In the end, they finished eating the food. The dead don't need to eat, and leaving food here will only attract wild beasts and increase unnecessary risks. Jian Qi was somewhat resistant to this kind of thin burial, in his opinion, death and birth are the most solemn things that a life can experience, and they should be remembered by others. If this poor woman has no relatives to help her with a funeral, at least they should also give her a decent coffin and grave, and carve a tombstone to tell those who pass by what kind of people sleep here. But no one but him did.

"It doesn't have to be like this. When life was gone from her body, all that was left was flesh and bones. Those things came from her mother's eating and drinking of all things when she conceived her, and they should now return to all things. Why bother to use a coffin to force a person who has already left here? Cheese's words made Kenqi thoughtful, but he still showed a certain amount of hesitation as he left.

"If that were the case, wouldn't man be any different from the beast, and if we didn't try to keep the dead, wouldn't it be as if they never existed when our memory of them faded?"

It was Kairaz who answered the question, and the cat elf's tone was rare for the first time, "You had a dream, and you became someone else in your dream. When you wake up from a dream, where does the person in the dream go? When you are in the dream, where does the dreamer go? Life appears and disappears, and new life is born out of the ashes, does life really exist? Does the person who speaks now really exist? If it exists, why do you have to prove its existence. If it doesn't exist, why do you have to prove it? Since there is no need to prove whether she exists or not, isn't the tombstone just a decoration for others to see?"

Jian Qi blinked and stopped talking. In his impression, it is normal for people to die and erect monuments, because he comes from a large family, and the members of the family need to remember and inherit it in this way, and those who die violently outside are considered the greatest misfortune, and even the clan will send people to take back the corpses of the clansmen. He didn't think it was wrong, because it built his family, the craftsmanship and traditions of the Sword Gate. But he couldn't deny Kairas's statement, maybe there was more than one answer to this matter, this was not the Sword Gate, and the rules inside the door should not apply here.

Instead of returning to the town of Yufa, the group entered a wooded field. There was a large clearing in the middle of the woods, and the problem was that the bush maze that should have stood in the clearing and the logging hut in the middle of the maze were gone, leaving only large patches of black ash and inadequately burned coke. Apparently, it was someone who burned something last night after Atta left.

"You did destroy that loom, didn't you? Cheese walked to the clearing, crouched down and reached out to pick up some of the ashes, which he rubbed with his fingers and even put it under his nose and sniffed it.

Atta frowned slightly, not because of the mage's suspicions, but because she was recalling the scene last night, "I dismembered that thing as you commanded, and then destroyed every part with a flaklag, at least by the time I left, it was no longer visible in my eyes. In fact, I also thought about letting go of burning the machine at the time, but Goli's situation was too bad to implement it. ”

"You look like it's okay, it's okay, I've seen that thing, it's powerful, but it's fragile. Cheese flicked off the ashes from his fingertips and continued towards the center of the clearing, where there were still traces of a house that once existed, "There is not even a skeleton left, this fire is big enough." But except for this place, it did not spread to other places, and there was no fire in the town. It seems that there are still people watching this place, and they don't want more people to know about it. Did you have any trouble or anything unusual when you came here yesterday?"

"This. Atta spoke, and threw a cloth bag to the mage, who caught it and opened it, revealing the arm of the puppet that had been cut off by the female swordsman last night, and the blade that spat out of her palm still shone with an ominous light. Cheese took out the severed arm and studied it from all angles, and with a few random taps of his fingers on it, several pieces of the arm bounced open, revealing the structure inside.

"How many of these things are there?" After a brief investigation, the mage had already made a preliminary judgment, and he temporarily lowered the puppet's arm slightly, and said to Atta, who was gathered around with the others.

"One, just this one almost killed me. This is somewhat exaggerated, and in all fairness, if Atta and the puppet were to fight head-to-head in a fair way, she would have a much better chance of winning. The problem is that there are not many battles in this world that are fair, and in terms of stealth and surprise capabilities, the puppets are equipped and displayed enough to threaten the lives of most people.

"Normal. This puppet has been specially transformed, and it is extremely fast and stealthy, and I guess it has no more than three types of weapons on it, and it is scary to be light, right?" Although it was in a questioning tone, there was not much in the mage's words to verify it. He possessed knowledge of such creations, so he could quickly discern the qualities and merits of the remains. But just as he couldn't compare to the grey-robed Raven and the Sleeper in spells and prophecy, he couldn't make Cheese make something like that. Therefore, those who can do it must be experts.

Could it be a gray robe? No, there are very few gray robes who are proficient in this kind of thing, and most of the apprentices of the Gray Tower prefer to go in the direction of not using too many foreign objects, after all, the Gray Tower is located in a bitter cold place, and it is somewhat inconvenient to study a large amount of materials. Moreover, although the workmanship of this puppet is fine, when it comes to magic, it is only a pediatric level in the eyes of the gray robe, and the rough magic is combined with the workmanship of experts, and it is an uncoordinated creation.

"Do you think it's possible that it's the same thing as that loom? I mean, they're all magical creations, and they're all in the same place, wouldn't they—" Atta said her guess. This speculation immediately elicited a reaction from Kenqi and Kailas, who heard the same thing as his companion at the time, even though the cat fairy was far away.

"The river monster had said that she had gotten the loom from someone else, along with the plan. She called the man 'he', so it was supposed to be a male among gendered creatures. Jian Qi immediately added.

"Chances are, there are similarities in the magic between the two. Cheese said as he fumbled his fingers into the cut of the severed arm, pulling out something from it with a little force, which was a human arm bone, "It's just as uncomfortable." I don't like the loom that collects energy and life, the puppet that uses the human body as the basic material, no matter who makes them. ”