Morton and Vanessa looked at the group of people in front of them, unable to believe their eyes—what about their legs?

"Guests from afar, please, please come to our village for a break and taste our home-brewed bar." The first kind-looking middle-aged woman reached out and made a gesture of invitation, and a dozen legless youths behind her sideways gave way to Vanessa and Muton.

Like the legless people, Vanessa looked at them curiously. The legs of these men disappeared from the knee down, and they were supported by wooden brackets for walking, and Vanessa would hardly notice the strangeness of their walking if it weren't for the creaking sound of the magically powered brackets; And their legs don't seem to be broken by birth, but have a sleek closure like the top of a sausage, as if they were gently touched by a blade-like hand, and you don't even feel their pain.

Muton continued to brow as always, thinking about the incredible things he had encountered; Vanessa was in charge of asking, "Pardon me for taking the liberty of your legs—"

The middle-aged woman turned around, and the wrinkles on her face were full of anticipation, "Please don't be afraid, we are not wicked, and our legs were not sawed off because we did bad things. ”

By this time someone had already come over and prepared hot water and towels for Vanessa, and the guests were well received, and in a few moments Vanessa was standing in front of Muton with a new look. The Duke had also changed his dirty clothes, and it was clear that the villagers were experts at cleaning grease, and they were just as simple and hospitable as the villagers in the rest of the Land of Midsummer, except for their weird legs.

Next came the breakfast for the guests, and oh my God, it was a feast. The feast was sumptuous, with the finest wines and bloody, half-cooked roast beef, stuffed duck, and buckets of fresh crab. The girls, dressed in delicate woolen cloth and gorgeous velvet, went in and out, and the fragrance was wafting. Vanessa found that the younger children's legs were intact, and it seemed that people here would not be eligible to have their legs sawed off until a certain age. At the thought of this, the princess felt a chill down her spine, and she had no intention of tasting the food they had served.

"I think one of them will come out in a moment," Vanessa whispered to the Duke, "either to ask us to solve the problem, or to borrow our lives." ”

Muton frowned, "If they do need help—"

"Think of your mother, she's the one who needs your help the most." Vanessa shoved a plum pie into her mouth.

"Young man, we won't delay you too much." The old voice rang out behind the two of them, and Vanessa swallowed the pie as she looked back at the puzzle behind her. The visitor was a thin old man with malnutrition written all over his face, but a glittering magic crystal on his chest was particularly eye-catching.

The old man did not use the magic stand, he walked on the ground with his hands instead of his legs, and came to the duke, "Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Hackner, I am the chief of the village here, we do have a request for you, only you can save the village of Falling Rock from the evil spirits." ”

"Keep talking, I'm listening." Vanessa took a sip of wine with her hands, not as sweet as the golden wines of the city-states, but with a different flavor.

"If there is really karma in this world, then it should be the people in our village who believe in it the most." The old village chief recalled that time and couldn't help but sigh, "We have lived in these rock formations for generations, and we have no quarrel with the world, and we don't even know about the change of dynasty, and we don't care about foreign wars. ”

Speaking of which, Vanessa glanced at the Duke, she did not disclose her identity, firstly, she did not know the details of this gang, and in addition, she did not want her plan to be thwarted.

"Just a hundred years ago, children began to be lost in the cave," the old village chief pointed to one of the older men, "it was his aunt, and a boy from another family. The people searched everywhere and searched every cave in the entire village of Rockrock, but they found no clues, until the third child disappeared. ”

The old village chief glanced at the old man, "You see," the man had a bloated body and perfect features, and even if he was already old, he could see how charming he was when he was young, but this beautiful appearance was concealed by obesity, which made him look indescribably strange. "As beautiful as his face is, there are as many layers of fat on his body, which is a magic that continues with the transmission of their family's bloodline. I can't tell if it's a blessing or a misfortune, God is fair, and has given you a beautiful face, and fatal flaws will follow. ”

Vanessa's heart shook, and she turned her head to look at the fat old man with a handsome face, fortunately, it's okay, it's not herself, if I have a body like that, I wonder if these kings and grandchildren will come to propose to him? I'm afraid that without Sorenda's repeated victimization, I myself will commit suicide in shame. But God is indeed fair, and He did not make my beautiful life smooth sailing, and I had a distress that ordinary people could not imagine. Some long-lost images were about to surface, and Vanessa squeezed the duke's hand vigorously, forcing the memory in her mind.

"That girl's name is Ellaria," the fat old man took over the village chief's words, his voice was low and deep, if you closed your eyes and listened, you would imagine him as a mighty knight or lord noble, but his huge body can successfully crush all your imagination, "she is beautiful, of course, you are also beautiful, strange young lady," the old man did not forget to praise Vanessa's beauty, "which is why we are not surprised to see you." At the age of twelve, Ellaria was already as beautiful as a fairy, and people could not even find words to describe her, and all the good rhetoric seemed dull to her, but it was confined to the part above her neck," said the old man sadly, "and can you imagine that she weighed 500 stones, three times as much as I did. Vanessa couldn't help but open her mouth wide, this old man was already the fattest person she had ever seen in her life, and it was hard to imagine that there could be a bigger body than him in the world.

"Ellaria was so sorry for herself, she locked herself in the cave and never went out until someone found out she was missing."

"Missing?" The Duke and Vanessa looked at each other and asked in unison, "Who can steal that big thing?" ”

"yes, we all think that way, too." "She couldn't even go out, and when she was ten years old, her parents even widened the door of the cave in order to let her go out and play with normal children, but that didn't make poor Ellaria happy, she was so fat that in the end, even her family gave up." In this way, the little girl hid in her cave all day long, sullen. ”

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