《blood tax》Chapter nine A living corpse
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In the faint light of the fire, you can faintly see a crazy figure turning into the small window of the farmhouse. Screams came from the farmhouse at once.
There was a rustling sound in the darkness, like people and wild animals that had never been seen before.
Griffith couldn't help bouts of scalp pins and needles, turned over and jumped onto the nearby roof. No sooner had he turned over the roof than he saw a figure flash past in the darkness and grab it subconsciously. This catch is empty, but the wrist is pulled and rotated, driving the body to be lifted by volley and thrown towards the roof.
Griffith hasn't encountered such a throwing skill before, and he was about to stabilize his center of gravity in a hurry, but he was thrown out wearing double-layer heavy armor, smashed through the roof with a bang, and fell in with straw and beams.
The lithe figure also lost its foothold, but the movement was not disorderly, volleying and rotating like a cat, deftly adjusting the landing posture, stepping on the trainee knight and landing firmly.
"Ow-!"
The pounding on the ground and the squeezing of the abdomen almost made Griffith vomit his stomach. Before he recovered his breath from the fall, the figure standing on him had twisted his wrist, grabbed the sword and pointed at his throat.
The cold blade choked the air.
"Ah ~ When did you run to my feet?"
The dilapidated hut was very quiet at that time.
Griffith opened his eyes, and in the pale green moonlight, Galatea was pointing his sword at himself with a serious face.
"Get up, the Promethean is coming to eat our brains!" The elf stepped down from the belly of the apprentice knight. "Goblin is followed by a Promethean. Is this small village a hatchery for evil spirits?"
"An adventurer was infected with this corpse plague. Besides, some villagers' bodies disappeared at midnight," Griffith asked hastily, struggling to get up, regardless of abdominal pain. "Where have you been before?"
"Find a place to hide and rest," the genie replied casually, and then added, "In advance, if you suspect that the beautiful and elegant genie has something to do with this evil activity, you will be hung from the treetops."
Griffith sighed and shook his head. "I just want to say that if we take turns to rest, maybe we can stop all this."
The genie shook his head and denied the idea word by word: "We have only known each other a few times-a little time-alas!"
Griffith suddenly felt that once he and Galatea talked, they would be endless. In such a chaotic state, two people standing in a broken farmhouse with no vision, talking to each other is simply unwise!
The apprentice swallowed this feeling, turned and walked outside. He just pushed open the wooden door of the hut, when a black shadow suddenly pushed open the door, grinning at his wrist to open the door.
"Dang!" Full of fangs, several teeth collapsed on the iron armguard. Not far away, Galatea jumped back with fear.
Griffith only felt a sharp pain in his wrist, just like being stabbed by a dagger. He raised the axe of his left hand and slammed it at the shadow. The black shadow's head was hit hard, burst like a watermelon, and collapsed on the spot.
"get out of here!" Griffith gave a cry. Elf immediately to catch up with him, two people together to the outside.
Black shadows like beasts are running around the village. They still keep the outline of human beings, but their forelimbs are swollen and elongated, and they often land on all fours like jackals when running. Teeth and nails are alienated into sharp serrations and daggers, and even can easily climb the roof and walls.
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These monsters are both human beings and goblins. At first, it only appeared sporadically, and within a few minutes, it was already an attack and predation in droves.
After walking for a while, the apprentice and the elf found it very dangerous to be exposed to the outside. Those monsters wandering in the dark will jump out of the darkness in the corner and attack at any time. It seems that the only safe place is to escape from the village and hide in the Woods.
Galatea looked at the woods quickly, as if thinking about the retreat. After a while, she said in a hurry, "You can't go out. Today's moon is green, and the demons in the forest will be particularly crazy and powerful!"
"Then go to the village head's big house, where it is relatively strong!" Griffith shouted. He just had a battle at night, his equipment was badly damaged, and his physical strength only recovered by 40% to 50%, so he was not sure to save his life in flight.
Two people cover each other and run all the way, and the demons they occasionally encounter along the way can be easily killed. However, it didn't take long for those monsters in droves to begin to pay attention to their whereabouts, and they chased after each other with a roar.
"This is it!" Galatea's vision in the dark seems to be very good, too. He pulled the trainee knight who almost missed the village head mansion and pushed him into the nearby wall.
"Open the door!" Climbing over the fence, Griffith immediately hammered the wooden door of the big house in front of him. The bald head of the village head leaned out from the inside, and after seeing their faces, they quickly opened the door and welcomed them in.
Several people have gathered in the spacious house. Besides the village head family, there are Miss Wu Lan, a trainee nun, Mr. Ai Xisi and five villagers.
"By the gods, it's great that you are safe!" When the village head saw the two people alive in front of him, he came and shook their hands in surprise.
