"What a chaotic spiritual energy fluctuation!" Leo almost didn't need to use the spiritual network. Just approaching the edge of the village, he could feel very strong spiritual energy fluctuations coming from the village. It's just that these spiritual energy fluctuations were extremely chaotic, as if there were hundreds of them.
It seems that spiritual energies of different frequencies are mixed together.
According to Leo's thinking, this village is obviously in big trouble. What he needs to do now is to leave this war zone as soon as possible and go to the Kingdom of England. He shouldn't be too busy, but his curiosity makes him want to know what happened.
What is the reason for such chaotic spiritual energy fluctuations?
Leo looked at the darkening sky and decided to stay in the village for one night and continue on his journey tomorrow. This could not only satisfy his curiosity, but also avoid the martial law of the French Empire army at night.
Thinking of this, Leo walked towards the village in front of him.
This village is a villa-type farm common in Miria City. It may have been used by a nobleman for vacation at first, and then gradually developed into a village. The most obvious feature of such a village is that the streets and houses are all named after
The largest and most luxurious villa estate is built in the center.
The streets of the village were quiet, without a single pedestrian. The residents in the village were all hiding in their rooms. Leo, who was walking on the street, could feel the strange gazes cast from the houses from time to time. These gazes were very complicated.
, Leo can feel sympathy, pity, luck, indifference and other emotions from it.
This feeling is not a imaginary and vague feeling, but a real feeling of the emotion contained in every gaze. It is like there is a gaze and emotion discriminator on him, and any kind of gaze falls on him.
He could clearly distinguish it when he saw it.
Through this wonderful perception ability that may come from blood or other powers, Leo discovered that although the emotions contained in these gazes were different, all the gazes revealed the same emotion the moment they were retracted.
, that is schadenfreude.
Leo ignored these glances and went straight to the hotel in the village. Unlike other houses in the village, which all had their doors closed, the hotel here was not only open, but also had two rows of street lights at the door, making the hotel more attractive.
It is the most eye-catching place in the entire village.
The hotel at the moment is not empty. In contrast to the deserted village, the hotel can be said to be overcrowded, because a group of patrol soldiers from the French Empire seem to be preparing to rest in this hotel tonight, with nearly thirty people.
The small team packed the hotel which was not very big to the max.
Leo who came in from outside quickly attracted the attention of the officers of this team. After all, he was a tall, strong man wearing very inappropriate clothes. There were two exaggerated-looking pistols in the holster at his waist. Such an eye-catching appearance
It's hard not to notice.
However, the officer did not suspect that Leo was one of those People's Army soldiers in the south. He did not think that any soldier of the People's Army was bold enough to appear alone in front of a well-equipped patrol team. Likewise, he did not think that Leo was one of those people who had been killed.
The wanted rebel leader, because memorizing the faces of all the people on the wanted poster is a compulsory course for becoming a patrol leader.
But he didn't think Leo was an ordinary person. In his guess, Leo should be one of the bounty hunters summoned by the Imperial Military recently.
Because the main army that attacked Miria City was too powerful, it captured Miria City without encountering much resistance. However, it was precisely because the main army's attack was so smooth that the other auxiliary armies were unable to do so.
Complete the expected encirclement.
Therefore, after Miria City was captured, all the rebels in Miria City who were deemed necessary to be caught by the emperor escaped through the loopholes of the encirclement, and not a single valuable rebel leader was caught.
Fortunately, the auxiliary Seventh Army blocked the passage from the Bidia Mountains to Lanxi in time, and set up a defense line on the north side of the mountains to prevent others from passing through the mountains and escaping to the south, so those rebels were still there.
Hiding in the forest on the outskirts of Miria City.
In order to fulfill the emperor's arrest order, the military not only dispatched the most elite special forces, but also recruited a large number of bounty hunters from the black market to capture those escaped rebels.
This patrol officer had seen some bounty hunters hired by the black market at the crusade headquarters in Miria City. All of those people were dressed in weird costumes and were chatty. It was easy to distinguish them from ordinary people.
came out. Although Leo's outfit was just a piece of clothing that didn't fit very well, he was still able to walk on the street with a calm expression despite being dressed so weirdly, without caring about the weird looks of the people around him. This situation was different from his
The bounty hunters I saw were exactly the same.
Leo didn't know that he was regarded as a bounty hunter by the officers of the patrol because of his inappropriate attire. He just felt that the soldiers of the French Empire around him had no intention of taking action. Seeing this, Leo was also happy to relax and walked away.
Went to prepare the psionic energy used to create the Air Hammer Witchcraft.
"Is there any room left?" Leo walked to the counter and asked the hotel owner sitting inside.
The hotel owner didn't answer, he just turned his head, glanced at the imperial soldiers, and told Leo the answer almost explicitly.
Leo added: "I just need a place to rest, and the stable is fine."
The hotel owner frowned when he heard this, and then said: "Seven beas a night, one cent for dinner, not breakfast." As he said that, he looked at the patrol soldiers again, as if he was making a deliberate statement.
, said slightly louder: "As long as the coins are minted by the empire, the rebel coins will not be accepted."
Leo picked out seven Imperial Beas from the coins he just found on the body. After handing them to the innkeeper, he was led by a servant to the stable behind the inn and arranged them in the straw storage warehouse.
Inside.
When the servant was about to leave, Leo stopped him and asked him where there was a shop in the village where he could buy suitable clothes.
The servant looked at Leo coldly and said, "Even if there are shops, they are closed today. I will take you there tomorrow." After that, he walked towards the lobby in front of the hotel, talking to himself on the way.
He whispered: "Tomorrow! You guys may not be able to see tomorrow yet."
The servant's voice was very low, and even if an ordinary person stood next to him, he could only hear a few hums. However, Leo's five senses enhanced by his physical changes were able to clearly hear what the servant said.
