Chapter 51: The Gathering of the Awakened
"I'll go with you."
Lindsay followed Dan's back directly.
However, before he could take a few steps, the huntress turned back and pressed Lindsay's shoulder, and looked at Lindsay's pupils with earnest and forceful eyes:
"Lindsay, listen to me, you go and tell Anrui the news first."
"Look at the way you look now, it's really not appropriate to go out and investigate anymore. And I assure you, I'll be back soon, no more than an hour at most! β
"I ......"
Lindsay subconsciously wanted to refute.
But just then, Dan lifted Lindsay's hand that grabbed the ice badger.
The green tendons of these hands protruded, and the strength was so strong that the knuckles turned white, and it was not long before the ice badger was taken out by him, but the position where it was grabbed was already twisted and deformed, and the skin was almost pinched and broken.
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Lindsey realizes that Dan is not right.
Finn's death and the subsequent activation of the corpse had a great impact on him.
When the ice badger was being pursued in the woods, he was not aware of it.
But now he really needs to calm his emotions, whether it is the anger in his heart or the thinking about the mastermind behind the scenes.
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"I see, I'll go to Uncle Anrui's."
Lindsay nodded to the huntress, and the two parted ways from the church door.
Dan followed the message given by Lindsay, and the figure quickly disappeared into the dark night; Lindsay, on the other hand, ran all the way to the north of the town, not thinking about anything for a moment, but keeping his breathing in a rhythm.
"Shhh
"Hiss......"
In a state where you are focused on adjusting your breathing.
Lindsay's heart finally began to calm down, and it was just when he arrived at Anrui's lord's manor.
"Lindsay, why did you come here so late?"
"I'm in a hurry to find Uncle Ari, please let me go."
The guards at the door were yawning at night.
They had known Lindsay for a long time, and just by saying hello, Lindsay walked into Anrui's manor.
With a staggering pace, he came to the door of An Rui's bedroom on the second floor.
Bang Bang
"Uncle Anrui, wake up, I'm Lindsay."
"There's something going on in town!"
"Lindsay?" Almost in a second, the door was slammed open from the inside. An Rui didn't even turn on the lights, only wore a pair of thin pajama pants, and his body appeared in the dimly lit bedroom door, "What's going on in town?" Coming here so late? β
Lindsay directly handed the ice badger in his hand to An Rui:
"This thing lurked next to Mr. Finn's cabin tonight and brought the corpse to life."
An Rui, who had just woken up, still had some confusion on his face:
"This ...... Activation? β
"The demonic beasts in the forest generally don't take the initiative to approach the town."
Lindsey opened her mouth and urged:
"Uncle Anrui, you change your clothes first, and we'll talk and leave."
"This ice badger didn't come to the town to cause trouble on instinct, but there was a mastermind behind it and exerted influence in it."
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"Okay."
When he heard the second half, An Rui came to his senses.
He understood what Lindsay meant, and immediately turned his head and went into the house, dressed in twos and threes, and came to the door in a few steps:
"Where is Finn's body now?"
"It's at the church, Dan knew about it in advance, and he has already gone to the forest to follow the clues."
An Rui nodded slightly, and immediately walked with Lindsay to the outside of the manor.
Passing by the guards of the manor on the way, An Rui did not stop, and specially ordered:
"Go and inform the Awokens in the town and have everyone meet at Lady Redmoon's church."
"By the way, tell Anna too, and ask her to come over later."
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Half an hour later.
The Awakened from the Hidden Frontier gather in a church on the east side of town.
The ordinary townsfolk had already left, going home to their homes.
Red Moon was still tending to Finn's body in the chapel, while Anrui was standing a little earlier, and the other twenty or so Awakened were scattered in the chapel standing or sitting.
As the young people of the town.
This was the first time Lindsey had seen all the Awakened in the Hidden Frontier.
Among them are Joel's master craftsman, Iriel, a physician who lives in the west of the town, and Som King, a grocery store owner who is barely seen in normal times and is now a dying old man.
At this moment, most of the Awakened have serious faces.
Obviously, everyone understood that An Rui must have had an extremely serious reason for summoning everyone so late at night.
Seeing that the awakened people in the church were basically all there, An Rui stepped forward, clasped his hands to his chest, and said with a serious expression:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to have you gathered here so late."
"But it's a matter of urgency."
"I'll cut a long story short - just a few hours ago, Finn's body was animated by several monsters. This is not an accident of some magical beast accidentally breaking into the town, but a conspiracy directed by someone behind it! β
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"Disturb the deceased, who would do such a thing?"
"You said that the monster was commanded and controlled by people!"
"The Awakened in the Hidden Frontier, it seems that no one has such an ability."
"An Rui, what about the detailed investigation process, are you sure that you are not mistaken?"
An Rui's explanation directly made the scene explode.
In the first few minutes, the Awoken discuss the activation of Finn's corpse and the purpose of those behind it.
But at some point, the nature of the discussion changed.
This stems from a guess by grocery store owner Somkin:
"The Awakened in our town, there's no reason for such a thing. I think the only people who would do such a thing could be outsiders. β
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A brief silence enveloped the chapel, and when it was spoken, it was filled with all sorts of agitation:
"Could it be that the dragon beast of Black Mountain was killed by some ascender?"
"Hidden frontiers and the outside world have been restored?"
"Maybe somewhere we don't know, there's an altar that can be used for spatial teleportation!"
One thing is undeniable.
All the people in the hidden frontiers, whether awakened or ordinary people, would not want to be trapped here for the rest of their lives with themselves and their families.
The mastermind behind Finn's corpse activation is like an uncertain hope, throwing an unknown depth charge into the hearts of the dead townspeople.
The chapel was full of people, and the awakened looked at each other, even suspicious......
"Enough!"
Suddenly, An Rui yelled.
The lord's powerful voice echoed through the chapel, interrupting everyone's floating thoughts:
"I know you don't want to be stuck here!"
"But no matter where the mastermind came from or how he got here, we must first find out who he is and what he is for!"
"Messing around here won't do you any good except to attract ridicule from people in the dark."
An Rui is undoubtedly the strongest awakened person in the hidden frontiers.
At the same time, it is also the only one who has ascended.
After he shouted this sentence as a lord. Whether they wanted to or not, the awakened people around him honestly closed their mouths and showed respect for this five-stage awakened person of the War School.
It was at this moment that Lindsay's ears, with his keen senses, moved, and he heard hurried footsteps outside the church.
"I heard someone running outside!"
After Lindsay's reminder, everyone's eyes came to the door of the chapel.
The figure of the huntress rushed in from the door of the chapel almost simultaneously.
Return in an hour β
Dan guarded her and Lindsay's pact.
She was out of breath at the moment, reaching for the door of the church, apparently galloping all the way back.
After noticing the strange and tense atmosphere in the chapel.
The huntress reached out and lifted the ice badger that Lindsay had given her, and smiled contemptuously:
"Haha, everyone's here?"
"In shortβthe culprit who affected the Warcraft was discovered by me."
"But it's hiding farther than you think, maybe we should start a little expedition?"