The soldier in the uniform of the Imperial Corps was given a blanket and a glass of warm honey water, and he held the glass of water, and in a still trembling tone, he spoke in a tone that still a little trembling about his terrible experience with a group of survivors over the past few days: "The atmosphere in the city has been wrong for a long time, and there are more things to see in the army than civilians - those black sword knights gathered, took over most of the command, and gave a lot of strange orders, such as let's move the foundation stone of the city outside the city and bury it......"
Later, they forbade foreign communications, saying that it was because of the special controls during the war, and then the barracks began to be divided into divisions, and we were divided according to the size of the brigades, and they sent out the brigades one by one in order, saying that they were on a mission, but no one saw any brigades leave the camp, and those who were 'sent out' seemed to disappear out of thin air."
Then the brigades that had been 'sent out' came back, and I saw them from afar, and I felt like they had become something else from within......
I'm not talking about the looks, they still look the same as before, but the eyes are strange, and there is something wrong with them all over their bodies."
The disappearances in the city began to increase, and everyone began to have nightmares, and the nightmares were just like the real thing, and we saw monsters with countless eyes and countless hands and feet in our dreams, and sometimes when we woke up, we could even see those eyes on the walls - some of the soldiers began to get frightened, and thought that they were cursed, so they went to their superiors, and the commanders took the soldiers to the magicians to 'lift the curse'.They were brought back the next day, looking normal, and they went to bed with no signs of nightmares, but I was even more scared because I thought they weren't sleeping at all......
They just lay there, all night long, pretending to be normal people sleeping."
I know a guy named White, he is a fellow villager with me, he used to sleep very dishonestly, but after being taken away and back, he slept straight on the bed every night, without turning over or snoring......"
Once I woke up at night, I saw White lying there straight again, I leaned over to take a look, and I found that he had his eyes open!
He stared at me, kept watching, he didn't speak, but I knew clearly that his voice was in my head!
”The surviving soldier began to tremble, his words were messy, trivial and complicated, and Constance had to cast a small spell to calm his spirits: "Calm down, calm down, those monsters are already dead - to the point, what happened later?"
”"I'm scared, I'm scared......
The day after that, a knight of the Black Sword came to me and said they had a special assignment for me - they said that a cursed plague had broken out in a neighborhood, and that a group of soldiers, including me, had come to help 'deal with' the plague.When I got there, I realized that something was wrong, there was no sign of the plague at all, they were just blocking the whole street and letting the Black Sword Knight go in and kill people......
"I just looked for a chance to escape—it wasn't difficult, I couldn't believe it."
They didn't care if I ran out, and they had apparently spotted me.I looked back and saw clearly that they were all standing there, looking at where I was hiding, and each one of them had no expression on their faces, like puppets......
Later, I ran into the city and found out why this was happening."
When we were locked down, there weren't many normal people in the whole city, they were secretly infected and expanded at first, and when almost half of the people were replaced, they openly arrested people on the streets, and by the day I escaped, almost the whole city had become 'them'!
Everywhere I go, I can't escape their eyes, their eyes are all connected!"
But I still found some survivors, the ones who were with me.You must not have imagined how surprised and happy I was at that time, Your Highness Princess, they were originally hidden in a broken factory, and there were many people in the beginning, but then people kept hearing some voices in their sleep, and those who were not determined to hear the sound immediately got up and went into the night outside the factory, but those who went out never returned, so the rest had to tie themselves to the pillars before they dared to sleep, but even so, there were fewer and fewer people, Some of them disappeared as if they had been swallowed up by nightmares, and by the time I found them, there were only so many people left."
Soon after that, the Black Sword Knight began to lead the soldiers to do the final 'cleanup' of the city, and at that time, more than ninety percent of the people in the city became 'them', and the only normal people left could not hide at all.The soldiers showed their swords and openly dragged those normal people who had not been converted for various reasons out of their hiding places and killed them in the streets, while the others watched with hungry expressions on their faces......
"Because I was also a soldier, I noticed this one step in advance, so I took everyone out of the factory and started to flee, I managed to bypass the eyes and ears of those soldiers, and lost a few more people in the middle......
