Volume 11: The Cursed Hammer Witch Chapter 14 Plague (Part 2)
“…I don’t know.”
Because I really don’t know anything and it’s hard to describe.
Facing the puzzled looks of the Knight Emperor and countless high-ranking officials, the poor correspondent lowered his head and said dryly:
"All the information about the plague is very contradictory. There has been no similar phenomenon in either history or current records. They seem to be normal living people with their own thoughts and ideas. There is no special weakening, and there is no smell of corpse puppet magic manipulation."
"But each of their pupils is filled with some dark grey thread-like things, which can be spread through magic, the surrounding atmosphere, or the air. The feeling and the way of transmission are extremely strange and weird. The more pious people are to the empire and the gods, the faster they die. They will quickly be stained by the grey threads in their eye sockets, and then sew their mouths shut, bite their tongues or teeth, and commit suicide."
"And those who are not pious will gradually be corrupted during the battle or resistance, and then inexplicably join their team..."
“…”
The messenger gradually told a horrifying picture.
On the edge of the empire, a small village started such an inexplicable war. First, the wizard tower next door sounded the alarm, and then it fell completely in just thirty minutes. A total of 3,700 people in the wizard territory committed suicide, 1,400 of them, and the rest, regardless of gender or age, crazily joined the army.
People controlled by this plague were like their brains , and their common sense and reason were replaced by another kind of indescribable madness. Although the army and residents often thought they were fearless, when faced with the crazy and terrifying scene in the transmitted images, no one could resist the fear in their hearts, and even felt the pain and worries of their souls being eroded.
The monsters infected by the plague all had a crazy passion for war and blood. They liked to fight any living creature that could move. Their team even included many monsters or monster-like creatures. The gray silk threads gathered the plague patients under an unknown banner like a net, allowing them to work according to their respective division of labor and plan. This horrible plague did not destroy everyone's mind, but bystanders thought it would be better if it did. Because the deformed and blurred figure was obviously not the person they were familiar with.
They still had a fair amount of organization and discipline, were able to plan the appropriate means of warfare, and had liaisons between superiors and subordinates. They even had military liaisons that were completely imaginary in their minds. They ran wildly along the official roads, measuring the length of the entire empire on foot.
Although the infection rate was not fast at the beginning, as the population increased, the overall infection rate increased almost exponentially.
At first, there were only a few dozen people in South Town, and then there were thousands of people in South Town and the Mage Tower. Then these thousands of people dispersed and continued to attack other towns. The population quickly exceeded tens of thousands of people , and then they used the population to directly rush down the entire border town. The tens of thousands of people in the town have become the food for the entire plague. Sooner or later, they will become part of the plague army and expand to the outside world.
There was no way to communicate, no way to kill, and the speed of assimilation was extremely rapid. Just like a group of unrestrained wild beasts, after the plague spread, everyone only knew how to spread the plague. They would not even leave behind a little bit of food, but simply squeezed their physical strength to rush in all directions and simply expand their range.
When the report was made, the small town had already fallen. By now, I am afraid that several surrounding cities have also fallen one after another. Since the relevant cities have fallen, the entire provincial capital and satellite cities have become precarious. The entire border province seemed to have suddenly fallen into disaster. If some people had not risked their lives to spread the information to the relevant departments, perhaps they would not know what happened until the entire provincial capital fell. Because the speed of this plague is too fast, and it spreads too fast. It has even reached the limit , and there is no way to effectively stop them.
“…”
After listening to the story about the plague, everyone looked at each other, and then looked at the huge figure on the throne.
After the holy knight emperor pondered for a moment, he tapped the tentacle-like decorations on the throne with dozens of fingers, and soon spoke his final conclusion from the mouth of his abdomen. The blasphemous language quickly imprinted words on the surrounding curtains and transformed into a sacred will.
"Other situations can be ignored, but this kind of plague cannot be ignored... Ranis. Have your group of sinners take the priest army to intercept those infected with the plague and kill them all. The rest of the people should commit suicide on the spot or detonate the ammunition on their bodies. We don't need another force to gallop in this country. No matter who is behind this conspiracy or whether it is a simple natural disaster, he will never return."
"Yes, my Lord."
"Ministry of the Interior, don't let go of the monsters roaming the countryside. Those polluted filth are not allowed to appear in my territory. Tell the surrounding villages and towns to apply to the city for joint defense. The magic network will provide them with corresponding defense measures. Don't let go of a single monster. I want to see that every corpse is pierced with swords."
"Understood, Your Majesty."
"Engineers from the Department of Homeland Security, tell your children to find every place where meteorites fall, estimate the spread speed of those strange energies, dig them out of the ground, and then release them into outer space. We can't let these dirty bastards pollute our land. By the way, take all the people in the watchtower out and chop them up. I know that this kind of celestial phenomenon cannot be stopped and monitored by human power, but we must give an explanation to the gods and nobles. So bury these people with honor, but they and their families must die. We must pay a price for this. Let's decide this for now. The border troops should step up their defense, otherwise the elves may launch a sneak attack. Others should go and hit the night elves. We are not weak enough to be defeated by a plague."
"Your will."
The Marshal, who looked like a steel golem, nodded respectfully to the Knight Emperor, and stood up with the others and walked out the door. The entire huge human empire slowly but firmly began to move, and everyone was full of confidence, as if they could defeat this test with their own strength as they had done in the past.
