Lord of Industrialization

Just half an hour after entering the forest, Frederick felt the difference of the Northland Forest.

A full-scale chill made him feel like he was soaked in cold water from body to soul, and he shuddered.

After confirming that the other party mixed poisonous mushrooms with edible mushrooms, Frederick decided to inform the other party, so he and Jin Li and a total of six people formed a team, sitting in a cart pulled by a big-horned deer and heading deep into the forest along the newly opened road.

The forest was full of tall pine trees, and all the needles and pine cones on the branches had fallen off. A thick layer of pine needles fell on the ground, and small animals were looking for pine nuts in the fallen leaves from time to time.

Here, the north and south directions are easy to distinguish. The trunks in the south are covered with moss, and the north is bare, with occasional naturally dried mushrooms.

It was very quiet along the way, with occasional calls of grouse.

Lu Li was driving the car, listening from time to time.

About two hours later, she said to Frederick, "I suggest you prepare for the worst."

Frederick thought that he could not catch up, but he still asked curiously, "Why?"

Lu Li replied, "There should be crows in the forest at ordinary times. I haven't heard them for so long. Obviously they are gone."

Frederick asked again, "Could it be that they have all gone south in winter?"

"No." Lu Li shook her head, "They will stay in the forest even if it snows."

"It is very likely that everyone in the deep forest has died, and they are attracted by the smell."

Frederick's heart sank. It is indeed possible. When the whale was cut up, it attracted many crows from the distant mountains and forests, and he roasted two of them.

Lu Li continued, "In the past, the call of our bighorn deer would attract wolves or bears. Now there is no movement at all. They may have followed the body odor of the corpse."

"It must be a lot of animals to be able to go."

Frederick nodded slightly. Do your best and leave it to fate.

Jin Li, who was sitting next to him, said to him, "The forest is very dangerous. A little carelessness can cost you your life."

Frederick nodded.

Lu Li continued, "It's not just mushrooms. Some meats that are not cooked thoroughly can also cause problems."

"I've seen a bear before. Because it ate fish with worms, its stomach was full of worms. The worms came out of its buttocks and dragged longer than a carriage. In the end, it walked around the tree several times before all the worms were pulled out."

Frederick didn't dare to imagine what that scene would look like.

Brie also said, "People can also get such worms. Fortunately, you have capsules to expel worms in recent years, and patients can basically be treated in time."

The cart pulled by the giant deer did not move fast, which was equivalent to a normal human walk, but it had good endurance when walking on the forest path, and it could walk for four or five hours in a row.

Frederick chatted with the girls all the way, mainly about how to survive in the forest.

From time to time, he took out the compass to see that there was a big deviation between the direction of the pointer and the growth direction of the moss on the trees. As he walked, the pointer would turn a little by itself, which could determine that there was an iron ore vein nearby.

Suddenly, Lu Li stopped the car and indicated that there was something going on ahead.

The group got out of the car and came to the front of the car, and found that there were disorderly footprints on the path.

These footprints were very strange, some were human, some were beasts, some looked normal, and some were bones stepped directly on the ground.

Frederick had never seen such a situation, but he had heard of it.

In the history of magic development, Frederick von Wessen was a name that was enough to be recorded in history. It was not that he developed any magic theory that changed the world, but that he single-handedly led the development direction of necromancers, allowing them to walk from the gloomy cemetery to the bright food processing factory.

In the large slaughterhouse of the Principality of Wessen, pigs walked to the racks and entered the cutting line after being bled.

The necromancy that had been spread privately for thousands of years opened its own professional magic academy in Oak City for the first time. The academy was located across the street from the seminary of the Church of Light.

One of the consequences of this is that necromancers occasionally contribute some short stories to newspapers and magazines to earn royalties, among which there are mentions of the "dead army" and the "dead legion" of the necromancers, and an important distinguishing feature - footprints.

The dead people and animals controlled by the necromancers have a characteristic that their stride is shorter than that of living things when walking normally, and sometimes they drag on the ground.

The necromancers control skeletons, and the footprints on the ground are directly in the shape of bones, which is easier to distinguish.

Judging from the footprints on the ground, a short period of time ago, a group of dead and undead came out of the forest next to them and walked along the path.

Jin Li and others muttered for a long time, and finally came up with a guess.

"Gray Crow?" Frederick was full of questions, "Who is it?"

Jin Li replied: "Gray Crow is a death wizard with a history of one or two hundred years in the north. It has not appeared in the past twenty years. It may be a new generation of inheritors."

Frederick asked again: "What is the reputation of this inherited wizard?"

Jin Li replied: "They can't be said to be good or evil. They act as they please. Sometimes they will exchange some supplies with hunters, and sometimes they will watch the hunters being killed and then take the hunters' bodies."

Frederick decided to continue to set off and see what was going on.

The group walked more than ten kilometers and found a sentry tower in front of them. There was no one inside, but more than ten meters away, they found a corpse that was gnawed by animals and only bones were left. It was covered with fist-sized white slimes.

After inspecting the scene, Jin Li said to Frederick, "He died of poisoning after eating poisonous mushrooms."

She handed Frederick the bowl she found in the sentry tower. There was some stewed beans and half a mushroom in it.

Herri took a look at the mushroom and said, "This kind of mushroom will produce scary hallucinations, the heart will beat very fast, and eventually die."

Brie continued, "If this mushroom is used to make wine, it can be used as a cardiotonic if it is diluted in water and only a little is drunk. Eating so much is definitely hopeless."

Frederick sighed. This kind of stew is cooked in a large pot at a time and shared by many people. The sentinels here died and no one collected the bodies. It seems that the main camp is in danger.

This place is not far from the main camp. Not long after walking, a strong smell of blood wafted from the front.

Jin Li stopped the car and went to see the situation with He Li. Frederick followed.

The main camp in front was built next to a large lake of one or two kilometers. All the trees around it were cut down. It was not small in scale, and it was not a problem to station hundreds of people.

The camp gate was open, and there were more than ten corpses outside the gate. Like the corpses in the sentry tower, they were all eaten by animals.

There were many controlled dead people and dead beasts near the camp gate. There were men, women, old and young among the dead people, and there were also many beast skeletons with dark magic muscles attached to their bodies.

In the middle of them was a carriage pulled by an ancient deer, with a large wooden cage on the carriage, and it seemed that a person was locked inside.

There were many freshly killed beasts around, probably attracted by the smell of corpses, and the bloody smell came from them.

A man wearing a black bear skin coat was using necromancy to control them to stand up, cursing.

He Li gently pulled Jin Li's clothes, indicating her to look to the other side.

Jin Li's eyes widened immediately. Among the dead people was a monk of the Church of Nature wearing a crown of thorns.