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A month later, in Ceylon, in a town half from Monte City, Bill's heart hung in the air for three days, and he finally let go of it in the early morning.

The wheels ran over the stone pavement, and there was a creaking sound in the inn facing the street, and he got up from his bed and pulled the curtains open a slit.

The sun was shining outside the window, no Christians had set foot in the town, and the only wide road was a horse-drawn wagon carrying goods, a few ears of wheat slipping from the cart in the shaking, and sacks filled with wheat purchased from the surrounding villages.

The town is also lined with vendors with carts for breakfast and fruit, who are vibrant but few in number, and most of the residents here don't make a living from it.

Unlike the capital, which is shrouded in fog all year round, the faces of the residents are full of life and vitality, and Bill's gloom seems to have been swept away, and his spirit is relaxed and relaxed, becoming one of the thousands of ordinary people.

"Beautiful Ceylon, no wonder Norman compared it to paradise. ”

"I can already imagine my old age, sitting in the shade of a tree every day fishing, raising two mutt cats and a shepherd dog on the estate......"

"When Williams' mental illness is cured, I can hire a few more maids, find the mistress of the manor, and of course the most important thing is that I will never be involved in boring events again. ”

"I'll kill them before they're going to do that. ”

The sun was warmer, and he let go of his hand that was holding the curtains, let them fall, and left the room to the bathroom, where he washed and tidied up.

After another three days of delay, no one was found to be following, and Bill was finally able to return to the manor with peace of mind, as for the strange staff he had met in Monte City before, Bill had no intention of going back to ask dangerously.

If he returns to the manor this time and finds nothing, he can also find another opportunity to find the old clerk who knows what happened to the Williams.

There was also the immobilizing doll left by the masked woman, which Bill had been throwing in the shadow space, it was still a small town area, and there was still a small Holy See in the town, so he planned to wait until he was away from the town to study it carefully.

According to the title deeds, the Naldo estate is located far from the town, but without knowing more information, Bill will need to rent a carriage to get to the estate.

After breakfast, according to the instructions of the innkeeper, I found the carriage used to pull people in the town.

"My destination is the Manor de Nardo, do you know this place, in the village that is close to the Anagua Mountains all the way east, the nearest village to the manor is called Naya. ”

Bill chose an experienced-looking coachman, and stood in front of the crooked horse to confirm with the coachman, who was still lazily lying on the carriage basking in the sun, but when the shiny gold pound dangled on his eyelids, he immediately cheered up.

"Sir, although I don't know exactly where you call Manor of Nardo, I do know that to the east is the direction of the rising sun. ”

"So please feel free to get on the bus, if the manor you said is at the foot of the mountain of Anagua, we still have a long way to go, after all, after crossing the towering and beautiful Anagua, we can go abroad!"

"Of course, before that, you'd better make sure you have prepared dry food for the road, because there will be fewer and fewer villages near the border, and we may sleep in the open......"

The enthusiastic coachman waited for Bill to sit down and drove slowly away from the peaceful town.

After Bill finally made his way to Nardo's estate, strange sensations reappeared, and his heart, soothed by the silence and calm, began to tremble, and this sudden uneasiness made him unable to distinguish whether it was mental illness or a sixth sense.

But he had to go to the manor, the place where Williams had lived, for the happiness of the rest of his life......

Shortly after they left, a group of men from as far away as Brittus appeared in the town as a stopover on their way to the border.

However, the group's destination was different from that of Bill, and the Norman East had the tall Anagua Mountains as a natural barrier to its weaker neighbors.

The Anagua Mountains stretch for 1,200 kilometers and are 200 kilometers wide, with an average altitude of about 3,000 meters and a maximum height of more than 4,800 meters.

The destination of Savoy and others was in the southeastern direction of the coast, where there was the most redundant corps recognized by all Normans.

Although there is a complete military district system and a variety of old weapons that have been eliminated from the front line, no one has entered the Norman hinterland from the southeast of Ceylon since ancient times because of the dangers in the sea.

