"Don't those people want to go into the Black Forest? A councillor in hunting costume in Big Tree Town suddenly opened his mouth to propose when everyone was discussing that there was no definite result.

"Franco, are you crazy?" the other councillors sitting next to the councillor immediately asked, "Let them in, if they find out our secrets......"

"Isn't that better?" said the Hunter Councillor with a ruthless look on his face, "You also know that the method left by our ancestors has begun to fail, and even adventurers in the village will be very dangerous when they enter the Black Forest, but have you ever thought that it is not that our method has failed, but that the sacrifices used in the method are no longer useful." ”

When an older councillor heard the words of the Hunter Councillor, he raised his hand to stop the others from continuing the discussion, and when the room became quieter, he asked the Hunter Councillor, "Franco, is there any basis for saying that the sacrifice is useless?"

"Of course there is a basis. The Hunter immediately replied, "You all know the third child of the Brick family, right?"

"Is that madman?" everyone thought about it, and soon thought of who the third child of the Brick family was.

"After Kerry's team disappeared in the Black Forest not long ago, I looked into why the methods of our ancestors had failed. In order to let everyone hear his voice, the Hunter Costume Councilor got up from his position, walked to the middle of everyone's seats, and then said with a serious face: "After my careful investigation, I found that the earliest time when the method failed was not in the last few months, but two years ago, that is, the harvesting team in which the third child of the Brick family participated. You should remember that time when all the people in that team died, only the third child of the Brick family returned, but although he came back, he lost an eye and an ear, and he went crazy. ”

A councillor in a police uniform took over and said, "Yes, I remember this incident, and I was in charge of the investigation, and the result of the investigation at that time was that they violated the rules of their ancestors and entered the Black Forest, which is outside the scope of the contract, which is why it caused that tragedy." ”

"Actually, it's not that we entered the Black Forest outside the scope of the contract, but that the contract we mysteriously signed with the Black Forest back then has gone wrong, and the sacrifices have begun to become invalid. The Hunter retorted to the councilor's words, and before the other party opened his mouth to refute himself, he added: "You should carefully recall, is it that since that tragedy, after our people entered the Black Forest, the casualties began to increase, until now they have become similar to outsiders. ”

After the words of the hunter councillor fell, the room became very quiet, everyone was thinking about his words, and felt that his words seemed to be right, the village had entered the Black Forest before, as long as the ritual was completed, there would basically be no danger, but since that tragedy, even if they completed the ritual perfectly, the villagers would also have accidents when they entered the Black Forest, but the casualties were much fewer than those of outsiders, and it was not until not long ago that everyone died in the Black Forest.

The Hunter looked at the faces of the people around him, and knew that what he said had been agreed by everyone, so he continued: "After I investigated this clearly, a question arose in my mind, according to reason, if those people caused the contract to fail for some reason, then everyone should have died in the forest, why was the third child of the Brick family able to come back alive?"

According to the words of the Hunter Councilor, some councillors maliciously guessed: "You mean that the third child of the Brick family is also one of the people who caused the contract failure, and he should have died in the forest, but now that he has walked out of the forest alive, the reason for the failure of the contract still exists, and we should send the third child of the Brick family back to the Black Forest, right?"

Although these words were full of malice, many people seemed to agree with this proposal and nodded casually.

"Of course not!" The Hunter Suit Councilor immediately defended: "Since the third child of the Brick family can get out of the Black Forest alive, it means that the Black Forest allows him to leave, and the reason why I raise that question is mainly to say that the third child of the Brick family can get out of the Black Forest alive There must be a special way." ”

"Franco, do you already know how to do that?" asked one of the councillors, picking up some clues.

The Hunter Councillor stopped going around in circles and nodded in acknowledgement, "Yes, I already got the method from the third child of the Brick family. ”

"Got a way from a madman, Franco, are you crazy too?" said a councillor in costume who had a bad relationship.

The Hunter didn't care about the other party's ridicule, and said calmly: "Although the third child of the Brick family is crazy, as long as the method is appropriate, even a madman can say something useful. The reason why he was able to get out of the Black Forest alive was mainly because he made another sacrifice in the Black Forest, but this time the sacrifice was not the sacrifices prepared by our village, but one of his own eyes and ears, so I thought that our ritual might still be useful, but the sacrifice had changed. ”

The words of the Hunter Councilor fell, and everyone present couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamations.

For a long time, the sacrifices required for the rituals in Big Tree Town were just beasts, and they had never done anything like human sacrifice, but now the words of the Hunter Councillor seemed to mean that in order for their ritual to succeed and allow the villagers to continue to enter and exit the Black Forest as safely as before, they needed to sacrifice with living people.

"Damn, do you know what you're talking about?" the police-uniformed councillor suddenly stood up and scolded loudly: "You can also say such a thing as sacrificing a living person, don't you know how taboo the empire is about this kind of time?

Hearing these words, the faces of the deputies present became extremely ugly, and the eyes of the congressmen in hunting clothes became a little gloomy.

Seeing that he had become the target of the public, the Hunter Councilor did not look flustered, but smiled lightly and said, "You have misunderstood what I mean, I didn't think about human sacrifice at all, I just think that since the sacrifice has changed, then our ritual can also change." ”

Someone immediately asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"We can complete the ritual beforehand, but without offering sacrifices, waiting for the sacrifices to sacrifice themselves to the mysteries of the Black Forest," the hunter explained. ”

Someone else questioned, "Are you crazy? How can anyone want to be a sacrifice themselves?"

"Why not?" said the Hunter Councillor, smiling, "You have forgotten that there are quite a few strangers in our town now, and they all want to enter the Black Forest from the road we have opened, and since they are going, we don't need to stop them, do we?"

