Volume 1 The Land of the Dead Chapter 155 A Question of Ideas
"Hmm~ If we want to go to the top of the Wolf's Tooth Mountain, we can get the answer we want to know after going around, from this style of speaking, it is indeed 'God' to do, but does this hint mean that what 'he' wants to tell us has something to do with what happened to Jimmy's father?"
After a moment of silence, Roger's brain was thinking rapidly, and suddenly, his head tilted, and he asked Linda with a strange expression, "Wait a minute, the oracle you received is only such a sentence?"
"yes, what's wrong?" replied Linda, pat the dust off her body.
"Do you need to understand such a simple message for so long, or is it your family's god who is stammering?"
I have to say that this guy Roger really doesn't miss every opportunity to complain about the gods, but this is not the first time Roger has provoked the majesty of the gods today, Linda took a deep breath and pretended not to hear the blasphemous words, but she couldn't help but regret that she was distressed for this guy in Vikz at that time.
"Isn't it vague for the gods to leave oracles, this is the majesty of the gods, and the gods can pass on their benevolence to mortals, and naturally mortals need to pay corresponding wisdom and piety to think about it. ”
Linda once again brought out the statements in the religious texts to prove her argument, and continued without thinking: "An oracle like this can be interpreted in an afternoon is already very fast, according to the "Ancient Ingot Chronicle", when the Twilight Age oracle was still frequently coming on the mainland, the longest record of interpreting the oracle was two months, during which the church was even divided into several factions to argue over the interpretation of the oracle, and this time my lord has conveyed the oracle to me as concisely as possible. ”
Linda's anger is not without reason, in fact, in most cases, you have to be a little obsessive-compulsive and can't be a priest, the reason is that they can't stand the lack of words and grammatical confusion in the oracle, but Linda can't help but take this kind of thing out of context when she elevates this kind of thing to the majesty of the gods.
The corners of Roger's mouth twitched, what a bad boss would do this kind of thing that is meaningless except for brushing up on fashion value, for the so-called 'majesty' and persisting for so many years, Lord God, you have really worked hard.
However, seeing Linda's anger the more she spoke, Roger naturally begged for mercy again and again, but he never apologized for his slanderous actions.
Facing Roger, who was not in the oil and salt, Linda couldn't help but get angry, turned to snort softly, and said to Jimmy: "I have nothing to say to you, or is it important to complete my lord's oracle........ Jimmy, can you tell me what happened to your father?"
"I've been trying to tell you all the time, but you have to go to the village chief first to investigate the isolation of the village, or I might have taken you to the top of the hill for a walk. ”
After a day of getting along, Jimmy's temperament was obviously much softer when facing the two, and his speech was not as concealed as yesterday, only to see him spread his hands and said helplessly, "Since you have returned to the mountain range, and you also want to go to the main peak of the wolf's tooth mountain range, then let's go back to my house first, I don't want to be halfway up when it suddenly gets dark, and it is scary to think about the wild at night." ”
Roger estimated the approximate time, and by the time they reached the cabin, it would probably be dark. Those 'ghosts, snakes, and gods' from last night will come out again, right? This time I'm going to see what the hell you are.......
Stepping out of the tidal flats along the riverbank, you will see the southern foothills of the Langya Mountains, where the terrain is noticeably steeper, and the plants are very different from the northern foothills, which are overgrown with tall trees, with blue-purple vines and dodder trees climbing on their thick trunks, and low, thorny shrubs that fill the lower spaces of the woodland.
"Bang! bang~"
Using the knife he carried with him to split the thorns in front of him, Jimmy barely carved out a path in front of him that he passed alone, and he was sweating profusely after walking for a long time.
Indeed, as he said, Jimmy was not familiar with the terrain of the southern foothills, and he did not distinguish it for a long time, and finally to his dismay found that he had not found the mountain road that had been used for the previous rite of passage, although after a year of abandonment, the path might have been overgrown with weeds, but it was easier than the way he had now carved out a path with great difficulty.
As for Linda, since receiving the instructions of the 'gods', the nun, who was originally at ease with her encounters, has obviously become much more positive, no longer the taciturn appearance, and has a faint tendency to alienate Roger, the blasphemer.
