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ACT017: Creeping Shadows

"Ling Lan, you have been away from home for so long. Do you still have contact with your family? They should be very worried about you, right?"

On the deck of Enterprise, Weiss and Ling Lan stood on the railing, enjoying the scenery while chatting. The strong wind lifted the girl's dark hair, adding a different style to her, which made Weiss pay attention to it.

"Just wait until there is a communication station, and send a letter to your home to report safety. If you are worried... there should be a little bit! However, they are still very supportive of my trip. My mother also said that if I see a suitable man, I will start quickly. I always feel that she may not be referring to martial arts."

“…”

For a moment, Weiss had the urge to poke his forehead and yell, "I'm the right man! Hurry up and attack me!", but after he heard the other party's second half, reason made him swallow this again, because God knew if the other party would be excited to ask him for a fight. The king and the spearman would fight alone would be a complete destruction!

"West, what are your plans for the future? The king's words will be very popular everywhere you go, or do you plan to travel around the world like me before talking about it?"

"My words..."

"Hey! The two little guys who are flirting over there, don't make a fucking FLAG for yourself."

While the two were chatting, Kabbala, who was passing by by chance, interrupted their "death behavior". Kabbala already knew that Ling Lan's chess piece was a spearman "fed by" by the God of Doom. Therefore, the first thing he did after Ling Lan got on the ship was to give the other party a whole lucky talisman, and posted two talismans at the door of her cabin, which were said to be written by a master exorcist in Donglinzhou. Weiss leaned over and took a look and felt embarrassed at that time.

"Auspicious and auspicious emperor is free, and the family is safe." Has Prince Ma even traveled through time?

"Master, we should be about to reach Nadal, right?" Ling Lan, who ignored the general girls, couldn't help but blush and clarified, had a clear "flirting". Ling Lan, who was quite nervous, thought of the first time when she saw Kabbalah, was to ask about the progress of the journey.

"It's almost time. You can enter Nadal at noon tomorrow. The airship will stop at a place called Sitas Town to replenish supplies. Then we take a bus to the engineering delegation's station to check the situation. This is the current itinerary."

“It sounds quite simple.”

"If we can find that those guys are just lazy and drinking after we arrive at the station, and the missing search and rescue team is also stumbling with them, then this will be very simple. I just need to scold them and we can finish the work."

While listening to Kabbalah's words, Weiss's eyes inadvertently glanced at something near the distant hillside, but a huge rock blocked part of his vision, making him unable to see the complete outline. However, as the airship advanced, the angle slowly adjusted, and the things behind finally appeared in front of Weiss's eyes.

"You two are here to come and see, does that thing over there look like an airship?"

Hearing Weiss' greeting, Kabbal and Ling Lan looked in the direction of his fingers. They saw an airship similar to the Enterprise on which they were riding was lying sideways on the ground at the foot of the mountain not far away. The hull was damaged to a certain extent, and there was a long friction mark on the ground. Kabbal used a telescope to observe the hull number and confirmed that this was the "Agility" of the first search and rescue team.

Weiss' discovery made the Enterprise stop quickly and approach the crashed airship. No one expected that the airship would be found in such a place. Before the Enterprise landed, Kabbalah flew up first and used magic sensing ability to detect the smart one. Although this move seemed inconspicuous, it tests the caster's ability to micro-operate magic elements. Only experienced experts like Kabbalah can use it easily.

After the airship landed, all the mercenary teams of Weiss, Ling Lan and "Hawhead" Scaldo disembarked. Because the situation was still unknown, Scaldo only asked the fourth group to replace the rescue equipment. The other three groups were still in combat configuration. After getting off the ship, they approached the Agile in a combat formation, and then met with Kabbal who landed on the ground before the crashed airship.

"Old pit, what's going on inside?"

"No decent living creature was sensed, and the personnel may have abandoned the ship, but..."

"But what?" Seeing Kabala's face hesitant look, Scardo lifted his face and asked anxiously, but the person who took the sentence was Weiss.

