Southeastern in the Land of Runeterra, near the southern foothills of the Acacia Peninsula.

For the Shurima people, who have maintained a tribal lifestyle for thousands of years, there may be many thriving cities, but there are very few quiet and comfortable villages.

Most of them are concentrated in the southern part of the Shurima Continent, at the foot of the eastern mountain range of the Giant God Peak.

The original composition of the village was composed of people who had fled the Dark Descent War thousands of years ago, and they had suffered from the war and migrated all the way southeast to the foot of the mountain to form a group of villages.

Time flies, thousands of years have passed, and the people living in these villages have long forgotten that their ancestors came here to escape the war.

The only thing they know is that these villages are their homes, even if they become bandits, grave robbers or thieves in the desert to survive.

But when they wander for a long time and return to their native villages, they will also be transformed into a different picture in that moment, warm, and approachable, and no one will associate them with those who beg for a living.

But everything changed completely a month ago, and no one knows the cause of this change, and no one knows the result of this change anymore.

It was the third day that Cassadine had left the docks on the south shore of the Auroville Boat, and he had drunk all the water from the kettle strapped to his waist, and there was nothing left on his body except the sword he had obtained from a tomb when he was a tomb robber.

He still remembers that when he saw this sword lying quietly in the burial room, he felt that this sword seemed to call him strongly.

But by the time he left the tomb, the vague call had vanished, and now seven years had passed, and the sword had been used by himself as a self-defense.

And this long sword, which is as sharp as clay, has indeed allowed him to defeat those outlaws in several times of crisis in the trade, and then leave his own life.

In front of him was a familiar Gobi hill, and on the other side of the hill was Cassadine's hometown, and now he was very weak.

His white, chapped lips indicated that he was severely dehydrated at the moment, but even that could not stop Cassadine from moving forward.

Because his home is on the other side of the hill, maybe his daughter and wife are waiting for their salvation in some corner of their hometown.

Strong perseverance allowed him to muster up the last of his strength, and climbed over the hill with his hands and feet, and what he saw was the village he was familiar with, and Cassadine could even vaguely see his home, the humble earthen house.

Contrary to the worries along the way, Cassadine listened to Dugan's sad and angry expression and thought that his hometown was already full of corpses.

But when he saw everything in front of him, he found that the scene in front of him was very strange.

The village is still the same village in memory, even cleaner and neater than the village in memory.

Walking down the dunes, there were no horrific corpses or shocking bloodstains, and if it weren't for his knowledge of the people who lived here, Cassadine would have thought that the disappeared villagers had just left the village en masse for some reason.

The whole village fell into an eerie silence, and in order to break the atmosphere, Cassadine would go into the courtyard and try to call out the name of the owner when he passed a few good neighbors, but what he got was silence except silence.

When approaching their own yard, Cassadine would even enter their house to take a closer look.

The neatly arranged furniture in my memory has become very messy by now, and there are even traces of the claws of wild beasts on the walls.

Cassadine found that the claw marks were strange, they did not look like the finger prints left by a beast, because they were two or three parallel marks.

The finger prints I observed were all horizontal lines, which felt like they had been left by an oversized spider or other arthropod creature.

After looking at one or two more houses, Cassadine finally returned to his home, the earthen house of his own.

The door of the courtyard has completely changed, and even half of the door has collapsed in the courtyard, which shows that his wife and daughter must have been in a very tense environment at that time.

There was no blood on the way, and the finger and paw prints left by the arthropod-like creatures in the previous room showed that the cause of the accident must have nothing to do with people.

"What is it that makes the people in the village flee in a panic?" Cassadine was full of questions.

When Cassadine turned around and saw the door of his house, he was surprised to find that the door was actually locked.

"In such a panicked environment, you still have to lock the door before escaping?" Cassadine walked to the door, looked at the lock that hung quietly between the two knockers, and quickly came up with the answer to his question:

"You must have left me a clue at home, did you lock the door for fear that someone would break the clue?"

Thinking of this, Cassadine couldn't wait to open the door, his home was really different from the messy of other people's homes, and the familiar furniture was still neatly placed in their original place.

The living room, the kitchen, and their own bedroom, everything in it is exactly the same as when they left, which shows that the mother and daughter left the house without being disturbed.

Finally, I opened the door of my daughter's room, and there was a faint fragrance, which was the smell of the perfume I had given to the woman in Piltover last year, the first trip I had made from the tomb robbery world.

Thinking of the bright smile of her daughter when she received this bottle of perfume, Cassadine's heart warmed, and she couldn't help but hang a happy smile on the corner of her mouth.

However, this smile did not last long, because the clue he had been looking for was in his daughter Kaisha's bed.

"Acacia"

There were only four words, but the handwriting was very sloppy, but despite this, Cassadine immediately recognized that it was definitely written by his daughter at first sight.

And Cassadine is not at all familiar with the meaning of these four words, as a former tomb robber, and now a foot trader.

He knew a lot of the secrets of this desert, and naturally he knew the terrifying place that seemed to swallow up all who passed through it.

Although Cassadine has made many records of the tombs of the Shurima Sun Empire in his past tomb robbery, there is no record of that peninsula in any of the records.

So where did that terrifying place come from, for him in the past, although he was curious, he would definitely not set foot on it.

But now the clues left by his daughter point to a place he never dared to set foot in, which gave him a reason to explore it.

Cassadine knew that he was reluctant no matter what, but in order to save his wife and daughter, then he had to go to the Acacia Peninsula once!

However, Cassadine, a tomb robber by training, knew that the more dangerous he went, the more prepared he became.

So in spite of his eagerness, he turned around and went into the courtyard, drew some water from his deep well, and brought out the food that was left in the house.

After resting for more than two hours, and then preparing all the water and dry food to carry, he locked the door of his house again and headed southeast of the village.

But what Cassadine didn't notice was that when he walked out of the village and headed in the direction of Acacia, the long sword at his waist seemed to be brewing some power, a purple light that was hardly visible to the naked eye without looking closely.

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Sogou