Watching the fat figure of the mayor disappear, Chen Heng was lost in thought.
According to the rules of this world, if the records of those unlucky seniors before him are correct, whenever outsiders enter, it is time for the trial to begin and the chapter of the Demon King to open.
And the omen of the opening of the chapter of the Demon King is nothing else, it is the growth of monsters, which begin to appear outwards and attack the people outside.
A person's ultimate achievement depends on his own efforts, but it also depends on the background of the times.
How can the people need heroes if they don't suffer
So whenever the trial starts, it must be when the monsters grow and appear explosively.
Then there is the soil where the brave emerge.
And in the current situation, it is almost time to start the chapter of the Demon King.
Only when the devil king recovers, the monsters will come out of the dense forest and attack the outsiders.
If you think about it from this aspect, the devil has appeared, is the warrior still far behind
Maybe it won't take long for Chen Heng to appear.
Chen Heng thought so in his heart, and walked aside thoughtfully.
In the next words, he also helped the mayor suppress the monsters from outside.
Of course, he didn't do it himself.
The mercenary group that spent so much money for such a long time was not raised for nothing.
They are usually served with delicious food and drink, but they are not made to be uncles.
Use it when it's time to use it.
It's useless for Chen Heng to do it himself, just those mercenaries can easily block the monsters outside the town.
Of course, as for those outside the small town, there is nothing we can do.
After all, there is a small city wall in the small town, and it is considered perfect in all aspects.
There are no such conditions in other places.
As for Chen Heng's words, there were not many appearances during the whole process. Most of the time, he still gave a speech, took out some things and distributed them to the refugees.
It's not that he suddenly showed kindness, it's just the need to gain the power of faith.
The acquisition of the power of faith must have a specific goal.
If you don't show up, even if others are grateful to you, they won't know which one is your benefactor.
So it is still necessary to come forward when necessary.
Let other people do the fighting and killing. Chen Heng only needs to appear a few times at critical moments, and that's enough.
Time passed slowly.
In a flash, another half a month passed.
For most of the time, the whole town has changed a lot.
Refugees pouring in from outside are everywhere.
It is surprising to say.
Before this disaster, no one knew that there were so many people living around the town.
These people were originally hidden in every corner of the town, and many villages were even located on the edge of the dense forest, so it was naturally difficult to find them.
In the past, these villages were very independent. Apart from occasionally coming to the town to exchange some goods in the market, they did nothing else.
This time when the disaster came, these people were all unlucky.
Those crazy monsters don't know people, they kill everyone they see, they can't even explain the reason.
No wonder.
After all, they are monsters, and eating people and killing people is their business. As for reasoning, this is not within their scope of application.
As a result, people outside the entire town fell ill, and all of them ran into the town.
If there were so many people in the town in normal times, the mayor of the town would probably be overjoyed.
But at this time, he could only frown.
the reason is simple.
No food.
The local agriculture in the small town is not bad, but in the past it relied too much on the resources in the dense forest. It is considered a trading town. The local agricultural production can only be self-sufficient at best, and it is not very rich.
Now that the outside world is so chaotic, it is obviously impossible to continue farming. Everyone can only live on their own food reserves.
The days were already tense, but now there are so many people rushing in.
People are indeed precious wealth, but the premise is that they can be used in production.
If you can't, if you just put it there for nothing, it's a waste of food.
This is the case now.
It is obviously impossible to continue farming.
Most of the victims have fled and have limited food reserves.
The inventory of a small number of victims has bottomed out.
And what happens if people can't fill their stomachs
Obviously not a good thing.
It is precisely because of this that the mayor is very anxious at the moment.
During this period of time, he ran around and lost some weight, and he looked much slimmer than before.
This thing has the effect of losing weight impressively, which is really rare.
For the mayor's anxiety, Chen Heng just watched.
Although he knew that the other party would find him sooner or later.
But until then, he just looked at it like this.
Of course, in the middle of this, he didn't do nothing.
Some preparations have been made.
Just waiting for things to start.
Subsequent developments were similar to what Chen Heng envisioned.
In desperation, the mayor finally found the door.
However, this time Chen Heng was not as easy to talk to as before, so he casually gave something away.
Basically the same as everyone else.
But the mayor couldn't say anything about it.
Now that there is a shortage of food, and the price of ordinary wheat is rising steadily, it is unrealistic to expect people to provide food to fill this hole.
Being able to come up with something more or less already represents support.
In fact, he didn't even think about helping the victims in the past, and he came here this time just to seek support.
Only when the local gangsters and tyrants support him, can he let go.
As for Chen Heng's statement, he undoubtedly regarded it as a statement.
So next, he started the operation.
