Joel looked at Hemi who was eating meat chops with his head down, and a helpless smile appeared on his face behind the mask. As Ethran told him before leaving Golden Falls, Hemi's appetite increased and continued to increase.

When he left Golden Falls, Joel had not had much dry food on his back, so he had to take a detour to Linle Town to purchase dry food. When Joel didn't expect that Ethran actually gave her a bag of money before he went to find Hermi, and the money that Alps and Anthony lent to Joel was basically useless, so he purchased food in Linle Town and bought a carriage.

Because winter has arrived, the old carriages have been idle, and many people have died in the war in Jin Falls, so in Linle Town, Joel is willing to spend some money, and basically everything he wants to buy. However, Linle Town seems to be in a state of alert, and the whole town is shrouded in an uneasy atmosphere.

However, Joel was not interested in caring about them. After buying what he needed, he took Hemi along the ancient road and through the Valley of Wind.

Although Joel was ready to deal with the indigenous robbers when he was traveling through the Valley of Wind, they were no different from the snow bandits in the North, and they all had their own ancient and barbaric beliefs. The most famous indigenous people in Valley of Wind is their wolf training technique.

Joel recalled that when he was heading to the north many years ago, he brought a sword and mixed it in a caravan, trying to try to fight with the legendary natives, but he did not see any robbers, but only saw rows of wooden stakes inserted beside the road and bloody people pierced by the wooden stakes. Some of them were still alive and could not swallow their last breath.

Joel still remembered that a mercenary carried a bow on his back and did not see a wooden stake that pierced a man and shot an arrow at the person above, regardless of whether he was still alive. Joel thought he was just having fun, but later Joel found that the mercenary had always had a calm face and never smiled from the beginning to the end.

It was a long time since those things had passed, and Joel told himself that the robbers were starting to come out to make trouble again. Joel heard the howl of wolves before dusk and the old carriage creaked.

The cold wind and snow poured into the cracks on the side of the carriage. Joel occasionally lifted the thick curtain of the carriage and went to see Hemi's condition. But she seemed to have never felt cold before. Joel hadn't even seen her trembling, and the white breath exhaled from her mouth was also extremely high.

Her body temperature was really high. Every time Joel touched her hands and forehead, she felt like she had a fever. But she was very sober and healthy.

The native robbers launched an attack before the falling snowflakes were completely dark. Joel had already noticed them. The horse was restless and restless since hearing the wolf howl. Hemi also got out of the carriage. Although Joel asked her to enter the carriage, she stubbornly wanted to help him comfort the horse outside. So Joel gave her a crossbow and briefly told her how to use it.

Joel jumped off the horse and chopped down a robber holding a dagger to cut the reins with a sword. He was cursing at Joel at first, but he didn't even notice the black sword, and then fell into his own pool of blood. They would not kill the horses, Joel thought, at least not now, if they killed the horses immediately, the food they could bring back would be much less. After all, the hillsides on both sides of the ancient avenue were covered with dense forests, and it was very difficult to carry the corpses of such two horses back.

After Joel swung his sword to assassinate and chop down the two snow robbers, he saw the bushes and suddenly lit up many eyes with green light. The wolves grinned and walked out of the grass. Joel frowned and was ready for battle, but there were robbers on the other side who rushed to the carriage. Joel turned around and the wolf might pounce on him immediately.

But Joel had no choice, because Hemi was sitting in the coachman's position. He heard the girl's screams and the strange screams of the robbers. He gritted his teeth and tried to open the snake ring, but the feeling of fatigue made it difficult for him to control the time. Since that night in Jinhu City, his body has been entangled with a sense of fatigue, and even if he was sleeping for a long time, he could not get rid of it.

But no matter what, Joel turned around and rushed towards the robber, and what surprised Joel was that none of the wolves caught up.

After Joel killed the robber, he noticed that the robbers behind the wolf were shouting loudly, and the wolves also grinned at the carriage, and their claws kept digging on the ground, but no matter what, they did not dare to take another step forward.

Joel suddenly realized that Hemi, who was sitting in the carriage, was staring at the wolves, and the wolves were also looking at her. Because Hemi's eyes, which emitted molten gold, were too eye-catching, Joel asked Hermi to put on a wide cloak, a wide hood, and covered her eyes with a thick strip of cloth. "It's only used to wear it in crowded places, and you can take it off in private." Joel said to her.

But the girl smiled and replied, "No, it doesn't matter. You can see it like this."

