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The patriarch is sure: I am still alive and I am not dreaming, so what is going on?

A tentacle stretched out in front of his eyes and hooked him twice.

Patriarch: "..."

"You want us all to follow you?"

The tentacles clicked.

The others also raised their heads because of the movement, and they also showed the same confused expression as the patriarch.

Do you want to follow?Everyone looked at the patriarch.The patriarch gritted his teeth: "Follow!"

Three days later, the earthquake was still intermittent, serious landslides appeared in some parts of the underground world, and there were envious people everywhere.But the kobolds are always safe. They don't need to hide carefully, and even if they are stared at, they will be greeted by tentacles.The kobolds have gradually developed trust in the tentacles. Some bold kobold cubs will climb and play on the tentacles, and some old kobolds will pray to the tentacles.

Until they came to a hole—a hole where the city wall was broken, the tentacles beckoned them to follow them out.

"Do you want us to leave the city?" asked the patriarch.

tentacle point.

The tempered anger became tense again, and the kobolds couldn't help but clenched their relatives and friends next to them.

"Okay! Let's go." The patriarch took a deep breath.

"Patriarch!" The mage who was given the staff by the patriarch before exclaimed, "Master Tentacle, thank you for helping us, but we are a weak race, the gray tide will kill us, we cannot leave the protection of the city wall. "

gray tide?

A tentacle trembled and turned into a gray mist.Before the tentacles turned into black salamanders, the kobolds screamed and gathered into a big fluffy pile again.

Only the patriarch, but his eyes sparkled with excitement, especially when he saw the gray mist turned back into tentacles and waved towards them, his excitement was even more obvious: "You are not afraid of the gray tide, right?" ?"

Tentacle and then click.

"How is it possible?" The mage couldn't believe it.

The tentacles who followed them all the way have already drilled out of the city from that hole.

"Barry...Balu" the mage looked at the patriarch, he didn't need to understand their language, he could tell from his eyes that he didn't believe that the tentacles could fight against the gray tide, and he was trying to persuade the patriarch to stay.

The patriarch shook his head, said something to the mage, then turned around and shouted something to all the kobolds.Kobold, you look at me, I look at you, hesitating...

The tentacles are waiting on the other side of the city wall. The city wall of the underground world is very strong, and the earthquake can't actually cause any damage to it. This hole was dug by the tentacles to take the group of kobolds away.

After a while, the kobolds came out one after another, and the patriarch walked last: "There are no other people, let's go."

Is there no one else?But only half of them came out, and most of them were the elderly and the injured, and only a small number of young and middle-aged people.Moreover, the patriarch's staff was gone, the robe belonged to the mage just now, and his bag had shrunk a lot, as well as the wounded, many people's armor had also disappeared.It seems that this village, which was never fought before, is split up again.

The tentacle didn't ask for anything more, it turned around and carried the kobolds onward.

The flames on Leon's body burned more and more intensely, and the position where he lay down changed from a normal flat ground to a sunken pit, with a layer of magma at the bottom of the pit—this was the real, normal magma.A hundred meters away from him, people are setting up simple tents.

The children sat on the rocks and continued to learn from Hogan and other teachers.The adults divided into several teams, followed different knights, and went into the woods to look for food. Don’t even think about hunting. The normal beasts have all run away. Now the prey that can be found in the woods will have some traces of demonization, but the plants Will always stay in place.The researchers gathered together, making gestures and making plans based on the surrounding situation.The dwarf copper hammer took a few craftsmen around, they were looking for a place to dig a well.

There are also some people who choose to run away, and no one will chase them.And these escaped people, either came back by themselves within a few days, or were never seen again.And these people are so rare that they don't matter.

Disaster is just around the corner, but now it is full of vitality.

Before everyone falls asleep after a busy day, many people will pray in the direction of Leon first, and then pray to the gods they believe in.After all, gods are invisible and intangible, but Leon lying there is a patron saint who can be seen and touched.

"Are you going to sleep there today?" Morifio asked Eldy.

"Yes."

"Okay, pay attention to your sleeping position, don't turn over and take a bath with magma." Morifio patted Eldi on the shoulder without saying anything.

Eldy slept next to Leon just like for a few days.He will not tell others, but he is actually more worried about Leon falling into the magma to take a bath, not the magma burned by himself, but the sinful poison gushing out of the abyss - if Leon melts the ground too much, it will Won't fall in there?

