Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 8
The tent where the bodyguard's body was parked was at the other end of the camp.

Captain Alice went to find a place to change her clothes—until just now, the female swordsman was wearing the blood-stained uniform she had been wearing when she died.

Obviously, she had endured the bloody aura on her body for too long.

So, Xia Houyan and Master Laurie walked side by side in the camp.

The moon and stars are sparse, the magpies fly south, and the cool breeze blows.

If he was still on earth in his previous life, Xia Houyan would have felt that this romantic scene would have accompanied his women on a walk under the moon.

But now, walking with him is actually a shrunken old man with a smelly robe.

The lord felt a little sore in his nose.

However, the foolish Master Victor Laurie obviously did not notice the sadness of the Lord Lord——

With a lantern in his hand, this old rammer hummed the popular violin tune in the imperial capital while looking around at the large and small objects in the camp, which made Xiahouyan wonder if she was still trying to retrieve her little yellow book.

Just when Lord Lord's depression was about to reach its peak, Master Laurie suddenly asked:
"Lord Elliot, have you considered the advice I gave you before?"

The tone of the master's words was uncharacteristically low.

Xia Houyan knew what the Master's "suggestion" meant.He shook his head and said:
"Master, I know that you want me to leave the territorial people behind and escape the infection zone alone under the protection of you and the guards, but I must reject this proposal - there are still five hundred of my territorial people here, what kind of lord Will you abandon your own people and run for your own life?"

After listening to Lord Lord's answer, Master Laurie did not continue to persuade as the latter imagined, but turned the topic to an unexpected direction:

"Lord Elliot, do you know the history of this infected area under our feet?"

"I don't know." Xia Houyan answered truthfully.

When he was in a geography class as a child, his tutor told Elliot Igor that there was an infected no-man’s land in the southern border of the empire, but the history textbooks were all secretive about the origin of this infected zone.

Unexpectedly, one day, he would personally step into this infected area with his subjects.

"That happened more than 800 years ago." Master Laurie looked at the starry sky in the distance with leisurely eyes, "There was an astonishingly talented necromancer who tried to improve the resurrection technique in necromancy to conquer the greatest human being. The Enemy - Death. Yes, he's trying to do what you did tonight: resurrect a conscious human being instead of a mindless zombie."

Xiahou Yan pursed his lips and did not speak, but he realized in a trance that he seemed to have done something extraordinary...

"There is no doubt that the necromancer failed." Master Laurie smiled bitterly, "According to legend, he died in his own experiment, and the ghostly magic caused by the necromancer experiment leaked, infecting the place where he lived. The towns and cities continued to expand outwards-any creatures encountered by this ghostly magic power were transformed into extremely aggressive and immortal zombies, and the townspeople in that town were the first to bear the brunt. "

The two happened to walk to an open area in the camp.Master Laurie stretched out his hand and pointed to the west:
"Here, the ruins of that town are twenty miles to the west. If you go there now, you might find the house where the necromancer lived 800 years ago—as long as you haven't been discovered by the people in the ruins of the town first." Zombies gnawed to the bone."

Xia Houyan imagined a scene where a group of zombies hugged and gnawed on a living person, and somehow felt a little hungry.

He misses the sheep and scorpion soup on earth so much.

Master Laurie didn't know the Lord's homesickness and continued to tell:
"At that time, the town was the domain of a noble earl. Overnight, almost all of the earl's residents became walking corpses. He gathered the few hundred surviving townspeople and hid together in the castle. here - but the zombies were scratching at the castle gate day and night, and it was only a matter of time before that castle was overrun by zombies."

Zombies besiege the city... Xiahou Yan smacked his lips.

"At that time, almost everyone in the castle fell into despair. However, the earl thought more than others: he knew very clearly that someone had to catch everything that happened here before the ghost magic continued to spread. Notify the Magic Association, otherwise, it's not just the humans in this town who suffer."

Master Laurie said with a dry mouth, Xia Houyan took off the water bottle attached to his waist and handed it to the other party.The master thanked him, unscrewed the kettle and poured it wildly, before gasping for breath and continuing:
"Soon, the Count made a decision that no one had expected - at night, he secretly opened the gate and put the zombies in the castle. The hungry zombies quickly devoured the survivors who took refuge in the castle, but The earl himself was able to escape the town on horseback while the zombies were busy eating."

Seeing Xia Houyan stunned, Master Laurie said quietly:
"In this way, the Earl became the only survivor in the town at the cost of hundreds of townspeople. He rode all the way to the academy and reported the leak of the ghostly magic to the Magic Association. The association urgently dispatched five archmages. , Only then did the joint efforts limit the expansion of the infected area. It can be said that without the timely notification from the earl, the area of ​​this infected area would have been much larger than what we have seen now.”

"Are you trying to persuade me to follow that earl's example," Xia Houyan stared into Master Laurie's eyes, "and left his own subjects to escape alone?"

"I don't advise you to do anything." Master Laurie shook his head, "but I think it is necessary for you to know a historical fact - the earl was not only not punished by the empire, but was promoted to a duke because of his timely reporting. Not long after, he was also awarded another fief by His Majesty the Emperor - the capital of that fief, called Eagle's Rest Castle.

"Lord Elliott, the earl I am talking about is named Henry Igor, he is the ancestor of your Igor family, and he is also the founder of the glorious history of the Igor family - your family has been here for 800 years. All wealth, honor, and shade enjoyed are due to him."

Xia Houyan was completely stunned.

"I know you want to use necromancy to resurrect Captain Alice and the other guards, so as to take everyone out of the infection zone." Master Laurie said earnestly, "But the number of soldiers under Earl Henry Igor back then, even More than a hundred times more than we are today! Even so, they couldn't escape the zombie tide!

"Lord Elliot, even if you can resurrect all the fallen over and over again, your magic will be exhausted one day, and the zombies will be endless! What you are trying to play is a hopeless game! "

Master Laurie patted the Lord on the shoulder and said softly:

"Lord Elliot, most of the five hundred people in the camp are destined to die in this infection zone, but you still have a chance to escape - you are the same as your ancestors, the choices you face are only Yes, let one person live alone, or let everyone die together; and this is a simple multiple-choice question."

Xia Houyan felt annoyed in his chest, and when he saw a tent marked "mortuary" appearing at the corner, he interrupted Master Laurie as if grabbing a life-saving straw:
"Master Laurie, let's test the resurrection technique first. As for your suggestion to leave the people behind and escape alone... Please allow me to think about it again."

Master Laurie gave him a deep look, then silently took two steps forward and opened the tent curtain for the Lord.

(End of this chapter)