Chapter 14 The Dusty Land (1)
Flying fish walked out of the deserted tavern, but the people on the street were not as good as the tavern. The hurrying people walked very quickly, and people were silent, which made the streets shrouded in a tension and anxiety atmosphere. The news of the war was coming spread wildly. There had been no disputes on the territory of Jin Falls that could be called the scale of "war". Moreover, the guys who played the enemy in this war were something that had not appeared in almost two thousand years. People almost thought they were just the existence of the story, but now they were gathering to attack Jin Falls, and doubts and anxiety spread among the crowd.
Some people doubt the authenticity of this matter, but no matter what, the news that the army in other towns was coming to Jinshui City was already accurate, which made the local residents miserable. Winter is coming soon, and the arrival of the army from the other three places means that the winter supplies will be allocated to them, and the residents' food rations will be relatively reduced. Therefore, most people who come and go on the streets are rushing to buy supplies. If the supplies are not reserved now, the prices of supplies will rise after the army and winter come. Perhaps the number of people who have been rich for centuries will not survive the winter this year will increase significantly.
But these are not things that bother Feiyu. "Listen," Drake told him seriously before leaving, "I will leave them to you during this period of time. Listen, they are two, and the matter of finding that little girl is temporarily left to you. I will tell you who needs to be found, so please keep an eye on me!"
Well, Feiyu nodded secretly. The little girl's affairs were temporarily stranded. The church was suddenly surrounded by heavy troops. The player who had originally planned to sneak in and find someone had to shake his head and say he would give up. But now both of them disappeared! The guy who was burned to death and did not come back after leaving last night. Feiyu began to wonder if the church affairs were related to him. The point is that even the female NPC is gone now.
The tavern owner said that she left the tavern and did not come back. As for where she went, she would have no idea. If Drake knew about it, I would have lost her. Feiyu thought anxiously.
At dawn today, the Iron Chain Knights had sent a large group of troops to support Drake's team. Feiyu originally wanted to go, but Barrowf said that he was now carrying out the task of "assisting Drake", so he could only follow Drake's arrangements and stay in Golden Falls. Perhaps this was a good thing. Feiyu comforted himself that even Longjack died at the hands of the monster, and I might be hanging outside with the team. The final battle must be under the city wall, so I will be ready for that time.
But the premise is that I can live until then. Feiyu was depressed and lost two people. If something happened to them, Drake would peel my skin. Feiyu tsk and walked along the street to the bank of the Canjin River without realizing it. He raised his head and looked at the wide river surface. The seemingly calm river surface was undercurrents.
Where can they go? Feiyu wanted to ask if this damn river was washed away by you?
Just as Feiyu looked at the river for a few seconds, a voice came from behind him: "What are you doing here?"
Feiyu turned his head in surprise. "Osen? Are you still alive?" Feiyu looked at the man's face. In addition to fatigue, there were wounds scratched by sharp branches or vines. The blood had long frozen, making his face look dirty. "People in the guild said that you are like everyone else..."
"I'm dead in the mountains?" Orson smiled, but Feiyu felt his smile bitterly, "Almost, I'm better luck. Where is the president now?"
"The president personally took most of the men in the guild this morning to head towards the abandoned logging farm on the hill outside the North City Gate. Last night, Drake and Longjack's team encountered a giant monster, and Longjack died, but they caught the monster. The president should have gone to escort it back in person."
Feiyu briefly told Orson what he knew. Orson shook his head slightly, "The president should not come back with the escort team. I know what he is thinking." Orson touched his chin, "Who is in charge of the management now in the guild?"
"No one." Feiyu shrugged.
Orson sighed, "Okay, it seems I have to go back first." But after saying that, Orson did not set off immediately. He looked around Feiyu, "You haven't answered me, what are you doing here alone? Do you still have time to do some small tasks?"
"No, no!" Feiyu's face turned red, "I'm not lazy! I'm just helping Anthony take care of..."
"Anthony?" Orson raised his eyebrows, "Speaking of this, when I entered the city, I saw the guards searching every mercenary. What happened when I was away? That guy from Anthony wouldn't have caused anything again, right?"
"That...bud?" Feiyu vaguely guessed who he was talking about.
"It's that one who got involved with the Black Tree Party." Orson looked around. When Feiyu heard the name "Black Tree Party", he realized that he was approaching the old town around the church at this moment. "If you are assisting Anthony, you should know that guy, right?"
"Yes," Feiyu nodded helplessly, "He is missing, and the female NPC who is with him, I'm looking for them now."
"Then you better hurry up, they're getting involved with a bunch of vengeful guys." Orson said as he turned to leave, "You'd better pray that they won't run into those guys."
After saying that, Orson left in the direction of the guild. Feiyu looked at his figure, stood there thinking about something, and then Feiyu looked at the old city behind him.
“Can you…?!”
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When Joel opened his eyes again, he thought he was still in a dark dream, but the cold touch that gradually recovered, the broken pain and the squeaking sound of the tiny bunches of water falling from a high place made him realize that he was in the world. Joel had experienced the hellish reality several times, and he struggled to get up every time, and this time it was the same.
