Academic Gathering with Lich Colleagues

Chapter 160 The Broken Robber Doll

"So you ended up doing it?"

"We're not idiots, of course we didn't do it." Lyle rolled his eyes and put down the empty bowl in his hand, "Speaking of which, after the college closed down, how are those professors doing now?"

"It must be much better than you. After all, those nobles are not real idiots. They just changed from public teachers to private doctors. Some of them opened some black clinics by the way. I heard that Professor Feller also has a position as an interrogator."

"Interrogator?"

"I heard that he likes to describe the picture of himself handling their corpses to those prisoners. Although to Professor Feller, it is just a simple knowledge science, but in the eyes of those prisoners, it should be no less than the most venomous curse of a demon. .”

The exchange of the night was hastily ended, and William put out the fire with sand.The three of them came to the stone wall built earlier and spread two layers of blankets. William sealed the door with a layer of ice wall, so it didn't feel cold on a summer night.Counting the stars leaking from the shadows of the trees, Lyle fell into a deep sleep.

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Before dawn, the three of them started to move on again.

Relying on the clear water produced by William, the drowsiness was swept away, and Lyle and Kevin were still as refreshed as yesterday.

Except for William, who has red pimples on his face from mosquito bites.

I saw him forming an ice layer on his face, numb the itching with the cold, while looking at the other two with dissatisfaction.

"Why did the damn mosquito only bite me?"

Kevin shrugged, tossing blond hair as the answer.

"Nia did it, Nia has been playing bug catching all night!" On Lyle's shoulder, Nia's little tentacles were swinging happily, and the tip bent to poke Lyle's shoulder until Lyle rubbed it. It retracted into the clothes.

Lyle smiled bitterly, "I reminded you last night that you refused to ask Nia to help you get rid of the bugs, saying that you don't want tentacles on your body." He reached out and took out a small cloth bag from his pocket. Squeeze out a small dollop of green ointment, "Apply some, itching medicine. Freezing the skin too often is not a good choice."

There was a trace of distress on William's face, "I didn't expect it to be so itchy."

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The next few days of the itinerary consisted of easy jungle safari, with occasional passes through villages to cleanse, and most of the rest the three of them spent the rest of the day on barely recognizable roads and forests.Kevin even prefers to spend the night in the forest, as he says, "I like being in nature, it makes me realize that I am a part of nature."

I'm afraid he hasn't realized the importance of an elemental mage and cook. On this day, William killed a deer.

Unexpectedly, William would also handle such a large animal. Just after the three of them swallowed this delicious feast, Lyle was burying the bones of the deer with Nia.

This aroused William's curiosity.

"Don't you control it, Necromancer?"

"It has lost its life and has become our food. It would be a bit ruthless to requisition its bones. Besides, the creation of ordinary animal bones doesn't have much strength. It can be regarded as the habit taught to me by my teacher. I still prefer I like to use human bones."

"A necromancer with meaningless benevolence."

Lyle narrowed his eyes and smiled.

"You will see how cruel I am when necessary."

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The three of them had been marching for about a week, and they finally left the kingdom's borders smoothly and entered the border area with unknown boundaries.

There are no traces of recent human activities around, except for a dilapidated road sign hidden by a creeper on the roadside, indicating that the road ahead is not wrong.

"Entering the county of Hamlet."

"Why haven't these forests been mined yet?"

"Because the scope of Hamlet is vast enough, this may just happen to be the unexplored part."

As we continued to go deeper, the tall and towering plants gradually decreased, and the field of vision gradually expanded, but the road conditions under our feet gradually became miserable.

The uneven stones are stimulating the horseshoes, and the strong horse can't even walk fast. In the quiet forest, there are only three people's voices. The green shadow in the distance is like a hanging iron curtain. A feeling of depression affects the three people. heart.

Kevin tugged on the rope.

"what happened?"

"My instinct told me not to move on."

Now William and Lyle completely followed Kevin's intuition, and the three stayed in place, looking anxiously at the almost identical bushes around them.

Nia felt something, she flowed out from the corner of Lyle's clothes, the tentacles crawled towards the bushes at Lyle's feet like little snakes, it lifted layers of green leaves, revealing the hidden things underneath.

"There are bones."

It was a human skull with a hideous crack, staring at the three of them with empty eyes.

So, why are there dead people's bones here, why is this area so dead, not even a bird?
In such silence, there was the sound of winding the bracket.

"Ambush, danger!"

As soon as the words fell, some people wearing dirty green cloth poked their heads out from the bushes 20 meters away, holding their swords fiercely, and charged at the three of them.

The first ones approached were the flying crossbow arrows. They walked through the bushes like sharks hiding underwater. Only when they got close to their prey did they show their coldness.

The flashing crossbow bolt occupied Kevin's entire sight in a second, then stuck to his cheek, and slammed into the neck of William's crotch horse.

The steed neighed fiercely and fell down with William.

"Dismount quickly, there are crossbow arrows on the opposite side!"

The rough road under their feet meant that the three of them could not escape. The horses had already lost their function, and only remained as a cover, just like now.

One after another, the crossbow bolts were nailed into the horse's belly, and the mounts of Lyle and Kevin finally fell unwillingly.

The three hid behind the corpse, William flicked his wand, and a scorching fireball flew, turning a bandit not far away into a torch, but the rest were not affected.There was an unpleasant noise from their mouths, like a record that had been worn out by naughty cat claws. It was a battle cry, more like a ghost scream.

"There are twelve more. I can't protect you when I solve them alone, Lyle, we..."

Lyle remained calm, not at all disturbed by William's agitation.

"We retreat."

"Retreat? Retreating won't help, we can't outrun them!"

"You don't need to run past them, it just takes time."

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Scareye was the eldest of the twelve.

When I approached the horse corpse with my men, the three meat pigs had disappeared, but it didn't matter, I and my men were excellent hunters, and the traces left by those three brats were like The noon sun is as conspicuous.

Scareye showed a ferocious smile, and the scar on his face was like another big ferocious mouth under the pulling of muscles.

cough cough.

Scareye couldn't help coughing, what's going on?Looking at the hand he used to cover his mouth, the cloth on it was stained with blood, which was his own blood.

I cough up blood?
Just when Scareye was panicking, some warm liquid poured on his head.

The red liquid flowed into his only intact eye, also staining his vision red.

Look back.

From the horse's wound, a black tentacle monster emerged. Its tentacles were like playing with a doll, and it lifted its own hands. They struggled in the air and gradually died.

Another tentacle wrapped itself around their necks, and the hooked suction cups cut through their necks, spraying blood across Scareye's face, just as he had done to the innocent travelers.Like cotton wool being squeezed out of a broken doll, the black tentacle monster watched all this with relish.

Huge yellow pupils, looking at him, is the voice of a cute little girl, just like the one he killed the day before yesterday.

"You're going to be broken too! Come play with Nia!"

(End of this chapter)