed the inscription on the golden thread on the tombstone, leaned down, and said word for word:
"He rests here in peace, please don't disturb. ”
"Very common epitaphs. Alcia commented.
"The content of the inscription is common, but the material of the writing is not common. ”
The black-haired knight stared at the gold thread on the tombstone, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Such a luxurious tombstone is actually well preserved. It looks like the cemetery is well preserved. ”
"This should be the credit of our fight against grave robbing during this time. The blonde boy nodded approvingly, then pointed to a nearby camphor tree:
"It was there that the body of the first victim was found. ”
"I know. But it's still very strange, who would go out of their way to kill people in such a secluded cemetery?"
"Crazy, cultists, or grave robbers. ”
Alcia threw out all the suspicions she could think of.
"The cemetery is quiet ......"
Yalei's gaze swept through the cemeteries, and finally stopped under the camphor tree where the grave keeper had died:
"The grave is also largely intact and shows no signs of excavation, so it should not have anything to do with the grave robbers...... If you think about it this way, the suspicion of cultists committing crimes has greatly increased. ”
......
Old Hank felt thirsty and uncomfortable at the moment, and his throat felt like a handful of salt had been sprinkled, astringent and salty, and the dagger he held in both hands began to shake as his body began to tremble.
“......”
The eyes of the monster that completely revealed their true colors locked the two of them, and the sharp teeth inside the skull continued to rub together, making a piercing and terrible collision sound.
Danger came before they knew it, and "Jeffrey's" head swooped out with the elongated neck, its teeth expanding outwards and whistling against Derek's brow. If it weren't for the young man's deviation from the body beforehand, then his head would have been bitten off by the other party entirely.
"Derek!"
The old grave robber looked anxious, then gritted his teeth, turned and ran into the depths of the forest.
"Hey, hey. ”
"Jeffrey" smirked, and his horrible head flew out with his neck again, like a flying python, and bit old Hank's back fiercely.
Smack!
A stick struck it firmly on the back, and the monster skewed, and then the shuttle's elongated neck lost its balance, grazing the old grave robber's back, biting off a rotten pine tree.
"Phew!"
It spat out the sawdust from its mouth, turned its neck, and the snake's eyes stared at the young man with the stick: "Fool, this man has abandoned you, and you are now provoking me for him. ”
"Kill him and you'll let me go, it's better for two people to live than to die!" Derek gritted his teeth, mustering up what little courage he had left, and slammed the stick on the snakehead's body.
Smack!
The monster's body seemed to have no bone support, and after this smash, a large piece of the chest cavity was immediately concave, and long strips of tissue could be vaguely seen wriggling and quickly filling the gap.
"Damn it!"
The monster's head had to spare the old grave robber for the time being, and circled in the air, carrying a foul-smelling fishy wind, and flew towards the young man's position.
"Come on!"
Derek's pupils reflected the monster's terrifying sharp teeth, and his heart was terrified to the limit. Immediately afterwards, it seemed that a string in his head was broken all of a sudden, and his whole body was followed by a burst of unbearable heat. Instead, I was not so scared.
Ignoring the hideous teeth, the young man smashed the monster's head with all his strength, and under the shock of the force, the wooden stick was instantly shattered, and he was knocked out like a kite with a broken string.
But at the same time, "Jeffrey" was also smashed on the head. Its nose line split slammed into the ground, digging deep into the rotting dirt with its back neck.
Opportunity!
Derek gritted his teeth. Suppressing the severe pain in his body, he picked up a stone and rushed towards the monster's body. "Jeffrey", who reacted, didn't have time to pull out his head, and his side fled in the opposite direction.
"I'll fight with you!"
The young man gritted his bleeding teeth. Regardless of the rush to the monster. Soon, the deformed body dragging and elongating the neck was in front of him.
"Die!"
Derek sped up his speed, using all his strength, and smashed the stone into the monster's back.
Bang!
"Jeffrey's" entire body was deflated like plasticine, leaving only a thin layer of skin on his back and chest, and then he fell to the ground unbalanced.
The young man wanted to smash it once, but the sharp wind whistle behind him told him that it was too late, and he knew it. In the next moment, his head will be bitten by the other party.
Am I going to die? Am I going to die here?
I don't want to die!
That moment. Derek couldn't even make a sound, and fear returned, depriving him of his ability to think, leaving his brain blank.
At the moment when Jerry opened his mouth and was about to bite the young man's head, a rickety but nimble figure suddenly burrowed out of the woods, and his body stopped on the monster's attack route with the shaking leaves, and suddenly straightened his waist and erected the dagger in his hand in mid-air.
Oops!
"Jeffrey" suddenly sensed the danger and shook his head violently like a snake, trying to raise his head, but because the inertia was too strong, it had little effect, and he stretched his neck just in time for the dagger blade.
