"It's always a little weird." Several people were walking in front of the forest, and Feng Yiliu on this side suddenly said.

"What's wrong?" Li Huailin, who was at the front, asked.

"How many bears have we chopped?" Feng Yiliu asked.

"Huh? This one...... Seven or eight? Li Huailin thought about it, and after walking all the way, he met seven or eight doll bears, and all of them were killed without accident.

"It's eight." Feng Yiliu on this side said, "Everyone, except for the first time, we haven't received any attacks from teddy bears in all the subsequent battles." ”

"Nonsense, this thing's attack is so big that you can dodge it if you move casually." Here, your thousand years of unchanged immediately said.

"The problem is...... It's so easy to dodge......" Feng Yiliu said here, "Everyone, this is a secret realm, the theoretical difficulty is about the same as the abyss of the same level, but don't you think it's strange to see that the attacks of the mobs that appear here can be perfectly dodged?" ”

"Huh? How to say a little. "I haven't thought about it for a thousand years.

"Is anyone finally starting to bring their brains......" said the summoned Jade Emperor next to him.

"From the very beginning, I found that there are only bears in this forest, and the experience after the fight is only 105 points, don't you think it's a little less than the abyss?" Feng Yiliu continued.

"Indeed, this experience is like the experience of an ordinary level 30 monster, not like a monster that has received bonuses." Qianzai nodded.

"Although it's a monster in the secret realm, it doesn't have an attribute bonus, isn't it a bit strange?" Feng Yiliu said.

"Is there a conclusion then?" Li Huailin, who was at the forefront, said.

"Conclusion?" Feng Yiliu thought for a while, "There is too little information and no conclusion." ”

"Then you can tell me about yarn." Li Huailin spread his hands.

"I'm just a little curious." Feng Yiliu said.

"Well, anyway, there will always be a conclusion after the task is done. It's not good to look forward to it now. Li Huailin said, "Oh, it seems to be out of the forest ahead." ”

"Huh?" A few people looked ahead, and it was indeed no longer a forest in front of them, because a very large lake appeared in front of them, and there was no edge in sight from both sides. However, you can see the mountains on the other side of the lake.

Li Huailin looked down, the lake water was very clear and clean, and he could almost see the bottom of the lake. However, it was cloudy and there was no sunlight shining on the lake, so it looked a little gloomy.

"It doesn't look like you can swim through." Here, you looked at it and said, "It looks like the other side is at least a few kilometers away, and it's dawn after swimming over." ”

Players of Hearts of Glory are of course able to go into the water and dive, but the useful speed is calculated separately from the speed at which they can walk on the road. The default player is very slow swimming, but there is also equipment that can increase the swimming speed, but there are only five of them. It would take half a day to cross the lake at the default swimming speed.

"That's why I said it wasn't this way...... Don't you see that there is no way to walk while walking? Don't tell me that I really swam over. The summoning Jade Emperor here spread his hands, "What now, Mr. Captain." ”

"There should be something nearby." Li Huailin suddenly said with great certainty.

"Hey, you should die too, you're a man. Is it that hard to admit a mistake? I know that you are walking around and taking the wrong way, okay. "Here, your summoning Jade Emperor said.

"Huh?" The wind and the thousands of years on this side also began to look at Li Huailin with suspicious eyes.

"No...... In fact, I do think there's something here. Li Huailin said seriously.

"What can there be. Obviously, you can't recognize the direction, but you'll be out of the road after walking for more than ten minutes, otherwise you really don't know how much time you'll waste. The Summoning Jade Emperor sighed and said.

"No, I think that's it. In fact, when I first entered the secret realm, I was already aware of it on the hillside. Li Huailin said, "Obviously there are forests all around, but only this side is a lake." And when I looked up on the hillside, I noticed a strange phenomenon. ”

"Strange phenomenon?" Summoned the Jade Emperor asked.

"It was cloudy, but I saw the lake glowing with golden light...... Mr. Li said.

"Golden light?" Summoning the Jade Emperor to turn his head and look in the direction of the lake, "There is no light at all, right?" Did anyone else see it? ”

"Huh? I just paid attention to the black smoke, and I didn't notice the lake at all. "This side of the millennium unchanged said.

"I didn't pay attention either." Feng Yiliu said.

"Me." An Ran here suddenly raised his hand and said. "I saw it too."

"Huh? Did you see that too? The summoning Jade Emperor said in surprise, "Really? ”

"Hmm." An Ran nodded, "There is indeed light, just a few seconds before I saw the black smoke, I saw it, and more than once." ”

"Hey, why don't you say it." Summoned the Jade Emperor asked.

"Hmm." An Ran nodded.

"What does 'um' mean, you can explain it." Summoned the Jade Emperor and roared.

"There's actually something else." Li Huailin said suddenly.

"Something else?" Summoned the Jade Emperor asked.

"After arriving in the village, I found two things, first, the road." Li Huailin said.

