The war in the border town did not last long, because there were not many monsters left in the city. And just when Marco led the knights to stop in the small town and comfort the survivors, Ronan

In the Thornflower Castle, Erica was standing on the wall of the castle bored and looking at the road out of the city.

"What's the result?" Diana asked, leaning against the battlements of the city wall with a bottle of cold mineral water.

"Which side are you asking about?" Erica still looked at the roads in the city and asked: "Here, or..."

"Both." Diana raised her head and drank the remaining cold water in one breath, then threw the empty bottle into her own storage magic.

"The way out of the city is just a long way back, but I think it's more troublesome to leave the city on foot." Erica put down the telescope, then pointed at the blood-red heads on the road ahead and said: "Look, we just drove.

But just a few hundred meters away has attracted so many mutant zombies...Who knows, if we drive directly out of the west gate, we will probably attract more..."

Diana also looked in the direction Erica pointed. The main road connecting the castle below was crowded with living dead wandering back and forth. Although they did not show obvious aggression, it was just the same as before.

Before entering the castle, Rika and others deliberately used gasoline to set a fire near the castle gate, which prevented these dull-minded monsters from approaching the gate.

Through many previous tests, we know that the seemingly aimless wandering of the living dead is actually the result of their ability to seek out enemies. It seems that their abilities are weakening over time, because previously Erica

When they first came to Ronan Castle, these monsters used vision and hearing to detect enemies, and the maximum shrinking range was about a hundred meters within the line of sight. But if we analyze the current situation, as long as they do not appear within 20 meters of them,

They will be as aimless as a blind man in the distance to the left and right.

Yes, aimlessly. The current group of living dead people are not even eating anymore. They are either staying motionless in a dark place as if they are hibernating, or they are aimlessly wandering on the street like headless flies.

Wandering.

However, their hearing seems to be pretty good, which is why when Erica drove the BMP3 infantry fighting vehicle to the gate of the castle, a lot of monsters suddenly appeared from all over the city.

"What are you going to do with these...mutated...zombies?" Diana said the word in response and asked.

Diana is actually still not used to this weird name given by Erica. After all, there is no corresponding word for this title in the Anno language, and even if Erica expresses it in English, Diana has never been exposed to it in her previous life.

Such unfamiliar vocabulary.

"There is no good way. I can only think of killing them directly... However, I always feel that these zombies are a little too abnormal." Erica used the telescope to scan the location of the safe zone in the south and then asked casually: "By the way,

...Isn’t the map still in use?”

"Okay, but I don't think you will like the result." With that, Diana took out the magic map and unfolded it in front of Erica.

Diana's "gloating" smile made Erica feel uneasy, but then she glanced at the large red scene on the map and suddenly couldn't control her emotions.

"What the hell is going on?" Erica looked at the map carefully.

"This is Ronenberg..." Diana said, pointing to the vaguely visible pattern on the edge of the map.

"I know, but...these red dots...are they all monsters?" Erica kept looking at the dense pile of red dots in the center of the map and asked, "No...it seems..."

"It's too small." Diana retracted the arm holding the map, then spread the map on the ground and fiddled with something while saying, "Did you know, this map has a very interesting new function..."

After finishing speaking, Diana waved her fingers to create a relatively blurry projection from the map under her feet. Erica was indeed not surprised by this, but she somehow managed to control the projection with her fingers skillfully.

After changing the angle of view for a long time, he said: "Underground?"

"Well, this is an underground canal in Ronenberg. There seems to be something in it." Diana pointed to the horizontal perspective and said, "These things look very small, so they can't be zombies... more like

…”

"...Egg?" Erica also tried to enlarge the local projection, and just as Erica said, these red light spots turned into some kind of fuzzy outline after being enlarged, and this shape

It does look like some kind of egg.

Erica tried several other targets, and finally found a target that looked relatively clear and locked the lens.

This red egg-shaped object looks like an egg standing upright, but in terms of real size, it is almost the size of a human head. The most bizarre thing is that there seems to be an egg-shaped object in the middle of the projection.

Although it is not very clear that something is moving, this discovery also confirms the speculation of "eggs".

Erica narrowed the projection again, and then used the projection function to change the angle to only show the underground structure. When Erica took a rough look at the number of eggs hidden underground, she couldn't help being surprised and said: "

This number... is almost 100,000?"

"It's not that many, but it's very close..." Diana also lost her calm smile at this moment, replaced it with a serious expression and stared at the projection on the map and said: "But it seems that these eggs are very fragile, maybe

I can try using magic..."

Erica and Diana looked at each other for a moment, and then they both sighed helplessly.

In any case, this unexpected situation really attracted the attention of the two of them. Although their starting points were slightly different, they were still very firm in their belief that hidden dangers should not be ignored.

"It seems that we need to postpone our departure time." Diana put away the map and said helplessly: "Do I need to inform the earl first?"

"It's necessary, but..." Before Erica could finish speaking, she suddenly heard Liz's voice coming from the earphones: "Erica, we need you to come over."

"What's the matter?" Erica asked cautiously.

"There's... something's wrong." Liz's words were a little vague, and she didn't seem to know what she meant.

Erica briefly inquired about her location, then turned on the gun safety and ran towards the southern wall of the castle. Diana did not follow because she needed to find Ruby and Thrannier first.

These two little guys don't like to be crowded with people in the crowded castle courtyard, but there are no spare rooms in Jinghua Castle that can be borrowed at this moment, because almost every corner of the castle is occupied, even

Those cellars that have not been opened for decades are now used as places for the castle garrison to rest or for refugee resettlement.

