This nameless town, imprisoned by witchcraft in the cracks of a space, is much bigger than you think. After ascending one of the wooden towers in the town, Hao Ren saw the rolling buildings in the distance, layers of old roofs rolling out along the terrain, like the disgusting folds of some dirty beast, everything in sight was a lifeless gray-black, and there was nothing bright in the whole town that could make the mood a little lighter, and at the end of the town away from the river bank could be seen a large building, which might have been the residence of the nobles.

It's very likely that the wizard lived in the first place.

Hao Ren came down from the watchtower and told everyone what he had seen: "There is a big house at the other end of the town, let's go over there first." ”

"Well, don't rush on the road, keep an eye on the way around," Vivien nodded, "There are always a lot of traps in the positions set up by wizards, especially with this kind of large-scale ...... The guy who can set up this kind of secret realm is probably not ordinary in the age of mythology. ”

As the crowd cautiously explores this silent and eerie lost town, Lily looks curiously at the old houses and rudimentary street furniture around her, and asks the most knowledgeable people on the scene: "Bat, what age do you think this town looks like?" ”

"Between the millennium and the four hundred years ago, the architectural style and civilization level in this area basically did not change much during that time, and the time flow in this town is obviously out of sync with the outside, so it is even more uncertain what age it is," Vivien frowned. "But one thing is for sure, the secret realm must not have been natural - this place should have been just an ordinary town by the river. It's the power of magic that pulls it in from the real world. ”

"About the wizard you found," Hao Ren looked up at Heatherian. "Is there any more specific information?"

Heatherian was quite reluctant to deal with Hao Ren, but at this time she still spoke lazily: "Wizards are a bunch of mysterious guys, and there is never much information that can be found. We have only a few bits of information about this wizard, whose earliest record of activity dates from around 1346 AD, and who appears to have been French, and whose earliest name was 'Baptiste'. He stayed in France for a hundred years, during which time he did not have any outstanding deeds, and he was still a very honest fellow. But then, I don't know what happened, and the wizard suddenly left France. He then traveled to many countries in Europe, leaving behind a large number of records of black magic and cult rituals, and around 1500 A.D. he was active in Finland and Russia, and the current state of the town is believed to be his hands and feet. ”

"And then?"

"Then the information was intermittent, he barely moved outside for the next two centuries, and he left very little information," Heatherian shook her head, "This 'Baptiste' is a freak, and he never has contact with his fellow wizards." It stands to reason that his power has surpassed many wizards in history, but his reputation is even inferior to that of some dark arts apprentices, and I used almost all of my family's intelligence connections to find this information, and in the end, I didn't even find out the origin of that wizard's power and the faction he belonged to. Gee. A low-key hermit, a lone ranger-like guy. ”

Vivien looked up at the smoky, unchanging sky and casually asked, "Is that wizard dead?" ”

"There is no clear death certificate either." Heatherana smiled wryly and spread her hands, "There are records that he was involved in a scuffle between witchers and the descendants of Anubis two centuries ago. Disappeared in the aftermath of the battle, he was never seen again for two centuries. So it's probably dead...... Who knows. Anyway, we're just here for his manuscripts and relics, and it's better for that troublesome guy to die. ”

"I'd rather he'd be alive," Hao Ren shrugged, "so I can ask him what the ritual of summoning the evil spirit Vivien means." ”

As the group spoke, they approached the center of the town, and the road in front of them seemed a little wider, and although the distribution of the buildings was still disorganized, the surrounding houses were slightly stronger than the previous ones in terms of size and quality, and it seemed that this was once the place where the "good people" lived in the town. A small empty space appeared in front of everyone's eyes, which was not called a square, but a relatively empty place. The ground is leveled and neat, the road around the clearing is paved with cobblestones of a modest size, and in the center of the clearing you can see a decaying wooden platform that seems to have once been a place for the townspeople to meet and listen to the orders of the lord.

The clearing was surrounded by old, old-fashioned wood-and-stone houses, haunted houses in a circle, staring at the outsiders who trespassed into the town with their hollow gray-black faces. Their doors were shut, and the narrow windows hung with tattered strips of cloth or wooden planks, revealing the hollow darkness inside, and in the darkness seemed to hide a pair of eyes—the eyes of the mysteriously disappeared townsfolk who didn't know what their fate would be.

Nangong May seemed to be a little hairy by the atmosphere around her, she evoked a mist to envelop herself, and then transformed into a kraken form. After casually throwing her clothes ball to Hao Ren, the water snake girl stretched: "Whew...... It's a lot more reassuring that way. ”

Hao Ren put May's clothes into his personal space and kindly asked, "Aren't you cold?" ”

The half body of the water snake in May spread directly on the ground, and the ground in this small town in the Arctic Circle was as cold as ice, and Hao Ren watched the other party's tail arch on the ground and panicked for her.

May shook the tip of her tail up, "It's okay, the water element is not afraid of the cold - as long as it doesn't freeze, it's fine." ”

Lily was now interested in the wooden platform in the middle of the clearing, and she curiously went around the platform, and suddenly raised her own fire very happily: "How do I feel cold around this platform?" ”

"There are a lot of spirits here," Nangong Sanba held two bottles of exorcism grease in his hand, with a serious face, "Don't stab around with a fire stick, in case you disturb the more powerful evil spirits, you will have fun." ”

When Lily heard this, she was immediately furious, and she was very happy to hold the fire and gestured vigorously at Nangong Sanba: "You say that this is a fire stick - don't you see the three forks on it?!" ”

"Are the spirits in this place ghosts?" Hao Ren had long been interested in this question, "If it's a ghost, can you communicate?" ”

Such an eerie lost town, with countless invisible spirits roaming among the dilapidated streets and houses, this was originally enough to scare ordinary people, but Hao Ren had just won the anger of an entire planet, and now his nerves were strong, and the first thing that came to mind when he mentioned ghosts was to ask the other party about the Tao.

"It's a pity, they're all very weak spirits," Nangong Sanba shook his head regretfully, "The air is everywhere, but it's all mixed together, blurred and almost without boundaries - this kind of spirit that can't even maintain itself can't communicate, and memories and thoughts are long gone." ”

Hao Ren sighed and muttered thoughtfully: "Is it the aboriginal of this town?" ”

"Nine times out of ten," Vivien agreed, "the inhabitants of this town are supposed to be ordinary humans, and depending on the state of the houses, the inhabitants of this town didn't have time to react when the town was dragged into this plane—ordinary people don't live long in this space." ”

"Dragged the whole town in...... What did that wizard want to do back then," Hao Ren frowned, his face a little bad, "If it was for seclusion, it would be too unnecessary to toss such a big deal." ”

While they were discussing the fate of the townspeople, Lily had already circled the wooden platform. She was inexplicably attracted by this platform, her golden eyes emitted a faint light, and in her field of vision, many fluttering shadows slowly appeared in this clearing, those shadows had vague human outlines, as if they were wearing clothes from hundreds of years ago, they stood there expressionlessly, looking up in the direction of the wooden platform, as if they were numbly listening to some non-existent person talking on the platform.

Lily's ears slowly branched out, and a few sporadic words drifted into her ears:

“…… The child was indeed stolen by the devil, and we should have banished the witch sooner......"

"Looks like it's been a long time since you've seen the lord?"

“…… The scholar said he would help the kid exorcise evil spirits, but I don't trust magic too much......"

"Shhhhhh They're going to throw you out of town, and the witch is still wandering outside......"

"Why don't you find a church?"

“…… The lord did not come forward ......" (to be continued......