Jeanne felt like she was out of luck.

As soon as she returned to the manor, she found that Prajna, Frynn, and Cellynina had been summoned by Lothar to leave for the outside of the city, and they were going to solve the root cause of the disaster.

She had wanted to join them.

Unexpectedly, this plague would break out so quickly.

The manor, where the veterans lived temporarily, was attacked by rats at the first time, and two servants who were pruning branches and leaves in the garden were gnawed to the bones.

Even if she had already told her, how could the rat swarm be defended by humans, no matter how strong the city wall was, there would always be loopholes, and it really didn't work, they could still make holes and get in.

Fortunately, she was in the manor, and directly used the Holy Flame to purify these rats into white bones.

was stopped like this, and she didn't have the heart to go outside the city.

Because she definitely couldn't catch up, and she didn't have the coat of arms to contact Anna, she didn't know where Lothar and them were now, and where they could talk about any convergence.

I had to wait for them to come back at the manor.

Jeanne could also hear movement not far away.

Some of the neighboring estates were apparently also hit by rat colonies, with screams and creepy sounds of flesh being gnawed.

The veterans who guarded the manor, their faces full of fear and anxiety, stood on the courtyard walls and towers, always on the lookout for movement.

In some places, fires have erupted.

I don't know if someone would rather be burned to death by the flames and be buried in the fire with the rats than be eaten by the rats; Or did the rats knock over the candlesticks, burning the entire estate.

…

Inside and outside the walls of Constantinople, the plague had begun to spread widely.

Many of the tenant farmers who had entered the city earlier today had sallow faces like walking corpses, and there were dark spots and abscesses all over their bodies that could not be concealed by thin linen shirts.

Many pedestrians on the street coughed violently, perhaps even their tracheas were bursting, and there were red blood stains when they raised their hands to cover them.

Coughing came and went.

In a carpentry workshop built on the edge of the city walls in the outer city, only a bang was heard.

The whole house collapsed directly.

The smoke and dust filled the air, and from it came a myriad of densely packed plague rats with pus-covered skin swarms.

They went up when they saw people, and after the wreak havoc, even the bones were gnawed clean.

Those elite soldiers with helmets and armor did not have any way to face these rats for a while, but because of their armor, it was inconvenient to escape, and they were soon chased by the rats and eaten clean one by one.

The catastrophe came so suddenly, but fortunately, the Earl Commander of the Varangian Guard at the head of the city immediately smashed the fire pots to the ground, slamming a wall of fire to stop the mad rats.

But the fire is gradually decreasing.

The rats, who had stopped, became more and more agitated.

Immediately, as if they were crazy, they rushed directly over the flames, and even if their fur was stained with fire oil and burned, they would rush towards the fresh flesh.

"Heavenly Father is above, what kind of monsters are these?"

"Are they demon-possessed?"

The faces of the soldiers defending the city were filled with despair.

They are the elite of the Varangian Guard, and they will not be afraid to fight against the enemy, even the undead of the Sasanians, the knights of the Crusaders, or the Mamluks of the Saracens.

But the enemy is a swarm of rats.

No matter how fast the knife and gun are, they can't resist the vast swarm of rats.

This is a natural disaster, and it is beyond human control.

And yet the next moment.

At the moment when the rat swarm was about to engulf the Varangian guard, time seemed to freeze for a moment, and the soldiers could even clearly see each of these rats' whiskers in mid-air.

Bang!

All the rats turned into a burst of black ash in an instant, passing through the bodies of the crowd like a storm, and vanished.

It's like it never happened.

But the soldiers looked at the remains of their comrades who had been swallowed by rats, leaving only armor and metal parts, and knew that this was not a hallucination at all.

"Heavenly Father willing."

The Earl Commander was the first to fall to his knees and prayed reverently.

It was a miracle in which the Father used divine power to prevent a horrific catastrophe that would destroy all of Constantinople.

Inside the city.

People who were coughing violently suddenly felt like a boulder falling to their chests, and the original heavy feeling as if they were blocking something miraculously disappeared.

They looked at the black abscess on their arms, which had already begun to subside, and when they touched it with their hands, a layer of shriveled skin suddenly fell off it, and they couldn't help but cheer.

"Blessed by Heavenly Father!"

