Heart of the Castle

Chapter 204 The Dead Camp
Li Wei walked over and carefully observed the inside of the tent. Although the sun was obviously westward and the surrounding woods were gradually dimming, he could still see the situation in the tent clearly.There were three dead men lying side by side in the tent, two of them were curled up, and only one was covered with tanned and rough old sheepskin to keep out the cold. In addition, various boxes of goods were piled up in other parts of the tent.

It can be seen that death fell on these people without warning. There were two wooden plates and a pot in the tent. On the wooden plate was a sliced ​​onion and four or five pieces of black bread. Cans of stew.Li Wei leaned over to the mouth of the jar curiously to have a look, the contents inside had been completely spoiled, the thick soup was moldy green, and a rancid smell made the young man hurriedly cover his nose and back away.

The economic situation of this caravan is not rich, whether it is clothing or goods, there is a shabby taste of small traders.Wilps opened one of the boxes with his sword, and it was full of oats, but the color seemed a bit dark. Levi grabbed a handful and put them in front of him, smelled them, and immediately threw them on the ground in disgust.

"It's all moldy, what are the caravans doing with these things?"

"These things..." Wilps kicked the box, and said in a cold voice, "Of course they are for sale, and they want to sell them for a high price."

"These oats will give people a stomachache if they eat them, and even country bumpkins know they can only be used to feed pigs," Li Wei said.

"Yes, Master Li Wei, you are right. But if you send them to a traumatized territory that has just ended the evil disaster, even though they are moldy grains, they can still sell for a lot of money." Will Pusi opened all the other boxes in the tent, and what was exposed was indeed moldy oatmeal.

"How could these people do this?" Li Wei exclaimed in disbelief, "Why don't they ship some good grain? Isn't the price of good grain higher?"

Wilps shook his head, and said with contempt in his tone: "Good food requires cost, but moldy food costs almost nothing. These are businessmen, a group of poor people whose body and mind have been corroded by the stench of copper."

"Everyone is dead, everyone here is dead!" Babrupa ran in from outside the tent with a pale face, yelling. "You two knight lords, let us get out of here at once."

"What did you see, Babrupa?" Levi turned his head and asked.

"In the other two tents and the carriage, there are also dead people, none alive, and some people still have weird smiles on their faces." Babrupa said in a hurried voice, "All the goods are put in place. , didn't appear to have moved."

"The guard in charge died beside the bonfire, and the cargo showed no sign of being touched. It doesn't look like a bandit, but it doesn't look like a wild beast, so what could have killed them?" Wilps frowned. thinking.

"Maybe they died of freezing." Levi guessed.

"Yes, it must have frozen to death!" Babrupa interrupted and said, "Winter is here, and the weather is frighteningly cold. I have seen people freeze to death when it snowed in winter, and some of them looked exactly like that." Like these people, the lips are picked up, like a weird smile."

"The weather is not cold enough. Although it has snowed and the streams have frozen, it has not yet reached the level where people can be frozen to death casually. What's more, these people live in thick tents and wear thick clothes, and it is even less likely that they will be killed. They all froze to death." Wilps said while kicking a corpse next to him with his toe.This was originally an unconscious movement, but the corpse was kicked and turned over, revealing a terrifying appearance covered with red and black scars.

"Oops!" Babrupa screamed like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and ran out of the tent. Li Wei and Wilps were startled by his reaction, and they were a little amused At that time, Babrupa's scream outside the tent changed their expressions.

"Get out of there, these people died of the plague!"

The terrible word plague passed through Li Wei's mind like a thunderbolt. As soon as the young man moved, he was about to run out of the tent. However, he suddenly noticed Wilps' face and stopped involuntarily.

Wilps is not a man with a deep city, but he is a brave and fearless real knight. In Li Wei's memory, this great knight commander has never shown any panic expression.However, this time, the muscles on Wilps' face twisted, revealing an expression of both hatred and fear.

"This is not a plague." The Grand Knight Commander's voice was soft and frightening, as if shrouded in a nightmare in the long night. "It was undead magic that killed these people, the undead magic used by the dead, I have seen it before, I have..."

"Will!" Levi yelled suddenly and forcefully, Wilps' body shook suddenly, and his face turned pale as if he had woken up from a nightmare.But the eyes finally regained focus.

"Master Li Wei, this time we should follow Babrupa's advice and not come here." After Wilps woke up, the first sentence was filled with regret and annoyance.

"Why?" Li Wei's eyes flickered.

"Before I became a knight, I used to be the servant of a wandering knight with a spear. I followed him on the mainland for a while. Several times I passed by the god of death under the command of the long sleep guide, but I met the dead That time, it was the scariest time in my memory." Wilps recalled, while gesturing for Levi to come out of the tent.

"That's a black-robed accuser. It is said that he is a big shot in the accuser organization. He only cast a spell, and made more than a dozen knights who had the power of fighting spirit fall to the ground to die. The battle is over. Afterwards, the magic plague remaining on the corpse caused everyone who came into contact with it to die of fever within a few days." Wilps said, shivering, and then he looked at the three people who had collapsed outside the tent, Go over and strike one of the corpses on the shoulder with your sword.

Although Wilps didn't use grudge, relying on the sharpness of his sword, he still easily cut through the leather armor on the corpse's shoulders, exposing the skin underneath.

The shoulders of the corpse were covered with black pustules and red scars, which were tangled together and covered the normal skin color. Levi felt his mouth was a little dry, and couldn't help turning his eyes away from the horrible corpse.

"After the onset, the body temperature rises rapidly, the body surface is covered with black pustules and red scars, and the death is very fast. Therefore, there is a very appropriate name among adventurers for this disease caused by undead magic - black dead red Plague!" Wilps said in a heavy voice.

"We're done, we're done!" Babrupa screamed in a circle, wiping his hands over the dirty yellow tattered robe, and there was not even a trace of blood on his face. "We have all come into contact with the dead, it's over, unless there is a regional bishop-level priest who uses healing magic on us before the onset, otherwise we are dead!"

"How far is it from the nearest church?" Wilps asked calmly.

"In three days, we can only reach North Aura. Bishop Felheim of the Temple of Storms should be able to have healing spells." Babrupa replied, but his face was even more ugly. "But...but I don't want to go there and deal with that His Excellency the Bishop whose brain has been screwed up by heresy."

"That's our only way out, isn't that what you just said?" Li Wei raised an eyebrow and said, "What's more, with you, the devout Babrupa, the relationship between the Temple of Radiance and the Temple of Storms has always been good. Bishop Felheim will also be happy to relieve us of the troubles of undead magic?"

Babrupa hugged his head in pain and howled. "Well, well, young master knight, you are right, we have to go to North Orla. I hope Bishop Felheim has woken up from the crazy idea of ​​​​blasphemy, and stop using unjust words Treat me, a devout believer, in the same way.”

(End of this chapter)