"What's going on?"

"In the north and west of the city, there are a large number of dead, the ones we saw in the forest before. Knights have been sent to expel them, but there are a few of them."

While walking up the side road of the city wall, Lu Ping'an asked the local knight on duty.

"Lord's side?"

"That's what they just got the news about. But judging by their panicked appearance, it shouldn't be that they are stirring up trouble."

Although it happened suddenly, Catherine's eyeliner had already given an answer.

"Panic? Oh, I see, is something happening to the people?"

「..... No. It seems that because there is too much fake news, and there are too many recent chaotic disasters, the people have become numb and do not take it seriously at all."

Hearing this, Lu Ping'an smiled, and the smile was very subtle.

【....... The third calamity, the plague of the living, the earth turned over, the poison of the dead seeped out of the surface, everywhere, when the dead return, will the revival of the ancient gods be far away.......]

Undead creatures are terrifying, but even more terrifying is the meaning of their appearance.

This is the third of the seven plagues, which means that the catastrophe has entered a new phase.

For ordinary residents, this is just a new horde of monsters, a great natural disaster, but for many people in the know, it represents a step forward in the apocalypse.

「..... They clashed, some destroyed their own cemeteries, and some tried to destroy shared cemeteries in civilian areas.....

This kind of news can be heard safely, but if you really want to deal with it, it will probably be extremely complicated and troublesome.

In fact, when Lu Ping'an and his party came back from the forest, there were knights who were promoting the "cremation" matter.

But it is clear that in most of the world, "praise your ancestors" is not a good word, especially in agricultural civilizations with more land resources (wasteland), burials occupy an overwhelming advantage.

Forcibly advancing cremation by force? Dragged all the ancestors out together? Not to mention that there is no evidence at present, and even if there is, the implementation of this work is really ridiculously difficult.

Judging from the results, it is the last half a month, and the work has been pushed out is equivalent to not being pushed...... After learning about the huge number of "potential resuscitators" in the local area, those in the know had no choice but to give up the plan to clean up completely while their scalps were numb.

On the city wall, the dead are not far away.

Lu Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief, the number was smaller than expected, there were only about one or two hundred of them, most of them were withered dead with only bones.

And the royal team that traveled with them was scared enough.

「...... How is it possible, the third plague will be at least a month away, how can the dead come so early!"

The surprised voice of the Rainbow Prophet was in Lu Ping'an's ears, and the news they received was more detailed, and the scene in front of them was incomprehensible.

The prophecy of the "Seven Calamities" has been verified by reality one by one, and what happened in Shi Lai Ling is somewhat special, but it is not the only mutation, and other regions also have disasters that appear in advance.

This level of calamity does not mark the time of each stage, but the prophets have special skills to judge the specific stage of calamity.

Although the prophecy is no longer accurate, they keep predicting small disasters, predicting the predicament that a certain place or someone will encounter, and when there is a large number of "disasters of the dead" in a region, the third plague in the prophecy will naturally come.

It has to be said that although this method is very expensive and is still a "preset answer" check, it can indeed predict the time of the disaster quite accurately.

「...... It doesn't make sense, it can't be understood, and the church's prophecy is wrong......

The Prophet bit his thumb and fell into self-doubt.

He wasn't that vulnerable, but if the calamity had really come a month earlier, it would have meant that all the plans were pointless.

Lu Ping'an glanced back at Catherine and motioned for the other party to explain..... On the premise of not exposing the "beast god".

Death outside

The number of people is increasing, and Lu Ping'an can visibly perceive that many guards are wavering and frightened, but Lu Ping'an himself is a little relaxed.

He knew that if the third plague really broke out, there would definitely not be only a few hundred in front of him..... Not to mention the tide of corpses covering the city walls, even those tombs in and out of the city have probably become a new source of corpses.

The outbreak of the third plague is not simply "underground erosion", but the disintegration of the more conceptual "order of life and death", and no one will be spared at that time.

"Lu Ping'an meow, there is news coming back. It's the people who went to the forest to cut wood, encountered these corpse monsters, and then ran back to meow! They've brought the corpses back!"

The new news brought by the cat is good news in a sense, and at this time, others are also relieved.

The mutation didn't happen in the city, or even on a large scale, which is naturally a good thing, but it also means ......

"Arrange a scout, at the very least, to know what is going on in the forest.......... Hua Xueyi, Zhixi, Catherine."

It is no longer realistic to forcibly break through reconnaissance, but it seems that if the other side has not yet evolved an air force, the flying reconnaissance team should still be relatively safe.

Soon, the response was in place.

Some of the knights formed a formation and went out of the city and began to clear the monsters.

At the same time, a new ban has been issued and no one is allowed to travel to the Grey Forest.

Another task has also been forced.......

"There are evil god believers out there, and the corpses have been revived, and those corpse monsters that have climbed up will attack their blood relatives as soon as possible, and eating their relatives will make them even stronger."

Lies are much more useful than the truth at this time.

When the inhabitants saw the corpses, when the victims wailed in the city, when some "loot" was dragged into the city, naturally, "cremation" became acceptable.

In particular, the deliberately fabricated rumors directly named "blood relatives" as the first target, and made those residents determined to dig up their ancestors from the graves and burn them.

In this process, Lu Ping'an didn't care much, under his instructions, the old lord went out of the mountain again to stabilize people's hearts, but those in the know also knew that these actions were really meaningless.

「...... Take these, take these, and try them."

Lu Ping'an took out some magic plants and handed them to the knights who went out of the city, and they needed to recover the data of the experiment.

"This one, you pick the fruit and throw it out, and after a few seconds or tens of seconds, a holy fire will bloom. The power is low, but it's enough to kill mortals, don't kill yourself."

"This one, put it on the surface, they will attack all the unnatural creatures around them, but don't expect too much, they are vulnerable."

There were only a few hundred dead monsters, and Lu Ping'an had no intention of going out, so he picked up a telescope on the city wall and watched all this happen.

On the other hand, the temporary flying team also set off, and they may be able to bring back more reliable information.

「...... Perhaps, it's time to think about the way back."

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