"Now that we have found items that can keep us from freezing to death in the cold snow field, we left the temple to find a way out of this area. After reaching the hilly area, we separated the teams, the weaker people and the The demigod of the church waited in place with three of the artifacts, and the others took the iron statues and went down the mountain to find clues. They were only allowed to take one object to prevent them from being separated again."
This is why Jenkins found the footprints separated before meeting the old man collecting herbs.
"Later we came across an old man picking herbs..."
"Um?"
"He wanted to kill us and use our blood to water a strange blue color of grass, so we knocked him out, put him behind a big rock and fled from there."
"Why didn't you kill him?"
"There are warnings in the temple, and the snow field must not be stained with blood."
"... Can you understand the writing in the temple?"
Jenkins looked up at the three of them, including Salhi II, the auras of the three were abnormal. It's possible that the sacrificial object was the cause, but it also prevented Jenkins from relying on his eyes to tell who was more problematic.
"Someone in the team could understand it, he translated... Who gave the interpretation at that time?"
The Bestower asked the Royal Guard, but the latter was as unimpressed as the former. Jenkins looked at Salhi II again, who shook his head in doubt:
"It seems to be... Damn, who is it?"
"Also, how do you know that the old man wants to use your blood to water the blue grass?"
Jenkins can only talk to each other because he happens to know Elvish.
"It seems... someone translated for us, who is it?"
The Traveler's Bestower looked at the Royal Guard again, and got the same blank expression as before.
"Did the old man show signs of attacking you?"
"...it doesn't seem like he's just walking towards us."
"That is to say, you believed an unknown translation, and then knocked out an old man who showed no desire to attack?"
"Please don't say that...well, it is true."
But in this way, it is impossible to judge who is a good person. The old man who collected the medicine also did not mention to Jenkins that he was knocked unconscious.
"Okay, keep talking."
After leaving the old man, a group of thirteen people who fled were surrounded by inexplicable panic. Although there was nothing behind them, they felt that they were being chased by something terrible. Under great psychological pressure, they decided to run away separately.
There were seven people left in the team that Salhi II was in, not including the demigod. The brass bell was taken away by a team led by a demigod, whose task was to lure away the invisible thing.
This is the reason for the second separation.
"Then you met a middle-aged woman?"
"Yes, she wants to eat us and cook us up."
"Someone also translated it for you?"
"… seems like it."
Having said that, all three of them also realized how wrong that well-timed translation was.
"There was no demigod this time, so we didn't fight her, but ran away desperately. We were overwhelmed by panic halfway and decided to separate again. A group of people left with the silver candlestick, and the three of us continued to move forward." …”
"And then met that young girl?"
The three nodded with ugly faces.
"And then there was another translation? What did the translation say this time?"
"The translator said that the girl wanted to sacrifice us and resurrect her dead mother and grandfather. We used the terrain to let her be buried by the falling snow from the top of the cliff, and then ran away desperately. Then I met you."
"That's it... Since the translator still exists when there are three people left, will the translator be among the three of you?"
As soon as the words fell, the benefactor, the royal guard and the king immediately took a step back in a tacit understanding, away from the other two. In this way, the three of them became the three vertices of a triangle, with Jenkins standing in the middle.
"Of course, it's also possible that the golden dagger was speaking. Show it to me."
"Not a golden dagger, but a pure gold dagger."
Salhi II corrected, and then took out a cloth bag tightly wrapped in sackcloth from his arms and handed it to Jenkins. When Jenkins opened it, what he saw was a pure gold dagger. Similarly, it also has a strong black aura, but the aura is not as strong as the monster, so it is held by Salhi II, but it has not yet had a fatal impact on the king.
Thinking to himself, he looked at the dagger, but saw no sign of a soul in it. But being able to translate does not necessarily mean having a soul, so he picked up the dagger and handed it to Sarkhi II:
"Anyway, I want to confirm the identities of the three of you first. You all remember the other two, right?"
"Yes."
All three agreed.
"Well then, Your Majesty, answer me a question. What did Jenkins Williams give your daughter Dolores on her tenth birthday?"
"How would I know him... Wait, did Dolores know that kid when she was ten years old?"
