As we all know, no matter how the human brain evolves, it will always have some minor problems at some point.
For example: when sweeping the floor, you put the broom in a corner, and after picking up the garbage shovel, you suddenly forget where the broom is...
When I was on the phone, I unknowingly stood on the sofa and talked on the phone with a weird posture...
When I was thinking about something, I unknowingly picked up something strange in my hand...
Andrea was in a similar state just now. Looking at Xiang En's finger, her mind inexplicably circulated the scene of Xiang En sucking his finger, causing her to act faster than her thoughts and bite it in one bite.
In the end, she simply gave up on herself, closed her eyes and pretended to be an ostrich. After the sweet dew entered her mouth, she gave up thinking completely.
It wasn't until Xiang En reminded her that she faced the embarrassment of reality again...
With her back to Xiang En, Andrea's ears were red and she rowed the raft stiffly, not daring to look back at all. However, after the raft bumped into floating corpses several times, the feeling of red face and ears disappeared.
Xiang En was also speechless all the way until the afternoon, when the two of them crossed the gentle lake and came to a high stone wall.
The high wall was square and square, completely blocking the overflowing lake water. It also blocked the way out of the Warcraft Forest.
Looking up at the high wall made of earth elements, this almost completely confirmed the fact that the archmages of De'er City did this on purpose.
The high earth element wall is nearly ten meters high even if it is more than ten meters above the waterline. The wall surface is as smooth as a polished marble slab. Such a wonder must have been created by the Archmage.
Andrea stabbed the high wall with her dagger, but the dagger was slightly distorted by the impact, and she stopped trying again.
Climbing was not advisable, and in the end they climbed away on the hillside next to the high earth element wall.
In addition to the original road behind the mountains, there were only a large number of traces left by wild beasts and people after they fled. The two of them followed these traces and started heading north.
The nearest town to the flooded lake was about sixty kilometers away, and they had to go very far before they could see any human habitation.
The entire empire's territory illustrates what it means to be vast and sparsely populated, making communication inconvenient.
Only two and a half days have passed since the city of De Aier was flooded. Those who escaped from the flood area may have just fled to other towns.
On the way, Xiang En and Andrea finally found a stream. After having a good drink, they forgot their previous embarrassment and continued on the road.
At night, the two of them lit a bonfire beside the road driven by the carriage, and still ate magic bread.
From the time they left Lake De Aire in the afternoon until it got dark, neither of them found any living creatures around them except bugs. There were traces of blood on the road, but they did not find the bodies of any living creatures.
Everything seemed so quiet, as if the world had forgotten the two of them. After leaving the confines of Lake De Aire, the two of them still had a strange sense of trance.
I was almost killed by the flood not long ago, and now I escaped safely...
oh!
It can't be said that he was safe and sound. Xiang En's lower back was still painful from the wound stabbed by a dead tree. Andrea's forehead also had a scab of worn blood, and her palms became rougher than before.
Warrior-type women basically don't have soft hands, and basic chopping exercises are enough to give them calluses on their hands.
Compared to the "wild" female warrior professionals, Andrea's skin is fairer.
"Andrea, you go to sleep first, I'll stay up half the night." Xiang En clapped his hands and shook off the crumbs of bread, letting the sleepy Andrea rest first.
Andrea had been keeping watch all night when she was unconscious before, and she was frightened at that time. After leaving the lake, she could no longer hold on.
Andrea didn't show off, she just said: "Call me Enri."
He leaned against the tree trunk and closed his eyes.
It was calm in the first half of the night. Perhaps the beasts that escaped from the Lake De Aire area followed human footsteps and left. Perhaps the sudden change of terrain made the beasts feel uneasy and decided to stay away from their homeland to find a new settlement.
But no matter what, neither of them triggered any unexpected events throughout the night.
Not only this night, but also during the two consecutive days of traveling, the two of them did not encounter any living creatures except bugs.
This situation did not change until the ruins of one of their towns...
"What... happened here?"
Looking at the town ahead that had been reduced to ruins and filled with black smoke, Andrea was in a daze, looking confused.
The city they planned to arrive at was now in ruins. Looking in through the open city gate, one could see that the original wooden houses had been reduced to charcoal, and black-gray smoke was slowly escaping.
There were not only shockingly large blood stains on the ground beside the city gate, but also large heavy footprints and horse hoof prints.
The scene here made Xiang En think of the word, burning, killing, looting...
Could it be that it was robbed by robbers
With inexplicable heavy hearts, Xiang En and Andrea stepped into the city gate together.
After entering the city wall, the two of them were immediately dizzy by the warm smoke mixed with the smell of blood. After a moment of adaptation, the two of them adapted slightly.
There was no movement in the town except for the crackling of some half-burned wood.
Xiang En and Andrea walked side by side on the main road of the town, scanning all directions, and some details shocked them.
The collapsed wooden houses turned into charcoal during the burning, and the dried blood underfoot outlined the chaos on the day of the tragedy.
They seemed to be able to glimpse the scene at that time through the blood and partially bloody footprints.
Squatting down and looking carefully at a footprint in the mud, Xiang En's brows almost knitted together. He picked up a little blood-stained soil and put it to the tip of his nose to smell it.
"Did you see anything?" After looking around the ruins, Andrea asked the thoughtful Xiang En.
When she came to De'er City, she lived here, and she could vaguely recall the prosperity of this place through the collapsed houses.
Andrea's face began to darken at a speed visible to the naked eye. Andrea could still remember that the owner of a hotel here had a lovely daughter. She once asked her what the life of an adventurer was like.
At that time, she answered vividly. The girl's eyes were filled with stars, and she said that she would also be an adventurer in the future.
Now if she could see that girl again, she might change her answer... But can she really see her again
Xiang En clapped his hands and stood up, "The smell is very light, and the flames here have disappeared. It should be what happened in the past five days or so... Let's continue to take a look."
"Um."
Andrea's voice was low.
The two walked through the original streets and alleys, but did not find a body.
It wasn't until they walked to the ruins of a certain room and found clear drag marks on the ground that they knew where the bodies had gone.
Looking at the traces of blood dragged on the ground, Xiang En dug up the burned charcoal with Andrea with a complicated and anxious mood.
Then, they saw the bones stuck together, the number of which could not be distinguished.
I had thought that a world without effective legal constraints would be chaotic, but seeing a town being slaughtered with my own eyes was something I didn't expect!
After lamenting the tragedy in front of him, Xiang En turned around and walked towards Andrea who was behind him and turned away to vomit because he could not accept this scene.
(End of chapter)