251 Tragedy
Players were a little surprised to hear Anse's words.
Their first reaction was that it was a trap, but at best, their expressions were a little stiff, and they didn't act excessively.
After all, they don't really die, even if it's a trap, they just have to fight back after resurrection.
Anse saw that although the players had wonderful expressions, they were all very calm, and nodded in satisfaction.
He continued: "Even though I'm a radical, I also think they're going too far. ”
Hearing that the elf was going to tell a story, the players found their own chairs and sat down, but there were only six chairs in the room, and Anse himself sat on one, so the four players sat on the floor, one of them was Shuke, and Margaret sat on his lap, yawning from time to time.
Anse's gaze fell on Margaret's head, where there was a pair of cute dragon horns, his expression changed slightly, and then continued: "Just half a year ago, our people of the wrath of nature, on the border of Uganda, wiped out a human village, from old to young, from male to female, not one left, about two hundred people. Even the baby was spared, just because one of the villagers had sold our elven women. ”
As soon as these words came out, all the players' faces changed, and the players sitting on the ground all stood up.
Including Shuke, Margaret was directly bounced up by him, and the latter was taken aback.
But instead of blaming Shuke, she glared at Anse angrily, if Anse hadn't been talking nonsense, how could Shuck have been startled.
Sensing Margaret's unpleasant gaze, Anse felt a little tightened in his head, and anyone who was stared at like this by a dragon would not feel too comfortable.
Beta asked in an indifferent tone, "Confirm that this fact is true?" ”
"I don't need to lie about these things, how can I say that I am also an elf." "The original purpose of Wrath of Nature was to punish those who destroy nature, forests, rivers, or pollute the earth with evil magic. But now, the purpose of Nature's Wrath has become to slaughter humanity, believing that humans are heretics in this world, and that they are the cancer that destroys this world. ”
Anse held his face in his hands, so that people could not see his expression clearly, but everyone could still hear the endless loneliness and disappointment in his voice.
The general sense of the elf was recognizable.
The ideals he advocated were shattered, and the organization of his faith was contrary to the original idea.
If there was anything more terrible than death, it was probably what Anse was experiencing right now.
After a moment of silence, Anse raised his face in his hands again: "Two months ago, another village was killed, and half a month ago, they slaughtered a town. There were about 3,000 people, and none of them survived. Ten days ago, a brother in the organization questioned the legitimacy of what they did, and they brutally killed him, burying his body directly by the lake and turning it into a tree. ”
Hearing this, everyone's expressions became ugly.
Roland couldn't help but ask, "I'm sorry, we didn't suspect you, but what evidence can you provide?" ”
Anse seemed to have guessed that someone would ask, and he placed a blank sheet of paper on the table, a map.
Then he pointed to the three X's drawn on the map: "This is what I said, the place where the massacre was organized, you can go and see for yourself." ”
They exchanged glances, and finally Beta said, "Please give us a few days to think about it." ”
Anse nodded: "It's a matter of course. ”
A few people walked out of the tree house and walked to the edge of the forest, where Roland built a stone building with a magic dang on the flat ground, and everyone entered it.
Beta and a friend from the Silverwing Guild, both of them took out a table and a chair at the same time, as well as fruit wine, and ...... Barbecue.
Everyone ate slowly, no one spoke, and finally Roland spoke: "How many points do you think what Anse said is true?" ”
"Five points." Shu Ke put down the barbecue in his hand and said slowly: "Anyway, we have to investigate this matter carefully, I don't want to be a pawn or a tool in the hands of others." ”
At this time, a warrior of the Silver Wing Guild said: "It doesn't matter what tools he uses or not, the epic mission is just done, anyway, it's not civilians or humans who want to kill, it's just elves that are killed." ”
Roland sighed: "Aren't you afraid that this is a trap mission that will turn our camp from neutral good to evil?" ”
The warrior froze.
Everyone often scrolls through the forums, and now there are players on the forums who have told them that they have fallen into the 'quest trap'.
There is a player who is a mission maniac and takes the task when he sees it, but he is led step by step by a very sinister NPC to kill a lot of innocent people.
It wasn't until the camp tended to turn from neutral good to chaotic evil that it reacted.
And he is now wanted by the game system...... Several players have already been tasked with 'Remove the Evil Child of Gold and kill him to level zero'.
Mission experience is still very high.
Now this player can't delete the number if he wants to, and after entering the Temple of Life, he can't trigger the system function of 'deleting the number' at all.
It can only be killed again and again by other mission maniac players.
No one wants to be like that.
