Lord of Rot

Chapter 289 Mercenary Calamity

Li Qi quickly came to the city wall and looked down. The five mercenaries were covered in blood, and they looked very miserable.

"Aren't they with Baron Ross's regiment?"

One of them, Li Qi, was quite impressive.

The other party had questioned himself yesterday if he really wanted to prevent the mercenaries from plundering for three days. Unexpectedly, just one night later, he changed from a perpetrator eager to inflict violence on others to a pitiful helper.

"My lord!" Seeing Li Qi, the mercenaries quickly shouted, "My lord! Open the city gate and let us in!"

Li Qi lowered his head and asked loudly: "What did you encounter? What about Lord Taylor Ross?"

"We encountered a group of dead people last night," the mercenary shouted, "then separated from the team. By the time we rushed back to the camp, the legion had already set off."

Li Qi didn't intend to open the city gate: "As long as you keep going west, you might be able to get out before dark."

One of the mercenaries shouted: "My lord, there are things that come back from the dead outside, we can't escape, let's go in, we will die when we return to the woods now!"

"All?"

Li Qi looked into the distance, his eagle eyes tried his best to catch it, but he didn't find anything unusual.

Maybe the group of dead felt that there were many living people here, so they didn't approach without authorization, or maybe they were good at disguising, no matter what it was, it was not good news.

The expressions of the five people outside the city gate did not seem to be fake, but the strange feeling in Li Qi's heart warned him that now is not the time to open the city gate.

It was already dark last night and no birds were caught. Today, a few more birds must be caught to make them into corpse birds and controlled to go out to investigate the situation. Otherwise, just listening to the people around talking about the recovery of the dead, Li Qi felt that he was a little nervous.

"Ah!" Just as Li Qi was debating whether to open the door, one of the mercenaries who seemed to be the most injured suddenly started screaming, scratching at his arms and chest with both hands.

"what happened to you?"

Another mercenary jumped on him, trying to grab him, and yelled at the others: "Quick, come help!"

The three held down the mercenary, and the last one shouted at Li Qi: "My lord, we need treatment from a pharmacist! We need to rest!"

"Hiss, he has thorns on his body!" A mercenary who rushed to hold him back suddenly backed away, and shouted in pain.

"There are thorns?" Li Qi was shocked: "It shouldn't be such a coincidence, right?"

In the black king's chaotic memory, he also saw the female corpse stabbed and scratched the black king.

With one person missing, the mercenary struggled more and more, and finally the other two couldn't help but back away, as if they had also been stabbed.

The mercenaries exposed to Li Qi's eyes screamed.

The scratching part of its body surface was torn apart, and vines grew out. Part of the vines was cut into the flesh, and the other part was twisting in the air.

"There are really thorns!"

"Help, help, open the door!" The mercenaries below frantically knocked on the city gate, but all these changes happened too fast.

Li Qi didn't know how to help, but one thing was certain, the city gate must not be opened, otherwise his own people would die.

The mercenary covered in thorns rushed towards his companion, and the vines strangled his neck.

Li Qi on the battlements even saw the vine covered with iron thorns stab into the eyes of the mercenary, scraping out a piece of blood. After the initial convulsions, the stabbed mercenary's body became silent and limp. in the end.

The vines were pulled out from the eye sockets, and the broken eyeballs hung on the thorns, dripping with blood.

Not knowing if it was an illusion, Li Qi looked into the eyes of the dead mercenary and felt that his eye sockets had been dredged to make them bigger.

Another mercenary drew his sword.

"Ah!" He roared and stabbed with his sword, successfully piercing the vine mercenary's chest.

The vine mercenary turned his head calmly.

The vines wrapped around his body pierced the sneak attacking mercenary, and he wailed in pain, and then the vine mercenaries bit and gnawed and swallowed his wailing.

There was a massacre below. Li Qi witnessed four mercenaries being killed one by one by mercenaries covered in vines.

The fatal injuries of human beings are all decorations for it.

"My lord" Lacey Heath nervously watched the scene below the city wall, picked up the bow, and only waited for Li Qi's order to kill the monsters below.

Even an extraordinary person, when seeing such a monster, his body is also afraid.

"Don't worry!" He signaled his subordinates to be calm.

Now is a good opportunity to study the resuscitation of the dead, absolutely not to shoot them directly.

"Is it because the black king fed his wife a flower? That made the whole Iron Valley look like this?"

With too little information, we can only rely on random thinking.

At the end of the battle, only the vine mercenary was left to move.

The scuffle had cut off one of his arms and one of his legs, but he seemed to be in good shape, and he didn't even bleed a lot from the cut, as if the blood had dried up.

Li Qi waited for a while, and found that the vine mercenary who killed the four mercenaries had not left, nor continued to eat the corpses of his former companions, but stood quietly at the door in a daze.

"It doesn't kill people to fill their stomachs or appetite, so why do they kill people?" Li Qi felt very strange. The actions of the vine mercenaries below seemed to be satisfying a certain instinct and desire, but their actions were in line with their instinctive needs. No side.

"And it's still standing at the gate of the castle, as if there's something in the castle that attracts it."

