Chapter 1 01: New arrival (repair)

Author: I really want to eat meat 597

Chapter 1 01: New arrival (repair)

There is a moist earthy smell in the air, as well as the strong body odor of animals.

Chi Qingsui woke up drowsily, and her blurred vision gradually focused on the burnt yellow thatched roof.

At the same time, the numbness coming from my forehead became more intense.

She subconsciously reached out and touched it. The moment her fingertips touched her forehead, a sharp pain swept through her body.

The girl who was still confused a second ago took a deep breath and woke up completely.

As her vision gradually became clearer, Chi Qingsui realized that she was sitting on a pile of messy straw, wearing a thin long linen shirt.

This is obviously not what she should be wearing.

And there was a bright red blood stain on the finger that just touched his forehead.

She quickly realized that her head was injured, and it might be serious.

But everything here is so strange—the stone houses, thatched roofs, and the cattle and sheep walking leisurely not far away.

Even the clothes on his body and this body.

Chi Qingsui was sure that she had never been here before. She just slept in the bedroom normally last night and definitely did not run around.

Just as she lowered her head in thought, the sound of metal clashing and quarreling came from outside the house.

"Master Knight! Please be merciful. My daughter is injured and has only her last breath left. She cannot go on the road!"

"Shut up! Serfs who can't even pay the poll tax still want to negotiate terms? If it weren't for Lord Slade's protection, you would have died in a foreign land!"

The strange thing is that these quarrels are not in any language that she is familiar with, but she can understand what they are saying.

But after hearing the word "foreign land", Chi Qingsui felt an inexplicable urgency and anxiety.

The next second, a flood of information poured in, almost tearing her head in half.

She covered her head in pain and struggled to sort through the information pouring into her mind.

This was originally medieval Europe.

Three hundred years ago, a sudden change occurred on this continent. Something called a "curse" spread rapidly, turning all places into forbidden areas for life.

The incident happened too suddenly, and people lacked the means to fight it. For a time, there were countless casualties.

Millions of people died in the first three days.

And many more people lost their precious lives and turned into cold corpses within just a few minutes of the curse appearing.

Just when the remaining people had almost given up hope, the first group of lords appeared.

They built barriers in their respective territories that could resist the curse, and called the cursed areas outside the barrier foreign lands.

Since then, people who want to survive have sought refuge with lords from various places.

Once someone offended the lord, they would be driven out of the territory, which was equivalent to death.

The overwhelming pain in my head finally subsided.

Curse, lord, foreign land...

These words, which were completely unfamiliar to her, formed this strange world.

It is also clearly a more dangerous world.

Before the girl could finish digesting these contents, the sound of the wooden door being pushed open could be heard in her ears.

What came in turned out to be several soldiers wearing armor. They walked in menacingly, with swords of similar sizes hanging on their waists, and the medieval-style armor on their bodies made a crisp sound as they walked.

The leader of the soldiers was a middle-aged man with deep Western facial features. His calm expression and beard, coupled with his tall and burly figure, made him look calm and intimidating.

Beside him was a middle-aged peasant woman with a timid expression.

The man walked straight forward and looked down at Chi Qingsui who was sitting on the ground.

"Is this what you mean by your last breath?"

This sentence was obviously said to the woman on the side.

Sensing the anxiety in his tone, the woman panicked instantly: "Sir Knight, Angie has been unconscious before. We thought she wouldn't survive today."

Before she could continue, the man known as the knight waved his hand impatiently and looked at Chi Qingsui.

"You, get up and follow us."

"good."

At this time, Chi Qingsui was feeling irritated by the information that had flooded into her mind before, so she simply gave up thinking and responded casually.

The girl's too calm face and too crisp answers made the two gentlemen soldiers who were flexing their muscles and preparing to take her away by force freeze.

The peasant woman couldn't help but widen her eyes. She hurriedly approached Chi Qingsui and deliberately lowered her voice.

"Anji, didn't you say before that you would not go to the lord's castle even if you died?"

Under the worried gaze of the woman, Chi Qingsui stood up easily and patted the dust on his clothes.

"Do I have any other choice?"

With her mortal body, it is not realistic to fight one against three.

Under the knight's stern urging, Chi Qingsui ignored the depressed woman and silently followed the three soldiers outside.

At the same time, she glanced at the stone wall to the side. There was a fresh blood stain there that had not yet solidified. It was obvious that someone had left it deliberately.

Chi Qingsui wrote down this detail calmly, sighed silently, and stepped out of the room with the soldiers.

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Unlike the humid and stuffy interior, the air outside the farmhouse is dry and fresh.

It was just after the autumn harvest. Large pieces of golden wheat straw lay in the fields, bathed in the bright afternoon sun, which was so bright that it made people dizzy.

Chi Qingsui followed the soldiers to the other side of the field. There were three strong chestnut horses parked there.

There were three bulging sacks hanging on each of them, which should be the in-kind taxes paid by farmers in various places to the lords and the soldiers' expenses.

One of the sacks was extremely energetic. Not only was it struggling crazily, it even kept making muffled rooster crows.

This guy was so noisy that the leading knight couldn't bear it and punched him several times through the sack.

After hastily ending this farce, the group of four people immediately set off towards the forest in the distance.

As the horse ran, the unfamiliar yet familiar scenery swept back quickly. A hazy, nostalgic feeling began to emerge in Chi Qingsui's heart.

This emotion seemed to trigger some mechanism, causing memories that were not hers to emerge clearly.

The owner of the memory is a 15-year-old girl named Anji. And the place they are leaving now is her familiar hometown - a remote village called Grand Village.

The woman who tried to stop the knight was Angie's mother.

Other memories are fragmented - the final image is of a spinning world, never-ending darkness, and a receding sense of severe pain.

This is very consistent with Anji's mother's description that Anji would not go to the lord's castle even if she died.

Chi Qingsui looked at her body. The white hands that clearly did not belong to her were stained with blood from the wound on her forehead, forming some obvious connection with the blood-stained stone wall.

Most likely, the original owner of this body failed to think about it and banged his head against the wall, causing something to happen...

In addition, this girl obviously still has some basic memories left in her body. Because of this, Chi Qingsui can use the language here proficiently, and can even remember the common sense of this world from time to time.

Just when Chi Qingsui was trying to recall more details, the cheerful chatter of the soldiers interrupted her thoughts.

"Sir Scott, where are we going to spend the night today?"

"This shabby village is too remote." The knight behind complained. "I have seen the map. On our way to Kent County, we will not pass through any towns. We will only pass by a small village called Bruce."

Using "Kent County" as the key word, new memories emerged in Chi Qingsui's mind.

That is the most prosperous place in Grosk Territory's economy, and it is also the city where the lord is located.

But in that case, why would Anji rather hit his head against the wall and die than go to the lord's castle?

When she thought of the head of this body that was still injured and a little chilly from the wind, the corners of Chi Qingsui's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

At this time, they had reached the depths of the forest.

Looking around, there are dense and tall oak trees on both sides, blocking the sky and the sun, causing the temperature here to be slightly lower than the outside world.

Three horses galloped along the narrow dirt path, making the sound of clattering hooves.

Just then, something unexpected happened.

The horse that was galloping just a second ago suddenly stopped, made a loud neighing sound, and raised its front hooves suddenly, almost throwing Chi Qingsui and the knight off the horse!

"What's going on!"

The knight's roar was completely covered by the horse's cry that echoed through the sky.

Since the horses they were riding were at the front of the group, the sudden braking directly brought the entire group to a halt.
To be continued...