Section 25 Alien Beasts
After saying these threatening words, the big man left with his men.
"Tsk, this task is also very troublesome." Ashu Rufate looked at the other party's back and said to Carrie in his mind. "You can't fight back when you are beaten. This is really not my taste. Why did he treat me like this just now?" In fact, this question does not need to be answered, you can guess it. This big man needs to establish his authority for some reason, and Ashu Rufate, who just arrived, became the chicken that killed the chicken for the monkey to see.
"Master, this is just an accident." Carrie commented. "But it seems that it is inappropriate to be too low-key..."
Ashu Rufate got up, and when he was about to continue walking, Carrie once again reminded: "Master, they seem to have come out of the dungeon."
Indeed, at the entrance of the dungeon in the distance, two people were walking out of the inside with something. They carried the thing all the way to the gate of the lord's mansion, and outside the door, the sound of horseshoe and iron palm trampling on the road surface was heard.
These two people were indeed soldiers who were left in the dungeon before, and what they carried was indeed Fei. Fei's hands were tied behind her back, and a piece of ragged cloth was stuffed into her mouth, and anesthetics were even more effective in her body. These multiple arrangements made her unable to struggle or shout. In fact, even if she struggled and shouted, it would have no meaning, at most it would only cause a little insignificant trouble.
"The carriage is waiting outside!" shouted a soldier in charge of transport. Suddenly, he was alert to a figure behind him, almost letting him drop the scorch in his hand. But the next moment, he recognized the person who appeared as a companion - although he didn't know the other party's name, he knew that the other party was also an earl's servant. When he just went down to the dungeon, it was this person who held a torch to be responsible for lighting.
"I was shocked. It turned out to be you... were you here to help?" he asked without any hesitation.
"Ah...yes, I'm here to help." Ashu Rufat immediately beat the snake and followed the stick.
"Help me hold it down so that it's better to get on the carriage..." The three of them lifted Fei onto the carriage with all their might. Ashrufate also followed the carriage and sat in the carriage with the soldier who asked him for his help.
"It only takes two people." said the soldier who had not yet got in the car. "I won't go." He seemed very happy to get rid of this duty, so he waved to the two people in the car and ran away.
"Damn it!" the soldier cursed and climbed to the driver's seat in front. Then he waved the reins and the carriage began to move forward.
"Where are we going?" Ashu Rufate asked as casually as possible.
"The cemetery outside the city." The other party replied casually, and then realized that something was wrong. "What, don't you know?"
"Oh, this... I'm here to help because I'm curious." Ashu Rufate tried to pass by as perfunctorily as possible. "What does the Count just mean when he said 'Go to meet the ghoul'?"
"You don't know? Is it true or false?"
"I just came here shortly after that, and it was introduced by a friend, but he didn't tell me anything." Ash Rufate admitted. "What the hell is going on?"
"It's not a glorious thing," the other party sighed. "Simply put, there are many ghouls around Via, and they attack residents at night from time to time in small groups, which is hard to guard against. Although we also used various methods to kill some ghouls, the number of these monsters is too large and too cunning. Then our Earl Hathel didn't know how to make a move to deal with ghouls."
"A way to deal with ghouls?"
"In fact, it should be said that it is the 'method of dealing with ghouls', which is to use a person as a sacrifice." The other party said. "A death row prisoner anesthetized and put it in a cemetery outside the city. The ghoul will eat that person. After obtaining this sacrifice, they will leave with satisfaction and stop harassing the residents. That's it... This little girl is really a bit pitiful, but he intends to assassinate the count. He heard that he killed several of the earl's guards, who were originally death row prisoners. In this way, it is finally a good thing."
"You mean... when there is no death row prisoner..." Ashu Rufate realized the implicit meaning in the other party's words.
"I didn't say that. I didn't say anything." The soldier sighed. "Here, you need to take care of your ears and mouth, otherwise there will be trouble. You are new to you, so you should pay more attention to these."
The carriage went outwards, and there was no trouble along the way. The only pause was just waiting at the gate for the soldiers guarding the city to open the door. When he finally stopped, Ashrufat found that there was a cemetery outside the carriage. There was peace everywhere, and only a small amount of phosphorus fire flashed and extinguished, adding a strange atmosphere to the land.
"We'll carry her down." The soldier left the driving position and carried Fei out of the car with Ashu Rufate. At this time, the effect of the anesthetic had fully played out. When Ashu Rufate carried Fei's body, he clearly felt that her mind was completely unconscious.
