Wearing a suspender shirt common among craftsmen, the burly man held a hammer in his left hand and a spear in his right hand, the tip of which was placed on the forging platform in front of him.

There was a hint of contemplation in his resolute countenance, as if he was thinking about how to do the best job at hand.

This is the first statue Donald saw when he walked out of Corta Station, standing in a flower bed in the middle of the main road at the exit of the station.

"It is said that this is the incarnation of the god of craftsmen, and such a statue is placed here so that everyone who comes to Corta knows about the religion here?"

Anthony was also looking at the sculpture, and the public bookshelves on the train contained descriptions of the city of Corta.

"I guess it's like when we first arrived in Delchimo and saw the sun emblem on the street lamp...... But the city is a bit beyond my imagination. ”

The combination of craft and forging was the first impression that came to Donald's mind of a city of refinement and elegance, such as the wide streets paved with large square bluestone slabs, the cornices with small sculptures of birds and beasts at the corners, the Gothic tower structure, and the large carved bell tower on the outside.

However, the reality is always very different from the imagination.

Due to the heavy snow and gloomy sky, Donald saw a barely modern industrial city, with large chimneys and large factories beneath it, black smoke and fire as the main tone, the air smelled like sulfur and some other industrial raw material, and the faces of passers-by were covered with a gray mask.

Negative emotions such as exhaustion and dullness appeared on almost everyone's faces, this state made everyone look very cold, and this indifference created a special atmosphere around them, just like ordinary people walking into a damp and rotten wooden house, even if they can see through everything here at a glance, they still start to worry about whether there is a monster hiding in a corner......

"I don't like it here, whether it's Delchimo or Bérouye, it's so much better than here. ”

As a woman, Stephanie was undoubtedly emotional, and such a scene was naturally unlikely to arouse any affection from her, and she turned around and rummaged through the cart she had just bought to find her mechanical mask, barely isolating some of the foul air.

"But this is the richest of the cities in Weslingshire, and it is said that the richest people born here are more than the other cities around it combined. ”

Anthony holds the magazine in one hand and a pear under his nose in the other, relying on this method to avoid the air pollution of his olfactory system, which is so valuable as a top chef.

"Severy, I'll send Mr. Priest to the church here, and then I'll ask the priest of the Craft and Forge sect to introduce me to a craftsman, and tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock in the city, we'll be in the city of Corta...... Mermaid fountain meets. ”

Jacqueline said as she walked a few steps out of the station and walked to Donald's side.

"Mermaid fountain?"

It was already evening, and it would be night in a while, and Donald and his party had to look for a place to stay, so he had no objection to going to the craftsman tomorrow, but he didn't know where the mermaid fountain was.

"Sorry, it's your first time in Corta, right? The Mermaid Fountain is located in the Central Park of Corta City, and it's easy to find a famous building in the area. ”

Noticing the embarrassed look on Donald's face, Jacqueline hurriedly added.

After making an appointment with the location, the two groups of people naturally went their own way.

Walking into Corta, Donald thought that the city's environment would make a difference, after all, Anthony said that the city's affluence should be higher than that of several other surrounding cities, but the reality disappointed Donald again.

This is a thoroughly industrial city!

Everywhere in the city is like some standard products produced on an assembly line, and if there are only one or two of them, it may give people a sense of neat beauty, but if there are such things everywhere, the cold lines and impersonal construction are really hard to see.

The crowd was even more depressed than what I had seen at the train station, most of them with their shoulders slumped and exhausted.

By affluence, I only refer to the upper class represented by the factory owners.

"No wonder there are more rich people than all other cities combined, it turns out that all the wealth of the common people is concentrated on those people......"

Donald's gaze wandered over the people passing by, and few of them had a happy look on their faces, which was not like the behavior of a person living in a wealthy city.

Of course, the city is not completely useless, at least Donald and the others can feel the heat from the heater when they walk into a restaurant with a decent façade, and the lights are still bright, and the faint aroma of food wafts from the back kitchen.

"It's so strange that the price of vegetables is about the same as meat......

Stephanie pointed to a few dishes on the menu and looked at the waiter next to her with some confusion.

"Because vegetables are a scarce ingredient here, the price may be a little higher, but we are absolutely confident in the taste. ”

The waiter explained with a pen and paper in his hand and a helpless look on his face.

In the end, Donald and his party asked for a vegetable soup in addition to the main food, which also attracted the attention of many guests next to him.

This is a privilege that only the rich have.

"When the Space Ring is finished, we'll leave the city, and this environment is not as good as the wilderness. ”

Looking at the snow scene outside the store, the snowflakes that should have been pure and beautiful now look a little unspeakably filthy, perhaps because of the black smoke emitted through those chimneys, no matter how Donald expressed concern about the air quality here, if it weren't for the space ring, he even planned to leave early tomorrow morning.

Jingle bell~

The hanging bell at the door swayed and made a crisp sound, and Donald's gaze, which had been stuck outside the window, subconsciously turned away.

Entering the door were a few people who were dressed differently from the citizens around them, or rather resembled them.

"Outlander. ”

These people, like them, are not locals.

"Outlander?

Stephanie asked a little strangely when she heard Donald's words.

"It's nothing, let's eat, we'll have to find a hotel later." “

The men were only two tables away from his side, and Donald didn't want them to mistake him for observing them.