The purpose of the military department's establishment of such a corps in Ceylon no longer needs to be explained, but they still have unassailable reasons.

"Although it is not known whether an enemy will one day emerge from the end of the sea, it is necessary to prevent the perennial scattered and rich Ceylon region from becoming independent under the interference of foreign reactionary forces!"

It was the ancestors of Shawe Stafford who spoke this to the Norman kings and nobles.

In this way, the Ceylon Military Region has always existed, although it has long been the back garden of the military officials and nobles and the gilding place of the second generation.

Unbeknownst to Bill and Shawey, they almost met, and while they sat in a psychiatric hospital room and talked, the established business relationship did not reveal their private lives to each other.

However, in a very unpredictable moment, the time difference is so interesting, and after Sha Wei and the others also left the town, the peaceful town welcomed a third group of guests.

"Boss Fett, what are you bringing me to Ceylon, if I'm not mistaken, the alley is already full of bounty lists about me, right?"

John sat in the corner of the tavern with the fat boss, and the two younger brothers were beside him, wearing white shirts and waistcoats, and they were uniformly dressed even on hot summer days.

It's just that John's vest buttons are tight, and it looks like the largest uniform can only be considered a trumpet on him, and even the fat boss can't wear this effect.

In order to prevent the piled flesh from bursting and unbuttoning, John secretly unbuttoned the lower part of his shirt, and he swore that he had not been so fat before, and it was only after eating and drinking in Makhnorahu for a while that it would become like this.

"Don't worry about the bounty list, I've already removed your bounty, you're the one Kasiopaya values now, I'll hold you safe. ”

"As for the purpose of our coming here, you will know in two days, simply put, there are some things that I want to deal with personally, and by the way, I will take you out to gain knowledge and develop your ability. ”

The fat boss with the sexy stubble of a successful man has a cigar in his mouth and a striped coat in his suit, looking like the mafia of some comic book.

He had already given John a detailed introduction to the ability cultivation method in the past month, and the rest could only be understood by John himself.

John nodded without asking any more questions, and after avoiding the most intense hours of the sun, the members of the Black Street drove all the way to the east, the rubber wheels crushing over the wooden wheels, leaving a thick white mist under the steam engine......

......

After passing through a village where he had to ask for directions to know how to get to Naia, Bill finally saw the Anagua Mountains, which the Norman people called a natural barrier.

At first, it was just a vague shadow, but as he continued to advance eastward, the appearance of the Anagua-Mountains gradually revealed to Bill's eyes.

The peaks are rocky, the horns are sharp and convex, and the peaks are tall and handsome......

The ice that reaches to the sky provides more enchanting colors to the Anagua Mountains, but only extremely low temperatures can make an iceberg peak of this magnitude.

Therefore, even for mountaineering enthusiasts, such a majestic existence can only be viewed from a distance, and only icebergs that reach this height can block the invasion of the army, and the name of natural barrier is not in vain......

......

The moon hung high, and the woods filled with insects and melons were bustling, and Bill had spent three days and moons alternating, but tonight was a little strange.

On the fourth night, the coachman did not want to find a place to rest and sleep, but drove the carriage away in the sun's downset and in the hazy moonlit night, and the speed did not drop at all.

"Coachman, I see that you are in a very bad state of mind tonight, why don't we find a place to tie up the horse and wait until dawn tomorrow before we leave?"

The carriage kept shaking, and Bill opened the door of the carriage, the oncoming wind still smelling of grass, but they were quickly left behind by speed.

"No, guest, it's almost there!"

"There are still ten kilometers, not eight kilometers, and we will soon be in Naya Village!"

The coachman didn't look back, but Bill could hear the trembling and uneasiness in his voice, and he remembered the strange question the coachman had asked him a few nights before.

On the first night, the coachman asked Bill:

"Sir, did you just hear someone shouting at us?"

Bill told him that no, and that the coachman thought he might have heard the wind coming out of the woods, probably misheard.

The next night, the coachman asked Bill:

"Sir, did you just see a figure dangling in front of us, just across the fire!"