Now his vindictiveness can be protected on the body surface, if that happens, he will have time to pull Leon out!

With this purpose in mind, Eldi's sleep was very light. In the middle of the night, he sensed the temperature change around him, and he woke up immediately.Sure enough, the big pit that Leon slept in was deeper, and there was more magma in the pit.

But... it's not just Leon who is causing the temperature change, as the ground shakes, heat waves are coming from far away.

Eldy grabbed Leon's intact horn and flung him out of the pit and tossed him to the other side -- roughly, to save time.Leon started burning in the new place, and Eldy immediately turned around and ran to the camp to wake up Morifeo and the others. He didn't yell, in case there was any disturbance among the panicked ordinary people in the middle of the night.

When everyone came out, they clearly saw that a corner of the sky had completely turned red, and the weather was getting hotter, as if they were standing by the stove to bake.

"I'll go over and have a look." Morifeo summoned his deer with just one glance, but was stopped by Batu Ton.

"I'll go, I have the blood of a stone giant, and I can adapt to heat better than you."

"You can't just go to one person." The copper hammer waved the hammer. "We dwarves often dig in the mines, and the magma is our old buddy! I can drink ten barrels with ale!"

Batu Torn and Copper Hammer were indeed the two most suitable people, but there were still more than [-] people who set off in the end.After discussing with each other, everyone decided to leave two to three people for each section of the walk, just in case they could meet the people in front of them, and if an accident happened, they should try their best to pass back the news from the front.

Morifio and Eldi didn't go, and the person in charge must remain in the camp.Elvira, the ice-sea mermaid hybrid, and Fernon, the plateau wolf hybrid, and people like them with obvious heat-resistant blood did not go.Is going to add to the chaos?Or go for a barbecue?

They went. Originally, the city only needed to walk a day and a half by water from Hope Village, with a night's rest in between.But now the waterway is absolutely impossible, and there is almost no land route between the two cities.

——Although the Principality of Gretel is a monarchy, each city is essentially more autonomous than the Muller Federation. Road construction between cities often becomes a dispute. Everyone wants the other party to repair more and spend more manpower and material resources .But in other cities, after a long time, the roads will still be repaired.Hope Village was established in a short period of time, and Leon even rolled out a road within two days. As a result, other cities would not take the initiative to build roads to Hope Village, but waited for Leon to push it.

Therefore, now Hope Village does not have a direct land route to that city, and the investigation team has to walk through the dense forest.Now it is obvious that the closer you get to that side, the more animals and plants will be mutated by demonization. This is a dangerous and difficult road, and you will definitely not be able to return in a short time.

But no one expected that the situation would deteriorate further after they left for less than two days.

In the sky, the crimson part occupies two-thirds, the heat wave is rolling in, the wind is strong but it does not reduce the coolness in the slightest.There is no need for a special bathroom, and now it is a steam bath from morning to night every day, and the people in Hope Village who used to love steam baths now cast a bad shadow on steam baths.

The most heat-resistant tropical plants also wilted in this scorching, and the freshly dug wells were warm.

"Master Eldi! Lord Eldi!"

"Why... hiss, what's the matter?" Eldi realized that his lips were severely chapped as soon as he spoke, and they still felt moist when he moved, but when he touched them with his hands, he only touched the dried up blood scabs—— Just now, he was watching Leon distracted. Yesterday he was able to sleep on the edge of Leon's pit, but it was a little hot. Today he can only stand more than ten meters away from Leon. If he moves forward, he must protect himself with fighting spirit.

"My lord, the rate of food decay is abnormal." The knight who came to look for him said with a serious and anxious face. A drop of sweat dripped from his forehead, but the sweat evaporated quickly, and when it rolled down to the middle of the bridge of the nose, it disappeared completely. up.

"Take me to see." Eldie's throat was also very dry, as if opening his mouth to speak would dry up his saliva.

The camp has now turned into a group meal system again. Before the tent was set up as a canteen, Eldy smelled a mixture of rancid and sour smells. It was meat and plants that were rotten.Walking into the tent, the food on the table looks like it has been laid out for more than ten days in summer.

The knight who brought him said: "It's all fresh, freshly placed food."

