This nameless town imprisoned in a certain space by witchcraft is much bigger than imagined. After climbing up to a wooden tower in the town, Hao Ren saw rolling buildings in the distance, with layers of old roofs stretching out along the terrain, like the disgusting body of some kind of dirty monster. It is generally wrinkled, and everything that enters the eye is in a lifeless gray-black color. The whole town cannot see any bright colors that can make people feel a little more relaxed. At the end of the town far away from the river bank, you can see a large Buildings, that may be residences of nobles.
It is very likely that it was the place where the wizard lived.
Hao Ren got down from the watchtower and told everyone what he saw: "There is a big house at the other end of the town, let's go there first."
"Well, don't worry too much about rushing, pay attention to the movement around you on the way," Vivienne nodded, "There are always many traps in the positions set up by wizards, especially this large-scale... who can set up such a secret place." The guy is probably not ordinary in the age of mythology."
Everyone cautiously started exploring in this quiet and strange lost town. Lily was curiously looking at the old houses and crude street facilities around her along the way. She asked the most knowledgeable person on the scene: " Bat, what age do you think this town is like?"
"Between the millennium AD and four hundred years ago, the architectural style and level of civilization in this area basically did not change much during that time, and the time flow in this town is obviously out of sync with the outside, so it is even more uncertain whether it is What age?" Vivian frowned, "but one thing is certain, the secret place must not have been formed naturally - this place should have been just an ordinary town by the river before, it was the power of magic that pulled it away from the real world Come in."
"About the wizard you found," Hao Ren looked up at Heather Anna, "Do you have any more specific information?"
Heather Anna was quite reluctant to talk to Hao Ren, but she still spoke lazily at this time: "Wizards are a bunch of mysterious guys, and there is never much information that can be found. We only found a little bit about this wizard." Scattered information. His earliest recorded activity is around 1346 AD, and he seems to have been French. The first name he used was 'Baptiste'. He was in France for a hundred years, and nothing particularly outstanding during that time At that time, he was still a very honest guy. But later, I don’t know what happened. The wizard left France suddenly, and then traveled to many countries in Europe, leaving a lot of records of black magic and evil rituals. Around 1500 AD He was active in Finland and Russia. The situation in the town in front of him should be his hands and feet at that time."
"Then what?"
"Then the information was intermittent. He hardly had any activities outside in the next two centuries, and there are very few materials left." Heatherana shook her head, "This 'Baptiste' is a freak, he I have never contacted my fellow wizards. It stands to reason that his power has surpassed many wizards in history, but his reputation is not even as good as some black magic apprentices. I almost used all the information of the family to find this Some information. In the end, even the origin of the wizard's power and faction were not found out. Tsk tsk, a low-key hermit, a guy like a lone ranger."
Vivian looked up at the ever-changing sky shrouded in smoke and dust. He casually asked, "Is that wizard already dead?"
"There's no definite death certificate either," Heatherana smiled wryly and spread her hands. "It is recorded that he was involved in a melee between the demon hunters and the descendants of Anubis two centuries ago, disappeared in the aftermath of the battle, and he was not seen again for two whole centuries. So he is probably dead Well... who knows, anyway, we are only here for his manuscripts and relics, and it would be better for that troublesome guy to die."
"I wish he was still alive," Hao Ren shrugged, "so that I can ask him what the ritual of summoning the evil spirit Vivienne meant."
A group of people approached the center of the town while talking, and the road in front of them seemed a little wider, although the distribution of buildings was still chaotic. But the surrounding houses are slightly stronger than those before in terms of scale and quality. It seems that this place should have been the place where the "upper class" in the town lived. A small empty field appeared before everyone's eyes. This is not yet a square, but an open space. The ground here is neatly leveled, and the roads around the open space are paved with moderately sized cobblestones. In the center of the open space, you can see a decayed and collapsed wooden platform. place of order.
Surrounding the open space are old, old wooden and stone-structured houses, and one after another old houses that look like haunted houses circle around, staring at the outsiders who trespassed into the town with their gray-black hollow faces. Their doors are tightly closed, and tattered cloth strips or wooden boards are hung on the narrow windows, revealing the hollow darkness inside between the gaps of the doors and windows, and there seem to be pairs of eyes hidden in the darkness—those mysteriously missing, whose final fate is unknown the eyes of the townspeople.
Nangong Wuyue seemed to be made a little hairy by the surrounding atmosphere, she aroused a burst of water mist to envelop herself, and then turned into a sea monster form. After casually throwing the ball of her clothes to Hao Ren, the water snake girl stretched her waist: "Phew... I feel more at ease now."
Hao Ren put Wu Yue's clothes into his portable space, and asked kindly, "Aren't you cold?"
The half body of May's water snake spread out directly on the ground, and the ground of this small town located in the Arctic Circle was as cold as ice. Hao Ren watched the opponent's tail arching on the ground and panicked for her.
Wuyue raised the tip of her tail and shook it: "It's okay, water elementals are not afraid of the cold—as long as they don't freeze, it's fine."
At this time, Lily became interested in the wooden platform in the middle of the open space. She walked around the platform curiously, and suddenly raised her own fire. She was very happy: "Why do I feel that it's chilly around this platform?"
"There are a lot of spirits here," Nangong Sanba held two bottles of exorcism grease in his hands, with a serious face, "Don't poke around with a stick of fire, it will be fun if you disturb the more powerful evil spirits gone."
Lily was furious when she heard this, and she held up the fire stick and gestured vigorously at Nangong Sanba: "You said it is a fire stick—don't you see the three forks on it?!"
"Are the spirits in this place talking about ghosts?" Hao Ren has long been interested in this question. "If it's a ghost, can we communicate?"
Such a gloomy and weird lost town, with countless invisible spirits wandering among the dilapidated streets and houses, was supposed to be a place enough to scare ordinary people to pee, but Hao Ren just won a whole planet of angry spirits, Now his nerves are strong, and the first thing he thinks of when he mentions a ghost is to ask him about it.
"Unfortunately, they are all very weak spirit bodies." Nangong Sanba shook his head regretfully, "There are everywhere in the air, but they are all mixed together, blurred with almost no boundaries—this kind of spirit body that cannot even maintain itself There is no way to communicate, memory and thinking have long been gone.”
Hao Ren snorted, and muttered thoughtfully, "Are they the natives of this town?"
"Nine times out of ten this is the case," Vivian agreed, "The residents of this town should be ordinary humans, and according to the state of the houses, when the town was dragged into this time and space, the residents here had no time to react at all— Ordinary people can’t live long in this kind of space.”
"Drag the whole town into it... What did that wizard want to do back then?" Hao Ren frowned, his expression a bit grim. "If it's just for the sake of seclusion, it would be too unnecessary to spend so much money."
While they were discussing the fate of the townspeople, Lily had circled the wooden table many times. She was inexplicably attracted by this platform, and a faint light radiated from her golden eyes. In her field of vision, many erratic shadows slowly appeared in this open space. Those shadows had vague human outlines. Wearing clothes that seemed to be hundreds of years ago, they stood there expressionless, looking up at the direction of the wooden platform, as if numbly listening to someone who did not exist talking on the platform.
Lily's ears slowly perked up, and some sporadic words floated into her ears:
"... The child was indeed stolen by the devil, we should expel that witch as soon as possible..."
"It seems that I haven't seen the lord for a long time?"
"...the scholar said it would exorcise the child, but I don't really believe in magic..."
"Shh, do you want to be cursed by a witch? They'll throw you out of town, and the witch is still hanging around..."
"Why don't you find a church?"
"...the lord did not show up..." (to be continued~^~)