But in the end we found the church, and the church has been hiding in it to this day. ”The jumble of the surviving soldiers' narration finally ended, and Constance sighed softly: "Such a plan and logic......
So those monsters in the semi-transformation stage are even more terrifying than after the complete transformation, and what is terrible is wisdom. ”With the narrative ability of the surviving soldier and the present state of mind, it is difficult for him to describe the terrible experiences of the past days vividly, nor does he have any subtle rhetoric and metaphors to increase his persuasiveness, but from the things he said, anyone can imagine what a terrible sight it was - the whole city was "alienated" little by little, the eerie atmosphere became more and more obvious and serious every day, everyone was gradually turning into monsters, and the power that caused it all was too strong to resist.And there is nowhere to run - because the monsters have blocked all the roads that can leave the city from the beginning.This is only the first month of the War of the Alternate Eras, and if you follow the original historical trajectory, the nightmare of this world has just sounded a prelude."
It seems that you don't know what shielded those corrupting forces and allowed you to survive in the cellar," Leah looked into the eyes of the soldiers, she could judge the truth of each of the other party's words and the clues that might be hidden behind each sentence, but from the soldiers' thoughts, she could not find any reason to explain the final survival of these people - they were not strong enough to resist the erosion of madness, in fact, after so many days of torture, these people's spirits were already extremely fragile, let alone the power of madnessEven a single Nightmare token would be enough to corrupt their spirits, "The reason for that must be the cellar itself." ”"That's all you can find in the cellar," Kem led a few of the Northern soldiers to pile up some clutter, "If there isn't one, it may be that there is something like an enchantment in the structure of the cellar......
"The Northern soldiers have moved out all the things in the cellar that look like they might have special powers—even things that don't seem to be anything special.Broken clay pots, moldy swords, old idols, ritual supplies, and all kinds of messy miscellaneous items were spread out on the ground.Fortunately, there were not many of them: it seems that the church was not very wealthy in the first place.Constance and Leah stepped forward to inspect the objects, and they both immediately turned their eyes away from the religious artifacts: the former was obviously not very interested in the so-called gods, while the latter analyzed from a more professional point of view that the so-called god of the day and the god of the night should not be the same ......
Leah's gaze was suddenly drawn to a shiny object in the clutter.Constance's gaze was also attracted by the thing with a special sense of existence, she stretched out her long sword to pick up the thing, frowning slightly: "What kind of ...... is this" Before she could see it clearly, Leah suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Huh?!
”I saw that Constance was picking up the tip of the sword was a very small silver-white wide armband, the style of the armband is very gorgeous, the widened edge makes it even look a bit like an armguard, which is carved with the method of hollowing out fine lines to depict complex runes and animal and plant images, but its size is obviously not suitable for adults, but more like an ornament worn on the arm of a child.Hearing Leah's voice, Constance couldn't help but glance at the mysterious and mysterious "little girl" beside her, and somehow connected the other party with the armband in her mind.Dimensions......
Seems to fit?"
This ......," Constance looked at Leah uncertainly, "it can't be yours, right?"
”Leah just wanted to shake her head in denial, but then as if she thought of something, she said without affirmation or denial: "I just look a little familiar."
Inside the church of such a local church......
Will there be something for me?
”"I just think it's pretty close," Constance picked up the armband and gestured it on her arm—of course, she wouldn't be able to wear armor now, but even if she wasn't wearing armor, the armband wouldn't fit her, "Obviously a child's ......"
Leah: "......"
"Show me." ”After holding back the bruises on her forehead, Leah held out her hand to Constance in a stiff tone."
No—for you."
Constance handed the armband over, and the moment Leah's fingers touched it, there was a loud bang in the sky.Both looked up in shock at the same time.I saw that the sky seemed to crack a huge crack, the dark red twisted gap was extremely similar to the Gorgon Abyss, and in the gap, you could see countless floating wreckage and shining firelight, thunderous beams crisscrossing between those shadows, and explosions burst out from the depths of the sea of clouds.A faint, white ribbon of light traversed the chaotic world behind the crack.Leah was startled and immediately removed her hand from the armband.The vision of the sky vanished.