Chapter 121 Small Village (Part 1)
There are countless wild flowers blooming on the hills
Although the hills are not high, the path is tortuous. Romon suddenly remembered: "Miss Avesy, it seems that we have gone around a lot. Isn't the other side of the hills our territory forest home?"
"Yes, I thought you knew it a long time ago." Avesi took a look with a funny look.
The "Edge Forest" where Romon is located, the thorn forest is to the west and the hill is to the north, with a height of only about 200 meters. After climbing over the mountains, it is this small village, but if you walk along the road on the plain, you will have to go all day.
"..." Romon was speechless and had to continue to go down.
The horses that the druid rode naturally ran smoothly and steadily. The two of them slowed down and let the horse slowly go down.
After passing through the jungle on the hills, both of them had their eyes lit up. There was a flat land between the valleys, about 2,000 acres, and a clear stream divided the plain into two.
The farmland was reclaimed, and it was early summer. The oats and vegetables in the fields were very rich, making it a good harvest.
Strangely, when I got closer, I realized that even under the sun, this small mountain village was covered with a kind of fog.
The first thing I saw when I went down the path was a big tree at the intersection. Not far from the village, the plants and trees looked half-dead, but it looked very energetic here, especially this big tree, with lush branches and leaves, about seven or eight meters high, which is really rare.
The path, which is very close to the entrance of the village, is very narrow and the road is a bit bumpy. Romon and Avessi got off the horse and led the horse away.
"Romon, is this the disappeared village?" Avesy said as he walked towards the village.
Romon nodded: "From this road, there is indeed only one village in Baron Galle's territory. This should be the disappeared village in the story. Now that this village is here, there must be some problems."
"Okay, then let's go into the village to see. If there is anyone, let's find out what's going on in the mountains." Avesy looked at Romon with a smile.
For a long time, Romon could not tell the age of Avesy. She said that she was five or six years older than Romon, but her skin was as snowy as her youthfulness. So even if she was one or two years younger than Romon, she could still talk about the past. Now, this smile that looked like a smile, the charming womanly style immediately showed.
I originally thought that since the farmland was rich from afar, it should be normal, but when I got closer, both of them frowned.
"This village gives me a very uncomfortable feeling. What do you think?" As I was about to walk to the location of the big tree at the entrance of the village, Avessi suddenly said this.
"It seems that there is a kind of death energy that is very strong!" Romon said with a frown. As soon as he approached the village, Romon also felt very uncomfortable. Although this village looked no different from the villages and towns they had visited before, when he looked at the entrance of the village, he looked like a demon's mouth opened, as if he was swallowing the person who fell in at any time.
What’s even more strange is that I saw someone inside on the hills. The farmland was well cultivated, but when I got closer, the village seemed very quiet, as if it was a dead village.
Walking on the quiet village road, looking at the quiet houses on both sides, a gust of wind blew, both of them felt a little cold.
"Or, let's find a family to go in and see if there is really no one inside." Romon and Avessi walked around the village, but they didn't see a single figure, so they suggested.
Avici nodded: "Okay!"
So the two of them gently pushed open one of the half-closed wooden doors and walked in.
"Is there anyone? May I ask, is there anyone here?" Avici's crisp voice echoed in the yard.
No one responded, as if there was no one living here.
The two waited for a while, and saw no response, so they looked around. This was a very ordinary farmer's home. There were several fruit trees in the small courtyard. The fruits on the trees were about to be harvested. They were so beautiful that they were very beautiful. Moreover, the yard was very clean, and someone had cleaned them.
Seeing this, Avesy showed a look of thought on his face.
At this time, Romon had already pushed the door and entered the room before her. Avesy followed.
"There is still no one." Romon had just come out of the inner room and said to Avesy.
"This village is so strange." Avey said as he walked towards the corner of the house.
There was a table and a few chairs in the outer room, and a bacon was hung on the wall in the corner of the room. Avesie walked to the side of the bacon, sniffed it gently, and then walked to the table, picked up the cup on the table, looked at it, and his face turned strange.
"Romon, there were still people here just now." Avesy said with a serious expression: "Look, the ground on this table is very clean, there are no fallen leaves deposited in the yard, this glass of water is still warm, there are still people here just now."
"Who?!" Just as Romon was about to respond to Avesy's words, a shadow suddenly shook in the yard. Romon and Avesy looked at each other. "Go out and take a look."
When the two of them came out of the house, there was no one in the yard, and the half-closed door just now had been wide open.
"Strange, if it were the owner of this house, why was it so strange?" Romon looked at the door and felt very strange.
"Wait, listen!" Romon was about to walk outside, but suddenly Avesie grabbed her. He turned to look at her and saw the girl listening intently.
When Romon was curious, he also heard carefully that the sound of the wind and the sound of the whistling wind were faintly crying and howling.
"This place is indeed strange." After hearing this, the two of them looked solemn.
And at this moment, there was a sudden clatter outside, and it seemed that something had been knocked to the ground.
When Romon and Avesy walked out quickly, they happened to see a middle-aged woman walking towards the corner in front.
"Follow." Romon said, and returned to the hospital and took out his horse, followed, and Avesy followed.
The two of them were not too fast, and it was a waste of time to go back and lead the horse, so when they arrived at the corner, they could no longer see the woman.
The two had to knock on the doors of several families, but in the end, there was still no reaction inside, and more doors of the families were locked from the inside, so the two had to sigh.
After all, judging from the situation just now, there are not people in this village, but these people seem to be hiding from them and don’t want to communicate with them.
