Chapter seven hundred and eighty first cursed town
This nameless town, which was imprisoned by witchcraft in a space gap, was much bigger than imagined. After climbing up a wooden tower in the town, Hao Ren saw the rolling buildings in the distance, layer by layer.
The old roofs extend up and down along the terrain, like the disgusting wrinkles on some kind of dirty beast. Everything in sight has a lifeless gray-black color. There is nothing in the whole town that can make people feel uncomfortable.
The mood is a little more relaxed with bright colors, and at the end of the town away from the river bank, you can see a large building, which may be the residence of the nobles.
It is very likely that this is where the wizard once lived.
Hao Ren came down from the watchtower and told everyone what he saw: "There is a big house at the other end of the town. Let's go there first."
"Well, don't just rush on the road. Pay attention to what's going on around you on the way," Vivian nodded. "There are always many traps in the positions set up by wizards, especially on such a large scale... that can set up such a secret realm."
This guy is probably not ordinary in the age of mythology."
Everyone cautiously explored this silent and strange lost town. Lily looked curiously at the old houses and simple street facilities around her along the way. She asked the most knowledgeable person at the scene: "
Bat, what era do you think this town is from?"
"Between the millennium AD and 400 years ago, the architectural style and civilization level in this area basically did not change much during that time. Moreover, the time flow in this town is obviously out of sync with the outside, so it is even less certain that it is
What era is this thing from?" Vivian frowned, "But one thing is for sure, the secret realm must not be naturally formed. This place should have been just an ordinary town by the river before. It was the power of magic that pulled it in from the real world.
."
"About the wizard you found," Hao Ren raised his head and looked at Hesiana, "Do you have any more specific information?"
Hesiana was quite reluctant to talk to Hao Ren, but she still spoke lazily: "Wizards are a bunch of mysterious guys, and there is never much information available. We only found one thing about this wizard.
Bits and pieces of information. His earliest activity record was around 1346 AD. He seemed to be a Frenchman, and his earliest name was 'Baptiste'. He stayed in France for a hundred years, and there was nothing particularly outstanding during this period.
Deeds. He was still a very honest guy at that time. But I don’t know what happened later. The wizard suddenly left France and then traveled to many countries in Europe, leaving behind a large number of records of black magic and evil rituals. Around 1500 AD
He was active in Finland and Russia. The situation in this town is probably what he did at that time."
"Then what?"
"Then the information was intermittent. He hardly moved outside in the next two centuries, and there is very little information left." Hesiana shook her head, "This 'Baptiste' is a freak, he
He has never contacted his fellow wizards. It stands to reason that his power has surpassed many wizards in history, but his reputation is not even as good as some black magic apprentices. I used almost all the intelligence connections in my family to find this person.
I searched for information, but in the end I couldn't even find out the origin of the wizard's power or the faction he belonged to. Tsk tsk. He's a low-key hermit and a lone ranger."
Vivian looked up at the unchanging sky shrouded in smoke and dust, and asked casually: "Is that wizard dead?"
"There is no clear death certificate," Hesiana smiled bitterly and spread her hands. "There are records saying that he was involved in a melee between demon hunters and descendants of Anubis two centuries ago and disappeared in the aftermath of the battle.
, and he never appeared again for two whole centuries. So he is probably dead... Who knows, anyway, we are just here for his manuscripts and relics, so it would be better for such a troublesome guy to be dead."
"I prefer that he is still alive," Hao Ren shrugged. "That way I can ask him what the ritual of summoning the evil spirit Vivian means."
As the group spoke, they approached the center of the town. The road in front of them seemed slightly wider. Although the distribution of buildings was still chaotic, the surrounding houses seemed slightly better than the previous ones in terms of scale and quality.
One chip. It seems that this was once a place where the "gentle people" in the town lived. A small empty space appeared in front of everyone. This can't be called a square, just a relatively open place. The ground here was covered with
It was flat and neat, and the road around the open space was paved with moderately sized cobblestones. In the center of the open space, you could see a decayed and collapsed wooden platform. It seemed that this was once a place where the townspeople gathered to listen to the orders of the lord.
