Run, run faster, Penistan only has this nod in her mind, because she knows very well that if she stops, the Jerry rats following her will immediately devour her completely and turn her into a

A pile of bones that will never be found.

At this moment, she didn't even dare to look back at the situation behind her. She could only judge the distance between the two by the loud sound of the rats moving behind her.

She wanted to sprinkle some more rat-repellent powder on her body. This was a specialty of the Principality of Rus. The people of Rus, who had suffered from rat tides, used their years of experience to create a powder specifically used to deal with Jerry rats.

As long as you sprinkle some on yourself or your residence, you can drive away the jerry rats.

Pennistan bought a large amount of rat repellent powder for this hunt just in case of emergency. She originally thought that what she had prepared was enough, but she found that when facing a rat tide, the amount of rat repellent powder needed to be used was too much.

The amount far exceeded the amount used under normal circumstances, which made his previous preparations simply not enough to support her escape from the forest.

What's more important is that her previous judgment was completely wrong. The rat tide that is happening now is not an expansion of the territory of the rat group at all, but a real rat tide. It's just that this rat tide happened during the breeding period of the rat group, instead of

winter and spring.

Because of this, although she made the right decision in time and escaped from the territory of the rat swarm, she did not escape from the rat tide in the entire forest. The ever-increasing rat swarm was rapidly expanding in all directions.

She felt that no matter which direction she ran, she would encounter a large number of rats moving towards her like a surging tide.

And all she could do was sprinkle enough rat repellent powder on her body, and then run forward as fast as she could. As for identifying the direction, she could no longer care about it, not to mention that she had already been in the forest before.

I'm disoriented inside.

She didn’t know how long she had been running, but Penistan felt that her legs were about to break, and her chest was as hot as if it were being burned by charcoal. The flames would tear her chest apart at any time and emerge from her body. She

Knowing that his body had reached its limit, he had to slow down his pace, and his heavy breathing even overwhelmed the sound of the moving rats behind him.

Sweating profusely, she picked up the last pack of rat repellent powder from her body, hesitated for a moment, and finally sprinkled it on her body. While spreading the rat repellent powder, she couldn't help but look behind her, and what she saw was

The sight she saw made her unable to help but drag her legs that were almost broken and continue walking forward.

I saw that about ten meters behind Pennistan, hundreds of large jerry rats were closely following behind. At this moment, these jerry rats changed from their usual gentleness, and all their rat eyes showed their most serious expressions.

With cruel and fierce eyes, they stared at the big prey in front of them, waiting for the effect of the medicinal powder that made them feel uncomfortable to weaken, and then pounced on the big prey and devoured the big prey alive.

Penistine, who was being chased by a pack of rats, knew very well that the powder on her body could only last for a while, and her physical strength could only last for a while. After that, she didn't even have the strength to pick up a weapon to resist, but her survival instinct was still driven by her.

He dragged her forward with heavy steps.

As the rat repellent powder on her body became soaked with sweat and its effectiveness weakened rapidly, the rats gradually shortened the distance between them and her, ten meters, nine meters, eight meters..., and now, she could even hear it

The sound of Jerry Mouse grinding his teeth was as if he was preparing the tableware before a big meal.

Pennistan had fallen into despair. She took out a dagger from her arms. This dagger was used to cut prey, so it was polished very sharp. She never thought that one day she would use it to cut herself.

His throat was cut with a dagger, but compared to being eaten alive by countless rats, it was obviously more comfortable to die by cutting his throat with a dagger.

"Light? There is light!" Just when Penistan picked up the dagger and was ready to cut her throat at any time, she suddenly saw a trace of fire in the forest in front of her. After confirming that it was not her hallucination, she

What I thought of for a moment was the other people who had entered the forest and were recruited by the Duke. I had already arrived at the edge of the forest.

However, she had no idea of ​​happiness at this moment, because she knew very well that even if she reunited with the hired people, they would not be able to escape under the attack of the rat tide. If those hired people were all experienced hunters and

It's okay to be warriors, but the problem is that those people are just ordinary townspeople, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled townspeople. There are only a handful of people who are truly capable of fighting.

