Although the party set out in the early morning, in order to search for the survivors to the maximum extent, cheese and others still followed the town of sweet water and made a detour around nearly four villages without too much deviation from the road. Most of these villages scattered between the towns of sweet water and the town of Xigu were originally used to provide for the consumption of travelling carriages. As the count of salon in recent generations encouraged the residents of the territory to open up wasteland, fields began to appear near these small post stations, and then the area of land reclamation gradually expanded to form these settlements. However, these sparsely populated settlements have been empty for a long time, and the party has not found anything valuable.

    "I''m very curious. Why does it take a large number of vehicles and horses to transport goods along such a large waterway as Longxue river?"

    Asked the cheese Secretary after learning about the causes of the settlement. This question is equally perplexing for Elsa and others who spend most of their time in the small town at the foot of the mountain. Looking at the rivers with great water potential, the mage was not able to understand why there were such waterways and the need to build these post stations.

    "Almost all the water flow of Longxue River comes from Longji mountain, which is the origin of its name. The main components of Longxue River are melting snow water and mountain groundwater. However, I heard that you have been to Longji mountain. You should know the climate there Heather, riding on his horse, replied. Seeing cheese nodding, the knight continued.

    "The snow on Longji mountain does not melt all the year round, and the cold weather in the north makes the upper stream of Longxue River easy to freeze. Therefore, although the ice and snow have melted in recent days, the water potential of Longxue river will be reduced or even stopped after a snowstorm. Although some small fleets used to transport goods by Longxue River, they finally gave up because of the changeable current

    "I can''t believe that you know so much about the north as the leader of the Duke of hammer." Said Mona, the warrior, but there was something else in her words. Nothing else. As a soldier, Heather knew the northern territory so well, it must be because it might become a battlefield for her to fight against. Only the northerners were listed as targets by the Empire in the north.

    This is not the first time that such a dialogue has taken place. Though it is only a short day, cheese has discovered the hidden hostility of northerners to the Imperial Army in the south. Of course, this hostility is not because of the actual armed conflict between the two, but because the frost guards feel a little uncomfortable with the southerners who always regard themselves as time bombs. Heather could only smile awkwardly. The knight lady did not hate the straightforward character of the northerners, but she had stayed in the aristocratic circle for a long time, and there was no way for her to refute these straightforward complaints.

    "Well, anyway, Ms. Heather''s intelligence is very helpful to us now." Cheese has no choice but to play the field, he is not good at dealing with interpersonal relations, let alone reconcile the gap between the two forces. Fortunately, Mona didn''t mean to go on, but Elsa took advantage of other people''s not paying attention to the mage, as if to blame him for helping heather.

    "Compared with these trivial knowledge of geography, I hear that you have fought against those rat people. Can you tell me more about them? Especially in terms of combat, it may help us in our next operations. " Heather said that although it was a diversion, the knights were really curious about the human transformed alien.

    Since the other side asked, and in the foreseeable future, these Knights will definitely fight with the rat people, so there is no need for cheese to hide his own experience. Although he has explained the cause of the rat man to the female knight in general, but because there are many things to be discussed at that time, he did not give a detailed introduction to the fighting power of the rat man, and although the cheese had fought with the rat man However, Gloria was the only one. Out of strict consideration, the mage decided to select only some characteristics that he thought were common.

    "Well, first of all, I would like to say that these people distorted by the plague should be called protozoans. On the contrary, I have succeeded in stabilizing a mutation of protozoan, and this new species that no longer mutates can be called Rattus."

    Looking at the confused eyes around him, cheese knew that the Knights might not understand his words, and was slightly disappointed. At the same time, the mage continued.

    "And then I want to say that although these protozoans are mutated from infected people, I hope you don''t just think of them as hairy humans. As I said before, the plague virus has completely changed their bodies. So please don''t use human standards to infer their physical functions. "

    "Do you mean that the physical fitness of these protozoans may have surpassed that of normal people?" Heather asked after a moment''s reflection on the cheese.

    "In theory, it is. Although we can''t make a conclusion, there''s no doubt that the muscle strength and responsiveness of native rat humans are much better than before they were infected The mage nodded. At least this time, some people understood what he said.

    "In addition, we also need to pay attention to the fact that the virus in the human body of the native mice has not lost its infectivity. Their teeth and claws are attached with secretion containing the plague virus. Therefore, once they are scratched or bitten by them, the nearby tissues should be dug out as soon as possible to prevent the spread of the virus." As soon as these words were said, the faces of the knights, including Heather, turned a little ugly.Although Elsa and others had been told this by cheese, they did not laugh at these southerners this time because it was really terrible. The only way to prevent it is to cut off the injured part as soon as possible. I''m afraid that it will make the soldiers lose a piece of meat if they are scratched, which is too painful.

    At this time, the scouts in front of the line suddenly turned back.

    "Sir! There is a dead body in front of me The knight''s face makes everyone feel instinctively wrong. It''s not the expression that a veteran Knight would make when facing a normal human corpse. Several people didn''t think much about it. They hastened to see the corpse in the Scout''s mouth.

    The body was in the shade of a tree not far from the front of the procession. Judging from the smell, it may have been dead for some time. It may be due to the cold climate in the north and being covered by trees. The appearance of the body is still complete. The horses refused to move 50 paces from the corpse. These trained military horses were not afraid of the smell of corpses in theory, but now they refuse to move because of a corpse lying on the side of the road. However, several people had to get off the horse and walk. They took out cloth towel soaked in water from their arms to cover their mouth and nose, which was the preventive measure recommended by cheese.

    "This I can''t believe it. "

    After about ten steps, the appearance of the corpse has been seen in a glance. However, with the more clearly seen, several people feel more creepy about this strange body. Black hair came out from under the skin of the corpse, leaving the flat skin full of holes. Dark brown pus along the skin was propped up to flow out of the wound, emitting a terrible stench.

    "I don''t believe that even rotifers are willing to touch the body." "Monkey" whispered, and as he said, there were no signs of insects on the body.

    Cheese put on a pair of strange gloves, took off the robe and gave it to Elsa. He went up alone and looked closely at the details of the body. Although the rest of them did not want to get close to the body, they were also holding their noses to approach the corpse because of the mage''s safety problems. For the mage, the more terrible and disgusting corpses in the teacher''s class were dissected, so the pressure of vision and smell alone could not make cheese shrink back. He carefully examined all parts of the body with his hands, especially inside his eyes and mouth and nose. He even borrowed a knife from Heather to cut open the belly of the body and examine the infected organs.

    The mage''s behavior made people around feel uncomfortable. Although they knew that it was for the purpose of studying plague, it was still hard to accept physically. Soon, in addition to the landlady, she could stand around the cheese and help the mage who needed help because one hand couldn''t move. Others, including Heather, kept a certain distance from the body after confirming that there was no danger.

    Time passed quickly. Cheese''s research on the corpse continued until dusk. Others had begun to camp. They knew that they could not get to Xigu city today. As the sun disappeared at the end of the distance, the torch and starlight became the only light between heaven and earth. Cheese had to stop his research. After carefully cleaning the gloves and other utensils, he returned to the camp not far away with Elsa.

    "There are native rat people around here. Please be ready to fight." With a word from the master, a lively night began.

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