The behavior before could still be summarized in terms of "zombies", but now that he didn't leave after killing people, but faced the castle, Li Qi couldn't understand it.

"Send someone to watch." Li Qi said to Lacey, "If there is any change below, notify me immediately."

"Yes, my lord!"

Li Qi left the city wall and took a bow and some arrows with him.

He came to a large clearing in the castle.

Already in March, the temperature has already started to warm up in Tiegu, and the sights of flying birds have appeared one after another.

The left hand holds the bow, and the right draws an arrow to aim.

After aiming for a while, take the bow and draw the string.

let go!

Pfft, a burst of air.

The arrow seemed to have eyes, and flew out suddenly, and pierced the bird in an instant, pinning it to the ground, after struggling a few times, the bird stopped moving.

Li Qi's archery skills are not bad, but compared to his sword skills, throwing skills, riding skills, fighting skills and other skills are not so brilliant.

Relying on this method, Li Qi quickly collected 5 flying birds, and asked the necromancer Ayamei to take the bird corpses back and fill them with gold, and refine the dead bodies. Tonight, 5 dead flying birds will come out of the coffin He scoured the whole Iron Valley.

"My lord!" A soldier came running, breathing heavily because he was running too fast.

"What's wrong?" Li Qi said, "I'm in a panic, did I encounter something?"

The soldier nodded: "Those people under the city wall are all alive! Alive!"

"what!"

Li Qi quickly ran back to the city wall.

Sure enough, he saw five figures circling in a daze under the city wall. Although they couldn't pass through the gate, they were also unwilling to leave.

Spiky vines are wrapped around each figure.

"I haven't been away for a long time."

In such a short time, the bodies of the four mercenaries who were bitten to death grew vines, and like the vine mercenaries before, they came back to life.

"Terrible speed." Li Qi secretly said: "It's like a magical version of a zombie. Not only does it have a terrifying infection speed, but it's also very fast."

Li Qi raised the bow in his hand and took aim with an arrow.

Pull the bowstring close to the full moon, then let go.

puff!
The arrow instantly hit the head of one of the vine corpses.

The other party didn't respond, but with an arrow on his head, he continued to yell "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".

"Musket!" Li Qi turned his head and said.

A soldier handed his musket to Li Qi, and then handed him the gunpowder bag and pills.

Load the gunpowder and stuff the projectile.

Aiming slightly, the moment he pulled the trigger, Li Qi chanted a mantra in a low voice: "Light it up!"

The gunpowder seemed to be pulled by a force, burning and changing in a certain direction in the barrel, instead of exploding randomly.

"Bang!" The gun exploded loudly.

The musket was very firm under Li Qi's hands, and the lifting force generated by igniting the gunpowder could not shake the gun at all.

The vine body that was still alive after being hit by an arrow in the head just now, at the same time as the loud noise, the skull was instantly lifted, and flesh and blood flew everywhere!
Boom, the body fell to the ground.

Li Qi looked at the fallen vine corpse, and thought in his heart: "It seems that the damage of the arrow is not enough, the musket is about the same, and the head will die after being pierced. This part is not as good as the dead body and ghoul, and the IQ is obviously insufficient. , indicating that there is no one controlling it, at least for now.”

In addition to the relatively strong infectivity and fast infection speed, its advantages are not obvious.

Moreover, it seems that the only way of transmission is through biting. It is of course okay to face mercenaries with weak defenses, but it is useless when encountering soldiers in full armor.

At this level, Li Qi's porcupine soldiers could easily kill them.

Li Qi's shot just now also attracted the attention of the remaining four vine corpses below. They looked up at Li Qi on the battlement, but they gave up their target and no longer looked at the city gate, but tried to climb up the city wall with hands and feet. Come to Li Qi.

"Look here without eyes?"

Li Qi stared carefully, and found that there was a small flower on the bodies of these guys, some grew in their throats, and some grew in their ears, which were very similar to the two flowers that grew and bloomed in the lady's eye sockets in King Hei's memory.

The towering city walls are not something they can climb up with uncoordinated hands and feet.

Climb, then fall.

This group of things doesn't have a long memory, so they get up and continue when they fall down, and continue when they fall down.

"It's a group of things that act on instinct, but why don't they eat people, but they like to kill people?"

While thinking, Li Qi took out the iron pellet, loaded it in the front chamber, and aimed.

Pull the trigger.

Bang!
There was another loud noise, and the head of another vine corpse was blown off.

Without the blessing of magic, it was just an ordinary shot. Although the bullet was offset, because Li Qi controlled the muzzle of the gun, the bullet hit the target accurately.

The corpse fell.

Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
One shot at a time, until the recovered corpses lay on the ground again.

Those vines also lost their vitality after the corpse fell down again.

"Continue to send people to watch." Li Qi handed the gun to the soldier behind him, and said: "If these corpses wake up again, please notify me immediately, and if there are similar dead people appearing, please notify me immediately. "

"Yes!"

This is a good research opportunity to determine the characteristics of the "resurrected" people. Anyway, the city wall is high enough for him to investigate with peace of mind.

(End of this chapter)