A large number of town guards patrolled around and began to drive the refugees away.
They don't allow refugees into the town, they want to drive them all out.
Even in the process, it is necessary to take away the last bit of what is left of others.
Around the town, conflicts continued to erupt, and it seemed to be a dispute.
However, the mayor obviously didn't care about this.
A group of ordinary people who have neither weapons nor food nor organization is nothing to him.
As long as other local forces support him, he is not afraid of anything.
Things continued for some time, and a large number of victims were driven out.
Resentment is boiling and fermenting.
Even in his own manor, Chen Heng could feel this unique power.
This is also a kind of power of faith, but it is somewhat different from the power of faith he obtained before, which is negative.
If one is blessed with this negative power of belief, one should also be able to become stronger, but one's temperament may be affected and distorted unconsciously.
This made Chen Heng fall into deep thought.
"Could it be that the so-called devil and brave represent different powers of faith?"
Standing in his own manor, Chen Heng couldn't help but flash this thought in his mind.
Judging from the current situation, the so-called power of faith can produce extraordinary effects in this world, and blessing it on people can make people stronger.
So the so-called devil and brave, do they represent different powers of faith
The devil stirs up chaos, causes despair, and represents negative beliefs, while the brave represents hope, representing the power of positive beliefs
That being said, there seems to be no problem.
If the speculation is correct, this small world is after all an experiment by someone else.
Since it is an experiment, all possibilities must be tested.
The devil and the brave represent different aspects, representing two possibilities of the power of faith.
Chen Heng felt that he had found part of the answer.
But what puzzled him was, what kind of role did an outsider like him represent in the course of this experiment
After all, judging from the current situation, it seems that this so-called experiment does not need an outsider like him to intervene at all.
So what is the significance of these outsiders entering this world and starting trials
"In order to seek variables?"
Suddenly, Chen Heng thought of a possibility.
Looking for variables, this may not be the case.
As a wizard, Chen Heng needs to add some variables when doing experiments himself, so as to test different results.
So is the same in this small world? The purpose of joining these outsiders is to add variables to seek different experimental results
It is impossible for Chen Heng to reveal the answer to this question for the time being.
After all, he has no way to ask this question to the builder of this small world.
To be able to arrange such a small world, and use such a huge small world as a test site, the builder of this world is undoubtedly very powerful, even when Chen Heng was at his peak, he was far inferior to the opponent.
The so-called true king can theoretically open the secret realm, but the secret realm opened up is completely different from the normal world, and it is even more different from the huge small world in front of him.
The other party's ability to do such a thing is obviously beyond the reach of the true king.
Facing this kind of boss, Chen Heng felt that it was better not to actually meet him.
Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be cold when we meet.
After sitting in the manor for a while, the surroundings obviously changed.
The most obvious change was that the children around him laughed less, and even the old butler's expression became serious, and the attitude of the guards around him became more serious, holding the weapons in their hands tightly at any time.
The change in the surrounding atmosphere is quite obvious.
Looking at this scene, Chen Heng nodded.
"about there."
Sitting up from a piece of grass, he looked forward with a calm face, and this thought flashed in his mind.
In the days that followed, the surrounding situation changed again.
Inside the small town, a large number of mercenaries suddenly appeared, and under the astonished eyes of a group of people headed by the local mayor, they directly attacked them.
Chen Heng finally intervened.
Under his order, a large number of mercenaries were dispatched directly, and directly eliminated the forces around the mayor.
Subsequently, a large amount of food was taken out to relieve the victims.
As a steady stream of food was taken out, the originally tense and desperate atmosphere was immediately cleared.
The whole town returned to calm again, and the surroundings gradually returned to normal.
The only thing that has changed is that the local principal has changed.
But who cares about that except the guys who are already underground
Anyway, Chen Heng himself didn't care.
In addition to providing food relief, he sent people to spread the word among the victims. In a short period of time, the name Ed Dow resounded throughout the town.
Usually walking on the road, all the disaster victims will show grateful expressions on their faces, expressing their heartfelt gratitude to the person who brought them hope and new life.
After all, it is to give hope in times of crisis, no matter how mean and ungrateful a person is, he will always be grateful.
Of course, this is destined to be only temporary.
In half a year at most, this gratitude will completely dissipate, and Chen Heng's influence will also be greatly weakened.
Unless, he can continue to bring benefits to this group of people, otherwise the result will inevitably be forgotten.
However, Chen Heng himself did not care about this.
What he wants is only the power of pure faith generated in this turning point from despair to hope.
As he had thought before, when he brought these victims out of despair, the power of faith born of the desire to survive and hope was extremely pure and brilliant.
