When he came out of MI3, it was already dark. Link took out his pocket watch and checked the time. It was already 6:20 in the afternoon.
Link used to remember that at this time, Greenstone City was still very lively, but now, there is almost no one on the street. The wind blew across the street, and there was a cry of 'woo hoo', obviously the city was full of people, but it was like a ghost.
It can be seen that the recent plague has had a great impact on Greenstone City.
Link and Celine first returned to the timber warehouse where King Ryan and others were hiding, briefly introduced the situation, and then he and Celine continued to head south of the city.
The cemetery in the south of the city is near the garden area on the south side of Greenstone, quite far from the old city. Link blessed the two with a traceless magic and walked invisibly along the way.
When we arrived in the garden area, the street became more and more quiet. The people living in the Garden District are all the upper-class elites of the city. They are well-informed and have sufficient financial strength. At this time, they basically ran for their lives.
Walking all the way, Link found that many houses here were empty. Even if there were houses with lights occasionally, they were only lit by one or two oil lamps. Among them, one or two old servants were looking after the master's beautiful garden villa.
Because no one was there, the street lamps on both sides of the street were also turned off. Walking along the way, the whole street was dark, like a giant beast with its mouth open, waiting for someone to fall into its trap.
Celine said softly: "I can feel that there is a huge danger hidden here... It seems that we have been targeted by a wild beast."
She held both guns in her hands.
Link held the hilt of Dragon King's Wrath in one hand, and he continued to input dragon power into it, while maintaining his whole body on guard.
He is not afraid of any wild beasts, but he is worried that this beast is the favor of Agatha's snake people, and if there is a god's favor, the snake people will sacrifice it. Link is naturally not afraid of a real fight, but this is in the city of Griston, if the opponent is provoked, the entire city may be affected by the aftermath of the force, and that would be a disaster.
Link didn't want any violent conflicts with his opponents in the city.
After walking a few hundred meters further, the sky became darker. There were many old trees in the garden area, with dense shade, and a faint white mist appeared. The temperature also began to drop, which made people feel a chill Intention to drill straight into the bone crevice.
"The situation is very wrong." Link said softly: "In this air, I don't feel any destructive power, but there are traces of very secret dark breath."
This breath is very thin, and ordinary priests will definitely not be able to detect it, and may not even be able to arouse the reaction of the divine magic. Shilin next to Link doesn't feel anything, even Link can only feel a faint trace.
But there is a dark breath, which means that there is a dark force intervening.
There are only two dark forces in the north, one is the dark elves, and the other is the scattered demons. The demons migrated from the plane, and most of them are warriors. These people are unlikely to do such dark and secretive things, so the biggest suspects are the dark elves.
Celine's mind was also spinning very fast, she whispered: "You said, will the dark elves join forces with the Agatha snake?"
Link nodded: "As long as the dark elves still have some ambitions, they will join forces with the Agatha snake people."
In fact, they have joined forces, and this matter is recorded in the scroll of Planeswalker Aisenis, but the records on the scroll are biased towards the general trend, and it was updated half a month ago, and there is no scroll about Greenstone, so Link also has no way of knowing the details of what happened inside Greenstone.
At this time, the gate of the cemetery appeared in front of him.
Because the people buried in it are of great status, the construction of the cemetery is very particular.
On both sides of the gate are two stone pillars five meters high and half a meter thick. The gate is a carved iron gate. Not far behind the iron gate is a small square. In the center of the small square is engraved the sleeping saint of the Lord of Radiance, Arago. Li'an's stone carving, the stone carving is a long candlestick with a requiem lamp on it.
Because everyone ran away and lacked maintenance, most of these requiem lamps were extinguished, leaving only a few faint green beans.
The fog in the cemetery became thicker, the temperature became lower, and the wind here basically stopped, and there was no sound, and the cemetery was very quiet.
Celine has been living in the scorched earth city full of vitality this year. When she first saw this kind of ghost, she was very uncomfortable. She quietly moved a few steps towards Link.
"Come on, let's go in." Link said softly, he concentrated on feeling the subtle dark breath in the air, and walked all the way to the depths of the cemetery.
After walking for more than fifty meters, Celine pointed to a hut by the side of the road and said, "Look, there seems to be a light there, and it seems to be the residence of the cemetery."
Link came back to his senses, turned his head to look, and saw a hut through the mist, with a dim light coming from the room.
"Come on, let's go and have a look."
If it is the grave guards, then they will definitely get more clues. Before facing the unknown situation, any clues are very important.
The hut is not far away, 30 meters away, the door of the hut is closed, although there is light, but there is no sound coming from the room.