There were no accidents until Donald and his party left, and the other party obviously noticed Donald's people, but the idea should be similar to Donald's, this is not a closed city, and it is normal to have outsiders.

"Donald, you should have noticed those people in the restaurant just now, right?"

After walking some distance from the restaurant, Anthony took the initiative to bring up the incident, much to the surprise of Donald, who was looking at the big factory in the distance.

"Questions?"

"It's not that there's a problem...... You know, my talent can be used to strengthen every aspect of the body, remember the strange beast we killed on the edge of the village, I ate its meat, my hearing has improved a lot, I just overheard their conversation, the content of which made me a little concerned. ”

One of Anthony's natural abilities is carnivorous, which he has now developed to the point where he can modify or evolve his body by devouring various special meats.

For example, at the beginning of the ability to explore, if Anthony eats rabbit meat, he can strengthen his leg muscles, and if he can make special food, the enhancement effect will be enhanced, but this strengthening will gradually weaken with the improvement of his physical fitness, such as how much rabbit meat he eats now, his leg muscles will not be strengthened at all.

"Huh?"

Raising an eyebrow, Donald asked after switching the Finger in his arms to a more comfortable position.

Several people were turning a street corner at this time, and there was a drunken man on the side of the road lying on the ground, dangling this wine bottle in his hand, and several people took a step to the other side in unison, and Lilo was about to step directly over him, but was taken aside by Donald by his head, and after bypassing him, he continued to walk forward, looking for a hotel nearby.

"They claim to be witchers, and they seem to have come here on some special mission to eradicate demons. ”

"Are you sure it's a witcher?"

Donald used to have certain illusions about this profession, you must know that he had read some miscellaneous books or played a game of cards with others without saying a word, and his understanding of the witcher was probably to travel all over the world, punish the evil and promote the good.

For this reason, he had considered whether to become a demon hunter, but he had never heard of such a strange person since then, and thought that it did not exist.

After all, there are religions in the faith area of the Ryan Empire, and there is a bureaucracy in the non-faith area, so there is really no need for demon hunters to exist.

I didn't expect to meet a few today.

"I heard it right, but the conversation was probably about the recent disappearances in Corta, and the fact that there are a lot of people in the city who are not in a good state of mind. ”

Anthony's memory wasn't as good as Donald's, and he could barely jot down a rough idea.

"I don't know why, it seems that we have to have someone keep vigil tonight, it's really troublesome, this city doesn't feel good, and now this kind of thing is happening, I think the missing person may not be eaten by some monster, but by this city......"

Probably because of the gloomy environment around him, Donald's mood was inexplicably a little low, and there were inevitably a few complaints in his mouth, and the corners of his eyes swept around, and he accidentally saw a shop window on the side of the road, but his footsteps suddenly stopped, not because of the few mechanical dolls in the window that were placed in wooden boxes for exhibition, but the street scene behind them reflected in the window,

"Anthony, I remember when we passed that intersection, there was a drunk man lying there, right?"

When I looked back, all I could see was the streets with snowflakes piled up under the dim street lights.

"Maybe I've crawled somewhere else, drunk, even if it's a person who runs around naked, I've seen a lot of them in Drenham's Pinjinwei before. ”

Stephanie turned her head sideways, leaning back to look at the position of the drunk before, where there was no one.

"Perhaps...... Let's hurry up and rest as early as possible, and we'll have to get up early tomorrow to find the mermaid statue. ”

Although he felt suspicious, Donald was reluctant to go back to inspect the scene, he was not idle enough to care about the life and death of a homeless man.

As they turned to leave, several long, winding trails were being re-obscured by snowflakes next to the spot where the drunkard had stayed......

With the help of roadside signs and Anthony's brochure about Corta, the group turned a few streets and saw a hotel that was specifically described in the brochure.

The interior of the store is brightly lit, but the wind and snow are gradually expanding outside, and even the mechanical lights on the street cannot dispel the surging darkness......

"It is said that travelers who have rested here will have a good night's sleep, and some believe that it may have something to do with the sculpture outside the hotel. ”

Anthony acted as a tour guide and pointed to the disc-shaped sculpture in front of him.

It was a gear with a metal, bone or wooden shaft and four spokes.

The emblem of the craft and forging sect.

Approaching against the wind and snow, several other people entered the hotel on their front and back feet, Donald walked at the end, his ears seemed to hear the sound of something breaking, and the next second he frowned, looked back at the gear sculpture, reopened the umbrella that had been retracted, stepped into the wind and snow, walked to the gear sculpture, his eyes went from top to bottom, and he paused in the middle.

In the wooden axis of the sculpture, a crack appeared......

"The voice just now, from here?"

Donald did hear the sound of cracking, it was normal for something else to freeze and crack in such a low temperature environment, this was the emblem of the god of craft and forging!

What exactly does this portend......

"Big Donald, Sister Stephanie asked me to come to the front desk to register!"

Julia shouted to Donald as she stood in the doorway with her little raccoon's hat in her hands.

"Okay, I'm here. ”

Retracting the hand that he had meant to reach over and touch the crack, Donald turned and entered the inn.

When I arrived at the front desk, I looked at the two waiters, and my heart was sighing again.

"You two, didn't you sleep well?"

Donald asked, looking at the other party's dark circles and half-open tired eyes.

Isn't it claimed that you can have a comfortable sleep experience as long as you stay here, but these two waiters look like they haven't slept well......

Is it too late to change hotels?

That's the first thing that comes to Donald's mind.

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