Li Tianrui woke up early the next morning. He had just had a dream. He dreamed that his troops were attacked. He seemed to be guarding the house at that time. The enemy had a group of masters rushing into the house. These enemies were invulnerable to swords and guns. They broke through their lines under fierce artillery fire. He saw an enemy jump into the window under his shooting, and punched him in the face with a bang. He had to punch back. The two wrestled together, and the pain went deep into the bone.
Then he woke up with a start. There was a bang in the room. It turned out that someone was knocking on the door. Li Tianrui shook his dizzy head and looked at his watch. He found that it was only five o'clock in the morning. It was already two thirty in the morning when he went to bed after the meeting yesterday. It turned out that he only slept for three hours.
He lived in a guest room of the Duke's house. Because the Duke's house was now the garrison of the Third Regiment, many people stayed there, and most of the rooms were converted into barracks. After the meeting, he and several other people, except Cao Lu and Kasa who went to sleep in the female soldiers' room, the other participants slept in one room. The bed was chosen by drawing lots, and Xu Tianle, who won the draw, slept there. He and the rest of the people slept on the floor.
Everyone in the room was awakened by the knock on the door. Li Tianrui got up first and opened the door. He found Song Hongyang, the platoon leader of the second company who was in charge of guarding Baron Bocas yesterday.
He said anxiously, "Captain, Bocas is dead!"
"What? Where is he and how did he die?" Li Tianrui rubbed his face hard, feeling a little painful. This was not a dream.
"Right, right in the room." Song Hongyang said, "I placed him in a small room yesterday, and I personally led people to guard outside. But just now I smelled a strange smell from inside the door, and when I opened the door to check, I found Bocas dead on the bed. It looked like... he committed suicide by taking poison."
"He committed suicide by taking poison?" Wang Zifeng also climbed up. "Did he surrender the city, then feel so ashamed and angry that he committed suicide?"
"Don't guess blindly. Let's go and take a look." Li Tianrui said.
The group came to Baron Bocas' room upstairs. The door was closed, and four soldiers were guarding the door. As soon as Li Tianrui opened the door, he smelled a strange smell coming from the room. It was not a bad smell, but a sour smell with a bit of pungent odor.
He turned his head and looked at Song Hongyang, who said, "That's what we smelled. I just opened the window, but I didn't expect the smell to be so strong."
Li Tianrui looked and saw that the window opposite the door was indeed open. He walked in and saw Baron Bocas lying on the bed in the light armor and cotton shirt he wore during the day. His legs were outside the bed and on the ground, and he was not covered with anything. His hands were placed on his chest, and between his fingers he held the badge given to him by the Duke.
It looked like he was sitting on the edge of the bed and then fell over.
Baron Bocas's face was a strange gray-brown color, and it was covered with dark black spots. Each black spot was of different sizes, some were as small as a fingertip, and some were as big as a gold coin. The dark spots were denser the lower down his body was. Because he was lying on his back, everything from his cheekbones to his ears was completely black, and only the black spots on the front of his face were relatively few and could not be connected.
The same was true on his body. There were fewer black spots on his hands, but starting from his upper arms they gradually turned completely black. As for his calves that were resting under the bed, they had turned pure black.
There were black water stains on the linen sheets around the baron's body. The bed was soaked by some unknown liquid, and there was even a pool of black water next to his boots.
"Oh my god, what kind of poison is this? It's so powerful." Xu Tianle said behind Li Tianrui.
"I'm so unlucky. What a mess." Li Tianrui muttered, but as the head of the group, he had to control his emotions. Li Tianrui knelt on the ground and moved a little closer to the pool of black water on the ground. The strange smell suddenly became much stronger.
He turned away, stood up and said, "The strange smell comes from this black water. It seems that this poison can not only kill him, but also dissolve part of the body?"
"Captain, what should we do?" Song Hongyang asked.
"Seal off the room first, call Kassadin, and any mages in the group who know a little bit about alchemy, and any of our people who study chemistry or biology, call them all to have a look. Let's see if there is a way to discover it." Li Tianrui said, "And ask a few of the more active captains of the city guards to see if they know about this situation."
"Captain, aren't we going to block the news of Baron Bocas's death?" Xu Tianle asked.
Li Tianrui said: "Blocking him won't bring him back to life, and it will make others suspicious and make bad guesses. Letting them see the situation here with their own eyes will dispel their doubts. There is no reason why we can't tolerate Baron Bocas. There is no need to use such means to kill people."
"Yes!" Song Hongyang took the order and left.
Not long after, Kassa came to see it with several other selected mages, alchemists and professionals. However, no one could tell what the poison was. After seeing the scene, Kassa shook her head and said, "This room is really disgusting. I have never seen such an evil poison."
"Evil?" Li Tianrui thought her choice of words was very special. "Why would you describe it like this?"
"Yes, it is evil. Although I don't understand this poison, as children of the World Tree, we are more sensitive to this kind of cursed magic than you. Generally speaking, if magic carries this feeling, it must be magic with various curses and poisoning effects. This potion is the same. However, if it is a high elf, they must be more sensitive than us. They will probably find this room disgusting from a distance."
"High elves?" Li Tianrui suddenly thought of the high elves who stayed indoors in the elf community yesterday. Is there any other reason why they are so alert
However, Zheng Da, the platoon leader of the second platoon of the third battalion, interrupted his thoughts. Zheng Da was a junior student majoring in biology. He said with some concern: "Captain, maybe I am overthinking it, but will this poison enter the liquid he excretes and then evaporate into the air, poisoning us?"
Kasa said: "Captain, although I feel that there is not much curse magic in the air, we'd better not be careless. We should move this body out of the room first. Otherwise, he will be a threat to the entire Duke's camp."
"You are right, let's isolate the body first." Li Tianrui said.