Click!
The blade slid down the monster's throat, splitting its neck, and large clouds of brown worms like leeches sprayed out of the wound, sparsely flowing to the ground.
At the same time, it also sprayed the old tomb robber, but at this moment, the old man ignored the disgusting objects sprayed on his body, and continued to rush forward with the dagger regardless of it, and in the terrible howl of "Jeffrey", he suddenly twisted his waist and slashed horizontally, Huo Ran cut off its neck.
"Die!"
Old Hank slammed into the monster's body covered in blood, and at the same time stabbed the dagger in his hand, and the blade instantly sank into Jeffrey's chest, and then lifted upwards, slashing its chest entirely.
"Ahhhh
The monster's head howled miserably on the dirt, and several times it tried to raise its head to attack the old grave robber, but it could not raise its head because of the terrible wound on its neck, and could only struggle in vain in the dust.
"Die!"
Derek rushed over with red eyes, but didn't dare to get closer, just picked up a hard branch and smashed the head in the face.
"Damn, it's disgusting!"
The old grave robber bared his teeth and threw down his dagger, and then, as if he had exhausted all his strength, he collapsed on the ground, took off his shirt blackened by filth, and then the horrific scene made him jump from the ground.
One by one, the brown worms like leeches were biting at the surface of his skin, whirling and wriggling to try to penetrate deep into the skin, many of which were already halfway deep, but he didn't feel anything.
"Come and help me, help me pull out these bugs!"
Old Hank screamed and pulled out the worms, but soon found that the worms were so powerful and tenacious that he couldn't pull them out with all his might.
"With a knife!"
Resisting his fear, he yelled at the young man running over.
"Knife ...... Knives!"
Derek stumbled in a panic, then quickly picked up the dagger from the ground, pounced on the old grave robber, grabbed several slender worms like cotton threads, and slashed them down.
The body of the insect clings to the blade, stretched to three times its original size, and then breaks with a "snap", and breaks but does not die, still rolling and spasming on the ground.
The young man kept swinging his knife as fast as he could, cutting off the worms attached to the old tomb robber's body one by one, Rao was that he had already exerted his speed to the limit, and there were still many worms that had burrowed into the old Hank's body.
Seeing this scene, "Jereff", who was rolling in the dirt and branches and leaves, raised his head, and his venomous snake eyes stared at Old Hank, and suddenly let out a series of strange laughter:
"Hahahaha! You're finished, and soon, you'll be the second me!"
As he spoke, his skull shriveled down like a leaky ball, his skin weathering at a rate visible to the naked eye, rotting away in a matter of seconds. A large number of brown insects as slender as cotton threads poured to the ground, tumbling and wriggling like a mass of boiling twine.
......
The warm water slowly brushed under the snow-white skin and outlined the graceful curves of the girl, and Lydia felt every inch of her body stretch out at the moment, and breathed the moist air comfortably.
The female knight sighed with satisfaction, closed her eyes and soaked in the bathtub peacefully, remembering the scene of the day, she couldn't help frowning her beautiful eyebrows:
"He's going to be angry. ”
The search, which lasted until midnight, stretched everyone's spirits to the limit, and after a temporary hiatus from their mission, they were stationed directly on the shopping street.
Physical exertion was insignificant, but mental stress had such an effect on the aquatic group that had just adapted to public life that Goethe and Lolo fell asleep as soon as they entered the tent.
The garrison was divided into three brigades, which took turns to replace the guards and aftermath. However, Lydia's consciousness was still sober.
Maybe it was the hot bath that washed away the shackles of fatigue, or maybe it was the vivid image of the monster rushing out of the shopping street still occupied his mind, and the female knight did not feel the slightest bit sleepy.
She wrapped herself in a white bath towel and opened the tent curtain on one side, intending to blow the cold night breeze. The scene outside jumped into the blue pupils - smoke hovered in the air, the broken walls and ruins everywhere were pieced together to form a fragmented view of the shopping street, and the anxious cries of the residents could be heard from time to time in the streets.
The attack of the monsters caused serious losses in the western suburbs, and although they responded in a timely manner, dozens of subjects of the kingdom still died under the trampling caused by the monsters' iron hooves and panic.
He will be very angry when he knows it, and maybe he will blame himself with a straight face......
Lydia subconsciously wrapped her arms around her, worried that her actions today would leave a negative impression in the other person's mind.
At this moment, she suddenly noticed that next to a dilapidated shop window, a man wrapped in a black robe was looking at something sneaky......
Looks so suspicious!
"Stop! Who are you?"
The guards who were on guard on the side soon discovered this man, and immediately rushed over with a weapon in hand, surround the man wrapped in a black robe. (To be continued.) )