The reconnaissance team discovered the spirit binding and cairn on the second floor of the tomb!
As soon as the news spread back to the camp, it immediately caused riots.
The young private asked the corporal for information. The corporal, who had never encountered a ghost before, asked the sergeant about the situation. The sergeant shared the information he knew with his teammates while looking solemnly at the commander, Sergeant Alvin. tent.
For a moment, Li Nuo felt precarious, as if every soldier had a dark cloud floating on his head and was burdened with tremendous pressure.
It’s right when you think about it.
What is the Soulbinding Cairn?
An evil structure that can collect the souls of both the living and the dead.
What do soldiers fear most?
You cannot serve the empire while you are alive, and you cannot sleep with honor after death.
The various characteristics of the Soulbinding Cairn are crucial to the Imperial Army. It can certainly cause turmoil in people's minds.
The soldiers had different opinions.
If Sergeant Alvin had been wiser, he would have ordered a postponement of the attack now, right?
Even retreating is not impossible.
....
"Jarvis, come with me, someone wants to see you."
Sergeant Mars came back from the commander's tent and woke up Li Nuo, who was dozing against the wall.
Li Nuo opened his eyes, and his eyes were clear - not because his mind became clearer after squinting for a while, but because he had anticipated that he would be called to talk.
He is such a person who sees every step he takes and knows the smallest details.
Some people would say that people like him would live a very tiring life because they would think about a lot of things and predict a lot of things.
But as far as Li Nuo himself was concerned, he didn't feel tired. Instead, he enjoyed the process and enjoyed it.
"Sir, please lead the way."
Li Nuo stood up, wiped his face twice, arranged his clothes, and followed Sergeant Mars out of the team's rest area.
Passing through the large tents in the temporary camp, the two quickly arrived at the door of the commander's tent.
Sergeant Mars did not take Li Nuo into it, but took a detour to a more remote corner.
In front of a tent filled with debris, Sergeant Mars stopped, pointed inside, and then stood guard next to the warehouse-like tent.
"Go in, Jarvis, someone is waiting for you inside. I will guard outside and no one will disturb you... Remember, don't reveal the people and things you see. This is MI4 top secret."
"Yes, sir."
Li Nuo took a breath, calmed down, opened the thick curtain, and stepped into the tent.
A faint refreshing fragrance lingers at the tip of the nose, it seems to be expensive perfume, or some kind of medicine with its own fragrance.
There was a gentle glow from coal lamps inside the tent. The screen behind the door curtain blocks most of the light and the prying eyes of visitors.
Li Nuo walked around the screen and saw the real owner, his eyes slightly focused.
A woman is leaning on the table and smoking.
She was wearing a black women's military uniform, simple but unable to hide her charm.
She held her arms in front of her without a trace of fat, held a thin cigarette in her right hand, sipped lightly, inhaled slowly, and exhaled the refreshing smoke.
After hearing Li Nuo's movement, her eyes changed from absent-minded to focused, she turned her face and cast her gaze at the person coming.
Li Nuo also saw the other party's delicate face from the front.
Her facial features are three-dimensional, her eyes are bright, and her lips are thin, which can be said to be cold and charming. Coupled with her slender legs and waist-length hair, she has a kind of temperament that makes her unfriendly to strangers.
"Reporting to you, sir."
Li Nuo raised his right hand and saluted gracefully.
The opponent's military rank was much higher than that of Sergeant Alvin. He was a captain and possessed the strength of the third level "Imperial Fist".
"Leno Jarvis, do you know who I am?"
The female captain's tone was cold and she kept her original smoking motion. She did not become restrained at all because of Li Nuo's arrival, and she was full of aura.
"Report, sir. I don't know your identity, only some guesses."
"What guess?" The female captain raised her chin slightly, "Just tell me."
"The letter Sergeant Mars gave me should have been written by you."
"Yes, it is indeed me. I have also seen that the academic level of the college's assistants is indeed much better than that of a soldier with a non-academic background like me."
"You are exaggerating, sir. I have to thank the empire for cultivating me." Li Nuo said without changing his expression.
"Not all flowers bathed in the sun can bear fruit. Your achievements are also related to your own talents and efforts... Sit down, Jarvis, let's talk about business."
The female captain waited for the other party to sit down and continued:
"I am Martha Murphya, a captain in MI4 and I am solely responsible for the secret program you are going through."
Captain Murphya paused:
"Inside MI4, we call this plan 'Broken Coffin', which means to use a simple and efficient way to crush the conspiracy of the Necronomicon... Have you seen the cairn on the second floor of the tomb?"
