Chapter 845: Adventures in the Overworld (III)
Looking at the dense fog in front of them, everyone raised their vigilance. After all, Kurumi and Hu Tao are also coming to the main world for the first time, and no one knows what will happen here, although they are more or less mixed in their respective worlds, but ......... This world is completely different from the world they live in.........
"Be careful, it's hard to walk here, and it took me a long time to get out of it last time......... To be honest, I didn't even know there was a village here. ”
"And how did you get in?"
Hearing Fina's words, Fang Zheng couldn't help but ask curiously, you don't know that there is a village here, you can actually come here?
Hearing Fangzheng's inquiry, Fina turned her head and looked ahead.
“……… I'm lost........."
Well, the reason is really good and powerful.
Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders, then he looked at the fog in front of him, and after a moment of silence, he made a decision.
"Let's go in and see what's going on."
At the moment of stepping into the thick fog, the white and damp mist came to the face, making people even feel a little suffocated. Fang Zheng frowned, glanced around, and saw that the visibility of the fog in front of him was only about a hundred meters, and as far as the eye could see, he couldn't even see the woods on both sides clearly.
"How did this fog come about?"
"I don't know."
Fina shook her head.
"I used to be walking in the mountains, and then all of a sudden I encountered this fog, and I also asked in the village, and they said that it is a natural phenomenon here, and it happens several times a year. And these days, almost no one in the village goes out......... But now they can't get out if they want to. I've checked, it's just an ordinary thick fog, no toxins, and it's not an illusion. ”
"It's not ......... really"
Fang Zheng is a prophetic mage, born with illusion restraint, if this fog is an illusion, then it will definitely not escape his eyes. But at the moment, this thick fog really doesn't look like an illusion, so it can only be said......... It's a natural phenomenon.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but after entering the fog, there was silence all around. Before, they could hear the birds chirping in the woods as they went up the mountain, but now they could hear nothing but their own footsteps and talking, not even the sound of the breeze.
"Uh......... It's a bad feeling........."
Hu Tao held the shovel in his hand and looked around uneasily.
"I feel like I'm in a horror game........."
Don't say it, I feel that way too.
Hearing Hu Tao's complaint, Fang Zheng also nodded secretly, he would see if he would encounter a town that looked like it had been burned by fire and a signboard that said "Welcome to Silent Hill" when he walked out of the fog area for a while.
……… Probably not.
Along the way, everyone did not encounter any threats, and there were no monsters or enemies who took the opportunity to sneak attack, and under the leadership of Fina, Fang Zheng and the others only took more than twenty minutes to walk out of the misty area, and then came to a village.
"This is ......... Ay? ”
As she spoke, Fina pointed to the village in front of her, and then she couldn't help but be stunned. And looking at Fina's reaction, Fang Zheng and the others also looked forward.
In front of them, I saw a very ordinary village, with people coming and going on the road, and some people working in the fields, looking very normal and without any problems. But Fina looked like she had seen something unbelievable, and her eyes widened in surprise as she stared at the scene in front of her.
"How so......... Wasn't that the case before? ”
Fina's eyes widened in surprise as she slowly walked into the village, looking at the crowd on both sides, as if she had seen some rare creature.
"Before, everyone was lying in bed, and they couldn't even get off the ground........."
"Yo, isn't this Miss Priest?"
At this moment, I saw an old man dressed as a farmer striding over with farm tools and waving at Fina with a smile. And seeing this old man, Fina's expression was even more surprised.
"Uncle Rand? Are you alright? ”
"I'm okay? What can I do? ”
Hearing Fina's inquiry, the old farmer was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile.
"Look, I'm fine, but where did you go, Miss Priest? I didn't say hello and left, but it worried us. ”
"Hey.........? I'm going to find someone to help drive out the plague, Uncle Rand, what's going on, how are you all doing? The plague is lifted? ”
"Plague? What plague? ”
Faced with Fina's inquiry, the old farmer showed a surprised expression.
"Miss Priest, what are you talking about, we are fine here, nothing has happened, what kind of plague are you talking about, it shouldn't be that you are sleepy, hahaha........."
"Huh? But ........."
