The Rise of the Cemetery

The Wizarding World, Tielin City.

This is the third day of the siege of Tielin City.

Uninvited scary plague creatures are entrenched outside Tielin City, and they can be seen in all wildernesses, tidal flats, jungles, and hills where they can hide. They used this as a stronghold to attack all human towns and villages.

Except that the shelter of the Wizard Tower in Tielin City has not been breached, all the gathering points for the survival of scattered humans have been attacked and trapped by plague creatures. This made the plague creatures outside Tielin City gather more and more, and became a terrible plague army. Plague Sera even sent several small teams led by the plague messengers to the depths of the jungle, spreading the terrible plague toads and adding countless mutant plague creatures to her team.

The crowd of people in Tielin City is overcrowded.

As the plague raged, all the people around Tielin City flooded into the city, which brought huge trouble and heavy burden to the city managers. Several aristocrats in the city hall have been busy, but the public security in the city is still sharply down.

The desperately short City Guards had to recruit a large number of mercenaries and adventurers to fill the defense system, barely keeping the situation from deteriorating.

Most of the people fleeing into Tielin City have been dragging their homes, but they cannot find suitable livelihoods to maintain their livelihoods. For a time, the streets and alleys of Tielin City were filled with refugees with nowhere to go under the eaves. A mouthful of mouths to be fed, and faces full of pain, are heartbreaking. In their eyes, there was only despair and numbness, pain and silence.

Those refugees who have no power are still easy to deal with. The fierce mercenaries with big sticks and the daily food distribution can suppress the dissatisfaction and resentment of this group. But the nobles, big and small, who are stuck at the entrance of the city hall every day are not so easy to pass.

The power and wealth of the nobles all come from their own territory. Now that the plague is rampant outside, the land, manor and castle of these noble masters have become a paradise for the plague creatures, and their dissatisfaction and resentment have gradually accumulated. Throughout the day, the voices and petitions of the Master Wizard to send troops to clear the plague creatures outside the city continued.

Unfortunately, the wizards stationed in Tielin City, regardless of whether they are public or local, are not interested in clearing out the plague creatures, but they are closely guarding the public wizard tower and do not know what they are studying. Of course, they are not completely motionless, at least the decision to accept the refugees is made by them.

However, several large aristocrats responsible for maintaining the operation of the city are always full of malicious speculations. The wizards asked the refugees to be admitted into the city. I am afraid that the larger purpose is to reduce the number of plague creatures outside the city. After all, most of the plague creatures, the predecessors were these once honest farmers, merchants and craftsmen.

Every day, the busiest in Tielin City is probably the Adventurer ’s Guild.

Hundreds of various adventurer quests occupy the surgical light screen in the center of the hall, but most of them are high-risk missions to go out to detect the dynamics of the plague creatures. The position of the top of the list.

Reward mission: detect the leader of the plague

Task content: The recent plague that raged around Tielin City was made by an extremely terrible plague girl. She is also the behind-the-scenes manipulator of all plague germs and plague creatures. Anyone who can provide the whereabouts or clues of the plague girl, the Wizards Association will pay a high price depending on the intelligence.

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According to news heard by many adventurers, the Wizards Association is willing to provide 1,000 wizard gold coins as rewards for those who can provide clues to the trail of the plague woman. As for those who can find the whereabouts of the plague woman, they can receive 5000 wizard gold coins.

Such eye-catching rewards also set off a wave of gold panning in the adventurer team, but unfortunately, after a few impulsive adventurer and mercenary teams left Tielin City, there was no news. As a result, the enthusiasm of the adventurers quickly fell back, and no one dared to take this task of death.

But today, a new task has appeared on the magic light screen in the adventurer's hall to attract the attention of many adventurers.

Reward task: Rescue Thomas Baron's wife and daughter

Task content: Go to Othel Stone Castle and connect Baron Thomas' wife and daughter into Tielin City. At present, a team of more than 20 people has been recruited, and now two thieves are urgently recruited. Reward 700 wizard gold coins.

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To be honest, the task of finding relatives and escorting family members occupied the task screen almost completely in the past few days, but unfortunately there were few responders.

The outside of Tielin City has now become a dead place. The plague creatures are raging. Ordinary people are even a problem of survival outside. How can they drag their families through the long epidemic area. In such a sinister environment, only those war fighters have room for activity. The average merchant farmer meets those corpses that can jump and fly, and can deliver food. To let them out of the city is to force them to die.

