Cheese didn't do anything immediately after coming out of the crack. Time is of the essence, so you have to plan before you act. He sat by the breach, silently studying the knot that had been pulled up instead of Lothar. As soon as the thing was pulled up, both Batu and Atta thought about throwing the unsettling-looking thing back into the breach, but the mage stopped them. This is not the first time that knots have appeared, the dreams of the shamans, what they see in the eyes of eagles and what they are here now. There is no such thing in this world that is accidental and meaningless that repeats itself so many times.

Batu and Atta looked at the gray robes as if they were enchanted from about fifty paces away from Cheese. They had only been working with Cheese for a short time, and they did not know much about the various actions and manifestations of the mage. Therefore, in their eyes, Cheese at this time is more like remembering his lost companion and blaming himself for his decision to go deep into the rift. Of course, this was mainly because they could only see the mage's back, and if they could see Cheese's current focused demeanor, I am afraid they would not have such thoughts.

Time turned slightly, and when Wu Qi came with the food, Cheese had finally finished his research. Almost at the same time, after the swordswoman had quickly explained to the shaman what had happened, Cheese stood up and stuck the knot on the ground. The grey-robed robe walked straight towards his companions, without any intention of speaking, and took the food directly from the shaman's hand and began to eat, only to meet their eyes when he had finished his hand under the gaze of the other three.

"Lothar isn't dead. This sentence can easily be understood as a consolation excuse for the consequences of his decision, just as the person cannot be considered dead as long as the body is not seen. But the problem is that there is not the slightest evasion or hypocrisy in Cheese's eyes, and what he says is not an ambiguous speculation or a statement of a possible fact, he is announcing the outcome of the matter, indisputable and undoubted.

"Are you sure?" Wu Qi was the first to express his suspicion. Those knots, whoever made them, whatever the meaning of making them, did not consider them to be a gentle symbol. These knots are unclean and can only bring calamity and destruction, not only in his judgment, but also in the judgment of the spirits. Now that the Count had disappeared in the breach, and had been replaced by the knot tied to the lower end of the broken rope, Lothar was in a bad luck situation by any measure.

"A little trick to steal beams and change pillars. Whatever it was that took Lothar, it wouldn't have intentionally left that thing behind if it could really make the man who came back from the deep sea die like that. Just because it didn't have the ability to kill him directly, it could only deceive him and take him away. It even has to make sure that what it does inside the rift won't be discovered by people outside the rift. What we have to face is far less terrible than we think. And trying to kill a single father with a daughter is one of the hardest things I know. Cheese smiled as he said this.

As for his statement that a single father with a daughter is one of the hardest people in the world to kill, it is not pure ridicule. Whether the so-called person is difficult to kill or not is related to the vigilance, knowledge reserve, physical fitness and other factors of the killed, which can be placed in the immediate urgency, and the most important thing is the person's desire to survive. Creatures have an instinct that is engraved in their genes for the continuation of their race, and they will sacrifice themselves to protect their offspring, both in beasts and humans. In this era of human society, men, as the main labor force and combat force, must bear the obligation to protect the family, especially the safety of family members. At this point, Lothar has already failed once. He watched his wife die in front of him, and that remorse and pain would become a nightmare for the rest of his life. The only way for him to be relieved from this pain is to raise his own daughter. Lothar would never allow himself to die until Helen was an adult or even married, and this obsession would outweigh his devotion to the lion and the spirit of chivalry.

In the past, cheese would disdain this kind of obsession, believing that it was the result of a one-sided understanding of the world and a deep mir of the world. In the eyes of the gray robe living in the tower, nothing in this world is worth clinging to, only the truth, only the truth of all things, the key that can answer all questions, is the meaning and value of human existence. But the current mage would have a faint envy of his friend when analyzing Lothar's state at this time. At least he knew what he wanted.

So what am I asking for? Why am I meddling in what is happening here, why am I so curious, why am I so attached to a request so far away? Truth, is that really more valuable than what Lothar is after, and by what measure is it measured?

These problems, these problems that began to entangle cheese as soon as they were on the road, resurfaced. He longed for the answers to these questions, but he was afraid to get them answered, because if the answers to these questions were different from what he wanted, did that mean that all of Cheese's actions so far had been wrong? He's got to bring back that persistent man.

"Help me prepare supplies. We'll deal with the Skinned Ones tonight, and we'll leave tomorrow for your previous station. ”

The shaman looked at the gray robe whose voice was gradually recognized, and showed a complicated expression, "I admire your knowledge, and your courage. Therefore, I can ignore the fact that my tribe has tried to harm you and that you have attacked me. Until now, I've wanted to help you, but unfortunately I can't. In addition to bringing you something to eat, the main thing I have come to tell you that two of the people who went out to fetch water this morning did not come back. One of them was a daughter and the other was a mother, and they were both killed, their bodies humiliated, and their entrails pulled out and laid on the ground. ”

Wu Qi paused before continuing, as if because the language reminded him of the scene when he had just performed the autopsy, "In my people's beliefs, the body after death is not so important. But even if it is not that important, it does not mean that it can be desecrated. The Skinned One has declared war on us. And we'll fight it, even if it's an egg hitting a stone. As for you, what is going on here has nothing to do with you, you can and should leave. It's just that I can't help you any more. ”

Atta and Batu both made varying degrees of surprise, they didn't expect the shaman with a calm expression to actually carry such a heavy message. Cheese's gaze crossed over to Wu Qi to the place where the Shale Yurt was behind him, and after a few minutes, the mage spoke slowly, "I see. We'll leave. May your spirits bless you. ”