Fang Zheng didn't take Connie seriously at all. He knew that she was more seriously injured than himself, and the Templar Knights of Malte were not very good at healing. In fact, the priest in charge of healing had died in the previous ambush, which was why Malte's group had such a hard time fighting. If Fang Zheng hadn't healed them later, they probably wouldn't have recovered their fighting ability yet.

Although Connie was in trouble, Fang Zheng and Shi Dong had successfully completed half of their mission. They had found the remaining Templars. Logically speaking, they could solve all the problems by bringing them back. However, it seemed that neither Malte nor Shi Dong were planning to leave.

Malte knew the lich's conspiracy, and although Shi Dong didn't know what happened here, he also realized that something was wrong - in fact, when Shi Dong came here, he, Connie and Miss M discovered the undead creatures here. Not only that, they also saw with their own eyes that the undead creatures captured those Templar Knights into the quarry. In order to find out what these undead creatures wanted to do and to rescue his colleagues, Shi Dong chose to go in alone to investigate. He originally asked Connie to come back and tell Miss M to prevent this poor young lady from having wild thoughts, but he didn't expect to bump into Fang Zheng, and then... Hey, what is this all about!

"We don't have any extra time to waste now. The lich must have noticed what happened up there."

As Shi Dong spoke, he glared at Connie and Fang Zheng. Facing his gaze, Connie lowered her head and said nothing, while Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders and acted as if it was none of his business. Looking at the reactions of the two, Shi Dong rolled his eyes helplessly, and then looked at Malte again.

"What do you think, Malte?"

“…”

In response to Stone's question, Malte pondered for a moment, then he looked up at Stone again.

"Are you sure that my colleague is still alive?"

"At least they were still alive when they were taken in just now. Now... I can't guarantee it."

“…”

This time, Malte was silent for a longer time. Then he looked at the others, seemed to have made up his mind, and spoke.

"Shi Dong, I need your help with something."

"explain."

"I hope you can help attract the lich's attention, and then... we will find an opportunity to rush in and see if we can rescue our companions. If we can, we may be able to defeat the dark ritual they want to complete in one fell swoop..."

Having said this, Malte turned his head and looked at Connie.

"I'm leaving this girl in your care. She's seriously injured and has no fighting ability. Taking her with us would only be a burden. It would be better for her to stay here. If we can't come back, please take her back to the temple."

"you……"

Hearing this, Shi Dong was stunned for a moment, and even Fang Zheng opened his eyes wide and stared at Malte. He was not a fool, of course he understood what Malte meant by this sentence. If ordinary people heard it, Malte's request seemed a little unreasonable, but as long as they thought about it carefully, they would find that this request was absolutely no pressure for Shi Dong and Fang Zheng!

Because Malte only asked them to act as bait to attract the lich's attention. Frankly speaking, this was not difficult and not very dangerous. On the contrary, Malte and his team had to go deeper into the trap. After all, Shidong and Fangzheng only needed to taunt the periphery and pull the boss over before they could run away. Malte and his team had to go deep into the core area. Although Malte said that they were trying to rescue their colleagues, Shidong and Fangzheng were not fools. The lich had spent so much effort to perform the dark ritual, so the core area must be full of dangers. Malte and his team said that they wanted to destroy the other party's plan and save people, but it can be guessed that they would almost certainly never come back.

Fang Zheng frowned, but looking at Shi Dong beside him, he didn't say much. To be honest, Malte and the others were indeed worthy of the title of Knights Templar, and frankly he couldn't bear to see them die, but Malte had obviously made up his mind, and Shi Dong didn't seem to intend to stop him, so Fang Zheng couldn't say anything more.

"……All right."

Finally, Shi Dong let out a long sigh.

"Mart, come back alive. I'm still waiting for you to treat me to a drink."

"Don't worry, I won't die so easily."

After saying this, Malte smiled and waved at Fang Zheng and Miss M, then turned around and left with his companions. Looking at Malte's back, Fang Zheng was completely speechless... The flag on your back is three meters high, Knight Malte, how can I save you? And Shi Dong, you planted the flag so quickly, can't you show mercy to your colleagues? Don't you know that you should leave a way out for others so that we can meet again in the future? You have planted the flag like this, is it fair for them not to die?

