Soul echo

Chapter 678 Plague Lord ([-])

[what's the matter? 】

Hearing the emperor's voice, Si Kou Hong breathed a sigh of relief, and finally got in touch.

"Your Majesty, the matter is like this..."

Si Kou Hong was about to tell the story, when he suddenly heard screams from the street outside, his words were interrupted, and he couldn't help turning around to look.

[What happened to you? 】

The emperor could hear the sound around the communication token, not to mention that the exclamation was not small, and it continued continuously.

"I don't know." Taking a heavy breath, Si Kou Hong walked outside, "I'm going out now to have a look."

Walking out of the alley quickly, the chaotic scene on the street came into view, and Si Kou Hong couldn't help but widen his eyes.

The people fled desperately in the streets, the bamboo baskets of the vegetable stalls were overturned, and the tables and chairs of the shops along the street were messed up. In a place far away from people, a few "people" with tentacles sprouting from seven orifices were using their arms stretched out from their bodies. The roots are inserted into the human body controlled by them, as if they are parasitic.

Seeing this scene, Si Kou Hong's face turned ugly, and his heart was turned upside down.

How could it be at this time?How could it be at this time?
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid Jianning has already fallen..." Si Kou Hong only felt his tongue dry, and said with difficulty, "The plague that has spread throughout the city has broken out..."

Just when he said these words, those people who seemed to be "parasitic" let go of the people they were holding, and those people fell limply to the ground after being released, and then tentacles grew from the seven orifices. come out.

Seeing the weird sight of those tentacles extending from around the eyeballs without hurting the eyeballs, Si Kou Hong felt shuddering.

No, these tentacles already exist in the people of Jianning, so they are not 'parasitic', but 'supporting' or 'awakening'!
【what happened?Is there a plague spreading in Jianning?But did it come from the refugees? ] The emperor also expressed shock.

"No, it's the plague that already existed in Jianning."

Si Kou Hong handed over the token to his left hand, drew out his waist knife with his right hand, and walked towards the few civilians whose bodies had been controlled by those tentacles.

"Your Majesty, do you still remember the incident that I told you a few days ago? It was the incident that there was a strange plant in the prefect of Jianning's body."

The emperor was not stupid, and he realized it in the next moment: [You mean - the plague that is breaking out in Jianning now has the same origin as the strange plant in the body of the prefect of Jianning? 】

"Your Majesty, that's exactly the case." Si Kou Hong replied while adjusting his breathing, sensing the movement of the breath in his body, and then gripped the handle of the knife tightly.

Just as he was about to attack the people under control, he saw a friend of Lilian's running against the flow of people from the opposite side.

Si Kou Hong and the player looked at each other and attacked at the same time.

"I also ask Your Majesty to order the use of the 'Jishi Pot', otherwise Jianning may be destroyed!"

In two steps, he rushed to the person being manipulated, slashed horizontally with a sharp knife, and immediately cut off his head.

The head flew up, and the severed tentacles spewed out from the cut along with the blood, and then extended outward, like a blooming flower.

The tentacles rushed towards Si Kou Hong, and he kicked the headless corpse towards the other controlled person. When the two of them collided, the tentacles turned directly and wrapped around the controlled person. By.

Si Kou Hong blinked his eyes and suddenly realized.

In the final analysis, these tentacles are still a kind of 'parasite' and cannot be exposed to the outside world for a long time, so they must find a host.

Even if they can control the human body, that body is not dead, it is just manipulated.

After the body is cut off, it will definitely die, so those tentacles must find the next host before the body dies completely and can no longer continue to provide them with nutrition.

I just don't know, will these tentacles kill and devour each other after colliding with another group of tentacles in other people's bodies, or will they fuse with each other?
These thoughts flashed through Si Kouhong's mind, and without stopping, he met another person under control, and cut the person's body from bottom to top with a waist knife.

Before the tentacles in the controlled person erupted, Si Kou Hong ran away and rushed towards the other controlled persons.

With the sword in hand, several lives were lost by the sword. Even though these people were once ordinary civilians, and they might still have a chance to be saved, Si Kou Hong's expression did not change a bit.

The player on the opposite side also followed Si Kou Hong's example. After beheading the controlled person, he directly pushed the body to another controlled person. Watching the tentacles wrap around the other person, he felt very refreshed.

In less than half a minute, Si Kou Hong and the player killed most of the controller, and then observed the tentacles to control the bodies that had turned into corpses to entangle with other tentacles.

After watching for more than ten seconds, Si Kou Hong suddenly trembled and shouted: "That's not right!"

The player was taken aback by his sudden yell, and looked over in a daze.

The next moment, Si Kou Hong's face became ferocious, "Those demons have already attacked!"

"What?!" The players also exclaimed.

"This is certainly not an isolated case. I'm afraid that similar situations have occurred in all parts of the city. The purpose is to attract attention and distract the guards so that they can take action." Si Kouhong turned and left while thinking about it.

Even so, he didn't quite understand why a believer of the father of fruit ran out of the refugees before, and exchanged his own life for the lives of the prefect of Jianning and the others.

Now it has only been two days since the death of the prefect of Jianning and the others, and the people are only showing symptoms, so the plague should not break out so quickly.

Once the prefect and the others died, symptoms appeared on the people. If it was said that the prefect and the others did not have the ability to control the plague in the bodies of these people, Si Kou Hong would not believe anything.

That being the case, why would there still be a follower of the father of fruit who came out and exploded himself, exchanging the deaths of the prefect of Jianning and the others for the early outbreak of the plague from time to time...

——Unless, that person is not a believer of the father of fruit at all!
Si Kou Hong paused, staring forward blankly.

They seem to have made a preconceived mistake-why would they think that a person who shouted the praises of the father of fruit must be a believer of the father of fruit?
If the tentacles in the prefect of Jianning's body came from the father of the fruit, then the reason why they want to spread this 'plague' throughout the city must be to rescue the big demon who was sealed by the Guanyang Gate.

They have prepared for this for several years. If there is no accident, when the big devil is rescued, everyone in the whole city will be taken over by the tentacles in an instant and become the army of the big devil.

In other words, the spread of the plague in Jianning was also to save the big devil.

However, because of the accidental death of the prefect of Jianning and others, the parasites in the bodies of the people of Jianning seemed to have lost control, and that's why the scene just now happened.

"It's too late..." Si Kou Hong sighed deeply.

"I'm going!"

After receiving the message from the player next to Si Kou Hong, Lilian took a deep breath, and said to the other players around her: "I'm going to Guanyangmen, this time I'll act alone, because I'm a superhuman , run faster!"

"But it's too late!" The other players persuaded, "By the time you get there, the big devil might have been released!"

"Yes, yes, it's better to stick to Jianning. At least there are city walls and artillery here. Even if you deal with the big devil, you will have the confidence."

"The teacher taught me—"

Lilian overwhelmed the voices of the players with one sentence, looked at them, and said seriously: "When you can't do it, do what you can! Although he never said that, every time he Actions do it all!
"I'm also carrying a prop that can be teleported by the teacher, so I have to go!"

Lilian turned around resolutely, and said without looking back: "Get ready, if the teacher can't stop that monster, maybe we will lure it over and try to kill it with artillery."

After saying that, she spread her legs and started to run.

After running two steps, Lilian suddenly jumped up, stepped on the roof, quickly shuttled through the city, and headed in the direction of Guanyangmen!
(End of this chapter)