Leo didn't think about grabbing the servant and asking him for any secrets. In fact, when he walked into the hotel and stood in front of the hotel owner, he knew very well that the person he was facing could no longer be considered a real person.
People, whether they are innkeepers or servants in the shop, should be members of the family.
Although they all covered the mutated parts of their bodies with clothes, Leo could smell the aura of the ancient gods' dependents from the smell emanating from their bodies, just like he could tell the sight contained in them before.
Like thoughts and emotions, he had just discovered the ability to determine the identity of a family member based on smell alone.
And when he judged the family members, the name of the ancient god's family members immediately appeared in his mind, but he could not find any information that allowed him to make such a judgment, as if this was a kind of instinctive identification.
Average ability.
Leo couldn't find the origin of these abilities, let alone how to control them. He could only temporarily regard them as additional abilities obtained after the body's unknown original bloodline awakened. After being able to control the power in the bloodline,
Naturally, you can also control these additional abilities.
After temporarily putting aside his physical problems, Leo began to think about the problems of this village. Judging from various circumstances, this village may have become a dependent group of an ancient god. This kind of thing is the manifestation of Velen.
In ancient times, it often happened, but after the gods disappeared from the world, such things almost rarely happened. Even if they did happen, they mostly happened in the primitive wilderness and forests of the Moissan continent. It is said that there are still
There are some wilderness spirits.
The suburbs of Miria City where this village is now located are so close to a big city full of industrialization. According to normal circumstances, it is impossible for the entire village to become a large-scale clan. Therefore, there must be someone involved in this matter.
Something is going on, or some gods who have disappeared really have returned.
No matter what the reason is, it probably won't take very long for these villagers to transform into the Familia, because the mutations in these Familia are not obvious. This unfinished mutation will not only not enhance the strength of these people, but will consume them due to the need.
They use a large amount of energy in their bodies to continue mutating, making their bodies less healthy and stronger than normal people.
"It looks like there will be something good tonight." While Leo was analyzing the families in the village in his mind, he was also looking forward to what would happen in the evening.
From what the servant said to himself just now, it was not difficult for Leo to tell that there would definitely be an attack at night, and the attack was not only aimed at him, but also at the soldiers of the French Empire.
With the fighting power of that team of soldiers, even if these weak villagers were attacked suddenly, it would be absolutely impossible to defeat these strong soldiers with weapons. Therefore, if there is an attack at night, the person who takes action must be the mastermind behind the mutation of the family members in these villagers.
.
Leo was not interested in why the mastermind wanted to create the Familia. What he was interested in was the other party's method of mass-producing the Familia.
While thinking about things, Leo lay on a simple bed made of haystacks and closed his eyes to rest.
When it got completely dark, the servant from before brought his dinner to the hay warehouse, placed the tray on a haystack, turned around and left without saying anything.
Leo opened his eyes and looked at the food on the tray. A smile appeared on his face. He sat up and ate all the food, then lay back down and continued to sleep.
In fact, the moment the dinner plate was brought to the warehouse, Leo's sense of smell smelled the food, and as if the accessory brain system still existed, he instantly analyzed some of the main ingredients in the food, and discovered from these ingredients
There are some herbs that shouldn't be there.
These herbs are not poison, but are some very good herbs. In the herbal atlas published by the medical school, this herb ranks first among all the herbs used to help sleep. What is even more interesting is that this herb
Its origin is not in the Velen continent, but in the Minsk continent to the east.
Because of this, when this herb, which is extremely cheap locally, is placed here in West France, its price naturally becomes extremely expensive, and even ordinary nobles cannot use it regularly.
But now this expensive herbal medicine was put into the food of a hotel guest. It didn't take much thinking to tell that there was something weird in it, so Leo simply took advantage of the trick and ate all the drugged food, and then waited for the follow-up.
things happen.
As time passed, the sky turned completely dark, and the group of soldiers who were resting in the hotel gradually returned to their rooms to rest.
Although this village is already an area under the actual control of the French Empire, the officers of the patrol team still remain vigilant. Before taking a break, they set up some warning traps inside and outside their rooms, and arranged the order of duty for their men to avoid
Something unexpected happened.
Just when the time reached midnight, a thick fog suddenly emerged from the forest, and slowly approached the village, and soon wrapped the entire village in it. The imperial soldiers who were placed on guard on the roof saw this very early.
Such a scene, but he did not ring the alarm bell in his hand because of this, because this kind of forest fog spreading to the edge of the forest is a common thing, and it is nothing to make a fuss about.
However, when the thick fog covered the entire village and affected people's sight, the soldier in charge of the alert also felt that something seemed amiss, so he prepared to ring the alert bell to notify his companions in the room below.
But for some reason, he suddenly felt that his body became extremely heavy and his strength became very weak. He could not even lift the bell, let alone shake it. Moreover, a strong sense of sleepiness also appeared at this time, washing away his brain.
The little bit of consciousness that remained in his body instantly caused him to fall into a deep sleep.
At the same time, in the fodder warehouse of the stable, a large amount of thick fog got in through the cracks in the warehouse's loose wooden wall, and soon filled the entire warehouse.
About half an hour later, a tall figure appeared silently in the warehouse, and the strange thing was that the door of the warehouse was not opened, as if the tall figure came in together with the surrounding thick fog.
This tall figure slowly walked to Leo who was lying on the haystack. Hearing Leo's even breathing and slight snoring, he felt that Leo must have fallen into a deep sleep, so he stretched out a pair of sharp claws.
The big hand grabbed Leo's chest and heart.
However, what surprised the tall figure was that his hand passed directly through Leo's body and was inserted directly into the haystack. What surprised him even more was that before he realized what happened, he felt
Chapter completed!