Alien world

Chapter 305 158. Tracking
The temperature in the north in September is not as hot as in the south, and the nights will become cooler.Therefore the corpse maintains a good profile and has not been contaminated by flies.

The knight captain let the scouts disperse around and the town, and he and Annan stopped in front of the corpse.It was a young man about the same age as Annan. The arrow pierced through his bloated and corrupt chest. He held the arrow in his left hand and tried to pull it out but failed.

The scouts who scouted the town returned and confirmed that it was a ghost town and that there were no living people.

The knights temporarily bypassed the corpse and entered the town.The wooden wall blocked the blood after the slaughter.Crowds of rotting corpses fell around the wooden wall, covered with black rags, and because of the arrival of the cavalry, the rags flew and turned into groups of crows.

A strong rancid stench pervades the surroundings.Soon there will be a plague here.

"Why did the Ratmen leave these corpses?"

Annan swept across the corpses in a low mood, ranging from children to old people, with forks and sticks scattered around him.The Ratmen didn't even spare the corpses and feces of their companions, so there was no reason to ignore these...flesh and blood.

"It's not the rat wave that attacked Ghost Town, but the elite ratmen."

So not even a ratman corpse.

Annan, who went deep into the town with the team, suddenly grasped the reins, because a young body was nailed to a wooden door by an arrow.

The knights searched the mayor's mansion first, but found nothing.I don't know if the mayor has fled or become a member of those corpses.

Mage Amon retraces the circumstances of the attack: a group of elite skaven raided Ghost Town from the direction they came from. They didn't react so that the skaven directly broke through the ditches and wooden walls. These old, weak and sick guards Under the leadership of the mage, they only resisted for a moment before being defeated. The collapsed crowd began to flee, and they were chased by the ratmen...

The corpses gathered in front of the wooden wall saved the knight team from wasting too much time. They piled up a hill of corpses in the town and prepared to clean up the plague.

Annan was also helping. The girl's body was looking up, the empty eye sockets that had been taken away by the crows were facing the roof.Following her "gaze", Annan raised his head and saw the sacks on the beams.

A knight was called to help remove it, and the bag contained only semolina.

Annan stuffed the food bag into the little girl's arms, took off the arrows with his own hands, picked up her swollen and decayed corpse, and gently placed it on the edge of the pile of corpses. But at least her soul is at rest...

When the knights brought the kerosene, Annan suddenly said, "Wait a while, check the cellar."

They spent another few minutes searching the cellar, finding nothing and their last hope.

Several knights poured oil on fire to burn the plague.Annan and the others retreated outside the town to avoid the smell of profanity.

Watching the black smoke rising and flocks of crows hovering over the town, the knights and their horses fell silent.

And this scene has happened hundreds of times in the south.

Annan realized that this was the best time to ask the knight: "The traces of the Ratman appeared outside the capital, why are you still indifferent?"

"...we just have to follow orders."

The problem goes back to the upper layers that are riddled with riddles.

"Then why do you think the commander-in-chief is indifferent?"

The Cavalier Captain was still deep in thought, and his terrified shouts broke the silence of the team.

"They're all dead...all dead, not a single one left!"

A mad middle-aged man was escorted by the knight. He said he had been found in a pile of bushes a few miles away.Mage Aemon threw him a sober spell, and then asked, "We are from the capital, do you know what happened in Ghost Town?"

"Ghost Town...attack! The armor...not the Ratmen!" It's just that the middle-aged man's recovery of sobriety is limited, but when the clouds parted and their armor reflected light, the middle-aged man shouted in horror: "It's you! You slaughtered the town!"

"us?"

The knight captain was puzzled. Seeing that the middle-aged man fell into madness again, Annan asked Master Aemon to cast the awakening spell again.

"Then he'd be a fool."

Annan had no choice but to try to calm the middle-aged man.Let the knight control him, and Annan stood in front of him: "I am Annan, the king of the North, the Ratman... the nemesis, we come from the capital, tell me everything you have encountered."

The man gradually became quiet, talking about his experience like a dream:

After the news of the Ratman's approach spread in Ghost Town, everyone who could leave basically left.The man is no exception, but he has nowhere to go, and the Ratman hasn't shown up for several days, so he returns to Ghost Town by luck, only to meet the murderer who attacked Ghost Town.

"They...that's them! They've turned to the Ratmen!"

The knights around reminded the man of his terrible nightmare.

"It wasn't them. I was with them all the time. We were on our way when Ghost Town was attacked," Annan said.

"But their armor is the same!"

The murderers rode the same horses as the knights, wore the same armor as the knights, and held the same weapons as the knights.

Annan didn't answer, and looked at the knight captain quietly.

"That doesn't prove it's a knight order." Master Aemon replied, "The knight order is equipped with standard armor, which is expensive, but it can be bought easily."

But the sober man swore: "I can tell the difference between a knight and a mouse! They are just like you!"

"Where did they go after they attacked Ghost Town?"

The man points to the east.

Asking the knight to take the man to check and rest, Annan, the captain of the knight and Aemon mage said: "We need to know the answer. The rat man disguised as us, or the rat man polluted us, or..."

"We" are engaged in an unspeakable conspiracy.

"You are the commander of this team." The knight captain firmly raised his long sword.

"I wonder who's behind it..." said Aemon.

wow-

The surrounding knights raised their arms.After experiencing the massacre in Ghost Town, their mentality changed.Just can they bear the weight of the truth?

"Then let's go and track down their whereabouts."

The burning of Ghost Town is coming to an end, and the crows in the sky have dispersed.The future of Ghost Town may be prosperous again, but it will no longer belong to those who used to.

In the next few days, Annan and the knight team followed the trail of the murderer in Ghost Town in Illida County.During this period, they encountered several waves of ratmen. Annan didn't need to make a move. The knight team charged and they completely collapsed.Also meet the new killings committed by the ghost town killer.These villages are like the revenge of the undead, guiding them in the direction of the murderer.

After leaving the survivors of Ghost Town in a passing city-state, they set off at full speed.

Evening, east of Illida County, dark forest.

The knight squad is stationed outside the forest.Further east is Rongguang County... If there is nothing there, they can only give up the investigation.

While thinking this way, a smoke rose from the depths of the forest.Then they found a temporary camp of cavalry in the woods.

(End of this chapter)