Looking at Linda's excited appearance, Roger couldn't help but want to complain in his heart, I don't know if the oracle you got is from a real god, even if it is, you won't be so excited when you hear a word from the god, right?
Once again, with all his strength, he split a clump of tangled vines and shrubs, and in front of him was a clearing, with only black humus soil, and surprisingly no growing plants.
Seeing the appearance of this clearing, Jimmy was obviously relieved, and said to Roger and Linda, who were not dealing with each other along the way: "Whew, take a little rest, I recognize this clearing, the mountain road for the coming-of-age ceremony should be nearby, and when you get on the mountain road, it will be easy to go around to the north." ”
Roger and the two nodded, Roger leaned against the thick trunk of the tree, and Linda dangled in the clearing, and after a while, she suddenly shouted, "Look, there is a fire here, it seems that it has not been extinguished for long." ”
Jimmy looked around, and sure enough, there was a simple fire surrounded by stones in the place Linda was pointing, and a few pieces of charcoal that were still emitting residual heat were emitting white smoke.
"It should be my cousin sweet potato, the one you met this morning, he is going to take a look at the situation of the mountain road today, he should rest here, after all, going up and down the mountain is such a resting point. ”
Jimmy said, "But why did you just leave? It's almost night, and half a day is definitely enough." ”
"Maybe it's because the mountain road collapsed somewhere?" Linda just wanted to cause a conversation, and sat next to Jimmy with her skirt up, and then took the opportunity to say, "Now that you're resting, why don't you tell me about what happened to your father?"
"That's fine, it's idle anyway. ”
Jimmy readily agreed, "Hmm~ Let me think about where to start........
"As I mentioned before, my dad once found evidence of the dragon's existence on the main peak of the Wolf's Tooth Mountains. ”
Roger nodded and said, "It's the inscription that you showed us earlier that is suspected to be a research handbook under your father's rubbing." ”
"And the roar your father heard in the cave at the top of the mountain. Glancing at Roger, who interjected, Linda added.
"Hmm. Jimmy nodded, "My dad didn't know about the existence of the dragon at first, I told you about this, and then one day, he suddenly understood the meaning of the text inexplicably, and he told the people in the village about the existence of the dragon and the huge threat, but he didn't believe my dad, he had to investigate the matter by himself, and from then on, the situation became strange." ”
Facing the two people with bewildered faces, Jimmy said: "I was born at that time, although my father was a hunter, but at first we actually lived in the village of Uto, about three years old, one day my father went up the mountain to hunt but did not return, until the night my father ran home with a pale face, as if something was chasing after him. ”
"Is it a dragon?" asked Linda tentatively.
Jimmy nodded, "My dad said that he was chasing a wild deer into an inaccessible area deep in the mountains that day, and then in the distance he suddenly heard a terrible roar of rage, and then there was a 'buzzing' sound like a bird flapping its wings, and my dad said he would never forget that unique sound, which was the roar of a dragon deep in the cave at the top of the mountain." ”
"From that night onwards, my father had a high fever that lasted for two or three days, and when he was getting better, he immediately moved with me and my mother to live in the Wolf's Tooth Mountains. ”
"Wait a minute, if you do hear that terrible roar again, then your father's choice should be to hide far away rather than run to the Wolf's Tooth Mountains of this strange origin. Linda asked, puzzled.
At this moment, without warning, thunder exploded on the flat ground, and through the gap between the lush branches and leaves, the originally clear sky was already covered with dark clouds at some point, and before the three of them could react, the pouring rain fell with thunder.
The rain curtain hung up, and the conversation obviously couldn't continue, even if the three of them hid under the tree to take shelter from the rain at the first time, but the heavy rain still made Roger and the three of them drenched in soup.
Water droplets dripped down the branches and leaves, and Roger was staring at the canopy above his head, worried about whether he would be struck by lightning, while Jimmy wrenched his soaked clothes complained, "Really, the recent rainy days are really getting more and more untimely, and there are still two days before the time comes." ”