"Darkness is light, and light is darkness. ”

Frontispiece of the Book of the Dead

With the rapid build-up of the King's Guard, after seeing that they could not quickly take the lord's hall, they quickly retreated and dispersed into the streets of Eternal Night City, and retreated outside the city under the cover of the chaotic people.

The major lords hurriedly prepared to leave the city with their guards to see how their troops were doing. The fat lord who had sarcastically mocked Martin during the day had just mounted his horse when he saw Martin and the two lords who had been with Martin during the day hurriedly mounted their horses.

"Hey, Martin boy, I didn't see you during the battle just now, why did you come out now?" said the fat lord, who was obviously unpleasant to Martin's eyes, teased.

This shout attracted the eyes of many lords, including Rhodok and Domt, and I saw the three of you stepping on the horse with swords, Martin glared at the fat lord fiercely, and his expression was a little strange. The expressions of the other two lords who accompanied him also seemed to be a little wrong. The three of them didn't say a word, and drove away.

Several people, including Rhodok, felt that something was not right, but they couldn't say what it was.

On the way out of Martin's group, the old executioner Mance was placing the special axe on his back from the new top. glanced at the three of them, and their pupils shrank sharply.

"My lord, they have blood on their swords!" shouted the old executioner Mance at Rhodok.

Didn't participate in the battle, there was blood on the sword, and he didn't leave after saying he was going to leave in the afternoon? A few messages flashed through Rodok's mind, and Rodok only felt as if his brain was on fire.

"Catch them!" roared Rhodok. With that, he rushed to the lord's hall with his sword in hand.

The remaining lords also vaguely thought of something from this process and Rhodok's reaction, whether they thought about it or not, they subconsciously hurriedly chased after it. Domt and Grave looked at each other, stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted to what was happening. Hurry up to Rodok, and before they do, Pikes had already rushed back after him.

There was nothing unusual in the hall, and the four of them rushed to the top of the stairs and stopped suddenly. looked at the blood stains on the stairs, and his heart sank suddenly, and he quickened his pace and rushed upstairs, and the remaining three people looked at each other and hurriedly followed.

Sure enough, when I went upstairs, I saw that the guard at the top of the stairs was dead, and he was sitting on the wall with a big scar on his throat. Walking into the corridor, you can see that the two guards in the corridor and the guard in front of the king's door have three corpses lying at the king's door. Rushing to the king's door, Rhodok saw that the bed was empty and the quilt was lifted and held on the ground. I was overjoyed, but I saw that in addition to the maid, a figure wearing a beautiful white lace nightgown fell to the ground, and most of the nightgown was stained red with blood.

"Martha!" Rodok called out the queen's name in a hurry, before the king succeeded to the throne, Rodok had always called each other by name with the king and the queen, even if Allen succeeded to the throne, Rhodok also called the two of them in private.

Rhodok rushed to the queen's side, knelt on the ground, threw down his sword, lifted his shoulders and shook them slightly. The queen was still conscious, her eyes slightly open, and her breathing was very weak.

"Rowe, Rhodok. The queen called Dorodok's name, and the whole person seemed to be instantly relieved: "I heard that there is a battle outside, come and see Allen." Suddenly there was a fight outside the house, and I hid Alan under the bed, and neither Julie nor Angie said anything, and they didn't find Alan. The queen laughed happily.

Rodok quickly turned his head to look at the bed, and sure enough, the sheet was very long and covered the bed. The three of Pikes hurriedly ran to the bed and pulled up the sheets, and Alan was indeed under the bed. The three of them hurriedly dragged Alan out from under the bed and carried him onto the bed.

Martin originally wanted to make a move when the battle was at its most intense, but after the three of them decided to do it, the guards who had just finished clearing the corridor heard that the fighting outside had stopped, and all that was left was the shouts of the various lords of the North Ridge. Rushing into the king's room, he found only the queen and two maids.

After killing one of the maids, he still didn't say anything, and after killing two maids, the queen didn't say anything, and one of the lords urged Martin to leave, and Martin, in anger, plunged a sword into the queen's stomach and the three of them prepared to flee. It has to be said that the king was really lucky, the sheets dragging on the ground and the high tension of the three caused all three to ignore this point under the bed.

"Martha, Alan is fine. Looking at the three of them, they nodded to themselves and signaled that Alan was okay, and Rodok said to the queen: "You hold on, you can't die, you haven't given Allen a child yet." ”

The queen smiled bitterly and looked at her blood-soaked belly, and Rodok also knew that he was just comforting the queen, and the first time he saw the queen, he knew that the wound in this position must be hopeless.

Watching the queen slowly close her eyes in his hands, Rodok slowly put the queen on the ground with a sad face. Standing up, he roared angrily and slashed all the bottles and cans on the table. Looking at the chaotic city of Eternal Night outside the window, my heart became heavier and heavier.

The city of Eternal Night, which had been chaotic all night, gradually regained its calm the next morning, black crows hovering over the city, and scorched smoke still rising gray in several places. Many of the charred houses were burned down, leaving only the frames. The whole city seemed to be enveloped in a gray and sad atmosphere.

The streets were full of civilians holding corpses and crying, the sergeants in the barracks outside the city were sorting out the salvaged food, grass and baggage, and the various lords who had not slept all night had just begun to assemble from their barracks to the lord's hall. Rodok patrolled the streets with Domt and Grevor, as well as Pikes, pacifying the inhabitants and soldiers who were helping to sort through the rubble.

A young boy was clutching the corpse of a man and crying, and his father had told him before going to bed last night that he would have to report to the army tomorrow and that he would bring him back with a suit of his own armor when he won the battle. Rhodok's whole body seemed to be a teenager old, and the heavy pressure bent his back. He gently patted the boy on the shoulder and tried to comfort him, but in the end he couldn't say anything.

"We have to figure it out as soon as possible. Domt said with a frown on the side, and his whole state was also very low: "The Kakamans will arrive in four days at most, and we will definitely not be able to win in our current state." "Last night Pikes told him about the information he had received about the Kakamans.

"We have to retreat. Rhodok looked at the gloomy atmosphere on the surrounding streets: "The current morale is definitely not suitable for fighting, but what about so many people in Eternal Night City?"

"The Kakamans weren't going to be kind to them. "But if you take so many men with you," said Domt, "it will slow down the march, so there will be little point in retreating, and we will be caught up as well." ”

"Let's go back to the hall. Rhodok sighed, this kind of topic was really not suitable for discussion in public.