"Road?" Summoning the Jade Emperor said strangely.

"Yes, in fact, there are two roads in the village we passed by." Li Huailin said, "The first one is the road we found for the first time, the road to the village, but that's the other way around, think about the road is actually the road from the village to the outside, right?" ”

"yes." Summoning the Jade Emperor nodded.

"Now it's interesting, I also found the second road in the village, where do you say the second road in this hidden village in the secret realm leads?" Li Huailin asked.

"Huh? I didn't pay attention at all. "Thousands of years unchanged said.

"Didn't the villager say there was a castle in the north? It's definitely going somewhere. Summoned the Jade Emperor said.

"yes, I thought so at first, but we actually tried, and at first we all went north, but we didn't see the right way." Li Huailin said.

"yes." Feng Yiliu nodded, "There's no way at all." Just a few steps to the forest. ”

"Where does that lead?" Summoned the Jade Emperor asked.

"Of course it's here, by the lake." Li Hualin said.

"Here?" Summoned the Jade Emperor to look left and right.

"Look carefully at the dirt beneath our feet...... It wasn't smashed, but it was clearly a walk by, and I'm sure it was part of the road, and if you head south along this side, you should be able to get back to the village. It's fifteen minutes away from the village at most, so if you don't believe it, you can try. Li Huailin pointed in one direction and said.

Summoning the Jade Emperor looked down at the dirt under his feet, he didn't pay attention to it just now, but now it is indeed a bit strange, there are no weeds on it at all, and it is unlikely that this kind of appearance will occur in the natural situation, and it is obvious that someone may have walked here.

"Okay, now for my second discovery." Li Huailin paused and continued.

"What is it?" Summoning the Jade Emperor really didn't notice anything strange in the village. As a result, Li Huailin actually found two, and the first one was reasonable, which made her curious about the second discovery.

"First of all, let's think about it, I said that no matter what, there will be a person left in the village who is not dead, and then send the task to us, right?" Li Huailin said.

"yes, yes, we know you're the most witty." Summoning the Jade Emperor rolled his eyes and said.

"Normally, that's the case, but this time it's different." Li Huailin said. "It's usually that the village is full of corpses, so there is a person who is not dead who pretended to be dead and escaped. And then we were tasked ......"

"I went, I understood, no wonder I always felt that something was wrong when I entered the village." Feng Yiliu on this side suddenly realized, "There are no corpses at all, this time the other party took all the corpses away, and it is impossible to leave a person in the village." ”

"yes. Don't you think it's strange, why did the other party even take away the corpse, but left a person who was not completely dead? Li Huailin asked?

"Traps? In fact, that person was deliberately left by the other party? "Summoning the Jade Emperor guessed.

"Stupid, how did the other party know that someone would come to the village, why set a trap. The other party shouldn't have known about our team's existence until now, right? Li Huailin said.

"yes, what's going on?" Summoned the Jade Emperor asked.

"It's simple, because this person was not in the village when the accident happened." Li Huailin said.

"Huh?" The summoning Jade Emperor was stunned, "No, then how did he die?" ”

"Bear." Li Huailin stretched out a finger and said.

"No way, the other party has a knife wound on his body." Summoning the Jade Emperor immediately said, "If you are killed by a bear, it will not be a knife wound." ”

"yes, there's a big stab wound on the left chest." The wind here said.

"Knife wounds don't have to be cut with a knife, they can also be cut with an axe." Li Huailin said.

"Axes?" Summoning the Jade Emperor suddenly thought of the old axe, the task prop, "Wait, it is true that when the axe is handed to us, there are blood stains on it, but the other party is covered in blood, and it is normal to be covered in blood, but you can figure it out first, whether it is a knife or an axe, Xiong Ke will not use it." ”

"So, in fact, the knife wound, although it looks scary, is actually not fatal." Li Huailin said, "Think about it carefully, when the other party died, his hand covered his chest over there? ”

"Huh? Does it matter? I...... I didn't pay attention......" summoned the Jade Emperor to think about it a little, but sure enough, he still couldn't remember, and he didn't pay attention to such a small place at all.

"Right." An Ran here suddenly interjected, "That's right. ”

"Yes, it's on the right, think about it carefully, if a person is going to die, you usually subconsciously cover the position where you are seriously injured, but the knife wound is on the left, why does that guy cover the right?" Li Huailin said, "It's very simple, the left side is just scratched, and the right side is fatally injured by the bear." ”

"Huh?" Summoning the Jade Emperor, he suddenly felt as if he couldn't keep up, "Can you explain it more clearly?" ”

"To put it simply, this guy was holding an axe and was attacked by a bear, and then he was hit several times by the bear, and one of them hit the axe, and the axe flew out and scratched the other party. But because the axe was so important, he picked it up again and continued the fight, but he still failed to defeat the bear, and then received a fatal blow. Li Huailin said.

"Is that so?" Summoning the Jade Emperor said in disbelief.

