(450) The Walking Dead
"What's next?" Marquis DalΓ asked.
Konstan Gral recalled: "Next, the green mist covered everything outside the manor and gradually spread to the second floor.
At this time, I suddenly remembered that the two gardeners and our janitor had not yet come in!
And he looked out of the window in a hurry, but found no living thing.
Finally...... The gathered green mist was gradually blown away by the wind, and I saw three familiar figures in the courtyard......"
Marquis DalΓ's eyes widened, and his heart was shocked: "Could it be, they...... Have they all become 'zombies'? β
Constance nodded: "Master, if you were there at the time, you would have been frightened,
That poisonous fog is really terrifying, and in just a few moments, it will transform a healthy living person into that kind of immortal ghost.
Their bodies had begun to decay, and their hollow eyes stared straight at us at the fourth-floor window, eager for food.
These horrible things started banging on doors and scratching walls...... There was a shrill and shrill sound, and the servants were so frightened that they shrank in the corners and shivered.
By the way, only Her Royal Highness is not afraid, she can't see it, she just calmly listens to me tell her about the situation outside, which is really admirable. β
"Of course, she's a dragon slayer, and what happened?"
"Then, through the window, I found that the infected farmers in the neighborhood had also become bloodthirsty zombies.
These ghosts gathered more and more, listening to the movement, they gathered in front of our manor, and there were seventy or eighty at most, which was simply an army of undead.
Fortunately, these living dead have little intelligence and don't know how to smash windows, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. β
"Now, it's horrible." Dali was terrified when he heard this, "You have held out until now in this situation?" β
"Yes, sir, the green mist had largely cleared at that time, and I led three brave servants down to the first floor and reinforced the doors and windows with nails and planks to prevent the city from being breached.
Then we went to the kitchen to get some food, and then we found that several of the chefs and cooks were all mutated and rushed at us, but luckily we escaped quickly and blocked the doors to the kitchen and warehouse with shovels and baseball bats.
At that time, the situation was very bad, we didn't have any food and water, and we didn't have gunpowder weapons, so we could only take down the hanging sword and shield on the wall to defend ourselves, but fortunately, the young master came in time, and took the rescuers to get rid of the zombies blocking the door and rescued us all. β
"William, have you killed zombies?" Dali asked.
"Father, I slaughtered a dozen of them with my own hands, you see," William drew his saber and showed his father the dirty, dried black blood on the blade.
"The process of cleaning the yard is quite difficult, this thing is so tight that stabbing the body has no effect, even if you cut off your hands, you can still bite us with your mouth open, and you can only kill them completely by destroying your heads.
We were a little hesitant at first, treating them as patients, and when a few soldiers were dragged out of their intestines by zombies, I relented and killed them. β
The emperor came over and patted William on the shoulder: "Good son-in-law, don't have a moral burden, these people are long dead, no longer our compatriots, you kill a zombie is equivalent to saving a confused soul." β
"Your Majesty, do you know this thing well?"
"A little bit of it,
I have often studied the books of ancient voodoo, the word zombie was written thousands of years ago, and the mutation process was caused by a deadly plague spawned by some kind of witchcraft, in short, we are the fierce enemies of the living, absolutely unseemly, and must be killed by all of them. β
"It seems that this is the only way to do it at the moment, and if there is any other way, I will not swing a knife at my fellow Valstad."
The Emperor sighed: "Yes, painful decision, I will send a large army to block the road,
The source of the plague must not be allowed to spread beyond the city of Tagarvi, in which case the entire peninsula will suffer.
Ay! William, if only your mother were still alive, if only Lady Janening were still alive...... Maybe we can really develop an antidote...... You don't have to worry about it like that. β
"yes, if only she were still here......" The Ainfurtsians said sadly.
The Emperor looked at the lifeless Tadjavi City: "The most important thing at the moment is to save the survivors, William, you have led troops into the city, you have experience in dealing with zombies, this job will be handed over to your young guards, my good son-in-law, can you do it?" β
"No problem!" William Einfurt gave a standard military salute:
"It's a big project, there are tens of thousands of zombies wreaking havoc in the streets of Tadgarvi, and there are a handful of survivors hiding in the buildings to survive, and if you want to save them, you have to sweep through the corpses block by block.
This is equivalent to fighting hundreds of street fights and requiring a large number of soldiers equipped with gas masks. β
"The matter of supplies is handed over to the logistics department, and you have all forgotten another important thing, that damn zombie dragon and dragon knight! Where the hell did this bastard go? β
A local garrison commander said, "Your Majesty, that dragon flew towards the sea after the plague of Tagarvi City, and it is likely to return to the Solan Kingdom." β
"It's also possible that we're dormant on an island and resting, waiting to kill us when we let our guard down, but we must not be careless!" The Emperor said.
The prime minister nodded in agreement: "Your Majesty is wise, to bring all coastal cities into a state of first-class combat readiness, order factories to make retro ballistas and arrange them to be stationed in populated areas, and I will also step up the design of new weapons." β
At this time, a hussar belonging to the cavalry division of the Young Guards fell off his horse and fainted.
"What's going on?" The Emperor looked sideways.
William Einfoot ran over to help his subordinates: "It's my own soldier, he followed me to cut down zombies near Ainfoot Manor, maybe he's tired...... Military! Military! β
A military doctor ran over with a medical suitcase, undressed the hussar and found a wound near his shoulder blades:
"There are clear tooth marks on it, apparently bitten by human teeth, and a large ulcerated cyst has appeared near the wound, which must be moved to a tent to remove the carrion."
As soon as he was halfway through his words, the military doctor noticed that the hussar's pupils began to dilate, and when he touched his neck, his pulse was gone:
"He's dead."
"How is that possible? Die from a bite? Prince William looked incredulous.
At this time, the emperor spoke: "Keep away from the dead to prevent infection!" "Let the doctor in protective clothing take care of it!
Suddenly, the corpse of the dead hussar jumped up, hugged the military doctor's neck and bit it, tearing off a large piece of the belt.
Everyone was stunned, but Empress Salantos reacted the fastest, only to see her draw her large-caliber flintlock pistol and walk over and blow the hussar's head with a single shot.
"It seems that this plague can be spread through saliva," she said, blowing out the green smoke from the muzzle of the gun, "Wrap this zombie and bury it deeply, come on, and stare at the corpse of this military doctor!" β
A quarter of an hour later, the body of the military doctor also mutated, and was immediately stabbed into a sieve by a dozen bayonets.
"It's so strong vitality, it can still move if it is stabbed like this." The emperor asked for a military double-barreled shotgun, walked over and shot the head of the military doctor zombie, and then said to Prince William:
"It seems that your task is very heavy, good son-in-law, be careful when you clean up the city, but don't let my daughter become a widow at a young age."