While watching the pack, Hemi slowly pulled off the thick strips of cloth covering his eyes. The horses were almost crazy. Joel immediately pulled their reins. He immediately heard the robbers and their wolves screaming in fear. The robbers even shouted something in native language, and then followed the pack of fleeing into the woods, leaving Joel alone standing in the snow and observing the surroundings vigilantly.

Finally, Hemi said to him: "They have left." Joel relaxed.

In her eyes, Joel thought, the wolves were afraid of her eyes, or the wolves were afraid of her.

Ethran had already told Joel that some kind of change was happening in her body. This made Joel very uneasy. He didn't know what was going on. Maybe I should go to the southernmost Lighthouse City, where I seek the help of the most learned wise men, and they might know how to get in touch with this...curse on Hermi.

However, Hemi herself did not agree with this, but her growing appetite made her feel embarrassed to face Joel, especially when eating. Just like now, Joel looked at her, and she was buried deeply with a hood on her head. She couldn't see how she ate the grilled meat chop in big mouthfuls.

Crack. Joel heard the sound of bone shattering, and he frowned, but the girl did not react at all and was still feasting under her cloak. This piece of meat chop was made with bones, and Joel noticed it when the hotel owner brought it up.

"Did you hurt your teeth?" Joel asked worriedly.

"Huh?" Hemi was stunned for a moment, and his eating action stopped. Then she shook her head quickly, swallowed it, and then said to Joel in a low voice: "No, I'm fine. Just... well, I've got my bones."

Joel nodded and signaled her to continue eating. "Tell me if you don't have enough." Joel said to her softly. To be honest, Ethran gave me a lot of money. Joel even found a cut teardrop-shaped ruby ​​in the bag. He didn't know whether Ethran put it in on purpose or unintentionally.

"Yeah." Hemi nodded, then continued to lower his head and started eating.

Joel also moved his eyes from her to the others around him, and those people immediately avoided his gaze. Their discussion was not as intense as before. Joel thought that he had heard the sound of laughing and bragging before he approached the tavern, but at this moment they were more whispering, and many people were peeking at Joel's side from time to time.

Sentinel Town is the territory of the Beggar Brotherhood. Joel thought that the person he drove away just now was undoubtedly a member of the Beggar Brotherhood. This made Joel a little uneasy. He really couldn't understand why the Beggar Brotherhood came to him as soon as he arrived in Sentinel Town.

Joel once heard Feiyu say that once he broke into the territory of a Black Tree Party in order to find... Ximoken, where a member of the Black Tree Party who was shot to death kept saying something about "Brotherhood" and "old nun" before his death.

Joel knew from the beginning that the old nun Nanan who was staying in the tomb had a problem, but what he didn't expect was that she would actually have a connection with the Beggar Brothers. Did she tell the Beggar Brothers about Hemi through some way? Joel had long had such doubts, and after arriving in Sentinel Town, Joel certainly thought: The Beggar Brothers knew Hemi.

Saint, Joel thought that no matter whoever was, they would be targeted, they would approach them with all kinds of purposes. Joel was not sure that Hemi was a saint - although the prophecies she said before Joel had come true, and prophecies were indeed one of the many talents of the Saint - but he would definitely not let these people who thought she was a Saint approach her easily.

Because after coming out of the pass of the Wind Valley, the food that Joel and his friends had purchased from the town of Linle had been almost eaten by Hemi, so he could only come to this Sentinel town to buy food that could be used for them to the north again.

But he was attacked as soon as he got off the ancient road. Two people riding tall horses, wearing leather armor and thick cloaks, blocked their way and shouted to check what was inside the carriage. Joel was sure that they were not guards of Sentinel Town, and was not sure whether they were robbers or anything else, but no matter who they were, Joel could not let them get close to the carriage easily.

Those people didn't agree with it, and even threatened and cursed. Then they took out their weapons and wanted to force themselves into the carriage. Joel stopped them. At first he just broke their noses and made them fall into the snow and wail. Joel also ate one of them and was almost knocked to the ground.

Then two more people rushed out from behind the bushes beside the road. They were attracted by the screams of their companions. Joel saw one of them holding an axe in his hand and the other holding a crossbow.

Then a fierce battle broke out, and the two seemed to have drunk wine, trying to crippled Joel or simply killed him. One of them even shot one of Joel's horses with one arrow. He brought out a total of four horses from Linle Town, but two of them had died in the Valley of Wind: either too old or too young, they could not survive the winter, while the third one died under the crossbow of the blocker.

In the end, Joel cut down two people and was also shot by an arrow. The remaining two people who were broken at the beginning and couldn't get up. Joel gave them a few more kicks. He confirmed that they had broken a few ribs and could not get up for the time being, Joel pulled out the crossbow arrow and fell down against the wheel of the carriage.

