Volume 1 The Land of the Dead Chapter 156 The First Glimpse
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.
Jimmy's subconscious complaint fell into Roger's ears, and the latter chewed a little different.
Is there a trace of precipitation here? There may be some priests of the gods in the pan-continent who can do this kind of thing, but this is really a bit strange in this different world.......
Tilting his head sideways, wringing out his wet hair, and by the way, covering his long ears that were unusual for ordinary people, Roger, who was muttering to himself, flashed in front of his eyes in the different dark way here, and there was some inexplicable sense of déjà vu in his mind.
In order to verify his thoughts, Roger raised his eyebrows and asked pointedly: "Why, listen to your meaning, there are still characters in your Utopian village who can predict when it will rain?
"You don't have to know it, it rains regularly every day, and a three-year-old child knows it," Jimmy said the most unbelievable fact with the most natural expression, "The village will have a day and night of rain every two days, and I heard that it has been like this since the birth of the village, and this precipitation is our most direct source of water when the water source of the Wolf's Tooth Mountains is depleted."
However, the recent rain is a bit strange, either early or late, or it has been raining for a short time, and the village chief said that it was the ancestors warning us of laziness....... I don't know if it will affect the harvest of seaweed. ”
Noticing Linda's surprised expression, Jimmy asked suspiciously, "Isn't it raining outside like this?"
Roger and Linda shook their heads in unison, saying that this was definitely not a normal law of nature.
Compared with Linda, who was amazed by the 'strange laws' of the other world, Roger suddenly thought of the large water tank that he had seen in Utopian Village before, where every house must collect rainwater.
It's funny, the hidden destroyed spaces, the villages that have been isolated for a long time, the oracles that Linda receives that seem to be gods, the 'evil dragon' caves that appear from time to time, and the fixed and rhythmic weather patterns....... There are more and more strange things in this world, Roger licked his dry lips and thought to himself.
The three of them hid under the tree for a long time, but the momentum of the rain did not weaken in the slightest, according to Jimmy, the rain in Uto Village usually lasted for a whole day and night, and now that the pattern of rain was broken, he could not say when it would stop.
The lightning and thunder in the sky were wave after wave, and even some of them intensified, if it weren't for the wrong script, Roger would have wanted to shout 'which Taoist friend is here', and even Linda began to worry about whether hiding under the tree was a suitable decision.
The sound of rain mixed with thunder echoed in his ears, and Jimmy simply continued the topic he had just said.
"Where did you just go....... By the way, when I came down from the mountain that day, my father was seriously ill for a few days, and the witch doctor in the village didn't see anything wrong, but the high fever did not go away, and people were always in a daze. Just when everyone in the village thought that my father would not survive, he suddenly recovered.
At that time, my aunt, the mother of the sweet potato you met today, wanted me to live in their house, but I thought that my father was alone in the mountains and no one took care of him, so I followed. ”’
Leather boots drew circles on the muddy water under his feet, perhaps because he remembered his father, Jimmy's voice gradually mixed into the sound of rain: "Actually, if you really want to live here, the situation is not as bad as expected, although at first there were often wild beasts to harass in the middle of the night, but after living for a long time, it has become popular, and the animal trap made by Uncle Hammer has caught a lot of wild beasts, and it is gradually safe there." ”
"As for my father's purpose, I don't know the truth, if I have to say, since his serious illness, I always feel like he is a completely different person, usually except for hunting time, my father often shut himself in his room, I once sneaked in while he was not there, only to see his room full of strange symbols that I had never seen before, and later I found that it was consistent with the text on the rubbing. ”
"Symbols, why haven't I seen them in your house before?" asked Roger, after a moment of silence.
"They were all written on the wall by my father, just behind my cottage, where there was a small storage room, where my father had tinkered with these things before. ”
Linda frowned and analyzed for a while, as if suddenly realized: "Could it be that something strange happened to my father? Could it be that the evil dragon caused his personality to change? Maybe his experience was because of the attack of the evil dragon?"
