Chapter 34: Ice and Snow
Frozen.
The scarred girl, dressed in shabby and light clothes, staggered in the direction of the village, barefoot.
It's just that she didn't know that there was a figure behind her who was silently following her.
"Hah!"
Suddenly, the girl felt a warm current blowing on the back of her neck, with a fishy stench, like the breath of some beast!
"Who?" the girl shouted as she hurriedly turned around.
But behind him, there was nothing.
The girl felt creepy, and she didn't care about anything else, so she ran to the village desperately.
In the wind and snow not far from the girl, a tall figure was hidden, but it did not pursue, but slowly disappeared in the blizzard.
"Open the door, help, open the door!" the girl panicked and knocked on the window of a farmer's house.
"Who! in the middle of the night!" the peasant opened the window in a daze, but when he saw the girl's face, a chill ran from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
"It's not me, it's not me, it's not me who killed you, don't come to me! don't come to me!" the peasant yelled, shutting the window with a bang.
The girl was so anxious that she was about to cry, she wanted to say that she was actually a living person, but she didn't have a chance at all!
She knocked on the windows of several houses, but everyone saw her as if they had seen a ghost.
Closed doors.
At this temperature, if she can't find a place to heat, she will freeze to death!
I don't know how long she walked, but she came to a place in a daze, feeling something to lick her face again.
The girl looked at it and saw that it was a dark horse with an unusually handsome hand!
I don't know when I walked to the horse pen, the girl's hands and feet were already frozen, and she barely collected some hay to light a fire to keep warm, but she couldn't find anything that could make a fire all over her body.
"It's hard to escape, but you still have to die in this kind of place! I am so unwilling!" the girl lay in the stable, her eyelids and the muscles on her face were frozen, and she did not obey the call.
The consciousness is getting more and more blurred, as if I am sleeping with my eyes closed, I am so tired, I don't want to be tired, it is better to never wake up......
"Hey, wake up!"
Just as the girl was about to close her eyes, a soft man's voice came.
Who?
The man reached out and touched his forehead.
"No, I'm about to freeze to death......!
"Okay, okay, I know, I know!"
It was the last conversation she heard before she lost consciousness.
I don't know how long it took, but the girl opened her eyes through a slit.
What I felt was not the biting cold, but the warmth of my whole body.
Let the girl's whole body be lazy and not want to move.
"Man awake!" said a clear voice.
"Well, it looks like it's all right!" the other voice was hoarse and dull.
The girl rolled her eyes slightly, and what she saw were two black-robed people.
"Yes...... You saved me!" the girl's voice was very weak.
"It's okay, you have a good rest!"
The two who saved people were the nameless guest and Ah Gu.
Last night, when both of them were about to rest, Ah Gu suddenly noticed that a weak lifeform had broken into the stable of the tavern.
Ah Gu's original intention was not to save people, but to be afraid that someone would steal the horse, so he took the nameless guest to the stable, and happened to save the girl who was about to freeze to death.
"What is this place?" asked the girl.
"This is the ...... in the tavern of the village," the nameless guest had just said here, and the girl's eyes were full of fear.
"No, I can't be here! I can't let people know I'm still here!" called the girl, struggling to get up.
The nameless guest saw that the girl had just asked for the danger of her life, how could she go out, pressed her lightly, pressed her on the bed, and said, "Don't worry, the two of us are here, no matter who can hurt you!"
His voice was not loud, but it gave people a very reassuring feeling, and the originally anxious girl's mood slowly calmed down.
Ah Gu doesn't care, he doesn't care about the girl's life and death at all.
"What the hell is going on? Can you tell me about it?" said the nameless guest's voice softly.
The girl lowered her eyebrows and looked gloomy: "You two are not from this village, are you?"
"Well, we're travelers here! We were going to leave tomorrow, but it's hard to leave tomorrow and the day after tomorrow because there's still heavy snow!" said the anonymous guest.
The girl showed a pure smile like a lily: "Actually, I am not from this village, I was sold by human traffickers!"
"Huh?" both Anonymous and Ah Gu were stunned.
Especially Ah Gu, who has experienced the incident in Ice Grass City, he doesn't have a good impression of human traffickers at all.
The nameless guest looked at the girl in front of him, twelve or thirteen years old, very thin, with slender limbs, and a pair of big watery eyes staring at the nameless guest.
"I'm hungry, do I have anything to eat?" asked the girl.
The nameless guest brought the baked cakes and mutton on the table, and the girl ate a few bites and drank a few sips of water.
"My name is Arlene, I am an orphan, I was tricked into coming to this village five days ago, and the aunt of the trafficker clearly told me that as long as I came here, I would have food and clothing......
"Nothing?" asked.
