Spring is bright, and the midday sun brings a soft warmth. But the sight in front of him made Dulu's heart chill.
He had seen smoke rising before and thought it was someone.
Opened the gondola and came over to see that it was indeed crowded. At the source of the smoke was a small village on the outskirts of the forest, but at this time there were no living people in the village.
Dozens of houses had already been engulfed by flames at this time. The fires were gone, only smoke lingered.
As for the villagers.
Dulu looked at the mortal corpses hanging on the wooden stakes in every house, shock and anger flashed in his eyes.
The man's corpse, with all his limbs chopped off, was cut into a stick and placed on a wooden stake. The women are naked and piled up at will. What makes Dulu feel the most chilling is that the bodies of children are everywhere, no matter if they are male or female, their clothes are all lying down, and their bodies are dirty.
Not a single living person, all corpses with great resentment.
Some people's eyes haven't even closed, and before the pupils diverge, the expression of resentment and curse has not disappeared. Dulu was horrified when he saw it.
He has seen dead people, whether it is a corpse with only its head devoured by sea beasts, or soldiers who have been divided into corpses on the battlefield; even, he has seen an adult wizard in captivity in Baibeihai City. Eating ghouls.
But never once had he felt so angry inside.
He squatted in front of a house that had been burned to a black charcoal frame, and in front of him was the stench of the corpse of a boy. His eyes were not closed, he looked at the sky absentmindedly, his pale cheeks were covered with the ashes of the burning house, but there was a white line from the corner of his eyes to the pinna of his ears.
Dulu can even think of the scene at that time, the boy was crying silently before his death, his tears swept across the corners of his eyes and landed on the pinna of his ears, leaving a faint white line.
Drew, panting heavily, reached out and stroked the boy's eyes.
"Go to sleep, in another world, you will be happy." Dulu muttered softly, and the boy's eyes closed as he stroked his palm.
"The worst thing in the world is the human heart." Angel stood behind Dulu and sighed softly, "From a certain point of view, man is actually a beast. What happens is even more maddening than a beast who follows primitive instincts."
There was anger in Dulu's eyes: "Lord Pat, do you know who did it?"
"I don't know, the fire annihilated all traces."
Dulu was silent for a moment, "My lord, can I bury them? It's cold in the spring, and the bones are sleeping in the open. They should be very cold."
"They are already dead." Angel wanted to continue saying that after a person dies, there is no soul, no spiritual aura, and the corpse is a useless skin. Also, they have nothing to do with you.
But he didn't say what he didn't say, just nodded and let Dulu do it.
He can guide Dulu how to face the winter of the wizarding world, but Dulu doesn't want to interfere too much with the self-righteous camp and how to choose how to deal with people.
Perhaps, in the future, Dulu will become a dark wizard or a white wizard. When he recalls this experience, will he be disgusted or sighed? Or maybe laugh at yourself for being stupid at the time
Angel stood silently on the side and did not interfere with Dulu's movements.
He was willing to let Dulu spend his time doing this, in fact, because he was a bit shy about being close to the country. Before returning to the Old Earth Continent, he could not wait to fly back immediately. But the closer he gets to his hometown, the more timid he gets.
The village is small and not many people.
Angel threw a hoe to Duru that he smelted easily, and it took him a long time to dig a big hole.
By the time Dulu covered the soil, it was nearly dusk.
Du Lu held a handful of white flowers in his hand and placed it in front of the big pit. He stood silently for a long time, until the sunset dyed his pupils pale red and the evening breeze rolled up the petals, and he walked to Angel and apologized in a low voice. .
"I wasted your time, I was too self-willed."
"Whether you are willful or not, you can judge for yourself after you really set foot in the wizarding world." Angel turned around first and took out the gondola: "Let's go, before night falls, find Ren Yan and ask for the current location."
After returning to the gondola, Dulu was obviously in a lower mood than before. After being silent for a long time, he suddenly asked, "My lord, do wizards also do this kind of slaughter?"
"Yes." And more ruthless than you might think.
Angel's answer made a trace of sadness flash in Dulu's eyes.
"Wizards are also human beings. No matter which class they are in, their inferiority will be manifested accordingly. It's just whitewashing, or a clear distinction." Angel paused: "However, because the gap between classes is too great. For mortals, it is like cloud and mud. Therefore, if mortals do not provoke wizards, wizards will not deliberately deal with mortals. This is the default rule of the wizarding world. After all, the backbone of wizards must be born from mortals."
"On the contrary, among mortals, there is no burden, and they are keen on internal struggles."
The topic ended here, Dulu was in charge of the gondola and continued to move towards the interior of the continent, while Angel leaned on the side of the ship, looking at the distant mountains and forests dyed red by the sunset, with nostalgia in his eyes.
