The soldier wearing the uniform of the Imperial Legion received a blanket and a glass of warm honey water. Holding the water glass, he talked about the terrible experience of himself and a group of survivors these days in a trembling tone:
"The atmosphere in the city has been wrong since a long time ago. There are more things to see in the army than civilians - those black sword knights gathered, took over half of the command, and issued a lot of strange orders. For example, let's move the cornerstone of the city to the outside of the city and bury it...
"Later they banned external communication, saying it was because of the special control during the war, and then the barracks began to be divided into separate areas. We were divided according to the organization of the brigades. They sent out the brigades one by one in order, saying that they were carrying out tasks, but they did not. Anyone who saw any large group leaving the camp, those who were 'sent out' seemed to disappear out of thin air.
"Then those brigades that were 'sent out' came back and I saw them from afar and felt like they had turned into something else from the inside... I don't mean looks, their looks are still the same as before, but the eyes are very Strange, there was something wrong all over his body.
"There are more and more disappearances in the city. Everyone starts to have nightmares. The nightmares are just like real ones. We see monsters with countless eyes and countless hands and feet in our dreams. Sometimes when we wake up, we even Can see those eyes on the wall - some soldiers started to get scared, thinking they were cursed, so they went to their officers, and the officer took the soldiers to the magicians to 'lift the curse'. The next day they They were brought back and they looked normal and slept with no signs of having nightmares, but I was even more terrified because I don't think they actually slept at all...they just lay there, all night Lying down all night, pretending to be a normal person sleeping.
"I know a man named White, who is from my hometown. He used to sleep very dishonestly, but after he was taken away and came back, he sleeps straight on the bed every night, neither turning over nor snoring...
"Once when I woke up at night, I saw White lying there straight again. I leaned over to take a look, and found that his eyes were open! He was staring at me and kept watching. He didn't speak, but I I know perfectly well that his voice is in my head!"
The surviving soldier began to tremble, his words were messy, trivial and complicated, and Constance had to cast a little spell on him to calm the spirit: "Calm down, calm down, those monsters are already dead—emphasis, what happened afterwards ?”
"I was terrified, I was terrified... The day after that, a knight of the black sword came to me and said he had a special mission for me—they said there was a plague of curses in a block, and that people including me A group of soldiers to help 'deal with' people infected with the plague. When I got there, I found that the situation was wrong, there was no sign of the plague at all, they were just blocking the whole street, and then let the black sword knight go in and kill people...
"I took my chance and ran - it wasn't difficult, I couldn't believe it at the time. They didn't care that I ran out, and they obviously spotted me. I looked back and saw it plain and simple. They all stood in place, looking at where I was hiding, and everyone had no expression on their faces, just like puppets... I didn't know why it happened until I ran into the city.
"When we were closed and isolated, there were not many normal people in the whole city. At the beginning, they secretly infected and expanded, and after almost replacing more than half of the people, they arrested people on the street openly. On the day I ran away, almost everyone in the city had turned into 'they'! I was the same everywhere I ran, and I couldn't escape their eyes at all, their eyes were all linked together!
"But I still found some survivors, those who were with me. Your Royal Highness, you must not have imagined how surprised and happy I was at that time—they were originally hidden in a broken factory, and there were many people in the earliest days. But then there were people who heard some voices in their sleep, and those who were not determined got up immediately after hearing the voices, and walked into the night outside the factory, but those who walked out never came back, so the rest People had to tie themselves to a pillar to sleep, but even so, there were fewer and fewer people, and some people disappeared as if swallowed by nightmares out of thin air. When I found them, there were only so many people left. Clicked.
"And not long after that, the black sword knight began to lead the soldiers to do the final 'cleaning' of the city. At that time, more than 90% of the people in the city became 'they', and the only normal people left could not hide The soldiers showed their swords, dragged those normal people who had not been transformed for various reasons out of their hiding places, and killed them on the street, while others watched with hungry face...
"Because I used to be a soldier, so I noticed this one step ahead, so I took everyone out of the factory and started to flee. I tried to bypass the eyes and ears of those soldiers, and lost a few people in the middle... But in the end we found In this church, there is a large cellar under the church, and the entrance to the cellar can be closed, so we hid in it until today.”
