"Didn't I say that, I just said it......" begins with this illogical sentence, and the old woman's story begins.

The process of asking and answering questions was too messy, and the old woman was mentally traumatized, often asking the next sentence and forgetting the previous sentence, and the thinking logic was also reversed, and the information before and after did not match, or even conflicted. It took a lot of effort for Charlotte to piece together a story with a high degree of completion.

The mountain village where she lives is remote and almost isolated, and although it is poor and backward, it can be regarded as a paradise at the beginning of the civil war.

However, the good times do not last long, and remoteness does not mean that there is no connection with the outside world. As the civil war heats up, Elbert's war with the lighthouse heats up, and the mountain village inevitably falls into the whirlpool of civil war.

First of all, because of the soaring prices in the outside world, the villagers are overwhelmed by all kinds of daily necessities - salt, winter clothing, and necessary supplies. Later, no matter how remote it was, the nobles would recruit soldiers from the village during the stalemate phase of the war.

Some people hide in the mountains to avoid drafting, but others decide to join the army in order to make their families live better, leaving a little savings for their families.

This was the case with the old woman's sons.

The pair of sons are brothers, friends and brothers, and the eldest brother took the initiative to join the army to obtain supplies for the sake of his mother and his newlywed brother. At first, it was able to bring some income to the family, but it didn't take long for it to be heard from.

What happened next was like a nightmare, when the youngest son's newlywed wife died in childbirth, leaving an orphan girl alive. The days are getting more and more sad day by day, and the youngest son decides to follow the old path of the eldest brother for the sake of his mother and daughter - to join the army!

At this time, Vivien noticed that the old woman had some little girl's life in her house, and asked, "And where is your granddaughter?

"Evil, demon!" the woman began to cry out again, pointing to the front, "taken away by the devil!"

"What demon?" Vivien reassured, "don't worry, we'll help you." ”

"Help you get your granddaughter back from the demons. Lolita said.

"Li, Lena......"

She finally calmed down and told her what happened next.

Later, the most fearful thing happened, when the Battle of Arad broke out and Elbert was defeated by Zenas. In this isolated mountain village, those who fled to the mountains to avoid military service rejoiced, while the families of those who served were in tears.

Festive and sad, because of these two parties, the atmosphere in the mountain village became more and more embarrassing and intense, just when the people were panicking, a stranger came to the village.

This man claimed to be a survivor of the Battle of Arad, who had escaped the bloody massacre by serving his gods. He asked the villagers to build a church for him to preach, and although the villagers had no intention of converting his sect at all, considering that he was a survivor of the war, the villagers who were accustomed to xenophobia gave him rare understanding and tolerance.

The villagers gave him a piece of wasteland and agreed to build a wooden hut to live in, and the sight of this man's crazy and miserable appearance miraculously eased the atmosphere in the village. The young men who escaped military service took the initiative to do some farm work for the families who were killed, and the unfortunate families gradually accepted the tragic facts.

The original story ended here, sad but not despairing. But the good times didn't last long, and it was the acceptance of that stranger that really made the village fall into a hell of despair.

"There was a lot of blood, and the livestock died one after another!"

The old woman hugged the doll in horror and shivered. It can be seen that recalling that past makes her extremely afraid.

Charlotte subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and he nodded at Vivian, motioning for her to continue asking questions.

"What the hell is going on, don't be afraid, grandma, we'll help you. ”

After a long time of reassurance, the old woman explained everything in a perverted voice.

The stranger told people how great his god was, because his overly insane and uneducated appearance made people think not so much that he was a missionary pastor, but more like a madman who had come out of a mental hospital.

Although the villagers were a little strange, they didn't think too much about it. No one intended to believe in a god he had never heard of, and most of the people of the San Lorenzo Empire believed in the god of justice and had no interest in the gods of the outsiders.

And then not long after, the animals died one by one.

At first, one died every once in a while, then one a day, and finally several a day. Originally, the villagers thought that there were some wild beasts in the village, but gradually some people noticed that something was wrong, and some people found strange patterns in the livestock sheds.

"Strange patterns?" Charlotte couldn't help but ask.

Then the old woman shuddered again, and she seemed to be terrified of strange adult men, and regarded Charlotte as the embodiment of the devil.

Charlotte had no choice but to shut up, and after a while of reassurance, the old woman calmed down a little, and continued while trembling.

Later, two bold young men from the village groped into the wooden shed of the stranger in the middle of the night, and found that the bowl of the wooden shed had bright red blood, and there were still strange patterns in the livestock shed. The young man who escaped told the village chief about it. Afterwards, angry villagers surrounded the stranger's shed.

At this, the old woman trembled again. They shouted strange words such as 'demons, flutes', and so on. Charlotte didn't dare to forcibly peek into her memory, so she had to hold back her mood and keep reassuring the other party.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that the old woman finished telling the last story.

The strangers fled. But after a few days, one night a strange flute sounded in the village, and the adults fell asleep listening to the flute, while the children disappeared. Someone stared in a daze, and the children clapped their hands as if they were sleepwalking, dancing briskly, following the sound of the flute behind a slender figure, and gradually walked into the mountains and forests.

That's not a dream.

When I woke up the next day, all the children in the village were gone, including Lena, my precious granddaughter, who was dependent on the old woman.

It is precisely because of this that the people in the village will be extremely hostile to Charlotte and other strangers, and the old woman will not be able to bear the huge blow and become insane.

She always thought that she didn't take good care of her granddaughter, ashamed of her son, and let her only sustenance in this world disappear. If it weren't for the little fantasy in her heart, she would have died with her sons.

After the story is over, Charlotte asks Vivien to cast a spell of restful sleep. At the same time, he is also using suggestive dream techniques on the old woman, hoping to use psychotherapy to restore the old woman's senses.

After putting the old woman into the dilapidated wooden house, the four of them sat in the dilapidated courtyard and lit a bonfire to prepare their meals for the evening.

"Teacher, what do you think is going on?" asked Vivien, boiling the porridge, "Could it be the undead?"

"Could it be Gloria's gang again?" Lolita also made her guess.

Elle propped her delicate chin in her hands, stared straight at the porridge on the bonfire, and didn't say a word.

Charlotte shook her head, "I don't know, but I don't think it's Gloria's gang." With her character, she shouldn't have done such a troublesome and point-losing thing. ”

"Why do you want to do so much!" At this time, Elle couldn't wait to stretch out her hand to the freshly cooked porridge, and she said while shouting hot, "Wait and see in the wooden shed." ”

She made a rare suggestion that was constructive.