Chapter 267 There is a traitor among us
Eschael made the decision to abandon the city, it was very difficult!
A fortress like the Dendera Fortress, which can accommodate more than 100,000 troops, is quite huge, covering an area of nearly ten square kilometers. It took nearly two years to invest in manpower and material resources to build it. Once the fortress is abandoned, It means that all the previous investments have been in vain, and it will also put the coalition forces in a situation where there is no danger to defend, which can be said to be very dangerous.
But... they have to do this, because the water source has been polluted by the plague. Losing hundreds of soldiers, panicked, low morale and no fighting power, if the enemy really appears, it is not sure whether the coalition forces can fight, so it is better to abandon this fortress completely. Let yourself die and survive!
Regarding Eschael's decision, although the heroes were not reconciled, they were all the best in their respective races. In terms of intelligence, they were naturally excellent. Of course, they could think clearly about the pros and cons. strongly support Eschael's decision.
After the decision was made, the heroes breathed a sigh of relief, Gru smiled wryly and said, "In the end, we still have to be like Alan Thiel..."
Soram said angrily: "Even if we have to go out of the city, I still say that Arantir must be the vanguard to meet the demons. Our troops are now demoralized, and only the bones under his command will not be affected. , at such a moment, he should fulfill his duty!"
"Yes, that's right!" Hearing this, the rest of the mage heroes also nodded and said: "The coalition troops can be stationed at the back!"
The grudges between the mages of the Bradaka Kingdom and the Necromancers of the Helais Kingdom were not formed in a day or two, so after hearing the proposals of the mage heroes, Gru could only remain silent and refrain from commenting. As for Elaric, he is even more eager to do so...
Now that they decided to abandon the fortress, the coalition forces moved quickly and swiftly, and the intact troops began to withdraw from the fortress in an orderly manner while guarding against the attack of zombies.
However, after confirming that the priest's divine spells are not effective on the infected, the coalition forces can only give up on the remaining infected who were scratched in the process of fighting against zombies but have not completely mutated. They are gone!
This decision was cruel, so in order to prevent the wounded from losing control and mutiny, the heroes decided to hide the truth from them after discussing for a while.
They gathered these infected but not mutated people, placed them in the same camp, and erected a large number of canvases around the camp to block their sight and prevent them from knowing the scene of the evacuation of the fortress defenders.
Originally, as long as the measures are taken properly, these infected people may not know this decision until they die. However, it is very regrettable that, for some reason, it didn't take long for these infected people to know that they were given up!
There were hundreds of similar wounded. When they heard that they had to stay in the fortress and could not withdraw with the troops, these wounded were in an uproar. Although they knew that they might not be saved, they came out. Based on their survival instincts, they always have illusions, thinking that they can still save a little bit, and now the coalition forces have made such a cruel decision, which makes them completely unacceptable while desperate.
Especially among the wounded, many of them were once noble mage masters, which intensified the conflict. When these infected people clamored to find an explanation from Eschael, they and the soldiers guarding them There was a fight between them, and the infected people were heartbroken. Under such circumstances, they didn't care about the feelings of colleagues at all. During the fight, many infected people opened their mouths and bit the guarding soldiers. !
This led to nearly a hundred more infected people among the guarding soldiers...
The scene was out of control for a while, and when Eschael and the others got the news and rushed to suppress it with an army, they saw a mess and corpses all over the place.
There is no way, the people who are bitten are red-eyed, and everyone understands what will happen after being infected. For these infected people who have harmed themselves, they simply adopted the attitude of killing them all, and pointed the butcher knife at them. Former colleagues...
This is actually the scariest part of the t-virus. Human relations, friendship, family affection and even love will all be vulnerable at this moment...
All the infected people died, including those guard soldiers who were bitten. This was a massacre. In order to prevent future troubles, the rest of the guards could only deal with it in cold blood. Eschael watched this scene, his face was twitching all the time , but in the end it could only be turned into a sigh.
"Burn their corpses!" he ordered. After all, if left alone, these corpses will stand up again after a while.
Then, he began to investigate how the news leaked, which led to the tragedy.
If no one informed these infected people, they would not find themselves abandoned until the army withdrew from the fortress, but now that the news was leaked ahead of time, it was necessary to find out who did it.
