Chapter 045 Acquaintance
Outside Blackrock City, at the entrance of an inconspicuous dungeon, Warden Calder and his subordinates were preparing to transfer a group of prisoners sentenced to death into prison vans and send them to the Holy Healing Church in the city.
"The actions of the Holy Healing Church seem to be getting more and more crazy. They have already started to attack living people..."
Warden Calder, who had a beer belly like he was eight months pregnant and was overweight, couldn't help but shook his head.
At this time, the tall and thin young man next to him spoke up: "Recently, there have been more and more cases of capital punishment in the court. Even if you say something wrong, you will be sentenced to capital punishment...
“However, these people will not be executed directly, but will be sent to the Holy Healing Church.
"I always feel that the Inquisitors seem to have reached some kind of unclear agreement with the people of the Holy Healing Church..."
But before he could finish, Warden Calder raised his hand to interrupt:
"Stop! Don't tell me who it was specifically. If you must tell me, please stay away from me, so that the blood won't splash on me when the head is chopped off..."
Then, he turned around and looked behind him. Inside the dozen or so iron cages, some figures were locked in cages with their hands and feet tied with iron chains.
If they were escorted, the prisoners would not be locked in the van...
But since the incident that night a few days ago, everything has become stricter. Even if they are locked in a cage, they must wear chains on their hands and feet to avoid accidents.
If the previous incident happened again, he would probably be locked up and sent to the Holy Healing Church to be experimented on by those lunatics.
But to be honest, he was opposed to using these death row prisoners for experiments.
But that is the Holy Healing Church after all. They are very powerful and the overlord behind the southern border. Even the city lord has to listen to them. What's the point of opposing them?
With a sigh, Carde withdrew his gaze. He always felt that something seemed to be quietly brewing in Blackrock City, but he couldn't figure it out. He only knew that things seemed to be getting more and more wrong.
But at this moment, suddenly a white crow flew from a distance and landed on his shoulder.
After a slight hesitation, Calder grabbed the crow, took a rolled-up note from its feet, released it, then opened the note and saw that there was no text on it.
This way of delivering messages should be a secret letter from the "Knights of Virtue".
After thinking about it, he crumpled the note into a ball, put it in his mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.
A revelation began to vaguely emerge in my mind.
When it unfolded, Calder opened his eyes again and turned around to look at the rest of his men: "Guys, send these people back to the dungeon first, and then send them to the Holy Healing Church tomorrow. We have other missions."
After that, the team started to return.
"What mission?"
"Let us stop everything and go west to meet a group of nobles who escaped from the catastrophe in the Pale Mountains."
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"These guys...didn't I tell you I wouldn't accept it? Why are they still following me?"
Colin looked back and found that the group of nobles that he had clearly rejected before had caught up with him again. They were not far behind him and looked at him from time to time.
But I don’t know if it’s because the misunderstanding has been resolved, but my previous strong vigilance has been relieved a lot.
And that group of people just followed but didn't come forward, and both sides kept a distance.
But as he walked, Colin suddenly realized something was wrong——
The place he was going to now, according to the employee's description, should be a town, and now that the group of people had been attacked, there might not be many places to go...
At least his experiences over the past few days told him that there were very few human cities in this ghost place.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that both parties were probably going to the same place.
"Hiss... I'm being taken advantage of for free? Damn, that's too careless. I lost a pound of gold!"
Colin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but it would be embarrassing to go up and ask now.
But at this moment, the footsteps of the group behind him quickened, and suddenly they were not far behind him.
"Sir, it's getting dark soon. We'd better speed up and get to Blackrock City as soon as possible. Otherwise, once night falls, even you will be in danger." The old butler came over and reminded him.
Is it going to be night? Colin looked up at the sky. A dim light was cast through the thick clouds, and there was no sign of darkness.
Although he didn't know how these people determined the time , he did not refuse the invitation this time.
Because the nights here are really dangerous...
On the way, looking at Colin dressed in beggar's clothes, the old butler couldn't help asking: "Sir, did you also escape from the magic fog disaster that broke out in the Pale Mountains ?"
What the hell are the Pale Mountains and the Devil's Mist? But this Devil's Mist sounds familiar, as if I've heard of it somewhere before? Colin's mind was turning, and he was curious, so he said, "So those things are the Devil's Mist..."
"You don't know?" Helena's surprised voice came from under the hood.
"The situation was urgent at the time, and I was only focused on escaping. I didn't pay attention what was happening over there."
Colin began to ask questions out of curiosity. Helena was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "I'm not sure either," and then explained some of the things she knew.
An earthquake disaster occurred in the Pale Mountains. The earth cracked and the evil fog sealed there surged out, transforming into countless monsters, which swallowed up several small countries one after another.
Even they managed to escape because they were on the edge.
But even so, there were more than 100,000 people in their city when they first fled, but now there are only a dozen people left, and no one knows whether the others are dead or alive.
"Yes, yes, it was a terrible disaster. I almost died at that time."
Colin agreed, but he remembered what the stitched-body monster had mentioned in the previous mission when he manipulated the cardinal to introduce the world.
I originally thought it was just a background introduction for trickery, but I didn’t expect it to be true…
Look at the noble woman who is fleeing from her misfortune next to you.
Colin suddenly felt that, apart from other aspects of the human body suture monster, it seemed that he had never said a word of lying.
"But then again, that guy had learned about the Earth several years ago. With more than a thousand people, most of the gun technology should have been unlocked. But judging from the looks of this group of people, it seems that they don't know anything about guns at all?"
Colin recalled that when these people saw him pull out a gun, they all seemed to be extremely shocked and curious, and during the conversation they even said they had never heard of it.
That guy, hasn't spread the relevant knowledge yet?
Or do you look down on the power of artillery and explosives?
But before he could think about it, Colin suddenly stopped, sniffed his nose, looked forward, and half-closed his eyes in caution.
“Someone!”
"Be alert! Be alert!"
Hearing this, the old butler immediately drew the cross sword from his waist and looked ahead vigilantly with the soldiers.
However, when Colin saw the figure in front of him clearly, a strange look appeared on his face. Unexpectedly, it seemed like he had bumped into an acquaintance.