He looked suspiciously at Jenkins, who nodded:
"Okay. So Royal Guard, I don't know you very well, so how are you going to prove your innocence?"
"I… "
He looked down at himself in some embarrassment, and then tried to touch something from his pocket, but nothing came out.
"Look slowly, this gentleman at the end. Since you are a believer in Traveler, you must know the Ten Commandments of Traveler. Can you recite it to me?"
"Of course, it's easy, the first precept, don't..."
"No, please start with 'may the traveler look at me, and I pray to you devoutly here, we must obey the traveler's ten commandments'."
"Okay, that's easy."
He smiled at Jenkins and put his hands in his pockets:
"May..."
Pulling out his hand, the sharp pure gold dagger pierced Jenkins' chest. His own cat was in that position, and there was no way Jenkins would let him stab him. So he dodged sideways, and slapped the opponent with his right hand that was burning with flames.
But after the slap, what scattered was a pile of ice slag and the dagger, but the person disappeared.
"Isn't the dagger here?"
Salhi II hurriedly opened his cloth bag again, but there was nothing inside.
"This thing might have been made by that Blizzard ghost, but it's impossible to do without this now."
"What is Blizzard Ghost?"
"You don't need to know."
He wrapped the dagger again, but this time kept it to himself:
"Try not to touch this thing, come with me."
As he said that, he no longer looked for the escaped ghost, but led the other two to walk in the direction they came from. After a while, I saw the young girl just now, she was still standing near the snowdrift near the cliff.
"Have you found your mother and grandpa?"
He waved hello, then asked loudly.
"I didn't find it. I plan to wait here for a while, and they will come to me."
The young girl said with a smile, and Jenkins nodded towards her:
"In this case, come with us, and I will take you to find them."
"But… "
The young girl looked at herself hesitantly:
"Can I really get out of here?"
"Yes, come with me."
The palm of the hand has a slight golden luster, but it is difficult to detect. He clapped his hand on the young girl's shoulder, the latter's body shook violently, her eyes were confused for a moment, then she nodded with a smile:
"OK."
"What's the meaning?"
Salhi II behind him asked in a low voice.
"You'll find out soon."
The four continued to walk along the footprints, and after a while they saw the woman. The woman was standing under the tree with a basket on her shoulders. After seeing a few people, she was confused for a few seconds and then went up to them:
"Sir, I followed the road you pointed, but I didn't find it..."
"Who do you think this is?"
He pointed at the girl, and the middle-aged woman stared at the latter, and it took several seconds to react:
"Oh, why are you here?"
The two hugged together, and Jenkins patted the middle-aged woman on the shoulder, then shook his head to his companions behind him:
"Go on."
The five people were at the foot of the mountain, behind the big rock, and they saw the old man. He is still smoking and looks quite comfortable. He doesn’t remember Salhi II and the royal guard, and treats young girls and middle-aged women as non-existent, but he still remembers Jenkins:
"Looks like you've found your companion."
As he spoke, he wanted to pass Jenkins a cigarette again.
"Yes, and I also found your companion, who do you see?"
Looking at the two women, after a short period of confusion, the old man opened his arms and hugged them. His next sentence answered the questions of Salhi II and the guards:
"Why are you dead too?"
Although Jenkins doesn't know what the death rules of the Dominator's world are, he probably knows that these three people should have died recently, or in other words, they died before and after the coincidence of the snowfield and the material world, which made it impossible for the soul to leave. Can repeat the things before death infinitely in place.
The old man died the earliest, so it is very possible to understand the current situation, while the latter two died close to the coincidence of the world, so they have no memory of what happened before they died.
"How did they die?"
Salhi II behind him asked in a low voice.
"how could I know?"
Jenkins whispered through his teeth, and then asked:
"Can you understand what we're saying?"
"Didn't you suddenly switch to the common language just now?"
"Um?"
"We all froze to death."
The middle-aged woman, who was still in tears, said to Jenkins that Jenkins and the two people behind him both showed unbearable expressions. This way of dying is a bit too cruel.
"Is your body still there?"
The souls hadn't left, the bodies were intact, and Jenkins might be able to bring them back to life. This is not impossible for him now.