"It's really rare to take nightmares as seriously as you are, Miss Priest, by the way, my little girl is still waiting for you, didn't you say that you want to tell her the story in the holy scriptures? She's looking forward to it, and she cried a lot when she saw you leave. Now, Miss Priest, you're back, so let's go see the girl. ”
After saying this, the old farmer carried his farm tools and swayed towards the field on the other side, while Fina stood there in a daze, looking at the old farmer's distant back, and did not know what to say for a while.
"Brother Fangzheng, what's going on?"
At this time, Hu Tao also came over with a shovel and asked curiously.
"Isn't the situation here urgent? Why does it seem like nothing is going on now? ”
"It's kind of weird."
Hearing Hu Tao's inquiry, Fang Zheng also nodded. Of course he didn't believe that Fina would lie, in fact, it didn't look like the priest girl had lied, and looking at her expression, Fina was also confused at this moment, and she didn't know how to react at all.
Of course, according to common sense, if Fina hadn't lied, the remaining possibility was that the cultists had cast illusions on Fina and controlled her spirit. Or maybe it's too late for Fina to come back, and the villagers are already possessed by something evil——— which is basically how many game movies unfold.
However, when Fina was talking to the old farmer just now, Fang Zheng also secretly turned on the magic detection, and everything turned out to be normal. In front of them, it was a normal old man, who was not possessed by any evil spirit, nor was he mentally controlled by some kind of spell, everything was normal, and normal could not be normal anymore.
“……… Let's go to Uncle Rand's house first, where I spent the night. ”
At this time, Fina also came back to her senses, although she didn't know what was going on, she still shook her head, and then walked towards the village with Fang Zheng and the others. Led by Fina, the group soon crossed the village path to the end of the hill on the other side of the village.
"This is Uncle Rand's house, he ......... Well? ”
While the other party was waiting for someone to make an introduction, Fina walked up the steps of the slope, and when Fina saw the wooden house in front of her, she was stunned for a moment. I saw the priest girl tilt her head, look at the wooden house, and then look at the tree next to her, with a confused face.
"What's wrong? What happened? ”
Seeing Fina's puzzled look, Fang Zheng stepped forward and asked, while Fina shook her head.
"I don't know, but I remember that Uncle Rand's house seemed to be on the left............ The big tree should be on the right......... It's weird, am I misremembering? ”
"Sister Priest!"
At this moment, a childish voice sounded, and then I saw several children playing under the big tree running over and surrounding Fina.
"Where have you been?"
"We all miss you so much, you haven't finished that story yet."
"Who are these people?"
"Ah, they are my companions......... Okay, so I'll tell you yesterday's story first. ”
It could be seen that Fina was also a little dizzy at this moment, and she let the children pull her to the big tree, and then told them the story one by one. And at this time, Kurumi, who was dressed as a mage, also came to Fang Zheng's side with a smile.
"How? Mr. Founder? Have you found out who's lying? ”
"I've checked."
Hearing Crazy San's inquiry, Fang Zheng shook the "Confession" in his hand.
"Interestingly, neither side is lying."
"Huh?"
This time it was Kurumi's turn to be taken aback.
"In other words, it is true that Miss Fina said that the people in this village were infected with the plague, but it is also true that the people in this village have never been infected with the plague?"
"That's right."
Fang Zheng nodded, and then opened the "Confession" in his hand again. Just now he used the omniscient angel to investigate Fina's actions yesterday, and found that everything that the priest girl said was true, she came to this village because she was lost, and then got along with the people here, and then found that a plague was spreading here, and Uncle Rand was indeed infected with the plague, and even before Fina left, he couldn't support it.
But what happened next in the village is quite messy and even contradictory in the record of the "Confession".
For example, according to the Confession, Uncle Rand took his last breath shortly after Fina left the village, became undead, and killed his own family.
But after a few lines, suddenly the next paragraph shifts to Uncle Rand getting up from bed, washing his face, brushing his teeth, eating, and then going out to farm.
Then the next passage turns into a plague epidemic in the village, and almost most of the people have already died.
And just after writing this paragraph, the next paragraph becomes the whole village, happy and happy, and everyone lives a peaceful and beautiful life.........
To put it simply, it's as weird as two different authors writing a plot at the same time, but interspersed with completely different routes.
"That's interesting........."
Looking at the records in "The Confession", Fang Zheng couldn't help but sigh. The omniscient angel records facts that have already happened, but how can these two contradictory facts happen at the same time?
What secrets are hidden in this village?
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng became more and more interested in this.