Chapter 7: The Cave
"These can't be children, right?" a worker couldn't help but be shocked when he saw such a scene, and the person who did such a thing was too cruel. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Based on the size of the body, I guess yes. The Knight of York crouched down to see that they were up to his waist, and he couldn't think of anyone else who could be so short except children. If you want to talk about dwarfs, where do you find so many gnomes to mine?
It was too long to figure out their identities, so Leon asked the workers to bury them properly. After that, the excavation work had to be carried out quickly, and there was not much time for the town.
This was followed by the exploration of another mine, which was dominated by copper ore with a small amount of iron ore.
The last mine is obviously more complicated, turn left and right after entering, and finally come to a suspension bridge.
The suspension bridge is wooden and hangs over a river stream, and no one knows where the water in it comes from, whether it is a spring in the mountains or rainwater deposited.
In this environment, the suspension bridge itself becomes dangerous, and the planks will slowly decay under the long-term erosion of water vapor, and if they exceed the weight they can bear, they will break and fall down the mountain stream, and those who walk on it will not be spared.
The suspension bridge is not spacious, the planks are not thick, and if there is ore on the opposite side, it should be more stable in order to facilitate transportation.
Unless there is no ore on the opposite side, but something else.
"Your Highness, would you like to go over and have a look?" asked a worker holding a torch in front of him.
"Don't worry, let's try to see if this bridge can cross people. Leon was curious about what was on the other side, but that didn't mean he had lost his mind, as the Knight of York had always advised, not to risk his life.
The worker held the rope in one hand, stepped on it lightly with one foot, and when he found that he was fine, he picked up the other foot.
"Your Highness, this bridge ......"
"Poof. The plank suddenly broke, and the torches in the hands of the workers slipped and fell down the mountain stream with the planks in panic. He clung to the rope and hung his whole body in the air.
"Pull him back. The prince gave the order, and the rest of the men hurriedly pulled the workers up.
There was a chain reaction on the suspension bridge, and the entire deck was broken. Problems with the ropes also began to develop, and if the movement was two beats slower, the worker would not have survived.
The mystical creatures were never seen again except that night, and the town finally came out of the panic and returned to its former appearance, but the streets were still sparsely populated, after all, there was no other place to attract them except taverns and grocery stores.
Leon was busy for a few days, he was too short of money.
The logging work did not stop, except that the timber was no longer sold, but was processed into planks to strengthen the passages. He didn't worry about the planks at all, as long as the whole mining process could be carried out safely, it would be worth a few days at night.
Ravenwood is a homegrown town, where the townspeople grow their own food and vegetables, the hunters hunt their prey, and the women and children go out to pick wild fruits and vegetables, and this has been passed down from generation to generation.
The townspeople were basically fed two meals a day, and when they ran out of food, they would go hungry for more than three months a year.
And now is the beginning of the most difficult three months.
Most townspeople try their luck in the wild for food. If we want to pull them to work in the mines, we must first solve the food problem. There was not much surplus grain in the warehouses of the town, at most half a month's ration for the workers, and at that time the ore did not bring profit.
Leon took out all his possessions to buy food, and it was about a week before Leon returned from White Mist City, during which time he had no money for other things, such as recruiting blacksmiths. If all goes well, it will take a month to turn things around.
"Your Highness, Miss Riley is here. "The guards came to pass the word.
After being busy for so long, Leon finally had time to rest, but the witch who was rescued by himself had been completely forgotten by him in the past few days, and now when he heard the news from the guards, he suddenly felt that he had lost the etiquette of his master's house.
"Your Royal Highness. Riley walked in gently, still unfamiliar with the salute.
"Miss Riley, I'm sorry, I've been too busy lately. Leon sincerely apologized.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, don't be so polite, just call me Riley. Riley was a little embarrassed, but the other party was a prince and his savior, and such an identity gap was difficult to erase from the consciousness for a while.
"Are you used to living these days?" Leon asked with a smile, motioning for her to sit across from her desk.
"All is well, but ......," Riley whispered, the rest of which was a bit unspeakable.
"But what it is, you can just say it. ”
"But Jasmine won't let me help her, and I hope that His Royal Highness the Prince can arrange something for me, and I can do the work of sweeping and washing clothes. Riley looked at Leon with anticipation in her eyes, and she wanted to prove that she could help a little, even if it was a small thing.
Riley lives in the castle, but because of her identity, she can't go out, and can only go back and forth in a small space all day long, which is actually similar to house arrest.
Leon was under house arrest and was able to pass the time by reading books and exercising, while Riley was just a country girl who couldn't pass the time with books, and the chores she was good at were not her turn to do here.
Leon realizes that he was negligent, and this matter should have been talked about a long time ago.
Witches, everybody knows that word. But there is no record of how witches came into being, whether they were born or acquired? Are all witches the same ability? No one has solved all these problems.
Leon doesn't expect to figure it all out, but don't be as ignorant as he used to be.
As Riley said before, she was no different from ordinary people before, and her healing ability was discovered after the day after tomorrow.
Leon had a different view of this, if it was formed after the future, what would have caused it, food, water, and if it was these common things, then she was not the only one in the town who became a witch.
Riley also said that he usually acts with his companions in the village, and has not been exposed to anything strange, nor has he traveled outside the town.
The biggest possibility is that it is innate, but it is not reflected when I was a child, but it will not appear until I reach a certain age. This may be the reason why there are no little girls in the story about witches.
Whether the witches' abilities are the same or not, Leon believes is different. If it were the same, the rest of the witches would have healed others, and they would not have been burned to death tied to a pillar as a devil. This is not absolute, there are so many people in the world, maybe there are so many people whose abilities are similar, but at the moment he only knows Riley, and he may be able to meet more people in the future.