Originally, the city in front of Marin should still be in a welcoming atmosphere when the lord was getting married, but now there was no sound in the city, like a dead city.

This reminded Marin of Carter's Castle in his dream, but at least there was a mechanical voice there, unlike here, where only the sound of each other's footsteps was quiet.

Silent Hill does not have an outer city wall - unlike Carter's Castle, Carter's Castle was originally a pioneering land and was surrounded by either spirits or bad neighbors. Even in modern times, walls are still needed to protect itself and avoid the invasion of spirits in the wild.

Silent Hill is different. This is the Central Province. Any monster in the wild that dares to challenge humans will be killed as quickly as possible. So much so that Marin heard that the monsters in the Central Province walk around people, and only those who wander over are

The spirits will attack humans fearlessly, but of course their only end is death.

The city wall of Silent Hill tightly wraps up the three areas of the Temple District, the Noble District and the Administrative and Commercial District. The remaining residential areas for citizens do not have city walls.

What Marin and the others want to go is to pass through several residential areas to reach the temple area.

After passing through several farmlands, Marin looked at the farmhouse on the roadside. He looked out the window and couldn't see anything inside. Marin used a heat-sensing visual spell, and then saw two very blurry things in the farmhouse.

Figure - Bugs are cold-blooded, even if their host is a hot-blooded creature, but when the transformation is completed, it will no longer emit a lot of heat energy as before.

This should be a relatively safe testing environment.

Marin stopped the two mentors and told them his findings. Mentors Merkel and Emmet Selk nodded in agreement with Marin's idea.

So Feo and Gorehowl stepped forward and knocked on the door with the back of their axes.

Surprisingly, Marin didn't notice any movement from those figures.

Two instructors hiding in a carriage nearby also poked their heads out. Instructor Merkel expressed his doubts: "They don't have hearing?"

"I don't know, maybe destroy the door to see." Marin ordered his ax to attack the door, then turned the ax, Feo and Gorehowl attacked the door, the ax opened the door, and the insect man in the room was

They screamed and rushed out of the door, turning their heads left and right under the sun, as if they were looking for the murderer who broke the door, completely unaware of the ax right in front of them.

He also didn't notice Marin standing not far away.

"Hey." Marin said, his voice was quiet, but it could definitely be heard clearly by these people - if they were still human.

This time, these bug-men turned to look at Marin, and then ran towards Marin in large strides.

The largest one was split into two pieces when passing by Feo and Gorehowler. Marin used the crossbow in his hand to knock over the smallest insect man. The armor-piercing crossbow worked very well, and

The head also seems to be a fatal threat to these bug-men.

The remaining two bug-men jumped up high, and then were tangled up in the net by the twigs of the world tree that had been turned into net bags.

Feo ran over and happily chopped off the insect man's head protruding from the net pocket.

By this time, Marin had basically understood the characteristics of these insect-men.

First of all, these bugmen basically have no vision, or they have no vision during the day and in places with high brightness, because before Marin made a sound, no bugman noticed him at all, even if he was standing less than thirty meters away from them.

In terms of position, there was no cover between the two parties, and Marin did not squat or lie down.

Secondly, their positioning of the sound source is also a minor weakness. They did not react at all when the ax knocked on the door. They did not feel anything until the ax split the door open, but they had no reaction at all to dead objects.

Even if Feo jumped up and down in front of them with a bloody roar.

Third, their attack methods are extremely instinctive.

Marin and two mentors pried open the bug man's chest carapace and also found bug fetuses. Among them, the mother victim's bug fetuses were larger than those of her husband and children. It may be the earliest in the family.

infected.

This can also prove that the young man is definitely out of his mind. When Marin stepped on the insect fetus under his feet, he heard the faint cry again.

This time, there were more whispers in the cries.

But it was only for a moment.

"Next time, let's break down the door directly and see how the bugs will react when they see humans in the dark area." Marin said, looking at the two mentors.

"Would it be too dangerous?"

"It's okay, I can handle it."

Of course, Marin was not talking nonsense. In another farmhouse, Marin confirmed three insect targets in the room. The two mentors stood by the doors on both sides as cover. Marin kicked the door open, and then

Holding a shield made from the twigs of the World Tree and a crossbow, he walked in.

The insect man roared and rushed towards Marin. The first insect was killed by an armor-piercing crossbow arrow again. The blood roar cut off the other insect man at the waist, and then bound the insect man's legs with its extended legs.

When it fell forward, Marin's free hands grabbed the insect's neck and twisted it directly.

The insect whose neck was broken was not dead, but it lost control of its body and could only roar on the ground.

The insect man whose body was severed by Gorehowl was not dead, but he no longer had the strength to make any movements. The fallen organs were the cause of death. Marin even saw the cyst-like object and the insect fetus in it.

"They have vision in dark environments." Instructor Merkel shook his head: "It looks like we are in trouble."

