Chapter 744: Blood and Wine
Leo asked in a deep voice, "So I have encountered the same situation, do I also need to test the truth according to your method?"
Sylvia didn't answer, just looked at him.
Leo shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything more.
The two continued to walk towards the mountainside, only this time they were no longer as far apart as before, and they would look out for each other, always keeping the other in sight.
I don't know how long I walked, but Leo stopped, looked around, and said, "We should be in the fog by now." ”
Sylvia also looked around and understood why Leo said that, because all the plants around her had become strange plants that she didn't recognize, and all the plants that belonged to the world of Velonon had disappeared, and the rain that fell from the sky had become much hotter, and there was a pungent smell of sulfur in the rain.
"How do we go now?" asked Sylvia.
Leo didn't answer immediately, but was silent for a moment, then pointed in the direction to the right and said, "Go this way!"
With that, he walked in the opposite direction of his fingers.
Sylvia was stunned for a moment when she saw it, and hurriedly chased after her, saying, "You are going in the wrong direction." ”
Leo shook his head and explained, "Don't trust your sense of direction, any sense of direction you have here, any common sense of direction in the normal world is wrong, the only thing you can rely on is intuition." ”
Sylvia frowned, looking a little hard at the end of her life, but she didn't say anything more, and walked in what she thought was the wrong direction.
After about ten minutes of walking, Sylvia felt that it was time to remind Leo that it was not too late to turn back and find the right path.
But at this time, the trees in front of me suddenly began to thin out, and the weeds disappeared, and after walking a little further, you could see that the trees also became thin, and the sulfur-smelling rain also weakened.
After walking for another two minutes or so, a bright light appeared in the gap in the trees ahead, and they quickened their pace, and finally passed through the trees and entered the middle.
From darkness to light, it took a moment for the untrained Sylvia to get her eyes back to normal, only to gasp at the sight that caught her eye when she returned to normal.
It's not that the scene in front of her is so bad, but the scenery here is so beautiful, there is absolutely no place where she has been to so many places, and it can compare with here, the blue sky, bright flowers, green leaves, fresh air, and the breeze blowing down from the snow-capped mountain tops in the distance, so that even if the sun is shining, there is no feeling of heat here.
Then she turned her head to look at the woods behind her, and looked up at the sky to see what kind of rain clouds could rain so hot and full of sulfur, but she found that the woods she had walked through were gone, and behind her was only a field full of strange fruits, and there were no rain clouds in the sky, only some thin white clouds, fluttering slowly.
Sylvia was at a loss for what was in front of her, and she couldn't tell whether this was an illusion or a reality, she turned her head and prepared to ask Leo for help, but she found that Leo was looking at the strange fruit that was propped up with a shelf in the field next to her with a look of surprise and confusion.
The reason why this fruit is strange is that it hangs from fragile vines and needs to be held up with a bracket, and each fruit is made up of many tiny fruits, hanging down in a large bunch, which feels like fish eggs.
"Do you know this fruit?" Sylvia asked, seeing Leo's expression.
"Yes. Leo nodded in acknowledgement and said, "This fruit is called grapes." ”
"Grapes?" Sylvia was stunned, and the vineyards of the Porto region came to mind, "Aren't grapes the kind of oval-shaped, skin-covered fruit with all the juice inside?"
"Yes, that's the grapes of the world of Velon. Knowing that there would be such a ball, Leo explained, "This is the grapes of other worlds." ”
He added in his heart, saying, "This is the grape of my world." ”
Leo walked over to a vine full of fruit, then picked two of them, one for himself and one for Sylvia.
"Can this be eaten?" Sylvia took the pearl-sized fruit and looked at it, and seeing that Leo was fine after eating it, she also stuffed it into her mouth and chewed it twice, but soon spit out the fruit, and spit out several mouthfuls of water, rinsed her mouth with the small kettle she carried with her, and then shouted at Leo: "It's so unpalatable, sour and astringent, how can you eat it." ”
Leo smiled and said, "This is a grape for winemaking, of course it is sour and astringent, and it is not as sweet as a grape, but the wine made from this grape should be very good." ”
At this moment, at the end of the idyllic path, a human dressed like a farmer from the days of the old lords of the past hundreds of years ran up to them, and spoke loudly to them in a language he had never heard before, as if he were questioning them.
Hearing this person's words, Leo responded very quickly as if he was born to understand this person's language, followed by a few more questions as if asking a question, and then took out a golden shield from his pocket and handed it to the man, after the man took it, his original angry expression left and changed, with a smile on his face, every time Leo asked a question in that unknown language, he answered in great detail, and pointed in several directions.
After asking seven or eight questions, Leo motioned for him to leave, and led Sylvia down the path on the edge of the countryside in one direction.
"What's going on? How do you understand the man's language?" asked Sylvia, who was holding back her curiosity.
"This language is not the language of the Vilen world, it comes from another world. Leo didn't know how to explain to Sylvia that the language he spoke and the people here spoke was actually the language of a country in the Old Earth era of the Earth Federation.
Sylvia looked at Leo with the eyes of a fool, because Leo's answer was completely nonsense, and in this environment and situation, no matter how stupid people are, they know that they have come to another world, and the language used in this world is naturally the language of another world.
Sylvia didn't dwell on the language anymore and asked, "Do you know where this is?"
"I think I should know where this is. Leo said with a serious expression.
"Should it?" Sylvia couldn't help but look at Leo curiously when she heard Leo's unconfident tone.
