In this era when there is no electric lighting and lack of development in the wilderness, there is little light in the world after dark. The only bright lights are concentrated in the aristocratic area in the center of the city and near the church. Once out of the city, the only light that can guide travelers is
There is moonlight and starlight, just like it is now.
Hao Ren and Lily easily left the city after dark. The ordinary soldiers patrolling were like decorations to them. Not long after walking along the road outside the city, the two noticed an open space beside the road, which was alone.
A dead zelkova tree stood on the ground. The bright moonlight of the approaching full moon shone on the dry branches of the zelkova tree. A crow was standing there, looking at the two people leaving the city in the night with its dark eyes.
Hao Ren and Crow looked at each other for a while, then said calmly: "Are you here to lead us?"
The crow was frightened, making a hoarse and unpleasant cry, and flew from one branch to another farther away.
Lily scratched her hair: "I don't think it's the landlord..."
Hao Ren frowned: "That Mrs. Mary said that we should follow the crow's guidance. She couldn't have even lied about this. This is a bit bad. It is completely harmful to others and not beneficial to oneself..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard another sound of flapping wings behind him, followed by a hoarse voice, like a crow's call: "Hey! Hey! Idiot! Idiot! Where are you looking at!"
The great Lord Kodo is in this place!"
Hao Ren turned around and saw an ugly strange bird that was at least twice the size of an ordinary crow hopping around on a haystack not far away. There was a striking black feather on the strange bird's head.
While jumping back and forth, he also said in a high-spirited tone: "Hey! That hateful old woman always lets the great Kodo lead the way for you idiots who are not clear-headed. Hey, hey!"
Hao Ren was immediately in a daze: "So you are the crow who leads us?"
"Of course it's me! Of course it's me! Have you ever seen a more beautiful crow than the great Kodo?" The huge crow shouted while flapping its wings, "You were just fighting with that thin and small sick bird.
What a joke it is for a tuberculosis ghost to talk - gah! That old woman is also a joke! She knows that the wilderness is full of crows, but she still insists on letting Kodo lead the way for strangers!"
"Okay, okay, we know you are great," Hao Ren quickly shut up the chattering ugly bird, "Now take us to see your master, this is agreed in advance."
"Kodo knows, Kodo knows, Kodo is smarter than most of you, so shut up, Kodo knows what to do -"
The big crow was making noisy noises and chattering nonsense, but it finally obeyed the witch's order, so it flapped its wings and flew into the air, leading Hao Ren and Lily to run in the wilderness under the night.
This crow with an abnormal brain flew very fast from the beginning. It seemed that it sincerely wanted to get rid of the two people behind it, completely ignoring the orders given by its master. However, it soon discovered that its flying speed was too fast for the people on the ground.
It was completely worthless to the two of them. No matter how fast it flapped its wings, it could not escape the sight of the two. Lily even had the time to collect a lot of strange stones while running and used them to collect them from the wild.
Weaving a garland of flowers and plants - to be honest, if there was no serious business, this dog could even go hunting...
The crow finally gave up the idea of teasing these two people.
But its chattering never stopped for a moment. Perhaps the witch fed it some other weird stuff when turning on the bird's intelligence. The bird's mind was always in an uncontrollable state.
It talked loudly as it flew, talking about human harvests, the eccentricities of the lords, the scale of cities and villages, the weather, water and soil, and even the name of the second egg he laid last year. Hao Ren wanted to borrow a stone from Lily countless times.
I smashed that bastard bird down, but at least I restrained myself...
Amid the noise along the way in Kodo, Hao Ren noticed that the moonlight around him was gradually dimming.
They deviated from the road and ran in a wilderness. Fog began to form around them. In the hazy fog, even the direction became erratic and difficult to distinguish. Slowly, even the crows in the air were obscured by the fog.
Only the constant chatter of nonsense sounded in the air, guiding the next direction.
A cemetery suddenly appeared in the thick fog.
Several swaying iron railings blocked the front. Opposite the iron railings could be seen sparse tombstones and stone statues. Several dead trees had fallen horizontally, and their dry branches overwhelmed the cemetery walls. The branches were draped over several lonely buildings.
On the tombstone.
The sound of the flapping wings of a big crow sounded in the air. Kodo fell from the thick fog. He stood on the iron railing and shouted in the direction of the cemetery. Along with the shrill crow, the fences and tree trunks were scattered.
Immediately, countless arms and legs sprouted, shouting and hurriedly running to both sides.
Hao Ren and Lily were alert and followed the big crow into the cemetery.
A long table was set up in the open space in the center of the cemetery. The long table was filled with all kinds of suspicious food. A thick white candle stood between the cups and plates. The pale flame at the top of the candle burned quietly in the mist, as if still.
.
There were several black high-back chairs scattered around the long table. Several women in black robes were standing up. They turned their heads and stared at Hao Ren and Lily with suspicious and wary eyes.