"We still need to do a test." Marin said as he took off the crossbow arrows from the insect corpse, and then walked to the farmhouse next door.

The two instructors didn't know why, so they followed him.

This time, Marin took out the shock bomb and threw it in through the window without knocking on the door.

Farmhouses couldn't have any glass windows, they were all made of lattice wooden windows and curtains, which shocked the room and made a loud noise.

Marin and the two instructors looked around and found no bugs rushing out of the door uninvited, so they opened the door with confidence and looked at the dead bugs on the ground. Instructor Emmet Selke personally dissected one of them.

One, indeed, the insect fetus was stillborn in the chest: "What is the working principle of the shock bomb."

"Influence the human nerve center through loud noises and flashes of light."

"Nerve center? What the hell?" Instructor Merkel was stunned for a moment.

This made Marin discover that the world's understanding of the human body was not as deep as he thought. He could only put it another way: "You can think of it as a general name for the organs that control the human body."

"It is the soul that controls the body, Marin."

"I know, Mr. Merkel, but the soul cannot make people move as naturally as the human body, and the nerve center is the... switch for the soul to control one's body." For the first time, Marin felt sad that he was not a medical student.

Because he really couldn't explain it all in the most accurate words.

Fortunately, both instructors understood the meaning of the word switch, so they nodded. Instructor Emmet Selke asked: "You mean, the insect man's control of the human body is to replace

The human soul controls that switch, and when your shock bomb affects the center, the insect fetus will die because it loses control of that switch."

"You can think so, and don't we have factual basis for this?" Marin pointed to the insect man on the ground.

"So are they alive or dead now?" Mr. Merkel looked at Marin: "If they are still alive, what should we do to save them."

"I think there is no way to save it. When they control the switch, the human soul is completely disconnected from their body. And when the insect fetus dies, their soul cannot continue to take over the body because they have already

Deformed, Mentor Merkel, they are already dead, both physically and theologically."

Marin looked at the old man in front of him. He knew that this old man was the old mentor of the Church of Mercy, and knew that he wanted to help all the innocents... But these innocents were dead and they had turned into man-eating monsters. Everyone faced

They are both dangerous encounters: "We must end this as quickly as possible, otherwise we will all die when the sun goes down."

"Let's go, Mentor Merkel." Mentor Emmet Selke patted the old man's shoulder.

"I know, Marin, and Teacher Quasser, but the God of Love told me to do everything possible to save the innocent..." At this point, the old man sighed: "We must end all this."

The three of them walked along the dirt road, passing through the farmhouses and fields, and when they entered the city, the solid stone road replaced the previous dirt. There was no more dust, but the noise of the old town was gone. Marin let his

Gorehowl walked in front, walking on one side of the street, and the two mentors walked on the other side. In this way, even if they were attacked by something, they would not be able to catch them all in one fell swoop.

There are bugs in the alleys of the streets, but they often gather together, which gives Marin a deep understanding of their habits. These bugs are indeed photophobic. They will attack prey standing in the sun.

It's like I didn't see it at all.

From far away, Marin saw the corner. A large number of insect-men gathered in the shadow below the hollow layer, which forced Marin to stop. He looked at the two mentors, and they also stopped.

.

"If we enter the shadows, we will definitely be attacked." After speaking, Instructor Merkel walked towards Marin: "The alleys are full of bugs. We can't shoot. Shooting will attract bugs. Do you have

Bayonet?"

"The military bayonet was passed down to me by my father and grandfather." Instructor Emmet Selk pulled out a bayonet from the scabbard.

"Sharpness is a good thing. In 1772, did your grandfather fight in the Great Patriotic War?"

"Well, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. In the second half, he fought against Chaos for thirteen years." Instructor Emmet Selk stuck another bayonet on the bayonet holder.

"My father died in the Battle of the Thousand Sons." The old man loaded the bayonet.

Marin coughed and stretched out his hand to make a request. Following his gesture, the two instructors looked towards the alley and found that a walking ax had already carved a bloody path.

"Let's go." Marin said and walked into Xiao Hei.

In the time it took for you to chat, Gorehowl had already slashed away all the way.

Following the blood path that Blood Roar had cut all the way to the end, Marin found that his ax had stopped, so he also stopped, holding the hand crossbow in his hand, and took a look with one eye: "There are no more bugs.

, I saw the city wall." What appeared at the exit of the alley was a section of the city wall.

"There are a few bugs outside. It doesn't look like you killed them with an axe. Maybe we should raise a white flag and go out."

"No need." Marin took Gorehowl off the ax handle that Feo had transformed into, took out a white handkerchief and tied it up, then let Feo carry it out.

"I never thought that the twigs of the World Tree could be used in this way." Instructor Meikel said with a puzzled look.

"Me too, life with Marin always brings surprises." Instructor Emmet Selke looked at someone on the other side of the city wall with an embarrassed look, "Who is it!"

Carter's Castle, the small twigs split from Fio spelled out a big place name.
To be continued...