Jimmy spread his hands and said helplessly: "I don't know where this is, after all, I didn't follow him that time, but although my dad seems to have changed as a person, in fact, the change is not so obvious, he still hunts every day as usual, and sells the prey in the village, and the villagers don't notice anything, maybe only I get along with my dad day and night to find a little bit of detail." ”
"What's so strange about it......." Jimmy said after a pause, not so certainly, "it seems like dad was always saying things like time was running out all the time. ”
"Time is running out?" Roger snapped.
"Well, I have a very good impression of this sentence, he always hangs on his lips, and I can clearly feel that my father is a little anxious in those days, he always goes out alone when it is close to night, and comes back in a hurry late at night, and his body is either muddy or covered with scars, and sometimes there is a strange smell on his body, which I have never smelled. ”
Roger's eyes flashed over the world of destruction he had been to before, and he told Jimmy what he thought, but Jimmy quickly shook his head.
"When you came back in the morning, you said that there was another world, and I wondered if he had gone there, but it should be impossible, and whether my father understood your 'tricks' or not, even if the distance alone was not enough time to get from that little river to my house. ”
Roger nodded thoughtfully, and Jimmy continued, "Later, it was the day my father was taken captive by the dragon. ”
Linda and Roger immediately pricked up their ears, and the story finally reached the most critical part, and even the gloomy canopy was very cooperative.
"It was the same day, it was a rainy day, and my father, as usual, went out of the house in the evening, and he told me not to go out at night, but that day, it was the middle of the night, and my father still did not come home, and there was a more and more obvious strange sound in the distant col, so I boldly took up my hunting knife and walked towards the col. ”
"When I got close to the col, the strange sound disappeared completely, and the silence around me was terrible, even the normal insect chirping disappeared, and then my heart felt like it was about to jump out, and then I was blown to the ground by a sudden gust of wind, and my head should have hit a stone, and I struggled to open my eyes when I was drowsy, and I know that the scene I see is now unforgettable—a behemoth flew over my head, and it just rolled me up." The wind' was actually the dragon's breath through its mouth and nose, and it smelled exactly the same as the strange smell I had smelled on my dad before.
Before I fell unconscious, I saw two huge 'scarlet' moons light up in the darkness that followed, and I could only see the general outline, exactly like the one on the banner you drew yesterday, and it was holding my father, and I will never forget that big hideous face!" Jimmy said through gritted teeth, clenching the hunting knife at his waist.
There was another thunderclap, and at this moment, what Roger feared happened in the distance, the piercing lightning slashed at the cliff peak in the heights, causing a piercing roaring explosion, and the three of them searched for their reputation, and a green oak tree was split in half and ignited it. Many of the birds that had been huddled there to hide from the rain were burned to death in an instant, and the few survivors screamed and flew up, hovering like enduring dark clouds.
"Well, the story will be told later, or ....... Shall we rush back?" had seen the scorched and collapsed wreckage of trees struck by lightning on the mountain before, but the impact of the 'live version' still startled Jimmy.
"Yes, but ......."
Noticing Linda's embarrassed look, Roger stood up very intimately and said, "Leave this to me, it may be a little hot later, you can bear with it a little." ”
With that, Roger moved away from Linda and the others slightly, the red and transparent scorching shield unfolded in front of him, the humid air was slightly distorted by the sudden heat, and the condensed magic elements appeared in the form of blazing flames, and the water droplets that originally dripped between the branches and leaves evaporated with a stabbing sound before they touched the range of the scorching shield.
Jimmy's eyes widened, and the little tricks that the siblings said were really eye-opening, whether it was the beautiful sparkle that lingered all over Linda's previous prayers, or Roger's current miraculous way of sheltering from the rain.
Roughly comparing the size of Jimmy and Linda, Roger changed the magic structure of the scorching shield, and the originally transparent shield gradually solidified, but the area continued to expand, like a plastic film that was pulled and stretched, and finally formed a huge 'umbrella' that was enough to envelop the three of them.
Although Linda reluctantly hid under the magic 'umbrella', she still couldn't stop glancing at the 'blasphemy' power of the propaganda, which was different from the dense ticking sound of water droplets hitting the umbrella, which was an incessant piercing sound with an unusually harmonious rhythm.