"Okay, let's take action too."

Shi Dong certainly didn't know what Fang Zheng was muttering behind him. He just quietly watched Malte's back disappear, then turned around and looked at Fang Zheng.

"You know that our mission is to attract the lich's attention. Fortunately, you and that girl were fighting fiercely just now. I guess the lich has already noticed that something is wrong. Next, we just need to pull the lich out and make it unable to take care of other things."

"Pull it out? How?"

Fang Zheng was also stunned when he heard Shi Dong's order, staring at his mentor in surprise. To be honest, after spending such a long time with Shi Dong, Fang Zheng had a good understanding of Shi Dong. In his opinion, this great knight was more like a fierce general who led troops to charge, and was not good at these strategies and plans. It was also because of this that after hearing Shi Dong's order, Fang Zheng immediately had a very bad premonition.

In response to Fang Zheng's question, Shi Dong clenched his fists, showing his white teeth and smiled brightly at him.

"Of course I just punched it in!!"

“…”

For the first time, Fang Zheng thought that he should change his mentor... Maybe Malte would be a good choice?

At this moment, deep underground in the dark and gloomy quarry, there was a completely different scene.

In the huge underground cave, the blue flames flickered and burned. In the center of the cave, a magic circle made of blood was shining faintly. Above the magic circle, a lich wrapped in a black robe was suspended in the air. It raised its head, and scarlet light flickered from time to time in its empty eye sockets. Then, the lich looked at the skeleton soldiers around him and gave orders in a low voice.

"You guys, go see what's going on outside."

Hearing the lich's order, the fully armed skeleton soldiers saluted him respectfully, then turned around and walked away. They were brave warriors in their lifetime, but now, these soldiers have become undead slaves, their souls cannot find rest, and can only helplessly surrender to the power of darkness and death.

That’s right, darkness and death are the true meaning of this world.

Thinking of this, the scarlet flames in the lich's eyes suddenly jumped, and then it gave an order.

"Bring up the offering."

Soon, following the lich's order, two tall undead giants came over, carrying a Templar Knight. The Templar Knight looked very young, and was seriously injured at the moment, looking weak. He stared at the lich in front of him viciously, his eyes revealing an extremely angry flame.

"You cursed undead creature, your plot will not succeed. Everything you have done will be judged by justice!"

“It’s so boring.”

Hearing the young knight's words, the lich just snorted, then raised its hand and pointed at the young knight. Soon, a dark beam of light shot out from the lich's fingertips and hit the young knight's chest.

“Ah…ah…!”

After being hit by the dark beam, the young knight's face turned pale, he opened his mouth and wailed in pain. His body began to tremble, and then, bright red blood gushed out of the young knight's mouth, nose, eyes and ears like a waterfall. The young knight seemed to be in great pain. He opened his mouth and instinctively wanted to scream, but before the sound came out, it was completely blocked by the blood gushing out of his throat.

“Woo…Woo!!!”

At this moment, the young knight's eyes were wide open, and he clutched his throat tightly with both hands, just like a drowning man struggling to breathe, but no matter how he struggled, he couldn't breathe a single breath of air. Because the "water" that drowned him didn't come from outside, but from inside his body! !

“——!!!”

Finally, the young knight's body began to twitch crazily. He waved his hands like a madman and opened his mouth, but no sound came out. Only blood mixed with bubbles spurted out of his mouth and flowed down his body to the ground. The young knight also lost his movement at this moment and completely turned into a corpse.

He was drowned in his own blood!

Although the young knight died, the blood flowing from his body did not stop. Slowly, the young knight's body began to shrivel up like a deflated balloon, and finally, he became a skinny corpse. Under the influence of some mysterious power, the blood slowly formed a huge bright red magic circle. At the moment when the magic circle was completed, suddenly, a non-existent figure emerged from the middle of the magic circle, waving its hands desperately, trying to escape from this evil place. But the next moment, the figure was pulled back like a dog on a chain, and disappeared again in the magic circle.

Then, in the center of the magic circle, a sarcophagus shook violently, and then fell into silence again.

"It's still not enough..."

Looking at the magic circle in front of it, the lich snorted coldly, and then it silently gave an order.

"Next."