Chapter 18: Faintly Uneasy (Third Watch)
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"The light rain continues, I'm afraid it won't stop for a while, let's speed up and hurry over to avoid the rain." Lynch proposed.
The three of them sped up, and after rushing over with one foot of water and one foot of mud, they only found that the town was almost empty, and there were few people left.
Finding a slightly dilapidated hut at random, Lynch pushed the door open and stepped into it first.
"Ahem." The dust came to his face, choking Lynch with a cough.
After a few moments, Lynch took a closer look and found that it seemed to be an ordinary town resident, and the furnishings were simple.
Thinking of his own home in Water Town, Lynch actually felt a bit similar.
"Brother Lin, it's so desolate here." Tian Tian also saw the scene in front of her clearly, and immediately found the word "desolate" with her not rich vocabulary.
"yes, it's dilapidated." Lynch nodded when he heard this.
The bed, the table, the candlestick, almost every part of the room was covered with thick dust, as if no one had lived in it for years.
"Master, leave it to Yiyi." Yiyi suddenly smiled at Lynch, her eyes as bright as stars.
Lynch's heart warmed, and at the same time, he was happy.
With Yiyi, everything is so much easier and easier!
……
Half an hour later, it was getting dark.
When a half-burning candle was found and lit, the room was much brighter.
"Yiyi, thank you for your hard work." Lynch looked at the much cleaner hut and smiled at Yiyi.
"For the sake of the master, Yiyi is willing." Yiyi's eyes are gentle.
Lynch's heart warmed.
"You rest in the house for a while, and I'll go out and see if there's anybody." Motioning for Yiyi and Tiantian to rest in the house, Lynch immediately pushed the door and came to the bluestone road of the town.
The light rain has been much lighter unconsciously, only a little bit of rain falls on Lynch's head from time to time.
The bluestone slabs on the town's path were already covered with moss, and there were empty and uninhabited huts everywhere, which added a bit of desolation to the town.
"Hopefully there are still people living there, so I can ask about the destination." Lynch recalled the town the village chief had spoken of, and was eager to inquire about the destination.
Because the village chief said at that time, if you come here, you can ask the people here about the exact direction of the destination.
While thinking and searching, I walked from the east end of the town to the west end, and finally saw a little glimmer of light in a certain house in the west.
"Good thing it's someone!" Lynch was overjoyed and quickened his pace.
When I got closer, the "clucking" chickens in the courtyard of the hut confirmed that it must have been inhabited.
"Knock knock." Lynch knocked softly on the door.
"Anyone?"
A moment later, the door creaked open, revealing an old face.
It was an old woman, about seventy or eighty years of age, with gray hair, cloudy eyes, and a washed white coarse linen garment.
"Asking for directions?" The old woman's voice was old, and she struggled to keep her eyes open, looking at Lynch.
"How do you know?" Lynch was shocked.
"Who can knock on the door of my dying man if he is not here to ask for directions?"
"And, half an hour ago, two people came to ask for directions." The old woman's tone was indifferent, at this age, it seemed that it was difficult to move her by looking down on the world.
"Huh?" Lynch frowned, a little unexpectedly for the old man's words.
Is there anyone else going there besides themselves?
"Can you tell me who those two are?" Lynch hurriedly asked.
"I'm an ordinary village woman, how can I know...... But if you go to the ruined town with you, you should know. The old woman never meant to let Lynch into the house, and stood at the doorway and said casually, as if she did not want Lynch to disturb her life.
Lynch saw that the old man was already a little tired and impatient, and he didn't embarrass the other party, so he endured the doubts in his heart, took out the map from his arms, and gestured to her the circle outlined by the red brush, "Please also tell me the route to get here." ”
The old woman glanced at it with cloudy eyes, nodded and said, "That's right, those two are also asking here......
"If you want to be simple, but if you want to live, it's not that simple."
"Just go down the road to the west of the town, and after ten kilometers you will see a small river, and if you go up this river, you will be in the ruined town in the same day."
The old woman said, sighing.
"I don't know what you're going to do here...... The place had been abandoned three years ago, and the more than 200 people in the town had all died overnight, with rivers of blood and mountains of corpses. ”
"Not only that, but even our small town, which used to be quite populated, has been dragged down, and three years ago, people ......have all left with their families in tow," said the old woman, whose face was full of sadness, and then she seemed to have no more to say, and turned to close the door.
"Old man, can you answer my last question...... What is the reason for all this? "Lynch had already gotten the general news from the village chief before, but now he wanted to be sure.
"What else could it be...... That damn beast. The old woman glanced at Lynch, and finally slammed the door shut.
Sure enough, it's a mysterious beast again!
For these ordinary people, the Mysterious Beast is the source of all disasters!
Even if it weren't for the Venerable One to hunt the Mysterious Beasts near the Water Town, I'm afraid the Water Town would not have been peaceful in recent years......
There was a little more jealousy of the mysterious beasts near the abandoned town in his heart, and after a while, a trace of incomprehension flashed in Lynch's eyes.
"But who are those two?"
It stands to reason that His Holiness's map is only for himself.
"Whew." After breathing a sigh of relief and thinking to no avail, Lynch returned to the hut again.
……
"Crunch."
Lynch had just pushed the door in, and the sound of sweet surprise had already sounded.
"Brother Lin, I succeeded!"
Hearing this, Lynch looked up, and his previous depression was swept away, and he was immediately shocked and his eyes showed surprise.
I saw that on the palm of Tian Tian's right hand at this time, the Xuan Force condensed into the thickness of a silver needle, standing on it, and even bending, penetrating the grass ring in Tian Tian's left hand that was the size of an eye!
"Sss Lynch, who reacted, immediately gasped, and it was only then that Lynch realized how shocking Tiantian's talent was!
You know, it's only been two days, and Tiantian has actually done this!
"Tiantian, since you have been able to control the Xuan Power to such an extent...... We're going to try to fix the treasure tonight! ”