In the early morning, the sky is faint.

The blacksmith shop in Uto Village had not yet started, and the annoying sound of striking iron had not yet sounded, so Jimmy deliberately took advantage of this time to come to the village at the foot of the mountain.

"Trap, trap, where did this Uncle Hammer hide the trap?"

By the faint light, Jimmy sneakily touched the shelves for a long time and finally scratched his head, he didn't find the trap he was looking for, and glanced out the door, Jimmy was about to stretch out his dirty little hand to the next shelf, but before this hand could be stretched out, someone was carrying the collar and slipping up.

"Haha, I said why don't the cuckoos call today, it turns out that Jimmy, you kid came here, is it because you kid brought those 'evil dragons'? and then scared the birds away? haha. ”

Originally, Jimmy shrank his neck and shivered, but when he heard Uncle Hammer's familiar voice, Jimmy patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly shook his body to break free.

As soon as he turned around, it was Uncle Hammer from the blacksmith shop, Jimmy rolled his eyes and said complainingly: "Uncle Hammer, you scared me to death, I thought it was the nasty guys of sweet potatoes." ”

Anyway, he ignored the owner of the blacksmith shop, and not only continued to rummage through the shelves as if no one was around, but also called Uncle Hammer to help him find the traps.

Seeing Jimmy's grizzled face in a pile of goods, Uncle Hammer shook his head, took a few dark traps from the top of the container, handed them to Jimmy, and said, "Hehe, although your father handed you over to me to take care of, you can't always sneak around in the morning to pick and choose, although they are all worthless little things." ”

Taking the trap, Jimmy's voice weakened a little: "It's not that I didn't pay, I'll catch a few hares and send them over when I go back......."

Looking at this young man who had almost grown up, Uncle Hammer sighed and persuaded, "Why don't you move down and live with us, what's the matter if you always live on that mountainside?" ”

"No, I can't. ”

Rubbing against the cold, rough surface of the trap, Jimmy looked a little shaken, and he replied categorically, "I still need to be on guard in the Wolf's Tooth Mountain Vein, according to my father's calculations, those man-eating dragons will definitely reappear, they ......."

"Jimmy!"

The uncle's tone was a little heavier, but looking at Jimmy who was pouting, Uncle Hammer, who wanted to say something, sighed, and finally squatted down and pressed Jimmy's thin shoulder, and said softly: "Jimmy, the dragon eats people is already a legend countless years ago, and it can't even be said if it is a legend."

After all, no one has seen or heard of an evil dragon since the founding of the village, and although everyone is grateful to your father for driving the beasts away from the mountains, the dragon's story is ultimately just your father's speculation from the scrolls.

Who knows if the people who left these scraps of paper back then just recorded their dreams?"

"My dad didn't lie! I saw with my own eyes that my father was taken by the dragon and ........"

"Jimmy, why can't you tell the difference between dreams and reality until now?" Have you forgotten your mother, isn't she ...... because of this?"

Uncle Hammer yelled halfway through it, and Jimmy in front of him jerked his head up, revealing a thin, dirty little face, but tears welled up in his eyes.

“....... I'm sorry, Jimmy, I'm not this ......."

"Uncle Hammer is a fool!"

Pushing Uncle Hammer's hand away, the traps fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and Jimmy ran out of the blacksmith without looking back.

"Alas, this kid ......"

Uncle Hammer propped himself up and watched helplessly as Jimmy trotted out of the village, and was about to start the day with the fire on his back, when the flesh on his waist was pinched hard.

"I told you to talk to Jimmy and get him to move down from the mountain, and that's what you said?"

"Oops, it hurts, it hurts, wife, don't pinch it. ”

Although she was unforgiving, the woman let go of her husband, and looked at Uncle Hammer, who pretended to be pitiful, and the woman snorted coldly, and leaned on the door frame, Jimmy's figure had faded away, and her tone was sad.

"Poor boy, how can you live well on that mountain by yourself, alas, my sister is good in everything else, how can she pass on her strong temperament to Jimmy......."

"Hmph~ Uncle Hammer is so annoying, so I didn't even take the trap. ”

Do you want to go back and get some more? As soon as the idea came to him, Jimmy shook his head and dismissed it, and by this time it was already dawn, and eighty percent of the pesky fellows of the sweet potatoes had already gone to work at the blacksmith shop, and now they ran back, and this was not just a reason to laugh at the nasty fellows.

"Well, it looks like we're going to have to lean on those fences tonight, Dad, bless me in heaven, and those beasts don't come to our house tonight." ”

Outside Uto is a stretch of farmland with a lilac cabbage-shaped plant, the villagers' main vegetable, and after a few more runs, Jimmy swayed slowly down the path to the mountain.

