On the Seven Towers

Li Tianrui woke up early the next morning. He had just had a dream. He dreamed that his troops were attacked. He seemed to be guarding the house at the time. The enemy had groups of masters attacking the house. Rushing in, these enemies were actually invulnerable and broke through their lines despite fierce artillery fire. He saw an enemy jump into the window despite his shot, and hit him in the face with his fist, making a bang sound. He had to fight with his fists, and the two of them struggled with each other. The punches hit the flesh and hurt the bones.

Then he woke up with a start. There was a banging sound in the room. It turned out that someone was knocking on the door. Li Tianrui shook his groggy head, glanced at his watch, and found that it was only about five o'clock in the morning. It was already 2:30 in the morning when I went to bed after a meeting yesterday. It turned out that I had only slept for three hours.

His accommodation was a guest room in the Duke's house. Because the Duke's Palace is now where the Third Regiment is stationed, and there are many people staying there, most of the rooms have been converted into barracks. After he and several other people had a meeting, except for Cao Lu and Kasha, they went to sleep in the female soldiers' room. Several other attendees slept together in one room. The bed passed the lottery and Xu Tianle, who won the lottery, slept on it. He and the rest of the group slept on the floor.

Everyone in the room was woken up by the knocking on the door. Li Tianrui got up first and opened the door. It was discovered that outside was Song Hongyang, the platoon leader of the second company who was responsible for guarding Baron Bocas yesterday.

I saw him saying anxiously: "Report to the leader, Bocas is dead!"

"What? Where is he? How did he die?" Li Tianrui rubbed his face hard. It hurt. This was not a dream.

"Just, right in the room." Song Hongyang said, "Yesterday he was placed in a small room. I personally led people to guard the outside. But just now I smelled a strange smell in the door. When I opened the door to check, there was Beaucas was found dead in bed, looking like he had committed suicide by taking poison."

"Suicide by taking poison?" Wang Zifeng also got up. "Did he sacrifice the city and then feel so ashamed and angry that he committed suicide in the end?"

"Don't make blind guesses. Come on, let's go take a look." Li Tianrui said.

The group came to Baron Bocas's room upstairs. The door was closed, and four soldiers were guarding the door. As soon as Li Tianrui opened the door, he smelled a strange smell coming from the room. It was not a bad smell, but a spicy and sour smell.

He turned to look at Song Hongyang, who said, "This is what we smelled. I just opened the window, but I didn't expect the smell to be so strong."

Li Tianrui took a look and saw that the window opposite the door was indeed open. He walked in and saw Baron Beaucas lying on the bed wearing the same light armor and cotton shirt he wore during the day. His legs were outside the edge of the bed and still on the ground, with nothing covering him. He put his hands on his chest, holding the badge given to him by the Duke between his fingers.

It appeared that he had sat on the edge of the bed and then collapsed.

Baron Bocas's face is a strange gray-brown, and his face is covered with dark black spots. Each black spot varies in size. The small ones are only the size of a fingertip, and the large ones are the size of gold coins. The closer the body is to the The dark spots below are more dense. Because he was lying on his back, everything from his cheekbones to his ears was completely black. Only the black spots on the front of his face were smaller and not connected together.

The same is true for his body. There are fewer black spots on his hands, but starting from his upper arms, they gradually turn completely black. As for his calves hanging under the bed, they have turned pure black.

Along the circle around the Baron's body, there were black water stains on the originally hemp-colored sheets. The bed was penetrated by an unknown liquid, and there was even a pool of black water on the edge of his boots.

"I'll go, what kind of poison is this? It's so powerful." Xu Tianle said from behind Li Tianrui.

"I'm really offended, what the hell is this?" Li Tianrui muttered, but as the leader of the regiment, he must control his emotions now. Li Tianrui knelt down on the ground and leaned a little closer to the pool of black water that had accumulated on the ground. The weird smell suddenly became much stronger.

He stopped talking, stood up and said: "The strange smell is emanating from this black water. It seems that this poison can not only kill him, but also dissolve part of the body?"

"Captain, what should we do?" Song Hongyang asked.

"Seal the room first, go and call Ka'Sa, and if any of the mage in the group knows some alchemy, and if any of our people study chemistry or biology, call me and have a look. Let's see. There is a way to find out." Li Tianrui said, "I'll ask some of the more active captains of the city guard to see if they know about this situation."

"Captain, aren't you going to block the news about Baron Bocas's death?" Xu Tianle asked.

Li Tianrui said: "Blocking it off will not make him come back to life. It will make others suspicious and have bad guesses. Let them see the situation here with their own eyes, which will dispel their doubts. There is no reason why we cannot tolerate Baron Bocas , You don’t need to use such methods to kill someone.”

"Yes!" Song Hongyang took the order and left.

Not long after, Kaisha came to see it with several other selected mages, alchemists and professionals. But no one saw what this poison was. After Kasha looked at the scene, she shook her head and said, "This room is really disgusting. I have never seen such evil poison."

"Evil?" Li Tianrui felt that her choice of words was very special, "Why do you describe it like this?"

"Yes, it is evil. Although I don't know about this poison, as children of the World Tree, we are more sensitive to this cursed magic than you. Generally, if there is such a feeling in magic, it must be magic with various curses and poisoning effects. This potion is the same. However, if it is a high elf, they must be more sensitive than us. They will probably feel that this room is disgusting from a distance."

"High elves?" Li Tianrui suddenly thought of the high elves who stayed indoors in the elf community yesterday. They are so alert, is there any other reason?

However, Zheng Da, the platoon leader of the second platoon of the third battalion, interrupted his thoughts. Zheng Da is a junior student majoring in biology. He said with some concern: "Captain, maybe I am overthinking, but will this poison enter the liquid he excretes and then evaporate into the air, poisoning us?"

Kasha said: "Captain, although I feel that there is not much curse magic in the air, we'd better not be careless. We should move this body out of the room first. Otherwise, he will be a threat to the entire Duke's camp."

"You are right, let's isolate this body first." Li Tianrui said.