Alien Knights

Watching the ten Valkyries flying into the sky with the children, Randall slowly closed his eyes and stayed there for a while.

When he opened his eyes again, there was more determination in his eyes.

Returning to the hall on the first floor of the clock tower, Randall avoided the remaining children, walked to his partners who were fighting side by side, and said softly: "We need to hold on until they arrive next time."

Kellogg shook his tail and said: "The zombie wave has entered the slums, and we don't have much time."

Bulwer weighed the huge wooden pillar in his hand and said in a low voice: "Standing here, I can even hear the howling of those corpses."

Carroll suggested: "Maybe I can be a bait again to buy some time."

Randall immediately rejected the proposal: "The number of zombies is too huge, and the bait can't lure too many enemies away."

"Then what can you do?"

Randall said: "We blocked all the doors and windows in the bell tower hall to prevent any sound or light, and then waited."

Carroll asked doubtfully: "Block all the doors and windows?"

"Um."

"Then when the Valkyrie lands on the hills, how should we get out?"

Randall pointed to the top of his head: "We are not going out, we are going up."

"Go up?"

Everyone looked in the direction Randall pointed. A spiral staircase went up along the wall of the cylindrical hall, and finally disappeared on the top of the tall tower.

"It won't take long for the zombie tide to arrive in these hills. If we choose to use the flat land outside the door as a landing place, there is no way we can stop such a large number of enemies."

"So, we can only choose another place for the Valkyrie to land. On the roof of this tower, there is a small rooftop, which used to be used for ringing bells. Now the bell frame is broken, but the platform is still there, and the Valkyrie can Land there and pick us up.”

Kellogg thought for a while and then said: "There is a problem... I have seen the platform on the top of the building. It is very narrow. Only one griffon can stay at a time. This means that we need a lot of time to raise and lower the gryphon. Vulture."

Randall nodded: "You're right. That's why I blocked the doors and windows before. It will buy us some time. If the zombie wave breaks through the door, we can still fight and retreat at the same time, relying on the terrain of the stairs. The advantage is to retreat to the roof.”

Carroll thought about it carefully and said, "This might work."

Seeing that others had no problems, Randall began to divide the work.

"Carroll, Aldenan, and Bulwer, you and I are responsible for collecting supplies and blocking the doors and windows."

"Barbara, take all the children and tell them not to make any noise and to go to the roof quietly."

"Kellogg, you also go to the roof. You have two tasks. One is to choose a suitable landing place, and the other is to send a signal to guide the Valkyries to land on the rooftop when you find them arriving."

Soon, everyone began to be busy with their own work.

Twenty minutes later, Aldenan's voice sounded in the hall of the bell tower.

"Here they come."

Along with the deafening howl, the ground shook slightly.

Randall hid behind an upright table and made a hidden gesture to the team members around him.

A huge shadow enveloped the entire bell tower, and the light from the doors and windows was blocked by the swaying figures.

Looking through the gap under the door, countless feet are wandering and wandering outside the clock tower, as if they are looking for something.

Carroll lay on the ground and whispered to Randall: "I've always felt weird."

"strangeness?"

"These resurrected corpses are obviously unconscious, but they seem to have a fixed purpose, just like..."

Randall added in a low voice: "Puppets."

"Yes, they are puppets. These corpses are like a group of puppets manipulated by others. They first attack places with large populations and weak defenses. After they grow to a certain strength, they then attack military buildings or noble residences."

Randall shook his head and said: "If there is really someone behind the scenes controlling these corpses, then who is he?"

"No matter who it is, this is not a good thing."

Aldenan pricked up his wolf ears and suddenly said: "Listen! It's a sounding arrow!"

Bulwer tightened his grip on the weapon in his hand: "Kellogg saw the Valkyrie."

Randall raised his sword: "They are coming earlier than expected, everyone, be ready!"

Kellogg's signal not only attracted the Valkyrie's attention, but also caused a complete commotion among the zombies near the bell tower.

Tens of thousands of parasitic corpses screamed and rushed towards the door of the bell tower, and a huge impact echoed across the sky.

Looking at the shaky door blocked by debris, Randall nodded towards Carol beside him.

The two of them approached the door, one on the left and the other on the right. When they waited for the door to be knocked open, they chopped the first parasitic corpse that rushed in into three pieces.

