"Let me put it another way. Is there anything here that could potentially injure you or even kill you?"
Xia De said, and the sheep nodded slowly:
"No, everyone here is very kind."
Shade thought for a moment:
"So have you ever seen any strange fellows? Strange, I mean, with a strong stench, like a dead human being?"
The sheep thought again, and its posture of chewing and thinking looked so wise:
"I've seen it, but not often. It lives underground and occasionally buries chicken and duck bones nearby. I once encountered it when I was using the toilet at night, but it didn't want to harm me, probably because my value is higher than that of chickens and ducks."
The vocabulary it uses is becoming more and more elegant.
"Does a ghoul really exist? Did Nicholas Green really become a ghost after his death?"
Xia De was slightly surprised, and then asked:
"Then you know..."
"It lives in the underground palace, which is where nightmares hover deep underground. It is also the sleeping place left by the ancestors of mankind."
In other words, there is an ancient tomb underground in this village.
"How do I meet..."
"It's not difficult. It likes to eat chicken, and it prefers cooked food."
Sheep spoke slowly and leisurely, and after listening to him for a long time, Xia De even felt that his words were very poetic. He had never felt this way before when talking to people:
"so... .."
"Cook a chicken in a shabby house. If it wakes up, it will definitely show up."
"I see. Thank you so much... Come to think of it, someone has investigated it before, right? No one has asked you about it?"
Shade asked again, and the sheep with the ring on its horn looked up at him again:
"Man, I'm just a sheep."
Xia De felt that this sheep was more and more unusual, but he had other things to do, so the conversation ended here. Besides, using the fish training ring to give animals intelligence and the ability to speak could lead to any possible consequences.
But before taking off the ring, he asked the very clever sheep another question:
"I am going to take my ring away. Your wisdom and ability to speak will return to what they were before. Will you regret this?"
The sheep chewed the leaves, not looking at him this time:
"Thinking makes us worry; wisdom makes us worry, both men and sheep are like this."
Shade was shocked and reached out to take the ring off the sheep's horn, fearing that if he talked for a while longer, he would find that the sheep's philosophical attainments were higher than his own. Among the sheep, he had undoubtedly met a true wise man this time.
The warm spring breeze blew through the forest, blowing the sheep's hair slightly down. Of course, the sheep didn't know the crazy thoughts of the strangers. It lowered its head to eat the grass, chewing slowly, as if its own life had slowed down.
Suddenly, a red apple rolled in front of it. The sheep slowly raised its head and saw the man leaving. Then it lowered its head and continued eating. Except for the red apple, nothing had changed.
Xia De did not go to the village to buy chickens. Among the many supplies he brought with him, the one thing he had the most was food. After searching in his pocket for a while, he found a large box. When he opened the box, he found a lot of meat. He picked out a roasted chicken that had been roasted but cooled, and then took the food back to the shabby house.
There was a musty smell in the room, but Shade didn't care. He lit a bonfire with the firewood that the villagers had piled up here, then set up a rack to grill the meat again, and even sprinkled some cumin to improve the taste. This is not a mainstream spice nowadays. People near the desert like cumin powder, and outsiders rarely use it in this world.
Xia De continued his cooking work patiently, turning over the wooden sticks with the roasted chicken, and occasionally cutting small holes with a knife to let the smell of spices seep in. Soon, the fragrant smell filled his nostrils, and he even thought that if the ghoul didn't appear, he would eat the roasted chicken himself, so he roasted it very carefully and patiently.
But apparently he was lucky. After more than ten minutes, amid the crackling sound of burning wood, "she" gently reminded him:
Something appeared outside.
Xia De lowered his head and looked at the roasted chicken that had been roasted to a crispy golden color:
"Outside the house? I thought it would choose to come out of the ground. What is it doing?"
Magic potion, the wind outside the window brought the vaporized magic potion. Take a deep breath.
Shad did as he was told.
A potion that causes sleepiness.
"clear."
He answered in his mind, then yawned:
"Why do you feel so sleepy all of a sudden? Spring is really a good time to take a break from the busy schedule."
He said this, then squinted his eyes and lowered his head suddenly, then raised his head again, somewhat surprised that he almost fell asleep:
"Really? Could it be that reading that erotic novel until three in the morning last night is really that harmful to your health?"
As he spoke, he yawned again, then squinted his eyes and lowered his head, and fell asleep sitting in front of the campfire.
Shade's breathing gradually became even, and the fire gradually died out without firewood, but the aroma of the roasted chicken was still strong, and soon became burnt. Two or three minutes later, a gray-black swollen hand stretched out from under the window and waved towards the house. After making sure that it did not attract the attention of the sleeping Shade, the corpse ghost in clothes quickly climbed into the house through the window.