But this time when he moved his body, there was a rustling and crisp sound. Joel's whole body was wet, but the cold feeling from what his hands touched could be clearly felt even through the bandage, cold and rough. This was rusty steel. Joel touched his hands in the dark and found that it was a hemispherical rusty metal object. He told himself. Then he touched down the helmet, and another thing he touched was not metal.
Skeleton. Joel repeatedly confirmed it and told himself that he moved his body uneasyly, and that sound came from under him. It was the sound of bone friction, and there was a pile of bones under Joel. He climbed up with difficulty. In addition to the darkness, there was the sound of water around him. He called out the "backpack" interface, which could be seen clearly even in the darkness. He took out the flints and torches. Even though he had just soaked in the water, the things in the "backpack" were dry.
Joel silently ignited the torch, and the fire dispelled the darkness around it. The edge of the fire was still dark and did not illuminate the wall. Although Joel judged that this was a relatively large space from the sound of the bones just now, he did not expect it to be so empty. Joel suppressed his sight and saw the pile of bones under him.
I don't know how many skeletons in armor were piled together so that they were invisible on the ground. The water falling from high places soaked the bottom of the hills made up of these long-standing dead people. Joel could not judge how deep the skeletons were based on the water. Joel raised the torch, and the flames shone a little further away. He stood up from the skeletons, which was not easy.
This is a battlefield. Seeing the fire at the foot of the darkness after it was dispelled by the fire, Joel's face was heavy, too much, what happened here? He bent down and picked up the helmet he had just touched, and the bones and skulls were picked up by him. Joel looked at the helmet, and the skull opened its empty eyes widened. Horned helmet, Joel looked at the style of the helmet in his hand, and it was a half-helmet. This is not a rich army. Neither the lord nor the rich mercenaries would choose a half-helmet. This kind of thing cannot completely block arrows on the battlefield.
Joel threw away the helmet in his hand. The jingle sound of the helmet colliding with other rusty armor echoed in the empty underground space. The skull laughed silently and jumped out of the helmet, and then fell into the darkness. Joel squatted down again. He had already begun to numb to the pain in his body. The hole in his abdomen cut by the fish cutter was already scarred by the flames when he was unconscious. The pain from the scar warned Joel not to move too violently, otherwise it might crack again at any time. This also made Joel cautious when moving his body.
He took a rusty blade from the bone that was trampled by himself and his head had been thrown away. It was a sharp weapon slightly shorter than a dagger. Joel knew it, and this thing almost cut open his stomach. Fish-slicing knife. Joel looked at the bones around him. Their armor was rusted, and the leather armor under it had already rotted. The cloak and cloak had turned into dust at some point. The only one who could tell their identities was this fish-slicing knife.
Joel stood up, walked carefully before stepping on the bones, and bent down from time to time to check. The bones were dressed in different clothes, some could wear thick armor, but this was only a small part. Most of the bones had less iron armor, and basically they were dressed in mature leather armor, and some even didn't even have iron armor; their weapons were also very simple, with iron axes mostly, followed by spears and spears, but each more equipped bone had a fish-cutting knife on its body or hand.
This ancient battlefield with only darkness and corpses reminded Joel of the two carved murals on the walls of the corridor when he walked into the catacomb, "The Purge of the Abyss Rebellion". The corpses here are almost one-sided, with no signs of fighting each other, and there is no idea what the killing of them is, but it or they leave no signs that Joel could notice.
Joel walked over the dark pile of bones. He threw down a rusty fish-slicing knife in his hand, and stepped on the ancient wooden handle of a spear with one foot. He raised his head and something reflected the flame at the edge of the fire. The metal objects around him had a thick layer of rust, which could be broken with a little force. Not to mention the reflection, Joel walked over. It was the black sword "silence". When it fell down, it broke away from Joel's hand and picked it up again, so that Joel felt a little relieved.
Jon continued to move forward, and the slivering sound began to get farther and farther away from him, but the bones under his feet did not mean that they would become less. When Joel was a child, he didn't like reading books, but he liked various stories, war, adventure and struggle. He remembered a story about the pirates on the coast of this land, the three ancient pirate families: the Le'Anle family and the Jiuxin family in the south, and the fish-senier family in the north.
It is rumored that in ancient times, the kings occupying the mainland did not pay attention to the disputes on the coast. Every fishing village on the coastline was burning with war. Countless pirates were rampant on the coast and the seas. They fought, plundered, started wars, formed alliances, and then betrayed. The blood almost dyed the entire coast red. This war was later called the "Battle of Hundred Sails". This bloody war lasted for more than half a century, and it was not until the Jiuxin family wiped out the once most powerful pirate Le Anle family and became the "King of the Sea of Blood". However, this war did not affect the northern waters. The ancient and powerful fish-stalker family was entrenched in the cold north, not participating in the war or giving anyone help.
Legend has it that the fish-cutter family is not completely pirates. They are mostly fishermen and go out to sea to fish and are self-sufficient. Because many of the sea-cutter fish they catch are exaggerated big fish, the fish-cutter knife they carry with them is much longer than other fishermen, so they are named the fish-cutter family. But later, no one knows what happened to the fish-cutter family, and they seem to suddenly disappear from history.