Beyond the confines of the farmland, the surroundings were barren at a rate visible to the naked eye, bare without a single grass, but a little further along the way, there stood a towering mountain peak, and the slopes of the hill were covered with lush forests, the kind of terrain that a pan-continenter would have doubted seemed natural and warm to Jimmy's eyes, for that was where he had grown, though now only he was left there.

The plains turned into mountains, and the terrain rose sharply, which made the Wolf Tooth Mountains always blow a slightly cold wind sooner or later, and Jimmy couldn't help but tighten his collar,

The higher you climb, the more branches of the trees grow, the darker the daylight becomes, and the thick, rotting leaves that accumulate on the ground become more annoying. Jimmy stepped on thick deerskin boots and climbed halfway up the mountain along a strange route.

The route took Jimmy most of the day to complete the path of the northern foothills of the Wolf's Tooth Mountains, and as usual, Jimmy had set traps for dragons everywhere and again to no avail, but they did catch some other beasts.

The hunt was not very rich, but it was not satisfactory, and after a circle, it was probably three rabbits and two large birds with gorgeous feathers that could not be named, and Jimmy took the hare out alone to prepare for Uncle Hammer tomorrow morning, and picked back a large number of wild fruits along the way, filling the stomach should be no problem, and it should not be really always for nothing to take Uncle Hammer's things.

However, what made Jimmy slightly concerned was that there was a trap that was clearly activated, but there was no sign of the prey, and it was not just the prey that broke free on its own, or was taken by some larger beast, which Jimmy had encountered before

Tying up the vines torn from the book of her prey, Amy looked up, and among the shadowy branches, the sun was obscured by only a small speck of light, and the sunlight shining on Jimmy seemed to be colder.

"I'm going to go home soon. ”

I said to myself in my heart, although this is not a big forest, and it is safe on weekdays, but after all, this is a forest that is not disturbed by humans, and grows wildly, and there are some big beasts that Jimmy can't cope with are dormant and hunting here, and only when he returns to his cabin surrounded by beasts can he feel a trace of safety and warmth

Picking up dead branches, Jimmy staggered deeper into the woods, where the trees grew thicker and thinner, and the light shining through the canopy of the trees became more and more thin, and his hut was in the depths of the forest.

The hut was small and dilapidated, and I don't know how long it had been here, but around the hut there was a circle of broken fences, and judging by the sparseness of the fences, I am afraid that it could no longer serve any defensive purpose. But Jimmy immediately slumped down, and a bundle of dead branches was scattered on the ground, for he saw the fire in his cabin!

"Whoa. ”

After finding the flint and steel to light the bonfire, the cold accumulated by the early morning night wind was finally forced out of her body, and Linda added the rest of the firewood to the fire, and the flame was suddenly raised a lot, and she could finally sit on the ground and rest for a while.

As long as she recalls the crisp and neat self-explosion of Nicholas VI yesterday, Linda will still feel cold all over her body, facing the despair of death, she didn't even have the strength to move her feet at that time, if it wasn't for Roger who threw himself into this strange place in an instant, she would probably have gone to the god domain to serve the gods, right?

Linda pursed her lips vigorously and looked at the unconscious Roger with a tightly knit brow beside her, this blasphemer who needed to be arrested by the Pope himself, Linda's heart was numb.

Roger was seriously injured, although the unfamiliar spatial rift helped him escape from Nicholas VI's sanctuary before the self-explosion, but in order to protect Linda, he was still affected by the shock of the self-explosion, even if it was the aftermath, ordinary people would be shocked to pieces, although there was no doctor here for the time being, but Linda believed that Roger could survive, because Linda noticed that the wound on Roger's calf had stopped bleeding, and the torn flesh was actually wriggling to repair the wound, which was bitten by the beast when Linda dragged Roger to this hut before。

Speaking of the trap, Linda patted her dirty little face, and pulled the chicken chop from the trap almost exhausted Linda's already exhausted physical strength, plucked a golden chicken, and did not remove the internal organs, just roasted it on the bonfire.

With all that done, Linda was stunned by the crackling campfire.

As far as she was concerned, who had grown up following the life of a nun of the Church of Light, the series of events she had experienced before her were far beyond her comprehension, none of which Mama Sophia had ever told her how to deal with them, and the texts that sang the praises of the Light did not give her hints—whether it was Nicholas VI's cruelty or her own actions—all of which left the young nun at a loss.

Maybe Linda hasn't realized it yet, but there has been a crack in the faith that was originally deeply rooted in her heart.

"Who are you!?"