Soul echo

Chapter 378 Under the Plague
The city gate of Constantia is closed, and there are no living people in the farms outside the city. The only good thing is that there are only a few bloodstains near a few farmhouses, and Zhong Ye and the others have not found any corpses for the time being.

Something must have happened in this city, so the ruler of this city or the church forces chose to close the city gate and keep 'those things' inside.

Unfortunately, before they closed the city gate, the virus had already leaked out.

Zhong Ye and the others put the carriage in a farm outside the city, and untied the reins that bound the two draft horses.

"If you encounter something scary, run away quickly."

Before leaving, Zhong Ye patted the heads of the two horses, wondering if they could understand what he said.

But out of biological instinct, they will definitely run away when they encounter something that can threaten their lives.

After taking all the valuables, Zhong Ye, Lilian and the others left the carriage and headed for Constantia not far away.

The towering city walls separated the inside and the outside, and the only passage was blocked by a thick wooden door.

Zhong Ye took a piece of rope, easily climbed up the wall, and let the rope down.

With Zhong Ye's help, Lily and Lilian quickly climbed up, and then stood on the city wall with him, overlooking the dead city.

Zhong Ye could hear a lot of breathing in this city, but just like that rabbit, the humans infected by the plague were also alive. They didn't die, they were not undead creatures, but their brains or nervous systems, or even their souls were infected by the plague. occupied.

——Looking around, the city streets have been occupied by 'living corpses' wandering around, looking for prey.

They seem to have a way to distinguish the same kind from the living, and they don't fight each other, and they get along in harmony—at least for now.

These living corpses are still living things, as long as they are still active, they must eat if they want to keep themselves alive.

Zhong Ye and the others saw large bloodstains on the hands, mouths and clothes of many living corpses. If not unexpected, many living creatures had already died under the hands of these living corpses, but they did not know that the dead living creatures were human beings. Or other animals.

Looking at the group of living corpses, Lily only felt her scalp go numb, "Are there any living people in this city?"

Who knows how long this plague can lurk, in case the disaster that is happening in Constantia is detonated artificially?

"There is a high probability."

Zhong Ye took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled, "If there is no living person, the priest in Schaffhausen would not be able to know what happened to Constantia. These two cities are so close to each other. Judging from the excitement in Faufhausen and the attitude of the pastor, it can be speculated that perhaps before today, the situation in Constantia was not as serious as what we see now."

Zhong Ye's explanation did not make Lili relax, but made her feel terrified.

Could it be that in just one day, Constantia became like this?

Lily recalled it carefully, the pastor of the Earth Mother in Schaffhausen said that 'there have been some problems in Constantia recently', that is to say, the plague has already begun to spread, and the priests in Constantia have also paid attention to it. When it came to the plague, they just failed to control the plague.

if it is like this……

Lily raised her head and looked into the city worriedly, "Could it be that the church in Constantia has fallen?"

If the clergy in Constantia had noticed the existence of the plague, then they should have treated the infected. Given the current situation in Constantia, it was not difficult to see that the clergy had not been able to control the plague at all.

That being the case, is it possible that the church in Constantia has been captured by the infected?
Priests are also human beings, even extraordinary ones may be killed by a surprise attack.

The protection of the gods is not omnipotent, otherwise this world would not have to struggle to survive under the threat of the abyss.

"No matter what, you still have to go in and have a look to find out what's going on." Zhong Ye shook his head, not denying Lily's guess.

The situation of Constantia is obviously not optimistic, and he dare not judge the situation of the church.

But just now he saw an eagle hovering over the city. That eagle seemed to be raised by someone, but he didn't know who its owner was.

Is it a survivor?Or is it the mastermind behind the plague?

All of this is unknown, so they want to go to the city to find out.

With Zhong Ye around, even if they went directly through the street, there would be no problem, but it would be too troublesome to face hundreds of living corpses.

Zhong Ye planned to carry forward the style he had when he was in Milan and ran across the roof.

Only this time, he was no longer acting alone.

With the support of high attributes, Lily and Lilian can follow him on the roof, but they need to be extra careful.

After putting on the half body armor, Lily's weight was close to that of Zhong Ye's, but her agility and perception attributes were not as high as Zhong Ye's. She couldn't control her body very well, and she couldn't reduce the pressure of her weight on the roof.

In order to avoid the collapse of the roof, Zhong Ye and Lilian could only slow down and wait for Lili to follow them with clumsy steps.

Her weapon was held by Zhong Ye, even so, the probability of Zhong Ye collapsing the roof with his own weight was much lower than Lily's.

Lily walked on the roof carefully so as not to step on something like moss and slide down from the roof.

The living corpses on the ground seemed to rely on their vision to confirm their prey. After all, Zhong Ye and the others had walked through several streets and made quite a lot of noise, but none of the living corpses looked up.

There are not many tall buildings in this city, and the church is one of them.

Because it was too different from the surrounding architectural style, Zhong Ye and the others could tell at a glance that the building was a church.

The church in Constantia is made of stacked gray stone bricks. The whole looks like a tower standing on the ground. Compared with the church, it is more like a mage tower, except that there is a holy statue of the goddess of the family hanging in the middle of the tower. Only then did Zhong Ye and the others figure out the purpose of the tower.

The church is located on the other side of the city, and Zhong Ye and the others need to go through most of the city to get there.

Squeak!
Just as Zhong Ye and the others approached the center of the city, Zhong Ye suddenly heard some noises and turned his gaze to the ground.

Lily and Lilian didn't speak. After seeing Zhong Ye's reaction, they also turned their attention to the ground, and then a disgusting shocking scene came into view.

——The tails and bodies of a large group of mice were tangled together in some unknown way. They screamed and twisted their limbs, frantically trying to escape from this group, but the more they moved, the deeper their bodies sank.

Around this group of mice, some mice are watching, or simply acting.

However, those mice didn't want to rescue the trapped mice. Instead, as if they were attracted by something, they stepped forward with short limbs, jumped into that group, and got into that group when other mice were struggling to escape. in.

Seeing this scene, Lily couldn't help being stunned.

"This, is this also caused by the plague?"

The heavy breath she exhaled made the mask lens stained with a layer of white mist, but what she saw was so amazing that she subconsciously ignored these things.

Zhong Ye shook his head heavily, "I don't know."

If the scene in front of him was really caused by the plague that was spreading in Constantia, then what exactly is this plague?Why can it not only make the living creatures infected with the plague turn into walking corpses, but also cause this strange phenomenon like the "rat king" in front of us?

Or is there not only one plague in Constantia?
I am afraid that all of this can only be known when meeting a real Constantia resident, and the most likely place where there are still living people who have not been infected with the plague and turned into walking corpses is probably the church...

Zhong Ye looked up, they were not far from the church, and three streets away was the gray tower standing on the ground.

Even as they came so close, the tower remained silent.

(End of this chapter)