Chapter 402 Too Late

The vision at night was extremely poor, so after the battle, the progress of tidying up the battlefield and dealing with the wounded was much slower due to light problems. Akasha doesn't have infinite mana, and she can't always use the "Holy Light" to illuminate the soldiers. Therefore, it took more than two hours just to pile up and burn the corpses of those ghouls.

Fortunately, with the help of the "ring of purification", none of the cavalry was at risk of being infected with the plague. After everything was packed, the team set foot on their way home at midnight.

The cavalry raised their torches and marched slowly through the forest. According to the current speed, they might have to walk for an hour before returning to Houlier City.

But at this time, Rody has nothing important to do. Riding on the horse, he glanced at the task of [Judgment of the Throne of Bones], thinking carefully about the clues about the "plague" in his mind. However, after recalling the details of the past tasks, Luo Di However, Di found that "history" was out of touch with everything he was facing now: the low fatality rate of the plague is really strange. If it's just to make people sick, what's the point of the undead doing this?

He couldn't figure it out.

Akasha was in a daze on the horse next to her. All she could think about was the few words Sally said to herself, and she was a little distracted unconsciously. Rody turned his head and wanted to chat with her, but seeing her silence, he thought the corpses of those ghouls made her uncomfortable, so he simply closed his mouth, and turned his attention to the corpses that were tied into rice dumplings and thrown on the horses. The undead pharmacist on his back.

Knight Wellington was not polite to this undead, his healthy body was beaten like a distorted doll, his arms and legs were turned backwards, and the "chain of light" shining with pale golden light was tied around his mouth, preventing him from casting spells at all. What a chance—Rhody looked over, thinking that the other party would struggle with anger, but he didn't expect the pharmacist to be quiet and weird.

As if sensing Rody's gaze, the other party's head turned slightly, and a stiff smile suddenly appeared on his pale cheeks.

"Ho...ho..."

His laughter is like a leaking bellows, making people shudder in the dark night. Roddy frowned, and said, "Augustin was suppressed by the parliament, right?"

These words made the other party's eyes show some consternation, but he quickly covered it up and continued to smile slyly there.

"Falanier has spent a lot of time in order to cause this plague. Do you think I don't know about this?"

Roddy continued to throw another "blockbuster", which stopped the undead's laughter. The corner of the other party's mouth twitched a few times, then turned his head away, and there was no more reaction.

Rody wasn't interested in interrogating the other party now, so he casually took out the remaining three "mutated magic crystal fragments" and studied them, ignoring the undead captives.

Time passed, and the team marching through the night arrived in the city of Houlier, where a curfew was being enforced, an hour later.

The streets were empty, and occasionally you could see soldiers of the Duke's Mansion patrolling with torches. Rody turned around and saw the slowly closing city gate, but he didn't have much worry in his heart: the undead were wiped out, the source of the plague was destroyed, and there was no time limit for the task. At this time, under the situation of city blockade, everything is stable, and it seems that there should be no accidents.

He yawned, confirmed that Nokia was in the forest outside the city, checked the list again, and told the Duck to stand by nearby, and then planned to go back to sleep well, and look for other clues to the undead plague after waking up. .

After the team arrived at the mansion, they disbanded and rested. Because the Duke was tired, no one disturbed him to rest at this time. Wellington greeted Rody and dragged the undead prisoner to the dungeon. Roddy looked at his back, vaguely Hear the laughter again from the dark street...

"Perhaps this guy is crazy."

Rody said something to Akasha beside him, then entered the mansion, and casually asked the servant beside him as he walked, "Why didn't you see the butler John?

"Master John told us to go back to rest, now he should be asleep too..."

"Oh, what about... what about Sally?"

After asking, Rody glanced at Akasha, and found that she turned her head to the side, so that he couldn't see the expression on her face at all.

"Miss Sally has rested."

"oh…"

Rody was slightly relieved when he heard such a reply. His mood was very complicated, and he felt that the two of them could avoid meeting each other to avoid embarrassment as much as possible, but then he felt a little unspeakable loss in his heart. However, thinking of Akasha, he still tried his best to put these distracting thoughts behind him, and under the leadership of his servants, he and Akasha went back to their respective rooms to rest.

The tired Rody fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the bed, and he slept soundly. However, after only four or five hours of sleep, he was awakened by a slightly noisy sound outside the door.

Due to lack of sleep, Rody woke up feeling exhausted. The sky outside the window was slightly bright, and it seemed that there was still half an hour before sunrise. Rody opened the curtains, put on a robe casually, opened the door and looked around, and found that there were many servants in the corridor.

"What happened?"

"Lo...Master Roddy, butler John has been attacked"

"What?"