"Let's go outside and have a look!" Romon was only a third-level druid and had no way to explore on a large scale, so he had to say.
But at this moment, there was a sound of play outside. The two of them looked over and smiled.
"That's because these children went to play in the wild. Now they are back. Adults can hide, but children don't know." Romon said proudly and greeted them. He saw that under the big tree at the village where they were passing by, several children were catching some small animals and coming back from outside.
"Children! Where are your parents?" Romon asked with his horse in front of them with a smile.
When they saw a stranger, the children immediately stopped playing and looked at each other. Then, an older boy looked at Romon and asked, "Are you an adult from the town?"
Romon's heart moved when he heard this, and his face still kept a smile: "Who told you this?"
"Ah, grandpa won't let us talk to strangers..." Suddenly, the child was about to scatter, but Romon was out of patience and scolded, "Stop!"
After drinking, the group of children were immediately scared and they all stayed there.
Romon became proud and was about to ask, when an old man came over in the distance.
"Two sirs, I don't know what's wrong with coming to our village?" The old man forced a little smile.
"Oh, I was sent by Baron Galle to investigate the plants!" Romon was a smart man, so he simply looked arrogant and looked down at him: "Why, do you want to disobey the lord and refuse my investigation?"
"No, no, two lords, how dare we... It's just that recently, a group of robbers in the village were robbed a lot of things, so everyone was afraid. They hid when they saw outsiders. Of course, they didn't intend to hide from the two lords!" The old man waved his hands repeatedly and squeezed out a smile: "Since they are sent by the two lords, we naturally welcome them, so I'll ask them to get up to greet them."
As he said that, the old man shouted a few times. After a while, a group of villagers appeared in a distant place, including men and women, old and young. Romon noticed that there were about forty young and middle-aged men, all of whom were looking at them vigilantly.
From the druid's feelings, Romon felt fear and hostility.
"Who are you?" Romon was no longer afraid at this time. His spiritual eyes swept over. There were basically no warriors here who could threaten him. Among the forty men, there were about five or six with the strength of first and second level, and this strength was not to be afraid.
"I am the village chief Sandas here. Two adults, please come to my house to entertain you."
"No!" Romon waved his hand, with food on his horse, let alone in the space: "We just want to ask, your village is closest to the valley, and have you discovered anything strange in recent times?"
The old man said, "No, except for the last time I encountered a group of robbers, nothing strange happened recently!"
"Oh, go!" Romon waved his hand and drove him away.
At the beginning, Romon thought he was suffering from being bullied by the lord, but when he heard that he was a member of the town, he was frightened like this. There were also such villages on earth that were afraid of officials as if they were tigers, so he was not very surprised.
But now, I no longer think so, because on the way, Miss Avesi told him that when she left Jumu Town, she had quietly asked the people in the town, but learned that the owner of the hotel in the town was once a member of this village. Thinking about the strange behaviors of the store owner and the suspicious aspects of this village, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this village must be related to plant problems.
Thinking of this, the two exchanged their eyes
Just in the sun, green light appeared on both of them. The light was very thin, but very obvious.
"Nature detection!"
As soon as this situation occurred, the villagers suddenly felt a commotion, and the old man immediately stopped the commotion and looked from afar and worried appeared.
"Negative energy penetrated out of the earth, but the valley is indeed the richest here!" said Romon.
"Although the breath of death is the strongest here, the local plants are the least affected, and it seems that they have consciously avoided it..." Miss Avesy said more deeply.
In fact, as early as when patrolling other places, Romon had already used the power of the druid, and then discovered that a faint negative energy breath penetrated out of the earth and stretched for hundreds of miles.
However, the negative energy breath is originally a part of nature, so the source of this breath cannot be found. Only when the two people search for it according to the decline of the plant.
Finally, in this small village adjacent to the valley, they discovered a stronger breath of death. What's even more strange is that although the breath of death here is the strongest, the growth of the plants here seems to have not been affected. Could it be that the reason why those plants decline really has nothing to do with the appearance of the breath of death?
Neither Romon nor Avessi would believe this result.
"There is a problem in this village, but the source is indeed not here. Let's follow up first!" Romon frowned and said.
"Okay, let's go now!" Seeing that there was nothing to gain in the village, the two decided to continue to go deeper along the breath of death to see if they could find any new clues.
"Continue to move forward, is there any way to go?" Seeing Avesie looking at the map, Romon walked up to her and asked.
Avesy shook his head: "There are no marks on the map, but the lack of records on the map does not mean that there is no road in reality. When you checked just now, which direction of death was stronger?"
"Here." Romon pointed to the depths of the village, that is, the other side of the valley. "I saw that the deeper I went, the stronger the breath of death."
"That's right. The source of the breath of death should be there. Since we all suspect that this breath of death is the root of the decay and death of plants, then let's go into the mountain to take a look."
Avesy put away the map. Now for them, this map is useless for the time being, because the scope of the territory map is just to this village and walking forward. The valley is no longer recorded on the map.
Both of them were not going to rest in the village. This time they led their horses to the village. The leaders no longer closed their households like they did before. Some people had already started to move out, but the eyes of the two were obviously in fear and a hint of hostility.
They looked at the eyes of Romon and the others, which looked very similar to the ones that the hotel owners in the town. Romon recalled what Avessi had analyzed for himself just now, and felt that it made more and more reasonable.
This time, they did not take the initiative to ask anything, and the villagers did not seem to want to have any contact with them. Occasionally, a few people gathered together to talk, and their vigilant eyes were always on.
Chapter completed!