After these words, the members of the House of Representatives present seemed to understand what the Hunter Suit Congressman was trying to express, and their gloomy faces eased, and they discussed with each other in whispers, and soon reached a consensus.

The next day, a notice was posted on the bulletin board of the town office in Big Tree Town, which mentioned that Big Tree Town had agreed to open the Black Forest Road opened by Big Tree Town to adventurers from outside the town, and any adventurer from outside the town office only needed to issue a pass at the town office.

This news did not surprise the out-of-town adventurers who had gathered in the town, and in their opinion, although Big Tree Town tried everything to prevent the out-of-town adventurers from using the roads opened by Big Tree Town, there were still people who escaped Big Treetown's blockade.

Now the number of out-of-town adventurers is not very large, and it is still impossible to block it, and when the number of adventurers hides in the future, it will be even more impossible to completely block it, so in the end it is still an open road.

Now that Big Tree Town has taken the initiative to open the road, it will not only save face for the people of Big Tree Town, but also make out-of-town adventurers feel that they owe Big Tree Town something, and all the items needed to enter the Black Forest will also be purchased in Big Tree Town, so that the people of Big Tree Town can benefit from it.

Now that Big Tree Town has given way to outside adventurers, foreign adventurers will also abide by the rules set by Big Tree Town to avoid unnecessary conflicts.

Originally, those foreign adventurers thought that they only needed to register their names to get a pass, but what they didn't expect was that things were not as simple as they thought, and although the whole process of obtaining the pass was not unpleasant, the procedures were a bit cumbersome.

The most troublesome part of these procedures is the need to fill out a waiver form in order to prevent their relatives and friends from using the roads they have opened up in Big Tree Town to make trouble in Big Tree Town.

Although this waiver was a little unpleasant, it was still within the range of tolerability, but another procedure after that filled the hearts of those out-of-town adventurers who applied for the pass was full of unhappiness.

According to Big Tree Town, because it is very dangerous to enter the Black Forest, the mortality rate is very high, and no one can guarantee that they will be able to get out of the Black Forest, so in order to prevent these foreign adventurers from dying in the Black Forest, no one knows, Big Tree Town hopes that all foreign adventurers who enter the Black Forest will leave a suicide note, and write the recipient's address on the suicide note, once they do not come out of the Black Forest, Big Tree Town will send these suicide notes to the address on the letter.

This should be considered a good intention in the eyes of many people, but it always feels strange to do so at this time, like some kind of mortal curse.

It's just that they are annoyed, they didn't resist Big Tree Town's move, after all, Big Tree Town has opened the road, giving them a chance to make a profit.

In fact, in the towns around the Black Forest, there are many roads that have been carved out through a long period of time and a large number of lives, and many roads have even penetrated deep into the Black Forest, but after entering the Black Forest, there is a high probability of gaining something and returning alive is only the town of Big Tree.

Someone once specifically counted the chances of local adventurers in Big Tree Town coming back alive after entering the Black Forest, as well as the harvest of each entry, and it was amazing to find that the local adventurers in Big Tree Town were able to harvest a lot of things almost every time, and nearly half of the things related to the Black Forest on the market came from Big Tree Town, and the survival rate of adventurers in Big Tree Town was also the highest.

It is precisely for this reason that those adventurers who have their hearts set on the Black Forest regard the path opened up by Big Tree Town as the first choice, according to the price of the items related to the Black Forest on the market now, they only need to enter the Black Forest to bring out an item unique to the Black Forest, then they do not need to worry about spending it for the next few years.

So for the sake of great profit, these adventurers are willing to put up with everything, including the kind of reserved suicide note that looks very unpleasant.

However, this discontent soon dissipated among the out-of-town adventurers, because some of the people who had entered the Black Forest came out alive and had something to gain, which made all the out-of-town adventurers see the opportunity to make their fortune and began to prepare to enter the Black Forest.

However, they did not find that only a few people were able to get out of the Black Forest alive, and none of the other people who entered the Black Forest came out again.

Perhaps they all noticed this, but their attention was focused on the gains of the living ones, and they didn't care about anything else.

In this way, more and more adventurers gathered in Big Tree Town, and Big Tree Town became the most prosperous of all the nearby villages and towns.

It was already evening when Leo and Sylvia arrived in Big Tree, and instead of driving the carriage directly into Big Tree, they abandoned it on the road and changed into an adventurer's costume that would not be particularly noticeable.

"There are a lot more adventurers here than expected, and the Imperial Security Service will definitely send someone to watch over here. Standing on a hillside, looking at the town surrounded by improvised wooden walls in front of her, and hearing all kinds of noise coming from the town, Sylvia said calmly.

"It's okay, there's no need for us to stay here, we'll ...... tonight" Leo, who was talking, suddenly stopped, looked at the huge umbrella tree in the middle of the town in front of him with a serious expression, couldn't help frowning, and said, "There is something wrong with that big tree." ”

Sylvia looked at the umbrella tree suspiciously, but didn't see any clues.

The umbrella tree was a common tree in the northern part of the French Empire, because its branches and leaves grew in the shape of an umbrella, hence the name of the umbrella tree, and it was the favorite to plant this type of umbrella tree in various gardens of the French Empire to provide tourists with a place to enjoy the shade.

However, although the umbrella tree in Big Tree Town looks the same as other umbrella trees, its body shape is much larger than half of the umbrella trees, and this big tree can be clearly seen even outside the town, which is also the origin of the name of Big Tree Town.

"There are energy fluctuations in this umbrella tree, very strong energy fluctuations. Leo knew that Sylvia didn't see the bottom of the umbrella tree, so he explained, "It's supposed to be a family." ”

"Clans?" Sylvia immediately had a bad association in her mind when she heard this, and the look on her face became a lot more serious.