Angel's original plan was to find people before it fell into the night. But unfortunately, when the stars rose in the night, they did not find any trace of a living person.
"Looks like we're going the wrong way." Angel yawned: the small village should not be an isolated village, there must be towns nearby, so they chose to walk along the road outside the small village of.
However, the small village finally leads to the mountain forest, and there is no fixed trail in the mountain forest, so they chose a direction at random.
"Then do we want to go back? If we go all out, we'll be there soon." Dulu asked. In order to search for human trails, they flew very low and slow, so it took a long time to fly such a short distance.
"You can do it yourself."
After thinking for a while, Dulu decided to go back and choose a new direction to the previous mountain forest.
But just as he turned around, an orange-red light suddenly appeared in the dark forest in the distant night.
"Firelight? Is there still someone in the forest at night?" Dulu suddenly remembered something: "Is it a forest guard?"
Thinking of this, Dulu immediately drove the gondola to the firelight.
When the flying boat landed, it was discovered that it was not a so-called forest guard, just a girl wrapped in a layer of animal skin and shivering in front of the bonfire.
Their landing made the girl's eyes full of fear and a hint of curiosity.
She had never seen a ship that could fly in the sky, and the ship was so beautiful, which made her wonder about their identities when she was frightened by the people who came.
Dulu jumped out of the boat first, jumped onto the big tree, slid down the trunk, and landed in front of the girl.
"Don't be afraid, we're just..." Duru thought about it for a long time, and finally had a flash of light: "Travelers, we are traveling travelers. It won't hurt you, I just want to ask for directions."
Dulu's words did not resonate with the girl. She still looked at Duru vigilantly, while holding the package in her arms in one hand and wielding a dagger in the other.
"Okay, I won't go there, let's just ask here?" Duru sighed: "Where is this place? How far is it from the nearest town? Which direction should I go?"
Dulu's question made the girl pause for a while before slowly opening her mouth: "I don't believe you, you go away immediately! If you want to find someone, just go there..."
The girl pointed to the southeast.
"Is that direction a town? What's the name of the country we're in now?"
The girl didn't answer any more, she just held the package and stared at Dulu fiercely.
Dulu didn't know what to do or why, is he going to deal with a woman? When there was nothing to do, Angel's voice came: "Duru, come up."
Dulu was stunned for a while, then climbed the treetops three times and two times, and jumped on the gondola.
At this time, Angel was looking at the girl below, and the girl was not to be outdone with Angel.
Angel smiled softly, dropped a black thing from the bracelet, and fell straight towards her.
The girl was startled, thinking that the other party was going to plot against him. She was about to run away, but she found that her body was suddenly restrained by a strange force, and she saw that the black thing was about to hit her face.
She screamed in fright.
But after a while, she found that nothing fell on top of her head. She glanced secretly, but saw a white fluffy fur floating in the air, and then slowly wrapped her body.
The warmth enveloped her in an instant.
At the same time, her body was able to move. She raised her head to look for the flying boat in the sky, but the flying boat had disappeared by now.
On the other side, gondola.
Dulu asked curiously, "Why do you suddenly care about that girl?"
"As a man, shouldn't I be a gentleman when I see a shivering lady?" Angel raised his eyebrows.
"Uh... I just think that the behavior of the adults seems to be a bit inconsistent? Could it be that the adults like this one?" Dulu murmured in a low voice.
Angel said angrily: "Don't you see that the girl is pregnant with a child? Judging from the size, it is estimated that she is about to give birth. In this deep mountain and forest, and it is so cold, the only thing I can help is this one. some."
"Pregnant with a child?" Du Lu was stunned, he recalled the previous scene, the other party had indeed been covering his stomach. At that time, her belly was bulging, and he thought it was a wrap, but it turned out to be a pregnant woman!
Thinking about it this way, her cautious behavior just now makes sense. After all, she is pregnant, and it is normal to be unwilling to be approached by others.
"However, it's a little strange, why would a pregnant woman appear here alone at this point?" Dulu wondered.
In fact, the strange thing is more than what Dulu said. Angel can hear the accent of the girl just now, which is a very orthodox golden finch noble. From the delicateness of her skin and the piercings on her ears, it can be seen that this girl is most likely born of a nobleman.
It is rare for a noble girl to fall so far.
However, Angel has no intention of exploring.
When Dulu was still talking about the strangeness, Angel said softly: "Go to the southeast where she pointed to and see."
Angel did not forget the hatred and anger that flashed in her eyes when she pointed the way.
Angel estimated that the girl was using them as gunmen, and that there were probably her enemies in the southeast, or someone who was chasing her. However, it doesn't matter to him, he is just asking for directions anyway.