Rogge ran in fear on the uneven roads of Melas Town. The long high-speed running had already made the town mayor begin to feel a little weak in his hands and feet. His lungs were burning with pain from over-breathing, and his temples were jumping. There were waves of dizziness in his head, but he didn't dare to stop. This was entirely because of the black tide that kept chasing him behind him.
It was a swarm of rats, composed of countless gray-haired rats. They were chasing after Rogge in groups. Because there were so many of them, it felt like they were seeing a constant influx of rats. Like the tide. At the forefront of the rat group are a few giant rats with a strong presence that clearly stand out from the rat group. Most of them are similar in size to cats, which is completely beyond the size of rats. This is why they have a strong One of the reasons for the sense of existence, and what is even more chilling is that these giant rats all have the same faces as humans!
Even though the faces of these human-faced mice had shrunk once, Rogge could still recognize who these people were. Some of them were townspeople who had disappeared before and their whereabouts were unknown, and some of them were townspeople who came to church in the town at noon to worship.
There is no doubt that these leading rats are the townspeople who were turned into human-faced rats by the flute player!
And Rogge was now being chased by the overwhelming number of rats like a dog. He didn't dare to relax at all and circled with them on the streets of the town. If he made a wrong move and something happened, I'm afraid his life will be in danger.
Maybe God really likes to tease people, or maybe it was the long-term high-intensity running that made the weak-physical town mayor feel tired. An accident happened when he ran past the church, and his feet suddenly lost strength and he could not stand firm. The whole person fell forward to the ground, and when he fell, the tide of rats also separated to both sides, and surrounded him among the numerous rats.
The eyes of hundreds of mice are flashing with a frightening red light. They are all restless and ready to move. It seems that they may swarm up at any time and gnaw Rogge's bloody corpse like old John. But as the witch's familiars, they Obviously they have a lot of organization. They will not pounce on them without authorization before the Man-Faced Rat officially orders an attack.
The leading human-faced rats had ferocious and cruel smiles on their faces. The corners of their mouths still had the blood and meat residue left after eating the living people. They couldn't help but lick their lips and admire them from different directions and angles. Rogge's face was distorted by fear, and he let out a squeaking sound like a rat, suppressing the rats around him that were about to move, and then led the rats closer to Rogge step by step.
The human-faced mice did not shrink the encirclement very quickly. On the contrary, they contracted the encirclement very slowly, even to the point of slowly approaching step by step. The eyes of a large group of black rats were flashing with intimidating light. With a red light, they approached Rogge bit by bit at an almost sluggish speed. Obviously they could swarm him, but under the command of the human-faced rats, these rats still used this slow method to get close to this unlucky prey.
They are playing with their prey.
They want to see themselves desperate and frightened because death is approaching, and they take pleasure in it
For some reason, Rogge also understood the intentions of the human-faced rat and the rats from their behaviors. When this terrible suspicion came to his mind, he suddenly felt like he had fallen into an ice cave, and was extremely desperate.
For a moment, the townspeople were transformed into human-faced mice by the flute player's poisonous hands. They had horrific memories of their best friend kicking him out of the church and asking him to seek help. The experience of being used as a human shield by Otto and dancing on the tip of a flying knife. Memories of disgusting scenes of rats eating people to death flooded into his mind. The series of things he had experienced in the past few days had already made Rogge feel deeply tired and powerless. The drastic changes and blows that had occurred one after another today were even more... It left him mentally and physically exhausted.
Once, he and Ilson wanted to cut off the tragic cycle of the witch curse. As the mayor and the town priest, they actually knew that there were many records of the witch trial in Melas Town. The people are all innocent people who are implicated. Some of them are witches who have never used the power of witches, and some of them are townspeople who are not witches at all. The townspeople often use completely untenable accusations such as the death of the cow at home, the curse of the witch, the witch turned into a ghost and pinched and twisted me, etc., to inflict ill will on the people they hate.
As long as one person accuses others of being a witch, more and more people in the town will accuse him of being a witch. Everyone will swear to make up trumped-up stories about witches and accusations against him. There may be some people among them who stand up. If you come out to protest against the defendant, the blind and ignorant townspeople will soon accuse the unfair person of being a witch and sentence them to death. Junqu Pavilion
The judge did not care at all about the defendant's defense. No matter how much the defendant who was regarded as a witch proved his innocence, it would be useless no matter how much evidence he produced to prove his innocence. After being sentenced to death, the people in the town soon began to The remaining wealth of the witch will be divided up, and no one will care where the witch will be buried or whether her body will be exposed in the wilderness.
Rogge and Ilson felt unfair and angry about this. They wanted to prevent this tragedy from happening, not only to prevent this persecution, but also to prevent the misfortune that happened to the witch.
They tried to send the children in the town to study in big cities outside the town, and held classes for adults in the town's church to teach the townspeople to understand, hoping to use more scientific and rational explanations to eliminate the blindness of the townspeople to some natural phenomena. Fear, thereby reducing the indiscriminate persecution of people who are suspicious of witchcraft due to natural phenomena.