"But no footprints were found around here. Are you trying to say this?"

Weiss had just circled around Wei Jimin, but did not find any footprints on the ground around the airship. At the same time, there was a faint smell of rotten smell floating on the air, which happened to be floating out of the Weimin. Therefore, Weiss judged that all the search and rescue team members on the ship might have been killed, and Kabbal might have made the same judgment.

As an experienced dwarf warrior, Scardo understood what Weis said on the spot, and a hint of regret flashed in his eyes, and then he hoped that he could give them some time to go in and collect the bones of his comrades.

When the dwarf mercenaries opened the door of the smart hatch, a disgusting stench suddenly surged out. Even Weis and others who were standing at the upper vent almost vomited it out. Some dwarf mercenaries even thought that the anti-virus filter in their face armor was broken.

"Haha~! Master, how long have you been missing in this search and rescue team?"

"It's been exactly 2 weeks since they set out, what's wrong?"

"It feels a little wrong. The smell is so strong that it is too exaggerated. It doesn't seem to be as good as normal rot. Is there any weapons like poisonous gas bombs on the ship?"

"How is that possible!? Who would bring that kind of thing when going out for search and rescue? Besides, our trading company just wanted to start a mine in Nanfengzhou. We never thought about running a massacre here. Don't talk nonsense!"

When Kabbalah heard what Vis said, he was shocked. You should know that "weapons of mass destruction" such as poison gas bombs are not something that can be said casually. No country in the world dares to publicly admit that he is studying such things. Once an individual or organization discovers, it will be erased mercilessly by the state. He does not want Vis to misunderstand some terrible things.

The dwarf quickly brought out a total of 50 highly decayed corpses from the cabin, including 36 of the dwarfs, including 32 mercenaries and 4 pawn owners, and 12 of the goblins, all of them were smart crew members. The other two were human, one should be a guide, but the other was not sure of the identity of the other.

These corpses are all rotten and uninhuman, expanding like pieces of green jelly. When the mercenaries transport them, they will accidentally destroy the remains. They either pull off their loose arms and legs, or break their skin and make the sticky pus flow all over the ground. While retracting the corpses, Skadu noticed abnormal traces on some of the corpses, so he hurriedly called Kabbal over.

"Old kid, come and see this!"

The three people who were staying at the upper vent and watching came over and heard the news. Kabbala released three "wind filter cycles" to help him and Weiss and the others block the stench soaring into the sky. The three of them came to Scardo, and the other party was squatting in front of a human body for examination. Weiss only looked at it and felt a surging stomach. Ling Lan next to him also had a bad expression. It was the first time that they saw such a curious rotten corpse.

"Hammer, what do you want us to see?" Kabbalah asked.

"Look at this guy's back... Did you see it? The whole thing was rotten, and the spine was almost completely exposed." Scardo pointed to the corpse on the ground. This was the only human among the victims who could not be identified, and it was also the most decayed one. The skin was translucent, and most of the flesh and blood inside turned into yellow-green disgusting mucus, and only the bones were still intact, which looked very curious.

"There are 6 corpses in the same situation as him, including dwarf goblins. All of them have severe back damage, large areas of spine exposed, and strange drilling marks near the skull. However, the decay of the corpse is a bit outrageous, so I can't tell what exactly caused these wounds, and it is not ruled out that it is a 'after death'."

In the absence of necessary equipment and professionals, Scardo can only judge various possibilities based on his limited experience. If it is really a scar caused by the victim's death, it means that the Awareness had been "invaded", and at this time Weiss noticed that there were other suspicious points on the body.

"By the way, do you think these corpses are not right?"

"What's wrong? What are you referring to?" The eyes of the people present instantly gathered on Weiss.

“Too clean.”

"Where are these sticky corpses clean?" Ling Lan couldn't help but look at Weiss with a strange look.

"I mean these corpses are obviously rotten to the point of being almost melted, but there is not even a single maggot. Don't you find it strange?"

"Indeed! I said I always felt that these corpses were missing just now, but they didn't have those things!"
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