Alien Knights

Listening to the footsteps that were gradually going away, Todd held his beating heart with his hands, panting and asked others: "What is that giant?!"

""honeycomb"."

To his surprise, the knight actually answered the question.

Leslie leaned on the door, looked out through the small hole, and added: "One of the most difficult aliens is a guy that no one wants to touch. But... it's a bit strange... This guy seems different from the "hive" we encountered before..."

"Wait a minute, wait a moment!" Todd made a stop gesture with his hand: "Let me tell you first, what is a 'hive' variant?"

Leslie glanced at Alfonso, who nodded, and the former began to introduce: "The 'hive' is a special kind of alien species that has no combat power of its own, but can control other creatures. The controlled creatures are called 'puppets'. 'Puppets' can be insects, fish, beasts, or even humans. The 'hive' that controls humans is quite rare, and it is even rarer for alien species that can control so many humans."

Todd heard a key point: "Is there a limit to the number of creatures controlled by the 'hive' xenomorph?"

"That's natural. If the number of controlled individuals is unlimited, wouldn't it be invincible? We've seen ones that can control one or two humans, and some that can control four or five, but there are very few "hives" that can control more than fifty people like this." Leslie confirmed that there was no threat outside the door, and his body relaxed completely: "The "hive" alien species can secrete black bugs from the body and bury them in the "puppet". When needed, they can be controlled at any time; when not needed, they can also be cut off at any time. relationship."

Todd thought of the "black liquid" he had seen just now, and after thinking about it, those things might be "food-borne parasites", which should enter the host's body through food and water sources.

"Boss, what shall we do now?"

The knight stood up and raised his sword: "Continue to set off, the goal is still Fort Watcher."

Todd watched the two push the door and set off, feeling a bit more at ease. From the beginning to the end, Alfonso and Leslie didn't mention Karin's ability, as if they hadn't seen it just now. Although he didn't know what they were thinking, but if the other party didn't mention it, he naturally wouldn't talk about it.

After advancing for another ten minutes, the silhouette of Fort Watcher in the night had appeared in front of my eyes. In front of the gate facing south, more than fifty "puppets" gathered in front of the iron fence driven by gears and rockers, but the "hive" disappeared without a trace.

Todd hid his body in the grass, looked at the twisted monsters hovering near the gate of the castle not far away, and asked the knight, "Okay, how should we get in now?"

Alfonso put the weapon behind his back, looked around the edge of the castle, pointed to a depression in the outer wall in the night, and said to the others: "Follow me."

Bypassing the enemies at the door, a group of four came to a hidden wall. The knight picked up a small stone, aimed at the slanted window on the city wall, and threw it hard. The stone hit the stone edge of the slanted window, bounced a few times, and made a crisp sound.

A few seconds later, a bearded head poked out.

Tapping the city wall rhythmically with the hilt of the sword, one long and four short, Alfonso's movements immediately reminded Todd of the joint code in the Anti-Japanese War movie.

After another minute or two, the sound of the crank handle was heard in the night sky, and a wooden "elevator" slowly approached the ground. First came the lighter weight Leslie and Karin, followed by Todd and finally Alfonso. In this way, the team came to the city wall of the outer wall through this primitive lifting method.

When Alfonso got down from the elevator and stood on the city wall. The four soldiers let go of the push rods in their hands, and under Todd's surprised gaze, bowed down to salute him.

A bearded man, wearing a breastplate engraved with a silver crown, walked quickly, beat Alfonso's chest with his fist, and laughed happily: "You can still remember the original password!"

Seeing this scene, Todd was even more puzzled. He knew the emblem of the silver crown, it was the symbol of the Silver Ring Kingdom. Judging by his attire, the bearded man should be a knight of the secular kingdom, but he is so familiar with Alfonso De Cavo, a church knight, that it is hard to figure it out.

Seeing who it was, Alfonso relaxed his body in a rare way, and tapped his armor with his knuckles, his eyes behind the iron mask showed a hint of warmth: "Wilder, you look much older than before."

"Because I care more about life than you. I have a wife and four children, and I have to worry about my livelihood every day. Unlike you, who gave up the fiefdom of the kingdom and donated all the property to the church, became a knight of the Holy See, a real warrior under the command of the heavenly father!" Wilder rubbed the back of his head, looking a little shy: "Although I have confidence in my faith, I don't think I can do what you do."

Alfonso didn't seem to want to get involved in this topic, and asked straight to the point: "Do you know what's going on in the city?"

Wilder nodded: "I have listened to the reports of my subordinates in detail, and things have become a little troublesome."

Looking in the direction of the castle tower, Alfonso asked suspiciously: "You know what I want to hear is not this, why don't you send troops to maintain order? Where is Sir Adams?"

The bearded man scratched the beard on his chin with the palm of his hand, with a troubled expression on his face: "There are some things that I may not be able to explain clearly for a while, so you should follow me to see."

Under the leadership of friends and soldiers, a group of four came to the training ground in the center of the castle.

Alfonso didn't pay attention to those twisted and squawking "puppets" outside the fence gate. He was first attracted by dozens of corpses covered by white cloth on the ground.

Wilder squatted down, covered the white cloth blown up by the wind with his hands, and sighed: "There are thirty-five corpses here in total. They went to Shouwang Town for dinner or parties in the afternoon, and when they came back, they vomited and diarrhea, and then their hearts stopped beating, and they were not breathing."

Looking up at the soldiers in the square, Alfonso frowned and said, "There are less than 150 soldiers here. What about the rest? Where are the other knights? Where is Commander Adams?"

Wilder pouted at the two farthest corpses: "The one on the left is Knight Ardino, and the one on the right is Sir Adams. As for the others, they went to the town and never came back. The me in front of you is the only knight here..."

The Iron Knight fell silent.

He thought it might be bad, but not this bad.

Just when he was about to speak, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from a distance, which attracted people's attention. The more than fifty "puppets" outside the fence gate, like puppets who lost their strings, all fell to the ground.

Wilder turned his head to look, and when he found this strange thing, he said in disbelief, "The enemy has retreated?"

wrong!

Something must be wrong somewhere!

Some words suddenly appeared in Todd's head, which were some things he had heard before, but he would be vague and unrealistic for a while.

In desperation, he tried to ask Leslie: "I remember, you seem to have said that the method of 'hive' controlling the 'puppet'..."

"Huh? When the 'Hive' doesn't need the 'Puppet', you can cut off contact with them at any time."

"No, no. Not this one, the previous one."

"Let's think about it... Whenever needed, the "Hive" can control them at will..."

Hearing this, Todd's mind trembled, and his hairs stood on end!

Turning back slowly, one corpse after another on the square straightened up from under the white cloth...