The army marched fast for three days, and finally arrived at the town of Lupine.
Luping Town is one of the largest towns in Lanrong's territory, which is equivalent to the size of a medium-sized city in Chen Rui's other world. In the suburbs outside the town, the Dark Moon Army encountered a blockade army, with a total of about 3,000 people.
These troops were ordered by the lord Chandler to blockade Lupine Town where strange events occurred, and set up a magic circle. At that time, the order should have been issued under the control of Mousse.
Now the army has received the latest order from Chandler, asking them to cooperate with the Dark Moon Army to investigate the secrets of Lupine Town.
The commander of the army is called Aglas, a great demon with the strength of the first stage of the demon king. Facing the army of the dark moon and the overwhelming aura faintly emanating from Athena, he showed quite nervousness.
Chen Rui asked: "What exactly happened in Luping Town?"
Aglass quickly replied: "That's right. The residents of Lupine Town had various brawls and bloody conflicts inexplicably some time ago, and shortly afterwards, it is said that a huge bottomless pothole appeared in the center of the town. , Strange black air keeps coming out of it, and the body of the person wrapped in the black air will quickly wither, leaving only a pile of bones. Some people try to fill the pothole or go down to explore, but including the demon who lives in seclusion in the town Including the Emperor Sotson, all those who explored are gone forever. The black gas in that pothole takes the lives of some residents every day. Many people fled outside the town because of this, but the lord claimed that these Humans are infected with an incurable toxin, and if they escape, it will spread to all territories, so we are ordered to block the exits in all directions and strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving. Some residents tried to escape or asked us for help before, but we forced Based on the orders of the lord, I rejected the requests of these people. Afterwards, no one was seen escaping again..."
Will there be a bottomless pit that devours people's black energy? What's the deal with this blood annihilation conspiracy? Chen Rui thought for a while, and then asked: "I got news from Lord Chandler, is General Sumen coming this way?"
"Yes," Aglas nodded: "General Sumen came here five days ago, brought about a thousand people, and insisted on entering Lupine Town. A hundred soldiers went in with the general."
Chen Rui pondered for a while. It seems that this Sumen has a high prestige in the army. Even if he has a reputation for "rebellion" and Luping Town is obviously a dangerous place, there are still many people willing to follow.
"But... the general hasn't come back yet. I sent a few soldiers to investigate the news, but they never returned."
Chen Rui frowned, thought for a moment, and said to Athena: "There is indeed a problem with this town. The situation inside is unknown, and there may be a huge threat. I suggest that the army should not act rashly. It is better to find out before making a decision." Next move."
Athena said: "That's right, let me lead a team to investigate."
"No!" Chen Rui shook his head, "You are the commander of the legion, and you are also the core and soul of the entire army. You can't easily get involved in danger, and it doesn't rule out that there will be emergencies here. Someone must take charge of the overall situation. We stay, and we will leave it to you." ... Master Agulie, go."
Dulong and Athena, who were wearing cloaks, looked at each other and immediately understood what Chen Rui meant. The "Agulie" in this sentence was deliberately accentuated. It was Chen Rui himself. Of course Dulong would not be idle, but Follow secretly, one light and one dark, thoroughly investigate the secrets inside.
As for the town outside Athena's side, it is relatively safe. She also has the strength of the Great Demon King herself, and there are elites from the Flame Army, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
Athena knew that Chen Rui's strength was far superior to hers, and she couldn't be procrastinated at this time, so she didn't say much, but gave him a commanding look: Be careful.
Soon, "Agulie" left the barracks where the Flame Army was stationed, while the "Human Finance Officer" rested in Athena's tent due to "discomfort".
Chen Rui passed the entrance and walked towards the town step by step. Since he didn't know what danger was ahead, his speed was not very fast, while Pagliu followed far behind silently. Even the eyes of the soul can't detect it, but Chen Rui can clearly sense the existence of this equal link partner through the "spiritual link".
The entire town is very large, but up to now, I haven’t seen a living person or even a living thing. I only occasionally see a few piles of bones in the ground, giving people a lifeless feeling everywhere. I don’t know. I thought it was Iwaguchi Town where Guladam created the undead.