They also looked for many ways to cut off or break the unfortunate curse on the witch. They also cared about those townspeople who lived unfortunate lives, and tried their best to provide them with support and help, hoping to help them escape their misfortune.
But all attempts failed.
He and Priest Ilson were unable to find a way to cut off the misfortune of the witch, nor were they able to control the situation in Melas Town. Many people were killed because of their stupid and naive attempts, and the remaining people also lost their lives. Most of them were turned into rats with human faces and lived a life worse than death.
In the end, Rogge felt as if his life so far had been a failure. He had done nothing well and accomplished nothing.
He felt tired and wanted to give up.
Maybe it would be better to die here
Rogge clenched the cross necklace in his hand, which he snatched from a house after Otto threw him out of the witch's barrier. At that time, these rats were gnawing on a person's body with relish, and it was gnawed beyond recognition. , the bloody man could no longer scream, and the necklace fell among the rats next to the man among the rats.
Sure enough, I can't even do the small thing of taking back my best friend's belongings.
He closed his eyes, gave up the last struggle and collapsed on the ground, waiting for death to come.
However, the expected severe pain did not come. Instead, what reached Rogge's ears was a high-pitched, intense rattle.
Squeak!
The sound was hard to hear, as if someone was clawing at the blackboard with fingernails. It made Rogge feel so uncomfortable that goosebumps fell all over the floor. He couldn't help but open his eyes and saw a scene that surprised him slowly surrounding him. A lot of chaos broke out among the incoming rats. Although more than half of the rats were still moving forward, the other half of the rats had undergone strange changes.
The mice with their eyes shining with scarlet light first stopped their progress, and then stagnated in place for a moment. As another burst of squeaking sounds came, they immediately opened their mouths and bit the fellow mice that were advancing beside them. The force was often seen. There were bloody scenes of biting off the limbs of other rats, or biting off a large piece of meat from the body. The rats that had a large piece of meat bitten off were also extremely angry, and they immediately gave up the execution of the human-faced rat and moved on. commanded, turned around and bit into pieces with the rat companion who provoked him.
This chaos spread rapidly, and even the first few human-faced rats were not spared. Perhaps because they felt that the human-faced rats had a size advantage, those rats that suddenly went crazy were bitten in groups.
The order of the rat group suddenly fell into a state of collapse, and the encirclement was no longer so tight with the infighting among the rats. The rats, who were focused on infighting and eating their companions, had almost no time to pay attention to Rogge.
Infighting?
Rogge looked at the group of rats that suddenly fell into cannibalism and had such doubts in his heart. However, even if some unknown changes occurred within the group of rats, which made it difficult for the rats to fight among themselves and maintain an encirclement, there was no way to arouse the small group of rats. The mayor's desire for survival is gone.
Even if there were many flaws in the encirclement, he did not
He was tired without any intention of escaping in the chaos and didn't want to continue struggling. Even if the rats fell into a short period of cannibalism, he would just wait quietly for these rats to kill their companions and then kill him. The moment of killing.
However, just when Rogge was thinking this, a human-faced rat slowly came to him. After seeing the appearance of the human-faced rat clearly, his eyes, which had already lost their vitality, suddenly shrank, revealing an expression of disbelief. look.
It was a human-faced rat with brown eyes.
He recognizes the appearance of this human-faced rat
Squeak!
The shrill rattle sounded in his ears, and the brown-eyed human-faced rat had an anxious look on its face and kept squeaking, but Rogge felt as if he was gradually losing his hearing, and his mind was filled with confusion. The buzzing sound was fading away, and he stared at the human-faced rat with a painful and sad expression, unable to speak.
The cannibalism among the rats is coming to an end. The leading human-faced rats have cleared away the rats that besieged them. The rats that suddenly went crazy are also being eliminated one by one. The chaotic rats are returning to order little by little.
The brown-eyed human-faced rat was still squeaking anxiously, but soon he seemed to realize something, and bit Rogge's arm hard, using pain to stimulate him to wake up, and then he didn't squeak as loudly as before. Instead of shouting, he struggled to make an obscure and incomprehensible sound.
Absinthe wormwood leaves the heart with no regrets, as if it were oily
Come on, don't worry, I'll be fine.
Rogge's eyes widened, and tears welled up in his eyes. The brown-eyed man-faced mouse took a deep look at the cross necklace in his hand, stretched out his paws and gently pulled at the cross twice. Next, a grateful smile appeared on the shrunken man's face, but this time Rogge did not leave alone like last time. He grabbed the human-faced mouse with strange eyes and took it with him without thinking. The other party rushed out of the circle of rats. The rats that had fallen into chaos also restored order at this moment. Under the angry and twisted calls of the human-faced rats, they quickly chased after him and were about to surround Rogge again.
But at this moment, the brown-eyed human-faced rat, which was held in Rogge's arms, violently broke away from the embrace. Under the former's astonished gaze, he rushed towards the man-faced rat chasing behind him without hesitation, and swooped down. He pinned the opponent down and bit its throat in one bite, and was quickly swallowed up by the group of rats that came after him.
At the same time, the familiar voice came again.
Go quickly
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