This is an extraordinarily pure power of faith, and because of the number of people, it is also extraordinarily large.
To put it bluntly, although the power blessed by dying is not comparable to Chen Heng's own strength, it can also increase his own strength a lot.
Judging from his official wizarding foundation, it is quite impressive.
This could not help but raise an idea in Chen Heng's mind.
Just the power of faith in a small town has such power, so what if it is a city, a country, or even half of the world
How powerful should the power that can be generated at that time be
At this moment, Chen Heng couldn't help but flash this thought.
However, he didn't really pay much attention to this power.
Although the power of faith is strong enough, it is not his own after all.
When the power of faith is blessed, it has enough power, but once the power of faith disappears, it will immediately be beaten back to its original form.
This power is too constrained, and there are too many ways in which it can be manipulated.
People's rationality will be limited by their own cognition, so they will be manipulated by people at a higher level.
If Chen Heng is his enemy, then he has too many ways to make him lose the blessing of this power of faith.
Whether it is directly massacring his supporters, or framing him, it is easy for his supporters to lose trust and gratitude to him.
Therefore, this power is doomed not to be relied on, but to be used and observed.
At this moment, Chen Heng was only holding the idea of observation.
"There is another small town ahead."
On a deserted path, a group of people rode on the road.
The middle-aged man looked at the young man on the other side and said, "We'll be there in a while."
"good."
Beside the middle-aged man, the young man was sitting on the horse, his face looked a bit dull.
If you look carefully, you can find that the young man's age is actually not that high, he is only in his early twenties, and there is still a little immaturity between his brows.
He looked very handsome, and he was full of heroism. At the moment, he had a worried expression on his face, as if he was worried about the distance.
"We must hurry!"
Galloping on the road, the young man panted heavily, and then said, "The evil disaster has broken out, and the town in front should be trapped now."
"We have to rush to the rescue as soon as possible."
"But... your body"
Looking at the young man, the middle-aged man showed hesitation on his face: "Can you hold on?"
"I'm fine."
The young man shook his head. Although his face was pale, there was an unconcealable determination: "If we are late, more innocent people will be attacked by monsters."
"For this, we need to do it as soon as possible."
As he said this, while speaking, his face became even paler.
Looking at the young man's appearance, the middle-aged man hesitated, but he could only sigh and nod without saying anything.
They moved forward all the way and soon came to the small town ahead.
But to their surprise, the small town in front of them looked very peaceful.
Outside the town, there were some traces of blood, with dried blood on it, but it had dried up.
There are some guards patrolling around, and it looks like they are patrolling around seriously.
There seemed to be some traces of monsters around, but most of them were corpses, and there were no living monsters left.
"This is."
Looking at this scene, the young man and the middle-aged man couldn't help being stunned, feeling extremely surprised.
They rushed all the way here, and originally wanted to come here for rescue.
But looking at it like this, it seems that there is no need for rescue here.
"It's well protected here."
Looking at the small town ahead, the middle-aged man was a little surprised.
"Let's go in and have a look."
The young man nodded, and said: "I don't know who it is, who protected this group of innocent people under the evil disaster."
In the front, I saw two young people approaching, and a guard came to question them.
"Are you the ones who came to answer the call?"
"Respond to the call?"
The two young people showed some interest: "What call."
"Mr. Ed is recruiting guards and preparing to launch a siege against nearby monsters."
The guard said: "Those who go to the conscription can get a generous reward. Are you here to respond to the conscription?"
He saw that both young men were wearing weapons and armor, so he asked.
"Siege monsters."
Hearing this, the young man's face suddenly became solemn: "It doesn't matter what the bounty is, but if you want to encircle and suppress monsters, please count me in!"
No bounty, just to encircle and suppress monsters
And this kind of fool
The guard subconsciously wanted to taunt, but he just looked at the opponent's appearance and serious expression, but finally stopped.
The young man in front of him seems to have some kind of power that can move people's hearts. When people look at him, they can't help but feel moved and deeply agree with the other party's words.
What the other party said, if it was said by someone else, it might be hypocrisy, but if it was said by the person in front of him, it seems extremely serious, and people can't help but respect it.
Inexplicably, some respect rose in the guard's heart, he didn't say anything, just nodded, then turned around and took them away.
The people around took a look and said nothing.
During this period of time, as the call-up order was issued, many mercenaries from all around came to apply for the call-up, preparing to join the team of conquering monsters.
Against this background, the appearance of the two young people did not seem abrupt, and did not cause other people's surprises.
Then, they walked into the town.
The surrounding scenery is revealed.
Around the town, after a period of repairs, the chaotic scenes caused by the previous period have subsided. Although there are still some traces, they are basically intact.
(end of this chapter)