What's more, Osel's Stone Fort is located 30 miles beside the Washu Ancient Mountain Road, which was the hardest hit by the first batch of Tielin City reinforcements encountered raids by plague creatures. Even if Baron Thomas raises the reward even higher, no adventurer will be willing to throw his life into the hands of those terrible monsters.

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Tielin City, Ella Public Wizard Tower, a secret room.

Wizard Rise carefully cut the huge and swollen chest and abdomen of the corpse in front of him, enchanting a sharp scalpel with the effect of "sharp" and "breaking armor", cutting the other's tough and raw skin like leather Paper is generally easy and easy. With the muffling of "Bao", a dull and decaying odor rushed out of the opened chest cavity, and the chest of the just captured plague creature appeared in front of Rice like an opened package.

In this dark and silent witchcraft room, there are more than one wizard, Les, and dozens of wizards dressed up outside the mask of the witch array, watching the whole dissection process by various means. In the vast and large Wuzhen, there is only the most rudimentary stone platform, a corpse, and a wizard.

"The plague creature looks like a humanoid creature, but it is actually very different from human beings, and even far from undead creatures. This is almost a brand new species." The wizard Les pressed with the back of the scalpel knife. Multiple parts of the corpse's body to detect the other party's stress response.

On one side, he used a scalpel to peel off the dry and withered muscle layer like a dry bark, so that the chest and abdominal cavity were completely displayed.

"As you can see, all the organs inside the body of this opponent's bottom corpse have disappeared, replaced by weird beetles of all sizes and strange shapes. It is these weird beetles that are driving this body. Perhaps We should say that what we are facing is not a humanoid at all, but a mysterious Zerg with extremely contagious and reproductive power! "

As Rice was busy explaining, countless black beetles spewed out of the open chest. These black beetles vary greatly in size, with large ones being the size of a thumb and small ones comparable to rice grains. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are more subtle plague beetles, but then you need to use more subtle witchcraft equipment to see it.

"At present we need to focus on the origin and origin of these plague beetles. It is best to be able to find their fatal flaws as soon as possible. However, from the current research, it can be determined that these plague beetles seem to be composed of disordered individuals. But in fact they have extremely keen group wisdom. For example ... "

Following his words, the scalpel in the hands of Wizard Rice was gently dropped, and a thumb-sized black beetle was firmly nailed to the stone platform. Immediately afterwards, an indescribable weird sound wave began to sway within the mask of the Wuzhen array.

The sound waves are sharp and harsh, with a heart-pounding rush, which is obviously similar to the warning messages of some human communications. However, the frequency of this sound wave is extremely high, and ordinary humans can't detect it at all. It is only because the wizards above 5th grade are present that they can hear this sound with their strong spiritual perception.

As soon as the sound wave was transmitted, the black beetle that was running around and drilling just now had an amazing change. Just like a human army with high intelligence and order, it turned around and crawled to the position of the trapped beetle.

Countless beetles piled up, and like a growing black mountain, rushed along the blade of the scalpel to the right hand of Wizard Rice. The dense and creepy form has made several female wizards frown, and they seem extremely disgusted. The clicking sounds of eating are even endless. If the scalpels are not solidified with sturdiness, I am afraid that they will be eaten up by this moment.

At this moment, the body of the corpse that was originally trapped by the powerful Wuzhen also began to react, and the struggle was getting bigger and bigger.

"In addition to the characteristics of some Zerg creatures, these beetles also have several rare special forms. For example ..."

When Wizard Les said this, the fast-moving black beetles were about to nibble on the front of his fingers.

The next second, blue snake-like lightning enveloped the black swarm.

In the crackling crackling sound, the swarm of insects that had just been swarming just now disappeared into a swift, and turned into a thick black smoke floating in the air.

Rice blessed himself with an "air bubble" and isolated all his body in a huge bubble to avoid being contaminated with these black smoke.

Some high-level wizards felt their own witchcraft and detected the black smoke through the mask of the Wuzhen array.

"There is a breath of life ..."

"This is simply some smaller bugs ..."

"They just broke down ..."

"..."

Soon everyone came to a basic conclusion. Ordinary attack methods could not directly kill these terrible black beetles, and only allowed them to break down into more terrible spores. Perhaps this is the true form of the black beetle!

After undergoing a variety of elemental attack tests, the wizards found that the ice-based witchcraft can only reduce their activity, and only fire can better kill these granular plague spores that are invisible to the naked eye. As for other elemental witchcrafts, these plague spores can be effectively killed only to the extent of element annihilation.

This may be the fundamental reason why this plague is so difficult to put out.