Originally, Eschael thought that a friend among the infected might have done it quietly, but what he didn't expect was that after checking, all the blame was pointed at the priests brought by Elaric. Priests! Because the last ones who came into contact with these infected people were those priests who wanted to continue to study what happened to the plague!
This is all right, Elaric just came to Fort Dendera not long ago, and he took a big pot on his back! When he was questioned angrily by Eschael, he still had a dazed expression on his face, not knowing what happened at all.
Coupled with Elaric's haughty attitude at the beginning, this incident caused a huge rift between the Erathians and the Bradakas in an instant.
This is especially the case when Elaric searched and searched in the end, but he was unable to find out which priest leaked the news. It's just covering up the priests under his command, but God is sorry, Elaric really didn't find out who did it...
Although a lot of time was delayed because of this matter, the army of Dendera Fortress is still withdrawing as planned. They must finish this matter before dark, because if it is night, when the army is in chaos, there may be another There will be many more victims due to the attack of mutants.
In the evening, when the sun was sinking, the fortress was evacuated, the high walls were abandoned, and the gates of the fortress were blocked. Dendera was completely reduced to an empty city... Oh, no, it should be said that it was a A city occupied by zombies.
When night fell, the mutants came out of the sewers to start their activities, but they couldn't find any blood to eat, so they roared angrily.
The coalition forces withdrew to station on the plain about two kilometers away from the fortress. In order to prevent the mutants from escaping from the fortress, they specially set up a large number of landmine magic traps near the fortress as a warning, but even so, the soldiers Hearing the terrifying roar from far away in the fortress, I still couldn't help but shudder in my heart.
"Well, it always feels like we jumped from one trap into another..." Eschael said to the rest of the mage heroes, and there was an awkward silence.
"Now we can only hope that the demon will appear as soon as possible!" Gru said: "If it were me, the moment when I just finished evacuating is the best time to attack, and it is night again, so That demon is very likely to appear tonight!"
"Get ready!" The lightning on Solam's body flew around quickly, looking at the dark night sky ahead with sharp eyes.
Elaric didn't speak, and huddled in the corner of a group of heroes, looking a little abnormal.
He couldn't help but be abnormal, because just now, a priest came to him and quietly reported something in his ear.
Among the priest troops he brought this time, a priest unexpectedly disappeared at some point!
When he got this report, Elaric immediately determined that the missing priest was most likely the one who informed the infected people of the evacuation news!
"Damn it! There is a traitor among us!" Elaric was cursing secretly in his heart at this moment. He couldn't figure out who the missing priest was, but he couldn't investigate the matter anymore. Because once he speaks out, he Elaric will become the target of public criticism, and those nerdy mages of Bradaka will put all the sins on his head...
So now, he can only pretend that nothing happened, and wait quietly together with other heroes.
Time passed bit by bit, and when it was almost midnight, there was a slight sound of water in the night, and a figure suddenly emerged from the river flowing through the Grand Canyon!
It was a man dressed as a priest. He was holding a cross necklace in his hand and a hammer of justice on his shoulder. He was wet all over. see.
Needless to say, this priest is the missing priest from Elaric's army...
"This position is already far away from the allied forces of the fortress. Even Arantir's undead army has been left behind, almost..." The priest murmured to himself, and then his expression relaxed a little.
At this moment, his figure suddenly became blurred, and his whole person gradually changed, from an inconspicuous greasy uncle wearing a priest's robe, to a man with reverse wings on his back, A female succubus with flaming hooves!
If Roy were here, he might be able to recognize it at a glance. The succubus in front of him was the Bainiya he had seen before!
As a high-ranking demon, Banya has the same extraordinary talent for illusion as her sister Biara. She hides in Elaric's priest army, and even the angels can't detect the existence of her demon...
"Hahahaha!" After the transformation of Bainiya, she couldn't help letting out a stern laugh: "I finally escaped, Biara, my dear sister, wait for me, I will come back to find you soon Yes! But now, I'm going to my mighty ally..."
After finishing speaking, Bainiya moved her anti-knuckle devil's hooves and ran all the way into the distant forest. Only a series of scorching flame footprints on the ground left the imprint of her past...