(Thank you Xiao Qiuqiu for the monthly pass and reward!...... ）

Fortunately, the direction of perception did not deviate much from the original route, and Charlotte and her party moved in the direction of perception, and as they got closer and closer to the location, the surrounding area was no longer an empty wilderness. There are more and more man-made paths in the wilderness jungle, which also indicates that they will enter the range of human activities.

The sun is blazing in late summer and early autumn, and when the sun is about to set, the sharp-eyed Lolita sees the curling smoke.

"There's someone there!" she cried out cheerfully, gesturing to a corner of the wilderness jungle.

Lolita, who has a lively personality, doesn't know how long she hasn't seen people, even if the bickering with Elle is interesting, but it will be a little boring after a long time.

"Maybe we'll be able to spend the night in the village!" said Lolita's heart. Even a sparsely populated village doesn't matter, it's better than a wilderness with the same scenery.

Charlotte once again probed the direction from which the abyssal breath came from, and the position of the abyssal breath was a distance of more than ten kilometers from the direction of the cooking smoke. But with the idea that it would be nice to go to the village to find out the news, Charlotte decided to grant Lolita's wish.

However, when she arrived at the smoke site, Charlotte realized that it had deviated from what she had expected. There were no villages at all, just makeshift camps.

The camp sits on flat land not far from the jungle, and a dozen or so improvised tents made of tree trunks, bark, and weeds smell unpleasant. As Charlotte approached the camp curiously, the men, who were cooking something in a hanging pot, suddenly looked at them alertly and fiercely.

They seemed to be extremely hungry, each weather-beaten face with a malnourished hunger, a pair of red eyes, swallowing saliva and looking more like a beast than a man.

A leader-looking, sturdy man winked, motioned for everyone to protect the hanging pot that emitted a tempting smell of meat, and pretended to be fierce and shouted at Charlotte, "Who are you!"

The implication was 'don't try to steal our food,' but the way he shivered with fear made his ferocity seem indecent. Perhaps it was because seeing Elle's beautiful blue and white dress made him realize that this group of strangers in earthy yellow cloaks was extraordinary.

"We are not fugitives......"

Sure enough. After seeing Charlotte's and her party's impassive appearance, his momentum shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye like a popped balloon, and his mouth muttered to justify, "I, we're just lost......"

It seems that he completely mistook Charlotte and the others for Hotson's invaders, the new lord, or the lord's officials or something. According to the laws of most of San Lorenzo, peasants were considered the private property of the nobility, and it was a crime to leave the area where they lived without permission. Once caught, those who were severely executed on the spot, and those who were a little more lenient were also enslaved.

After hearing this, the men gathered in front of the hanging pot became nervous, and they grabbed the iron spoon or farm tool in their hands, which was probably their only weapon. The atmosphere was very dreary, except for the gurgling of boiling water in the hanging pot, except for the muffled crying in the most remote grass tent of the camp.

Charlotte suddenly felt a great sense of unease, and at this moment, Lolita, who had not seen anyone for a long time, grinned and started joking.

"You say you're lost, but why don't I think it's?" Lolita pointed to the farming tools and spoons in the hands of the men, "Do you take these things with you when you get lost? Besides, I remember that there is such a decree in Lotent, the forest and the lake are the property of the nobles, and it is a crime to poach without the permission of the lord!"

"We don't poach !!" Gathered around the hanging pot was an unkempt woman who, when she heard Lolita's accusations, screamed loudly in fear, like an old hen choked by the throat.

There is indeed such a law in Lotsente. The lords consider the forests and lakes in their realm their hunting grounds and do not allow any civilians to poach in them. Such a law was rampant in the San Lorenzo Empire, and only the two heroes of the North, Erosa and Icewind Castle, abolished such a law, and the harsh natural environment of the Far North had no soil for the survival of bootlegging.

"Hah! are still quibbling!, what are you cooking in the pot!" Lolita shook her finger triumphantly, and she deliberately frightened her naughty heart, "Hmph! I dare to poach without permission, if you don't serve us food, I will ......"

She was suddenly stunned! The words that followed were stuck in her throat, and she couldn't say them.

For it occurred to her that what were these hungry people hunting for? Could it be that they relied on the spoons and inferior farming tools in their hands, or was this group of peasants who seemed to be hungry were actually spellcasters like them?

"I, we...... There really is no poaching......" The leading man's momentum had fallen to freezing, and he trembled in defense.

Vivien's face turned pale, and the cherry blossom-like lips of the smart girl trembled, and she asked tremblingly as she pointed at the hungry people, "...... What are you, what are you hunting ......?"

Charlotte interrupted Vivien's unspeakable words, and he lifted his cloak and roared, "Enough! Tell me! What are you eating!"

Charlotte's roar of awe-inspiring shattered the hungry crowd, and the enraged mage strode toward the camp, no one daring to wave a funny spoon or hoe at him.

Every hungry man avoided Charlotte like a plague, and the boiling water of the hanging pot with the thick smell of meat gurgling, faintly revealing the blood-streaked soft minced meat, quickly sank to the bottom of the pot.

Charlotte was stunned, because after a quick glance, he saw a delicate palm clenched into a fist and twisted into a chicken claw. It was originally a part of a human being.

A chill hit his heart, and anger came up like molten pulp. The mage between ice and fire hadn't felt the kind of madness that was about to lose his mind for some time, the scarlet demon eyes faintly glowed with a strange red light, and Charlotte's voice seemed to come from the Nine Hells.

"You ...... Cannibalism?!"

No one answered, everyone was silent as if they were sculptures.

"Say!!" Charlotte pointed to the leading man, "I command you to answer me!"

Bang –

Not far away, there was a noise in the tent where a dull cry sounded, and a middle-aged couple, perhaps sensing the movement, rushed to the edge of the hanging pot. Charlotte's apprentices saw that they wanted to use a soup spoon to scoop the hanging pot, but they were very hesitant and painful, and kept crying the child's name in their mouths, looking desperate and painful.

"You give back my son!"

The woman had lost her mind, and her red eyes were about to pounce on the man with the hoe beside her. The latter dodged in a panic, and before Charlotte raised his hand with an ugly face, the leading man suddenly let out a loud shout!

"Enough! Don't mess around here, crazy woman! Why didn't you see you speak up when you were eating my child the other day!"

The woman froze, then collapsed to the ground as if she had been stripped of her bones, revealing a look of despair.

The spell that was originally prepared could not be released, and Charlotte, who was pale, took two steps back. In the firelight, his face was filled with an expression of disbelief sadness.

Vivien and Lolita had already vomited on the roots of the trees around them, and in addition to Elle, Charlotte's master and apprentice felt an irrepressible fear and chill in their hearts.

It was not a sense of threat in the face of a strong enemy, but a sense of powerlessness that was extremely angry but powerless.

The mages understood what the hungry people were doing.

In order to survive, these refugees who can't survive are cannibalizing each other!