The chubby Lili also came up, carrying a burlap bag: "Master Eldi, here is this year's new flour, we swear, we didn't let the flour get wet, and carried it carefully along the way."

When the bag was opened, the flour had turned into a dark green color that was immediately obvious, and there was also a foul smell.

"It's not just this bag of flour, it's the same with most foods," Knight said.

"Look!" "God!" "It's Lord Leon!"

Eldy, who was meditating, heard the commotion outside, and the "Leon" made him rush out immediately.Leon was fine, but it was the tentacles that made people scream.Of course they are used to ordinary tentacles, but these tentacles are not ordinary, they form a straight row one after another.And it has been growing, until it is at least three to forty meters high and seven or eight meters wide, and it is still not over.

The top of the tentacles began to stretch, and beautiful tree-like limbs grew.

The main body of the tentacles is very solid, standing upright, and the hot wind blows without shaking in the slightest.The tree-like limbs appear to be very light, swaying in the wind at high altitude.

"Huh? The wind has become cooler?" "It's so comfortable." "I survived..."

People exhaled, and some with special physical conditions, such as Elvira and Finon, ran back and forth between life and death.

However, around Leon, it was still burning fiercely—even though he was baking there, people still felt that the current cool wind was very refreshing, and one could imagine how hot the temperature was just now.

"Master Morifio, let's move now." Some people suggested.

Eldi took a look, he was not a real villager in the village, but a rescued sailor who had been following the village, so he ignored him and walked towards Leon.

His brows were furrowed. It's not that there is no change here in Leon, and his fever is getting worse.He had to figure out a way to get Leon out, or he would really burn through the ground, and from Eldy's direction, Leon wouldn't even be visible.He sank completely into the magma that he burned out.

Eldi walked towards Leon. When he was more than ten meters away from him, Eldi felt obvious burning pain and had to protect himself with fighting spirit. When he reached the edge of the pit, Erdi stepped into it suddenly. Jumped a bit.

Where he stepped, the ground cracked, and magma overflowed from below.The red magma wriggled like a living thing. After a while, the surface of the magma solidified and turned black, which contrasted with the brownish-yellow soil on the side, like a scar on the ground.

Eldy's face changed, the pit was deeper than he thought.With firm eyes, he stepped forward again, but just when his feet were about to step on the magma, he was pulled over.

"With your current fighting spirit strength, once you jump in, your bones will turn into ashes!" Morifio's voice was hoarse, and this hot weather still had a huge impact on him.

"I have to drag Leon out!"

"He will protect himself better than you!"

"He..." Eldi gritted his teeth, and Morifio, who was facing him, couldn't tell whether the child was angry or sad at this moment, "He is a fool who can't protect himself!"

Morifio sighed, and the sigh was full of heat: "Since you know he is a fool, then don't disappoint the fool's efforts."

"You have to fish him out, he's too dangerous."

"We can't help it, we are too weak." Morifio said bluntly, he grabbed Eldi and dragged him outside.

Eldie bit his lip, which was badly cracked, but he couldn't taste the blood, which was scabbed over his lip.

He is not as powerful as Leon, nor is he as powerful as Morifio, so he can't help Leon, and he can't resist if he wants to stay.

"Become stronger." Morifio let go, and looked down at the child, "You can only become stronger."

The temperature is still hot, but the well water is cooler and the food is not spoiling so quickly.

"It must not be as simple as the temperature." Eldy said with a cold face, "Leon not only lowered the temperature for us, but also filtered out some worse things in the air."

"I agree." Morifio nodded, and the others are the same. Everyone has the same opinion, and now it is time to reach a consensus.You can't move, this is the safest place, only the blind and cowardly will scream and run for their lives when they see the shadow.

"What about the food?"

"We went to check it just now. Not only the ground flour, but also the large bread for storage, bacon, and even the wheat grains left as seeds. They are all rotten."

"We went to find nearby plants and found some plants that we didn't recognize at all, but were growing wildly."

"We found several mutated insects."

"And mice."

"Two wells are out of service, and the well water pulled up has unidentified sediment, which smells like sulfur. It is likely that the underground water source connecting these three wells has been polluted."