Leo was silent for a moment, and said, "I just heard about a place from a friend, but I don't know much about it, and I asked the farmer what it was called, and he replied that my name was the name of the place my friend mentioned, and I just don't know if the two are the same place." ”
"What's this called?" asked Sylvia again.
"Touscent, the land of blood and wine. Leo explained.
When he was in Lake Town, Leo met a woman who was also from another world, that woman was called Givy El, and he got along well with this woman, and learned the alchemy and magic seal of the witcher from this woman, these two knowledge helped him a lot later, especially the magic seal of the witcher, so that he gradually sorted out his own offensive and defensive psionic skills, until now he still uses the magic seal of the witcher imitated by the power of nightmare to cooperate with other psionic skills.
At that time, when Gvielle was chatting, she would mention some places in her hometown, such as Sintra, Willen, Novigre, Skellig, Sunned's Island, etc., and Towson was also the place she highlighted, and in her words, this place was like a fairyland, with the four seasons like spring, blooming flowers, lush plants, countless wines made from grapes, and countless knights fighting for glory.
Of course, she also mentions the history of Towson, the history of the bloody slaughter of elves, so she later also mentions another name her world has given to Towcent, the Land of Blood and Wine.
On the way to a nearby town, Leo gives Sylvia a detailed introduction to the world and the events of Towcente.
Sylvia listened carefully and carefully, and from time to time posted that she was particularly interested in the knights of Tousent.
You must know that Sylvia is a native of the French people, and the French knights have occupied the first position in the world for a long time, if it were not for the appearance of infantry weapons such as steam engine crossbows, maybe the French knights are still the jewels on the world military stage.
When Sylvia disguised herself as Baron Maupassant, she had been knighted and had received extremely formal knightly training, and that kind of knightly feeling was not something that people from other countries could experience, so when she heard that Tauscent was prevalent as a knight, she had an idea in her heart.
"How do you know so much about things here?" Sylvia asked in confusion after listening to Leo's narration, "Could it be that you got so much information in that conversation just now?"
"Of course not. Leo shook his head and said, "When I was in Lake Town, I met a friend from another world, and she was from Towcente. ”
"She?" Sylvia replied meaningfully.
Leo didn't realize the problem in Sylvia's tone, and said to himself: "Her name is Givy El, in the language here is a bird called a swallow, if you meet her, you will like her, she is very similar to your personality." ”
The two walked some distance and came across a carriage carrying new barrels, which they then took to a nearby town.
The town is not large, if not a village, with a dozen houses scattered around the fountain in the middle of the town, and the houses are quaint, the kind of cottages made of wood and mud bricks.
Most of the people living in the town were workers and farmers working in the nearby vineyards, and the town and the surrounding vineyards belonged to a Count of Temeria, who was so obsessed with winemaking that he sold his family property in Temeria and moved to Touscent to buy a suitable plot of land to grow grapes and make wine.
However, the best land in Towcent was divided among the local nobles, and the rest was the exclusive land of the Towcent royal family, which could not be sold, so he could only buy a piece of land in a relatively remote place to realize his dream of winemaking.
Because of its remote location, there is no entertainment here, and the only thing that can provide entertainment is the only tavern in town, and there is no hotel, so if you want to spend the night, you have to vacate a utility room in the backyard of the tavern for the night.
Neither Leo nor Sylvia are the kind of people who are particularly particular about it, and even if they don't have a room, it's enough to be able to have a house for one night in the wild.
While tidying up in Sylvia, Leo, who knew the language, went to the tavern and chatted with the local winegrowers and winemakers.
When the Towsentes saw Leo's clothes that were clearly different from the local style, they thought of Leo as a stranger who had come to attend the Knights' Conference but was confronted by local robbers, so they comforted Leo while telling a lot of local stories about Towcent.
After finishing his words from the men, Leo returned to the utility room, which Sylvia had cleaned up, and although it wouldn't be comfortable to sleep in, at least there was a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
"Did you ask anything useful?" asked Sylvia impatiently when Leo returned.
Leo told him what he was asking, such as the Knights' Conference that was taking place, the annual wine festival was about to take place, and the fact that it was at least a day away from the royal city of Touscent on horseback, and that the road was dangerous, so it would be safer to walk with a patrol of wandering knights.
After hearing the news that Leo heard from Detective Leo, Sylvia was very interested in the knights' conference and the wandering knights, and after asking about the relevant matters, she decided that she would dress up as a wandering knight and participate in the knights' conference to make up for her regret that she was not able to participate in the real knight tournament in Fran.
Leo has no objection to Sylvia's enthusiasm to realize his dreams, and he also thinks that becoming a wandering knight is a good idea, but he is now more concerned about other things, one of which is money.
They don't know how long they'll be here, so they need money to live, and now all he can really use is the Savile guilder, because gold is still hard currency here, even if it's not the national currency, as long as it's gold, it can still be used.
But the problem is that he doesn't have many golden shields on hand, if he wants to disguise himself as a wandering knight, then the knight's armor and horses must be at least equipped, even if the armor is not bought and made by himself, it will take a lot of money to paint, and the remaining money is very small, and I don't know when it will run out.
So before he ran out, he had to find other ways to make money, and now he thought of a temporary solution, which was to learn from the wandering knights to fight the bandits of Tousent, and take on some local nobles' mercenary tasks, so that they could not only make their wandering knights more similar in disguise, but also be able to understand the surrounding environment better.