After finishing the conversation with the [Red Blood Rose], Yang Yu and his companions rode on Lothkar and continued to head for the [Hall of History].
On the way, Yang Yu asked about a village that was destroyed by a fire decades ago and took a detour to take a look.
The village had long since been reduced to ruins, with new vegetation growing from the scorched earth, covering up the tragedy that the village had suffered.
The fire several decades ago caused [Chaste Jasmine] to join the Curse Cult and also caused the skill [Taunt] to disappear.
The reason why Yang Yu came here was, on the one hand, to see if there would be any survivors coming to pay tribute. By seeing them, perhaps he could learn the coveted [Taunt]; on the other hand, Yang Yu also tried to investigate to see if he could use the ruins to activate some tasks.
[Taunt] is only circulated in this remote small village, and the skill scrolls they create are basically digested by them internally.
But occasionally some skills would flow from that village to the market.
For example, the [Heroic Leap] that Yang Yu currently masters may have come from this village.
Stepping into the ruins, Yang Yu and his team found some melted and rusted iron blocks, and saw some clods of earth that were covered with grass and had obviously been turned over.
When inquiring about this village, Yang Yu had heard the following information:
“In that deep mountain, there was originally a village that no one could see.
Suddenly one day, a beam of fire shot straight into the sky.
Some people were afraid that the fire would spread down the mountain, so they decided to go up the mountain to check.
But before he could get up the mountain, the fire went out and the matter came to nothing.
Many years later, the man suddenly remembered this incident, led a group of adventurers up the mountain, and brought back a large pile of melted gold and silver.
He and that group of adventurers became rich overnight.
Later, some people went up the mountain, but they basically found nothing.
It seems that all the valuables were taken away by the first group of adventurers.
After that, no one went up the mountain anymore.
Who would have nothing better to do than to go to such a remote and dangerous place in the mountains?"
Yang Yu agreed with the last sentence very much.
When you come here, not only do you have to walk a very difficult road, but you also have to deal with some extremely brutal monsters.
The benefits and risks are indeed not proportional.
Judging from the existing information, this village has been protected by some kind of barrier, and the villagers should have the habit of selling local specialties and purchasing daily necessities outside.
It is hard to imagine that such a peaceful village would suffer a devastating disaster.
Were they guarding something and were being targeted because of it
Or maybe there are some other reasons.
Lotkar looked around with his keen sense of smell, but could not find any smell of bones in the scorched earth. It seemed that all life, including bones, had melted in the fire.
It didn't seem like killing for treasure, but more like a complete silencing of the witnesses, even their ashes were scattered.
Yang Yu realized that there must be some big secret in this, but now there is too much missing information, Yang Yu can't even guess
After searching everywhere, Yang Yu and his team still found nothing.
A thorough search would be time-consuming.
Is there any way to find clues quickly and without wasting time
Of course!
Yang Yu threw a shovel to Iyas.
"Iyas, just dig around."
Iyas gave Yang Yu a blank look. She knew this would be the result.
There was no other choice but to pick up the shovel and dig randomly.
After digging several holes, Iyas found nothing.
When she was digging the tenth hole, she encountered a black stone.
The stone was very hard and Iyas couldn't shake it. It would be time-consuming and laborious to dig it out, so Iyas decided to move to another place to continue digging.
At this moment, Lotkar leaned over to the edge of the pit and sniffed hard at the stone that Iyas had touched.
"Yang Yu, I found something! Although this looks like a stone, it doesn't smell like a stone at all. It is man-made."
Yang Yu led Bai Jin and the others to the pit dug by Iyas. Bai Jin used magic to carefully explore the inside of the stone.
"Nothing special, it feels like an extremely ordinary stone"
Lotkar suggested: "With our current strength, it won't be a problem to cut the stone. Whether it's my fault or not, we can see what's inside."
Yang Yu agreed with Lotkar. What if the skill scroll of [Taunt] was sealed in this stone
Wearing the [Wheel of Reversal], Yang Yu smashed the stone in one go.
Disappointingly, there was neither a skill scroll of [Taunt] nor any equipment or props inside, only a very ordinary notebook lying quietly.
There is also a lock on the notebook.
Whose diary
Who in their right mind would write a diary
There was no key-like object around the rubble. Yang Yu tried to cut the lock of the diary with a knife, but found that the lock was extremely strong and the cover was also very tough.
There was no other way, Yang Yu could only put the knife into the pages of the book and start from the binding of the notebook. The knife clicked and cut the pages out of the notebook. He pressed it down, and all the parts except the cover and the lock fell into Yang Yu's hands.
When Yang Yu opened the diary, his eyes widened suddenly. The words written in the diary were not from this world, but from Yang Yu's original world.
The identity of the diary owner is self-evident.
The diary is filled with text only, with no pictures, and is written quite densely, with at least 1,500 words on one page.
Just wanting to read through the diary would take a lot of time, not to mention that the densely packed text was like ants, making it quite tiring to read.
After searching around for a while and making sure there was nothing else, Yang Yu decided to read the diary while riding Lotkar to the [Hall of History].
In the next few days, Yang Yu held the diary whenever he had time, reading it word by word to avoid missing any details.
Just as Yang Yu expected, this diary came from the "player" from last time, and he was a "civilian" player like him.
At the beginning, the civilian player was full of confidence in conquering the Demon King.
Later, the civilian player encountered setbacks such as "it is extremely difficult to improve civilian attributes, and the more he struggled, the more he became a locksmith", "even though he was so well prepared, he was still kicked to the ground by others", "overuse of potions, the effect of potions was greatly reduced", etc., and finally chose to give up.
That civilian player had also tried to make a comeback and regain his enthusiasm to fight against the devil.
After the Demon King invaded, the magic power of this world began to increase dramatically, and many people except him received a lot of improvements.
So the man wondered, could he defeat the devil by relying on strategy and tactics instead of his own hard power
That player did what he said, and relying on the fame he had accumulated over the years, he assembled a death squad and found ways to send them to the demon world, letting them cause trouble behind the demon king's rear, acting like a guerrilla team behind enemy lines, tearing apart the demon clan's logistics.
(End of this chapter)