When he got closer, Link moved his ears and heard a strange breathing sound. The sound was very slow, far lower than the breathing rate of ordinary people. The sticky sputum that does not open is general.
Link already knew it in his mind: "There are indeed people in the room, but they have been infected by the plague."
"Ah?" Celine has always heard about the plague, but she has never seen anyone infected by the plague. She swallowed nervously and asked, "Shall we go in and see?"
"Of course, there's no harm in seeing it."
Link used the mage's hand to open the small door of the wooden house, pushed the door open, and there was a soft "squeak", and there was a smell of rotting flesh coming from the door.
Immediately following an inhuman sound of "哗~", a figure rushed towards Link.
Mage Hand!
Sure enough, the gravekeeper was completely infected, but his strength was very weak, and he was only at the level of a level 1 fighter. Link only used the little magic of a mage's hand to lift his body up, and then carried him into the room, and any No matter how the gravekeeper struggled, it was useless.
Once inside the house, Link's thoughts moved again: the dark cage!
This is a small level 3 magic that Link learned in his free time. It only needs 10 points of dragon power. It is very convenient for the weak to use.
There was a soft 'buzz' sound, a chain emitting silver brilliance twice out of thin air, and several crisp 'click~click' sounds, wrapped around the infected person's body, restraining him to the ground and immobilizing him.
Then the two began to look around.
The first is the cemetery keeper. He is wearing a priest's robe, and he should be the lowest member of the Glorious Temple. The flesh and blood on his body has already begun to fester, but there are no maggots in the wound. He looks like a man wearing a suit. Like a skeleton covered in a layer of rotting flesh.
Celine didn't want to look any more after just one glance, and she kept covering her nose, the rancid smell was too strong.
Link used another small blast technique to change the air in the cabin, and the smell dropped a lot, then he began to check the cabin.
The light source in the wooden house is a magic lamp, and in the corner of the wooden house is a small desk with some writing instruments and a notebook among them.
This made Link's eyes light up, and he walked over and let go of the note to look.
After looking at it for a while, he realized that it was a diary, which should have been written by the gravekeeper. He recorded in great detail what happened in the cemetery recently, and at the same time, he also recorded his physical changes. It was gone just days ago.
This gravekeeper should have received formal recording training. What he records is very objective. Even if there are changes in his own body, he tries not to mix personal emotions and records the most intuitive details as much as possible.
Link watched carefully, and Celine also came up to watch.
The most valuable is a diary entry 9 days ago.
'Today there were a few naughty little guys playing hide-and-seek. These guys were really uneducated. They even hid behind the tombstone of the dead. When they came out, they ran very fast, and one child was crying. They seemed to be frightened by something. I was curious, so I went to have a look. I saw a lot of runes engraved with blood on the tombstone in the innermost part of the cemetery. When I walked over, I felt my whole body tremble. It felt like my bones were stung by a wasp. The pain was unbearable. Terrified, afraid to look any further, I fell ill after running back to the house...something evil must have entered my body. '
Behind this diary, the gravekeeper priest drew three runes from his own memory.
Link narrowed his eyes immediately: "It's a blood rune commonly used by dark elves, and they really are playing tricks!"
He flipped through the next two diaries. This diary was quite messy, which showed that the priest was in a very bad state of mind. He recorded his physical changes bit by bit. Although it was messy, it was very specific.
After reading it, Link frowned: "According to this description, this is basically the same as the third-level necromancer magic 'Undead Ray', but these people don't have any power in their bodies. This magic must have undergone some kind of improvement. Let's go Look at those blood runes."
Putting away the notebook, Link was about to turn around, and a warning signal rose in his heart. At the same time, he heard something coming from the window, which seemed to be something like a crossbow. Without thinking about it, he immediately pulled out the Wrath of the Dragon King, and slashed towards the window. go.
'Chick' A black-red tongue covered in corrosive mucus was cut off by Link and fell on the desk.
The tongue is not dead, it is constantly beating, the mucus is thrown everywhere, wherever it touches, there will be a "chi chi chi chi" sound, and a big hole will be corroded.
At the same time, a sharp cry came from outside the window, which sounded like the scream of a woman who was strangled by the neck. The sound kept going away, and in the white mist, a black shadow could be seen going away quickly.
Link immediately said to Celine: "Go, catch up, this is Zampo, the summoned beast from hell, there must be a summoner nearby!"
Zampo is a phase beast, the best at stealth, and its most terrifying attack method is its venom and piercing tongue. It is very scary to ordinary warriors, but to Link, it is nothing more than a little witch. A mouse meets a dragon.