"We have to block the entrance and exit until dawn." Galatea quickly dodged the village head's hand.
Without waiting for everyone to answer, Ulan said directly, "If it weren't for waiting for you, we would have blocked this door."
With such a big temper. Griffith, seeing that the elves were about to speak up, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The physique of these monsters is so alienated that it is useless to shrink. We should try our best to save more people."
Before Ulan's attack, there has been a burst of heavy beating outside the door, mixed with horrible hissing roar. A group of living bodies jumped outside the gate, trying to break in.
The villagers were in a mess. Griffith pulled out his sword, opened a door of the sturdy wooden door, and stabbed it out without waiting for the elves to stop it.
The blade felt through the body, and at the same time, the powerful impact was about to burst the door open.
Griffith propped the door with his body, and stabbed outside with his sword in his right hand. The flesh and blood of the Promethean are flying everywhere.
After a few minutes, the door quieted down. One body after another piled up into a low wall outside the door.
Griffith felt that his strength had consumed a lot, so he hurried back and closed the door.
The big room is calm again, and all the people who haven't been able to help look at the trainee knights covered in grimy blood with various expressions. Finally, the village head said, "Maybe we should block the door and wait until dawn."
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"It will be dawn in a few hours, and what the village chief said is reasonable," Mr. Ai Xisi also expressed his opinion, and then pointed to the chimney of the house. "I think it should be blocked there, too."
Griffith nodded very tired, walked aside and sat down on the floor. The villagers immediately ran over and blocked behind the door with tables, chairs and cabinets.
……
Crowds of roars broke out outside the house, and I don't know how many creatures have been turned into walkers.
Everyone hiding in the house didn't dare to turn on the light, so they sat down in silence.
Ai Xisi took care of the wounded, Ulan sat with the trainee nun Pasifika, while the village head was huddled with the villagers. Everyone just sat silently waiting for the dawn.
Griffith sat not far from the elves. As an extraordinary person in Sequence 9, although his physical strength exceeds that of ordinary people, it is also desperate that he can't get a rest in such continuous fighting. Unconsciously, he fell asleep in the past.
I don't know how long it took, but the groggy Griffith was woken up. He heard the sound of nibbling gently in the dark, just like a mouse chewing the corner of a table. The flustered sound was amplified in silence, which made people feel very strange.
There is also an illegible whisper, as if who is telling it or cursing it. This sound seems to be some kind of old secret language, which makes people unable to understand its meaning.
"Wake up."
There was a clear murmur in his ear, and Griffith felt his arm patted, and a faint fragrance of the forest grass beating gently on the tip of his nose.
Griffith raised his head and found garadiya kneeling beside him, holding his arms in her hands.
"Come with me and be light."
The trainee Knight quietly got up obediently and followed the spirit to the kitchen near the living room.After carefully examining the corner and the bottom of the table, she closed the door and whispered:
"There's a big problem. The zombies in the whole village seem to have gathered around and surrounded us."
What!Griffith's eyes widened: "is it said that all the villagers have been killed, only us are left."
"No, I can feel that there are more than 100 humanoid creatures walking outside. Judging from the steps, it's like some villagers and goblin," galadiya's nimble eyes almost said her worries. "Living corpses should have no intelligence, only the ability to swallow and kill. I suspect that someone is manipulating these resurrected bodies."
"Who will it be and who will be the target?"Griffith blurted out, but immediately had his own answer, "the target is you?"
"It won't be you, adventurers or villagers? The resurrection of the dead needs taboo black magic or seals, even for senior sorcerers of the arcane Council," the spirit hesitated and said, "I came to this village because of the guidance of prophecy,I had to leave my clansman and investigate alone to find a clue that was crucial to my promotion sequence.This operation should be confidential. "
Griffith said seriously: "if it's based on this assumption, then it makes sense. To kill an Elf Ranger, you have to have enough people.
"As far as the present situation is concerned, the mastermind behind the scenes has paid a considerable price. I have never heard of such a thing as making goblin and living corpses in the core territory of human beings. If only one or two villages are to be slaughtered, the cost would be ridiculous compared with the harvest."
"Now I don't think it's easy to get out of the chimney," said galadiah, biting her lip. "I'm careless. Oh, yes, there's one more thing."
"What?"
"Be careful of the adventurers," the genie said, raising a finger to his mouth and making a silent gesture. "Do you hear that slight chewing sound, the girl dressed as a boxer is crazy."
It was like the sound of a mouse chewing in the dark, which made people's scalp numb.
"Are you sure?"Griffith asked. "Maybe she just got a shock."