Here, Joel stepped on the bones, listening to the crackling sounds coming from his feet, thinking that there were so many fish-setters here. What happened here? He couldn't help but think again.
But compared to this, Joel is more concerned about how to leave here at this moment. How long have I been dizzy? Joel wants to know the answer, but it is obviously impossible. There is only darkness and bones around. That monster, Joel thinks of the half-human and half-fish face, what is that monster? Joel thinks of the fish-cutting knife in his hand.
In the tunnel, Joel recalled the stench and dampness there. The tunnel led to the tomb, and Hemi was there. Hemi, Joel clenched his fists and continued to walk forward. He did not know whether he was going in the right direction, and his speed was extremely slow. The accumulated bones and injuries on his body slowed him down.
As he continued walking, Joel didn't know how long he had walked. The faint sound of the flowing flowing sounds from the darkness behind him gave him a little idea. Then the wall appeared, blocking the fire and darkness. It was a flat wall, with the bottom buried by bones, and the top was hidden in the darkness that the fire could not reach. The wall was integrated, without a gap, which made Joel confused whether it was an artificial or a natural creature. Joel walked over and stroked the wall. The cold and heavy feeling made him doubt the stone behind him.
Joel looked at the left and right walls, and they extended into the depths of darkness. He looked at the remains under his feet, and their skeletons lying on their backs were all facing the right side. Joel looked into the darkness on his left, and then continued to support the wall and walked forward. The remains under his feet and rusty armor kept ringing, and the sound echoed in the dark space.
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Kadiya looked at the door nervously. She began to get nervous when the footsteps outside approached, but she breathed a sigh of relief after the footsteps left. After she was taken back from the catacomb, she was locked into her room. On the way back, the Pavre actually said to her: "My lady, you better be mentally prepared. Lord Duke is really angry this time." Then he ignored her again.
He was really angry? Kadiya thought about it and said as if he had never been angry before. Kadiya recalled that she had injured an old servant once, and the "Dule" sentenced her to stay for three days, "Remember your fault well." He said to her after giving the order.
Recalling his own mistakes? Kadiya lay on the soft velvet bed, curled up into a ball, her white leather armor and silver-plated swords were taken away, and the servant promised that they would be locked in the duke's warehouse. Recalling his own mistakes. Kadiya rubbed her face, then buried her head on the fluffy pillow, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she returned to the gloomy catacomb with footsteps.
Recalling her own mistakes? Kadiya tried hard not to let her thoughts go off the wrong way. What was my fault? She suddenly got angry. Is it a mistake to hunt monsters? Kadiya thought indignantly that because of this, they couldn't catch that thing. I almost found it, but was pulled out of the tomb by Pavre.
"You should not invade the dead, my lady." Pavre said coldly when he found Kadiya. He didn't even look at the old restroom girl next to him, and turned a deaf ear to her words, thinking that she did not exist. The old nun also tactfully shut up and said nothing to him.
It was not me who invaded the dead! Kadiya wanted to say that it was that monster! But she just let the silent Pavre take her away from the catacomb, and then she found that the church square under the night was illuminated as bright as the daytime. They had dispatched so many people to capture me? Kadiya looked at the silent soldiers in surprise, and the flames were beating on their armor.
Now he was dead. Kadiya thought that if so many soldiers were dispatched, if his father found out, he would have to be confined to me for three months. Kadiya began to think about how to escape from the inner castle next time. Maybe she should tie the quilt into a rope like this in the story and climb down through the window.
But when he was taken back to his room, Kadiya felt that it was really hard to fly this time, and the windows were equipped with iron fences. "I'm not a prisoner!" Kadiya pretended to be furious and fell on the table at the feet of Pavle. It was a wooden cup. Damn, they even calculated this!
"Now, for the time being, you are a prisoner, my lady." Pavre said after looking at the wooden cup rolling on the carpet under his feet. Then he turned around and left regardless of Kadiya's yell. The door was locked, and no matter how Kadiya kicked the door, he couldn't move.
My father was really angry this time. Kadiya thought uneasy, maybe I should apologize? When Kadiya was thinking about how to fool him, footsteps came from outside the door.
How many times is this? The sixth time? Kadiya thought that this time she did not sit up and pretend to be a lady, but continued to bury her head on the soft pillow, regardless of him, Kadiya thought.
Then the door opened. Kadiya's heart suddenly jumped to her throat when the sound of the door lock beating came. She hurriedly got up. Before she could finish her clothes and hair, the man walked in.
It wasn't her father. Kadiya was stunned for a moment, and the man looked at her and was stunned for a moment.
"Am I disturbing you to rest, my lady?" her father's captain of the guard asked apologetically.
"No, no." Kadiya pretended to be calm, "Where is my father?"
"He is in the study, and a lot of things happened. He hasn't closed his eyes all night." The captain of the guard said tiredly, "He asked me to take you there."
Chapter completed!