The fog in the cemetery gradually faded, and Hao Ren could clearly see the appearance of everyone present. Some of the witches were charming, some were young and beautiful, and some looked like ordinary peasant women. However, these appearances
It's all meaningless - Hao Ren knows very well that the main duty of witches as servants of alien gods in the mythical era is to serve the master and please the guests. Their most basic ability is to use magic to reshape their own body and appearance. Every adult
Every witch in the world has at least a dozen faces, and even they themselves don't know what they should look like, so it's useless to know a witch based on her appearance.
But at least during this "visit", these witches should not change their appearance.
So Hao Ren quickly recognized "Mrs. Mary" among the witches. She was standing in front of the armchair closest to the end of the long table, wearing a simple black robe, with a copper pendant hanging on her chest, a big crow.
"Kodo" stood on her shoulder, tearing apart a bloody piece of raw meat with relish.
"Very good, you came as promised," Mrs. Mary raised her chin and said expressionlessly, "Mysterious wizard, and mysterious werewolf lady - the times are difficult now, I hope you don't mind this simple hospitality.
Place."
"You can call me Hao Ren." Hao Ren did not give himself a Western name, but directly used this name that would be confusing to the locals. "This werewolf's name is Lily."
"Hao Ren...strange syllables," Mrs. Mary repeated the word stiffly, and then she regarded it as a pseudonym used when walking outside. Although the wizard is not as good at disguise as the witch, but the basic disguise is
and false names are still very common, "foreign wizards, I hope you can understand our caution in this current situation. In this day and age, hosting a stranger involves taking huge risks - I hope you can prove your
The identity of a wizard."
"It's understandable that people who trust others always die quickly these days." Hao Ren smiled, and with a casual move, countless swords and strange-shaped weapons immediately appeared with ripples in the air, and the cold light of metal shone in the air.
Continuous movies - Of course he doesn't know the magic tricks of wizards, but a dignified censor has a lot of tricks. It's not difficult to pretend to be a wizard, not to mention that the wizard system on the earth is a mess, and they are all kinds of aliens from the past.
It is even more difficult to distinguish "magic apprentices" forcibly created by gods using methods similar to human experiments.
The witches did not expect that Hao Ren would prove his "wizard identity" in such a scene, and they were a little commotion. Mrs. Mary's face changed slightly, and then they thought that this kind of "weapon-making" witchcraft should indeed be
The wizard's methods.
At least it's not a witcher's.
Lily also stood up enthusiastically: "Hey, do I need to prove myself? Look at my ears, look at my teeth - these are all genuine!"
The few witches closest to her subconsciously stepped back, and then a young woman bowed unnaturally to greet her: "There is no need to prove the identity of this werewolf lady. We can feel your powerful aura."
Lily suddenly became very happy.
Hao Ren's eyebrows moved and he realized that although the age of mythology had ended and human wizards had broken away from slavery and become a single group, aliens with orthodox blood still had a certain deterrent power in front of them. Although Lily was not a real werewolf
, but she still has the coercion of a werewolf and an extremely similar aura - for a witch with only half of the inhuman characteristics, it is completely impossible to distinguish the subtle differences.
It seems that taking Lily on the move has some unexpected benefits.
"You brought news from the witcher?"
After confirming her identity, Mrs. Mary asked directly.
Hao Ren did not answer immediately, but randomly found an empty chair beside the long table and sat down. He saw a mysterious man wearing a black robe sitting opposite the table, his face hidden in the hood.
It was judged that it should be a man, probably the wizard that Squirrel mentioned before.
The hooded wizard nodded slightly to Hao Ren as a greeting, and Hao Ren returned the greeting before responding to Lady Mary's question: "First of all, I want to know the news about the arrested witch."
Mrs. Mary's face darkened: "I said, that was..."
"Is that a scam to fool people?" Hao Ren raised his eyelids and glanced at the witch, "Then you have worked very hard for this scam - you even went to the execution ground in the city to carve a bunch of runes, right?
?”
The middle-aged witch finally looked surprised: "You actually made a special trip to confirm those things?"
"If you don't even have this kind of caution and attentiveness, how can you deal with you cunning guys?" Hao Ren spread his hands, "I think we should be more open and honest. Demon hunters are wandering around, and the human church is also very powerful.
, in the name of magic, aren’t there enough enemies? I actually have to devote my energy to discerning your words.”
Lady Mary looked gloomy and didn't say a word. A young witch behind her finally stood up: "You should understand our caution, wizard, because the person we are going to rescue is very important - she comes from a big force.
Representative, we hope to get the protection of that force through her."
Hao Ren actually didn't care much about who the witches were trying to rescue. He wanted to directly inquire if there was any ruined castle nearby. However, in order to further get closer to this group of witches, he still wanted to continue the conversation.
, and even consider helping them save people: "Oh? What kind of person is he?"