Chapter 623: Pollution Spreads

"This...how did it become like this?"

"It's the plague! Prepare to fight!"

Duanmuhuai clenched his war hammer, strode out of the cave, and glanced around. Under the bright light, you can see animals approaching everywhere, including wolves, deer, and even wild boars, rabbits and other animals that live in this forest. However, they are all rotting at this moment, and there are everywhere. It's distortion and stench.

"Emilia, I advise you to pray to your gods for protection. Once you are infected with the plague, even if you are a Paladin, you will only die!"

"Ah, yes!"

Upon hearing Duanmuhuai's order, Amelia also hurriedly lowered her head, clenched the sword in her hand, knelt on the ground and prayed softly.

"Tyr, the great god of justice, please grant us the power to stay away from disasters, diseases and evil, so that we can destroy all evil and protect the lives of innocent people..."

"——————!"

The next moment, a beam of light fell from the sky and landed on Emilia. Then Emilia felt a warmth begin to flow through her body. She gripped the sword tightly and stood up. At this moment, the girl's body began to emit a faint light like a human-shaped light bulb.

"Ugh...shield technique!"

Compared to Emilia, Luo Qixi was in a much worse situation. The plastic mage basically had no means of self-protection. Fortunately, Luo Qixi was also prepared. She raised the staff in her hand and the next moment A circular force field barrier appeared around her.

"You guys must protect me..."

Looking at the aberrant animals outside, Luo Qixi's voice changed. She didn't want to be bitten by these things!

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

As for the black bear, it was now shivering and hiding in the corner of the cave, not even daring to take a breath.

Duanmuhuai clenched his war hammer and stared at the animals around him. They looked like animal versions of zombies, walking staggeringly and with ulcers all over their bodies. This was obviously a sign of plague infection. But... now is not the time to discuss these issues.

"Do it!"

With Duanmuhuai's order, the battle began.

Ogis raised her hands, and the invisible threads quickly unfolded, spreading like a spider web in the woods. Those animals that tried to get close were entangled in silk threads and then cut into pieces easily.

On the other side, Emilia also started to take action. She held a long sword and shield in her hands, and rushed towards the giant deer in front of her like a bolt of thunder. The latter was completely deformed at this moment - its head looked like it was rotten. It was as sunken as a watermelon, and the horns on its head were twisted and stood up like coral, and you could even see the twitching brain inside.

Frankly speaking, just watching such a scene is enough to make people feel sick to their stomachs, and Emilia suppressed her inner disgust and rushed directly in front of the other party.

“————!!”

Facing Emilia who was rushing toward him, the giant deer suddenly raised its body high, and then stepped hard on Emilia with its two front hooves. Emilia raised her shield and blocked the giant deer's trampling attack. Then she swung the sword forward in her right hand and stabbed directly into the giant deer's body.

"Why?"

However, the moment the sword penetrated, Emilia noticed something was wrong with her hand. It didn't feel like it was pierced into the body, but it felt more like it was pierced into a piece of soft, rotten cheese, with almost no resistance at all. However, at this moment, something even more unexpected happened to her.

I saw that the wound where the giant deer was stabbed by the long sword suddenly spread and cracked, and then several slender, worm-like tentacles came out directly from it. He rushed over to her!

"Ice cone technique!"

At this moment, there was a sudden loud shout from behind Amelia, and then Amelia saw a spinning ice pick pass by her and hit the giant deer directly on the chest, knocking it away. Got out. Emilia also took advantage of the situation and clenched her sword and stepped back. At the same time, she glanced behind her and saw Luo Qixi standing not far behind her with a stiff face and a staff in hand.

"Be careful, Miss Emilia."

"Thank you, Miss Luo Qixi...be careful!"

However, while she was talking, Emilia noticed a rabbit quietly approaching Luo Qixi, then it suddenly jumped up, opened its mouth and bit into Luo Qixi - and then hit the transparent force field barrier directly. superior.

"Alas-----!!"

This immediately made Luo Qixi scream in fear, not only because of the sneak attack, but also because of the terrifying appearance of the rabbit - through the transparent force field shield, she could clearly see the rabbit in front of her. The little white rabbit that was originally supposed to be cute has now become ferocious. There are three scarlet eyes on both sides of its head, glaring at him fiercely. Not only that, even the rabbit's open mouth is equally scary. ——That's not the way an ordinary animal opens its mouth, it's more like a fish opening its entire mouth into a wide circle, and it's filled with sharp and sharp teeth that extend almost to the throat!

"do not come!!"

Just seeing this scene almost scared Luo Qixi out of her wits. She screamed subconsciously and then raised her staff.

"Smash Sonic!!!"

"——————!"

The whistling sound waves suddenly burst out, rushing forward, directly smashing the mutated rabbit into pieces and blowing it away.

At the same time, Duanmu Huai also swung the war hammer and fought with a group of wolves.

This pack of wolves also mutated like other animals, but for Duanmu Huai, how to say it...

Why don't you change into something else, but you have to change into tentacles? I am familiar with this thing!

