Chapter 18: The Hungry Town (1)
Three days later.
The two sat on Tianling's new sofa, and Han Fu asked puzzledly:
"Why do you put cushions under the couch?"
Hearing this question, Tianling smiled,
"You'll find out in a moment."
The watch hand turned little by little, and at two o'clock, a huge pulling force came again, the soul was instantly withdrawn, and the clear female voice appeared in the heads of the two at the same time-
Welcome, Hungry Town.
Tianling's eyes gradually lit up, and a picture of a rural town appeared in his sight.
An ancient voice cameβ
It's a sunny autumn morning, and the children are happily clustered around a mysterious merchant from afar, and the laughter fills this beautiful and cozy town with joy.
The townspeople laugh and laugh, they have fertile land, endless food, and beautiful scenery unique to the countryside, and they don't feel the troubles of life here.
In the distance, behind the town are successive mountains, and from a distance, you can see the light red and golden canopy of the mountains, which looks even more gorgeous in the morning light.
The children lead the mysterious merchant from afar to the village chief's house, a town with red and green wooden houses, and the village chief's house is no exception, but taller.
The village chief met the mysterious merchant in the house, and the merchant told the village chief that he had some miraculous fertilizer here, which the merchant called harvest fertilizer, and that any piece of land that would be used would be bumper year after year, and that no matter how bad the weather was, the crops would not be affected in the slightest.
In order to verify what he said, the merchant found a special plot of land and planted a corn seed under the watchful eyes of the townspeople.
Then he took out the harvest fertilizer he said, and sprinkled a little bit on the land under the gaze of everyone.
I saw that the corn seeds, which would have taken three to five days to germinate, were growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and they were ripe in the blink of an eye, and they were full.
The residents were so excited that the village chief, led by the village chief, took out their savings over the years, bought the expensive harvest fertilizer, and threw it on all the fields that could be used for planting.
Under the watchful eyes of the townspeople, the mysterious merchant rode in a carriage, smiled and waved to the crowd, and left.
In the first year after sprinkling the harvest fertilizer, there was a bumper harvest, and every household harvested a lot of grain, and the villagers stored barrels and barrels in wooden barrels, and everyone's faces were filled with joy.
But as time passed, the fertile land was squeezed little by little by the mysterious fertilizer, and finally one day after a year, all the land dried up and there was no longer a grain of grain to grow.
Not only that, but a thick fog rose from the cracks in the land, enveloping the entire town and the valley, and anyone who tried to leave the town would be lost in the fog and die.
So far, the happy town that was originally a song and swallow dance has become such a lifeless and hungry town.
Until this day, four adventurers from afar inadvertently broke into the town......
The introduction of the ancient voice came to an abrupt halt, and Tianling was the first to open his eyes and sweep around.
At this moment, he was in an uncovered carriage, and there were four people in the carriage, two men and two women.
In addition to Tianling, they are: Zhao Keke, Xiao Han Han, and Qiqi. Zhao Keke is a big man with a rough face, and at this moment he just opened his eyes to look at Tianling, and stretched out his hand enthusiastically and said:
"Brother, where are we now?"
"The entrance of the village."
A female voice came from the side, it was the petite Qiqi.
She continued: "Judging from the introduction just now, we inadvertently broke into the dense fog of this hungry town, and we should have reached the entrance of the village by now. β
She said and pointed to an old wooden sign on the side of the road, and the wooden sign was indeed engraved with four words - "Happy Town".
At this time, Guofu also woke up, and looked around curiously.
Zhao Keke looked at everyone and spoke again:
"Everyone, I'm a straight person, I have something to say in front, we all want to go back alive, no one should do those things that harm others and themselves, the chances of four people uniting together to live can be greater, don't you say?"
The rest of the people hurriedly said yes, Zhao Keke and Qiqiya's eyes were inadvertently looking at Tianling, in their hearts, Tianling was an unstable factor, because in the last script, only he was a newcomer of the five people, which made them all feel a little more vigilant.
The main quest has been updated: go to the village chief's house.
After the voice sounded, Zhao Keke, who had a straightforward personality, was the first to jump off the carriage and walked towards the village, Qiqiya followed, Tianling and Han Fu also jumped down and followed behind.
It should have been afternoon, and the town was gloomy, and the original flowery houses seemed to be mottled with paint.
There are dozens of families in the town, but now many of the houses on the periphery are unoccupied, and only a dozen or so families inside still look like people.
After seeing the four of them, the residents were all enthusiastic and greeted each other. There were also some children peeking at them through the windows.
The four of them followed the appearance of the village chief's house in their memory, and found a two-story small wooden building, a man who looked about 30 years old was wearing a blue-green robe and standing in front of the door with his hands behind his back.
"Hello, adventurers from afar, welcome to Happy Town, I am the son of the village chief, come on, let's go into the house and continue."
With that, he pushed open the door with a "squeak" and walked in.
Inside is a spacious room, with two long wooden tables in front of it, surrounded by eight wooden chairs, and behind the long table is a huge fireplace, and below the fireplace is a roaring bonfire.
There was a large pot on the campfire as if something was cooking, and above it were some knives, cutlery, and the like, and behind the fireplace was the kitchen, and the bedrooms were on the left and right sides of the room, and there was a wooden ladder near the right, and there were two bedrooms on either side of the stairs along the ladder.
The four of them sat down on both sides of the table, and the son of the village chief sat on the main seat of the table, and said: "I must be hungry after a day of traveling, although we have not been able to grow anything here in the past few years, and there is no food, but we can still find some wild beasts in the valley behind us, we will process meat into sausages, to barely fill our stomachs, a few people have come from afar, I should be the friendship of the landlord." β
After speaking, a woman walked out of the back kitchen, carrying four plates of steaming sausages, and the rich smell of meat immediately filled the room.