"No, the first day I came, I had everything, the most sumptuous food, the most beautiful clothes, I was very happy!" said the young girl Arlene.
"And what about the next day?" asked the nameless guest.
"The next day I found out that I was going to be a sacrifice to the mountain god. Arlene said vaguely as her mouth was stuffed with food.
The nameless guest "chuckled" in his heart, although he had guessed before, he was still shocked when he learned the truth.
"Sacrifice with a living person?" asked the nameless guest.
Arlene nodded.
"And do you see the so-called mountain god?" asked the nameless guest.
Arlene tilted her head, and finally said, "I only saw a shadow! it's tall and scary!"
To say it is to say nothing.
Ah Gu picked up an apple and handed it to Nicole, who held the apple and nibbled all over her face.
"Whether it's a sacrifice or a mountain god, it's all people's own business, is it necessary for us to meddle?" Ah Gu said in a low voice.
The nameless guest was silent for a moment, this kind of thing is the most difficult thing to do, and the most important thing is that the villagers here don't appreciate it at all.
"Brother Bone, what do you say?" asked the nameless guest.
"If you want to save her, just take her away with a swagger, can these old peasants stop you and me?"
The nameless guest took a sip of wine: "Save one, let's go!" These villagers will also buy other children as sacrifices!"
"Brother, you're not a god! you can save one, but you can't save 110,000, no matter how powerful your swordsmanship is, you're just a human being, and people have limits!" Ah Gu said.
The nameless guest smiled bitterly: "Brother, I understand what you said......! But it's just that the psychology is unwilling!"
"What do you say?" asked Agu.
The nameless guest's eyes burst into a gleam: "Brother." I think I'll meet this mountain god and see what kind of demons and monsters are!"
"Forget it!" Arlene said: "Look at the two of you, you still have some meat, he is even more skinny, you have never seen that monster, more than three meters tall, you two are not enough for it to eat!"
The nameless guest looked at this cute little girl and smiled slightly: "In this world, it's not like the bigger the bigger, the more powerful!"
The little girl nodded as if she didn't understand.
At this time, the shopkeeper hurriedly ran up: "Oh no, two, no, no, the tavern is surrounded by villagers, saying that they are looking for someone!"
"Who's it for?" asked the nameless guest.
"A couple said that their daughter was abducted and trafficked by you...... shopkeeper just said this, and saw the girl Arlene lying on the bed: "It turns out that what they said is true, you two are really human traffickers!
The shopkeeper said as he pulled out a cold kitchen knife from his waist.
The face under the mask of the nameless guest is dumbfounded, and this kind of operation?
The wicked sue first and bite back?
"The world is ignorant, it's not worth saving, it's gone!"
The nameless guest also had this impulse in his heart, originally he wanted to eradicate this "mountain god" and eliminate harm for the people, but now, is it really necessary for these villagers to save them?
With a wave of his hand, a huge fireball appeared in the palm of his hand.
"Magic ...... Magician......"
The originally arrogant shopkeeper saw the fireball in Ah Gu's hand, and was so frightened that he crawled out with a belt.
For ordinary villagers, the status of a magician is the same as that of a noble lord, and they can't afford to mess with it.
"Tell them, if you don't want to die, get out of here, or Lao Tzu will kill!" said in a cold voice.
The nameless guest knows that Ah Gu is definitely not joking, the undead hate the living, and if they provoke Ah Gu, it is not surprising to slaughter the village directly.
The nameless guest hurriedly pressed Ah Gu's hand: "Brother, leave this matter to me!
The fierce light in Ah Gu's eyes slowly dissipated: "Brother, remember, if you are too good, you will not end well!
"Brother, don't worry, I have a number!"
......
Outside the tavern, there were two or three hundred villagers on the third floor and the outer three floors, holding hoes, sickles and other farm tools in their hands, shouting!
In the middle is a husband and wife, that is, they say Arlene is their daughter.
After all, if you want to snatch Arlene back, you have to have an excuse!
Last night, after the people who had knocked on the windows of Arlene closed the windows, they thought that something was wrong, and secretly followed them, and found Arlene finally collapsed in the stable.
Standing at the outermost was an old man of seventy or eighty years old, with a gray beard and hair, a cane in his hand, squinting his eyes, and a proud expression.
"Bang!"
The door of the tavern was pushed open from the inside, and the nameless guest, dressed in black, walked out step by step.
Although there was only one person, the terrifying murderous aura on his body was enough to overwhelm thousands of troops, not to mention these two hundred old and weak villagers.
Suddenly, the whole scene fell silent, and everyone had a look of fear on their faces.
"Okay, now if you have anything to say, I don't like to beat around the bush!" said the anonymous man coldly.