For this reason, Diana had no choice but to agree to Erica's request and leave the BMP3 infantry fighting vehicle at the entrance of the castle that had not yet been put away and use it to house the two little guys. At the same time, this was also Ruby's request, because she said

She needs a quiet place to do something. Although she didn't say it too directly, everyone can guess that the so-called thing must be related to the crystal dragon bone.

Erica quickly followed the passage of the city wall to the sentry point of the southern city wall, and then used her status as the "Count's guest" to successfully enter a heavily guarded sentry tower.

In a prison cell inside the sentry tower, Liz was guarding a woman with a gun. Although there were several Ronenberg guards beside her, and the woman's hands and feet were shackled, as a thief,

Liz's intuition told her that this woman was dangerous. So she didn't dare to take it lightly. She never took her eyes away from this woman until Erica entered the room.

"Is that you?" Although Erica also walked in with a gun in hand, she couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief when she saw the other person.

This closely guarded woman is none other than Morana, who was rescued by Erica not long ago. However, Erica still does not know the identity and name of the other party at this time, and left her behind after curing her before.

In the safe zone, Erica never expected to see her here again. Moreover, Erica was also very curious. She was obviously injured so seriously before, and she injected a certain amount of it for Erica's sake.

Logically speaking, most of the anesthetic effects of the anesthetic have dissipated by now, but a normal person would not look so energetic like her.

"you……"

Erica walked up to the other party and was about to say hello to her, but she never expected that the other party easily took her arm out of the shackles and stretched it out in front of Erica.

Faced with this sudden move, Liz and Erica reacted the fastest. Liz quickly raised the muzzle of the G36KA4 gun and pointed it at the opponent's head after about a second, while Erica was a little slower.

She took a step forward. Although she had no intention of lifting the AK-74M hanging on her body to aim at the opponent, she still put her free right hand to the holster on her leg and pulled out the Glock the moment the opponent raised his hand.

37. However, Erica did not point the gun at the other party, because she found that the other party did not intend to pose any threat to her, but instead extended his hand more like asking for something.

"Give it back to me!" Morana said, stretching out her hand.

Morana was frightened after saying this, because she understood what the two people opposite had just done, and she also knew that the things they held in their hands were weapons. After all, although their appearance was very different, in Morana

In Na's eyes, these weapons, like Aledo's wall of fire, shoot projectiles from iron pipes to kill the enemy, so when Liz behind Erica pointed the gun at her, she decisively stabbed her

The palm that entered Erica's throat spread upwards, and then made a gesture of begging for something.

Yes, Morana did want to kill Erica at that moment. Because she knew that this "mysterious" woman would become a hidden danger to Aledo. After all, it looked like she was going to the north when she suddenly left the forest.

It looks like she went to Mariaburg to get involved. Although she is wary of the mysterious power of Selida Forest, Morana will still seize every favorable opportunity to try to eliminate the hidden danger of Erica. After all, things have already developed to this point.

, she can't afford to lose, and neither can the entire Shadow Brotherhood.

But at the critical juncture of life and death, Morana still calmed down. Because she found that this woman did not currently have an enemy against her, which meant that she did not know who she was.

This is a good opportunity, a good opportunity to try to find out the details of the other party.

At that moment, Morana quickly thought about the most appropriate countermeasure, and then used the disguise she had honed over a long period of time to get closer to Erica.

"What else?" Erica looked at the other person's outstretched palm and couldn't help but panic.

Morana pretended to be very angry and then pointed her left hand behind Erica and said: "That! It's mine! Give it back to me!"

Erica was stunned again, but soon remembered something hanging behind her. Erica smiled knowingly, then put away the pistol and reached behind her back to take out two short knife sets that were incompatible with her outfit.

.

This thing is exactly the weapon that Erica found on her body when she rescued the other party. Firstly, Erica felt that this thing was a bit dangerous. After all, this short knife forged from an unknown metal was extremely sharp and almost indestructible. Secondly, this thing

Sticking to the other person's back would inevitably hinder the treatment. So based on these two points of judgment, Erica decisively put away the two daggers. However, after the operation, she was in a hurry to do other things.

, so Erica forgot about it until they set off to Thornflower Castle.

No matter how you look at this situation now, it looks like you are in the wrong, and the owner's family has taken the initiative to come to the door, but in the end, he and others were arrested and even put in shackles. Even judging from the current situation

Things like shackles don't work on others, but morally speaking, she really doesn't have an advantage. Although Erica feels that she is willful most of the time, she will still take the initiative to maintain herself at some critical moments.

Moral cultivation, after all, as a mercenary who has been doing dark work for a long time, when the last trace of moral ideas in his heart disappears, he will completely become a bloodthirsty beast.

Erica smiled reluctantly, and then handed over the short knife in her hand. But just when Morana was about to snatch it, she unexpectedly retracted her hand, causing Morana to miss.

Morana once again showed a vigilant and fierce look, but Erica smiled awkwardly again.

"Don't get me wrong... I just want to ask... if your knife... can be sold?" Erica asked cautiously.

"Sell?" Morana was a little confused by this unexpected question, because she had just envisioned several possibilities, but she did not expect such an unfolding.

"Yes, I like your knives very much, but this thing seems to be custom-made, so..." Erica decisively sent both daggers to Morana this time and said: "

I want to buy one."
To be continued...