When he woke up, it was already dark. Hemi treated him with the wound and took back the two horses who were knocked out of death by Joel and were scared away by the smell of blood. The two people who were beaten to death by Joel were still lying in the snow, and snow began to accumulate slowly on their bodies, while the blood of the other two dead people was covered by the snow.

Joel didn't know how she found the two horses, and Hemi didn't tell him what he planned, so Joel simply stopped thinking about it and asked the three horses to lead their carriage to Sentinel Town.

Joel and Hemi put the carriage and one of the exhausted old horses at the home of a farmer, gave them some copper plates, told them that they would come back to pick them up later, and then took Hemi to the Sentinel Town with the two horses stolen from the roadblock. He only used a silver coin to give the guards guards to open the city gate and let them in.

"Bah! No one saw it anyway." Joel cursed as he heard him trembling in the snow.

It was not until Joel entered the tavern and saw the man who came up to talk and was driven away by himself that he confirmed that the group of people who blocked the road were people from the Beggar Brotherhood. They might be waiting for Hemi's arrival.

This place cannot be kept for a long time, Joel told himself, but even so, they had to stay here for at least a day. It was already dark. If they wanted to buy food, they had to wait until the daytime to go to the market. Most of the food sold in the tavern was hot, which was impossible to keep them until they arrived in the next town, so Joel had no choice.

Then the place to stay tonight is a big problem. Joel thought to himself that after Hemi was full, he would take her out of the tavern first. Maybe the person who had just left had already gone to inform the people of the Beggar Brotherhood, and they might have arrived.

What should I do then? Joel looked at Hemi beside him worriedly, and Hemi raised his head as if he felt his realization. Joel was sure that her eyes were behind the thick cloth strips were looking at him.

"Are you full?" Joel asked softly.

"Yeah." Hermi nodded slightly, and Joel looked at the plate, not even the bones were left.

He couldn't help but frown, then lowered his head and whispered to Hemi, "Open your mouth."

And Hemi also obediently opened his mouth: "Ah—"

Joel's body couldn't help but stiffen. He stretched out a finger to press the corner of Hemi's mouth, and then looked at the teeth inside her mouth. Some teeth had begun to change. Joel thought uneasily. Although it was not obvious, Joel must have read it wrong, and most importantly, Hemi's teeth were indeed intact.

She snipped the bones with her teeth.

"Then let's get out of here first." Joel withdrew his hand and stood up while Hemi also stood up. She pulled her hood and cloak uneasily to cover her face.

Joel looked at the hotel owner, who was also staring at them. After Hemi stood up, he reached out and grabbed Joel's hand, followed Joel and walked towards the hotel owner.

"This is the money for you." Joel took out a small stack of silver coins from his purse and put it on the bar. The hotel owner quickly followed the table and took away the silver coins on it.

"Are you still needed?" He weighed the amount of the coins in his hand, lowered his head and counted them quickly before asking.

"Do you know where to live nearby?" Joel asked in a deep voice.

"Well, there are quite a few." The hotel owner nodded and said, "But I would like to advise you to leave Sentinel Town as soon as possible, and then go outside the city to find a farmer's house to hide, and then stay away from Sentinel Town before dawn."

"Are we in trouble?" Joel asked.

"That's right," replied the tavern owner, "that guy has always been a troublemaker. It's not that you messed with him, but that he messed with you."

"Thank you for your advice." Joel nodded, and it seemed that he could only do this. But even if he spent tonight outside the city, he would still have to go back to Sentinel Town to buy food tomorrow. While thinking about this, Joel pulled Hemi and walked towards the door of the tavern.

And just as Joel pulled Hemi to the door, someone suddenly called him.

"The guy in front!" Joel turned his head when he heard the man's unnatural voice, and the person who walked towards him was stunned, and then he said hello to him in a hurry, "Hi, hey, man."

He was a mercenary, Joel judged, and he was also a new mercenary.

However, Joel was not interested in him. He ignored him and just turned around and pulled Hemi away from the tavern, while the mercenary stayed in place.

After Joel walked out of the tavern, he took out a lantern and placed it on the wooden barrel next to the door of the tavern. Then he took out the flint and dagger and ignited it with difficulty.

When he lifted the lantern, the mercenary also walked out of the tavern.

"Old, man, are you from Golden Waterfalls?" the mercenary followed Joel unyieldingly, but he seemed quite afraid of Joel's appearance.

"It's not your business." Joel replied coldly, then lifted the lantern and pulled Hemi to the stable. The mercenary was following him.
Chapter completed!