People were worried, and they all decided to stay here, but if people want to live, even awakened ones need food and water.How can a person live without food or drink?Especially for some special races, such as Elvira, she can no longer stand up, so she can't come to this meeting, so she can only lie crookedly in the tent.She needs a lot of water, but now that the drinking water has been rationed, as a knight, she must set an example.

Elvira and other knights who need a lot of water rely entirely on the water provided by other knights to maintain their lives.

"Keep digging wells, keep finding food, and then organize the people to start building the wall," Eldi said.

"In an earthquake like this, how do you build a wall?" Finon asked.

"Collect the wood to tie the wooden fence. There are too many people who are idle now. Although this will increase their consumption, people must be able to work sometimes." Eldi said.

"Hmm..." "Indeed."

"Our villagers are fine, those sailors should find something to do."

"Leon told me that when there is a disaster, the relief should not be given out for nothing, and it should be paid for by work." Eldi and Leon talked a lot in private, and he didn't quite understand all the things involved. Some of Leon's ideas, but there are some things he said are right, "all people over the age of 12, their food and water have to be exchanged for work, and people over the age of 40 can only get half of the children's food if they don't work Drink water."

Everyone has no objection to this point. The lords of this world rarely rescue people in times of disaster. They only close the gates of the castle and regard the people as the last line of defense.Rescue is the work of the church.Hope Village can barely be regarded as a small political and religious regime. As long as Eldy and Leon do not violate the teachings of the God of Nature, they can do whatever they want.

Leon also said that within five years, he could build him the city of his dreams.Leon can't react now, doesn't communicate, but that's okay.Eldi can use Leon's ideas as much as possible to build a dream city, and that's Leon's bet won...

Seven days later, the sent team came back. They had been away for at most ten days, but they were so thin that they seemed to have been fleeing famine for at least half a year. All of them were caused by high temperature dehydration and lack of food.If they were ordinary people, they wouldn't be able to come back at all, and they would have died outside long ago.

"Where's Batu Torn?" But even if everyone lost weight, they only became smaller horizontally, and the big guy of Batu Torn was nowhere to be seen.

"He said... the blood of the stone giant made him less dependent on drinking water. As long as he stepped on the ground, he could get a part of the gift of the land, so he continued to move forward." The dwarf, who was always in a hurry, was now weak , took a sip of water cautiously, and replied in a hoarse voice, "When we walk out for a day, we will never see any living plants, dead trees will suddenly burn, and the cracked ground will be hot to the feet. Two days away, the dense forest has turned into a desert, and when the wind blows, the face is covered with dust... Cough cough! Bah!"

The dwarf coughed up blood, and someone immediately brought him a second glass of water: "On the third day, there was fire in the air, real fire, red and golden flames one after another. We had to throw them away. Armor. On the fourth day, the ground became soft, and it is likely that magma will overflow if you step on it. On the fifth day, there are thin lava rivers on the ground. We have not yet seen Leon, I mean him tentacles, but we just couldn't move forward."

When the knights left, they walked with full armor and equipment. Now everyone’s armor is gone, and they only carry swords. They wear dirty linen linings full of holes, bare feet, and everyone The soles of the feet were rotten, the skin on the tops of the feet and even the lower legs was gone, and the exposed flesh was obvious burns. Some people even lost their toes.

Outside the protection of the tentacle walls, the world has turned into hell.

Everyone fell silent, Eldi looked at Morifio: "Teacher, can you contact other places?"

"Huh? Now no one has the strength to accept our call for help."

"I didn't intend to ask for help, because I really don't think there is any place nearby where the situation is better than ours. I was just... suddenly moved, and wanted to know how they fought in worse places, and then Give me some encouragement." Eldy said it nicely, and made the emotion on his face seem extremely sincere, but in essence, he worried about whether there would be a large-scale rout elsewhere.

They are all like this here, and the knights like Tonghammer are also elites who have been on the front line of gods and demons, so how do they fight against demons in other places?

No, the deterioration of their situation here has already shown that the battle of the races on the ground is not so smooth.After all, they are just a branch line here, and only when the demons in the main line are in a good situation will they disperse their forces towards them.

"Yes!" Hogan looked excited. He was really excited. "We are not alone. Now all the races on the ground are fighting together. There are still many people like Leon who are at the forefront."

Eldy and Morifio, among others, looked at Hogan together, with the same expression in their eyes: Ah, it's great to have such a companion.