The two of them carried Fei to the gravekeeper's cottage in the middle of the cemetery. However, this cottage did not live in it, so it was more like a pile of ruins than a cottage.
Ghouls - just like their names, are monsters that can eat corpses. So far, people have little understanding of this monster, and they do not understand why ghouls are interested in corpses. If ghouls make their living by corpses and are a carcinogen, then they are only interested in human corpses, and there is no record that they will swallow animal corpses; but if they eat corpses only because this food is easier to obtain, then they have a strong obsession with corpses. Although humans often set traps to kill some ghouls, they will always come back stubbornly. Unless they kill a large number of ghouls at once, they will always succeed in the end.
What's even more peculiar is that in a small amount of research that has been conducted, people can infer that ghouls have a certain degree of intelligence, and some scholars even believe that this monster is transformed by human degeneration and mutation. As for why humans undergo degeneration and mutation, there are many different opinions and there is no conclusion yet.
Of course, for the humans living in Sivania, they do not need to pursue scientific and historical issues. Everyone knows that ghouls are ugly, hunchbacked monsters that often attack cemeteries to drag corpses away, or even attack individual humans. The real threat to such monsters is their claws, and the wounds caused by their claws, even if they seem insignificant, the toxins on them are enough to kill a horse. Fortunately, this monster only moves in small groups and does not gather a large number. So ghouls are more troublesome than threats.
"The ghoul hasn't come..." Ashu Rufat looked around, his dark vision allowed him to see a large range, far beyond humans.
The soldier was breathing heavily. This was not because of the cold weather, but because of the fear from the heart. This moon-like night was a dangerous mission in a cemetery. Especially when the ghouls could come at any time, everyone knew that the monster was not a polite civilized person.
"It's time for us to go back." The soldier said to Ashu Rufat. "Although the count's order was to watch her die... but in this case, there should be no surprises?"
"I think we should stay..." Ashu Rufat looked at the carriage not far away. At this time, the horse seemed to feel some ominous sign, and seemed particularly anxious, constantly digging the ground with his hooves. "But this kind of witness does not require two people, one person is enough." He smiled. "Let me watch here?"
"Ah..." The soldier was stunned, "But this..."
"In this way, even the butler will have to admit my loyalty to the master." Ashu Rufat said this lie with great difficulty. He found that such unscrupulous words made him feel disgusted.
"Although you are new, you are really loyal." The soldier was moved. He untied his sword and handed it to Eshu Rufate. "Hold this, I can help you a little bit when there is a crisis. You must remember... don't make a sound, those monsters seem to have a very sensitive hearing."
"You must be careful! Although those monsters are small-scale, they must not show off. If they are really discovered, they must escape." When leaving, the soldier gave more than once instructions.
Ashu Rufate looked at the carriage quietly until the latter disappeared completely in the night. Now there were only two men in the cemetery. He pulled out the sword given to him by the soldiers and cut off the rope that tied Fei's hands and feet. The quality of this sword was actually quite good, and the thick rope was cut open immediately under the blade.
Now, Fei was lying on a big stone, his hands and feet naturally stretched out, motionless.
"It's totally unconscious." Carrie commented in her mind. "Although it won't last for several days, it should last long enough. Master, you'd better take her away. If the ghoul really comes, there's no problem with you relying on your own strength, but she probably wants..."
"It's too late." Ashu Rufate replied.
"Too late? What too late?" This time Carrie was surprised.
"They are here!" Ashu Rufate stood up straight. At this time, there was no trace of anyone around, and there was no need to hide his true face, so he immediately summoned his armor and sword.
At the edge of the cemetery, some figures had appeared. They climbed over the already broken railings of the cemetery and approached here at an astonishing speed. And their number was far more than a "small strand". In all directions, in a blink of an eye, there were figures of ghouls everywhere, and they were rushing towards Ash Rufate in a trotting posture. For some reason, Carrie could not feel the existence of these monsters before seeing these ghouls.
There are thousands of ghouls in the field of vision, and so many, no wonder they can harass the city to compromise in this way.
The cold moonlight shone in this cemetery, and Ashu Rufate tightly held the giant sword in his hand. He knew that this battle was inevitable. But he also knew that ghouls were a selfish and cowardly creature. Many battle records prove that as long as they could kill the leading ones, the remaining ghouls would choose to escape from the battle, no matter how many of them were.
"Wait a minute, master!" Carrie suddenly said in her mind. "They are not hostile."
Chapter completed!