The second young master of the Dong family yelled, Uncle Zhong and Zhuzi jumped up immediately, and pulled out their swords from their waists with a "clang clang", and the twelve zombies seemed to have been triggered by a spring mechanism, and made a move one after another. A vigilant gesture.
The red-haired girl was still very calm, as if she completely ignored the sword around her, and she didn't show any surprise.
Compared with the sharp knife that could kill her at any time, she obviously cared more about the soft white bread wrapped in delicious custard sandwich in her hand.
The girl lowered her head, glanced reluctantly at the food in her hand, then carefully put down the bread that she had only eaten a bite of, changed her posture, and sat upright in the encirclement.
The ravens hovering over everyone's heads stopped one by one on a tree behind the girl.
They all folded their wings, remained motionless, let alone made a sound, and contrasted with the overly emaciated red-haired girl, looking solemn like a wonderful and weird post-modernist artwork.
The girl maintained a sitting posture, and said a few words in a low voice.
Ji Thrush's English is the best in all subjects, and he can barely understand 70%.
The master and servant of Dong's family were confused and didn't even understand a single punctuation mark, so they could only stare at Ji Xuan and Ren Jianmo helplessly, hoping that someone could explain to them.
The girl's body was still weak, and within a few words, she was already out of breath, so she had to stop to take a breath.
"Are you a witch?"
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Thrush asked:
"If my common sense is correct, witches should be incompatible with the Holy Court, right? Since you are a witch, why did you act with the Holy Court army?"
His English pronunciation is relatively plastic, and there is a huge generation gap between modern English and the ancient English of this "world", so when Ji Thrush spoke, the red-haired girl frowned and listened intently, and finally just shook her head slowly , reluctantly gave a somewhat ambiguous answer:
"I am not a member of the Holy Court."
Fortunately, among this group of people is a psychic supernatural being who can communicate with others without using words.
A moment later, Ren Jianmo replaced the original owner and explained the identity of the red-haired girl.
The girl's name is Elena, she is fifteen years old, and she was born in a poor village on the edge of a forest in Northern Europe.
At that time, the power of the Holy See in Western Europe was already very strong, and the heresy trial became more severe every year.
Priests, priests, and paladins will lead law enforcement officials in their jurisdictions to hunt down blasphemers in their eyes, including witches, wizards, astrologers, alchemists, heretics, overseas immigrants, and new scientists.
As long as they fall into the hands of the clergy, these people will almost always be put on the stake, and then burned to a charcoal amidst the spit and cheers of the people.
Therefore, under the high pressure of the Holy See, anyone suspected of "heretics" can only stay away from the area covered by the Holy See's core forces, and hide in the barren countryside or cold and remote mountain forests.
Elena lost her mother when she was very young, and her father was a perennial alcoholic.
The little girl had to find a way to keep herself alive at a young age, so she could only venture to the dense forest behind the village every day to subsidize her family by picking mountain products.
Because of this, one day, ten-year-old Elena got lost in the forest, and couldn't find the way back to the village until the sun went down.
It was this night of getting lost that changed the little girl's life.
That night happened to be the night of the full moon, and the lost Elena stumbled into the monthly witch gathering in the dense forest at night, following the firelight.
Despite the decades-long persecution by the Holy See, relatively, the "heretics" have also developed some methods to protect themselves.
At that time, there were indeed a small number of witches and wizards in Western Europe. They were born with the talent of casting spells inherited from their blood, and at the same time possessed many extraordinary abilities that ordinary people could not match.
It was at the witch gathering that little Elena learned that her mother, who ran away from home when she was a baby and whose whereabouts were unknown, was a real witch, very powerful, and she also had an inheritance. From her mother's witch blood.
Yi Lianna threw herself into the dark blasphemous camp without any hesitation.
She haunts the witch gatherings in the dense forest every month, and learned from her predecessors how to collect spellcasting materials, draw magic circles, how to communicate with animals, and finally how to cast magic that only witches can master, etc.
What surprised and envied the other witches the most was the divination talent that Irina inherited from her mother.
Unlike the ability of astrologers to predict world events, ups and downs and ups and downs by observing the sky, Elena can accurately predict what is about to happen through a small crystal ball, a deck of Tarot cards, and even a teacup with only some tea foam left. something.
Using the same divination method, the results of Yi Lianna's divination, whether in terms of accuracy or detail, can easily beat other witches at the party.
Five years later, the ten-year-old girl grew into a fifteen-year-old young girl, and the Holy Court also launched a cross-ocean expedition in the name of "jihad".
