Bach returned from hunting, carrying the carcass of an adult snow deer and was about to return to his hut, when he was suddenly stopped by a voice behind him.

"Hunter, stop!"

Bach turned back and saw a carriage driving into the village, guarded by four guards, and stopped by the man at the front, dressed in bright silver armor, urging his mount to run to Bach, turn over and dismount, and take off his helmet.

"Outlander?" Bach was surprised, except for the occasional merchant who came to sell goods in this small village, there were basically no outsiders visiting, there were no mineral deposits here, and the scenery was not beautiful, so it was not attractive at all, and the last foreigner who came here was Little Hodge, and that was eight years ago.

He took a closer look at the convoy, and his expression of surprise became even greater: "Noble?"

Hughes raised his chin and said proudly, "That's right, I'm Hughes, a knight from the Baker family. ”

"Knight!" Bach exclaimed, the exact reaction Hughes expected, and he put on a proud smile that suddenly froze at the corners of his mouth.

Bach removed the snow deer from his shoulder, took Hughes's hand very familiarly, and shook it vigorously, his face full of honesty and sincerity: "Hello hello, that...... Oh yes, Hughes."

Hughes watched his expensive leather gloves being held by Bach's bloodstained hands, and his brain went blank for a moment, and then he reacted, quickly shook Bach's hand away, and looked at the impudent man in front of him angrily: "Presumptuous! Take away your dirty hands." And you should call me "Your Excellency", civilian!"

Bach looked at him with strange eyes: "You are a lord?"

Hughes didn't quite understand why the hunter was asking this: "Of course not. ”

"And you're the king?"

"Now there are no borders, and every piece of land on the continent belongs to His Majesty the Emperor. ”

"Oh. Bach pulled a long tail note, "Then you are His Majesty the Emperor?"

Hughes became impatient: "No, how could His Majesty the Emperor come to this damn little village. ”

"Then why do you call you, sir. ”

"Because I am a nobleman, you are a commoner, and a commoner should call a nobleman when he sees him. ”

"But only lords, kings, and emperors are called adults, and that is something that everyone knows. ”

you, everybody knows what kind of this is, and Hughes can't even figure out the basic social class, and Hughes is simply angry.

There was a chuckle from the convoy, which made Hughes feel that he was very annoyed by being so faceless in front of Carroll, and his voice suddenly rose to a higher pitch: "I don't care who told you such ridiculous remarks, but commoners should be called adults when they see nobles, understand!"

"Okay, okay, if you want to hear me, that, I'm sorry I forgot what your name was. ”

Hughes gasped in his nostrils: "Hughes." ”

"Yes, Lord Hughes. ”

There is a perfunctory smell, like a child who is messing around.

This made Hughes so angry that he almost pulled out the sword at his waist and duel with Bach.

"Okay Hughes, don't be embarrassed. Carroll opened the curtain and walked out with Fink, compared to Hughes's arrogance, Carroll did not see any aristocratic arrogance, she naturally walked up to Bach, smiled and asked, "What do you call you?"

Bach patted his chest and said with a grin: "Bach, just call me Bach." ”

"Hello, Uncle Bach. Carroll nodded, "That's right, we came to the village mainly to hear about a strange incident that happened here, and we were very interested in it, so we rushed here to find out what happened. ”

"Bizarre things, which do you mean?"

"It is said that a terrible monster has appeared in the village to attack the villagers, is there such a thing?"

"Oh, you mean this. Bach thought about it and sighed softly, "This matter should only be known to the villagers, where did you get the news?"

Carol smiled gently: "It's not surprising that bizarre things always fly far away like winged birds in word of mouth. Can you tell us more about that? ”

"Since you want to know, well, it's not a secret anyway, but the information you got is a little biased, the monster did attack the villagers, but not in the village. ”

"Oh?" asked Carol with interest, after all, their city was quite a distance from the small village chief, and it was normal for the news to deviate in the process, and it was for this purpose that it was necessary to ask the locals for advice.

Bach described what happened that day, remembering the large wound on Hood's chest at that time, and said with palpitations: "The wound that pierced the chest was terrifying to look at, and we all thought that he would die from such a wound, but we didn't expect to be saved in the end, and it was a fluke to think about it." ”

"Well, after that, did Hood wake up and say anything about monsters?"

"No, Hood woke up and repeated the phrase over and over again. ”

"You mean 'the monsters in the ground have awakened'?"

"Yes, that's it, or shouting in the house, and the whole village can hear him. ”

"Shouting? ”

"It's just a sound, it sounds painful and oozing. ”

"I see. Carroll nodded politely to him, "Can you tell me where Hood lives? ”

Bach waved his hand: "Then you happen to be late, just last night Hood died, it is said that the death was quite miserable, he scratched his chest alive, which is where he was once injured, and then pinched his heart to burst, the ghost knows what madness he had, that wound has obviously healed, but it is a pity that little Hodge saved his life so hard, and it was all wasted." ”

"Hodge......" Carol whispered the name, "is that the herbalist?"

"Yes, that's him. At the mention of Hodge, Bach seemed very happy, "Don't look at his young age, but he has a great medical skill, if he hadn't operated on Hood at that time, Hood would have died on that day." ”

"Surgery?" Carol and Fink looked at each other, exchanging thoughts on each other.

No one knows better than a priest the difficulty of surgery, and it is only possible to treat patients with surgery if he understands the anatomy of the human body to a certain extent, and even Fink does not dare to perform surgery easily, and it is unbelievable that a herbalist in a remote village can treat a patient with surgery.

"Can you tell us where Dr. Hodge lives?" asked Carroll politely.

Bach pointed into the distance: "Follow this trail all the way, and at the end of the village is the hut on the left, where Hodge lived. ”

"Thank you, Uncle Bach. Carroll said goodbye to him, and the group walked towards the location of Hodge's hut, where he might be able to get news of the monster since he had saved Hood.