Cheese found Heather in the basement of the two-story building. And it is worth mentioning that the basement in this building is not a cellar used by ordinary people to pile up sundries or store food, but seems to have been specially transformed.

Even the passage to the basement must be opened through a mechanism hidden on the bookshelf. This makes the mage have to doubt the habits of the previous owner of this building. But no matter who the previous owner of this building is, in

After the plague broke out, he took all his property and left Zhuoliu Town as soon as possible, and this small building was taken over by the Kingdom Knights and became the place where Heather and the Hammer Knights who followed her back to Zhuoliu Town were imprisoned.

prison.

It stands to reason that as Heather is the knight captain of Grand Duke Hammer, the most powerful lord of the Cangshi Kingdom, naturally no one dares to do anything rude to her. So in fact, Cheese was not worried about Heather's safety at first.

In his opinion, the most the Kingdom Knights can do is find a place to put the female knight leader under house arrest. In addition to not being able to move freely, they may even have to meet some of Heather's personal needs, so as to ensure that the Grand Duke of Hammer knows about it in the future.

There will be no big thunder after this incident.

However, when the mage found the female knight, Heather's condition was not good. No, perhaps it was not an exaggeration to describe it as terrible. Her originally healthy body shrank from the pain, and even Heather's golden hair looked like

The withered grass stems had lost their former luster, and some tiny black spots could even be seen on the female knight's skin exposed outside her clothes. Of course, Cheese knew what this meant.

"Are you infected?" Without any scruples, he squatted down and helped up the female knight captain who was curled up on the ground. The mage looked in disbelief. You know, before the two separated in Valley City, Cheese could guarantee that Heather had no trace of anything.

The plague virus, and judging from the letters written by the female knight afterwards, she probably did not encounter any attacks from ratmen on the way to Zhuoliu Town. So, why was Heather infected with the plague?

"Gah...gah..." Hearing a familiar voice, Heather raised her head and saw the person walking into the dungeon. She was surprised by the appearance of cheese, but just when she was excited and wanted to say something to the mage

At this time, there was no discernible sound coming out of her throat.

Cheese frowned and became aphasic. This is what he called this symptom. This process of losing the ability to speak is one of the signs of the plague transforming the human body. Being unable to speak means that Heather's vocal organ is changing from human to rat-man.

.During this process, her throat needs to transform slowly like a fetus in its mother's belly. Therefore, although the rat-man who has completed the transformation can regain the use of human language after training, during the disease process

But people can't. This kind of internal change precedes the change in appearance, which is why Heather still looks normal now. She has not been infected with the plague for a long time. From the data collected by Cheese in the quarantine area

Look, people who develop symptoms such as aphasia but do not have obvious mutations will never be infected for more than five days.

"Fortunately, the infection time is still very short, and the mutation should be reversed." After briefly checking Heather's physical condition, Cheese determined that with his current understanding of the plague, he could cure the lesions on the female knight captain, and he could even reverse the disease.

Catalyze those viruses and let them restore Heather's body and mutated parts.

Although she has lost her speech ability, Heather's hearing is obviously still normal. When the mage said that the plague on her body could be cured, the female knight captain excitedly grabbed Cheese's clothes and pointed at the dungeon with her other hand.

Inside. The room where Heather was locked was at the entrance of the secret door, which meant that when Cheese came to the dungeon, he discovered the female knight captain immediately, and the mage had not yet explored other parts of the dungeon.

Now it is not difficult to understand through Heather's body language that the female knight captain means that the other Hammer Knights who came back with her should be locked deep in this dungeon.

"Are they also infected?" the mage asked.

Nodding vigorously, Heather gave Cheese a positive answer. At the same time, the anxious expression on her face became more intense. It seemed that she was urging the mage to leave her alone and quickly check the status of other knights in the dungeon.

Cheese's brows furrowed even more. He comforted Heather softly, then stood up and walked deeper into the dungeon. The basement was much larger than he thought. Even the mage guessed that its area had exceeded

What is going on? A mansion with a small dungeon can also be understood as the special needs of the owner, but looking at this posture, this basement seems to be far larger than what should be needed. Although the top of the basement is every other

There were lit candles in one section as lighting, but as the corridor extended, those candles were unable to provide lighting in a space with such poor air circulation.

Unknowingly, Cheese has used his night vision ability and temporarily stopped his body's need for breathing through some means. The gas contained in this space in this basement is no longer enough to supply a human being with breathing.

As he went deeper, Cheese also saw other Hammer Knights. Although they had somewhat noble status in the outside world, it was obvious that in front of the owner of this basement, their status was not high enough like Xi's.

The knights were hung on the iron hooks on the wall like bacon in winter. Judging from the state of their corpses, they were all infected by the rat-man plague during their lifetime, and they also developed diseases.

Different degrees of mutation. Their bodies did not rot in this oxygen-deprived environment, which allowed Cheese to carefully examine the cause of their death.

The strange thing is that the cause of death of these knights does not seem to be trauma or the plague itself. They seem to have died from some kind of medicine that the wizard does not know, and the formula of this medicine is still changing from the traces on different knights.

Si felt a strange sense of depression in his heart. Seeing the disemboweled bodies of these knights hanging on iron hooks, he realized that the people who killed these knights were probably doing the same thing as him - to find the source of the plague.

Antidote. However, unlike the mage, the other party has obviously not received in-depth training from the Gray Tower, so his understanding of the plague is only at the level of ordinary diseases. No matter who is studying these, he has not realized the so-called

The essence of the Rat Man Plague is a curse that can continue to spread.

At the end of the underground corridor, Cheese found a separate room. This was a place that was absolutely impossible for normal humans to reach. Even if they ran with full speed, ordinary people would never be able to go so deep without breathing.

Oxygen Zone. The door to the room was unlocked. The mage carefully pushed open the thin wooden door, and what appeared in front of him was an ordinary-looking study room. There was an open notebook on the table in the room.

It seemed to record something. Although he had the ability of night vision, Cheese still had to get very close to see the words on the note. After reading the contents of the note, the mage felt a rolling chill coming from his back.
Chapter completed!