Alien Knights

When Ackerman jumped from the back of the gryphon to the ground, what appeared in front of him was a makeshift position on the port street.

Overlapping sandbags blocked the entire street, and towering sentry towers kept sounding piercing alarms.

Ackerman looked back at the frightened Parni, waved her hand to rest first, and walked towards the military camp inside alone.

Alfonso, who was burying his head in front of his desk and looking at the city map, glanced at Ackerman who was approaching. Without speaking, he quickly wrote down a warrant and handed it to the herald beside him.

"Tell those who are unwilling to board the ship that the Dragon Kingdom will not provide them with shelter and that they are free to leave."

Alfonso finished handling the matter at hand, turned his head to Ackerman, and whispered: "As a commander, you should not leave your army."

Ackerman sighed: "I will soon no longer be..."

"As long as you don't leave this position for a day, you must stick to your post." Alfonso said seriously: "You should know what the black plague is?"

Ackerman reacted: "Wait a minute, what's going on with these rats?"

"A week ago, successive heavy rains destroyed the sewer embankment of Tyro City. We believe that this is how these plague rats came out of the city." Alfonso said while tapping the map: "In order to avoid the cold air from the north , these rats followed ditches, streams and underground caves all the way south to the Duchy Principality."

"They first lurked underground in the city, and when the sea rose, they all came to the surface again."

Alfonso paused for a while and said to Ackerman: "His Majesty has previously ordered that the Crusaders, Knights and aliens are not allowed to act alone in the Principality of Dokchi. Do you still remember?"

Ackerman nodded: "I still remember, but I thought his original intention was to let everyone evacuate faster..."

Alfonso waved to the other party to follow him.

With doubts, Ackerman followed the knight's footsteps, walked out of the room, walked through the crowd, and finally came to the door of a warehouse built near the port.

Looking at the fleet of ships on the distant sea that were busy loading people and supplies, Ackerman asked strangely: "What are we doing here? Shouldn't we go to the front line to help at this time?"

Alfonso motioned to the guard to open the warehouse door and walked in.

The huge warehouse has long been separated into dozens of huge rooms. In each room, a group of people wearing doctor's coats are busy coming and going.

Ackerman was a little confused: "I never knew there was such a place here."

Alfonso showed his dragon-shaped badge, and then said: "Come in, just watch it later, and make sure your hands don't touch anything."

Ackerman walked into the room and saw a metal operating bed lying flat in the center of the room, and tied to the bed was an orc covered in black parasites.

Get closer and observe carefully, you will see that the orc's limbs have been lost, leaving only the head and torso. Its vital characteristics have long been gone, and it has become a plague zombie that has lost the ability to think.

"Bokanian, captain of the sixth team of the 17th Chapter of the Crusader Orcs, was originally responsible for guarding the southwest exit of Taylor City..."

Hearing Alfonso's words, Ackerman opened his eyes wide and suddenly said: "I have never heard of this soldier's name in the death list!"

Alfonso signaled the doctors to continue working. He exited the room and said, "That's because His Majesty didn't want the Crusaders to know about this. Therefore, some of the soldiers who died were recorded in the files as having other military duties or missing."

"Why?"

Alfonso pointed to the dragon-shaped badge on his chest and said: "During the battle against the black plague, the souls of some soldiers did not return to heaven."

"Wait a minute! What did you say?!"

Alfonso said: "Let me say it again, anyone who dies from the black plague has a certain chance that his soul will not be able to reach heaven."

Ackerman broke into a cold sweat: "In other words..."

Alfonso walked forward and said: "If you and Parni had died there just now, your souls might be scattered and you would never reach heaven again."

Ackerman: "Why is that?"

Alfonso: "I don't know. The kingdom is studying it, but there is no answer yet."

Leaving the surgical area in the warehouse, Alfonso walked to a bunker door and motioned to the guards to open the door.

The door made of steel was opened by four knights wearing dragon bone armor. Alfonso held the handle with one hand and held the weapon in the other hand, and walked down the stairs carefully.

Walking behind the knight, Ackerman asked quietly: "Where are we going?"

"Under His Majesty's instruction, we built an experimental area underground in the Dukechi Principality."

"Experimental area?"

Alfonso brushed away the parasite limbs from his ears and continued: "During this period, we captured a large number of undead samples from Tyro City and transported them here for research."

Ackerman was stunned: "Does Grand Duke Dokqi know about this?"

"Not knowing...in fact, not knowing something is a blessing for him."

Stepping onto the ground of the underground experimental area, there was a sound of metal echoing under his feet. Ackerman asked in surprise: "This ground...?"

"Not only the ground, but also walls, isolation doors, and plywood. Most of the materials are made of iron." Alfonso lowered his body and walked through an iron door and said: "Wood boards, soil, and stones are good for the parasites of the plague. For insects, it doesn’t have much blocking effect.”

Continuing to move forward, Ackerman saw a group of people wearing full body armor, surrounding the iron cage, nervously recording something.

As he got closer, Ackerman discovered that there were many plague-infected parasite corpses bound with iron chains in a huge iron cage.

Alfonso walked up to a staff member and knocked on the latter's helmet: "According to the scheduled plan, start clearing the site. Remember not to miss anything."

The staff nodded, turned around and began to greet their companions.

Ackerman: "What is this going to do?"

Alfonso: "We will evacuate here soon. According to His Majesty's decree, this experimental area will be destroyed and sealed. Come here and take a look at this..."

Ackerman walked to the iron cage as instructed and found that the parasitic corpse inside was different from usual.

The parasites attached to the corpses were not the usual black, but glowing with a metallic color. When they collide, you can still hear the sound of iron swords striking each other.

Alfonso: "These plague parasites have mutated."

"Mutations?"

"What you see in front of you is a living example. When the alien species with "metal skin" is infected by the plague, the superpowers in his body will be transmitted to the parasite, so that the parasite also has corresponding superpowers. "

Alfonso stared at the plague parasites with metal shells and said worriedly: "Your Majesty speculates that parasites can also share and copy abilities, but fortunately, such a situation has not yet occurred."

Ackerman felt that his brain was a little unable to turn around: "You mean, these parasites can plunder the superpowers of alien species and convert them into their own superpowers?"

"Yes, if a plague parasite has eaten the flesh and blood of a foreign species, then it can possess the superpowers of this foreign species. So far, not only metal skin, but also strength enhancement, speed enhancement, Plague parasites such as inflammation, division, colloid, transformation, mimicry, etc.”