Looking at the wolves in front of him with their bloody mouths open, revealing the tongues that seemed to have mutated into tentacles, Duanmu Huai also wanted to raise his right hand to change into a tentacle and meet their fellow villagers.

You see, we are all tentacle clans, why don't you let us go... No wonder!

Go to hell!

"Boom!!"

The war hammer whistled past, smashing a wolf head into a meat paste, and another wolf took the opportunity to pounce from the side and bit Duanmu Huai's shoulder - but it was a pity that it was useless. Instead, Duanmu Huai grabbed the other's head, and then pulled it hard, tearing the wolf's head off from the body. Then Duanmu Huai roared and took a step forward. The black flames erupted with his body as the center, turning into thunder and lightning and spreading in the woods. The animals fell down one after another and were burned to charcoal.

However, it was obvious that the creatures on the ground were not the only ones that mutated.

"Gah!"

A group of crows also flew over from the sky. Their feathers had almost fallen off, and their wings were twisted and deformed like swollen blood vessels squirming and curling together. They opened their mouths and screamed and pounced on the ground—then they consciously turned into pieces of separated flesh and blood in the air, and then fell down.

Until then, Ogis silently put down his hands.

It didn't take much time for everyone to deal with these deformed creatures. After all, even if they mutated, they were just animals after all. It was like a person infected with a virus and turned into a zombie. Most of them were still at the level of ordinary people. It didn't say that someone would learn fighting skills without a teacher once they became a zombie. Therefore, it didn't take much effort to wipe out all the aberrations.

However, the expressions on Emilia and Luo Qixi's faces were not very good. Although the battle intensity was not high, the disgusting degree of those aberrations... It was probably the first time they had encountered such disgusting enemies since they were born.

"What on earth is this?"

Holding the staff, Luo Qixi stayed away from the monster corpses and didn't dare to get close.

"Plague aberration."

Duanmu Huai came over with a war hammer and glanced at the corpses around.

"It seems that this place has been infected."

"But... It's still a distance from Neverwinter, right? And Neverwinter doesn't seem to be so scary."

"It's far from Neverwinter, but it's close to Heim Fortress."

Facing Luo Qixi's puzzled question, Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders and looked at Emilia.

"Right?"

"Yes, as long as we pass through this forest, the other side of the river is Heim Fortress..."

At this moment, Emilia's expression became tense. She also agreed with Duanmu Huai's words. After all, if this mutant plague spread in Neverwinter City, it should not appear so far away. And the only place where people gather nearby is Heim Fortress.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go."

Originally, everyone planned to rest here for a night and rush to Heim Fortress early tomorrow morning. But after this incident, no one was in the mood to sleep. The bodies of those deformed animals were burned to ashes by Duanmu Huai's fire, including the entire forest. Seeing this, Luo Qixi and Emilia's eyes twitched, but they also knew that there was no way. After all, this was necessary to avoid the spread of the plague.

On the contrary, the black bear was a little funny.

"I told you, don't come with us."

Looking at the black bear hugging his legs and crying, Duanmu Huai was speechless.

"Woo woo..."

"There's no point in crying. Okay, run south quickly. Run as far as you can. Whether you can survive depends on your luck!"

"Woo...!"

Finally, the black bear seemed to understand what Duanmu Huai said and turned to run south.

As for how far it can run, that's its own problem.

"Okay, let's go."

This time, even Emilia didn't object. In fact, she also wanted to rush to Heim Fortress as soon as possible to check the situation. What if Heim Fortress really fell...

With this idea in mind, Emilia's heart was also up and down along the way. It didn't know how long it took. The group passed through the woods and came to the river. Soon they saw Heim Fortress not far away on the other side of the river. Under the dark night, people could be seen patrolling back and forth on the fortress walls with torches. Everything seemed very peaceful.

"Huh..."

Seeing this scene, Emilia was relieved.

"Great, Mr. Duanmu, it seems that everything is normal in Heim Fortress."

"Hehe."

Faced with Emilia's words, Duanmu Huai just laughed and said nothing.

Soon, everyone crossed the bridge and came to the front of Heim Fortress——then a voice came.

"Stop, who are you and what do you want to do in Heim Fortress?"

Hearing the other party's question, Emilia was even more relieved, and hurriedly stepped forward and answered.

"We are the investigation team from Neverwinter. We found the plague spreading in the nearby woods and came to report it!"

"What? Is there such a thing?"

The patrolling soldiers were also shocked by Emilia's answer.

"I will report to the commander immediately. Please wait!"

After saying this, the soldier turned around and left in a hurry, and the group stood at the door.

"Huh..."

At this time, Emilia was completely relieved and turned to look at Duanmu Huai.

"Mr. Duanmu, look, Heim Fortress is normal, nothing happened at all... Uh... Mr. Duanmu, what are you doing?"

However, before Emilia finished her words, she saw Duanmu Huai striding to the gate of the fortress, grabbing the warhammer, and then...

"Tribunal! Open the door!"

Accompanied by a roar, Duanmu Huai rushed forward and slammed open the closed gate of Heim Fortress! !