"Don't get the corpse's blood or minced meat on it!" Randall used his toes to pick apart the corpse, and then used his shield to knock out the second parasitic corpse that squeezed in.

Aldenan jumped on the wall of the hall, lifted a boulder half a man's height from the ground, and struggled to crush a parasitic corpse that had entered through the broken window into a meat pie.

Avoiding the black parasites scurrying around on the ground, Aldenan shouted: "Don't bother with the door!"

Bulwer raised the wooden pillar, pushed out the parasitic corpse that crawled into the window, and said in a deep voice: "I'm watching."

Hearing the sound of griffons flapping their wings in the air, Randall perked up: "They saw the signal, they will reach the tower platform soon!"

Before he finished speaking, the door that could no longer withstand the impact suddenly collapsed, and dozens of parasite corpses rushed into the hall like a tide, waving the parasite limbs and began to attack any living thing they saw.

Randall kicked away a parasitized soldier and shouted at the others: "The hall can't be defended! Everyone retreat to the stairs!"

The group of people retreated while fighting, taking advantage of the terrain of the spiral staircase to fight with less and try their best to delay time.

The griffins screamed one after another, and Randall knew that every minute he persisted, he could ensure that a Valkyrie would safely take away the two children.

Finally, Randall and the others retreated to the last step of the stairs, with the small and dilapidated clock tower rooftop behind them.

Barbara put the last child on the back of the gryphon and shouted at Randall's back: "All the children are gone, it's your turn!"

After kicking a parasitic corpse down the stairs, Randall shouted without looking back: "You go first!"

"If you don't leave, I won't leave either!"

Listening to the conversation on the rooftop of the bell tower, the Valkyrie Ashley flying in the air shouted angrily: "Look down for yourselves! If you don't leave, it will be too late!"

Randall held up his shield and retreated to the edge of the rooftop, glancing down. The scene in front of him made him take a breath.

Looking around, within a kilometer radius of the bell tower, there are densely packed parasitic corpses everywhere.

They are building human walls from all directions. From a distance, they look like ants. One is stepping on the shoulders of the other, slowly climbing up the wall of the bell tower, and is about to reach the edge of the rooftop.

"Carol! Aldenan! Come with me and clear out those guys who are climbing the wall!" Randall ran to the edge of the rooftop, kicked down an enemy who had just climbed up, and then shouted to Barbara : "Get on that gryphon! Get out of here!"

Barbara glanced at Randall, gritted her teeth, turned over and mounted the griffon.

Just as the gryphon took to the air, a sudden change occurred.

Bulwer smashed the head of a parasitic corpse, but accidentally let the blood splash onto his shoulder.

Feeling the black blood burrowing into his skin like bugs, the minotaur roared loudly in pain.

He waved the weapon in his hand vigorously, making a sweeping sweep, knocking away the enemies in front of him, and then stumbled to the ground.

Kellogg was horrified, rushed to Bulwer's side, took out his dagger and tried to dig out the black blood.

"It's useless... I can feel those things getting into my body..." Bulwer gasped, his eyes bloodshot. He grabbed Kellogg's arm and said: "Help me A handful..."

The usually calm lizard man showed panic for the first time on his face: "Listen! You will be fine! Just take you back to the Crusaders, where there are the best doctors..."

Bulwer tried his best to suppress the severe pain in his body, gritted his teeth and yelled: "Look at me! I can't go back! At least! At least let me see the Dragon God with dignity!"

Kellogg stood there blankly. After a moment, he said softly: "I understand."

Kellogg took off the oil lamp he had found earlier from his waist and poured all the oil on himself and Bulwer.

More and more parasitic corpses rushed up from the stairs of the bell tower, screaming and roaring towards the rooftop.

Looking at the tidal wave of enemies in front of him, Kellogg first supported Bulwell with his body and helped the latter stand up. Then he asked in a low voice, "Are you ready?"

Bulwer looked down at Kellogg: "You don't have to come with me..."

Kellogg said with a smile: "The journey from here to heaven is long and dangerous. You need a companion on the road..."

Bulwer closed his eyes quietly and stopped talking.

Kellogg took the flint from his arms.

"For the glory of the Dragon God!"

There was a crisp impact and a flash of brilliant red flames.

In the midst of the raging fire, the two rushed towards the corpse tide and blocked the exit of the stairs with their bodies. They turned their lives into the last light and completely isolated the darkness from this small high platform.