The messy narration of the surviving soldiers finally came to an end, and Constance sighed softly: "So planned and logical... So those monsters in the semi-transformation stage are more terrifying than those after full transformation. What is scary is wisdom."
With the narration ability of the surviving soldiers and the current state of mind, it is difficult for him to describe the terrible experience in those days vividly, and he will not have any exquisite rhetoric and metaphors to increase his persuasiveness, but only from what he said Anyone can imagine what a horrible scene it was like the things I talked about - the whole city was "alienated" a little bit, the eerie atmosphere became more and more obvious and serious every day, and everyone was gradually turning into a monster , but the power that caused all of this is so powerful that it cannot be resisted.
And there's nowhere to go - because the monsters have blocked all ways to leave the city from the start.
This is only the first month of the War of the Alternation of Era. If the original historical trajectory is followed, the nightmare of this world is just a prelude that has just sounded.
"It seems that you don't know what shielded the power of corruption, so that you survived in the cellar," Liya looked into the soldier's eyes, and she could judge the truth and falsehood of each sentence and the truth of each sentence. There may be hidden clues behind it, but from the soldiers' thoughts, she couldn't find any reason why these people survived in the end-they were not strong enough to resist the erosion of madness, in fact, after so many days of torture Afterwards, the spirits of these people have long been extremely fragile. Not to mention the power of madness, even a nightmare derivative is enough to corrupt their spirits. "The reason should be the cellar itself."
"That's all you can find in the cellar," Kaim led a few northern soldiers to pile up some sundries, "If there is nothing here, then maybe there is something similar to an enchantment in the structure of the cellar... "
Northern soldiers removed everything from the cellar that looked like it might have special powers—even things that seemed unlikely to have any special powers. Broken clay pots, moldy swords, old idols, ceremonial supplies, and all kinds of messy sundries were spread out on the ground.
Fortunately, there were not many of them: it seems that the church was not very rich in the first place.
Constance and Leah went up to check those things, and they immediately turned their eyes away from those religious artifacts: the former was obviously not very interested in the so-called gods, while the latter analyzed it from a more professional perspective It turns out that the so-called God of Day and God of Night shouldn't be walking together...
Liya's sight was suddenly attracted by a shiny object among the sundries.
Constance's eyes were also attracted by the thing with a special sense of presence. She stretched out her long sword to pick it up, and frowned slightly: "What is this..."
Before she could see clearly, Leah suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Huh?!"
What Constance picked up on the tip of the sword was a small silver-white wide armband. The style of the armband was very gorgeous, and the widened edge made it look a bit like an armguard. The method of hollowing out fine lines depicts complicated runes and images of animals and plants, but its size is obviously not suitable for adults, but more like ornaments worn on children's arms.
Hearing Leah's voice, Constance couldn't help but cast a glance at the "little girl" beside her who was full of mystery and possessed all kinds of incredible powers. As a result, she somehow connected her with the armband in her mind. Together.
In terms of size... seems to be suitable
"This..." Constance looked at Leah uncertainly, "could it be yours?"
Liya just wanted to shake her head in denial, but then she seemed to think of something, and said neither affirmative nor negative: "I just look familiar. In this kind of local church... will there be my things? "
"I just think the size is quite close." Constance picked up the armband and gestured on her arm - of course, she would definitely not be able to put it on while wearing armor now, but even without armor, this armband is not suitable for her , "Obviously intended for children..."
Leah: "..."
"Let me have a look." After holding back the veins on her forehead, Lia held out her hand to Constance in a stiff tone.
"No—here you are."
Constance passed the armband over, and the moment Leah's fingers touched the armband, there was a sudden loud bang in the sky.
The two looked up in amazement at the same time.
I saw that the sky seemed to have cracked a huge gap, the dark red twisted gap is very similar to the Gorgon Abyss, and in the gap, you can see countless floating wreckage, shining fire, and thunderous beams Crissing and crisscrossing among those shadows, explosions burst out continuously from the depths of the sea of clouds.
And a faint, white river-like luminous belt traverses the chaotic world behind that gap.
Leah was startled, and immediately removed her hand from the armband.
The vision in the sky then disappeared.