Xiang En and Andrea stood two meters away from the old farmer. The middle-aged man clicked his tongue at the sight of the two of them running around all night. Before they could speak, he took the lead and asked them what their purpose was.
"Who are you? There are very few outsiders coming to our village."
Xiang En took the initiative to take over the negotiation task and said, "My name is Xiang En, and she is my teammate Andrea."
Andrea nodded to the middle-aged man. She didn't really want to talk, and her face was slumped, making people unpredictable.
Seeing the attitudes of the two of them, the middle-aged man lowered his guard a little and said in a nonchalant manner: "Just call me Johnny."
"Okay, Brother Johnny." He took the initiative to add the word "big brother", which immediately made the relationship a little closer. Xiang En then began to explain: "We are all adventurers who escaped from the outside. Brother Johnny, you live Here, have you heard anything about what happened outside in the past few days?”
After adjusting his stance, Johnny placed his weight on the hoe pole and said nonchalantly: "I don't know, our village is in the woods. Even the tax collector doesn't know there is a village here. How could he know?" Things outside!”
The key is that he doesn't care much about things outside. Anyway, they have always stayed in the village. Whatever happens outside has nothing to do with them. It's impossible for everyone to disappear, right
If that were the case, they would still worry a little, and occasionally they would go out to buy some salt and cloth.
After hearing the answer, Xiang En began to murmur in his heart. The people here probably haven't seen much of the outside world, and information exchange is not smooth.
The village doesn't look big, with only a few households. How did it continue to exist? Those intersections will have serious consequences...
"Outside... something serious happened outside. We don't know the specific reason, but all the people in the towns and villages outside were killed."
As soon as these words came out, Johnny was stunned for a moment, and he opened his mouth to say something, but soon put on a thoughtful expression, ignoring the existence of the two of them, and lowered his eyebrows in thought. .
At this time, the young man who had gone back to the village to find the village chief came running back, followed by a strong man like an iron tower. From a distance, it looked like a giant bear walking upright!
The man's body was covered in muscles, which was in sharp contrast to the skinny young man.
Xiang En and Andrea also noticed the two people who came back, and were immediately surprised by the broad and strong man.
After getting closer, the two of them were even more surprised!
This strong man is simply ridiculously big. He is at least two meters tall. His body is well-proportioned and not uncoordinated. His whole body is full of muscles. He looks even more exaggerated than Schwarzenegger. Only his white hair and slightly His cloudy eyes showed that he must be quite old.
"Very few people come to the village. I remember the last time was... uh, I can't remember clearly. It was the last time anyway."
Before the person is close, the sound comes first.
It wasn't until the strong man stood in front of Xiang En that the two of them felt how exaggerated the pressure brought by the other's physique was, and they felt as if they were facing a giant bear or tiger.
The exaggerated shape had to make Xiang En and Andrea wonder if there was something inhuman about this person's physique.
"Hahaha!" The muscles on the strong man's face twitched as he laughed. He looked down at the two outsiders, Xiang En and Andrea, and introduced himself: "Hello outsiders, I am the mayor of this village. I can’t remember my name anymore, just call me the village chief.”
Xiang En and Andrea nodded blankly, shocked by his momentum, and reported their names respectively.
"Village Chief." Johnny on the side came to his senses amidst the roaring laughter of a giant bear, and said to the iron-tower-like village chief: "They said that everyone in the towns and villages outside was killed..."
Johnny relayed what the two said without leaving any details behind.
Such a performance made Xiang En doubt his identity. Farmers who had never seen much of the world would not be so calm after hearing that people in towns and villages were being killed.
Also, Johnny's physique, and the village chief's physique, don't look like ordinary people.
The tower-like man was startled when he heard this, his smile slowly faded, and his slightly cloudy eyes looked at Xiang En and Andrea, with unpredictable thoughts.
The two of them felt inexplicably trembling when they were stared at by this gaze, and couldn't help but take two steps back.
The strong-backed village chief had the aura of a strong man. The two of them were vaguely aware of it, but they did not feel any malice or hostility.
"I understand." The village chief said calmly, scratched his head, and then said to the vigilant Xiang En and the others: "Don't worry so much, farmers can have any bad intentions! You look very tired, come in, the village There happens to be an empty room for you to rest in!"
Andrea looked at Xiang En, not daring to relax her hand holding the scabbard for a moment, letting him make the decision.
Xiang En stared at the village chief's eyes for a long time. The mage's mental perception could not detect anything, but when he looked at the woman who poked her head out of the village in the distance, he chose to believe in the big village chief.
"Trouble, we'll pay."
…
Why does this sound familiar
Andrea thought hard and finally remembered the same words she said when she was drunk in De'er City.
"Haha!" The village chief laughed and rejected Xiang En's proposal to pay. "Money is not easy to use here, and if you need money now, you probably won't be able to buy anything. Come with me!"
After that, he took the lead and walked towards the village and introduced everything in the village to the two of them.
After entering the village, both Xiang En and Andrea had a strange feeling. This feeling was brought about by the village chief and Johnny who behaved abnormally.
The houses in the village are roughly arranged in two opposite rows. There are not many people in sight. The men seem to be very strong and strong. The women's eyes are not as strong and gentle as those of ordinary peasant women. Instead, they look sharp and sassy. .
Not like ordinary people, but like... soldiers
The village chief's cloudy eyes glanced at the suspicion and vigilance on Xiang En's face. Although he was aware of his thoughts, he had no idea of explanation.
Xiang En and Andrea, who were full of doubts in their hearts, were taken to an empty wooden house. The enthusiastic village chief patted his chest and said that the house was for the two of them to use, and they could come out to have barbecue in the evening.
After arranging the accommodation for the two of them, the village chief left, leaving the two strangers in the village. He really wasn't worried at all.
"Xiang En, what do you think?" After the oppressive village chief left, Andrea looked at Xiang En, who was slumped in a chair and meditating.
At this time, Xiang En was also puzzled. Neither the village chief nor the villagers here looked like serious people!
A cursory look at the village shows that the oldest is forty or fifty years old. If not all the old people are dead, then this village is very "new" and should only have a history of a few or ten years.
Judging from the dull look on Johnny's son's face, this village may have only been established for only a dozen years...
So, in a village that has only existed for more than ten years, there is a group of still young and strong people living in it, living a life without fighting against the world. Facing two strangers, except for a few children who showed curious and surprised eyes, The rest of the people had a calm expression.
How can one feel at ease in such a village
What is their purpose
Seeking wealth and killing
Probably not.
They offered to pay but they didn't accept it, and they had never heard of any cults in De Aire Province.
Robbery
Xiang En looked at Andrea, looked at the pair of calm eyes that glowed slightly red in the dim wooden house for a moment, and then rejected this unreliable guess.
There are women in the village, and they seem to get along quite harmoniously. The village chief's eyes are cloudy, but he has no desire.
After thinking for a while, Xiang En decided to give up thinking.
"Let's take turns to rest. If you don't rest, you won't be able to run away..."
The two of them had been running nervously all day and night since yesterday. They were extremely exhausted both physically and mentally.
In this village, the two of them are the weak ones. If the villagers here want to take action, they can control them both with their physical advantages visible to the naked eye. One person can hold them with a stick.
If he didn't do this, he probably wasn't prepared to persecute them, or he had other motives.
You might as well rest first, and then quietly leave the village at night after you have rested!
Andrea, who was also tired, had nothing to say. She was also very tired after running all night. She held a stool at the crack of the door and observed what was going on outside.
We're about to get to the point, and I can't help but add drama, but luckily I've straightened it out.
(End of chapter)