Could it be that some necromancer is playing tricks like last time in Yankou Town? But these skeletons were all abandoned in place, not like the handwriting of a necromancer, but like some kind of terrible monster that swallowed life.
Chen Rui frowned, and didn't stop at his feet. The more he looked in, the more corpses he saw, in various poses, and the sinister white mist was floating around, which was creepy.
Chen Rui deliberately walked into several rooms to have a look, and found that there were also many corpses in the room. It seemed that that terrible "thing" did not spare any life in any corner.
Is it some kind of monster created by the blood annihilation? Chen Rui frowned even more as he thought of the terrifying experiment in the Valley of Secret Demons in the Crystal Valley.
The element interference here is very serious, and props such as the magic map and the magic eye compass cannot be used. Chen Rui can only rely on a simple hand-drawn map provided by Aglas, and move forward cautiously.
The strange thing is that when the Sumen broke in a few days ago, they brought in about 1,500 people, some of them were cavalry, but they didn't see any relevant corpses along the way. Where did they go
Chen Rui turned around a few times, bypassed a river, and gradually approached the central area of Luping Town, where the mysterious pothole was.
From a distance, Chen Rui saw dozens of strange pointed pillars in the mist, and when he got closer, he realized that these bone tower-like buildings were all made of bones!
Not only that, but there are dark red and strange patterns on the ground, which should be painted with blood, and many places are decorated with skulls, which looks extremely weird.
Chen Rui's heart trembled slightly. The largest town in Lanrong, which is equivalent to the number of lives in a medium-sized city, could it be that...
What's even more hateful is that under the control of Mousse, the army was actually dispatched to block the way out, cruelly ruining the last life of all innocent townspeople.
Although Chen Rui is not a compassionate eminent monk or saint, but facing such a scene of anger and resentment, a strong anger suddenly surged in his heart, blood annihilation! Damn it!
Just when Chen Rui stepped into the range of those patterns, the dark red ball suddenly emitted a faint light, and puffs of black smoke emerged from the bone tower, wrapping towards Chen Rui.
Chen Rui wanted to try the black smoke's attributes, but he didn't dodge or use protective skills, and let the black smoke wrap his body. Sure enough, the super system sent a reminder that the toxin had been transformed. After a long time, a pulling force came, and Chen Rui withdrew the power around him, allowing this force to do what he did like a dead person, only to feel that his mind was shaken and he was "dragged" to another place.
This is an open space, surrounded by several bone towers, with black smoke floating around, and things in the distance cannot be seen clearly. The toxin transformation data in the super system is constantly changing, which is obviously a toxic environment.
Chen Rui accidentally saw a large group of people, to be precise, a group of comatose people, but not skeletons or corpses.
Judging from the costumes, they should be soldiers of the army. Counting the number, there are about a thousand people and more than a hundred horses. These people are probably the army brought in by General Sumen. From the effect point of view, the black smoke The poisonous gas in it shouldn't be fatal, it's mainly a coma effect.
Why were the corpses seen on the road all sucked out of their flesh and blood, while I and these soldiers were treated differently? Chen Rui thought of what Aglas said - "The black air in that pothole will take the lives of some residents 'every day'".
That's right, it should be like this. The life needed by the pothole is staged, that is, life will be devoured every once in a while, so these soldiers, including Chen Rui himself, are currently "storing food."
Chen Rui didn't want to wait for that monster to visit, besides, there were nearly 2,000 lives (including horses) here, so he immediately took out a bottle of antidote and tried to detoxify a soldier beside him.
However, the guru-level antidote in the exchange center only made the soldier recover a little bit of sobriety. Chen Rui's eyes fell on the black air overflowing everywhere. The extra skill "God Eater" obtained by cracking the artifact.
As soon as the skill was activated, all the surrounding black air rushed towards the top of Chen Rui's head. The mask was like a long whale absorbing water, and it swallowed up all the black air within hundreds of meters nearby in a blink of an eye.
The power of the artifact is indeed extraordinary. This God-eating skill can devour all spiritual power, magic power and soul attack. The fly in the ointment is that it can only be used once every seven days.
