The dim sky was dyed a dark red color like magma, and the smell of gunpowder smoke and sulfur was everywhere in the air.
On a hillside that was neither high nor low, Xiang En and Andrea were hiding side by side behind a bush, secretly observing a team at the foot of the hillside.
Twelve days had passed since they left De Aier City. After seeing two piles of burned corpses in succession, the two stopped in the forest next to the road and lived for five days.
Just as they were about to continue setting off, a dark red cloud suddenly appeared in the sky in front of them, followed by a shaking of the earth.
The strange noise attracted the two of them. After the shock subsided, they took two days to get here and saw a chaotic team staying on a small road.
There were more than thirty people scattered on the path down the hillside. They were dressed like a combination of adventurers and civilians, including men and women, old and young.
The oldest one can see the white hair, and the youngest one is still crying in his infancy.
At this moment they were gathered together, arguing excitedly with each other, and there seemed to be no leader.
Observing from a distance of nearly fifty meters, Xiang Enneng could see the confusion and fear on the faces of those people, but there were also people wearing helmets and swords among those people. There were so many people on the opposite side that they could not touch them rashly.
"They don't look like bad people. Do you want to go over and contact them?"
After observing for a period of time, Andrea was convinced that those people might just be ordinary people, and she was confident that with their cooperation, even if those people were not good people, they could still run away.
Observed from a distance of more than fifty meters, the few professional hunters holding daggers and bows and arrows were not noticed, and their strength should be average.
During the five days they lived in the forest, Andrea and Xiang En seriously searched for monsters in order to get a bite of meat, and even met a bronze high-level wolf king who had been driven out of the wolf pack.
After a thrilling battle, Andrea finally traded her injuries for her life and successfully killed the Wolf King.
Andrea, who was already on the verge of reaching the Bronze level, successfully advanced to the Bronze level after absorbing the magic crystals from the monster's body. Her physical fitness and magic power reserves were significantly improved.
After Xiang En healed Andrea's injuries, the skill levels of Restoration and Awakening also increased. It was not much, but it was enough to give them the ability to protect themselves in less dangerous situations. .
Moreover, both of them can rely on their skills to restore their physical strength. If they are not very close to each other or crushing them with speed, they can use their physical strength to exhaust the opponent.
"Go out and interact with them."
After observing the team at the bottom of the hillside for so long, Xiang En also saw that these people were probably not the group that massacred the city, and they were so noisy that they seemed to be about to fight...
They have been separated from the crowd for too long, and they urgently need to supplement information from the outside world, otherwise the feeling of being abandoned by the world will become more and more serious.
Humans are social animals after all.
After reaching a consensus, the two stood up from behind the bushes without deliberately hiding their movements. The sound of their bodies rubbing against the bushes immediately alerted several professional hunters.
"who!"
A male hunter with dark green broken hair quickly took out an arrow from his quiver, loaded it on his hunting bow, and pointed it in Xiang En's direction.
The hunter's loud shout silenced the chaotic team. The people with weapons drew their swords and looked at Xiang En and the two of them, with a feeling of being frightened.
Xiang En and Andrea raised their hands, slowly pushed aside the grass and walked out, showing that they were not hostile.
Most people had put away their weapons after seeing them raise their hands. Only a few of them still held swords, but they had lowered their tips.
"Who are you? What do you want to do?"
After Xiang En and Andrea walked down the hillside, a brown-haired warrior professional who still held a knife spoke.
Everyone else only allocated a small amount of energy to pay attention to the sudden appearance of two non-hostile people. This was not what they should be most concerned about.
"Xiang En, adventurer. This is my companion. Can I ask where you are going?"
Xiang En looked at the professional who spoke, gave a brief explanation, and looked at the group of people.
After getting closer, the relationship between these people appeared more clearly in front of him.
There were ordinary people in the team. Those ordinary people stayed in one corner of the team, and people dressed as adventurers stood on the other side. There were still some people in the middle who were communicating, and those people who had just argued were the same ones.
The person Xiang En was talking to was also an adventurer. After hearing Xiang En's introduction, he put away his knife, frowned and asked, "Where are you from? Don't you know about Greystone City?" ?"
After the man asked this question, Xiang En and Andrea could clearly feel that the attention on them had increased. Even those who were arguing temporarily stopped their discussion and looked at the two of them.
Xiang En also frowned. Greystone City is a large city on the edge of the De'er Province. It is the largest gathering place for adventurers in the province besides De'er City. So I ask... Could something happen to Greystone City as well
"We escaped from De'er City, what happened in Greystone City?"
Upon hearing that he had escaped from De'er City, the faint communication between the team disappeared instantly, and everyone looked at Xiang En.
"Boy! You just said you escaped from De'er City, right? What happened there?"
Among the people arguing in the middle, a strong man wearing heavy armor walked out. He had a slightly ferocious look on his face, and he spoke very rudely, emphasizing the word "escape".
After squeezing through the crowd, the strong man stood in front of Xiang En, as if he was about to hit someone at any time. It could be seen that he was not in a calm mood.
Andrea took a step forward and stood in front of Xiang En, clenching her fists. If these people wanted to take action, she would run away with Xiang En.
Seeing her posture, the strong man stopped and did not step forward, but his eyes were still staring at Xiang En.
More people also gathered around. They thought that Xiang En and Andrea had also escaped from Greystone City, but they didn't expect that they were not!
"Something happened in De'er City too?"
"Tell me what happened!"
After digesting Xiang En's news, the shouts from all the voices shook his eardrums, and he had to raise his hand to stop them from continuing to speak.
"Stop for a moment, can you first tell us what happened in Greystone City?"
Then there was a flurry of questions and explanations. Finally, the brown-haired man raised his hand to ask everyone around to be quiet, and then explained to Xiang En alone.
"An army came to Greystone City the day before yesterday. After that, the city was closed. People inside could not get out and people outside could not get in. Then a magic array appeared in the sky above the city, and an archmage used a seventh-level spell. , destroyed all the nearby towns, and those of us who escaped were lucky enough to escape. Although we have different opinions, we should still go to De'er City."
When he finished explaining, both Xiang En and Andrea had bad expressions. This was so familiar and things were complicated again!
Why!
(End of chapter)