The next day's dawn did not arrive on time, to be precise, when the overcast sky did not make people perceive the alternation of night and day. When Elsa woke up Cheese, the mage even had the illusion that it was still dark. The low sky seemed so close to the ground that it seemed likely to collapse at any moment.

"Strange, it's almost spring, why are there snow clouds now?" looked at the sky above him with a puzzled expression, not only Mona, but several people from Longji Mountain had such doubts. As inhabitants of the North, they knew better than anyone else what this celestial phenomenon meant. And they also know that such a celestial phenomenon should not be happening now.

Although the knights from the Duchy of Hammer were a little unfamiliar with this climate, it did not prevent them from feeling it most intuitively. The darkness and low temperatures kicked off the group's first day of exploration in Vale. Heather led the ten knights towards the central part of the city, and although the female knight chief didn't say anything, the expression on her face also showed that the sudden cloudy day had greatly affected the search activities.

As for Cheese, after he had repeatedly assured himself of his safety and had to accept the protection of the other five knights, the mage set off with the three Elsa and two nezumi prisoners to find a room that could open the portal. Before the two teams could set out, Cheese handed Heather a statue of a wooden owl the size of a thumb and intricately carved it, and told the chief knight to follow the owl's line of sight to find him. Fearing for the mage's safety, the search had to be carried out, and Heather knew that every minute of delay in Vale now would bring the danger closer.

After watching the Hammer Knights' procession disappear around the corner of the street, Cheese began a search with the rest of his eight companions. The location of Valley City is still a little more south than that of Yamashita Town, and the nearby terrain is also different from the vicinity of Longji Mountain, so the buildings in the city do not have to be made of heavy and thick stone like the buildings of the Northlanders, and the city's builders prefer wood that is easy to carry and cheap. So in order to find a stone house, the mage decided to explore the eastern side of the city, which was inhabited by the nobles and wealthy of the valley, and the possibility of finding a building that met the standards in the eastern side should be the greatest.

Valley City is not a large city, and as mentioned before, as a city built as a fortress, it will not have a large usable area. So even though Vale is divided into five districts, it's not that far from each other. As a result, there are many aristocratic manors and mansions scattered around Vale, and of course, according to the results of their previous investigations, although the mansions of these nobles or wealthy merchants seem to be remote, no one has been spared by the wave of the plague.

Therefore, in the face of great disasters, whether it is a nobleman or a wealthy businessman, only knowledge is the guarantee to protect oneself from the unknown.

Thinking like this, Cheese's team has come to the handover of the North and East Districts, and there are no new discoveries and no troubles along the way, although Cheese always has a feeling of being watched, but fortunately there is no real danger. Until they were blocked by a stone wall.

"Hell, how can there be such a thing in this city. Jack grumbled as he looked at the wall in front of him, which was only a little lower than the wall. As they didn't expect to climb walls in such a place, Cheese's team didn't carry a hook for climbing the wall.

"It seems that this is a specially erected wall to separate the military district from the aristocratic district, and I am afraid that it was specially built to protect the safety of those noble lords. Mona also said.

Cheese frowned and looked to the left and right sides of the wall, but there was nothing like a door as far as he could see. The planners of this wall must have reserved only a very small number of passages between the two urban districts in the northeast, and since there is no way to climb over the wall directly, they can only walk against the wall, and Cheese only hopes that he will not have to go to the central district to get around the eastern district, and if that is the case, I am afraid that he will waste a lot of time on the road.

The group began to march west against the wall, so that even if they didn't find an entrance to the East Side along the way, they could at worst go to the Central District to meet Heather. And along the way, they found something unusual.

"Look, there's a hole here, too!" "Monkey" was the first to discover the earthen hole in the wall, and unlike other holes hidden in buildings, this hole was punched directly on the edge of the wall, and it seemed to lead to the eastern side.

In terms of shape and scale, this earthen cave does not seem to be different from the one previously discovered, so it can be concluded that if these holes were really dug by the original nezumi, then I am afraid that the wall that was built to protect the nobility will not be effective in the face of the nezumi. This seemed to prove the point, and as the team progressed, they found more and more of these holes along the wall, and it seemed that no matter what was being dug in the hole, they would not be too numerous.

"A question comes to mind. The proprietress stopped and said. As everyone else turned their attention to her, Elsa continued.

"Whoever dug these holes, it seems to be meant to pass through the wall, does that mean that the road leading into the wall is impassable?"

As soon as this question was raised, Cheese's uneasiness intensified, and he had a faint feeling in his heart that Elsa's guess was probably right. But for the sake of a last bit of luck, the mage ordered to speed up their movements, and they walked along the wall at a speed that was almost like running, and soon, the gate to the eastern sector, or the gate that once led to the eastern sector, appeared in front of their eyes. The gate should have been large enough for two carriages to enter side by side, but now, behind the heavily falling iron gate was a wall of blockage made of masonry and some debris, and there was no doubt that even if Cheese could lift it, it would not be impassable.

"It seems that these nobles themselves cut off access to the rest of the city after discovering the spread of the plague. The female warrior analyzed.

This would have to be a detour to the Middle End, and Cheese only hoped that the damn wall hadn't completely separated the East End from the rest of Vale, and if that was the case, he would have to aimlessly try his luck in the other districts to see if there were suitable houses to cast spells there. But just as the mage was about to change direction, the two nezumi captives made strange noises! This terrifying scream sounded so irritating to people's eardrums even through the cloth bag that they were escorted that the two knights who were in charge of escorting them couldn't help but cover their ears with their hands.

"Enemy attack!" Almost as soon as the scream came, the knights around him raised the alarm, and with his shout, a dense black figure of human figures appeared on the buildings around the group.

"It's the nezumi! Damn, aren't they inactive during the day?"

Hurriedly drawing their weapons, the group quickly formed a circular defensive formation.

"It's the sun! They weren't active during the day because of the sun!" said Cheese. It seems that the previous assumptions about the habits of the nezumi were wrong, and they were not only active at night, but simply hated the sun. Now that the sun was covered by heavy clouds, day was no different from night to the rat people.

"Squeak ......" With the sound of a squeak, the nezumi hiding in the building began to gradually approach Cheese and the others, and in terms of visual numbers, the size of these nezumi far exceeded the sum of the previous sights.

"We've been ambushed, it must have been from those two damn guys. Jack said angrily.

However, just as the Frost Guardian was about to kill the two mutant nezumi who had reported the news, everyone realized that they had gotten rid of the ropes that bound them with the help of other proto-nezumi. They swaggered back into the encirclement of the nezumi, the gray-haired nezue's eyes glinting with pride.

Without most of the knights led by Heather, they were surrounded by nezumi with their backs against impassable walls without mounts, and for a moment the group seemed to be in a very dangerous situation.

"I say, do you think someone will come to save us this time?" said the "monkey" with a wry smile as he looked at the huge number of nezumi legions in front of him.