After the black air disappeared, several bone towers that were originally condensed by some kind of force seemed to lose their supporting skeletons, and collapsed one after another.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but at the moment when the Bone Tower collapsed, Chen Rui seemed to feel a wave of anger rushing towards him. However, the God-eating mask can be immune to soul-like attacks, so Chen Rui, who is still wearing the mask, has not been affected at all. Influence.
After losing the coma effect of the black mist, the surrounding soldiers began to regain consciousness, and they seemed to be fine, but because they had been in a coma for a few days and had not eaten, their physical condition appeared relatively weak.
"Who is General Sumen?" Chen Rui asked loudly while distributing recovery potions and antidote potions to nearby soldiers.
A voice rang out: "I am Sumen, you saved us?"
Chen Rui's current cloak is very conspicuous among the soldiers, and with the dispensing of potions, it attracted Sumen's attention from the very beginning.
Sumen is a great demon in the first stage of the Great Demon King. He is tall and wears a red armor. Although his body is not in good condition, his eyes are still sharp. Chen Rui stepped forward and handed Sumen a group of recovery potions.
"General, I am Agulie, the deputy commander of the Dark Moon Red Blood Legion. I was entrusted by Lord Chandler to lead the army to investigate the mysterious incident in Luping Town, and bring the general back safely by the way."
"Lord Chandler?" Sumen stopped raising his hand to restore the potion, and his eyes gradually became sharper.
"The general may have misunderstood something. Lord Chandler has been controlled by financial officer Mousse with a lure technique, so he will issue some orders against his will, including declaring the general a traitor. At present, Mousse is dead, and Lord Chandler has resumed. It’s normal, this time he entrusted our Dark Moon Army to come here.”
"Before I came here, I also heard some news about the Dark Moon reinforcements, but how can you prove that you are a member of the Dark Moon Legion?" Even after hearing the news that Chandler was under control, the hostility in Su Men's eyes remained the same. There was no slack in the slightest, but a little more doubt.
"In the current situation, it seems that I don't need to prove anything," Chen Rui said in his mouth, but he didn't stop in his hand, distributing the medicine bottle by bottle, "And the leader of the Flame Army, Athena, and Wan Wan The elite team is now stationed outside the town."
"Athena!" Surprised, Sumen finally raised his head and drank the potion. His face immediately became a little rosier, and his spirit began to improve a lot. He shouted to the side: "Sandro, Kache , the two of you bring ten personal guards to help this lord distribute the recovery potion quickly."
With the help of well-trained personal guards, the speed of dispensing the recovery medicine can suddenly be accelerated, but what Su Men said made Chen Rui's face change suddenly.
"I don't know the purpose of the so-called lord entrusting you to come here. What I just want to tell you is that the real lord Chandler is dead!"
"What?" Chen Rui couldn't help blurting out, this news was really shocking!
"It was only by accident that I found Lord Chandler in the secret room of the Lord's Mansion, and then I realized that the Lord outside was actually a fake! At that time, Lord Chandler was dying, and before he died, he entrusted me Focus on the overall situation, don’t say anything, but go to Lupin Town secretly, first find his youngest son Tageul who is secretly fostered here, and then announce the truth, trying to help Tageul ascend to the position of lord.”
Speaking of this, Sumen clenched his fists: "I don't know if the fake lord noticed it and sent someone to block the exit of Luping Town, and even tried to arrest me. Fortunately, I saw the opportunity early and brought a group of loyal subordinates to the morning. He escaped and hid in places along the way to avoid being hunted down. Finally, he came to Lupine Town. Unexpectedly, Lupine Town turned into a dead town under some strange force! Master Chandler’s youngest son Tag Master Ao is probably..."
Only then did Chen Rui understand why Sumen would leave the Azure Legion quietly and come to Lupine Town all the way. Wake up: What a realistic show! He didn't hesitate to sacrifice a mousse, so it turned out to be a trick!
It was in vain that he usually boasted that he was a little clever, but now he fell into such a trick! The person who is manipulating everything behind the scenes must be extremely intelligent!
No, not only a trick, but a poisonous trick! Chen Rui realized in an instant—since "Chandler" tried his best to lure the Dark Moon army here, then this terrifying place must have the terrifying power to bury everyone!