Bill told him again that no, and the coachman said that he might be too tired from the continuous journey, which is why he was dazzled and saw strange figures in his hallucinations.

On the third night, the coachman asked Bill:

“...... First, sir, is there anyone behind me?"

Bill looked at the wide-eyed coachman, and finally could only shake his head firmly, because he had not seen or heard, and there was no need to lie.

"What's wrong with you, no one is chasing us, why are you in such a hurry to get to Naya Village?"

He frowned, the rental of the carriage was based on the number of days it was rented, and the coachman's behavior was completely unreasonable, and he might have really ......

"No, you're not right, you're not right......"

"Someone is chasing us, someone is chasing us all the time, right behind!!"

Suddenly shouted, the coachman's head turned at a nearly 180-degree angle, with extremely frightened eyes and screams, and his face was distorted more terrifying than a scream!

Faced with such a scene, ordinary people must scream louder than the coachman to express their fear of his facial expressions, but Bill is only curious about how his neck does it.

"Is your neck okay, I'm guessing it's going to break, and if you don't look back, our car is going to hit the tree......"

"There's no one chasing us behind, relax, and of course now I guess you need help. ”

He took out his glove strap and rattled the coachman's head back to its original position counterclockwise by Bill, still staring at his inexplicable eyes and screaming as his head spun forward.

"Don't thank me, just take care of the carriage. ”

Bill clapped his hands and smiled, his smile always stiff and disgusted with what was happening around him when no one else was looking.

Shadows soaked his eyes, pale golden pupils darkened in the thin moonlight, and the darkness gave him a pair of black eyes, which he used to search for ghosts in the darkness.

But behind the elongated body, Bill found nothing, nothing strange to follow behind the carriage, only the dust that kept kicking up......

"I made sure that there was nothing around, the sound of insects was gone, you should really get a good night's sleep, and then continue your journey tomorrow. ”

The coachman didn't hear Bill's words at all, and Bill only now knew the coachman's lung capacity, and even now the screams have not stopped.

The crows in the woods were also wavy as the carriage passed, startled by the noise, and the rolling wheels mingled with the crows' chirping, but Bill's brow furrowed even tighter as it passed through the night.

"How could he have gone crazy all of a sudden?"

"Already mentally ill?"

But at the moment he no longer stopped the coachman from spurring the horse's hips more vigorously, and when he arrived at the village, he found a house to borrow it, which was indeed more comfortable than sleeping in a hard car.

The rapid drive lasted for about three hours, and the faint moon was completely obscured by the dark clouds drifting in the distance, and the faint starlight stopped flickering, and it was hidden in the inky sky.

The screaming stopped abruptly, and the coachman was probably going to lose his voice if he didn't stop calling, and maybe now he had given up putting pressure on his voice because he had lost his voice.

Bill complimented him on the fact that he didn't scream anymore, and it was the most basic etiquette to be quiet when he was about to arrive in the village, especially after the wee hours of the morning.

He sat back in the carriage, but the doors and windows were still open, so as not to be the first to notice in case of danger, and at last there was a light in front of Bill's eyes, which were torches built deep in the woods and kept at night to drive away wild beasts......

"Coachman, it's time for us to slow down, there should be Naya Village in front of us, be careful not to let the carriage crash into the village door. ”

Bill reminded the driver that although there was only a straight road left ahead, if he continued to run at this speed, there was a high probability that they would hit the mountain.

The coachman still ignored him, but the movement of the whip slowed down and became slower again......

At last, the coachman, who was holding the reins, stopped his movements and stood motionless, like a paralyzed man who had been helped to sit up, and his muscles were all loose.

Bill was even more dissatisfied, and he slipped out of the carriage and patted the coachman on the shoulder.

"Hey, did you hear me?"

"Slow down now, or I'll throw you ......"

There was no need to throw it down, and when Bill slapped the coachman, his body tilted, and the whole person was wheeled from the speeding carriage......

Bill looked at his hand and swallowed suddenly.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to. ”