There were four beds in the room, three of which were empty. The beds were charred black, and half-burned sheets were scattered beside them. There were traces of fire on the ground and walls, and sparks still lit up on the charred walls. The nearby windows were broken, as if someone had drilled out of the room.
There was still a man lying on the last bed. Green smoke was rising from his body. Originally, the skin of a fever patient was only scarlet red. Now, his skin was dark red, and red spots appeared all over his body. Red sparks flickered, and the man's hair suddenly burned. He cried out with his head in his hands and fell off the bed.
"Save me!" He stretched out his hand in the direction of the door, and flames sprayed out from his eyes.
"What's going on?" Hoey swept over and reached out to touch the man's shoulder before retracting it like lightning. He only felt that he had touched a red-hot stone, not a person's shoulder.
At this moment, the man fell back and spat out a ball of flames from his chest. Hoey retreated and looked helplessly at the man whose entire body was already burning. In the flames, the man's limbs gradually deformed. His face protruded forward, and curved corners protruded out from both sides of his forehead. His arms swelled, and his feet grew into the anti-jointed limbs of an artiodactyl. Just like that, in front of Hoey, the man transformed into a monster in the flames. The flames gradually disappeared. The monster raised its head and roared at Hoey. Then, it turned around and pounced towards the window. Then, it drilled out of the broken window.
The butler said in a trembling voice, "My lord, the same is true for the three of them. They have all become monsters. My lord, how could this be? "
Hoey could not answer this question either.
Cries of alarm rang out in the city of guns, and patients with fever continuously transformed into monsters. Not only was this happening in Spear City, even in Ping Xiwang's camp, monsters were constantly rushing out. In fact, this was happening throughout the empire.
However, the territory that belonged to Allen was unexpectedly calm. Whether it was a fluke or for some other reason, the blood cloud that night did not pass through Allen's territory. However, the news that mutated monsters had appeared all over the empire still had a considerable impact on this territory. The towns and cities in the territory were all in a panic, and some towns and cities had even begun to loot food. Edward quickly issued a ban, strictly prohibiting merchants from taking advantage of the situation to raise prices. At the same time, he opened up the granary, allowing the residents to buy as much as they wanted. Through a series of measures, two days later, the phenomenon of purchasing grain finally stopped, and the people could be considered to have calmed down.
In the Bauhinia City Lord's Mansion, Edward stood in front of a wall. There were a few portraits pasted on the wall, all of which were the appearances of the febrile patients who had mutated into monsters, reproduced through the artist's brush. At this time, people walked in one after another. It was Lola and King Hillon.
Turning around, Edward looked at Hillon. This monarch's appearance was no different from that of a human warrior. His entire body was covered in sinister black heavy armor, but his aura was inhuman. At the very least, Edward had never seen a human with such a lava-like aura. Edward could even smell the faint smell of sulfur in the air. He sniffed and tried to make his tone sound calm. "You two are here."
Lola nodded and said, "Hillon is the commander of the Burning Legion. I think he can answer any question you want about that legion."
Edward nodded and stepped back a little so that Lola and Hillon could see the portrait on the wall. He said, "In recent days, a large number of patients with fever have appeared throughout the empire. Just two days ago, these patients suddenly changed. They turned into these monsters in the portrait. When I saw these portraits, I was very puzzled. These monsters seem to be very similar to the army brought by Young Master Allen, so I asked Miss Lola to bring you here. Lord Hillon, I hope you can see if my guess is correct. "
Hillon stepped forward, flames flickering in his helmet. Edward felt a scorching gaze sweep across the painting on the wall. Then, he heard Hillon say in a deep voice, "That's right, these are indeed very similar to our soldiers. Although there are slight differences, there should be an error in the relaying. But overall, these things are our soldiers."
Lola said in surprise, "Could it be that Mitinas has produced a new army recently?"
"That's impossible. Lord Mitinas hasn't done anything in this regard recently. Furthermore, our soldiers were definitely not mutated from humans. "Hillon denied it.
"That's strange." Lola frowned and said, "In that case, perhaps only Allen knows the reason."
"Young Master Allen went to Satin City to meet up with His Highness Lucy in the Blood King's Cemetery. I'm afraid he won't be back for a while." Edward said, "As for those mutated monsters, they disappeared from the eyes and ears of humans after they left the town, but I don't think they will really disappear. It looks more like some kind of secret gathering. Perhaps in the near future, they will make a comeback. "
"Lord Hillon, can I trouble you and your army to protect this territory?" Edward said solemnly.
"This is my duty," Hillon said without hesitation. "We are His Highness Allen's army, so we should protect his territory."
Edward nodded. "I hope Young Master will return soon."
According to the information gathered by the empire's intelligence agencies, all the patients with fever quickly left the town after turning into monsters. No one knew where these monsters went. The empire and the eastern army had sent people to investigate, but all the people sent out were like clay oxen entering the sea, and there was no news of them. After several times, neither side dared to rashly send people to investigate.
This time, the mutated patients accounted for about 40% of the total population of the empire, and the mutated soldiers of the Coiling Dragon Empire were close to half. According to incomplete statistics from the intelligence agency. In just one day, an army of nearly a million monsters had appeared. This was an exceptionally terrifying number. Whether it was for the empire or the Coiling Dragon Army, this monster army was a huge threat.
In the southern border of the empire, there was a primeval forest known as "Irene". At that time, the first brother Allen met, Ceglis, landed in this forest. This primeval forest was filled with all sorts of dangerous creatures, but today, even the most powerful life in the forest had fled far away from this forest. If someone looked down from the sky now, they would see a large area of scorched land in the center of the forest. There were hundreds of furnaces placed on the scorched land, and countless trees were cut down and dragged into the furnaces to burn. Then, fiery red magma flowed out from the other side of the furnace. No one knew what was in the furnace. They were like volcanic craters, constantly producing hot magma.
As for the workers who cut down and dragged the trees, they were the millions of monsters that had disappeared from the empire in one day!
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