Li Nuo nodded:
"Yes, sir. It is a stone building, ancient, gloomy, and evil."
"Have you noticed that there are many black marks on the surface of the cairn? They are regularly distributed on the stone bricks, as if they were carved by humans."
"I saw it, sir."
Captain Murphy's put the thin cigarette in his hand into the ashtray, turned around and sat down in his seat, changing into a standard sitting posture:
"Then what do you think those black marks could be?"
Li Nuo knew the answer in advance, but still pretended to be thinking and said hesitantly:
"...Could it be the undead rune?"
"People who have read books are indeed different. Their thinking ability is much higher than that of ordinary people." Captain Murphy Ya said:
"Now that you have grasped the point, I won't beat around the bush with you, Jarvis. We need you to modify the undead runes on the cairn and weaken this evil death-like magic device..."
Captain Murphy Ya saw the astonished look on Li Nuo's face:
"...You may not know that there is a magical protective shield outside the spiritual hub. There are also a large number of undead runes on this protective shield. Our original plan was that after the army cleared the undead on the third floor of the tomb, It is up to you to modify the necromantic runes on the magic protective shield to remove the magical protective shield, allowing the imperial army to directly attack the main body of the spiritual hub.
"However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. No one expected that a magical building with necromantic runes carved on it appeared on the second floor of the tomb, and it was a more sinister kind."
Captain Murphya bent his arms on the table and crossed his fingers in front of him:
"So you have to accept your mission in advance, Jarvis. Today, on the second underground floor of this tomb."
Tangle and hesitation flashed across Li Nuo's face, as if he was learning about his fate for the first time.
He didn't let these expressions stay on his face for too long, but in just three to five seconds, he replaced them with calmness and perseverance, shaping himself into an imperial man with courage and belief.
"Yes, sir. I'll give it my all."
Captain Murphy's Eyes saw the change in Li Nuo's expression, and he became more and more fond of this handsome and decisive young man.
A faint arc appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she said with a slight smile:
"You don't have to worry too much about your own safety, Jarvis. There are still two criminal soldiers in Alvin's army. I will give them to you to command. It's up to you to identify the necromancy runes on the cairns, and It’s up to you to direct them to make changes to the Necronomicon runes. You don’t have to worry about suffering the consequences of changing the wrong runes before they sacrifice themselves for the Empire.”
As expected, he is a dead Taoist friend but a poor monk. Can't the empire send a few more criminal soldiers... Li Nuo sighed secretly, thought for a moment, and decided to maintain his character.
"Sir, Sergeant Mars told me that if I change the wrong runes, I will be torn apart by death magic. Can you tell me what will happen specifically? Is there a way to avoid this risk? I want to be mentally prepared. .After all, every mistake costs a life...I don’t want others to die because of my mistakes..."
"I know what you're worried about." Captain Murphy's stretched out his white right hand, took out another thin cigarette from the cigarette case, and held it between his right fingertips:
"The young history teaching assistant has never fought in a war or seen blood. His attitude towards life is as simple and kind as ordinary citizens.
"But, Jarvis, you are commanding two criminal soldiers, not real soldiers. Each of their hands is stained with the blood of good citizens. You are not murdering them, but acting against them on behalf of the Empire." The verdict will be pronounced. If you think of it this way, you might feel better..."
Li Nuo nodded silently, exactly what a young assistant should be like, and did not show the carelessness of a time traveler.
He is such a cautious person.
"As for the death magic that appears after correcting the wrong runes...I can tell you that it is not unsolvable."
Captain Murphy's lit a thin cigarette, took a puff slowly, and exhaled the fragrant smoke and said:
"That death magic is called "Death Storm". We think it is a pulsed energy beam composed of high-energy particle rays. Judging from the monitoring data, it looks a bit like an ultra-miniature gamma ray storm..."
Li Nuo secretly raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He didn't expect that the empire had conducted in-depth research on death spells, and analyzed them in a scientific and theoretical way, not from a mystical perspective.
No wonder there is a saying: All magic can be mathematically transformed - that is, using knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry to analyze the principles of magic.
Captain Murphya continued in a pragmatic military tone:
"The physical quality of the first-level "Imperial Fist" is enough to withstand this level of pulse energy beam. But he will also suffer severe physical damage, the kind that is irreparable. Because the energy beam will interfere with the activities of cells throughout his body at the molecular level, causing disorders in his cell division process. like this..."