This corpse ghost was very strange. Although it was an undead ghost, it looked almost like a normal person except for the corpse spots and slightly swollen body. Even if it was wearing thick clothes, it might be mistaken for a fat person from a distance.
After crawling into the room on all fours, he stood up carefully, crouched close to the fire which still had some flames, stared at Shade with his cloudy yellow eyes, and then reached out and grabbed the wooden stick on which the roasted chicken was hung.
Crash~
Xia De opened his eyes, and shot out dark chains of sin from his sleeves on both hands at the same time. At such a close distance, even supernatural creatures like ghouls could not dodge, but he didn't expect that he would disappear from the spot before the chains touched him while holding the roast chicken, and then appeared at the door.
"Space jump!"
Xia De immediately recognized what this skill was, but he did not continue to activate the "Space Stability Aura" not because he was careless, but because he was worried that the other party would not get close. At this time, the corpse ghost who dodged Xia De's attack turned around and ran out of the door. Xia De stood up and chased him while shouting:
"Nicholas Green!"
The corpse ghost's movements really paused, but only for a moment, and then disappeared at the door. Xia De quickly chased after it, and the corpse ghost was indeed unable to move continuously in space. At this time, it was holding the roast chicken in its mouth and getting on all fours, ready to cross the fence and enter the woods.
Xia De, who had prepared the spell materials in advance, took a step forward and put his hand on the fence:
"Thorns of the Moon."
Almost at the moment when the ghoul was about to break through the fence, the holy silver thorn bush grew along the fence, with the power to exorcise evil spirits and suppress the undead, forcing the ghoul to give up the idea of forcing its way through.
It turned around with the roast chicken in its mouth and "roared" at Shad, but because it couldn't open its mouth, the sound was quite strange.
Xia De didn't want to hurt him, so he took this opportunity to introduce:
"I am a friend of your children, Mr. Green, and I ..."
The body of the undead disappeared from the spot, and then appeared outside the fence. But the blocking effect of "Moon Thorns" was definitely not just the effect of physical space. Even if it really passed through the thorn bush, its whole body was now covered with silver holy light thorns.
The explosion was accompanied by the silver moonlight, and the corpse ghost was almost blown away on the spot. Xia De felt pity when he saw this scene:
"You don't have to run, I'm not..."
It still ignored Shade's words, staggered to its feet and ran away. Although it was seriously injured, for the undead, as long as it was not killed in one blow, there was no possibility of being unable to move.
Shade had no choice but to continue chasing after it, and then he and the ghoul disappeared and reappeared together almost at the same time. The two of them went into the woods, and after using the power of space movement together again, the entire forest scene was like a picture album with pages turned quickly. Almost every time they blinked, Shade and the ghoul would appear in a new position and maintain a different chasing posture.
The maximum distance of Shad's "Ragray Leap" is 20 meters, and the waiting time for each casting is five seconds. The maximum distance of Ghoul Green's spatial movement is only less than 10 meters, but his waiting time for casting is less than three seconds.
Therefore, the chase between the two people, each with impaired spatial movement ability but amazing spatial perception ability, makes the scene in the woods become increasingly strange.
Because the other party moved so fast, Shade couldn't even catch up and use the "space stabilization aura" to stop the other party's movement. And his efforts to explain that he was a friend of Helena Green and Soren Green did not make the ghoul stop and listen to him.
However, the other party kept biting the roast chicken and never let go.
Neither of them thought about leaving the woods, and they both exercised restraint, trying not to touch the bottom line of spatial movement, fearing that they would attract creatures from outside the space. But as the chase became faster and faster, the frequency of their spellcasting approached the limit, and the spatial disturbance caused by the continuous breaking of space combined with the already chaotic spatial situation in the Green Lake area. When Shade and the corpse ghost cast a spell to move through space again, they both felt like they had fallen into a huge whirlpool on the seabed, and were uncontrollably taken away from their original direction by some huge attraction.
The scenery of the woods suddenly turned into strange blocks of color. All kinds of bizarre and distorted scenes were pieced together to present themselves before the eyes. The bizarre picture gave people a splitting headache, but what was more dangerous was that Shade realized that he and the corpse ghost might have accidentally "crossed the line".
It seemed like a moment, but also like a long wait. The unrecognizable blocks of color merged into a new scene. The moment his feet touched the ground again, Shade, who recovered faster than the ghouls, didn't even have time to recognize where he was. He lay on the red carpet and threw the chain forward.