She really wanted to shout loudly and ask the people on the other side of the fire to prepare, but when she opened her mouth, her already dry throat could not make a sound.

When she realized that she could not give any warning, a decisive look appeared on Penistan's face. She stopped, took out the hunting knife, turned around, and faced the rats. It seemed that she

He was preparing to use his last strength to fight the rats.

Although she never considered herself a noble person, she was not willing to be so despicable as to lead danger to her companions, especially when it was impossible for her to escape from the attack of the rats. She just wanted to use this to create

If there is any big noise, people near the fire will be alerted to be alert.

However, what Pennenstein never imagined was that when she faced the rats with a knife and prepared to fight to the death, the rats that had been chasing her all night, and who were always thinking about eating her, seemed to encounter her.

Like an invisible wall, it stopped less than two meters away from her. She could even smell the unique rat gland odor of Jerry Rat. In the eyes of some people, this is a special substance used to make a precious perfume.

spices.

The group of rats at the front suddenly stopped, but they were unable to stop the advancement of the group of rats behind them. However, the group of rats coming up from behind also stopped in front of this invisible wall, and continued to pile up on this invisible wall.

, they piled higher and higher, and soon surpassed Pennistan's height.

Soon the accumulation of rats stopped, and then the jerry rats, which had woken up from the madness of the rat tide, returned to their original timid state, and quickly moved away as if they had encountered some terrifying natural enemy.

They fled deep into the forest of fire, and soon the mountains of rats in front of Penistan disappeared into the darkness of the forest like an ebbing tide.

From the sudden stop of the rats to the final retreat, the whole process only lasted a few minutes, but for Pennenstein, it was like completing an experience from death to life. Until the rats completely disappeared, she did not leave her eyes.

She came back to her senses from the scene, and she didn't even react when the hunting knife fell from her hand to the ground.

After a while, the cold air of the forest at night invaded her body through her soaked clothes, making her shiver. Only then did she recover from the shock, and she felt the fatigue and fatigue radiating from everywhere in her body again.

The soreness and the will that had always supported her escape collapsed at this moment. Her body, which had reached its limit, could no longer support it, and she fell straight onto the thick rotten leaves on the ground.

At this time, her mind began to blur and her consciousness gradually faded. Just when she was about to completely lose her consciousness, a question suddenly appeared in her mind. When did Jerry Mouse start to be afraid of fire? Then she completely

passed out.

In the coma, Penistine only felt like she was suspended in a dark space, with no up, down, left and right, no sense of time, and no sense of herself, but she still had a clear mind and could

She was thinking about something, but she couldn't control what she was thinking about.

She didn't know how long she stayed in this state. It wasn't until she felt a warmth spread to her body and regained the feeling of her body that she got out of that state again and opened her eyes.

The first thing that caught her eyes was a flame, a flame that made her feel warm and at ease. At this moment, her mind was blank. It seemed that she didn't want to do anything or think about anything. She just stared blankly at the flame.

After a long time, Flame began to gradually recall what happened, and then he moved his head slightly and looked around.

She saw that this was not the hunting team's camp as she had thought before, but just a temporary forest camp. There were two figures next to the campfire. Due to the influence of the fire, she could not see clearly the faces of the two people.

From their appearance, it was only possible to tell from some clearly visible clothing that these two people were not civilians, nor were they from the Rusian Principality. They were probably from the Otter Federation.

The reason why she made such a judgment was because the hunting clothes on the other party were made of high-end fabrics that she had only seen on some nobles. In addition, the style of the other party's hunting clothes was not the style of the Principality, but more...

It's like the hunting attire style from the Outer Federation.

"Did I cross the Petain Mountains and come to the Otter Federation?" An idea came to Penistan's mind, but she quickly rejected the idea, not to mention whether she could do it in less than one night.

It took her a long time to cross the Petain Mountains. Even if she could, she would never run out of the forest and never see the endless snowy mountains, and there was absolutely no way those jerry rats could cross the Petain Mountains.

mountains.