Captain Murphy's placed the thin cigarette on the edge of the ashtray and reached out to touch his chin.
Under Li Nuo's surprised gaze, Captain Murphy's pinched the "skin" on his neck and slowly lifted off his "disguise" from bottom to top, revealing a face that looked like it was severely burned.
The red meat was covered with black earthworm-like protrusions, which were ferocious and ugly.
"Hiss..." Li Nuo couldn't help but take a breath as he looked at the scene in front of him.
The severely burned face is Martha Murphy's real face.
The cold face like an iceberg beauty before was just a bionic face made by artificial people.
It’s hard to imagine how much this 19-year-old girl in front of me has paid for the empire in her heart...
How many people would be willing to suffer pain all over themselves for the sake of the fleeting imperial honor?
"In order to verify whether the undead runes I translated are correct, I have personally modified the undead runes on death-type magic buildings many times. There are successes and failures. The price of failure is very painful, but fortunately the empire has not given up on me. I didn’t let the Empire down... I didn’t scare you, did I, Jarvis?”
"No, no. You are really admirable, sir. Without your efforts, there would be no translation that I have seen."
Li Nuo was in awe, not for anything else but for the other party's dedication and courage.
Captain Murphya covered his face with "disguise" and rubbed his hands softly on his cheeks, making the two faces fit together perfectly.
"So, you understand, Jarvis. Your predicament is only temporary. As long as you can prove the effectiveness of the 'Broken Coffin' plan with actual actions, you can get funding from the empire. Get rid of the status of a criminal soldier, Become a true soldier and be promoted to the "Imperial Fist". Considering that you are not an "Imperial Fist", but you are asked to carry out such a dangerous operation, we have assigned two criminal soldiers to you to try your hand. "
Captain Murphya picked up the fine burning smoke:
"Military Intelligence Four has instructed me to convey something to you. After this legion mission is over, you can enjoy all the benefits of a legionnaire, including clean hot water, plenty of vegetables and meat, warm marching tents, and half a A once-a-month 'fun time' and so on. This is MI4's promise to you. Of course, your identity is still a criminal soldier, and you should know why."
"Yes, I know why...this is a rule set by our great Emperor."
——According to historical records, Tardis I, who is still in power today, was born as a criminal soldier. In his day, there was no such thing as a criminal being turned into a regular soldier. Only after he established the modern Tartis Empire did the criminals have a chance to become regulars.
Li Nuo found this historical knowledge from the memory of the original owner.
"Okay, I've finished what I need to say." Captain Murphy Ya put down his cigarette, raised his right hand and saluted Li Nuo and said:
"Salute to every warrior of the Empire."
Li Nuo stood up and raised his hand to salute:
"Salute to the fearless pioneers. Sir, you are my role model."
With a firm tone, a resolute expression, and excellent appearance, Captain Mephiya was very satisfied with the criminal soldier in front of him.
She smiled and nodded:
"Go, Jarvis, I'm waiting for good news from you. Sergeant Mars will teach you how to use the rune modification tool."
"Yes, sir."
Li Nuo left the tent.
Outside the tent, Sergeant Mars saw Li Nuo coming out, and immediately cast a questioning look.
Li Nuo walked to the other party and whispered:
"Sir, I know what I have to do. I will try my best to complete it."
Sergeant Mars patted Li Nuo on the shoulder:
"Okay, I knew you wouldn't flinch, you are an upright imperial man!... Let's go, I will take you to meet the two criminal soldiers, and then I will give you the tools to modify the undead runes."
Li Nuo was half a step behind and followed Sergeant Mars forward.
About 40 minutes ago, Li Nuo thought that he was still a social terrorist who was not good at scheming.
But when he faced Captain Murphy's just now, his performance and acting skills were so natural.
This made Li Nuo himself feel a little surprised.
Could it be that the series of events after the time-travel inspired some kind of potential personality in him?
Well, maybe I just let out my true self...
Li Nuo turned around, squinted at the tent, and quickly sketched the floor plan of the entire camp in his mind, and marked the location of the tent on the map.
I have to say, that tent is indeed very inconspicuous.
If they weren't someone familiar with the matter, no one would have thought that there was a female captain squatting in that tent smoking alone to relieve her boredom...
A female captain with the third-level "Imperial Fist" strength...
Li Nuo recalled it carefully.
It can indeed be called "slightly plump", but underneath this beautiful appearance, there is a body that is completely devastated.
It’s really a pity…
