Chapter 8: The Quiet Village

"Although in the Age of Calamity, the demons from the abyss retreated into the abyss after the failed invasion of the continent, but for tens of thousands of years, they have never given up this idea, trying all kinds of possibilities again and again, and failing again and again."

"More than 100 years ago, there was an accident in the village of Engel, that is, the village of Crowed. The specific circumstances of its change are no longer known because of the deliberate cover-up of some big people, but from the intermittent and vague news, it can be known that it is probably a conspiracy of the Abyss Demon. ”

"Since then, the village of Engel has been a deserted place, and people seem to have completely forgotten it, either intentionally or unintentionally, without being mentioned and uninhabited for a hundred years."

Wu sat up in the teleportation array to reach the small town of Saada, walking on the wilderness to Engel's village, while recalling the news that the librarian had told him earlier.

What is the specific situation of the accident? Why is it deliberately covered up? Wu Qi was a little confused, but he couldn't know the truth of the matter.

I hope this mission has nothing to do with a hundred years ago······ Wu Qi sighed secretly in his heart and blessed silently. In the game, once it is related to historical changes, the difficulty coefficient will be greatly increased, not to mention that this matter seems to involve a lot, the disappearance of a village is covered up, and the power of those people can be imagined.

It's really fun to have a task to do in this hard-to-find game, and the greater the difficulty coefficient of the task, the richer the reward of the task, but Wu Qi thinks that he is still a little self-aware, with his little level 6 mage, to mix with those things that affect history, I don't know how to die even if I die.

It took nearly an hour to travel from the small town of Sada to the village of Crowed, which made Wu Qi glad that the system had opened the teleportation array system. Otherwise, with the vastness of the Essevin continent, not to mention anything else, just running from the city of Walladze to the village of Crowed, the people would be exhausted to death before they arrived.

Perhaps because of the long-term wars and lack of civilization in the Essevan continent, or because the game was deliberate, the villages and towns that Wu Qi saw were either located next to many barren forests or placed on the verdant wasteland, full of barbarism.

The same is true of the long-abandoned village of Crowed.

What can happen in more than 100 years can be created from nothing, from existence to disappearance, and can be forgotten by the world and history will not exist. In Crowed, however, it is only a flick of a finger, and everything is still the same, as it was yesterday, or the owner is just leaving for a while, as if he has returned.

Wu Qi entered from the gate of the village, which was still standing and still not falling, and the bluestone paved streets, which ran through the east and west of the village, were almost no different except for the layers of dust.

The houses are still standing, the dead wood still exists, and the ancient wells and streets are all displayed in front of Wu Qi without reservation.

Wu Qi frowned slightly, not because of all this unchanged scene. In this magical world, it is normal for a century-old stone house to be immortal, and it is not uncommon for dead wood not to fall.

He frowned because, it was too quiet!

Yes, it's so quiet!

Dead wood does not smell birdsong, ancient wells are difficult to see the shadow of water, huge abandoned villages, a vigorous growth, new green trees have not been seen, dead wood everywhere, dead silence everywhere, even the wild beasts and small beasts that can be seen everywhere in the outside world are also difficult to see, only dead wood, only dead silence.

It's so quiet!

Wu Qi slowly stepped on the dusty bluestone streets, his cloth boots kicked up the billowing dust, churning in the low places, and the sound of tuk tuk footsteps gradually entered and faded into the village.

Where to start? What to do? Wu Qi was full of confusion. He opened the taskbar, which didn't say anything, just left it to himself.

How to fix it? Wu Qi secretly gritted his teeth, and simply decided to follow his usual habits and go straight in!

Looking at the abandoned houses lining the streets of the village, the gates of the courtyards are either open or closed, and they come at random.

Wu Qi casually found an open door and walked in, the eaves were still drying clothes, but the clothes had long been rotten and full of dust, which could be vaguely distinguished from the wreckage.

The wooden windows of the house are open, and the afternoon sun shines into the house without obstruction, and the tables and chairs in the house are still the same, and the sunlight is full of shadows in the house, but it faintly makes people feel a sense of gloom in their hearts.

Wu Qi rummaged through the things in the house, but nothing strange happened, it seemed that the owner was just leaving temporarily and would come back at any time, and he was not in a hurry, nor in a hurry, everything was in order, everything was neat.

The more this was the case, the more confused Wu Qi's heart became.

What was that accident more than 100 years ago? What does your mission have to do with that incident?

Although full of confusion and incomprehension, Wu Qi did not have any impatience and anxiety. One is that many years of experience in the game have given him a lot of confidence and patience, and the second is that the game makes it clear that there is an abnormality in the village of Crowed, and he was entrusted to solve the problem, since this is the case, there will definitely be an abnormality, and there is no need to worry that he will not be able to find out.

So what exactly is the anomaly?

Wu Qi firmly believes that as long as he continues to explore, there will be results.

After nothing came of it in the house, Wu Qi was not discouraged, he returned to the street, and slowly moved forward, but his eyes were on the houses on both sides, not letting go of a single detail.

Suddenly, Wu Qi's eyes froze, and his gaze fell on a courtyard next to the street, refusing to move away.

There seems to be no difference from other courtyards, and the general structure of other courtyards is that there are three bluestone houses quietly arranged according to the priority and size, and a small fence surrounds the abandoned vegetable garden, which has long been free of vegetables, dusty, and no weeds grow.

This was the classic style of the original Hobart village, but fifty years ago it was gradually abandoned and became more concise than it is today.

However, through the fence and through the closed wooden window, Wu Qi keenly caught a figure flickering from the house, the figure was short, and it flashed away!

There's something!

Wu Qi's mind was in a hurry, and he didn't care about everything, he stepped into the open courtyard first, and took a step to come to the room of the closed house.

Wu Qi took a deep breath, chanted the incantation secretly, held the staff in front of his chest, pressed his free palm on the door, and slowly pushed it open.

There was a creak in the empty space, and the door slowly opened, accompanied by the rich afternoon sun.

More than 100 years later, the empty and dark room was slowly opened, and the afternoon sun was able to shine in for the first time, illuminating the darkness and seeing the light.