"Then let's divide into three ways and go to the location given by Anse to have a look." "Margaret and I will go the furthest place," Shuck suggested, and you should divide into two groups and go to the other two. ”
Hawke groaned and said, "I'm afraid what we see, it's just what the elf wants us to see." ”
Roland smiled: "But no matter what, there will always be some traces, and it is always okay for everyone to be cautious." ”
Everyone nodded, thinking that this was a good plan.
Then everyone quickly filled their stomachs and set off in three ways.
Shuck rode Margaret and turned into a black dot in the sky at great speed.
Beta looked up and was extremely envious: "It's good to be able to fly around." ”
Roland smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be better to find a way to learn wind flying magic in the future?" ”
"The magic that a warlock can awaken is random, except for a few dragon bloodline magics that are fixed." Beta sighed, "If you want to learn the magic of wind flight, the chances are very small. ”
"Then you learn to make a magic scroll, and then learn the spell model of flying magic, and then use the scroll to fly yourself." Roland suggested.
Although Roland doesn't know how to make magic scrolls himself, he has seen this knowledge in the library of the magic tower.
Therefore, it is always beneficial to read more books, and with more knowledge, you can also have a plan for the path you want to take in the future.
Beta nodded, "That's it." ”
Then the four set off.
Roland's team, apart from Beta, was the warrior named Sur, and the priest who had been beaten to the point of no temper.
According to the map given by Anse, they had to walk to the small village in at least two days at the speed of ordinary people.
But they are professionals, their physical strength is much stronger than normal, and most importantly, they don't need to rest.
They hurried continuously, and their physical strength could not keep up, so they ate while walking, and arrived at their destination in only one day and one night.
At this time, more than 20 dilapidated thatched houses and several low laterite brick houses appeared in front of them.
In the distance, you can see many birds jumping up and down on the dilapidated rooftops, chirping and calling.
The village is quiet.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they found that the wooden fence that surrounded the village, which was used to defend against wild beasts, had been broken into several pieces.
Then as far as the eye could see, there was a white skeleton in tattered linen clothes, lying across the dirt road of the village.
Some of the bones still had some dried black flesh sticking to them, and the bones were clearly scratched by wild beasts.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but there is a faint rancid smell in the air.
Roland subconsciously covered his nose and walked inside.
As they went deeper, they saw more and more white bones. There are adults, and there are children who are less than a meter tall.
Thor's expression became ugly, and Beta's was about the same.
On the contrary, the expressions of Roland and the priest seemed to be normal.
Just seemingly!
These corpses were exposed to the ground, and after being beaten by the wind and rain, and eaten by wild beasts, they had already melted clean, and there could be no smell at all.
The so-called faint rancid smell is actually just a psychological illusion.
Roland figured this out and let go of the hand covering his nose.
He stood in front of a dry well, looked around, and said, "Look around at the corpses and see if you can find any clues." ”
The four of them dispersed and returned half an hour later, almost all of them carrying a white skull with a stick.
"No weapons were found, but I found that most of the corpses had holes in their skulls," Beta said. ”
He showed the skull on his stick.
The other three showed off the skulls they had obtained, and the skulls obtained by the four men, although the parts of the holes were different, did have a hole of similar shape, about the width of an adult's thumb.
Roland grabbed the skull with a mage's hand, and he looked at it for a while and said, "I didn't find any weapons in the places I explored, and all the skulls had a small hole in the shape of a vertebrae, which means that they were indeed killed by small sharp weapons. ”
"Arrows!" Beta answered.
Sur frowned and said, "But I didn't see any arrows, and after firing so many arrows, it was impossible to leave none of them, so they all took them all." ”
"I've seen in the book that the elves are born with strong magic, and their archery masters don't need arrows at all, they can directly use magic to form ......" Roland said this, and suddenly frowned: "Wait, what does this smell like?" ”
Roland turned around, looked left and right, and finally leaned over to look into the well in front of him, and gradually, his expression became gloomy.
The blue mage's hand reached down and pulled a large barrel out of the well.
The barrels were placed on the ground, and the crowd gathered around them.
There was a corpse in the bucket that was about to turn into water, and although it was completely unrecognizable, it should be a child of only two or three years old.
The corpse was thin and scarred, skinny and bone-covered. Even if it is eroded, there is not much thick juice.
Although the smell in the air was getting stronger, no one covered their noses.
Roland looked at it for a while, his right fist clenched tightly, but his voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of waking up the child: "He was starved to death." ”
Sur and the priest's eyes instantly turned red.
Beta turned, kicked the tree in two with one leg, and let out a heart-rending cry with a twisted face.
"!"
Frightened birds flew in patches around the village.