Two months before the start of the Eastern Expedition, a group of paladins came to Elena's village.
They had received a report from the villagers and came to search for the witches hiding nearby.
The paladin has a sacred artifact that seems to sense dark energy, and can accurately distinguish those who have been exposed to witchcraft.
The soldiers spent ten days going from house to house searching, and of course they caught Elena.
In the temporary hut that was used as a prison, the red-haired girl met every companion who had appeared at the witch gathering, as well as other ordinary people who might have just touched spell-casting materials and props inadvertently.
Everyone arrested was subjected to brutal interrogation and inhuman punishment.
Half of the people were beaten to death during the torture, and the remaining half, whether they were real witches or implicated innocents, were branded heretics and burned at the stake.
Except Elena and the other two witches.
All three of them have some kind of special talent, and the Holy Court believes that their abilities will come in handy in the Eastern Expedition.
So Yi Lianna, who was tortured to death by the prisoner, was taken by the team of paladins to the holy capital she had never set foot in.
But as a witch, she fell into the hands of the Holy Court, which was known for being extremely cruel to heretics. Even if she was not dead, she would not live well.
Elena never had the other two witches.
Her shoulders were pierced by chains, and she was imprisoned in a box, and then pressed under the pope's coffin of the "Holy Relic", and traveled around with the Paladin team every day.
The box is so small that even a petite and emaciated girl can only lie in a curled up position in the dark iron container. Into the sunlight.
Her shoulder injury had no one to help her, and was rubbed by the iron chain every day, and it had already started to fester and inflame.
But as a useful tool, the paladins would not let her die from inflammation easily.
Every day, Yi Lianna would be released from the box by the soldiers for a short time, eat a little food, drink a few sips of water, and then drink a bowl of life-hanging medicinal soup.
On the contrary, as the price of living, the girl must perform divination according to the requirements of the paladins, and inform them of the results exactly...
"I see!"
Hearing this, the second young master of the Dong family clenched his fist with one hand and knocked on his knee.
"No wonder that group of Xiyi people can catch up no matter which way we go!"
As he spoke, he pointed at the red-haired girl.
"It turns out that you are using divination to inform them!"
Dong Jing guessed right.
Ever since the Holy Court decided to eradicate the Dong family no matter what, it has been making full use of Yi Lianna's ability and asked her to use divination to find the whereabouts of Dong Jing and the others.
Elena's bloodline talent is extremely strong, and she can also communicate with animals such as crows, bats, cats, snakes, and mice. With the combination of the two, the divination results are indeed accurate.
The Second Young Master of the Dong family speculated before that the Holy Court Army had some way to track their whereabouts, but it was neither right nor entirely right.
Because Elena didn't rely on tracking. On the contrary, she could accurately predict where the Dong family and his party would appear at a certain time in the future.
Therefore, no matter how careful and prudent they are, no matter how they choose to walk in those barren mountains with complex terrain and few people, it is impossible to get rid of the pursuers.
After listening to the identity of the girl relayed by Ren Jianmo, the scene fell into silence for a while.
The master and servant of the Dong family knew nothing about the history of Xiyi, and having grown up in a multi-god and multi-belief country, they really couldn't understand the strange way of thinking that the Yi people would internally fight to the death in order to believe in any god.
However, through Ren Jianmo's narration, they can generally feel that the girl in front of them is indeed not with the group of Xiyi invaders.
Although she was once forced to work for the paladins, and her divination ability did cause them great trouble, but in the final analysis, the girl had to do it only to survive under the enemy's hands.
"Even so..."
Dong Jing pursed his lips, muttering to himself:
"I don't want to take her either..."
As soon as he said that, he looked up and saw that Yi Lianna took this opportunity to grab the bread and gobbled it up again. He suddenly became angry and shouted:
"Besides, who knows if those red-haired devils have done anything to her, such as if she betrayed, she will die on the spot!"
The second young master of the Dong family said in his heart that in order to make the servants loyal, their Dong family will also lay a voodoo on the servants!
"If you take her with you, in case something happens to her on the way..."
Ren Jianmo nodded, feeling that Dong Jing's words made sense.
Then the pupil color of his right eye turned into light golden amber again, forcing Irina who was holding the bread in her mouth to meet his eyes.
After a while, Ren Damei looked away and smiled slightly.
"There's nothing wrong with this girl."
He paused, and added:
"Besides, she said that she can help us get rid of the Holy Court's pursuers."