Listening to the footsteps gradually receding, Todd pressed his hand on his rapidly beating heart, panting heavily and asked others: "What on earth is that giant?!"
""honeycomb"."
To his surprise, the knight actually answered the question.
Leslie was lying on the door, looking out through the small hole, and added: "One of the most difficult alien species is a guy that no one wants to encounter. But...it's a bit strange...this guy is the same guy we have met before.
The "Hive" we arrived seems to be different..."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Todd made a stop gesture with his hand: "First of all, what is the 'Hive' alien species?"
Leslie glanced at Alfonso, who nodded, and the former then began to introduce: "'Hive' is a special alien species. It has no combat power of its own, but it can control other creatures. The controlled creatures
It’s called a ‘puppet’. ‘Puppets’ can be insects, fish, beasts or even humans. ‘Hives’ that control humans are quite rare, and alien species that can control so many humans are even rarer.”
Todd heard a key point: "Is there a limit to the number of creatures controlled by the 'Hive' alien species?"
"That's natural. If there is no limit to the number of individuals you can control, wouldn't you be invincible? We have seen people who can control one or two humans, and some who can control four or five, but people like this can control more than fifty people."
"Beehive", there are very few." Leslie confirmed that there was no one outside the door.
With the threat, the body completely relaxed: "The 'Hive' alien species can secrete black bugs from the body and bury them in the 'Puppet' body. When needed, it can control them at any time; when not needed, it can also control them at any time.
Cut off any controlling relationship with them."
Todd thought about the "black liquid" he had just seen, and thought for a moment that those things might be "food-borne parasites" that should enter the host's body through food and water.
"Boss, what should we do now?"
The knight stood up and raised his sword: "Continue to set off, the goal is still Watching Fortress."
Todd watched the two push the door open and set off, and felt a little calm. From the beginning to the end, Alfonso and Leslie did not mention Karin's superpower, as if they had not seen it just now. Although they did not know what they were thinking, the other party did not
If you mention it, he will naturally not talk about it.
After marching forward for about ten minutes, the outline of the Watching Fortress in the night appeared in front of us. In front of the gate facing the south, and the iron gate driven by gears and rockers, more than fifty "Puppets" gathered, "
The Beehive was nowhere to be seen.
Todd hid his body in the grass, looked at the wailing and twisted monsters lingering near the castle gate not far away, and asked the knight: "Okay, how should we get in now?"
Alfonso carried his weapon behind his back, looked around the edge of the castle, pointed to a depression in the outer wall in the night, and said to the others: "Follow me."
Bypassing the enemy at the door, a group of four people came to a hidden wall. The knight picked up a small stone, spotted the slanted window on the city wall, and threw it hard. The stone hit the stone edge of the slanted window and bounced
After a few clicks, it made a crisp sound.
After a few seconds, a bearded head stuck out.
He tapped the city wall rhythmically with the hilt of his sword, one long and four short. Alfonso's movements immediately reminded Todd of the secret joint signals in anti-war movies.
After another minute or two, the sound of a crank turning was heard in the night sky, and a wooden "elevator" slowly approached the ground. First came the lighter Leslie and Karin, then Todd, and finally
It was Alfonso. In this way, the team reached the outer wall of the city through this primitive lifting method.
When Alfonso came down from the elevator and stood on the city wall, the four soldiers released their round push rods and bowed to salute him under Todd's surprised gaze.
A bearded man, wearing a breastplate engraved with a silver crown, walked quickly, beat Alfonso's chest with his fist, and laughed happily: "Thank you for remembering the original password!"
Todd was even more puzzled when he saw this scene. He knew that the badge of the silver crown was the symbol of the Silver Ring Kingdom. Looking at the attire, the bearded man should be a knight of the secular kingdom, but he was different from Alfonso Decavo.
The Church Knight is so familiar that people can't figure it out.
Seeing who the person was, Alfonso relaxed his body for a rare moment and tapped the opponent's armor with his knuckles. There was a hint of warmth in his eyes behind the iron mask: "Wilder, you look much older than before.
.”
"Because I care about life more than you do. I have a wife and four children, and I have to worry about my livelihood every day. It's not like you, who gave up the kingdom's fiefdom, donated all your property to the church, and became a
A knight of the Holy See is a true warrior under Heavenly Father!" Wilder touched the back of his head and looked a little embarrassed: "Although I have confidence in my faith, I don't think I can be like you."
Alfonso didn't seem to want to get into more trouble on this topic, and asked straight to the point: "Do you know what's going on in the city?"
Wilder nodded: "I have listened to the report of my subordinates in detail, and things have become a bit troublesome."
Looking in the direction of the castle tower, Alfonso asked doubtfully: "You know that's not what I want to hear. Why don't you send troops to maintain order? Where is Sir Adams?"
The bearded man scratched the beard on his chin with his palm, looking embarrassed: "I may not be able to explain some things clearly for a while, so you should follow me and take a look."
Led by friends and soldiers, a group of four people came to the training ground in the center of the castle.
Alfonso didn't pay attention to the twisted and noisy "puppetes" outside the fence. He was first attracted by the dozens of corpses covered by white cloth on the ground.
Wilder knelt down, covered the white cloth blown by the wind with his hands, and sighed: "There are a total of thirty-five corpses here. They went to Watchtown in the afternoon to have a meal or party, and when they came back, they had vomiting and diarrhea, and then suffered from heart disease.
He stopped beating and stopped breathing."
Looking up at the soldiers in the square, Alfonso frowned deeper and deeper: "Together, there are less than 150 soldiers here. Where are the rest? Where are the other knights? Where is Commander Adams?"
"
Wilder pouted at the two farthest corpses: "The one on the left is Knight Adeno, and the one on the right is Sir Adams. As for the others, they went to the town and never came back. What you see in front of you
I am the only knight here..."
The Iron Masked Knight was silent.
He thought the situation might be bad, but he didn't expect it to be this bad.
Just when he opened his mouth to speak, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard in the distance, attracting people's attention. The more than fifty "puppets" outside the fence gate, like puppets that have lost their strings, all
Fell to the ground.
Wilder turned around and saw this strange thing. He said in disbelief: "The enemy has retreated?"
wrong!
There must be something wrong somewhere!
Some words suddenly appeared in Todd's mind. They were things he had heard before, but they were vague for a while and he couldn't think clearly.
In desperation, he tried to ask Leslie: "I remember, you seemed to have said that the method of 'Hive' to control 'Puppet'..."
"Huh? When the 'Hive' does not need the 'Puppets', it can cut off contact with them at any time."
"No, no. Not this sentence, the previous sentence."
"Let me think about it...the 'Hive' can control them at will whenever needed..."
Hearing this, Todd's mind was agitated and his hair stood on end!
Slowly turning around to go back, one corpse after another stood upright from under the white cloth in the square...