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"Sixth, Floating Ice Harbor became a neutral port city, defended by the Northern Federation, the Rhine Empire and the Tang Empire. The three parties each have the right to garrison with no more than 10,000 people. Civilians in the Northern Federation have permanent residence on the North Coast, but the immigrant population shall not exceed 50,000."

"Seventh, the Rhine Empire and the Northern Federation immediately blocked the battlefield of the Apostles and the area where remnants of souls were detected to wander, and divided it into a new quarantine area, prohibiting any unrelated personnel from approaching."

"Eighth, the Federal Army and the Emperor jointly carried out the remnant soul removal operation. The Tang Empire was responsible for providing technical and equipment support. The Tang Empire promised to sell all equipment, including the Soul-breaking Gun, to both sides at a cost price."

"Ninth, the Rhine Empire provides grain, oil, meat, canvas, cotton and other materials to the Northern Federation every month. The Northern Federation converts the imperial market price into mojing to pay. The specific name of the materials will be followed by the Schedule of the Agreement."

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"What exactly are those things? Are the ghosts of the dead?" Ashes tried to shoot a human figure more than 300 meters away, but the bullet penetrated directly through the figure and nothing happened.

"Immune physical attack? Not an entity?" Both the rear and left and right are still controlled by the Federal Army. If you want to reach the South Sixteenth District as soon as possible, you must pass through these thousands of personal figures. But no matter what, when it comes to approaching these things, Ash always feels that these phantoms are one thing, and although the two look completely different.

At this moment, a surviving federal soldier suddenly crawled out of the trench that had turned into a blood canal. His knees were soaked with sticky plasma, and his body was covered with black and red stains. He held his head with his hands and helmet squintedly hung behind his neck. His hands and feet flipped over a low wall made of sandbags. Although he couldn't see the expression of the soldier, from his panicked movements, the ashes could feel the extreme fear in the other party's heart.

In the face of that irresistible force, no one can suppress fear that comes from instinct. The gap between the brave and the cowardly is only whether this fear will be expressed.

The soldier seemed to be unable to see the human figure that was close to him, and just ran into a phantom floating in the air without a glance.

Ashes held their breath and stared at the soldier with his eyes tightly.

The moment the soldier's body and the phantom overlapped, his flesh and blood melted, as if he had been thrown into the fire, but his clothes, helmet and the backpack behind him were intact, and only the part of the living creature was swallowed silently...

At this time, several phantoms around who were originally wandering aimlessly were awakened at the same time and surrounded the soldier... In that scene, it was like a shark smelling bloody smell was snatching prey...

The soldier soon disappeared, leaving only a military uniform floating in a pool of blood.

And a new phantom is gradually taking shape.

"Damn..." Ash couldn't help but curse and swear. It seemed that his subconscious was right. Such a ghost thing must not be approached!

It seems that I can only walk around, but according to the memory before the Ashes, about three-quarters of the entire battlefield was attacked by the afterimage of the giant apostle. In other words, except for the few middle areas that survived, this kind of phantom that could devour people's flesh and blood has now spread throughout the battlefield...

Another problem is that the soldier who was killed just now seemed to be unable to see the phantom floating half a meter off the ground. According to the way a soldier thought, when he saw such something that was almost no different from a ghost on the battlefield, even if his first reaction was not an attack, he should find a way to test it, instead of just bumping into it rashly.

Whether the soldier couldn't see it, or had been scared by the apostle and completely lost his mind, the ashes were not sure at present, and the best way to verify it is to find another living person to ask.

The ashes are located in the middle area of ​​two frontier positions, which is a "safety area" with a narrow terrain. There are no wandering figures, and there are no troops deployed here in advance by the two armies. The scattered corpses were also beaten to death during the fire exchange. At first glance, it seems that he is the only person standing in the entire "safety area".

"Is anyone alive? Is anyone alive? Whether it is imperial or federal," Ash shouted in a low voice. He dared not use the loudspeaker installed on the armor, because he was not sure whether the phantoms reacted to the sound. If all the phantoms around him were attracted, then this only "safety zone" would disappear.

He shouted in the common word of Empire, and then changed to Beiman language. He kept shouting for about ten minutes. Just when Ashes were about to give up, a "corpse" lying next to the pit suddenly moved and got up from the ground.

That was an emperor soldier, and judging by military rank, he was just a lowest-ranking private.

"Sir... Sir, I... Private Anderson, report..." A hint of hesitation flashed in the soldier named Anderson's eyes, "I... I was shocked by the shells before, and I woke up just now..."

"Shh! Silently" Ashes walked quickly to Anderson and squatted down.

"Sir, is the battle over? Nearby... are there any remaining Federal troops nearby?" Anderson asked, pushing the cracked glasses on his nose, Ash noticed that although the private's skin was covered with stains and ash, his skin was very white and his cheeks were full. The shirt in the uniform was not the common cotton-linen texture, but soft oriental silk. In addition, Anderson also had a necklace made of precious metal hanging around his neck.

"Are you a noble?"

"My father is a nobleman, he is a viscount, and I am just a concubine... According to the aristocratic law of the empire, my identity is a civilian..." Anderson replied.

"You should have been educated, right?"

"I am a fresh graduate of military academy... but before I could attend the graduation ceremony and the title ceremony, I was summoned to the front line..."

"That's good." Ashes nodded. People like Anderson who are aristocratic and graduated from regular military academy are always better at receiving than those soldiers who cannot recognize words. Most of the soldiers at the bottom of the Rhine Empire's army have only received the most basic cultural education, and many people have not even heard of the word "apostle".

"Look at that direction," Ash gently patted Anderson's shoulder and pointed his hand at the human figures of the wanderers in the distance. "Have you seen many black human figures, floating there, about five hundred meters away, with a large number, about half a meter above the ground, have you seen it?"
Chapter completed!