"A large number of dead people have appeared in the north and west areas of the city, the same ones we saw in the woods before. Knights have been sent to drive them away, but the number is a bit large."
While walking up the sidewalk of the city wall, I found the road was safe and asked the local knight on duty.
"Where's the lord?"
"They just got the news. But from their panicked looks, they shouldn't be the ones causing the trouble."
Although the incident happened suddenly, Catherine's spy had already given her the answer.
"Panic? Oh, I understand. Is there something happening among the people?"
"No. It seems that because there are too many fake news and too many random disasters recently, the people have become numb and don't take it seriously at all."
Hearing this, Lu Pingan smiled, very subtly.
【.The third disaster, the disaster of the living, the earth turns over, and the poison of the dead seeps out of the surface, everywhere. When the dead return, can the resurrection of the ancient gods be far behind?】
Undead creatures are scary, but what's even scarier is the meaning behind their appearance.
This is the third plague of the seven plagues, which means that the disaster has entered a new stage.
To ordinary residents, this is just a new group of monsters and a natural disaster, but for many insiders, it represents a step closer to the end of the world.
".They had conflicts. Some people destroyed their own cemeteries, and some even tried to destroy shared cemeteries in civilian areas."
Just listen to this kind of news. If you really want to deal with it, it will probably be extremely complicated and troublesome.
In fact, when Lu Pingping and his party returned from the forest, there were knights promoting the "cremation" matter.
But obviously, in most of the world, "promoting your ancestors" is not a good word, especially in agricultural civilizations with more land resources (wasteland), where burial has an overwhelming advantage.
Forcing the cremation by force? Dragging out all the ancestors together? Not to mention that there is no evidence at present. Even if there is evidence, the difficulty of carrying out this work is really ridiculous.
Judging from the results, even after half a month, this work has been pushed forward but not pushed. After learning about the huge number of "potential resuscitators" in the local area, the insiders had no choice but to give up completely while their scalps were numb.
Plan to clean up.
Once on the city wall, the dead are not far away.
Lu Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief. The number was smaller than expected. There were only about one or two hundred of them in sight, and most of them were withered dead with only bones.
But the royal team that was accompanying them was quite frightened.
"How is it possible? The third disaster will be at least a month away. How could the dead come so early!"
The rainbow prophet's voice of surprise was in Lu Ping'an's ears. The news they received was more detailed, and the scene in front of them was beyond comprehension.
The prophecy of the "seven plagues" has been verified by reality one by one. What happened in Schlailand is a bit special, but it is not the only variation. There are also disasters that occur in advance in other areas.
Disasters of this level do not mark the time of each stage, but the prophets have special skills to judge the specific stages of the disaster.
Although the predictions are no longer accurate, they continue to predict small disasters and predict the difficulties that a certain place or person will encounter. When a large number of "disasters of the dead" appear in an area, the third disaster in the prediction will naturally
Here it comes.
It has to be said that although this method consumes a lot of money and is still a "preset answer" calculation, it can indeed predict the time of the disaster quite accurately.
".It makes no sense and is incomprehensible. Are the church's prophecies also wrong?"
The prophet bit his thumb and fell into self-doubt.
He was not originally so fragile, but if the disaster really came a month earlier, it would mean that all plans were meaningless.
Lu Ping'an looked back at Catherine and motioned for her to explain. Without exposing the "Beast God".
The number of dead people outside was increasing. Lu Pingan could visibly notice that many guards were shaken and frightened, but Lu Pingan himself was somewhat relaxed.
He knew that if the third disaster really broke out, there would definitely not be only a few hundred in front of him. Not to mention the tide of corpses covering the city walls, even the tombs inside and outside the city would probably have become new corpses.
Origin.
The outbreak of the third disaster is not simply "underground erosion", but the collapse of the more conceptual "order of life and death", and naturally no one will be spared by then.
"Ping'an Road, Meow, news has come back. It was those people who went to the forest to log wood, encountered these corpse monsters, and then ran back, Meow! They lured the corpses back, Meow!"
The new news brought by Maomao was good news in a sense. Now, others also breathed a sigh of relief.
The mutation did not occur within the city, or even on a large scale. This is naturally a good thing, but it also means
"Let's arrange a reconnaissance. At least, we need to know about the situation in the forest. Hua Xueyi, Zhixi, and Catherine."
It is no longer realistic to force a breakthrough for reconnaissance, but it seems that if the opponent has not evolved an air force, the flying reconnaissance team should still be relatively safe.
Soon, various countermeasures were issued.
Some knights formed a formation and went out of the city to clear out these monsters.
At the same time, a new ban has been issued, and no one is allowed to go to the Gray Forest.
Another task was also forcibly implemented.
"There are followers of the evil god outside who have resurrected the corpses. Those corpse monsters that get up will attack their blood relatives as soon as possible. Eating their relatives will make them stronger."
Lies are much more useful than the truth at this time.
When the residents saw those corpse monsters, when the victims wailed in the city, and when some "trophies" were dragged into the city, it was natural that "cremation" became acceptable.
In particular, the deliberately compiled rumors directly named "blood relatives" as the first targets of attack, which made those residents determined to dig out their ancestors from their graves and burn them.
During this process, Lu Ping'an didn't care much. Under his instructions, the old lord came out again to stabilize people's hearts, but those familiar with the matter also knew that these actions were of little significance.
".Bring these with you and give them a try."
Lu Ping'an took out some magic plants and gave them to the knights who were leaving the city, asking them to recover the test data.
"For this kind, you pick off the fruit and throw it out. After a few seconds or dozens of seconds, a pile of holy fire will bloom. The power is very low, but it is enough to kill mortals. Don't kill yourself."
"This kind, if you place them on the surface, they will attack all unnatural creatures around them, but don't expect too much, they are very fragile."
There were only a few hundred dead monsters, and Lu Pingan had no intention of taking action. He picked up a telescope on the city wall and watched everything happen.
On the other side, a temporary flying team also set off, and they might be able to bring back more reliable information.