The location of the dam is several hours away from Naspar. Although it is indeed considered to be near Naspar, ordinary civilians will not travel so far.

Everyone took dry food and crowded in the windows facing away from the dam to look outside. Affected by the heavy rain, the field of vision was severely restricted. Coupled with the dim light, it was difficult to see clearly beyond 20 meters.

So they looked around for a while before vaguely seeing the figure Lydia mentioned.

What is strange is that the figure moves very slowly in the heavy rain. Generally speaking, no one wants to get caught in the rain. When you see a hut that can take shelter from the rain, you should run two steps over.

Moen almost pressed against the window and said in confusion:

"Who is he? Our classmate?"

There are quite a few students performing tasks nearby, so it's not surprising that they would run to the hut to take shelter during a heavy rainstorm.

"may be?"

Even Anna, the half-elf with the best eyesight, was not sure that the impact of the heavy rain was too serious.

At this time, Lydia, who noticed someone, shook her ears:

"Do you feel like you're getting cold?"

"cold?"

Pei Renli looked back at the fire. Since there was enough fuel, the flames showed no sign of diminishing.

"I felt a little uncomfortable, like someone was blowing on my neck."

Moen immediately said:

"First of all, let me state that it was not me."

"I'm just a metaphor."

Lydia reached out and pulled her tail from behind in front of everyone:

"Look, the hair on my tail has exploded."

"Isn't your hair like this from the beginning?"

"Of course not! I made a point of combing my hair before going out!"

The perception of the tabby cat people is acute. To be precise, among all intelligent races, humans have the least acute perception. Therefore, no one else feels there is any problem.

Pei Renli pinched his chin and recalled the description of the tabby cat people in the book. He felt that it was better to be careful than to believe it or not.

"Get your weapons ready. If it's really a classmate, then of course it's best. If not..."

Anyway, let’s be prepared first.

After stuffing the half-eaten dry food back, everyone shouldered their backpacks and put on their cloaks, staring intently at the figures looming in the heavy rain.

As time went by, the discomfort Lydia felt was definitely not an illusion, and Pei Renli and the others gradually discovered that the surrounding temperature was dropping little by little.

In other words, it was not the temperature that dropped, but the body temperature. In the end, as Lydia said, it felt like someone was blowing air conditioning on the back of their necks.

This gave Pei Renli some unpleasant associations, such as the ghosts he had seen in the Scary Castle who liked to physically open eyes to people...

"Look, the rain is getting lighter."

While thinking about this in her mind, Anna pointed out the window and reminded.

The storm in the sea of ​​trees comes suddenly and disappears suddenly. After all, it is not the rainy season when the rain is the most abundant, and it generally does not last long.

In the gradually lowering rain curtain, the figures in the distance became clearer, but the details were still unclear. The only thing that was certain was that it was indeed abnormal.

When I saw it before, I thought the figure was moving towards their cabin, but in fact the guy was more like walking in circles, not really closing the distance at all.

Driving in circles in the rainstorm, are you mentally ill?

Everyone swallowed their saliva and clenched the weapons in their hands.

——Crack!

--boom!

A bolt of lightning exploded from the sky above, and the roar of thunder shook people's hearts.

The torrential rain and the deafening roar of thunder hid all the sounds outside the window, and the lightning that illuminated the earth for a moment did not play a good enough role. The woods in the distance were just a hazy image in Pei Renli's eyes.

The black figure seemed to finally feel the attention of everyone at this time. He stopped walking in circles and swayed towards the cabin where they were, looking more like a distorted shadow.

Just when I was expecting to see each other clearly, the number of figures...

increased!

Moen was three points excited and seven points scared and said:

"Look! There's more!"

"Calm down! Don't pull my hair!"

Following the first figure seen, several equally dark shadows passed through the rain curtain, entering everyone's field of vision like ghosts passing through the mist, staggering towards the cabin.

The lightning disappeared, and darkness and heavy rain shrouded it again, making people's figures blurry. It seemed like a long time had passed, but it seemed that it was just an interval of one heartbeat. The majestic lightning that pierced the darkness came again. In an instant, everyone could finally

I saw the nearest figure clearly.

Anna's eyes widened:

"It's a skeleton!"

"Impossible, there should be no undead creatures around here!"

Lydia, who had the keenest sense, turned and looked at the window on the other side. There were several human-shaped black shadows approaching in their direction in the heavy rain.

"Quiet!"

Lydia finally fulfilled her duty as captain and signaled everyone to be silent.

Undead is a general term for things such as skeletons, zombies, and ghosts. They are awakened by negative energy and become 'alive' again from mere corpses.

The vast majority of undead creatures have no self-awareness and no memory. The only thing they have left is their hatred of all living creatures, trying to draw life to their side.