"It is God's will!"

Once again, Heavenly Father visited Constantinople.

…

At this time, Philorn, thousands of miles from Constantinople.

In a mansion.

The pale-faced vampire butler just took the time to wipe the blood stains from his hands.

Although most of the local powerhouses fled when the Crusaders came to the city, how many families remained.

Before, it was considered to be peaceful, but when I heard that the lord of Lothar had left the Holy Land with his troops, and that the governor of Egypt, Adil, had the intention of going east, this thought became active.

In the past two days, there have been frequent exchanges of letters with all parties, but who knows that what they have done is all under the nose of Curs, and they have the style of fishing law enforcement.

When he came to the door alone with the intercepted letters, the local tyrant brought his family and servants to kill Curs and rebelled.

But where are they Coors's opponents?

And so it became what was in front of you.

Andreas cautiously stepped over a corpse lying on the threshold, looking at the scene of corpses strewn across the field in front of him, he couldn't help frowning: "Teacher Curles, is this a little too much?" ”

Kurs casually threw a white cloth to wipe the blood on the face of a corpse: "Where is it not a capital crime to plot and incite rebellion?" ”

Andreas said in a deep voice: "But these things should always be decided by the lords, and later, they have to go through the formal process of public trial." ”

Coors frowned.

He looked at Andreas, there seemed to be some disappointment in his eyes, and after a long time, he said: "Your Excellency is a benevolent and benevolent lord, this kind of thing, it is better not to dirty his ears." ”

Conspiracy to incite rebellion, even if it is placed here in Lothar, is a capital offense, which is nothing more than that some family members may still be able to leave a life, and all family property must be confiscated.

But in Curles's view, the grass must be cut to the roots.

This kind of dirty work that damages the reputation should be done by these people, and if it gets out, others will only say that he, the guard officer of Phil Orn, is cruel and unmerciful, and does not damage Lothar's reputation.

Suddenly, there was a soft noise behind him.

It seems to be movement coming from the closet.

Andreas was stunned, on guard, and cautiously walked to the closet, and when he opened the door, he found that there was a little boy hiding in his hand with a straight Arabic sword.

The vampire butler looked at his frightened expression and sighed, "I originally wanted to let you go." ”

"It's a pity that you haven't hid it well enough."

The look of horror on the little boy's face became more and more obvious, he had seen with his own eyes how this terrifying crusader demon had slaughtered his own family, he was not human at all!

His mouth trembled: "The flame is eternal, supreme and great!" ”

Immediately, a black shadow flashed behind him.

A bloody streak appeared on his neck, and his head tilted, and he was gone.

Andreas was a little puzzled: "Teacher Coors, do you really want to let him go?" ”

"Of course not."

Curos looked at Andreas and snorted coldly, "I'm just trying to find a suitable reason to kill him." ”

Andreas showed a natural expression at this time, this is the Coors teacher I am familiar with! If one day, Mr. Coors really took pity on the weak, and Andreas must suspect that he was being disguised by the Faceling.

"Recently, Saladin's governor of Egypt seems to have the intention of attacking us, do you want to write to ask your Excellency to return to the territory as soon as possible?"

Coors shook his head and said, "The letter must be written, but do you really think that Adil will attack the lord's territory in Sinai at such a time?" ”

"Isn't it, the letter is clearly written."

Coors chuckled: "These little fish and shrimp are impossible to get on the line with characters of Adil's level, and the people who communicate with them are actually Rauf's people." ”

"He wants us to pay more attention to Adil's threat and stop moving south to annex Shermail."

Andreas said thoughtfully: "Doesn't this mean that Rauf is really in a state of flux now?" ”

"Of course, he has already started a war with the so-called 'saint' family of Hashem, and if we attack from behind, they will definitely not be able to resist it."

"Shall we, then?"

"This kind of thing has to be reported to the adult, and it is up to him to decide. But to be honest, with the port of Ella, Shermel's importance to us is greatly reduced, and it is better to manage our current territory. ”

The offspring of the Tree of Life has also grown in the Diocese of Aramdel, the scope of the oasis is expanding every day, and with the main branch of the Tree of Life in the new Habsburgs, in a few years, the entire county of Transjordan will probably become a rare feng shui treasure on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

(End of chapter)