"Otherwise, there is no way to explain the situation at the scene." Li Huailin said, "Why don't you explain?" ”

"Hmm......" summoned the Jade Emperor for a moment, "That's it." Even if he was killed by a bear, what does that have to do with us, the other party is an NPC who conveys the mission anyway, anyway, no matter how he dies, he always gives us the task. ”

"Haven't you noticed?" Li Huailin said, "There is a very strange place here. ”

"Huh?" Summoning the Jade Emperor said confusedly, "What a strange place." ”

"It's an axe." Li Huailin said, "Why is this guy holding an axe? ”

"Huh? What's strange about this, isn't this axe a treasure in the village? He...... Hey. Wait a minute...... He's not in the village......" Summoning the Jade Emperor suddenly realized.

"See, he didn't have time to go back to the village to get an axe. When he noticed that the village was in ruins, all the houses were on fire, and if the axe was in some house in the village, he would not have been able to go in and get it, and all the people in the village had been taken away, and he could not have gotten it in the hands of the villagers. "In fact, he was attacked by a bear before he even arrived in the village." He fought and retreated back to the village and collapsed there, blood dripping in from the ground beneath his feet. It shows that he walked to the village after he was injured, and that the place where he fell was also near the other road I mentioned. ”

"Huh? The more I listened, the more confused I became, if your assumptions are true, then where did this axe come from? Summoned the Jade Emperor said.

"It's very simple, he went back to the village with an axe, so that he can explain it in a single way." Li Huailin said.

"Huh? As a result, he was the caretaker of the treasures of the village. So take an axe with you? Summoning the Jade Emperor asked.

"Do you think so? His clothes don't seem to be the highest-ranking people in the village, and he is not the oldest, if only in the average village, this kind of thing would be handed over to the village chief or the oldest person for safekeeping. Li Huailin said, "What a treasure custodian." There is indeed this possibility, but it is really infinitely approaching zero, and he can't even beat the bear, how can he protect the treasure? And take the treasures of the village with you? It's so strange that I can't agree with it. ”

"And how did he hold the axe?" Summoned the Jade Emperor asked.

"Actually, you should ask, where did he get this axe?" Li Huailin said, "It is true that the other party said that this axe is a treasure in the village, but the treasure did not say that it must be placed in the village, is it possible to put it in ...... What about this side? ”

"Huh?" Summoning the Jade Emperor said strangely, "Here? ”

"Yes, combined with what I just said, one, there is a strange thing on this side of the lake, and there is a road in the village that leads to the lake; Two; The axe is the two points that the villagers get outside the village. There is only one explanation that can explain the situation, and I will tell you about it now. First of all, when the village was destroyed, this villager was by this lake and didn't know what to do......"

"Don't know what to do?" Summon the Jade Emperor to interrupt.

"It could be fishing, it could be looking at the scenery, but it doesn't matter." Li Huailin said casually, "The important thing is that when he unconsciously turned around, he found that the direction of his village actually emitted black smoke rushing into the sky. ”

Li Huailin pointed in the direction of the village and said, "'Something must have happened to the village', he must have thought so at the time, because there have been bad omens in the village recently, just like the task you took was to come here to investigate, right?" ”

"Yes, I met a villager in the main city, and he asked me to investigate." Summoning the Jade Emperor nodded.

"So he realized that the situation was not good, and he could probably guess that something big was wrong in the village, so he hurriedly ran in the direction of the village, but after running two steps, he felt wrong, he was just an ordinary person, even if he rushed back, it was just to send one more life, and he couldn't help at all." Li Huailin said vividly, "But at this moment, he had a flash of inspiration - the treasure in the village, and if he brought it back to the village, maybe a miracle would happen, so he immediately turned around and took the treasure, that is, the axe, and rushed back to the village." ”

"Unexpectedly, he was attacked by a bear on the way, he fought for a while, but unfortunately he was seriously injured, he ran back to the village with difficulty, and found that the village had been destroyed, and the people were gone, and he fell down in despair, and then we appeared." Li Huailin said.

"This ......" summoned the Jade Emperor while listening to it and thinking about it, although what Li Huailin said was basically speculation, but it felt very reasonable, "It seems that if this is the case, it does make sense." ”

"yes, that makes sense." Feng Yiliu, who was standing next to him, also nodded, "The information stringed up so far is indeed the result." ”

"Oh! That's what happened. Qiannian here also nodded, "Brother Awesome, there is a set." ”

"Well, according to my current speculation, this lake here is where the other party got the axe. Since this axe is a treasure in the village, it is very likely that the villagers will worship it as a sacred object, and then the place of worship is in the ......."

Li Huailin pointed to the road on the ground as he spoke: "This side leads to the village, so if we follow the other side, we should be able to find the original location of this axe, and I think we should be able to figure out what this axe is by then." ”

After speaking, Li Huailin pointed to the other direction where the road under his feet led: "Probably there, go and see if what I said is right." (To be continued......)