Surrounding the open space are old houses made of wood and stone. Ancient houses that look like haunted houses are surrounding in a circle, staring at the outsiders who trespass into the town with their empty gray-black faces. Their front doors
Tightly closed, the narrow windows were hung with tattered strips of cloth or wooden boards, revealing the empty darkness inside between the gaps in the doors and windows. There seemed to be hidden pairs of eyes in the darkness of the townspeople who had mysteriously disappeared and whose final fate was unknown.
their eyes.
Nangong Wuyue seemed to be a little frightened by the surrounding atmosphere. She summoned a burst of water mist to wrap around herself, and then turned into the form of a siren. After casually throwing the ball of her clothes to Hao Ren, the water snake girl stretched:
"Huh... I feel much more at ease this way."
Hao Ren put May's clothes into his pocket and asked kindly: "Aren't you cold?"
Half of the May water snake's body was spread out directly on the ground, and the ground in this small town in the Arctic Circle was as cold as ice. Hao Ren felt cold and panicked for her when he saw the other party's tail arching on the ground.
Wuyue raised the tip of her tail and shook it: "It's okay. Water elements are not afraid of the cold. As long as they don't freeze, it will be fine."
At this time, Lily became interested in the wooden platform in the center of the open space. She went over and walked around the platform curiously, and suddenly raised her fire weapon and was very happy: "Why do I feel so cold around this platform?"
"There are a lot of spirits here," Nangong Sanba said, holding two bottles of exorcism oil in his hands with a serious look on his face, "Don't poke around with a fire stick. If you disturb the more powerful evil spirits, you will have fun."
Already."
When Lily heard this, she was immediately furious. She was very happy to hold the fire stick and gestured at Nangong Sanba: "You said this is a fire stick, didn't you see the three crosses on it?!"
"Are the spirits here talking about ghosts?" Hao Ren has long been interested in this question. "If they are ghosts, can they communicate with each other?"
Such an eerie and strange lost town, with countless invisible spirits wandering among the dilapidated streets and houses, would have been a place that would scare the hell out of ordinary people, but Hao Ren had just defeated an entire planet's angry spirits.
Now that his nerves are strong, the first thing that comes to his mind when talking about ghosts is to ask about them.
"It's a pity that they are all very weak spirits." Nangong Sanba shook his head regretfully. "They are everywhere in the air, but they are all mixed together, and there is almost no boundary. This kind of spirit body cannot even maintain itself.
If you can't communicate, your memory and thinking will be gone long ago."
Hao Ren snorted and murmured thoughtfully: "Are you an aborigine of this town?"
"Nine times out of ten, that's the case," Vivian agreed. "The residents in this town should be ordinary humans. And based on the state of the houses, when the town was dragged into this time and space, the residents here didn't have time to react to ordinary people.
People can't live long in this kind of space."
"Did you drag a whole town in... What did that wizard want to do back then?" Hao Ren frowned, his expression a little ugly, "If it's just to live in seclusion, it would be too unnecessary to go through such a big deal."
While they were discussing the fate of the residents of the town, Lily had already circled the wooden platform many times. She was inexplicably attracted to the platform, with a faint light shining in her golden eyes. In her field of vision, this open space
Many erratic shadows slowly emerged. Those shadows had vague human outlines. They seemed to be wearing clothes from hundreds of years ago. They stood there expressionlessly, looking up in the direction of the wooden platform, as if
Listening numbly to someone who doesn't exist talking on the platform.
Lily's ears slowly pricked up, and some sporadic words floated into her ears:
"...The child was indeed stolen by the devil. We should expel the witch as soon as possible..."
"It seems like I haven't seen the lord for a long time?"
"...The scholar said he would help the child exorcise evil spirits, but I don't really believe in magic..."
"Hush, do you want to be cursed by a witch? They will throw you outside the town. The witch is still wandering outside..."
“Why not find a church?”
"...The lord did not show up..." (To be continued.)