Chapter 068: Figure in the Mist
At night, in a grain warehouse in the castle where many soldiers were stationed, several soldiers on duty couldn't help yawning due to sleepiness and fatigue, and one of them couldn't help but lean against the wall and closed his eyes.
"Don't sleep! Otherwise you might get beheaded..."
"I just took a nap, nothing happened..."
“I don’t know if what that big shot said is true, that everything will be fine in just one more day…” A soldier on duty said listlessly, holding his spear.
It was fine when we were fighting during the day, but when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, exhaustion set in and I felt really sleepy.
"I don't know. Rather than feeling sleepy, I feel a little hungry..."
"Hungry...I'm a little hungry too."
The soldier, holding the spear and closing his eyes, said this, and suddenly he felt his intestines moving, making a clear gurgling sound.
After this hungry sound was heard, another soldier's stomach also made a rumbling sound.
Gurgle gurgle gurgle…
Near the warehouse, it suddenly felt like a field after rain, with frog sounds coming one after another.
"I'm so hungry... should we eat something? Anyway, they only ask us not to sleep, there are no other requirements, and we will be safe in another day..."
"Yes, it will be safe soon..."
“I’m so hungry…”
Ding ding ding…
A soldier could not help but put down the spear in his hand, and walked towards the warehouse with an increasingly dazed look, staring at the few remaining dried meat and bread inside.
When one of them picked up the black bread and stuffed it into his mouth, everything seemed to be unstoppable.
At the same time, in a hall in Blackrock Castle, Colin, standing by the window, glanced out and saw a large crowd of people.
At his request, all refugees, civilians, or anyone else in Black Rock City were settled nearby.
There has not been a population census, but we can only roughly estimate that there are at least 50,000 people here. Due to the large population, the management is very rough, and there is not much sanitation management, which leads to the gathering of odor sources such as excrement, making the sanitary conditions in this area at a catastrophic level.
Even Colin, who was inside the castle, felt that the area outside was like a farm being fertilized.
But now Colin can't take care of this...
He always felt an inexplicable sense of crisis, as if some big trouble was about to happen, but he didn't know exactly what form the trouble would take.
"That thing asked me not to sleep, I tried my best to arrange it, I hope not sleeping can really solve the problem..."
Colin raised his hand and pressed his forehead. Thinking of this, he felt a headache.
Even if he forced those people not to sleep, various incidents of sneaking in and missing out on sleep would still happen. Then when they found out that sneaking in and missing out was okay, they would become more demanding and even spread rumors privately that he was sent by the devil to prevent ordinary people from sleeping.
The "beast transformation" had only subsided for a day or two...
Those who made these remarks were a group of "judges" in the city at that time. Although they were suppressed by Helena, they dared not say much openly, but they always made some small moves in secret.
Colin didn't tolerate them. He arrested them all and even killed a few of them as a warning to others.
However, the rumor had already spread, allowing some people who didn't really believe in him to have some hope.
"You'd better not destroy my survival, otherwise none of those in prison will survive."
Colin exhaled, becoming more and more uneasy.
Suddenly, he frowned and his nose twitched, and he smelled something wrong in the air with a distinct odor.
The direction is...
Colin sniffed and looked towards that place. A grain warehouse?
Thinking of the thing that could bring about intense "hunger", he suddenly had some guesses about where the next disaster would occur...
Pursing his lips, he didn't think much about it, picked up the Retrograde revolver, and walked towards that place.
"What happened?"
Seeing this, Carde immediately followed, waved behind him, and brought a small team with him.
"Something is not right. The location of the warehouse..." Colin did not hide it. He had been cooperating well with the warden these days, although the warden would report him to Helena all day long.
"How come?"
Carde was stunned for a moment. The warehouse was the place with the most protection except for Helena. How could something go wrong?
If something really happened, there would definitely be some news. It's impossible that the entire army was wiped out, right?
"What happened?"
How should I know? I just feel something is wrong...
Colin grumbled in his heart and said expressionlessly:
"You'll find out when you get there."
Calder wanted to ask something else, but he found that Colin, who had just walked out of the main building of the castle, suddenly stopped and stared outside with a serious expression.
At this moment, he looked outside and seemed to see nothing... wrong? !
Where are the people?!
Where did you go?
"Hurry to the warehouse!"
After Colin finished speaking, he rushed towards the warehouse. More than a minute later, before he got close, he heard a faint gurgling sound coming from that direction.
It was like the strange cry of some kind of frog...
What made him most nervous was that there was a faint layer of white mist emerging around him.
"It's not blue-black..."
After observing, Colin breathed a sigh of relief. Some ground mist would condense in Black Rock City at night, so it was not particularly strange.
Then, he narrowed his eyes, his pupils erected in the process, becoming inhuman, and his sight pierced through the white mist and looked inside.
He soon noticed that the reason there was no one around was because all the soldiers had gone to the warehouse...
The ground was covered with footprints pointing in that direction, as well as weapons thrown halfway.
Obviously, something must have happened ahead without their knowledge.
Just as Colin was hesitating, not knowing whether to go over to investigate, some staggering footsteps suddenly came from the thin white mist.
A figure staggered out from inside...
"What are you, Wood?"
Calder, who was next to Colin, recognized the man by his size: "Why did you come from there? What happened?"
The soldier named Wood did not answer. He just walked out of the mist, swaying with each step. He could be heard mumbling something, but it was impossible to hear clearly due to the distance.
Colin frowned, staring at the figure, reaching his right hand into his collar, grasping the gun handle, and holding a golden rectangular card in his left hand.
Behind him, with a series of "clattering" sounds, Carde and others drew out their swords.
If they didn't discover anything at this time, they would be doing a great disservice to the head on their necks that had grown so big with so much effort.
Ten or so seconds later, a figure gradually emerged from the mist. When everyone saw him, they were stunned.
What is going on?