"Spy!" Then another bold idea came to Penistan's mind.

Now the Holy Kingdom and its affiliated ecclesiastical principalities controlled by the church are uniting with other church countries to fight against the Ot Federation composed of evil and unbelieving people. I heard that the war on the front line does not seem to be going well, so they are recruiting various kinds of people from various ecclesiastical principalities.

Adults who can supplement their combat power.

The Principality of Ruth can be said to be right next to the Ort Federation, separated only by the Petain Mountains. There are many countries like the Principality of Ruth, but whether it is the Purifying Fire Church or other churches,

They never worried that the troops of the Otter Federation would cross the Petain Mountains and attack here, so they boldly dispatched adults from these countries to the front lines and did not set up any defense forces in these countries.

Because both these church countries and the Otter Federation know one thing very well, that is, it is absolutely impossible for any army to pass through the Petain Mountains. Even if it can pass through, the army that eventually comes to the other side of the mountains will suffer heavy losses. It is impossible.

before forming any fighting force.

Although the Petain Mountains are not the longest mountain range in the Otter Federation, they are the widest mountains in the Otter Federation. The narrowest part of the entire mountain range is also composed of more than forty towering snow-capped mountains and huge undulating mountains.

Even the most experienced climbers are not absolutely sure that they can pass through the Petain Mountains safely, which makes the Petain Mountains an insurmountable natural danger.

However, even so, both sides sometimes take the risk of sending some spies with strong personal abilities to the other side through the Petain Mountains, and those who can reach the other side safely are definitely those with the most outstanding personal abilities, and such people are also

It can also cause huge damage to the country on the other side of the mountain range.

In the past, the Ot Federation has sent some elite spies to the Holy Lord Kingdom of Purifying Fire, and through their extraordinary abilities, they have emerged in all walks of life in the Holy Lord Kingdom, and some have even become industry presidents.

There is another person who has become a high-ranking priest of the Purifying Fire. He is only one step away from being able to run for the Pope. And judging from the situation at the time, that person is indeed regarded as a candidate for the Pope within the church.

cultivated.

If some accidents hadn't exposed the identities of some of them in the end, and eventually implicated everyone, maybe there would have been an unbeliever pope in the Church of Purifying Fire. In that case, the Purifying Fire would have become the entire church.

The laughing stock of the world.

Therefore, after that incident, the Holy Lord of Purifying Fire and its Principality paid special attention to matters such as spies. They not only established a special department within the church specifically for spies, but also increased the faith appraisal of church clergy.

sequence, and later even spent a lot of money to popularize the methods of detecting spies throughout the countries and regions controlled by the Church of Purifying Fire. All children of school age must participate in such courses and training, and such courses still exist to this day.

Naturally, Pennenstein has taken such courses before, and because of the free lunch, she has been taking them for several years. In addition, at this special time, she is particularly sensitive to things like spies, and she is particularly sensitive when she sees people wearing exotic clothes.

The first thought in people's minds is that of spies.

Although Pennistan is not like her compatriots who have always been hostile or even hostile to the unbeliever country of the Ot Federation under the instigation of the church, she also has no good impression of this country, and she does not like the spies sent by this country.

.

So after understanding the current situation, she couldn't help but reach out to her waist, take out the second dagger she had hidden, and look for an opportunity to capture the two spies.

However, she soon discovered that there was something wrong with her body. Although her brain wanted to get something, her hands were completely inoperable and it was difficult to move. Even if she moved, her body would feel severe pain from the inside out.

The pain spread and she almost screamed, but in the end she endured the pain.

At this time, a very magnetic-sounding female voice said in a somewhat jerky Russ dialect: "You'd better not move around now. Although we have treated your injuries, your body's movement beyond its limits has caused damage.

He suffered some very serious injuries and it will take a certain amount of time to recover. During this period, it is better for you to lie down and not move." After saying that, she paused again and said: "By the way, we are not spies, you
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