This sentence made Rody lose all sleep in an instant. He turned around, picked up the dagger on the weapon rack and rushed out, asking as he walked, "Where are the others? How are you doing now?"

"On the first floor, in a coma all the time..."

Hearing this, Rody hurriedly knocked on Akasha's door, and then dragged the little pastor to rush downstairs.

The atmosphere in the mansion suddenly became tense, and Rody's nerves were tense. After seeing John being lifted to the ground, he was slightly relieved—his health showed that the butler was not in danger of life.

"Akasha, treat me."

The holy light fell, and John woke up quickly. However, after opening his eyes, the butler immediately shouted: "Someone attacked me in the mansion!"

"where?"

Rody's heart sank, and he asked with narrowed eyes.

John scanned his surroundings, felt the swelling on the back of his head, and replied, "At...near the pigeon coop, just after I went to deliver a letter to the Duke..."

After his words fell, the two maids beside him took a breath, and Luo Di turned around and asked, "What's the problem?"

"Butler John delivered the letter in the afternoon...but at night he was still giving us orders."

"I still remember you telling us to go back to rest, it was almost midnight at that time..."

The expressions of the two maids did not seem to be fake, and Rody also remembered that the servant answered like this when he came back last night—such a strange thing suddenly made him realize that something was not right...

"Where's Sally? Has anyone seen her?"

He stood up suddenly and asked the servants around him loudly.

"Miss, she went back to rest early last night..."

"did not see…"

"No, it's not right."

Luo Di's face changed suddenly, he turned around and rushed towards the second floor. He jumped over the seven or eight steps and rushed to the front of the room on the second floor. He suddenly opened the door, and immediately found that Sally's bedroom was empty. , can't see half a figure at all...

An unprecedented panic suddenly emerged from the bottom of his heart, and Rody immediately remembered the sinister smile on the face of the undead prisoner. He gritted his teeth, and immediately went downstairs to ask John to order a thorough search of the mansion, and asked Akasha to light up the ring. Make sure there are no undead among the minions.

Then Rody frantically searched for traces that might be left in the mansion, but after asking around, no one knew who had left the mansion...

At this time, the two great knights rushed to the mansion after hearing the news. After asking, Titus slapped his forehead and said in surprise: "Isn't that John last night? He asked me to deliver a letter to the monastery. Lead me away?"

"It must be so. Someone perfectly disguised John Butler and took Sally away."

Taking a deep breath, Rody clenched his fists trying to calm himself down, but his fingertips pierced his palm—anger was second, and Rody's most thought at this time was regret...

If I had known this earlier, why would I still force Sally to stay...

But there is no medicine for regret in this world. The severe pain in his palm made Rody wake up a little bit. He turned his head and asked Wellington, "Take me to see that undead. Maybe only he can know something now."

Three minutes later, Rody, who pushed open the dungeon door, went straight to the undead who was hanging by the iron chain, and grabbed him without any nonsense:

"Tell me all you know...now."

The undead was lifted up with the four or five hammer balls weighing more than ten kilograms. Wellington and Akasha, who followed Rody into the dungeon, looked at each other, both of them were frightened by the never-before-seen hostility on his body...

At this moment, Roddy was a wild beast that could get out of control at any time.

"Ho... ho... ho."

The cold laughter echoed in the cage, but Rody no longer had the patience to play psychological tactics with him, he raised his right hand and punched the opponent in the face—

"click"

Rody's current attribute strength has long been more than ten times that of ordinary people. This punch almost cracked the opponent's skull. Amid the huge impact, the head of the undead smashed out a large piece of turtle from the stone wall behind him. crack marks.

"What have you all done? What arrangements are there in Houlier City?"

Rody's voice was steady, without any sign of panic, but the anger suppressed below the surface seemed to make the air around him abnormally cold.

"You are already... late... Ha, ha, ha..."

Undead couldn't feel the pain, he still kept that nervous smile on his distorted face, mocking the angry but powerless Roddy in a low voice.

"fuck you"

Roddy couldn't bear it any longer, and kicked the opponent in the abdomen.

With a sound of "boom", countless dust and fragments fell from the ceiling, and the opponent's spine was directly crushed by this feeling... But the undead, who was limp in a puddle of mud, still maintained a strange smile, those gray eyes Hitomi stared at Roddy, and repeated that sentence in a low voice—

"You...it's...too late."

"Akasha, use that ring."

"He can't bear the light of the ring anymore. I'm afraid he will die in less than three seconds."

Akasha looked at Rody. Although she didn't ask, she knew very well that Rody's anxiety and gaffe at the moment were all because of Sally. Although she felt a little awkward, Akasha swallowed when she saw his behavior. Whispered: "I—I have another method, but I'm afraid I can only try it once..."