Because of this characteristic, undead creatures are very sensitive to the breath of living people. They were covered by the rain when there was a heavy rain. Now the heavy rain has a tendency to decrease, so they probably discovered the four people hiding in the cabin and gradually

Get closer to them.

The closer you get, the more clearly you can see.

They are not as simple as moving human skeleton models. Some of the rotten clothes remain on their bodies, or the flesh is not completely rotten. The pale fire of the undead is burning in the dark eye sockets, and they are standing on the muddy ground against the wind and rain.

Go forward step by step.

Perrenli definitely didn't have a good impression of the undead. The experience in the scary castle gave him nightmares for two days in a row. However, compared to ghosts, physical undead creatures like skeletons are relatively easy to deal with and the feeling of terror is reduced.

Quite a few.

But things are not that simple. Moen just said that there should be no undead creatures around here.

Generally, undead creatures will appear in cemeteries or battlefields. After all, it is the "resurrection of the dead", and it cannot be done in places where there are no dead people.

Since Naspar itself was an outpost used to deal with the tyrant Demon King, many adventurers went from there to the Demon King's City deep in the sea of ​​trees. It is not ruled out that some people died on the way, so the condition of having dead people is met.

of.

But one thing is that undead creatures cannot bask in the sun. Sunlight is an absolute enemy to them. The negative energy that drives undead creatures will disappear when exposed to sunlight, and undead creatures will turn into mere corpses.

Regardless of the fact that the sun is blocked due to storms, storms can disappear when they come, and if it is the extremely dense tropical rain forest around the Demon King's City, you can indeed enter it without being able to see your fingers, meeting the conditions for the emergence of undead creatures, but this

The degree of vegetation nearby is far from exaggerated. The undead creatures will disappear as soon as the sun comes out, which simply cannot satisfy the environment where skeletons are formed.

After all, if there is no external influence, undeadness will not be achieved overnight, it will take time.

After waiting for a while, the heavy rain became smaller and smaller. As long as the dark clouds and strong winds have not dispersed, this also made everyone's aura of the living more obvious. Everyone who originally expected the skeletons to go away was completely disappointed.

The decrease is getting closer and closer.

"Let's go, everyone, it's not safe here anymore."

Lydia gritted her teeth, picked up her shield and hand ax, and decided to go out and have a fight.

There is no possibility of communication with the undead. Once the breath of the living is captured, they will pursue it relentlessly.

Therefore, even if the skeletons move very slowly in the wind and rain, which is completely enough for everyone to escape at once, they will probably chase everyone to Naspar. It is definitely impossible to enter the city, but they will threaten the residents living nearby.

The closed wooden door was opened, strong wind mixed with fine raindrops fell through the hood of the cloak and fell on Pei Renli's face, and everyone poured out one after another.

The breath of the living is clearer, which makes the skeletons move faster. Before, they were just staggering forward, but now they can be considered as running quickly.

The rain slid down Lydia's fur. It was obvious that she didn't like the feeling of getting wet. It was also obvious that she wanted to rush up and strike an ax at the approaching skeleton, but luckily she held back.

The appearance of the skeleton was too inexplicable and did not seem to occur naturally. After everyone left the cabin, they immediately stared at their surroundings with wide eyes.

But maybe the wind and rain didn't completely disappear, or maybe they were overthinking it. Apart from skeletons, nothing else was found nearby.

"Anna, pay attention to your surroundings. If you see something strange, report it immediately. Moen, start your performance. We need it. Pei Renli, don't go far. Use magic to support me."

Lydia quickly assigned the task, and when she saw the skeleton approaching about 10 meters, she raised her hand ax and rushed forward.

To put it seriously, skeletons are actually not very powerful undead creatures, but they should not be careless because the level span of undead creatures is very large.

The weakest ones are called moving bones, which are just bones activated by negative energy. Even goblins may not be able to defeat them, while the most powerful skeletons are called death knights and are over level 70!

What's even more damning is that even if it's a Death Knight, if it takes off its armor and stands there, people who don't have a deep understanding of undead creatures won't be able to tell the difference between it and the weakest animal bones.

In the howling of the strong wind, Moen played the lute, and the cold made his fingertips slightly numb. Fortunately, he did not play the wrong note.

In the dim light, a dim circle of magical aura burst out from the strings. You can clearly see that the aura is connected to everyone, which is equivalent to a buff.

Pei Renli drew a circle casually and activated the light spell. The milky white magic lighting dispersed the surrounding darkness. Although it was a bit disgusting to make the appearance of the skeleton more clear, compared with the advantage of being able to see the battlefield environment clearly, he still had to endure it.

of.

At this moment, Lydia rushed forward and hit the skull with an axe. The undead fire burning in the eyes of the latter jumped violently and then burst open.

It also changed from a living undead creature back to a simple bone.
Chapter completed!