"That's what your human reason is. It's not uncommon for you to become believers and puppets of evil gods when you are destroyed by the unknown and fear," said galadiya. "I heard that a brave prince fell into irreparable madness after seeing his people transformed into living corpses by plague many times,And he conspired against his father.In the end, he even became a pawn of heretics. "
"He may just have no other choice," Griffith shook his head. "That's not the point. As long as the zombies don't rush in, we can delay until sunrise."
"Sunrise is not necessarily effective for them. Ah, is it a group of sad guys of blood clan?"Garadiya shook her head. "I have an idea that the people behind the goblin and the zombies are in this big room."
"How?"Griffith glanced at the people in the living room. "Why do you say that?"
"It's easy ~" galadiya patted him on the head. "Since the zombie appeared, I've been moving and changing positions. There are so many farmhouses in the village, but these monsters can accurately surround them, which shows that the people behind the scenes know my whereabouts like the palm of their hands."
Just then, a burst of heartrending groans interrupted their conversation.All the rest in the living room woke up with a start.
Wulan, a boxer girl, has a strange voice in her throat.Then she got up and walked unsteadily towards the door, mumbling words that were not recognizable.
"Ulan, what's the matter?"The probationary nun asked in alarm.Then, she saw her companion begin to push open the cupboard which blocked the door wildly.
"Stop her!"Mr. Isis responded and exclaimed in alarm, "she's going to put the zombie in!"
Galadiya opened her strong bow like lightning, and the bow arrow pointed to the crazy Ulan.
"Stop it!"The probationary nun was shocked and quickly blocked by her companion. "What are you doing? Stop!"
The village head and the villagers were shocked. They just woke up in their dim sleep and saw such a scene. They didn't know what to do for a while.
"Bang!"
The sharp arrow shoots from the strong bow. Even if someone blocks it, it can't hinder the spirit's shooting.
Galadiya runs through Ulan's shoulder and stumbles her to the ground.
"No!"Seeing that her companion was injured, the probationary nun screamed and hit the spirit with her wooden stick.
Before she could swing her stick, a strong hand caught her wrist and easily fell to the ground.
"Don't move!"'cried Griffith, and at the same time walked quickly towards Ulan.The roar of thunder frightened the others, and even the roof seemed to shake.
"Be quiet!"Garadiya stomped her feet.
As soon as the voice fell, there was a lot of scratching outside.Hundreds of zombies roared with deep terror and began to attack the doors and windows of the house.
"They're out there!"
"They're coming in!"
The frightened villagers let out a miserable cry and ran to the most powerful spirit.In the chaos, Griffith suddenly turned his direction and rushed towards Isis in the crowd.
"WowThe mage's assistant yelled and was knocked out and hit the back wall heavily.
Without waiting for the village head and others to ask what was going on, Griffith's big hand, wrapped in iron armour, had already picked up the emaciated Isis and seized his throat.
"Do you want me to wring your neck, or do you stop the living corpse outside?" the trainee Knight asked coldly.
"You, what are you talking about? I don't understand?"Isis slapped, grabbed his arm and struggled desperately.
"It's you who deliberately ask for help on the way you have to go, disperse the strength of support, and lure some of the reinforcements to the trap," Griffith said quickly. "Otherwise, only when the reinforcements are dispersed will there be a gap between your goblin and the zombie.
"It's only you who know the exact location of galadiya. She's your prey."
A trace of ferocity suddenly flashed in the eyes of Isis, who was struggling madly, and stabbed Griffith's arm with something in his right hand.
"Bang!"
A sharp arrow pierced his wrist and was nailed to the wall.A knife smeared with Aquamarine liquid fell out of Isis' hand.
The living corpse outside the house was about to tear down the wooden doors and small windows, and the decayed and rotten arms penetrated the cracks.
"For the last time, stop the zombie."Said Griffith grimly, the hand that locked his throat would break his neck at any time.
The pale apprentice's mouth suddenly cocked up.Then he bit something hard and chewed it.
"Don't let him take poison!"Galatia responded immediately.
Griffith squeezed Isis's chin like lightning and gave a strong twist.The master apprentice screamed and his jaw dislocated.
Spies and conspirators of all races have the habit of hiding poison in their teeth.When they are caught, as long as they bite a false tooth hard, the deadly poison can save them from the next pain.
As a member of the eastern legion, Griffith has been involved in many times in the capture and interrogation of spies. Breaking their chin is the only effective way.However, with a wealth of experience, it is not always possible.
Isis's face suddenly turned blue and purple, and foam came out of the corner of his mouth.His poison was so deadly that it took effect in an instant.
Galadiya rushed over to check the situation of the mage's apprentice and gave Griffith a regretful look.
At the same time, the commotion outside the house subsided, and the roaring zombies stopped their attacks and began to scatter.
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