She was dressed in a rough linen blouse and narrow trousers, and her bare feet were also blue-gray stones, and the expression on her face was stiff, and she did not speak, but nodded slightly.

Silent Linda is what Alice calls her. The long-tongued women and urchins on the farmstead are more often called Ugly Linda or Gargoyle Linda. But in fact, she also has a long-forgotten real name, Linda Paltrow.

Until the age of fourteen, Linda Paltrow was just an ordinary little girl on Mel's Farm, and her father, Paltrow Sr., was also an unknown farmer. But the nightmare suddenly came one day, Linda suffered from a strange skin disease after a high fever, her skin began to lose its luster, become hard, and even molted her whole body many times, and finally formed a layer of blue-gray hard nails, and all her hair fell out and no longer grew.

She became ugly, became weird, was ridiculed and bullied by the long-tongued woman and the naughty child, and hid in the farmhouse all day long and did not dare to see anyone, which caused her personality to gradually become autistic, and she began to stop talking, and her only friend was the little dog given to her by her father, Kara.

A merciless illness robs a little girl of her face, but gives her another unexpected ability.

She became bald and stronger.

Tough armor skin, even the sharpest thorns can't pierce it, and you can't even feel pain. She can easily crush a bush of thorns or shrubs into pieces with bare feet. During the busy farming season, everyone has to work, and Linda is no exception, and that's how she began to show her talent.

The barley and rye mangs and branches could not scratch her skin. Under the scorching sun, she hardly sweated, and her strength became very vigorous, and she could stand in the wheat field with a sickle and work all day long. She could walk through the corn groves without any protection, and the most difficult cotton picking, the bloody pods that often pierced people's hands, were as fragile as paper in the palms of her hands.

She doesn't speak, but she works quickly, never lazy, and is the most efficient and hardworking farmer in the entire Blackstone Collar. Alice's father, Jarot, noticed this, and repeatedly ordered the other farmers not to humiliate and bully Linda, and privately told Alice that the silent Linda was the most useful farmer in Blackstone Collar.

In the face of Linda's efficient labor ability, ugliness is not worth mentioning.

From the age of 14 to 18, Linda's skin disease continued to worsen, and the thyroid cortex formed became thicker and thicker, and eventually the whole person was wrapped in a stone, causing her facial features to become less obvious. After the death of old Paltrow, Linda gave up on herself and frequented the dangerous Hurek Forest, not for food, but in the hope of meeting a hungry beast to free her from this ugly shell.

Proverbs of the Church of the Holy Spirit: Those who commit suicide cannot ascend to the heavens of light.

Linda's luck was good, and the first time she went, she encountered a very hungry jungle leopard, but the result made her cry and laugh, and the jungle leopard that pounced on her, bit her arm hard, and then ...... The fangs flew, the mouth was full of blood, and he screamed in pain, turned around and ran away.

The third time, he encountered six gray wolves, three of which had their teeth shattered......

The seventh time, I encountered the terrifying man-bear, and because I was so hungry that I used too much force, my mouth was almost broken......

Again and again, Linda suddenly seemed to have some kind of fun, wandering freely in the Hurek Forest, where no one dared to come, except to watch the beasts with bad intentions eat and escape, there were delicious pears, cherries, peaches, wild vegetables, and honey. She is the best at dealing with the hive, and the simplest, so she walks up and breaks it off, and then she puts it up and leaves, and those ferocious wasps circle around her like a tornado, but the tail needle is as futile as nailing to the iron wall of copper.

Linda loves to lie on the green grass of the Hurek Forest, with her dog Carla as her companion. There is no ridicule and strange eyes here, she can run indulgently, laugh indulgently, the bright sun and colorful wildflowers, so that her heart is gradually at peace.

This is the main reason why Alice sought her as a partner, because throughout the Blackstone Territory, Linda is the king who walks in the Hurek Forest. So much so that many beasts have a psychological shadow, and when they see this Voldemort-like strange man breaking into the forest, they all hold their tails, close their mouths, and escape as far as possible.

Linda is also familiar with the location of fruit trees and wild vegetables in the Hurek Forest, and many of the fruits are also ready to be picked when the harvest moon arrives. With Linda's help, you can do more with less.

"Linda, I need your help. Alice sat on her horse and said in a gentle tone: "The fruits and wild herbs of the Hurek forest are ripe, and I need them to do something very important." ”

The silent Linda never speaks, and naturally she doesn't leak secrets. Even her hard face couldn't make any expression, just silently knelt down on one knee and saluted, and then nodded heavily.

"You prepare, we'll go now. Be sure to come back before sunset!"

Linda nodded again, turned back into the room, took a hoe, an axe, and a large basket on her back, and whistled at her dog, Kara, the only tone of voice she had ever had in her throat in years.

Then Linda ran with the hound, she was very fast, rough and hard soles, not afraid of any thorns, and also had better stability, which was why she didn't need shoes.

Alice rode the snow behind, and on the slightly muddy dirt road, even the foal couldn't keep up with Linda's speed.

What a great person, Alice sighed in her heart.

When Linda and Alice were on their way, Qin Song fell into deep thought for a long time, this so-called Linda, both in appearance and behavior, was too weird. Although I don't know what she has experienced, there must be a demon when things go wrong.

To be sure, Linda is a woman, and despite her tall and thin stature, the feminine features on her chest are magnificent, and even more so than the mature Leah, and Alice is even more indescribable......

Qin Song had a hunch that the silent Linda was by no means as simple as looking ugly on the surface.

It's a pity that the role of [Connecting Brand] is only to share Alice's vision, and you can't use the ontology's [Check] skill, and you can't get more information about Linda.

I still have to keep upgrading.

In the evening, the drizzle stopped, and in the twilight, Alice and Linda made their way through the wilderness and returned to the castle. With Linda's help, the trip to the Hurek Forest went smoothly, and a lot of seasonal pears, apples, cherries and all kinds of wild vegetables were collected. Linda even picked a large honeycomb, which could fill at least a bowl of mellow honey.

Alice is confident in the revelation of the dream god, but when she returns to her room, she quickly realizes that the antidote from the god's mouth has indeed been found, and the question is - how to use it?

Boiled in a hot pot like an alchemist?

Or do you want to mash it all up and make it into an ointment?

It can't be a mysterious spell to stimulate the divine power in the antidote, right?

As Alice pondered over two large baskets of wild fruits and vegetables with her cheeks crossed, the old maid Mary brought the news that the scout that Leah had sent to Daotan Town before she left had returned, and with him an old priest who claimed to have cured the sea god's curse.